Orientation

Welcome to VLACC family orientation.

Hi. My name is Casey Sadler, and I will be your tour guide.

For today's agenda, we're gonna focus on four main items.

What is Lincoln Learning Solutions? And here, we will cover courses, grading support, LMS, and preferred browser.

Two, where to get support, both with the v lock and Lincoln Learning.

Three, how to get started, where to log in, and how to get our credentials.

And finally, we will end with the experiences looking at both parent and student.

Let's begin by looking at a few key Lincoln terms.

Lincoln Learning Solutions, we're a non profit online curriculum service provider delivering educational content to students in a variety of learning environments.

We do this through our bite sized pieces of learning known as our its or our learning objects. You may have heard the the it factor before. LinkedIn Learning lessons are made up of learning objects also known as LOs.

These have a variety and are found within each lesson.

Additionally, you will find this experience in Buzz, the learning management system. This is created by Agilix. This is where the learning takes place and where we will spend a majority of our time in our experiences.

Let's expand a little bit more on what is Lincoln Learning Solutions. Lincoln Learning Solutions will be your online courses with VLACC.

Lincoln courses are going to range from kindergarten through twelfth grade.

For your core offerings, we will focus in Michigan State Empowered provided by Lincoln Learning Solutions.

Electives will be also available and using our empowered format.

In k through eighth grade, the grading support comes from VLACC.

This also includes a few auto graded courses such as beginner French and Spanish, intro to foreign language, and intro to typing. In grades nine through twelve, the grading support will come from Lincoln Learning Solutions instructional services.

During our experiences, we'll focus on some of the tips for each of those teacher support pieces.

There are a few additional important pieces to remember with Lincoln Learning.

Our LMS is buzz. We talked about this a few moments ago in our terms.

Our preferred browser is Google Chrome. This will ensure the best experience with content engagement.

Another important aspect of your online courses are materials.

If materials are associated to a course, families will receive them from VLACC.

Where to get support? Support begins with VLACC. Your mentor teachers in kindergarten through twelfth grade will be a primary support piece for all families.

Current families can also visit the website, and we're gonna look at our welcome packet, student planner, and support chain.

The VLACC website is an essential link to bookmark on your browser.

For current families, you can access a link called current families located in the top right of the VLACC webpage.

On this page, you will find quick links such as clever, parent connection, student connection, and the VLACC handbook.

You will also find other important information such as event dates and calendar.

Next is our welcome packet. This goes more in-depth of the nuts and bolts to the success of a student. You can download it once you open the file, then search using control f.

A common question that we find that comes up is pacing.

So let's show you how to search that here in the book.

You'll see it about fourteen times and you can jump from piece to piece. So it's just a great example on how to use these. You'll also see student planners. We have a kindergarten through fifth grade, six through eight, and nine through twelve.

Jumping to the six through eight version, again, another PDF that can be helpful, I'm gonna jump to page twelve.

Here is the pacing guide provided by VLACC.

It's designed to support students keeping track of the lessons that you're completing. Again, you can print this information and use it to also take notes. So go through each of these PDFs in-depth together as a family.

Finally, we have our VLACC support chain. This is a flowchart that adds a great level of additional support that you can reference.

You can see each point of contact and such pieces they can help you with.

To layer on top of the VLACC support pieces is Lincoln Learning Solutions help center. This page houses of a wide variety of articles that can answer a lot of questions as you work through the courses.

Another great website to bookmark is help dot lincoln learning solutions dot org slash knowledge.

You'll find that you can use the help center to search key terms such as worksheet, and it'll provide to you suggested resources.

You can also navigate directly to our help center categories.

Beginning with students, you'll see that we have a wide variety of subcategories and useful resources.

A parent category is also a great place to explore as a family.

Now let's explore getting started.

Parents, you will receive login information specific to you. These will be emailed credentials from pulse at lincoln learning solutions dot org. You'll have account creation notification in the subject line. The URL is learn dot lincoln learning solutions dot org or pulse dot l s apps dot org.

