TEACHER ACCOUNT
Welcome to The Mind Project Teacher Account Creation tutorial.
To begin the account creating process, find the “Create Account” link on the sidebar.
Initially you must provide an email address to witch your account is connected. Next your must indicate your teacher status, by choosing the educator button.
After providing a few more pieces of information including, your name, gender, and residing country you are ready to create a basic teacher professional mind project account.
You will notice at this point that you can immediately move beyond the teacher professional level and become a full access teacher associate, but we will return to that path momentarily.
Having chosen a basic teacher account, you will be brought to a page asking you to confirm your new account. At this point The Mind Project has just sent an email to your corresponding address. Access this email and click on the link labeled “click to confirm”. Now you are ready to sign into your account, and access your homepage, or the staging point from which your teacher materials can be integrated into your classroom.
While much access is awarded at the level of basic teacher professional, some of the most exciting teacher opportunities are reserved for teachers who would like to work more directly with the Mind Project not just on testing new systems and new virtual labs before anyone else, but also to be part of the development and authorship of new materials and projects.
You will find a link on your homepage that will at any time allow you to upgrade your account.
Part of the process for becoming a teacher associate is informing us a little more about yourself. Such information would include things like your school, your city, your education and experience, and your main fields of interest.
As mentioned before there is a more direct route for becoming a teacher associate from the initial create an account page. By choosing the “create a teacher’s full-access account” link after filling in the initial information you will be brought directly to the teacher associates account page.
HOMEPAGE
Welcome to The Mind Projects homepage tutorial.
Once you have signed in, your homepage will remain accessible via the homepage link located on the sidebar of any main menu.
Your homepage is the staging point for using Mind Project materials in your classroom, including the creation and management of your course, using and creating quizzes, and overall account management.
Also located in your homepage are links to written instructional documents that can lead you through any of these processes step by step. On top of these written documents we have the step by step information in short video tutorials located in their relative sections. Help tabs located in the homepage also make navigation easier by displaying concisely the features available through each link.
COURSES
Welcome to The Mind Project’s course creation and management tutorial.
Your homepage is designed to help you create and manage your course easily and efficiently.
To begin the process of creating your course, choose the link “create a new course”.
This will bring you to the course information page, where you will title the course, and provide any additional information about the course that you desire. Here if one of the locations for inserting informed consent into your course. (this process is discussed in a later chapter).
Finally, click the “create course” button, and your course has been created.
Now you have the choice of navigating to the course homepage, editing the course information, or you can begin creating your course table of contents.
The course homepage lays out all the sections of your course including the course roster, course information, and your TOC or (table of content).
The TOC is designed to allow teachers to add a large assortment of assignments and other materials, such as Mind Project assessment materials, Mind Project curriculum, Mind Project Archive materials, or any other web materials you desire.
The Course Roster allows you to keep track of the students who are enrolled in your course. This is also the location in which you would invite students to become part of your course, (see tutorial on inviting students to join a course).
The roster section also allows you to manage the enrollment and activation status on your course.
Finally you may also find that working on your course from the course management page is easy and intuitive. This can be found by clicking on the “manage courses” link in your homepage.
INFORMED CONSENT
Welcome to The Mind Projects informed consent tutorial.
There are two locations in which an informed consent can be implemented. The first can be found on your course information page, found through the “edit course information” link.
To create your informed consent, simply type into the informed consent box whatever information you want to provide. The Mind Project will have prototypes of consent forms you may use if you would like, or if you are a teacher associate working with the mind project in a specific way.
Once you have updated your course with the consent form, or simply created the original course with the consent form, it will show up on your course homepage. This consent form requires you to give consent before you can access any part of the TOC and its contents.
However, the second way in which you may use a consent form will allow you to selectively block certain parts of your TOC before consent is given.
These consent forms are thus located in your TOC section, accessed through the “edit TOC” links.
Here you will see the button “consent form on/off” in each assignment box. Turning on any one consent box will block all things in that assignment box before consent is given. Again simply add whatever text you desire for the consent box. Note also that turning off the consent form will loose any text you have created for that consent box.
Finally clicking on the “sign consent form” will give you a preview of what students will see.
TOC
Welcome to The Mind Projects Table of Contents or TOC’s tutorial.
To access or create your TOC, you can click on the TOC link from the course homepage, and also from the manage courses page.
The TOC is where the bulk of the course is located, it can include assigned readings, assigned curriculum, instructions, external materials, and assessment materials.
For your convenience The Mind Project has developed a number of prebuilt TOCs correlated with different mind projects modules and labs.
Once you have loaded a desired TOC, the TOC has become yours to do with what you want. You can keep as much or as little of it to fit your needs.
Your other option is to start from scratch. Note teachers who create original TOC have the possibility opportunity of having your TOC published by The Mind Project as one of our prebuilt TOC’s.
When creating your own TOC start by adding an assignment. This assignment can contain one or many different parts before the assignment is completed. For instance you can choose to have as many quizzes as you want to be part of one assignment, or you can have each quiz be its own assignment. This may help you keep track of your student’s progress and activity in different ways.
The Mind Project has developed a number or prebuilt quizzes, many of which are more general science and affective questions, while other are connected to specific mind project labs. Again you have the opportunity to also create and upload your own quizzes (see our quizzes tutorial).
You also have the opportunity to add any existing Mind Project curriculum materials on an expansive amount of different cognitive science areas.
You also have the opportunity to add materials from the Mind Project archive, which is loaded with great resources, and external materials.
Once your TOC is saved you can visit your homepage to view the layout of your new TOC.
QUIZZES
Welcome to the Mind Project’s quizzes tutorial.
To begin creating your own quiz, you must first access your homepage.
From there click on the link “quizzes”. Then once you have reached the manage quiz sections, where later all the quizzes you have created will be located, click on “create a new quiz”
INVITING STUDENTS TO JOIN A COURSE
Welcome to The Mind Project’s tutorial on Inviting students to Join a course.
First you will have to access your course roster via your course homepage or in the manage courses area.
Here located near the bottom of the roster page will be two ways in which you can invite students.
The first way in which you can invite students into your course, is by clicking the link at the bottom of the roster page “invite students with email accounts to join this course”. On this page simply type in any students email address into the box, and an email invitation will be sent to that student. The student will then click a link in the email and be prompted to join the course.
We realize that some students at the lower levels aren’t going to have access to an email address or have a school that won’t allow access to certain things on the internet, thus we have developed an easy way to have your students join the course without using email addresses. This is located through the “invite students without email accounts to join this course”.
First you must indicate how many emailless student account you would like to create, and type that number into the box and click “create new students”.
The new accounts will now be displayed at the bottom of this page and the bottom of the main roster page. Now you are ready to assign each student to an account. Once this is done we recommend that each student changes their password upon signing in for the first time. (see tutorial on resetting email-less account passwords.)
Students can easily be dropped from a course by clicking the “d” for delete button next to the students name.
Resetting Email-less Student Account Passwords
Welcome to the Mind Project’s tutorial on Resetting Email-less student account passwords.
To reset an email-less account, simply access your courses roster and click on the RP for reset password next to the target account. You will then see under the create email-less account page that a new password has been created for that account. Note that only the creaters of the course have access to this section. Along with the resetting of a password either by a student or by the teacher comes an email to the teacher letting them know the password was changed and what the new password is. The present password for any account will be displayed on the email-less accounts page.