Digging Deeper into Distance Teaching Level 3: Collecting Feedback

This guide includes step-by-step instructions to accompany our May 7, 2020 webinar on

Distance Teaching in the general music classroom. The strategies and tools described here are

available to Quaver customers and to any teachers facing school closures due to COVID-19. Visit

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This webinar is organized into the following sections:

1. Assessment Types - Page 3

2. Messaging with Students- Page 16

3. Grading - Page 21

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At Quaver, we encourage teachers to think about the Distance Teaching process

as three easy steps:

● Step 1: Connect with Your Students

● Step 2: Create and Distribute Assignments

● Step 3: Collect Feedback

This webinar will focus on Step 3 of the process.

We also recommend the Video Training Courses found in Module 4. Search & Customization

and Module 10. Teacher Administration. You can find these courses at Help.QuaverMusic.com!

Visit QuaverMusic.com/Webinars2020 to register for additional webinars in this series or to

sign up for a Live Q&A session!

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Section 1: Assessment Types

There are a few assessment types that you may have already begun to integrate into your

assignments.

● Student Record

● Rubrics and Rubric Builder

● Assessment and Quiz Builder

Student Record

The Student Record screen is a great way to assess students’ skill development. Whether they are

demonstrating a simple rhythm pattern, reflecting on a performance, or performing a short recorder

piece, the Student Record option is the best way to see them in action.

Students will be able to record directly in the Student Record Screen if the camera and microphone have

been allowed access in the browser. Note: Currently, only Chrome and Firefox browsers support

recording directly into the screen. If your students are using another browser, they will not be given

an option to record, but rather upload a video.

To record, students will simply click the record button. They will be given one minute and thirty seconds

to perform or respond. They can playback the video by clicking the purple PLAY BACK button or choose

to re-record. Then, they’re ready to submit!

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If they are unable to record directly into the screen or have a previously recorded mp4 or mov file to

include, they can click the Select File button to browse their computer files and attach to the assignment

screen. And just like before - click SUBMIT.

From here, the teacher will be able to see the students’ work and give it a grade.

Creating a Student Recording Screen

1. Once you’ve created a custom lesson or assignment in Resource Manager, double-click or select

and click EDIT to open the Assignment or Lesson.

2. Add to the assignment by clicking MENU and NEW SCREEN.

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3. You’ll notice the Student Recording Screen on the Resource Creation menu. You’ll also find a link

to the Resource Creation menu from your Teacher Dashboard.

4. Add a title for the screen by entering it in the Title field & hit ENTER. 5. You may also want to check out the options on the left side of your screen.

6. Click EDIT NOTES to add notes for your students to view when they launch this screen in their

assignment

7. Clicking CANCEL on the left side of the screen will close the window without adding the screen

to your assignment.

8. Click SAVE to add the screen! You’ll see a completion message to confirm the new screen. Click

OK to close.

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9. The Student Recording Screen lives at the end of your assignment. Click LAUNCH to see a

preview of what it will look like to your students.

10. The new screen will appear in your assignment or lesson in Resource Manager. If you have

created this screen from the Resource Creation Menu on your Teacher Dashboard, you’ll also

find this screen in the My Custom Screens folder in Resource Manager.

11. You can use this same screen in as many assignments as you’d like, or keep creating new ones.

You can always find it in this folder.

Students have different options based on the device and browser they’re using.

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If a student’s device has a built-in camera:

Devices that have built in cameras or are connected to a webcam can record directly into the screen!

The browser will prompt them to allow camera and microphone access. When the video is added, it will

appear in your GradeBook for the assignment.

If a student’s device doesn’t have a camera:

If their device does not have a camera, they can record on another device! Click CHOOSE FILE to upload

the recording here. Videos should be less than one minute longer and under 60 megabytes in size. When

the video is added, it will appear in your GradeBook for the assignment.

Once students have submitted the assignment, you’ll find their submission in your GradeBook!

For more on creating a student recording screen, visit our Help Site.

