Monday, March 1, 2010

Discovery Streaming at home

Did you know Students can access discovery streaming video clips from home?

There are two ways they can find video clips. They can browse for a clip of their choice or the teacher can drop video clips into the student content.

Here’s how…
1. Select my classrooms
2. Select create a classroom
3. Go through the “Set up Class” prompt
Name
Start date
End date
4. Save
5. Move to Select students
6. Enter student data – NOTE, you will have to create a login and password for each student and provide this information to the students for access from home.
7. Select Add
8. Select Save
9. If you are teaching the same content to several classes select duplicate class and enter the next class.
10. Select done.

If you want to assign a file to a student’s content here’s how…..
1. Select “My content”
2. Select “Assign”
3. You will be prompted to select specific students or the whole class.

The student’s account looks different than the teachers – it has a blue background.