Parents will receive login and temporary passwords with a reset. The student experience is slightly different and that is found in the Clever experience.

Let's work through together our getting it started document for a little help on Clever.

The VLACC getting started document is a great resource for logging into Clever. You'll see each step is identified within this document.

You'll also see on page two, provide you the additional options you're gonna look for. Look for the Lincoln Learning logo to log in to your courses.

Now let's go into our experiences. We're gonna begin with parent and then shift to the student experience.

With our parent experience, we are going to begin at pulse dot l s apps dot orgs and log in.

This will take you to Pulse.

This is a great place to access reports and student record information.

You'll select reports here, and you can customize this view. Anywhere we see what is called a data grid view here, it's customizable.

In Explorer, we can click on a student name to access student record information.

One key place you may wanna check out is under enrollments.

We can see our enrollment details as well as a snapshot.

PULSE is great, especially if you have two students. You can see this information for each student. So reports, you can see both together where our student record, you would see them individually.

To learn more about pulse, remember that help center at Lincoln Learning. I simply clicked on the pulse category, Now I can see additional details.

As a parent, you can skip past creating a student or enrolling a student, but you may wanna pay special attention to the pulse reports, and you can expand that subcategory.

I'm gonna go back to the home view of pulse here, and now I'm going to select the LMS in the upper right hand corner.

This is gonna take us to an over shoulder view to our student.

Again, if you have multiple students, you can click on each student.

I'm gonna start with Aiden.

In the upper right hand corner, you will see the layering of our roles. This is important, especially for sharing computers.

I have seen where students accidentally go in and they're in navigating as the admin because maybe something wasn't logged out or, we just quickly switched between the two computers.

But navigating and going through courses with the parent role will allow you to look at content. It will not allow you to submit work.

Therefore, the student will get to an assessment, and there'll be a struggle. It's also not going to encompass the things such as completing or completion and those sort of things. So it's important that we do log out if we're sharing computers, and we do pay attention to the upper left hand corner which app we're in, observer versus student.

And over on the right hand side, we can see those layered, roles also happening.

This is Buzz. This is our learning management system. Again, as a parent, I'm in here as an over the shoulder. So any navigation I do will be similar to the student except for the fact that the student view, I'm able to submit and and gather that progression as my role.

We're going to see if I click on my settings here as that guardian, as that observer, I do wanna point out notifications.

This is something you can customize as a parent. You also see similar settings as a student. We won't dive into those today, but check them out if you wanna set similar, things for the student and the email and all that set up for the student. But here as a parent, I can, have some notifications provided to me, and adjust those by just simply clicking.

I do wanna point out if you do daily on each item, that is a lot of pieces. So you can, determine if you wanna know certain things right away, daily or weekly, and you'll see those sent to the email identified. So I can just simply click and adjust and hit save.

One of my favorite places as a parent is in the upper left hand corner of that main menu. So, again, I'm home, and I can see which student I'm observing. So I'm in observing Aiden. If I click this grades area, it gives me that overview of all of my grades.

Students too, again, parallel views. Students too can go to this grades area. Keeps them aware of very quickly where they're at in their courses. I can sort by the columns, by gradable progress, or all activity progress. This is progress, not a score. This is our score, so we wanna make sure we know the difference between those.

This is gradable progress overall, so this is assessments, and all, progress is here on the right. This is all activities.

I do wanna call out that the to do list, which we're gonna explore as the student, will highlight for you how the student is navigating through the course. So that to do list is going to provide for the student the upcoming things in the next week or two or past due items that the student is working on.

Students have a tendency to click on that to do list and navigate through their course that way. It's important that we are going through all activities in the course. When we see a discrepancy like we see here, where the gradable progress is much higher than the all activities, it's an indication the student is driving their navigation, that to do list, that expectation of pacing through through the to do list only going to assessments.