Rubrics and Rubric Builder

When grading a student submission, you may choose to give it a simple completion grade. Or, you may

choose to apply a specific rubric to the work the student completed. Rubrics are a great way to assess

the intangible and make the grading an objective process.

When you are in the assignment creation process, you can either attach the rubric when you are

creating the assignment in Resource Manager or attach a rubric to the assignment in the Assignment

Details screen.

Attaching a Rubric in Resource Manager

With this method, because you have added this as a visible screen in the actual assignment, students

will be able to see what the grading criteria will be and this rubric will appear when you are grading in

the GradeBook!

1. When editing an assignment in Resource Manager, click the assignment to select it, so a grey

box is around it.

2. Click MENU and NEW SCREEN.

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3. Select RUBRIC BUILDER from the menu.

4. When you’re done filling out the rubric, click SAVE. 5. The new screen will appear in your assignment or lesson in Resource Manager. If you have

created this screen from the Resource Creation Menu on your Teacher Dashboard, you’ll also

find this screen in the My Custom Screens folder in Resource Manager.

6. You can use this same screen in as many assignments as you’d like, or keep creating new ones.

You can always find it in this folder.

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Applying a Rubric in the Assignment Details Window

With this method, students will not be able to see the rubric, but it will appear when we go to grade.

1. Head to Teacher Admin from your Teacher Dashboard.

2. Select ASSIGNMENTS. 3. Select the assignment you’d like to add a rubric to and click GIVE ASSIGNMENT. 4. The Assignment Details window will pull up.

5. In the bottom right corner, where it says APPLIED RUBRIC, click SELECT.

6. You can choose a pre-made rubric or click ADD NEW+ to add a new one to the assignment.

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Building a Rubric

No matter which method you choose, building a rubric is simple.

1. Give the activity a title by entering text in the box at the top of the screen.

2. Click the orange SAMPLE CRITERIA TEXT cell in the left hand column to enter rubric criteria.

3. Click the green + to add a row to the rubric.

4. Click the red X to delete a row from the rubric.

5. Click the orange SAMPLE SCORING TEXT across the top of the rubric to enter the scoring levels

and points that should be awarded at each level.

6. Select LOAD TEMPLATE to load a previous rubric template to edit.

7. Select ADD/EDIT NOTES to add notes or instructions.

8. Select SAVE to save your screen. The screen will be saved to the designated lesson, assignment,

or folder.

No matter which option you choose, you can use this rubric to give a grade in the GradeBook.

For example, if I wanted to grade an assignment with a Student Record screen:

1. Head to your GradeBook from Teacher Admin.

2. Click on the icon beside the student’s name you would like to give a grade for and under the

Assignment you wish to grade.

3. Paginate to the recording screen (or whatever screen you wish to grade!)

4. On the left hand side you will see the messaging feature as well as an additional tab labeled

Rubric. Click that to access the rubric criteria and scoring grid. You can expand the Rubric to read

the details or keep it in this view.

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5. Make your grade selections and submit the grade.

6. You’ll now see the grade appear in your GradeBook!

Assessments and Quiz Builder

Whether you are pulling directly from pre-made, end-of-unit Quaver assessments or making your own in

Quiz Builder, assessments and quizzes are a great way to assess content knowledge.

Unit Assessments

Unit Assessments are available at the end of each three-lesson unit in the Quaver Curriculum. When

building the assignment in Resource Manager, you click make Quaver automatically populate the grade

that student receives in your GradeBook.

1. When editing in Resource Manager, click the dot next to the assessment title to fill in the

bubble.

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2. Now, when students submit the assessment, their grade will automatically populate in your

GradeBook.

Quiz Builder

Quaver’s Custom Quiz Builder allows teachers to take this one step further–customizing their digital

assessments to suit their specific needs. With a question bank of 2,500+ questions and many

customization options, assessments just got much easier, faster, and more effective!

Distance Teaching Tip: These screens are also excellent ways to make an assignment “submittable.”

Adding even the most simple one-question quiz to the end of an assignment can make it possible to see

if students have accessed the assignment and completed it.

1. Once you’ve created a custom lesson or assignment in Resource Manager, double-click or select

and click EDIT to open the Assignment or Lesson.

