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- How can I invite students to my live class?
- Click on the “Invite” button available at the top right corner of the board
- It will open up a dialogue box with multiple ways for you to invite students to your class
- Share your screen with students at your audio/video conferencing, showing the QR code that your students can scan using their tablets/mobile devices with camera and directly join your class
- Share the 6 digit class code, and ask students to visit https://www.newline-engage.com/, enter the class code and click on “Join Class”
- Copy and paste the link to your board to your LMS for students to click and join your class
- Click on “Email link” to send the link to your board in an email to your students
- Click on “Google Classroom” or “Microsoft Teams” icons to directly place link to your board at Google Classroom or Microsoft Teams
- Can I control who joins my class?
- By default anyone who has access to the link to your board can join your class. Students are only required to enter their names. No registration or login to Newline Engage Cloud is required
- You can mandate student registration or login at Newline Engage Cloud by selecting that option under “Settings”–>”More Settings” to restrict who can join your class
- Where can I see the list participants who have joined my class?
- Click on the “Avatars” or face pics bubbles at top right of your board to open “Participant Panel” where you can see the list of all participants to your board
- Can students see each other’s boards?
- No. Students can not see each other’s boards. They can only see what the teacher is writing/drawing which gets replicated on all students’ boards.
- How can a teacher see all of their students’ work in real time?
- Once students are invited and have joined, a teacher can click on “Grid View” at the bottom of their instructor board.
- It will take them to a new screen where they can see a birds-eye view of students boards, 25 at a time, in 5 rows of 5 columns each. This is configurable using “Grid Settings” on the top left of the Grid View.
- If the class has more than 25 students, a teacher can go to the next 25 students boards by clicking on page numbers on the lower left corner of their board.
- They can use the page numbers to go back and forth and have a complete view of all of their students boards in real-time.
- How can a teacher join a student’s board or look at what they are doing?
- From the Grid-View, a teacher can click on any student’s board to zoom in to and expand their board to see what they are doing.
- To join the student’s board as a collaborator, or to correct their work, or to help them out, click on “Join”. To go back to Instructor’s board, click on “Go to Instructor” on the lower center of the board.
- How can I add a co-teacher to my class?
- Adding a co-teacher is very easy. You click on the “Participants Panel” on the upper right corner of the board.
- It will open up a pop-up window where you will see all participants listed. Click on “Make Co-teacher” to make a particular participant co-teacher of your board.
- How can I showcase a student’s work to the whole class?
- Click on the top right “Participants Panel”.
- Click on “Showcase” will showcase that participant’s board to the entire class.
- Is it possible to enforce students to be on the same page as teacher and not flip through the pages?
- Click on “Participants’ Panel” or “Avatars” from the top right corner of the board
- Enable “Follow Teacher” to force students to be on the same page as teacher
- Is it possible to prevent students from adding/updating the boards after the class had ended?
- Yes. A teacher can now lock the boards so students can not make any changes.
- From the Instructor board, a teacher can click on “Avatar” on the upper right, and it will open up a pop-up window.
- Select “Lock Class”. This will lock all students’ boards and they will see a message “Board Locked by Teacher”.
- To unlock, simply click on the “Avatar” on the upper right and select “Unlock Class”.
- How can Newline Engage Cloud work with Zoom or Google Meet-up video conferencing?
- You can use Zoom, or Google Meet-up to start your video conferencing, and launch Newline Engage Cloud from your browser in a separate window.
- Once on instructor board, you can invite students by copying the link in the Zoom or Google Meet-up chat window.
- Students can click on that link and join the whiteboards in their own browser as a separate window to the video conferencing or as a separate tab in the same browser
- How can a student ask for help? How will the teacher know who needs help?
- Whenever a student needs any help or assistance from a teacher, they can click on the “Hands” icon on their board’s upper right.
- A message with the student’s name will pop-up under the “Hands” icon on the instructor’s board.
- At this time, the instructor can switch to grid view, and click on a student’s board to zoom in. Clicking on “Join” will allow the teacher to go to student’s board and address their concern.
- Once the questions/concerns are addressed, the student can click on the same “Hand” icon again to bring down their hand
- Can a teacher send a message to all students at the same time, without individually writing to each student?
- Yes this is possible. A teacher first needs to enable chat function. To do that, click on the “Avatar”. In the pop-up, you can select “Create Chat”.
- Now a “Chat” icon will appear on all boards.
- A teacher’s message can be seen by all students, but a student’s response or message will only be seen by the teacher.
- How can a teacher conduct a timed activity with students?
- From the instructor’s board, click on the “Timer” icon on the upper right
- It will ask a timer value in minutes
- Click on “Set Timer” and timer will show up on all students boards
- To stop the timer prematurely, just click on the “Timer” icon inside the timer
