| This section explores the features of the interactive digital lesson platform. In some lessons, students will log in on their own devices to interact with the lesson, which allows teachers to see students’ problem-solving in action from one hub. With embedded lesson notes and facilitation tools, teachers can provide students opportunities to showcase their thinking, compare their strategies, and engage in rich mathematical discourse. |
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Get Started | |
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Step 1 - Launch a Lesson At the top of the lesson page on the right, you’ll find the “Start” button. Click this to launch the lesson platform. |
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Step 2 - Navigate slides and tools The lesson opens to a title slide. At the top of the lesson slide, use the navigation bar to move within a lesson. Use the left and right arrows or click the middle title to open the navigation panel and select a specific slide. As you do so, notice the available drawing and expression tools on the left. These are the same tools that students use to share their thinking. Some of the lesson activities will use “magnets,” or digital manipulatives. If needed, these also appear on the sidebar. |
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Step 3 - View Lesson Notes On the bottom left, click Lesson Notes |
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View Lesson Interaction Tools and Student Data | |
| Note: The following features require active student participation and may not be visible or active in the lesson platform preview. | |
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Share my Screen on the bottom left allows students to see the teacher’s viewpoint on their own devices. Look Up on the top right allows teachers to pause student engagement on their own devices and redirect their attention. When activated, students will see the blue Loop Up screen. |
Student screens with Look Up activated |
| The Activity/Data toggle on the top left allows teachers to move between the lessons slide and the corresponding data. | |
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In the Data view, teachers see students’ activity, problem-solving strategies, and pacing in in real time. Here teachers can view student work in a table or grid, collect all student responses, or view work anonymously (without student names). The Share with Class feature allows teachers to select specific student responses to use for discussion. The Share Student Screen feature allows teachers to share the real-time activity on a student’s screen with the class. |
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At times, Argumenteers, or sample student responses used to spark discussion, are visible and can be shared with the class to highlight specific strategies or misconceptions. The available data features and layout change to accommodate the type of lesson activity. |
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Lesson Platform Accessibility Features | |
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Navigation and Thinking Tools The Expression Drawer provides multiple ways for students to show their thinking. Students can add mathematical expressions and other text to slides by dragging and dropping, typing, or speaking. Keyboard navigation allows students to access and operate most of the platform’s features using only a computer keyboard. |
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Screen Reading Tools Students can access additional accessibility tools by clicking on their initials, then Accessibility. Self-voicing reads on-screen text and other interface elements, allowing students to navigate and interact with the lesson content. Read-aloud for sentences supports student’s understanding of tasks and directions that are presented in written text by reading that text aloud when it is clicked on. |
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