Features of INTERACTIVE CLASSROOMS @ Home (ICR@Home) Version 3.0
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Table of Contents Using Features : Page No. 1 Teacher s Login 4 2 View Content 5 a. Lesson Plan 7 b. Glossary 9 c. Web Links 10 d. Digital Library 19 e. Dynamic Quiz Let s Play 25 f. Assessment How to Create? 31 3 Reports 38 a. Content usage report 38 b. Assessment Report 44 4 Assignment 55 a) Create Assignment 58 b) View Assignment 63 5 Create Notification 66 6 Upload Image 68 NIIT Ltd Page 3
1. Teacher s Login 1. Go to Web Portal www.niitnguru.com/school2home. 2. Enter the School code, Teacher username and password, click on Login 3. Following window appears. NIIT Ltd Page 4
2. View Content To View Contents follow the steps given below 1. Click on + sign of View Content Node. 2. List of teacher s subject appears. NIIT Ltd Page 5
3. Click on a subject. List of chapter appears. Click on a Chapter 4. Following window appears. NIIT Ltd Page 6
a. Lesson Plan Lesson Plan contains features, as mentioned below: A. Getting Started i. Objectives: A list of the objectives to be accomplished for a particular concept. ii. Teaching Aids: A guide to aids that can be used for teaching the lesson. iii. Introduction: A background of the concept, detailing why the concept is important for students to learn, thus setting the context for learning. iv. Teaching Plan: A recommendation on how the class could be conducted to optimize the teaching learning experience. v. Summary: A recapitulation of what has been learnt in the topic. vi. References: Additional reference materials on the topic that the teachers and students can refer to. NIIT Ltd Page 7
B. Assessments - i. Questions for Evaluation: Enable teachers to gauge the level of understanding of the class ii. Challenging Problems: Provide opportunities to engage bright students to further their learning iii. Reinforcement: Lists a set of questions that the teacher can ask the students to reinforce their understanding of the concept C. Curiosity Corner - i. Fascinating Facts: Provides trivia or interesting facts about the topic being learnt. ii. Frequently Asked Questions: Contains standard questions that keep coming up from students while learning a topic. iii. Misconception and Exceptions: Captures the most common exceptions and misconceptions for each concept, which makes the learning complete. D. Explore - i. Real-Life Applications: Is used to connect the learning to life outside the classroom. ii. Activities: Details some activities that students can undertake on their own or that can be taken up in the class. Note: Click the Answers button to access answers to Reinforcement, Questions for Evaluation, Frequently Asked Questions and Challenging Problems. NIIT Ltd Page 8
b. Glossary Alphabet access List of words Word s explanation Glossary contains a list of technical terms with their brief definitions and has been collated. This provides learners as well as teachers an easy access to the relevant term. On clicking the Glossary link, a new window opens. Clicking each word button displays the meaning or definition of that word in the bottom panel. There is a provision for navigation through the Previous and Next buttons, in case the word list includes more than eight words. Previous Next A word can alternatively be accessed from the Alphabet menu at the top. NIIT Ltd Page 9
c. Web Links Web links are additional resources wherein the students and teachers are provided with a library of Web links to sites with content and resources directly mapped to the school curriculum. Salient features of Web links: A list of Web site links identified for the concepts that are available. The salient Benefits of the Web site are displayed on the right-top panel. The Features available on the site are identified on the right-bottom panel. A teacher can do Rating of web links. Web links get displayed as self-organizing links. Most admired links appears at the top. The link provides access to the Web site. Clicking the Web link opens a new window. Rating Panel Features available in website Benefits of the website NIIT Ltd Page 10