We want to use that to do list that we'll explore as a way to, set goals for ourselves. So the system is looking at the student's progress and giving those projected due dates. So I wanna go in and I want to work through the content up to that assessment so that I'm prepared and getting to that assessment around that due date. We'll talk about more of that in in a few moments so we see it live with the student experience, But we do wanna quickly sometimes glance at this information.

By clicking on any of these items, we'll grab life skills. For example, for our, middle school and high school students, we're going to see a detailed grade book. So by clicking from that main grades area here in my menu, if I click on a title, we're going to see it jumps us to the grade book. This is a parallel view.

Students can see this as well when they click on their grades, either that direction or directly into a course set of grades. We can see feedback details, So we see the teacher provided us feedback, we can engage with an upload or a graded, rubric here, We can see the assessment name and the location, submitted date and due date, and one piece I want to point out here is this activity tab. This activity tab can be seen by everyone associated to the student. So as a parent, I can see it over the shoulder.

As a student, I can go to grades and see it. As the teacher, I can go to my grade book, click on a student's grade, and see this activity. This gives me the click and navigation throughout the system. This is a great place to to look at the progression and the experience the student is doing in the course.

I can see the order they clicked in activities, how long they stayed on each activity.

So this really gives that insight of student experience and student learning.

So for students that are are listening, just remember that activity is being captured.

So we wanna make sure that we are doing those important things like learning at, good times of the day. We wanna make sure that we are spending appropriate time on each item, and we're working through the lessons in chronological order.

Gonna return home here so I can always reset where I'm at by going back to that home page.

So, again, we have I'm gonna jump back to that app center one more time for us this in this session, and we're gonna go to parents.

Check out this parent category in the help center. It's gonna let us dive into, this information a little bit further, give us guidance on important resources for students, and how we can prepare our student for, their learning that they're going to experience.

Now let's explore the student experience.

Again, students are going to begin in Clever, so you can reference that getting started handout and look for LinkedIn Learning.

Once we log in, we're gonna see that our experience for student is very similar to parent. We're actually logged in directly as aid in our student this time.

I wanna point out that I am looking for that student app in the upper left hand corner, and I see the student list of courses. You'll see that Aiden customized his view, and we're no longer in an alphabetical view. So students can customize their course order in the upper right hand corner and drag and drop their courses in an order that works for them.

We're going to spend a little bit of time here in our English language arts two course. We're using this course because it provides all, really strong examples kind of close together for various components of the curriculum.

We'll also jump into a couple other middle school and high school courses as well, but I do wanna preference. We are gonna spend a little time at an elementary level going through the various pieces of the course.

As I said in the parent experience, we do have a to do list. This to do list would take a little bit of time to load here for me, but we can also look at individual to do lists in the courses that we click on. The to do list is gonna populate late assessments as well as upcoming assessments. So our goal here is for our to do list to load very quickly because that means we don't have many things due. My students have been in logged into their courses for a very, very long time, and we see some of those late items. So we'll see it goes past due to, the things that are upcoming due as well. This to do list is a great reference for general light pacing.

However, remember, VLACC has those support pieces in the student planners, and you have your mentor teachers that are available to help you with piecing.

In general, these are just like the old school, calendars or planners we used to bring home from, our school. It's how I view this. This is telling me when there's an assessment.

As a student, however, I need to work through the content up to that assessment point to stay on track. So I need to go through each individual learning object. I also wanna point out our activity stream. Here we can see engagement with our teachers so we can see that we have some feedback given to us, we can see when our teacher has announcements. So if we see a little number similar to the numbers we see here up in the upper right hand corner, That's gonna indicate to us we have something that needs to be reviewed in our activity stream. Those little notifications will let us know kind of the activity happening in the learning management system of Buzz. So we do wanna check out our activity stream.

Let's go back to courses here and look at a course card. So we're gonna see the course card. It does identify to us our start and end date. As I said, my students have been here in here a very long time in our training experience.

We will typically see our login, or our start and end dates mirror our semester. So that would be something like maybe a maybe an early September to a mid January date for semester run, something something around those those lines. Our courses number of lessons can kind of match up with the number of days. So, that just kinda gives you that estimate of of when your end date is coming near.

