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  • Endeavor ane new tool and idea a week. Learn, try, and reflect!

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Build a lesson from scratch or import existing materials

Steps

  1. Open up SMART Notebook

    On your reckoner, open SMART Notebook.

  2. Build your lesson

    Create a new lesson from scratch or employ existing resources. Download a lesson from the SMART Substitution or import a PowerPoint (Windows only) or PDF file.

    The page sorter on the side shows you the unlike parts of your lesson.

  3. Get in interactive

    Utilise tools such as the Infinite Cloner, the Gallery'due south interactive tools, activities, and assessments to build engaging lessons. Click the icons below to learn about these tools.

  4. Salvage your piece of work

    Click Save to salve your SMART Notebook file.

Instructional ideas

Engage your class by importing existing lesson and curriculum resources and adding interactive activities.

  • Add together an interactive activity or an assessment to the file you imported.

  • Create a 3-folio SMART Notebook file with a hook, learning experience, and a bank check for agreement:

    • Page 1: The claw–Spark marvel and grab students' attention.

    • Page 2: Learning Experience–Layer an engaging activity to help your students work with the field of study matter.

    • Folio 3: Check for understanding–Utilise activities or assessments.

Enhance lessons by downloading SMART Notebook files from SMART Commutation and customize them for your class.

  • Introduce your lesson, the claw, past adding a YouTube video or an activity like Fill in the Blanks to spark curiosity in your students.

  • Add a quote, a motion-picture show, a short verse form, or line from a song to a blank folio. Have students participate in a Chalk Talk.

Extend learning by importing student created content.

  • Create a SMART Notebook file for use in centers or stations.

    • Use Space Cloner to build math stations, or create a variety of activities to reinforce learning.

    • Utilise the timer to help students know when to rotate to their adjacent station.

  • Check for understanding: Utilise Shout It Out!, assessments, or writing on a blank Notebook page as students leave as an get out ticket or when they get in every bit an entrance ticket.

Learn more well-nigh getting started with SMART Notebook files

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Add images

Steps

  1. Get started

    Open SMART Notebook on your computer and click the Add-on tab.

  2. Search for royalty-gratis images

    Cull Prototype Web Search to discover a royalty-free image and drag it onto the SMART Notebook page.

  3. Fix transparency

    Get rid of the white rectangle around the paradigm by selecting the prototype, clicking the down pointer in the top-right corner, and selecting Set Image Transparency.

  4. Crop the image

    Crop an image or zoom in on 1 role by selecting the image, clicking the top-correct pointer, and selecting Mask.

Instructional ideas

  • Engage your class by inserting images of possible characters, settings, and problems. Students can piece of work in small groups to create a story based on the images.

  • Raise your lessons past using an image that sparks curiosity and questions about an upcoming unit of measurement or topic. Have students come up and write or describe over the prototype. They can share what they're thinking near, things they wonder, questions they have, and connections they've fabricated.

  • Extend learning by using images that link to other pages in a SMART Notebook lesson or even to a website you would like your students to visit. Linking to another page inside a lesson is a terrific way to differentiate stations or content for students.

Learn more about working with images

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Add together text and shapes and group and lock objects

Steps

  1. Add together text and shapes

    Tap Add Shape to view available shapes and select the one you want. And so tap Add Text and click the folio to add text.

    Tip: Employ the properties options on the toolbar to change the look of the shape or text object.

  2. Select the objects

    Tap Select Selection Tool in the toolbar, so click and drag over the Notebook page until a rectangle surrounds the text, shapes, or other objects you desire to select. A selection rectangle appears around the selected objects.

  3. Group objects

    Tap the carte pointer of whatsoever 1 of the selected objects, so select Group > Group. To ungroup the objects, tap the grouping's menu arrow, and then select Group > Ungroup.

  4. Lock objects

    Select the object or objects y'all desire to lock. Tap the menu arrow, select Lock, and and so choose how you lot'd like the lock to work (for example, y'all can lock the object but still allow it to be moved). Once locked, selected objects have a lock icon in identify of the menu arrow. To unlock, tap the lock icon and select Unlock.

