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Using Education Perfect at Hagley College

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Hagley College has a subscription for all Science, Social Sciences and English junior students to access Education Perfect in 2021. Education Perfect is a digital educational platform which can support your face to face teaching and learning programme. One of the easiest ways to get started with Education Perfect is to create a Smart Lesson for your students. Step 1: Go to www.educationperfect.com and select  Log in through your school Step 2: Select the orange tab:  Tasks and Homework Step 3: Select Assign a new task: Step 4:  Select  Smart Lesson: Step 5:  Complete Who, What and When. You may like to rename the lesson with the date to ensure students know what is to be completed on which day. Then click Assign Task. Step 6: On the next page copy the link to your Smart Lesson Step 7: Paste this link in to your Class Teams Post or OneNote Class Notebook , so students can click on the link which will take them straight to your Smart Le

Student file upload location

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There is a new Office 365 feature where teachers can create a link to a folder in their OneDrive so students can upload files directly in to this folder. Teachers may use this as an alternative to Assignments in Teams as Hagley College Digital Technologies Teacher Vince does for his Year 11 class: "This is a great way and location for uploading tricky student files. Sometimes I want students to upload multiple files in different formats, saved in different locations, so this new file request works even better for me than Assignments in Teams!" Crucially, students can only upload to the OneDrive location, they have no view or edit access to the teacher's OneDrive. Students are also unable to see other students uploaded files - however the teacher can see all uploaded files. To use this feature create a folder in your OneDrive, highlight it and select Request files.  Name the work which you are requesting to be uploaded: Click next and copy the lin

Education Perfect at Hagley College

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Students log in to Education Perfect with their school username/email and password. This makes things much simpler for students as there is no need to have a specific EP username and password to manage. To log in students go to Education Perfect and select Log in through your school Students then type in the first few letters of Hagley College and select Hagley Community College If you need a hand in class to get this sorted, please let me know. I recommend stepping the students through Education Perfect on the class big screen when you are doing this for the first time. When using Education Perfect as a tool for learning, I would recommend pasting a link to the Education Perfect work you have set to the Class Team (in Posts, Class Notebook etc) so the students can go straight to the task you have set rather than for them to log in to Education Perfect and try to find the work. To get the link to the set task, click assign task and it will appear on the n