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Never fear, DE is here! Our new interactive tools help you engage students with our content by using it in creative ways with your daily lessons and assignments. Once you find a resource, be it activity, text, or interactive, you can assign it directly to students and even add context and instructions to guide them along. And students can access everything you assign right from their My DE homepage.
But if you’ve just found a compelling video to use, you’ll find even more options with the Build an Activity button . We’ve redesigned our Video Player to make it super easy to incorporate rich media into the learning experiences you design and deliver every day. From the new Video Player page, you can:
Create a Video Quiz
Create a Video Quiz by adding questions throughout the video. This is the perfect way to keep students actively engaged and check for understanding along the way, and track progress in real time. Launch Video Quizzes live or assign to students directly to complete at any time in the assignment window.
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Assign a self-paced student activity.
You can also assign a self-paced student activity in the form of a . Start with the video, then add context, instructions, or a short-answer question. Assign the single slide to students from here or add more slides, resources, and context to build out your lesson.
No matter which engaging option you choose, students can easily find and access the assignment on their DE homepage, and you can check the Assignment Manager found in Classrooms for their results. You can also change due dates or unassign from here as well.
And don’t forget, every resource in Discovery Education is made for sharing! Use a unique URL to share via your learning management system (LMS), email, or other online location. Since our platform plays well with other popular edtech tools, you can easily share resources to Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams or embed them in assignments in Schoology, Canvas, Brightspace, or Infinite Campus.
We can’t wait to see the amazing lessons you continue creating with these new tools and remember to come back here for more tips and tricks from Discovery Education.
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Assignments. To access your assignment manager, navigate to Classrooms from the Global Navigation Menu in the top left corner. This is your hub to view, edit, and review what you assign to students. The assignment table is the core view of the manager. This sortable table displays everything assigned to students and classes.
Once you locate a resource (video, image, audio, text, interactive, etc.) in Discovery Education that you'd like to share: Choose Share on the resource page and then select the Google Classroom icon. Choose class from the modal that appears, and select the class to share to, then Create assignment (most common), Ask question, Make an ...
Once a board is shared, select the Assign option located in the three vertical dots in the top right corner, and follow these steps: Step 1: Name the assignment and give instructions for students. Step 2: Select the assign date for content to appear on student learning plans, and the due date. Step 3: Select the class (or grouping of students ...
Note that Assignments assigned through Discovery Education appear on this screen. Assignments assigned through Schoology appear in the Materials section of Schoology. Student Access to Assignments. Students can access Materials from the left menu bar in Schoology. If the material is a resource and the student is logged into Discovery Education ...
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When content is assigned to students, the following options are available: Step 1 - name the assignment and give directions for students. Step 2 - select the date you want content to appear on student learning plans as well as the date for when content or work should be completed by. Step 3 - select the class (or grouping of students) to which ...
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