Teacher and Student Enablement through Textbook
Workflow for creation programmes
A SunbirdEd adopter tenant wants to crowdsource content from its users (primarily teachers) for teacher & student enablement.
Admin of a program will ensure that following things are in place
- Taxonomy framework including Learning Objectives mapped to Topics
- Users with required permission rights for Administration, Creation, and Review
- Program ID is created
For programs portal, following setup needs to be done
- Content Types: This program supports only Practice Set creation, review, publishing, and linking to textbooks.
- Textbooks for Contribution: Create textbooks on SunbirdEd textbook editor and link them to a program ID
- Participating Teams (Schools): Setup list of Schools for program portal
- Publishing and Linking logic: Build logic as per predefined textbook structure. Current logic supports textbook structured as [ Textbook > Level 1 Unit (Chapter) > Level 2 Unit (Question Bank) > .. ]. All Practice Sets published are linked to 'Question Bank' folder if it is present at Level 2 Unit
- Question Types & Categories: Question types - mcq, reference; Question categories - vsa, sa, la, mcq
- Roles: Program portal supports 3 roles - Contributor, Reviewer, Publisher
Contributor onboarding
- First time sign-in / sign-up with Google will grant Contributor role
- On first time sign-in, the user needs to select onboarding details (B, M, C, S) and School
Contribution Workflow
- Sign-in with Google
- Select Class & Subject
- Select Textbook
- Select Chapter. Only Textbook Level 1 Unit which are linked to topic are shown as "Textbook Unit Name (Topic)"
- For each chapter, contributor can see Total, Created by Me, Needs Attention
- Select Question Category to start creating questions
- Question creation page is open with empty form for first question to be created. User can Preview or Submit the question.
- User cannot Save questions. If user goes back without submitting, the question is cleared / lost.
- Select Learning Outcome for the question. Learning Outcomes only for current selected chapter (topic) are shown.
- Select Learning Level for the question
Watch following videos to learn more about 'How to contribute'
How to use the Question Bank Contribution Website. Instructions on how to Sign up and Sign in and set up the tool for yourself as a teacher. Then a small walk through of what a textbook looks like.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXs8hYNp68Q&feature=youtu.be
How to create Question Packages. A walk through of all the different types of questions, and how to add the Question, Answer, Learning outcome and learning level, in each type and how to submit a question and a watch out that a Teacher must create at least 5 questions in each type, across all chapters of a textbook for it to be a complete package.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJM5nX_153E&feature=youtu.be
How to add Formula and Equations. A guide on using the Mathtype and Chemtype features on the tool so teachers can add any mathematical or chemical formula or equation on the tool and the drawing tool to add the same. Video also shows the possible problems with copy-pasting formulates from other sources and how to solve the issues that come up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTF4ueR2uaU&feature=youtu.be
How to add images. A simple video on how to upload and add images to questions, answers or even options and how to align them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIh3Ecd1d4g&feature=youtu.be
How to use MCQ templates. A guide to understanding the 4 four different templates provided under MCQ, how to select them and when and why to use each template depending on the teacher's requirement,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvFFMl4O4j0&feature=youtu.be
Summary of requirements
Resource | Audience | Available as | Stored as | Knowledge Platform | Creation | Review | Resource Creation | Consumption | Sample for Reference | |
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1 | Learning Outcome Definition | Teacher | Bullet points | JSON (Asset) | Required - Add a new framework category | eVolve & Bulk upload | On Platform | Will be packaged as Resource per chapter via bulk upload job | Plugin to be developed | Link |
2 | Lesson Plan | Teacher | Documents | (Resource) | TBD | Bulk upload (from eVolve) | on eVolve | Default | PDF player enhancements | Link |
3 | Hard Spot | Teacher | Paragraph Text | JSON (Asset) | None | eVolve & Bulk upload | On Platform | Will be packaged as Resource per chapter via bulk upload job | Plugin to be developed | Link |