Web links are divided into two categories: 1. Standard Web links: These links are provided as a part of Eguru ICR application. The links have been identified by a network of teachers familiar with the school syllabus and who directly contribute to the learning process. Many of the sites go beyond the curriculum, giving students a chance to explore and learn more. Standard web links can t be added/modified/deleted at school level. 2. Custom Web Links: These are the links - which are added by the school teacher in the school ICR server. In case if teacher knows an important web link which is not part of the application then it can be added into application at school itself. So this is another collaborative feature of the application which allows knowledge sharing across school teachers. Once added this link would be visible to all the school teachers. Custom Web links can be deleted/modified at school by the owner teacher who has created it. Web Links How to ADD? :- 1. Click Add Web link icon available on the bottom of the web link page as shown below. NIIT Ltd Page 11
2. Following screen appears. 3. Enter the web link in the text box as shown below. Web link should always start with http:// or https:// or ftp:// NIIT Ltd Page 12
4. Enter the description of the web link in the text area as shown below. Teacher can enter the description up to 400 characters only. 5. Enter Keywords in the text area as shown below. All keywords that user enter must be comma separated. These keywords will help user in searching their own created web links later on. So keywords should be important concepts which are getting addressed with the weblink being entered. 6. Select the relevant features which are available in web link. Twelve features are mentioned as shown in figure. Check the check boxes appropriately. NIIT Ltd Page 13
7. Click Add button to create the custom web link. 8. Following message appears. Click OK. Note: Teacher can modify or delete their own creation only. How To Delete\Modify Custom Web Links? :- Steps to Delete a Custom Web links: 1. Click Remove Web link icon as shown below. NIIT Ltd Page 14
2. A confirmatory message appears as shown below. Click OK to confirm or Cancel to exit. NIIT Ltd Page 15
Steps to Modify a Custom Web links: 1. Click Modify Web link icon as shown below. 2. Following screen appears. NIIT Ltd Page 16
3. Update the fields as per your requirement and click Update button. 4. Following message appears. Click OK button. NIIT Ltd Page 17
Web Links How to Rate? :- Rating flags are available in the front of every web link. 1. Green flag is used to rate positive and red flag is used to rate negative. -To Rate Positive - To Rate Negative 2. A teacher can click on any of the two flags to rate a web link. 3. A teacher can rate a web link only once. 4. Web links are ordered in a list according to their positive rating from top to bottom and they are self-organizing. Most rated web link would appear at the top. NIIT Ltd Page 18
d. Digital Library Digital Library is the repository of subject resources. Resources can be presentations, word documents, image files, etc. This repository can also include images of your writing on the Interactive whiteboard, captured and saved for future use. Digital Library is divided into two categories: School Resources: These are the resources which are uploaded by the school teacher in the school. These resources are visible in School Resource area as shown in the image given below. Once uploaded, a resource will be available only in the respective class, subject and chapter. Eguru Resources: These are the resources which are provided by the Eguru ICR application. These are some basic and important resources provided by the application to enhance the student knowledge and provide new ideas to teacher also. These resources help in the form of extra learning. School resources area Click to view uploaded resource Click to delete resource Button to upload resources Teacher s name Click to view Eguru resource s Eguru resources NIIT Ltd Page 19
To upload content, follow these steps: a. Click the Upload Your Content button as mentioned above. The following screen appears. b. To find the file that you want to upload, click the Browse button. c. A dialog box appears. Browse and select the file to be uploaded. (File size should not be more than 10 MB.) NIIT Ltd Page 20
d. Click the Open button. e. Next, Give the Topic name and Description. f. Click the Upload button. Wait until the file is uploaded. NIIT Ltd Page 21
g. Following screen appears if upload is successful. If you want to upload more resources then click Upload more... link else click Close button. Note: While uploading the file, you may get following message: Check the file size you are trying to upload, and make sure it is less than or equal to 10 MB. NIIT Ltd Page 22
