eLearning at Hagley College

When conducting video calls with your class, it's important for students to be actively involved with their learning rather than passively listening and watching. One way to achieve this is for students to have breakout discussions within a private channel of your class Team. Before creating a breakout discussion, set up private channels within the class Team.  Click here to create private class channels. Once the private channels have been created, the teacher can create a video call within each private channel for the students to join. This way students are able to have their own small group video call away from the main class video call. This acts similarly to a table discussion in a face-to-face classroom. When you are ready for a small group video call,  go to each of the private channels and click the  Meet Now  video camera icon in Posts : This will create a video call which is only accessible for students who have been added to this private channel. Students then

When conducting Video Calls with your class, it is important for students to be actively involved with their learning rather than passively listening and watching. One way to achieve this is via using the Breakout Rooms in Video Call. To create a breakout room click the icon in the toolbar:  Select the number of breakout rooms you need: This will assign students in to groups. Once the students are in groups, as the organiser, As the organizer you have an option to join any room you like: Get everyone to return to the main meeting s elect Close rooms.   You'll know rooms have successfully closed when their status changes to Closed.  When everyone is back from their breakout rooms and you're ready to meet as a larger group again, select Resume.  There is more information about breakout rooms here . 

Whether you are using OneNote Class Notebook individually or as part of your class Team, there are a few tips and tricks to ensure you notebook runs smoothly.  Create content directly on page  - Type or copy and paste material directly onto a Class Notebook page.  Insert a link to files  – If you cannot create the content directly in a page, upload your files to the Class Materials folder in Files in the class Team. Or upload the file to your OneDrive and share the link to the file. Dragging or inserting files in to the Notebook is not recommended. Embed YouTube, Sway or Stream video  - Select insert online video and chose embed Sway or Stream video so students can easily access them. Use the Content Library  --Use the Content Library in your Class Notebook for reference material for students rather than distributing an individual page to each student. Distribution is great for pages that you want students to edit, but the Content Library is perfect for material you want stud

By default, channel mentions are turned off and all new posts will only show in the Activity feed : In order to keep immediately up to date with what is happening in your class Team you can alter notifications: Go to the class Team and click on the General Channel and select the three dots and Channel notifications : Select Banner and Feed if you would like the notifications to appear in your Desktop Banner too: 

To set up for remote learning, email the students in your class and parents/caregivers to remind them of where and how they can access their class Team. You may need to modify this post as content for your email. Kamar is probably the easiest way to email all students and caregivers/parents quickly. Main Menu > Students > Letters.   Under ‘Common’ you will find two template letters – 1 STAFF USE – email to parents/caregivers and 2 STAFF USE – email to students. Select the letter you want to use and click ‘Duplicate’ (1)   Rename your copy of the template then click ‘Duplicate’ at the bottom of the pop up box: You will now have your own re-named copy of the template.  Ensure you untick the box ‘Disable Edit Template’ and also untick ‘Make Available to all’ .     Click ‘Compose’ to create your own email. All of the Merge Fields on the left can be used to auto-fill and personalise your

Remote learning is not the same as face -to-face learning so don't try to replicate what you do in your usual classroom teaching time. "The number one goal of schooling currently is to nurture wellbeing." Perry Rush, President, New Zealand Principals' Federation Set clear and consistent expectations with how (probably Microsoft Teams) and when (during school hours if possible) you will communicate with your students. Let parents know how you will be operating your class and encourage them to be involved in their child's learning if they are able to. Structure your lesson in a 3 phase format: Before lesson learning, video call and independent work. Phase 1: Before the lesson:   Create activities for students to complete which will introduce them to what you are going to discuss in your video call. This might be a reading, a video clip which you have created , or activities from Education Perfect . These activities might take the stude