Online Learning

Last Updated: 09:15 KL Time (31st March 2020)

With the prevalence of COVID 19 and so many schools having to close. Here is a summary of the resources that you can use to enable the learning to continue.

There are a large number of resources and many companies have kindly provided free access for schools suffering closures.

School Plans

A large number of schools have shared their plans to help you plan for an emergency.

Stick to what you know

Quick guide to Google Meet

If you are a Google School then the basics are already there for you. Use Google Classroom as your main area and Google Meet to help your students with live conferencing. A very good set of support videos for GSuite is available at flipped classroom tutorials. Google also have collected together a series of articles to help you teach online. They now have a Teach From Home centre.

If you are an Office 365 school, then you can use Microsoft Teams and One Note to help run your school. Microsoft have setup a global support forum for teams.

If you don’t have any video conferencing facilities then the one being recommended by most schools is zoom.us it has a time limit of 40 minutes for the free package, but enables you to manage rooms and handle many students. (YouTube tutorial) For smaller classes streamyard.com is excellent, but limited to 6 people on screen at any onetime. Peardeck can also make your slides more interactive and they have included an extensive guide to teaching remotely.

For Apple users with iPads. Apple have an excellent guide for preparing devices for remote learning. and a very good video series.

The International School of Beijing has an excellent selection of resources highlighted.

Freebies for affected schools

Companies are being very generous to help schools affected by the virus. Here are some helpful resources. There is a very good Wakelet with reources, an excellent spreadsheet and a Free Tools Doc.

See the full sheet.

Formative Assessment

My gotos for formative assessment are:

Everyone has their favourites and if you have tools already, then use them! Many VLEs such as Moodle have their own quizzing functions. If none of what you know fit the bill then here is a list of 75 formative assessment tools.

See a friendly Face

A number of videos have been made by the team of Google Innovators in Asia to help everyone involved. They are a bit on the long side, but there’s plenty of hints and tips in them.

Guides from teachers teaching online

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