Instructional ideas

  • Engage your grade using the text tool to add questions that help start a class discussion, activate prior noesis, or communicate central ideas.

  • Enhance your lessons by adding text and a shape. Group the objects and lock them to move merely horizontally or vertically to reveal more fundamental information.

  • Extend learning past hiding grouped shapes and text off the folio. Students tin extend their learning by sliding out the images to discover new challenges, actress hints, or connected ideas.

Learn more than about working with objects

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Create a game-based action

Steps

  1. Start the activity sorcerer in SMART Notebook

    Click in the SMART Notebook toolbar to start the activity wizard. The activity magician provides templates for edifice a variety of activities.

  2. Build the activity

    Select an action and follow the instructions to add lesson material. Some activities let you add images or choose fun themes.

    Annotation: If it'south your first fourth dimension, you're prompted to make an account using Google or Microsoft.

  3. Play

    Tap START to play games on the display, or tap to ship them to pupil devices through hellosmart.com.

    Tip: Add game elements to assist facilitate the activity.

Instructional ideas

Engage your class using SMART activities to become students interacting with your lesson.

  • Spark curiosity or introduce vocabulary using the Fill In the Blanks activity, which works well with a quotation, poem, or definition. Students organize the words and reflect on possible meanings. Discuss.

  • Exercise and review: use Match 'Em Up for vocabulary or math practice, or try Game Show for a fun review.

  • Use formative assessments to check for understanding. Monster Quiz gives instant feedback. The class can review and dispel misconceptions at the cease.

    Run across Game-based Learning with SMART Activities for more ideas.

Enhance your lessons by using SMART's interactive activities to build deeper understanding of concepts and demonstrate practical college-gild thinking skills.

  • Reinforce learning with Super Sort. Have students sort examples and non-examples of concepts.

  • Use the Rank Gild tool to assist students explain their thinking by ranking concepts from most to least of import or well-nigh influential to least.

    Tip

    Select Do not check to create open-ended answer possibilities.

Extend learning by creating a pretest followed by two or three levels of activities and an extension job. Students will complete activities based on their needs in or exterior of class.

  • Requite students assignments that offer choices:

    • Flip Out: Requite students a diversity of learning experiences and permit them choose which they would like to do.

    • Label Reveal: Requite differentiated tasks for parts of an prototype.

Larn more nearly each activeness and how to build them

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Create a formative cess

Steps

  1. Go started

    Open SMART Notebook on your computer and click the cess icon in the SMART Notebook toolbar.

  2. Make your question set

    Create your question gear up using a variety of question types, such as multiple pick, true/simulated, multiple respond, and short answer. Add images and text to questions.

  3. Start your assessment

    Click the activity manager on the cess folio. Inquire your students to go to hellosmart.com and enter the teacher code shown on the assessment. Click Beginning. Students apply their device to answer questions.

  4. Review and export results

    After all students have submitted their answers, tap End to beginning the review. Students get instant feedback on their devices. You can likewise export your students' results by tapping Export Results in the bottom-right corner.

Instructional ideas

Engage your students with formative assessments. Employ the Response cess to get instant data and meet with students to give them personal and firsthand feedback.

  • Create a poll or a survey to set the stage for a dandy Socratic Dialogue or debate with students. Use polls and surveys to go to know your students and build relationships.

Enhance your lesson past using data from the Response cess to bulldoze instruction (review, skip ahead, grouping, and so on).

  • Create a two-question pretest. Apply the short-respond question type so students cannot guess. Expect at the data. Did students miss both? Need intervention. Did they get both right? Set up for a challenge. 1 correct, 1 wrong? Fix for instruction.

  • With the click of a button, yous can export the educatee data from the assessment as an Excel spreadsheet.

    Tip

    When students connect to the activity, have them enter their last names or sign in with Microsoft or Google and so the spreadsheet matches your gradebook.

Extend learning by giving students differentiated tasks based on the results of a Response assessment.

  • Give a pretest that allows students to test out of material they've mastered and work on a project or a leveled-up assignment.

  • Add differentiated game-based activities and a pick board using Flip Out or Characterization Reveal for extension tasks. Students will complete certain tasks based on cess results.

