Gathering Notes in Actively Learn
Your student has been diligently writing notes in their Actively Learn text and now it is time for them to write their analysis. Students can easily access all their notes with the Notes Summary option located under the Notebook icon. Here students can select "View notes" to see all class notes or they can select ...
Collect Files in Forms
A great new feature has been added to Microsoft Forms, you can now collect files! Many teachers have had students submit links to files, but this new feature means that students can now submit their completed files as an attachment directly to a folder in your own One Drive. Here is a quick video to ...
Research Using Digital Tools
The Scenario Your students will need to write a research paper or create a research project that reflects their learning and showcases their research skills. The end product will be a product that includes a variety of cited sources, works cited or bibliography, and their own angle on the topic. Students have a variety of ...
Activate, Support, and Reveal student thinking with Actively Learn
Actively Learn strives to support students becoming stronger readers and increasing their higher-level thinking skills. They suggest the ASR framework to help engage student thinking. When creating your assignment, adding the learning objective activates student thinking by supplying them with a focus. Then scaffolding with notes or media can support their thinking around complex ideas. ...
Microsoft Inclusive Math Tools
One Note (Class Notebook) offers several inclusive features to support student learning including Math Tools. This inclusive feature allows students to solve math problems, see how the problem was solved, graph the problem, and interact with the graph. They can also create their own practice quiz, use the Immersive Reader tool to read the problem aloud, ...
Student Goals using Actively Learn
As teachers, we are intentional with the use of data to help us support our students. We can find data points in various ways, even in Actively Learn regarding our students reading. But what if we made our students responsible for their own data? Students can easily create reading goals using their own data in ...
Actively Learn Professional Learning
When using Actively Learn, our first thought is our students learning, but did you know that Actively Learn has Professional Learning opportunities as well? Under "Professional Learning," you can select several different topics that can help increase your Actively Learn teaching skills such as Activate Thinking, Support Thinking, and Reveal Thinking. Within each of these ...
Actively Learn Easy Sign-on
Did you know that you and your students can access Actively Learn directly from Classlink or Clever and signs in automatically? Often, we are afraid to try a new product because getting there and getting in poses a challenge. Having Actively Learn conveniently available through the apps students are already using, makes it that much ...
Teacher Feature: Using Teams & Class Notebook
It's the beginning of a new school year and that often means the start of a new classroom management strategy, trying a new technology tool, or putting a twist on a tried and true procedure. This year, Mrs. Caroline Dwyer-Sanik has taken the dive into Teams and Class Notebook for the first time and I had ...
Using the Independent Reading Library on Actively Learn
If you have not yet explored the Independent Reading Library, take a moment, either in teacher mode or student mode to find some of the current event articles available. This is a great place to assign students an "Article of the Week" or independent reading assignments. More importantly, they can even track their reading with ...