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2. Add to the assignment by clicking MENU and NEW SCREEN.

3. Click QUIZ BUILDER to select the Custom Quiz Builder.

4. You’ll notice the Student Quiz Builder on the Resource Creation menu. You’ll also find a link to

the Resource Creation menu from your Teacher Dashboard.

5. The Quiz Builder is divided into two sections. To the left you’ll find the Quaver Quiz Bank. This

bank holds more than 2,500 assessment questions from throughout Quaver’s curriculum

resources. These are easy to filter, search, and use right away.You can also auto-build a quiz

here based on any grade level or keyword. Another great time-saving tool!

6. To the right, you’ll find your quiz customization tools. Here, you can either create a question

from scratch or edit a question from the quiz bank.

7. Click SEARCH QUIZ BANK to see ALL the questions in the question bank

8. Enter any keyword in the ADD KEYWORD field at the top of the Quiz Bank

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9. Press ENTER or click ADD. Pressing enter will run the search automatically. ADD will add it to

your search criteria and wait to search until you click SEARCH QUIZ BANK! 10. Once your search results roll in, you can click any question to preview it. The correct answer will

be checked. You’ll also notice icons for questions that have audio or graphics inside.

11. When you’re ready to add it to your quiz, just drag and drop.

12. Time-Saving Tip: We know that as teachers, your time is valuable! You can narrow your search

and filter by grade. Simply click the grade from the dropdown and click SEARCH QUIZ BANK. 13. For even more speedy quiz making, try our automation option! Clicking AUTO-BUILD will

randomly generate questions from the search criteria you already selected. Using auto-build you

can generate anywhere from 1-30 questions.

14. When you’re done creating, click SAVE to add the screen.

15. The new screen will appear in your assignment or lesson in Resource Manager. If you have

created this screen from the Resource Creation Menu on your Teacher Dashboard, you’ll also

find this screen in the My Custom Screens folder in Resource Manager.

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16. You can use this same screen in as many assignments as you’d like, or keep creating new ones.

You can always find it in this folder.

For more on building a Custom Quiz, visit our Help Site.

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Section 2: Messaging

You can message students with student accounts in the context of an assignment.

Messaging Functionality and Preferences

By default, your messaging preferences are set to disable group/whole class messaging and enable

individual/teacher-to-student messaging.

Customizing Messaging Preferences

1. Begin in Teacher Admin from your Teacher Dashboard.

2. In the top left corner, you’ll notice a blue messaging bubble icon. Click this icon and select

MESSAGING OPTIONS.

3. Here, you’ll see a list of your active classes as well as two columns: DISABLE GROUP and

DISABLE ALL. The default view will show that the Disable Group Column is all checked. As a

reminder, this means that students can individually communicate with the teacher, but will be

unable to communicate with the whole class. We find that most teachers prefer to stay with this

default setting.

4. If you want to disable messaging communication a step further, you can select DISABLE ALL.

This will disable not only messaging between students and their class, but will also disable

messaging between student and teacher. Some teachers have other methods of communicating

with students through other platforms, so if that is the case for you, you may decide to Disable

All.

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5. Another option, which is not as common, is to allow students to communicate with you and with

all of the students in their class freely through the assignment messaging. Please keep in mind

that students would be able to send a message out to the whole class without your review of

the content of their post.

Messaging in Practice

Currently, messaging is only available when in the context of a specific assignment.

Student View

When a student is inside a given assignment, they have a navigation toolbar at the bottom of their

screen. Here, they can read instructions, paginate from screen to screen, and even message!

If you have chosen to stay with the default setting, DISABLE GROUP, students will first see the **chat

disabled** message from the group tab. When they click the purple TEACHER tab, they will be able to

send you a message attached to this assignment.

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Teacher View

Teachers will be able to access the message that students send in two ways:

1. Through the Message bubble on the Teacher Admin screen. This option will likely be the way

you first become aware that you have a message.