Learn more about creating and delivering assessments

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Insert an ad-free video from the web

Steps

  1. Get started

    Open up SMART Notebook on your calculator, click the Add together-ons tab in the sidebar, and select YouTube.

  2. Search for videos

    Use the Video Search add-on to search for and find the perfect video for your lesson. Preview videos past clicking the play button.

  3. Find the right video

    When you discover a video you similar, click its championship and select Add video.

  4. Advertizement-costless movie fourth dimension

    The video is added to the Notebook folio. You're ready to striking play and share the video, advertizement-gratuitous!

Instructional ideas

Engage students by adding scholarly and culturally responsive YouTube videos and innovate them to experiences or ideas that they haven't encountered before.

  • Insert a video that volition encourage curiosity. Suspension it at a point that will cause students to wonder. Allow students to ask questions and brand predictions.

  • Add a video to encourage empathy and understanding about unlike backgrounds and perspectives.

Enhance your lesson by adding related SMART activities aslope the video.

  • Add a bare page for students to share connections after watching the video.

  • Add a Shout Information technology Out! activity where students can identify connections to the video's chief thought. First the Shout Information technology Out! activity and have students use it as a dorsum channel as they watch the video. After the video is over, get dorsum to the Shout It Out! to sort, discuss, and label student contributions.

Extend learning by making the whole lesson available outside of course to reinforce concepts for a Flipped Classroom.

  • Observe a video that brings the lesson together and watch it as a course to close the lesson. Have students record questions near the video. Apply their questions to start the next class.

  • Create a Flip Out activity with a series of questions or problems. Have students answer to or solve two or three of the questions or problems afterward watching the video.

Notation

If YouTube is blocked on student devices, students won't exist able to watch videos.

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Use the Infinite Cloner

Steps

  1. Get started

    Open SMART Notebook on your computer. Using Image Web Search from the Addition tab, elevate an paradigm or shape from the Gallery tab, or paste an paradigm from the clipboard into the SMART Notebook page.

  2. Offset the Space Cloner

    Select the paradigm or shape you want to clone, click its down arrow in the tiptop-correct corner, and select Infinite Cloner.

  3. Clone infinitely

    Click and elevate the original shape or image to create a clone, which you can then identify anywhere on the page. Keep clicking and dragging the original shape or prototype to make multiple clones.

  4. Terminate cloning

    The original shape or prototype stays in clone mode until you plow the Infinite Cloner off by clicking the infinity symbol in the top-correct corner and selecting Space Cloner again.

Instructional ideas

  • Engage students by creating manipulatives for easily-on learning, in-class discussions, and forenoon meetings.

    • Utilize manipulatives to practice math concepts and build number sense (for example, base ten blocks, hundreds chart, patterns, and five and x frames).

    • Use the Infinite Cloner to track daily tasks on a agenda, such as the lunch count, how you are going home, and then on.

  • Heighten lessons past adding manipulatives for students to utilize in stations or small groups.

    • Add images of coins and bills. Gear up each to be infinitely cloned. Take students work in pocket-sized collaborative groups to create diverse amounts of money or to solve word problems using coins and bills.

    • Create a "making words" lesson by adding letters and setting each one to be infinitely cloned. Accept students apply the messages to make the mystery word.

    • Clone numbers and math signs, allowing students to build a variety of equations. Students can then write discussion problems to connect to the math equations.

  • Extend learning by adding infinitely cloned shapes to rubrics for educatee cocky-assessment.

Learn more most the Infinite Cloner

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Steps

  1. Select an object

    Tap Select in the menu and then select the object y'all want to add a link to.

  2. Add a link

    Tap the object's menu arrow, and then select Link. Cull the type of link to add. You lot tin link to a web page, some other page in the file, a file on your computer, or an attachment.

    Tip: Select Launch by clicking > Object to make a larger expanse to click to launch the link.

Instructional ideas

  • Engage your class by inserting links to related resources.

    • Link to electric current events and news articles that are connected to your lesson.

    • Link to curated museum exhibitions and 3D tours.

    • Link to music that connects to the theme of the lesson.