We'll see our progress and our current score. If we click on activities, that'll jump us to the content of the course, and that grades will go to the grade books that we saw, previously in our parent view. So we'll explore this from the student view. Remember, the clicks in our course are gonna navigate us to that course.

So the time I've spent so far has not been in course content.

When I jump into the actual course and start clicking through the experience, we are going to see that's going to provide us the clicks that we need in the content of the course.

So I'm gonna return here, and I'm going to go home.

I also wanna point out the student orientation course. This is a great opportunity for students to experience a course that does not impact their grades. We'll also see information here for, instructional services that you're using in our nine through twelve. And I wanna pay pay special attention to our collab lab resource, which I will follow-up at the end of the student experience.

But do experience and dive into that student orientation if this is, especially if this is new. If you're new families, dive into this. It's gonna give you a little bit of background on the learning management system and, understanding the general content and so on and so forth. So please explore that student orientation course.

I'm gonna go ahead and scroll back up here and click on my English language arts course. Couple of things to point out is up here in our landing page, we're gonna see important information from our teacher.

These will vary a little bit depending on which teacher is teaching, who is grading. So if you remember from earlier in this video, it will tell you who is, grading your courses. So when lose using our BLAC teachers, we will see important information here, such as their email address or when to contact them. They provide that. Our Lincoln Learning Solutions teachers also provide for you that important information here in their in their landing page. And I'll dive into an example in life skills or a different course.

Below that, we see our activities, our last visited and up next. If we're working in chronological order, going to the last visit visited will take us to the last place we were and we can continue navigating.

If we jump all around, our up next becomes a little bit crazy because our up next goes in chronological order of things that we completed. So it is really important to to work in that chronological order completing each activity within our course.

As I mentioned before, our to do list is provided to us also here for each individual course. We see the things that are up due or late. Again, we wanna avoid that past due, if possible, because we wanna stay on track. We do that a little bit of that flexibility with soft due dates, but really working hard and making, progress in our course every day is important.

Return back to activity and scroll down.

If you saw in our previous, high school course that I I popped into first, we see a very similar layout. We're gonna see course resources followed by modules. This is a typical layout of any Lincoln Learning Solutions course.

In our course resources, we begin with our standard or student resource, and we follow by our modules that contain our lessons.

In our elementary, we'll see a nice little welcome video, and then we'll begin with lesson one. From there, we see our our individual learning objects, also known as our it, or you may have heard of the it factor before.

In our standard resource, we're gonna see here we have important information to this specific course.

A couple of things to call out. Each and every course have a pacing guide.

Pacing guides are great because they give us an overview of the course.

Remember, this is different than the pacing that we have in our student planner, so make sure you know the difference.

For parents, this is a great kind of checklist for an individual course. I can see exactly the components of lesson one. I can see the highlighted information of when assessments are coming up. I can see, that additional, details of the particular course. So pacing guides may be a strong reference for our parents.

I'm gonna navigate right back here to my first tab.

We'll also see material lists, materials by lesson list, worksheets.

This student resource is gonna vary just a little bit per course that we're in. So in elementary, for the example here, we may see a couple more items listed in a math course. I may see things like number lines or graphing paper.

I may see, just in general things that are gonna support my course, but everything something that's consistent is that pacing guide. In our kindergarten through fifth grade courses, another piece that's consistent is our parent and teacher guide. And in our kindergarten through, second grade courses, we'll see our social and emotional guide.

Again, just a reminder on those materials.

If you need materials, your your mentor teacher is there to help you, and you can get that support regarding materials, for VLACC. Begin with your your ment your mentor teacher.

I'm gonna go ahead and navigate back here, and I'm gonna jump down to this course layout.

This is gonna match that pacing guide. I'm gonna begin in lesson two. We already see these green check marks here because the student has stayed, and and worked through this piece of content already. But these are great examples, so we're gonna dive into this experience.

