Onboarding Teachers - The Tour of the Apps and Terms

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The Tour

We give teachers a tour of the key terms in our app. It is like a dictionary, where you flip through the pages, and each page has a key term and the definition of that term. This allows teachers to quickly map out the key aspects of our vocabulary.

Another way of doing the tour - we introduce Teachers to all of the quill terms:

• Activity, Unit, Passage, Quill Grammar, Quill Writer
• On each page is a word and a definition
• It feels somewhat like a dictionary.
• When you press next, half the page flips over, like turning a book.

The most important thing we can do now to get new teachers started is to make it very easy for teachers to select their first playlist. We also want to (1) explain to them our 3 key terms (apps, activities, units) and that each app has a specific experience.

Three things to know about Quill:

We provide you with a toolbox full of tools.

1. Pick the apps you want to use with our class.

2. Select the playlist.

Select a playlist for one group of students.

Don’t worry you can more playlists later for separate groups of students.

Native English speakers.

Select grade

or select a playlist to jump right in.

3. Each activity is timed to be 10 minutes in length.

A warm up or end of class.

Show the activities selected the average time length for each.

Select the students, or create the student accounts now.

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• How do we explain the tools during the onboarding?
• How do we integrate the apps into a coherent flow? Here is the problem: We've built a series of tools for teachers to use to learn writing skills. However, unlike say the tools you would use to build a table (saw, hammer, sander), our tools are not used to build a single end product. Instead, they are somewhat isolated - you can do some sawing, some hammering, some sanding, but they are not all being used towards one single goal.
• How do we articulate to teachers how they use these tools in one coherent flow?
• A compounded issue here is that some of the apps work differently than others. For example, grammar hero features random content.

Here's what you can do with Quill:

1. Play Grammar Hero and improve grammar knowledge.
2. Play Quill Proofreader and asses your grammatical knowledge.
3. Play WordLike and expand your vocabulary.
4. Play Quill Writer by writing a story together with a friend using a shared list of words.

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Quill Terms

Another way of doing the tour - we introduce Teachers to all of the quill terms:

• Activity, Unit, Passage, Quill Grammar, Quill Writer
• On each page is a word and a definition
• It feels somewhat like a dictionary.
• When you press next, half the page flips over, like turning a book.

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Goal: Walk teachers through Quill. We want to walk teachers through all of the apps and the Quill experience. We could have teachers sign up, and then present a series of pages that allows them to learn about Quill.

1. Our Tools

The Right Tool for the Right Job (Box open with tools)

https://beta.moqups.com/tomkentcalabrese@gmail.com/yestgh1v/edit/page/a4d308138

Quill currently features four tools that teach proofreading, storytelling, grammar, and vocabulary.

With these tools, students earn points, write stories together, and receive personalized feedback.

Let's check them out.

2. Quill Writer

3. Quill Proofreader

Students are given a passage filled with grammatical errors and are tasked with finding and correcting the errors.

Their performance is automatically graded, and they are then given a personalized lesson targeting the concepts they struggled with. https://beta.moqups.com/tomkentcalabrese@gmail.com/yestgh1v/edit/page/a989c508d

4. Teacher Dashboard

https://beta.moqups.com/tomkentcalabrese@gmail.com/yestgh1v/edit/page/a6612eeff

Use the Activity Planner to assign activities from any of the over 150 Common Core activities on the platform.

Each of these activities is designed to take about ten minutes. View student results in real-time, and hover over the score to learn more about the student's performance.

5. Progress Reports

All of the activities and tools on Quill are free to use.

Schools can pay for access to Quill Premium, which provides reports showing which concepts and Common Core standards students have mastered.

Teachers can download the reports as a spreadsheet and import them them into their gradebook.

https://beta.moqups.com/tomkentcalabrese@gmail.com/yestgh1v/edit/page/a9f759836

6. Community

Quill is a nonprofit, open source community. More than 100 educators and developers have already contributed to Quill.

We'd love to hear your ideas. Please click on the community tab to post an idea or view what we're working on.

Together, let's help every student master the writing process. Welcome!

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Future Slides

These are slides we can think about incorporating in the future.

What Your Goal?

Quill contains over twenty pre-created playlists that focus on separate goals. Let’s choose one and then we will assign it to your students.

Let’s Add Your Students.

Class name + Grade.

Real Time Data

You will see real-time updates as your students complete the activities.

Right on Time

Each activity is timed to be about 10 minutes in length. This makes it work as a do now at the beginning or end of a class period, or as part of a rotation model.

Master the Common Core

Each activity is built directly from a common core standard. We break it down into sections:

4.1a. Use Relative Pronouns Who, Whom Which, That

Emotionally Engaging Materials

We handcraft it all.

Learning by Writing.

Writing is importaint

Personalized Learning.

We tailor it to your needs.

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Another way of doing the tour - we introduce Teachers to all of the quill terms:

• Activity, Unit, Passage, Quill Grammar, Quill Writer
• On each page is a word and a definition
• It feels somewhat like a dictionary.
• When you press next, half the page flips over, like turning a book.