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Using My Teachit.works

With My Teachit.works you can:

· save your favourite Teachit resources

· save resources in your ‘Student folders’ so your classes can access them once they’ve logged in to Teachit with their student logins

· share resources with members of your department using your ‘Staff folders’

· create your own folders and collect a set of materials for a particular topic, week or year group

· fill the folders with Teachit resources

· add your OWN resources to your folders

· add notes and comments to any My Teachit.works resource.

Here’s how!

Save resources from Teachit’s libraries

Browse Teachit’s libraries and find resources you want to save, then simply click on the green icon to the right.

You will see the message ‘Resource added to My Teachit.works’ and that’s it! The resource will automatically be copied to the My Teachit.works area.

Create and fill your folders

Open up My Teachit.works via the link on the right-hand side of any Teachit page. The resources you have added will be listed as ‘Recently added’.

Now create a folder by clicking on the icon in the left-hand panel. Name your folder and click the ‘create’ button.

To move a resource into a folder, you just drag and drop – to do this you need to grab the bold title or description of the resource with your mouse – your pointer symbol will change to a hand icon.

Holding down the left mouse button, drag the resource across to the folder you want. The folder name’s background will turn dark blue. At that point, let go and the resource will pop into the folder.

You can move a resource from one folder to another by the same drag and drop process.

You can also create new folders within folders by choosing the New folder icon from the menu that appears when you hover over the blue arrow.

Add your own files to My Teachit.works

When you have created a new folder, hover over the arrow to the right and a menu will appear. To add a file of your own, click on the Upload a resource icon. This will open a short form to the right where you can add the title of your file and your own notes. Click the Browse… button to open up a ‘Choose File to Upload’ box from where you can easily find the files you want. Select your file, click open, then save.

Using My Teachit.works

Add comments to resources

Hover over the blue arrow to the right of a resource in My Teachit.works and you'll see this icon: Add or edit notes. Click and your notes field will open. Any comments that you add will be clearly displayed in italics.

Delete resources

Again, hover over the arrow to the right of a resource in My Teachit.works and you’ll see this icon: Delete. Simply click to delete!

Rename resources

Rename resources by again using the menu that appears when you hover your mouse over the small blue arrow and this time click this icon: Rename

As soon as you’ve filled up a folder in My Teachit.works, the you can transfer it to your VLE by:

1. exporting the folder contents as a zip file

2. uploading the zip file to your Learning Platform.

Step 1 Exporting the folder contents as a zip file

You can choose either to export all your my Teachit.works folders, via the icon at the top of the folders column, or to export a specific folder, via the in that folder’s menu options

When you click on the icon you’ll see some ‘Are you sure?’ warning text. Click OK.

You’ll be asked whether you want to Open or Save the file. Don’t choose Open! Choose Save.

Select a location for the file on your school network or a USB pen drive, as your ICT technician will need to take over from here.

If you’re using a browser other than Internet Explorer, you may need to check your settings (in Tools>Options or equivalent) to find out where your downloads are saved.

You now have a zip file that is ‘SCORM compliant’ and ready to install in your school’s VLE or learning platform.

Step 4: Uploading the zip file to your VLE

Ask your learning platform administrator to install the resources from the zip folder as a SCORM package in your VLE. He or she will know what to do!