I do wanna call out, that this green check mark is kind of based on working in that content for the equivalent amount of time. In our auto graded courses, I will jump to, immediately after this, hopefully, if I remember.

And we're gonna check, mark activity complete as we're completed with each item. So that is one difference between those couple auto graded courses available at VLACC.

We're gonna begin with our teach it. Our teach it is going to be a video, located here. It's going to enhance the, teach it. It's gonna provide for the student, an experience where there is a character in the bottom right hand corner.

It's gonna play for us here. And in the bottom right hand corner, the character is gonna be talking, and they're gonna be reading through the lesson.

This character is gonna evolve as the student gets older, and it's going to become more of an avatar. So we're gonna see that. Here in our kindergarten through, second grade courses or really almost fifth grade. I think kindergarten through fifth grade courses.

We're gonna see that the character is really reading to us. That reading piece is important because it's helping the student learn to read. We see a little bit of shift happening in around our sixth grade when our avatar also advances, from a character to an avatar. We're gonna see it's a little bit more of that lecture, that support piece to the read it.

So we do see that, the teach it evolves in style and presentation as a student and our learner evolves as well. So, we'll really see that foundation here in that read in that teach it. It's enhancing that read it, which is our next item in our subtopic here. And our read it are the instructional text, almost like a textbook.

It's gonna be where the learning begins. I like to call it the meat and potatoes. It's where we're gonna see explanations, examples.

We're gonna see definitions, the value of white space, and interaction. So although our read it, especially in k through five, does mirror the the teach it does mirror the read it, we wanna spend time engaging in our read it.

We'll see. Here's a sample of a rollover. We have key information, identified for us. We're gonna see this one we can play and hear the sound of the vowel. We can explore that.

If I'm reading and for example, I don't know this word, you'll also see this bar that's been following along with us. This is Texthelp.

It's really great, especially in these longer pieces that have a lot of reading. We can use the, text to speech, option here. So it's gonna read for us. I can have a single word played for me.

I can also look up the definition or, in this case, this one's a translate. I hit the wrong button there. So that first button is a translate, so we can set in our settings the translation. You'll see a variety of languages here, and we'll see that translation. If I see a play button, it'll play aloud for me.

Here's our dictionary that I was looking for, so let me reselect my word.

I can hit dictionary.

This is a second grade course, so maybe my student, really needs a little bit more of the contextual clues or additional support here. I'm gonna go ahead and click the picture dictionary, and we'll see it even gives us that visual. And, again, anywhere that there is a play button, it'll also play aloud.

So check out those support tools here in text help. As your student's learning, we can do additional things like screen mask, and enlarging of the text as well.

I'm gonna go ahead and go back to that layout of the course, and I'm gonna see that we have looked at we're in lesson two. We've looked at our teach it and our play it. Or I'm sorry. Our teach it and our read it. I'm gonna jump down here to our show it, and this is a non graded piece. I wanna stress that. Our show it's are non graded.

The show it is a great place to demonstrate that mastery, to put us in that test taking, focus of the concepts being taught. It's almost like our homework. We're gonna see that the item after the show it is the answer key. So it's almost like looking at the answers in the back of the book.

As I scroll down here, I can see that engagement.

We're gonna come across, various worksheets in our courses. You may see them in this example here, which is a Google Drawley, or you may see them in our worksheet zones, or you may see them as an embeddable PDF. So our team has really done a great job at looking at the worksheet and adjusting it to meet the best experience for the student. So our worksheets only use the work directly within. Here in this PDF, we're gonna jump out to a Google drawings, and an embeddable PDF, we can also mark it up or print it as well.

Visiting our help center, if we go to that student category, on the left hand side, we see worksheets. This will give us step by step for each of the experience in our courses. So if we're working in a worksheet zone, we can jump directly here and see that step by step for the experiences. It may be text or it may be the coloring and handwriting.

