School Spider Pupil Area How to set up and use our pupil learning environment

Document Updated 2020 School Spider Ltd

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Contents

What does it do? Page 3

Getting Set Up Page 4

Pupil Dashboard Overview Page 5

Setting Homework and Discussions Page 6

How Pupils Respond Page 7

Managing Pupil Responses Page 8

Downloading and Marking Homework Page 8

Pupil Blogging Page 9

Reporting to a teacher Page 10

Restricting Options Page 10

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What Does It Do?

The School Spider pupil portal is a great tool for remote learning

for pupils.

Have class discussions and assign homework direct to your class.

Upload worksheets where pupils can download and complete at

home.

It’s a great learning resource for children to access from home.

There is also areas to blog and share knowledge with all children.

Security? Don’t worry the pupil area is linked directly to your staff

login. You can assign and monitor all items posted. There are also

bad word and bullying filters.

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Where to find it : Your pupil area is located in your admin area

under manage pupil area. Check “manage pupils who can login”

to see if you already have it set up.

Integrate with your MIS : School Spider can integrate with

your school MIS system (Arbor, Scholar Pack and SIMS). We

pull through all parent and pupil information. This is done via

a company called Wonde. Contact us to arrange this.

Manually Upload Data : You can choose to manually up-

load (we would not recommend this) but if you already

have the data uploaded or you use Integris this is the best

way. This is done via a CSV. If you contact us we will email

Uploading Pupils

Getting Set Up

Sending Out Logins 1. Select manage pupil area

2. Manage pupils who can login

3. Export

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Pupil Dashboard Overview

Discussions

Homework

Wikis

Blogs

Scrapbooks

Assign homework to pupils. Have class discussions. Pupils can down-load and complete worksheets

Very similar to the above. Have full class discussions, chat feed.

Create “wikipedia” pages where pupils can logon and add their own knowledge

Pupils can blog with one another.. You can also blog with all other schools in School Spider

Pupil’s area to add their own text, files and images. Only shared with parents and teachers.

Bad word and bullying filters

The whole pupil area has bad work and bullying filters. Any attempt to post either will result an alert being sent to the teacher.

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Homework & Discussions

Setting up a homework

Go to manage pupil area > add or edit a homework item > add a

new piece of homework > Add a new piece of homework

Just start at the top and fill in the fields. Save at the bottom and you

can attach a file and video. If you want to attach more than one file,

Pupil view

When pupils login they will be taken to their dashboard and any

assigned homework or discussions will show here.

Discussions

Your discussions are in manage pupil area > add or edit a

discussion item. They work exactly the same as the above

but you cannot add any media to these. It is a just a chat

feed.

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Pupil Responses

Pupils can either respond to the chat feed below and this will

show for the whole class that this has been assigned to. Or they

can upload homework on the right hand side.

Use the options here to download and upload their homework..

This is a staff comment and will show in another colour.

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How to: Manage Responses

To view any homework, discussions and to interact with these just

go to manage pupil area > select view (homework, discussion etc.)

and select the blue plus.

Comments

Under pupil comments you can click the clink to see the com-

ment feed. You can tick A or D to accept or delete any comments.

Click the add a comment to this discussion button to add a com-

ment to the feed.

Inappropriate Comments and Alerts

If a pupil attempts to swear or add an inappropriate comment, It

will show them a message “This has been sent to be checked by

your teacher” You will then see an alert when you login

Click the alert button to see all comments. You can

then tick the A or D button to Approve or Delete the

comment. All deleted comments will still save in

your comments area but will not be shown to pupils.

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Download and Mark Homework

To view and mark any homework go to manage pupil area > select

view homework and select the blue plus on the homework item

you want to view.

Download homework files

You will see a link on the right hand side, this will download all

homework responses into a zip files for you to view.

Marking Homework

Click on the “Mark and feedback on homework” button. You

will then be shown a list of pupils in your class.

Click on the blue plus on the relevant child to mark. You can

choose to give them a mark out of 10 (not require) and use

the comments box to add a comment.

Children can only see their own grade and comments.

Pupil view

When pupils login after you have marked, they will see the below.

They can click “view” to then read their comments.

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Pupil Blogging

Pupils can click the blogs to create and interact with blogs either

with pupils in your school or all schools that use School Spider.

Once a blog has been created, children can view this is “all blogs”

and they can do a thumbs up (Like) thumbs down (dislike) add

comments and report the blog.

Monitoring Comments and Blogs

If you go to manage pupil area > manage your pupil blogs . You

can press the blue plus to view , add files, images, comments

and also make the blog inactive. Any inappropriate words or

comments will be sent to your alerts like the homework items.

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Report to a Teacher

There is a field to report something to a teacher on the dashboard

for the children when they first login. This lets the pupils send a di-

rect message to the school or a specific teacher privately and will

be emailed. Staff need to have their email attached to their account

for this OR it will go to your office/admin email.

Restrictions and Settings You can choose to turn on and off different areas of the pupil area.

If you go to your settings cog > change your website configuration >

pupil area . Use the tick boxes to deactivate areas you do not want

pupils to access.

You can also change other settings so have a good look in there.

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What to do next? If you’d like to get set up or you have any

other questions, just contact us on.

0161 635 0255

hello@schoolspider.co.uk