Course

Before Scheduling Live classes, there are few things we want you to be ready with:

1. Time Allocated for the Batch

2. Lesson Objective/Topic for session

3. Duration (max. 45mins)

4. Lecture notes in the prescribed format.

Always ensure you schedule the session atleast a day (24 Hrs) before your session.

Lecture Notes: You can chose to break down the concepts into notes and upload here. If not, convert the PPT into PDF and upload it  in the lecture note section so that learners can access the learning materials for reference. Keeping in mind the copyright issues, it is advised to always keep a seperate file as lecture note while planning lesson.

Once all the informations are completed save and ensure your live class is listed in the schedule with the available information.

From there listing, you will be able to View/Edit/Delete the scheduled live class.

For Deleting the live class you will have to draft a reason.

You will be able to View the live class from 5 mins before the actual scheduled time.

Use this time to make sure the audio/video is set up and you are well prepared and relaxed for the session.

Congratulations now you will be able to successfuly create/schedule a live class for your allocated batch.

Assigning Homework

1. Why Homework? - It is important that the students have a take away from every live session they attend. It is also a way to ensure the subject mastery and knowledge retention.

2. How to assign Homework?

As you click the Assign Homework button, a page opens which asks the following details about the Batch and Timing for the homework.

Homework being an integral part of the live class experience, there is a specified layout prescribed for its preparation.

We follow the SAARC* Rubrics for evaluation:

The Homework is assigned in the following five parameters as shown in the rubric:

Scaffolding Homework questions/tasks has to be scaffolded, there should be a specified ratio within knowledge, understanding and application questions based on the context.

Alignment Homework prepared should always be aligned to the content taught in the live classes. 

Adequacy The homework paper should contain enough question to challenge the content taught in the live class.

Rigor The questions should be rigorous enough and should pose a thinking challenge to the children aligned to their subject mastery.

Creativity The homework should provide a space where children can explore subject and concepts beyond their classroom experience and prescribed textbooks.

Procedure for Homework Review and Evaluation:

1. Create homework using the EM Smart homework maker form. (Can only be used with the extramarks.net IDs)

2. You will be directed to a sheet where realtime review will happen along with the QC members and representatives from the Academic Team.

Homework Layout:

5 Questions - 2 Factual, 1 Understanding , 1 Evaluation, 1 Application  

6 Questions - 3 Factual , 2 Understanding, 1 Application

7 Questions - 3 Factual , 2 Understanding, 1 Evaluation, 1 Application

8 Questions - 4 Factual , 2 Understanding , 2 Application

9Qs - 4 Factual , 2 Understanding , 2 Understanding and Evaluation , 1 Application 

10Qs - 4 Factual, 2 Understanding, 2 Understanding and Evaluation, 2 Application

The process flow right  from the homework creation to assigning it to students. 

Assigning Homework from extramarks repository 

STEP 1 : Sign in using your login credentials and go to create/ assign homeworks.

To Remember:

1. Prepare the homework in a scaffolded manner, keep in mind the time and align it to the taught objective.

2. Present the answer key and upload along with the homework. Make sure the answer is mentioned in details in the answer key the machine learning engine look for key words while analyzing the answers.

3. If you are not uploading the answer key make sure, you get the uploaded works and provide feedback for children.

4. Follow up on the homework or ask questions in the session to bring in accountability of the class.

Weekly test  is a very important part of the online portal. As you complete the schedule in a week, students would mostly be getting 6 sessions of online class on their subjects. This would range from Batch to Batch based on their date of joining.

We follow a model of preparing Questions from the portal, In the dashboard you can enter the batch details, class and topic taught for the week. The test should be scaffolded such that all learners should be able to relate it to the content learnt in the week. Make sure the exam time is aligned with the nature of the question. Once the student begins taking the test it would be difficult to redo it. Hence provide a buffer time of 5 mins for the learners to do the course.

The portions have to be aligned and rigorous to pose learning challenge to the students.

Once submitted question paper would be sent across to all the learners who have signed up for the course through their App or Website. 

The assigned weekly tests can be seen here with options to View and Delete. Before uploading make sure the test has no grammatical or formatting errors listed.

Points to Remember:

1. Once students start submitting the answers, make sure you complete viewing the report of evaluation before the next live class. This would increase the overall class rigor and bring in much needed appreciation to kids for continuing learning from the platform.

2. Weekly Assessments for class 8 and above should be prepared keeping in mind various competetive exams and Board exams providing them an exposure to such types of questions well in advance.

3. If Possible, in your batch along with the leadership board available with the poll question feature try to incorporate the weekly assessment points as well.

4. Push for 100% completion of Weekly tests.

There is an option for Instant Test in the new dashboard. It would directly fetch questions from the EM question bank we have. You can choose the time and date for the course as required. 

Poll Question is one of that unique features that the portal offers. It can be used to:

1. Check the current level of understanding

2. As a quick temp check of the class.

3. Gauge the mastery of immediate content taught

4. As a starting activity

5. As an exit slip from the session.

The Poll Question feature given different options to ask question like True/False, Yes/No, Multiple Choice Questions.

One of the important aspects of live class is the timeour section. Timeout section should be used effectively in order to give children the time to answer the question as well give them ample time to think about the question.

From the option in the chatbox the user can click on the type of poll questions to be used.

Some Important Points to keep in mind:

1. Prepare the questions, their type and answers well in advance and either pass it to the QC before the session to include as you take the class or keep it ready in such a way that it is easy to copy and paste in the box.

2. Poll question is a feature more than engagement it has the potential to check the temp and nastery of the class, so the questions should always be on high rigor with the classroom culture(Judgement of the teacher).

3. Poll question report should be shared with the learners at the end of the lesson to complete the loop of learning.

Based on the class rigor, teacher can decide on the blooms level for children. Poll questions used as exit slips should ideally be having to question challenging procedural contents.

Types of Poll Questions:

Check for Mastery in using Poll Questions: Quiz