We see those support details here on how to use this resource. Again, if you need anything, your mentor teacher is there, and you also have our training team and our, client success team at Lincoln Learning Solutions supporting them as well. So that nice layered of support for the student. But begin with our help center and check out the worksheets.

I'm gonna return back to the course here.

And I'm gonna go to the next item, which is that answer key we talked about.

In this case, it was a worksheet, so the answer key is straightforward. We'll see as the content evolves.

These may become a little bit more detailed. In an algebra course, you may have the whole walk through of a problem, is another example of what those, answer keys may look like for ShowIt.

In our LinkedIn Learning Solutions courses, every five lessons, we will find a checkpoint, which is an online assessment.

We will also see lesson level assessments throughout the course with the exception of our auto graded. You'll primarily be looking at the checkpoints and mastery assessments, but upload assessments we found throughout the lessons. So here's example here for our spelling test in second grade.

And here's that ten lesson. We have the checkpoint. And at the end of each module, you will also have a mastery assessment.

In kindergarten through second grade, you also, will experience our fluency. So just kind of a light overview of of generally across the board kindergarten through twelfth grade, you're going to see that experience.

A checkpoint is an online assessment and we'll see as we click through that online assessment, we're gonna hit the start button and we're gonna begin going through each one of our question types. If you come across across a question type you're not familiar with, again, I can't express enough, our help center. Here we have assessments.

If I go to online assessments, again, checkpoints and mastery assessments are online, and I click on that experience, it gives me a walk through of that experience for me as a student. Online assessment question types are identified here, and we're using Buzz. So in Buzz, I can look at this video. I'm gonna make this big screen for us. I'm not gonna play the audio, but I do want you to see that we can jump to, the chapters of the course. So if I click here and click on chapters, I can see the different, options here. So starting my assessment, maybe multiple answer, it'll walk me through that question type.

So it walks me through each question type, our passages.

So, again, that was found at our help center, and we were on online assessments. I'm gonna go back to the course, and I am actually going to save and exit. So students can come and go in their assessments, and they would hit the continue in this case to continue taking that assessment.

So we looked at what VLACC is identifying as our essential learning objects.

There is a wonderful PDF here for focusing on the essential content. It breaks down that read it, teach it, show it, assess it, but our learning doesn't stop with these type of learning objects.

As we continue to learn as a student, we are gonna see those additional, learning objects throughout the course. So if I'm looking here in less let's go back to lesson two where we were. We looked at those essential pieces. We also have things like our play it, which are games.

And these are great. It helps really stimulate the learning. It's a a type of practice. I can have fun with it. We do wanna call out when we're experiencing these things that as a student, we don't wanna get stuck on these amazing things like play it. But these are things that we can come back to and prep for our graded assessment, our checkpoint, really practice our skills.

We also encounter watch its. These can be a variety. This can come from our Lincoln Learning, media team does a great job of bringing those concepts to life. So watch its are there to cover both conceptual and procedural, but really bring the concept to life for the student. So, we'll see here in this video and, again, volume will be limited here, but it's going to bring the vowel sounds to life. I'm just kinda zooming past this for us, but it's a great reference. It gives that additional, modality of learning for the learner.

We'll see other supplemental, or support learning objects throughout the course. Practices are gonna practice skills. I almost think of it a little bit more of that instant feedback. So this practice it could be, similar to our show it and be a worksheet, but we're typically gonna see a little bit more engagement with our practice it. This one happens to be an interactive learning object.

If we hit play here, we're gonna work through, the vowel sound. There's some audio here for us.

So our practice, it has the answer key embedded right within. We're gonna be able to do things like, sorting or it might take us offline, but think of it as that strong practice piece in our learning.

We may also come across a couple other learning objects like reinforce its that'll extend that will reinforce our learning and teach it in a new way or extend it to extend the understanding and engagement, with the content.

Apply its are another non gradable item like our show it, but it's gonna look at multiple objectives at one time.

I want to, also jump down here to lessons, nine and ten.

I'm gonna show you an assessment.

Might be an eleven.

Bear with me here.

