From the Instruction wheel, click the Standards button on the toolbar
Choose a Grade to reveal Subjects
Choose a Subject to reveal Strands
Choose a Strand to reveal Standards
Choose a Standard to reveal Benchmarks
Note: The standard may be longer than the menu. To see the entire standard, roll over it with your mouse to reveal a tooltip for that standard.
Click a benchmark’s checkbox to attach it your lesson.
To see your standards in action, click on the Print button on the toolbar.
Scroll down the Print view to the Standards Aligned section of this report
To detach a standard, go to the Standards screen then uncheck the benchmark
The standard will be removed from the Standards screen and the lesson’s prinout immediately.
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Editing the Assessment
From the List View, click any lesson you have created.
Note: You can only edit lessons that you wrote. To edit any lesson, you must be logged in.
Click the Assessment button on the toolbar
Click on a step to enter its detail screen
Click Edit to open up the step for editing
Make your modifications, then click save at the bottom of the screeen
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Editing the Curriculum Framework
From the List View, click any lesson you have created.
Note: You can only edit lessons that you wrote. To edit any lesson, you must be logged in.
Click the Curriculum button on the toolbar
Click Edit to open up the lesson for editing
Make your modifications, then click save at the bottom of the screeen
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Popin Instructional Activities
To add suggested strategies for an instructional step, first enter the step while logged in.
Help on logging in and editing a step.
At the bottom of the editing screen, click the Assistance button
Browse the suggested template actitivies for the step. Click Transfer to add to your lesson.
(1) Browse through the suggested activities for this instructional step. (2) Click transfer to add to your lesson. You will be prompted to confirm this, as the transfer will replace the existing contents of the step.
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From the List View, click any lesson you have created.
Note: You can only edit lessons that you wrote. To edit any lesson, you must be logged in.
If you are logged in, the instruction wheel screen will have an Edit and Delete button.
To edit the text of the wheel, click Edit.
This will "open up" the wheel. (1) Make any modifications, (2) then click Save.
To edit a detail step, click the step you wish to edit.
Click Edit to open up the step for editing
Make your modifications, then click save at the bottom of the screeen
The top section of this screen is the text for the wheel. The bottom section is detail for the step.
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Creating a New Lesson
From the List View, click the New button
Fill in the Title, Subject Grade, etc. and the steps of the wheel
Click Save to create the new lesson
This takes you to the main instructional wheel view, where you may add additional details.
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From the List VIew, click the Assistance button
Then title your lesson and list the steps of instruction on the right
Use the dropdown menus to characterize eacah instructional step listed
In this example, our Lecure would be characterized as Information Delivery, the video as Information Delivery, the Worksheets as Practicing Skills, the Project Work as Projects/application and the Quiz as Learner Performance.
Use the transfer button to see how your instructional steps fit on the 4MAT Instruction wheel.
When you’re ready to save, click the Save button
This leads to the instruction view, where you can see the balance of your lesson and refine it.
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From the List View, click the Wizard button
FIll in the basic information
Fill in the Curriculum framework
Fill in the steps for the instructional wheel
This worksheet begins with the traditional instructional steps such as knowledge transfer and skills development then moves to more complex steps, such as connecting to learners, extending into the world and creative use of material learned.
Click Save to create the new unit.
(Or click Cancel to cancel.)
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Getting Logged In
Getting to the Login Screen
Only registered users can edit lessons or create new lessons. If oyu have a user name and password, click the Login link from the List View to gto to the login screen.
Logging in
Enter your user name (usually your email address) and password to login.
Checking to See if your are logged in
If you are logged in you will see your login name on the top of the list view. As a registered user, you have access to creating new lessons and editing your existing units.
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Searching for Lessons
Start in List View
Click the Search button to reveal the search fields
Enter one or more search criteria then click Search
The list of lessons is now limited to your search criteria
To view all lessons again, empty all the search fields, then click search again.
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