To view uploaded content, follow these steps: a. A list of school contributed resources appears under School Resources area. If you find only the Upload Your Content button, it means that no contributed resources are available for the chapter. b. To view content, click the link given under Topic Heading. c. The File Download dialog box appears. NIIT Ltd Page 23
d. To open the file, click the Open button. Note: Some files like,.jpg,.pdf,.html,.jar may open directly in the browser window. NIIT Ltd Page 24
e. Dynamic Quiz Let s Play Dynamic Quiz is fun based Quiz. It picks up & displays Multiple Choice questions which are dynamically picked up from question bank. Questions are picked up from the selected chapter. Teacher can use this module to get an understanding of student s knowledge for the respective topics. Student can also play quiz to test their memory and understanding skills. This module can be accessed through four different logins. a. Teacher b. Student c. Management d. Parent Follow the steps to play this quiz Click on Quiz tab. 1. Following window appears. Select the topics by clicking on the checkbox available in front of topic. Questions would be picked up from selected topics only. Click Start Quiz button to play the quiz. NIIT Ltd Page 25
2. Following screen appears. NIIT Ltd Page 26
How to play?? Question appears on the basis of selected topics. Let s see and understand different component of this module. 1. Quiz Screen Components: Question Question Answer Options Solution Hint NIIT Ltd Page 27
Following are the Quiz screen components: Question Counter: It shows the current question number and total number of available questions in the quiz. Question: It contains the text of the Question. Answer Options: It contains available options for an answer. Solution Hint: This is a hint to the user to answer the question. Hints may be available only in few of the questions. Skip: User may skip the question if required. 2. To provide an answer to a question, User has to click on top of any one of the available options. 3. If answer is correct then Background color of the option changes to green. You would hear a sound clip saying That s Correct. Rest of the options gets disabled. Skip button changes to the Next button. Explanation of the answer gets displayed below the next button. NIIT Ltd Page 28
4. If answer is wrong then Background color of the option changes to red. An audio saying Oops, That s incorrect plays. That s Incorrect!! gets displayed below the skip button. Note: User can attempt the same question multiple times. NIIT Ltd Page 29
5. End Quiz button displays at the bottom once user reaches to the last question. User can click on End Quiz button to end the quiz. 6. It redirects the user to the start page of the quiz. User can start quiz all over again NIIT Ltd Page 30
f. Assessment How to Create? Follow the steps to create an Assessment 1. Click on Assessment tab. 2. Following window appears. Click on Add. 3. Following window appears. NIIT Ltd Page 31
4. There are two types of Paper that student can generate: a. Static Paper Generation. b. Dynamic Paper Generation or Smart Assessment. a) To generate static paper follows the steps given below: i. Select Manual from Question Selection Criteria option buttons. ii. Select the Question Type. Options available are Objective and Subjective. iii. Select Level of Difficulty, Type and Marks. iv. Enter Instruction, Paper Title and Time Duration for the Paper. v. Select paper availability From and To date. NIIT Ltd Page 32
vi. Click on Next. Following screen appears. vii. Click on icon. Following screen appears. NIIT Ltd Page 33
viii. Select questions by clicking on checkboxes in front of each question. Selected question will be highlighted. ix. Number of questions with their marks and total marks is also displayed by question paper tracker. No of Questions Total Marks No of 1 marks Questions NIIT Ltd Page 34
x. Click on Submit button to generate a paper. xi. xii. Paper will be created. Student can download this Paper in Student Home device application after 10 mins. b) To generate dynamic paper follow the steps given below i. Select Dynamic from Paper Generation Criteria option buttons. ii. Select Question Type, options available is Objective and Subjective. NIIT Ltd Page 35
iii. Select Level of Difficulty and Type. iv. Select topic by selecting checkboxes in front of each topics. v. Enter Instructions, Paper Title and Time Duration. vi. Select paper availability From and To Date. vii. Select Next. Following window appears. viii. Enter the no of questions in Required Questions textbox. Click on Generate. Following window appears. NIIT Ltd Page 36