So, again, this is an example of that upload assessment.

This is a spelling test, a student in second grade is looking at spelling so they're gonna listen to the spelling and they're going to use a piece of paper and write down their spelling words and they're gonna hit the submit button. So our submit button in this example here, the student's going to either upload a file or a Google file, and these steps are also found in that help center. So we have a video that that speaks to these this experience.

Your mentor teacher is another great resource for, submission questions or guidance.

And I also wanna call out that, there are some examples with our worksheets that you can even just copy a URL and place that here.

And let me scroll back here. I'm sorry if I'm making anybody who's watching this a little bit nauseous. Here's another example of an assess it. This one's going to have our worksheet directly within, so another upload. So when we look at our assessments and we see that it's a worksheet, a couple pieces I wanna point out for the experience.

One, we're going to have materials listed here. If I can click on the worksheet, it does give me the option to engage with a PDF from a different tab. So here I can print and complete my work, take a picture of it, or scan it back in. Remember best practices for submission. Taking a selfie with my submission is gonna be very hard for my teacher to read, so I wanna lay my paper flat and take a nice picture or scan it into my computer if I'm printing and you doing my work by hand.

In other scenarios, we're going to see that our worksheet would typically load here. I think I'm having a little bit of connection issues, so give me one moment. We'll try that again. There we go.

We're gonna see that our assessment is found our worksheet is found directly here. I encourage you use to the use the Zoom if it's in a worksheet zone and give it a moment. The clarity will, fix for us.

Any worksheet that we're submitting, remember to put our name. So we're here in here as Aiden.

I can then type directly within this experience and complete my work.

I can reset my, typing if I need to restart, or I can go back and retype.

To submit this to my teacher because this is an assess it, if you remind that up up top here is an assess it. When I'm completed with each of my fill in pieces, I'm gonna scroll to the bottom of the worksheets on experience and hit submit. This is a one time submit at this time. So, once you submit it, it's gonna generate for you a copy link. It will call out for us that I have, skipped a couple questions. So make sure you're reviewing the work.

Anytime we're taking assessments, we wanna take our time, read the question, double check our work, read our answers before we complete and finish.

We'll see once that's done, we get a copy link in the upper right hand corner, and I can copy that link.

It'll pop up this embed page here. We're gonna do ctrl c and click okay.

Next, I can go to my submission, and we'll see here that we can simply paste that item here and hit submit work, and it'll submit for my teacher my worksheet zone. So typically we find that blank, and we're gonna go ahead and put that in. So that's just another way to work with our uploads.

Again, our help center is gonna be a great resource. So in assessments, I can also look at my upload assessments for those step by steps and video support, even talk about those audio examples and our buzz experience here with the step by steps underneath.

Our worksheet zone area, again, depending on which one you encounter, you've seen both Google and one version of our worksheet zone. Please check that out here. If you encounter the handwriting, we can jump right to our coloring handwriting experience and click through that and utilize that on screen, experience. And, again, we encourage that zoom within worksheet zone for the best experience.

Going back to our course one more time, and we've looked at those major components. We've looked at our essential pieces and our supplemental pieces, and we've explored, our different assessment types, but let's jump back to our home area.

Let me remove this bar, and let's look at a couple other courses. So I'm gonna jump into life skills.

I do wanna point out this is an example of our Lincoln Learning Solutions teacher. So again, that key piece in that landing page of when to content our teachers. But we'll also find out in our, courses taught by Lincoln Learning Solutions, our teachers have a homeroom.

This homeroom is a great resource for students.

It's gonna provide, teacher desk information. You can meet your teacher contact information, which is expanded upon, beyond the what's in the landing page, and different course specific information. Our Lincoln Learning Solutions also have a learning center and character corner that'll help us with, reminding us how to do those things like submitting, with a drop box or taking a screenshot and also our academic honor code. So in our ninth through twelfth grade students that are being supported by Lincoln Learning Solutions teachers, make sure we take the time to look at that academic honor code. And of course, our teachers have their collab labs.

