Help English Learners Cope with Your Lessons

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File ▼

File Handler. This drop-down button lets you open and save your lesson plans.

Create a folder for your documents. If you want them to be accessible from a classroom or auditorium as well as from home, you might want to keep the folder in the cloud.

There is a choice on the dropdown to "Open Sample Lesson.pro". It is a short sampler of the the hot spots and how to use them. You can open the sample and erase everything and use it as you new lesson plan.

Note: All lesson plan file names must end in .pro.

Teach

Transform Lesson to Teaching Mode. In teaching mode, your lesson document becomes an active web page. Any time you press the right arrow (or the Next button on a touch screen), your next hotspot is sent to the chat room and/or the kiosk. See Hotspots.

Edit

Transform Lesson to Edit Mode. In edit mode, your lesson document becomes a word processor. This mode opens three rows of editor commands that control styles and enable you to designate content that you want sent to the kiosk or chat room. See Hotspots.

Help

Get Help. Always return here when you need guidance.

Explore

Open Playground in New Window. We have prepared a special copy of the app with a sample lesson plan. It lets you test the editor and teaching modes with sample hotspots and styles. Click Explore to open a new fully functional web page.

Show/Hide the Chat Room. This flashes when someone adds a message to the chat room. If your screen is wide enough, the chat column will stay open beside your lesson plan.

Show/Hide the Kiosk. Toggles displaying pictures on an external screen or TV. The screen area has an adjustable width to accommodate video platforms like Zoom.

Show the QR code. Displays the QR code on the Kiosk and inside the teacher's chat room for students to scan with their devices.

Word Processing Controls

Edit Editor navigation bar preview

This button turns your lesson plan into a word processor. Toolbar capabilities include:

  1. Heading
  2. Paragraph
  3. Unordered List
  4. Ordered List
  5. Bold
  6. Italic
  7. Underscore
  8. Superscript
  9. Align Left
  10. Align Center
  11. Align Right
  12. Outdent
  13. Indent
  14. Web Link
  15. Clear Styles
  16. Undo
  17. Redo

Classroom Interactions

Hotspots: Buttons with a yellow background send content to the chat room. Buttons with a blue background send content to the Kiosk.


Inline Text

Make Selected Text Sendable to Chat Room.

Boxed Image

Insert Image Sendable to Kiosk.

Boxed Text

Insert Text in a Box to Send to Chat Room.

Img Text

Image to Kiosk | Text to Chat Room

Video Text

Video to Kiosk | Text to Chat Room

Reminders

Ask This

Indicates a question you want to ask the class.

Do This

Tasks or actions you want to remember to perform.

Key Word

Highlights key concepts and main ideas.

Quotation

Marks cited excerpts or quotes from source material.