2. Through your GradeBook.

Message Bubble

1. Click on the message bubble.

2. Here, you’ll see the assignment name and the student name where the message can be found.

3. Click on the message notification and you will be taken to the Assignment Review screen to view

the message

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GradeBook

1. Click on the GradeBook icon from your Teacher Dashboard.

2. When you are reviewing an individual student’s assignment, you will see messages appear in the

same Assignment Review screen.

3. You will then see the messaging board on the left of the student’s assignment. Here, the teacher

can respond to student’s questions. And as you can see, those responses will appear

immediately in the student’s assignment.

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Distance Teaching Tip: We have seen students use this to ask simple questions that may come up while

working on their own. Another great way to use this feature is to allow students to respond in writing to

various questions you have for assessment. For example, if you do not want to use Student Record or

one of the Assessments, you can make a Checklist screen of questions for students to answer. While

they are viewing the checklist, they can simply open up the messaging feature and start typing their

responses!

Making a Checklist Screen

1. Once you’ve created a custom lesson or assignment in Resource Manager, double-click or select

and click EDIT to open the Assignment or Lesson.

2. Add to the assignment by clicking MENU and NEW SCREEN. 3. You’ll notice the Checklist Builder on the Resource Creation menu. You’ll also find a link to the

Resource Creation menu from your Teacher Dashboard.

4. Give the activity a title by entering text in the box at the top of the screen.

5. Enter text where it reads "Sample Checklist Item" to add an item to the checklist.

6. Click the red "X" to delete an item from the list.

7. Select +ADD NEW to add a new item to the list.

8. Select ADD/EDIT NOTES to add notes or instructions.

9. Select SAVE to save your screen. The screen will be saved to the designated lesson, assignment,

or folder.

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Section 3: Grading

GradeBook

You’ll find your GradeBook in the Teacher Admin section of your Teacher Dashboard.

Once you’re in your GradeBook, you’ll see each of your students listed on the left and your assignments

listed across the top with their due dates just below.

Depending on the assignments you have pushed out and student progress on each assignment, these

icons will look different. Click HELP to access the ICON LEGEND that details what each icon means.

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The MENU button will also provide you with a list of options including: Add New Assignment, Download

GradeBook, Show Upcoming Assignments and Show Archived Students.

● Add New Assignment- allows you to add a new assignment to the GradeBook

● Download GradeBook- allows you to print or view a spreadsheet with data from the GradeBook

● Show Upcoming Assignments - allows you to show upcoming assignments in the GradeBook

● Show Archived Students- allows you to view archived students in the GradeBook

To view specific student progress, click on the icon by the student’s name. From there, you will be able

to view their work.

Note: You will need to paginate through the assignment on the right side of the Assignment Review

window to see all students submissions if there are any.

GradeBook Comments

It is possible to make comments in your GradeBook. Note that these comments are only viewed by the

teacher and are not visible to students.

To make a comment:

1. Select a specific student and assignment.

2. Click the blue COMMENTS button and enter your comment.

3. Click EXIT and head back to the main GradeBook view. You will be able to see that a comment

has been attached to that particular student and assignment.

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4. Mouse over the blue C to view.

Auto-Graded Quizzes and Reports

When you’re inside of the assessment view, you may have noticed the bottom left hand side of your

screen. Here you will see the screen title, score for the current student, average score for the class, and

this handy bar graph icon.

Click the bar graph icon.

Here, you will see the Grade Distribution by number of students and percent of correct responses.

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On the right you will see the Percent Missed with the questions and which questions were answered

incorrectly. This is a really handy tool for determining which subject areas need to be revisited and

which students could use additional assignments or even a retake!

Notice in the bottom right hand corner there is a MENU button. You will see the following options: Jump

to Question, Select All Correct, Reset Answers, and Submit. You can use these to review specific missed

questions or make adjustments to student work

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Looking Ahead to Future Webinars

While this is the last webinar of this particular series, please stay tuned for additional content that we

are working on for you.

If you are interested in QuaverSEL resources, please join us on May 12th as we take a look at how to

continue to support social and emotional learning with our students at home.

For additional support, be sure to visit Help.QuaverEd.com for support articles, webinar archives, and

more.

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