I do have a great flyer to show here here at the end about our collab labs, but you'll also find that here for our teachers. They're there to support you, previously known as our office hours.

I'm gonna travel, through this course here and just show you again, we're gonna see that we have that same structure. We have that lesson, structure here. We have our learning objects. They're going to be a nice variety of options, for our students. So here's a read it.

Has that same look and feel, and we're just learning the content appropriate to this grade level, in this in this particular course.

And I go back again.

I go home, and I'm gonna go to an auto graded course. So let me jump here.

And, again, just grabbing Einstein of Darts two, same experience regardless of the grade level when it comes to our auto graded. So I just wanna show you a quick experience.

In the bottom left hand corner, if you have an auto graded course, you're gonna see that with the letter a in the course name. And in the bottom left hand corner, we are gonna see mark this activity complete. Mark this activity complete will give me that green check mark like I was seeing in my empowered course earlier on. So we wanna make sure as we're learning through an integrated course, we're marking this activity complete.

New for this year is Lincoln AI.

This will be found in specific courses at the current moment, kindergarten through fifth grade core, as well as our sixth through twelfth grade English language arts and social studies.

Our Lincoln AI is found in the bottom right hand corner of learning objects.

This is gonna load for you a Lincoln AI video.

This is a one way video, not two way, so our avatar cannot see us. But we're gonna see that our assistant is, as soon as I enable my audio, is going to speak to me.

It can address me and support me back to the material.

It's gonna support me back to the material that we're learning in the course. So I can ask for more help by unmuting my mic and asking a question. It's important to mute the mic again when you're done so additional conversation, or discussion or exploration that is, being talked about in the room is not captured and continuing to interrupt the assistance, engagement with you. You will also be able to type, information as well. So I'm just going to ask it to teach me more.

Please help me with more information.

See that the assistant is speaking to me and also writing the information that is identified here so I can hear it and visually see it.

I didn't, mute my mic, so it's gonna continue to engage with me and give me that support material.

I can continue, or I can ask another question.

This time I'm typing in.

So here the question the answer to the question would be hungry. So we can see that engagement. It's really keeping me within, the contents of that learning object. Our team is gonna continue to, evolve the experience as well as enhance our help center resources around this, particular exciting new experience with Lincoln Learning.

I want to also call out our placeholders.

These items may appear in your courses. Specifically, currently looking at, our sixth through twelfth grade second semester is a good example.

These placeholders should not stop learning.

They are that. They are a placeholder. Our team is working very hard to, add and build additional engaging interactive, learning objects that support and supplement the learning. So if you come across these placeholders, it's okay to just go on to the next item.

But our team put these here because this is going to be an item you can come back to in the future. So it's going to be a new experience. In our sixth through twelfth grade, core courses, for example, we added our teach its, and you'll see those in semester one. But in semester two, you may currently see a placeholder, so we wanted to call that out in case you do experience it.

As promised, I do wanna take a moment and highlight our collab labs. This is for our ninth through twelfth grade students using our Lincoln Learning teachers. They are offering collab labs so that students can enhance their knowledge and engage with teachers for extra credit. So look for those in your courses. There's flexible, monthly meetings with dates and times.

There are scheduled, start times, and you'll see here there's an opportunity for extra credit for attendance and participation.

As we wrap up today's session, let's take a moment and talk about ways we can set up for success.

Think about where you're learning. Designate a spot, maybe a desk or a table. We wanna make sure that we limit our distraction. Our areas should be colorful, but maybe if you are like me, not sitting next to a window so that we can, look outside and get easily distracted.

Two feet on the ground is a great place to start. We wanna be prepared. We wanna make sure our devices are charged. We have materials ready. We're going to plan and stick to a schedule. Again, our mentor teacher is a great resource for that. We may want to ensure that we're keeping pace every day and taking those important moments for things like breaks such as snack breaks or mental breaks.

Thank you for taking the time to engage in today's family orientation. We wish you the best of luck as you begin your new school year.