ix. Click on Submit. x. Paper will be submitted. NIIT Ltd Page 37
3. Reports There are two types of reports: a) Content usage report. b) Assessment report. a) Content usage report To see content usage reports follow the steps given below 1. Click on + sign of Reports. NIIT Ltd Page 38
2. Following link appears. 3. Click on Content Usage Report. Following screen appears. Click on Details. NIIT Ltd Page 39
4. Following window appears. Click on user name highlighted below. NIIT Ltd Page 40
5. Following window appears. Select checkboxes in end of each row. 6. Click on Show Details. NIIT Ltd Page 41
7. Following window appears. Click on Details. NIIT Ltd Page 42
8. Following window appears. Click on View Chart. 9. Following window appears. NIIT Ltd Page 43
b) Assessment report To see assessment reports follow the steps given below 1. Click on + sign of My Reports. 2. Following link appears. Click on Assessment Report. NIIT Ltd Page 44
3. Following window appears. Select Classes. 4. Select Chapter. Following screen appears. NIIT Ltd Page 45
5. Following screen appears. Click on paper title. 6. Following screen appears. NIIT Ltd Page 46
7. There are various types of assessment reports a. Mark Sheet: To view mark sheet follow the steps given below i. Click on Mark Sheet. ii. Following window appears. NIIT Ltd Page 47
b. LOD Marks Distribution: To view LOD Marks Distribution, follow the steps given below: i. Click on LOD Marks Distribution. ii. Following window appears. NIIT Ltd Page 48
c. MCA Marks Distribution: To view MCA Marks Distribution, follow the steps given below: i. Click on MCA Marks Distribution. ii. Following window appears. NIIT Ltd Page 49
d. Question Wise Analysis: To view Question Wise Analysis, follow the steps given below: i. Click on Question Wise Analysis. ii. Following window appears. Select student from dropdown. NIIT Ltd Page 50
iii. Following window appears. e. Marks Sheet Question Wise: To view Marks Sheet Question Wise, follow the steps given below: i. Click on Marks Sheet Question Wise. NIIT Ltd Page 51
ii. Following window appears. f. Class Marks Percentage Distribution: To view Class Marks Percentage Distribution, follow the steps given below: i. Click on Class Marks Percentage Distribution. NIIT Ltd Page 52
ii. Following window appears. g. Chapter Marks Distribution: To view Chapter Marks Distribution, follow the steps given below: i. Click on Chapter Marks Distribution. NIIT Ltd Page 53
ii. Following window appears. NIIT Ltd Page 54
4. Assignment Steps to Create and View Assignments 1. Once Teacher has logged in, following screen appears. 2. Click on + sign of Miscellaneous to expand, Assignment node appears. NIIT Ltd Page 55
3. Click on + sign of Assignment, Create Assignment and View Assignment node appears. NIIT Ltd Page 56
a. Create Assignment 1. Click on Create Assignment. Following screen appears. 2. Select Class/Section. NIIT Ltd Page 57
3. Select Chapter. 4. Enter Assignment Title. NIIT Ltd Page 58
5. Select From and To date. 6. Write the details of Assignments. NIIT Ltd Page 59
7. If required document can be uploaded in the Assignments, The types of documents that can be uploaded specified in green highlighted text below. 8. Click on Submit. Following message appears. NIIT Ltd Page 60
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b. View Assignments To View Assignment Submitted By Students follow the steps given below: 1. Click on View Assignment, following screen appears. 2. Select Class/Section. 3. Select Assignment. NIIT Ltd Page 62
4. Following screen appears, showing list of students to whom assignment is allotted. Click on link under Assignment Doc of the students who has uploaded their assignment. 5. Following window appears. NIIT Ltd Page 63
6. Click Open to view the document or Save to save the document to view later. If open is selected following window appears. NIIT Ltd Page 64
5. Create Notification To Create Notification, follow the steps given below 1. Once teacher has logged in, following screen appears. Click on Create Notification. 2. Following window appears. Select Class/Section. NIIT Ltd Page 65
3. Select Notification Type. 4. Enter Description. NIIT Ltd Page 66
5. Click on Submit. 6. Following message appears. NIIT Ltd Page 67
7. Upload Image To upload your photo, follow the steps given below: 1. Click on Upload Image. 2. Following screen appears. Click on Browse. NIIT Ltd Page 68
3. File Open dialog box appears. Select the image and click on Open. 4. Following screen appears. Click on Upload Image. NIIT Ltd Page 69
5. Image will be uploaded. NIIT Ltd Page 70