  • Raise your lessons by using links to other pages in a SMART Notebook lesson or to a website you'd like your students to visit. Linking to another page within a lesson is a terrific style to differentiate stations or content for students.

    • Create links to challenge pages.

    • Create links to support information, such as key vocabulary and definitions.

    • Add links to review videos so students have support resource at their fingertips.

  • Extend learning by using links to create HyperDocs where students can use varied resource to draw conclusions and create a variety of student-created products.

    • Create or import HyperDocs into SMART Notebook for students to apply during stations.

    • Create choice boards that link to a multifariousness of Web 2.0 applications (blogs, social networking sites, Wikipedia, and so on).

Learn more than about adding links to objects

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Steps

  1. Get started

    Open SMART Notebook on your computer and then open the Gallery tab. The Gallery includes a wide variety of searchable content, such every bit hundreds charts, graph and handwriting newspaper, 3D shapes, and more.

  2. Discover interactive widgets

    Type Widgets in the search bar and clickSearch to search for the bachelor interactive tools.

  3. Select a tool

    Click the tool you desire to use and drag it into the SMART Notebook page.

  4. Customize your tool

    Click Settings to personalize the interactive tool.

Instructional ideas

Engage your class with interactive widgets for hands-on learning and classroom management.

  • Use the clock widget; choose analog, digital, or both. Students can motility the clock hands to do telling time and to piece of work on elapsed fourth dimension problems.

  • Utilise the timer widget to help students know when time is upwardly on a classroom task or to rotate between stations.

Heighten your lessons with widgets to guide pupil cosmos and small grouping learning.

  • Use the dice or spinner widgets on a whiteboard space for students to use equally content for challenges. For instance:

  • Create a writer's dice, with sides for setting, character, problem, then on. Accept students roll it to help frame their writing.

  • Create a Math spinner with numbers and math symbols and have students spin it to create their own math problems.

  • Use two dice for an onset/rime claiming. Customize 1 dice with onsets and the other with rimes. Have students whorl both dice and establish if the resulting word is a existent or nonsense discussion.

  • Use the interactive tab to hide directions, answers, or challenge questions.

Extend learning by having students use widgets to manage their own learning.

  • Students apply the timer widget to rail different tasks to complete at the board.

  • Students utilise the spinner or dice widgets to provide a diversity of unlike tasks for other students to consummate aligned to the class's objective.

Annotation

These tools are non compatible with Lumio. If you share this lesson to Lumio, these tools won't be available.

Larn more nigh adding widgets

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Steps

  1. Get started

    Open SMART Notebook and tap the pen icon in the Notebook menu.

    Select the Pen to see the available pen options. Pick a pen blazon and choose a color.

  2. Use some fun pen examples

    Catechumen hand-drawn shapes into make clean digital shapes.

    Draw a circle to shine a spotlight or a rectangle to magnify, or utilize disappearing ink.

    Convert handwritten text to typed text and edit information technology with a variety of editing features.

  3. Salve your favorite pen mode

    Save a custom pen so your favorite pen is easily bachelor. Select the pen tool and choose your settings. Open up the Properties tab, select Line Style, then Salvage Tool Backdrop.

  4. Brand the toolbar accessible to everyone

    Click the arrows on the meridian-right side of the toolbar to move it to the bottom.

Instructional ideas

  • Engage your form by using different pens to draw attention to different aspects of your lesson.

    • Use the Shape pen to describe a quick Venn Diagram.

    • Use the Magic pen to describe a circumvolve over function of a map to spotlight that place, or draw a rectangle over a cistron detail in an article to zoom in and focus attention.

  • Heighten your lessons by having the students use different pens in small groups or stations.

    • Add together or open a blank SMART Notebook folio. Students can use the Creative pen to write their high frequency or vocabulary words in rainbow ink.

    • Utilise the Text pen to help students practice editing and revising. Write sentences with the text pen and accept a pupil come to the display to edit the sentences.

  • Extend learning by having students identify effective uses of the pens to communicate their ideas.

    • Have students partner up and apply the Magic pen. One student writes a vocabulary give-and-take using the Magic pen and their partner then writes the word or definition using the regular pen. Students can take turns.

