Question 1

Creating and Editing Calendar Events - T2.1 - 6

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Creating and Editing Calendar Events

This article explores how to create calendar events, repeat calendar events, share events to other teachers and learners, and edit existing events.

Creating Calendar Events

This video will guide you through how to create calendar events for targeted groups.

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Modifying Calendar Events

This video will guide you through how to modify calendar events, such as time or length of the event.

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Changing the Colour of Calendar Events

There are a range of colours you can choose for your calendar events. Teachers often like to utilise this functionality to communicate to learners and parents what different events are for

Click to edit the calendar event
Select the coloured circle

Sharing an Event with Teachers

When you are creating the calendar event, search for the teacher you would like to be included in the event.

Select the teacher you would like to be included in the calendar event.

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Question 2

How to Use the Backfill Button - T7.2-4

Accepted Answer

Backfilling Across Multiple Year Levels

Go into one of your pinned groups and click view reports Select Achievement Report

Select view progress

Click the year level you would like to backfill from - this will backfill that year level and everything back from it. Click the learning log (see blue circle in screenshot) and select backfill.

|| Due to several progressions being updated, this may take some time.

Backfilling Across Curriculum Areas

Go into one of your pinned groups and click view reports Select Achievement Report

Select the curriculum area you would like to backfill within

From a Curriculum Level

Select view progress

You can then backfill from a curriculum level (see blue circle) - This example is reading

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Question 3

Editing Learner Groups - T3.1 - 4

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Editing Learner Groups

Add learners to a group

This video will guide you through how to ** add learners ** to a group. You can use groups to:

Attach to learning events
View and mark progress
Attach evidence
Run achievement reports

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Move learners to a new group

This video will guide you through how to ** move learners ** to a new group when your learning design changes

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Move learners to an existing group

This video will guide you through how to ** move learners ** within ** existing groups ** based on the change of learning design and curriculum levels

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Delete learners from a group

This video will guide you through how to ** delete learners ** from a group

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Question 4

Different Methods of Reviewing & Marking off Evidence -  T6

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Reviewing & Marking Evidence

This article will go through different areas you can use to review and mark evidence across SchoolTalk.

Individual Learners

The following two areas will outline ways you can review and mark evidence for just one learner.

Highlight/Mark off Individual Progressions & Add Evidence

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Learning Log Feed

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Multiple Learners

The following four areas outline ways you can review and mark evidence for more than one learner

| ** Top Tip: ** Anyone can access your saved Gap Analyses. This means multiple teachers can add evidence to a saved Gap Analysis at any time. Instead of selecting ‘Blank Report’, search for the name of the Gap Analysis you would like to add evidence to. Add evidence or highlight off relevant progressions, then click save report

Achievement Report

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Question 5

Pinning Teachers and Groups - T1.4 - 5

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Pinning other teachers

To pin other teachers, click on where it says ‘Look up teachers’ on the right hand side.

Type in the name of the teacher whose calendar you would like to pin to your dashboard. Then click the search icon.

Click on the name of teacher that you would like to pin to your dashboard, and click ‘Pin’. This teacher will be added to your dashboard.

|| **Please note: **There is the functionality to group teachers into a single pin, e.g. Yr5 teachers. For this option, please contact your school’s SchoolTalk Lead.

Creating and pinning groups

To pin an existing group to your dashboard, click ‘Look up learners’. Type in the name of the existing group, and click search. Click on the group you would like, then press ‘Pin’.

To create a new group, click ‘Look up learners’. At the top, click across to the ‘Create new group’ option. Add a tag to ensure easy searching (useful for if another teacher searches for this group).

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Question 6

Editing your Design for Learning - T4.3-4

Accepted Answer

Editing your Design for Learning (DFL)

Embed external documents or resources

This video will guide you through how to upload

Videos
Links
Docs
Modelling books
Text

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Add or remove goals

This video will guide you through how to select goals and tag them to your planning.

Once goals are added you can:

Teachers and learners can attach evidence
Mark progress

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|| Please Note - Goals will be saved as suggestions in the event so that you don’t need to search for them.

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