4 | Transdisciplinary Teaching | Teacher | Document | (Resource) | Required | Bulk upload | Offline | Default | PDF player enhancements | |
5 | Curiosity Questions | Teacher | Paragraph Text | JSON (Asset) | TBD | eVolve & Bulk upload | On Platform | Will be packaged as Resource per chapter via bulk upload job | Plugin to be developed | Link |
6 | Marking Scheme Rubric | Teacher | Documents | (Resource | Required | Bulk Upload | Offline | Default | PDF player enhancements | |
7 | How-to Teach | Teacher | Video | MP4 (Resource) | To be enhanced | Bulk upload (from eVolve) | on eVolve | Default | TBD | |
8 | Explanation | Student & Teacher | Video | MP4 (Resource) | To be enhanced | Bulk upload | on eVolve or Offline | Default | TBD | Link |
9 | Experiential Learning | Student & Teacher | Video | MP4 (Resource) | To be enhanced | Bulk upload (from eVolve) | eVolve | Default | TBD | Link |
10 | Suggested Rubric for Self-Assessment | Student & Teacher | Document | (Resource) | Required | Bulk upload | Offline | Default | PDF player enhancements | |
11 | Questions for Practice | Student & Teacher | Rich text with formulae, image | QuML (Asset) | To be enhanced | Required | Required | Will be packaged as Resource per chapter through a job | Plugin to be developed | Link |
12 | Additional Resources for Teaching Pedagogy | Teacher | Document or Video | PDF or MP4 | To be enhanced | TBD | TBD |
PDF player enhancements
- Auto-hide navigation bar on top
- Navigate to next page on scroll
- Pinch to zoom
- Allow orientation change to portrait (optional)
- Download PDF for printing
- SB-11946Getting issue details... STATUS
Plugin to be developed
- Learning Outcome Definition, Hard Spot, Curiosity Question, Questions for Practice will have similar plugin design - SB-11790Getting issue details... STATUS
- Navigation needs to be changed as per - SB-8305Getting issue details... STATUS
Question Review
Review should be able to view questions by Textbook > Chapter (B, M, C, S > Topic)
For each question, reviewer should be able to accept or reject with comments
Question creator should receive email notification post review
Question Creation
Creator should be able to create question for Textbook > Chapter (B, M, C, S > Topic)
Question types to be supported:
- Self-Study (VSA, SA, LA, Curiosity): These questions do not get evaluated on device, user can read question and then read answer for self-study. These are essentially two text paragraphs which may contain rich text, formulae and one image per question
- Ability to create & review these questions on system is required
- UX designs are being finalised by next week
- MCQ: Few enhancements to current capabilities
- Layout selection for MCQ needs to be made upfront so that user will provide only required details for selected layout. UX designs being finalised by next week
- Enhancements as listed
Knowledge Platform changes
- Ability to store each of the above resource & asset types
Workspace changes
- Creator (Workspace 'Create') & Reviewer (Workspace 'Up for Review') should be able to start contributing by selecting Textbook > Chapter (B, M, C, S > Topic)
- UX design to be finalised by next week
Additional Information
Changes to eVolve
These are being estimated by 12th April and are expected to be ready by 22-25 April
- Allow uploading documents (doc, ppt, pdf)
- Show preview of these documents to reviewer
- Ability to tag these documents as any one of Lesson Plan, Concept map (Mind map), Marking Scheme Rubric, Suggested Rubric for Self-Assessment (will have one separate link for contribution and review for each of this type)
- Ability to download these in a csv format
- Allow entering text, similar to Hard Spot and tag it as either Learning Outcome Definition, Curiosity Question (will have one separate link for contribution and review for each of this type)
- Show preview to reviewer
- This will be plain text - no formulae, images, or text styling
- Ability to download these in a csv format
Contribution and review of two types of videos
- Allow uploading video and tag it as Explanation or Experiential (will have one separate link for contribution and review for each of this type)
- Show preview to reviewer
- Currently supported video formats - no further enhancements
- Ability to download these in a csv format
Each content / resource type will be launched as an independent eVolve programme. Users can contribute or review by going to unique links for each one. Reviewers will be on-boarded individually for each one.