    • Encourage students to use the artistic style pens (Creative, Magic, or a custom pen style) for heed mapping, illustration, and artistic responses.

Acquire more than most using SMART Notebook'southward pen tools

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Apply dual page manner

Steps

  1. Plough on dual page mode

    View two lesson pages at the same time by selecting View > Dual Page Brandish > On from the Notebook bill of fare.

  2. Pin a page

    Pivot a page to go on information technology in view while you browse through the residuum of the pages in your lesson. To pin a folio, select View > Dual Page Brandish > Pivot.

Instructional ideas

  • Engage your students by providing background information on one folio as a reference for completing the action shown on the other page. You can also duplicate two of the same pages to requite two groups of students their own infinite to respond.

    • Show a writing piece on 1 side and comprehension and analysis questions on the other folio.

    • Add an image from history or a piece of art on ane page and a graphic organizer for capturing connections and new ideas on the other.

  • Enhance your lessons past having student directions on one folio and using the other page equally a space for completing the task and recording their work.

    • Have multiple die on one page and a recording sheet on the other. Have the educatee roll the die to create math issues and record their answers on the other page.

    • Customize dice with letters and have students curl three die to try to create CVC words. Students can record any real words they rolled.

  • Extend learning by showing two pieces students clarify to find parallels and contrasting ideas.

    • Compare and contrast 2 poems or nursery rhymes.

    • Compare ii news articles from different fourth dimension periods.

    • Compare 2 essential characters of significant people in history.

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Steps

  1. Open your lesson

    Open your lesson and browse to the folio you want to work son.

  2. Add a Screen Shade to a page

    From the menu, tap Evidence/Hibernate Screen Shade . The Screen Shade appears over the page.

    Tip: Tap the Screen Shade to automatically change its colour.

  3. Reveal the contents

    Drag i of the Screen Shade'south handles (the modest circles at the edges of the Screen Shade) to hide or reveal the page.

Instructional ideas

  • Engage your students by calculation the Screen Shade to directions or a writing piece to keep students focused on the topic you're covering.

    • Use the Screen Shade to assist young students track reading lines in unproblematic text.

    • Employ the Screen Shade to reveal agenda items or key concepts one at a time.

  • Enhance your lessons by using the Screen Shade to slowly reveal an image or writing slice to permit students to predict and connect what they know with only a given set of information.

    • Add a motion-picture show from history aligned to your topic or a real-life example of the concept at piece of work.

    • Slowly reveal a completed math trouble from the bottom upwardly and take students try to figure out the rules for the numbers in the equation at the top.

  • Extend learning by using the Screen Shade to slowly reveal questions or learning tasks, getting more in-depth with every question.

    • Have a question or chore aligned to each level of Bloom's taxonomy or depth of knowledge.

    • Create a question or task aligned to each component of depth and complication thinking tools.

Learn more than virtually using the Screen Shade tool

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Add game elements to an interactive activity

Steps

  1. Open up the activity

    Browse to the page in your lesson that contains the activity.

  2. Add together game elements

    Make an activity more than interesting and engaging for students: tap Game Elements to add together a timer, buzzer, or randomizer.

  3. Customize

    Tap the game elements to edit the game element to adjust your needs. For example, with the Randomizer (Magic Hat), you tin can choose to randomize items in the activity, numbers, and students.

    Tip: Use the Students option to randomize more than just student names. You lot can edit a "student list" you create in the activity content director to include whatsoever text you desire and then use that list with the game element.

  4. Play

    Tap START to play games on the brandish, or tap the activity manager to send them to student devices through hellosmart.com.

Instructional ideas

  • Engage students with game elements to add together fun and interactivity to whatsoever lesson.

    • On the display, use the cablegram and call out bug that connect to the game. Students press the buzzer if they know the respond.

    • Increase participation by using the Magic Hat to call on students by proper name or using numbers.

  • Heighten lessons with game elements that claiming students to increase success with interactive content in minor groups or stations.

    • Add the timer to have students increment their speed of recall and completion of activities.

    • Add the Magic Hat to turn games into a quiz-like format to increase students' speed of recall.

  • Extend learning by calculation a customized list of higher-society thinking questions to the Magic Hat.

    • Add question stems from Bloom'southward taxonomy.

    • Select tasks or products for students to complete or create in small groups.

Larn more about adding game elements

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Steps

  1. Save and share

    Click Save to save your lesson. Click File > Share to open up the Share dialog box. SMART Notebook provides the option to upload the lesson to your SMART account by clicking Upload to SMART account.

  2. Share to a SMART Board with iQ

    If your classroom has a SMART Lath with iQ, you can sign in to the display and view the shared files in your SMART account. Y'all tin open the lesson in the display'due south Role player app and deliver information technology to your students.

  3. Share with colleagues

    After uploading the file to your SMART account, click Get share link to share your piece of work with colleagues or to add a link to lesson plans.

  4. Share to SMART Exchange

    Share what you lot've created with teachers in other schools or districts past uploading information technology to SMART Substitution. After you lot've uploaded the lesson, other teachers volition be able to run into it and download it to use in their own class.

Instructional ideas

Engage more than students by sharing lessons within a grade level.

  • Share a SMART Notebook file with your colleagues. They can click the link to download the file and modify it to meet the varied needs of their students. This allows you and other teachers to work smarter by sharing work.

  • Share with teachers at some other campus. Students can work on the same material and participate in a shared Shout Information technology Out! or Monster Quiz. Suspension downward the classroom walls!

  • Create a lesson aligned to your Scope and Sequence and share it with a teacher at another school in your district.

Enhance your teaching past organizing lessons by standards. You can refer to the collection and adapt lessons as needed.

  • Put links to shared SMART Notebook lessons directly into your lesson program for easy access during class.

  • Create lessons connected to regional standards and upload them to SMART Commutation, tagging your school district.

  • Add together lessons yous've created or shared to a shared lesson plan, spreadsheet, or folder that colleagues can access.

Extend beyond your classroom. Share the link to your SMART Notebook lesson on social media. Marshal information technology with high-impact education practices and relevant educational conversations.

  • Create a resources or lesson aligned to an educational topic you're passionate about and share it on social media using #SMARTchampion.

  • Based on professional reading that you have done, build a tool or lesson in SMART Notebook and share it on social media using #SMARTchampion.

  • Share with teachers at another campus. Students can work on the aforementioned material and participate in a shared Shout It Out! or Monster Quiz. Intermission downwards the classroom walls!

Learn more about sharing a lesson

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Steps

  1. Salve and share

    Click Save to save your lesson. Click File > Share to open up the Share dialog box. SMART Notebook provides the choice to upload the lesson to your SMART business relationship by clicking Upload to SMART account.

  2. Find the shared lesson in Lumio

    Sign in to Lumio and yous'll see your lesson there too. Now you tin can use Lumio'due south tools to evangelize the lesson.

  3. Share a link to your lesson with students

    Subsequently you sign in to Lumio, get a link to share the lesson with your students.

Instructional ideas

Engage students by sharing review cloth, notes, and SMART activities students can refer to at their own pace.

  • Sharing a file adds it to your lesson library in Lumio. From in that location, send the file to students to review in class or at home.

  • Create and share activities students tin employ to practice and review after form.

  • Share a file that includes review information students can refer to for homework or before a test.

Raise your lesson and make it self-paced and differentiated by adding activities and handouts students can reference and work through outside of course.

  • Access the shared lesson in Lumio's lesson library. You tin can use the Lumio's tools to add together handouts and activities for your students to complete.

    • Use SMART Notebook'due south Infinite Cloner to add manipulatives to your lesson so students tin can practice skills at home (especially adept for tactile students).

    • Add pick boards in Flip-Out and Label Reveal so students can respond to reading or reflect on what they've learned.

Extend learning past sharing student-centered projects that have applied applications in a flipped classroom setting and then students can piece of work on their own or collaboratively.

  • Brand digital notes bachelor outside of class.

  • Subsequently sharing to Lumio, add together a bare collaborative Workspace to the lesson for students to complete equally a homework help desk, where students help each other with questions most assignments.

Learn more about sharing a lesson

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