Lightspeed Teacher Training

Lightspeed Classroom

Management

Teacher Training

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In this training

you will:

• Get an overview of what Lightspeed

Classroom Management is

• Learn how to set up and manage your

classes

• Manage your students, create groups,

and message

• Create web rules

• Use the AccessScan Extension

In this training

you will:

• Get an overview of what Lightspeed

Classroom Management is

• Learn how to set up and manage your

classes

• Manage your students, create groups,

and message

• Create web rules

• Use the AccessScan Extension

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Directions:

• Work your way through each

module.

• Watch the video and answer

the reflection questions.

• If possible try practicing within

Lightspeed.

Overview

Modules

Class Set Up

Manage
Students

Web Rules

AccessScan Extension

Overview

Poll

How familiar are you with Lightspeed and its features?

• Very familiar, I use all of the features.

• Familiar, I use some of the features.

• Somewhat familiar but could learn more.

• Not familiar, I have never used it before.

Class
Set Up

• You will sign in using the Google sign in option.

​Things to Note:

• Your classes will be created for you through Skyward.

• You do have the ability to create your own for small groups like during intervention time or ISS.

Multiple Choice

Which option will you use to sign into Lightspeed?

• Sign in with your Email

• Sign in with your Google account

• Sign in with your Office 365 account

Multiple Choice

True or False: You will have to make all of your own classes.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

True or False: You can make your own classes for small groups.

• True

• False

• Renaming your classes can also help to keep you organized.

  • You can do this by clicking on the three dots and clicking Class setting from the My classes page.

  • You can also do this from within the class by clicking on the Gear icon.

​Things to note:

• To keep the number of classes manageable on your My Classes page, you have the option to hide or delete unused classes. 

• If classes have been added to Lightspeed Classroom Management by your school roster and you want to remove a class from the My Classes page, look for the ellipsis menu in the upper right side of the class tile, and click Hide class. Because these classes are part of your school's roster they can not be deleted.

​Things to note:

Things of note for Elementary Teachers

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• Elementary teachers have a Bell schedule set that goes from 7:40AM-2:25PM.

  • If you experience issues with your classes all showing Offline try setting your schedule through Custom. Make sure the hours are within the same window as the Bell schedule.

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Things of note for Secondary Teachers

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• ​It is imperative that you set up your schedule to align with the class period times.

  • If your times are just set to all day your web rules could interfere with another teacher and students throughout the day.

  • Click + Add Schedule if you see the same class at different times throughout the week.

Hotspot

Where can you click to add a class?

Multiple Select

What are some ways that you can organize your "My Classes" page?

• Reorder them to fit your schedule

• Set the class schedule

• Hide or Delete classes that you don't need to see

• Rename them to something that works for you

Hotspot

Where do you click to set your schedule?

Manage Students

Multiple Select

What are two ways that you can get students attention during a lesson?

• Unlock Screens

• Pause the internet

• List View

• Lock screens

Match

Match the following image to what it does.

Full screen view

Change between List view & Screen view

Toggle on to pause internet

Increase or decrease student tiles size

Lock & Unlock screens, send link, & more

• Full screen view

• Change between List view & Screen view

• Toggle on to pause internet

• Increase or decrease student tiles size

• Lock & Unlock screens, send link, & more

Multiple Choice

What are some ways that you might use student groups?

• Correcting Irresponsible Internet Use

• Intervention Groups

• Group Projects

• All Above The Above

If a student's screen doesn't look right, they are probably doing something they shouldn't.

Have a planned set of consequences that are discussed at the beginning of the semester or year so students understand the expectations.

Follow through on those expectations and consequences.

​Things to Note:

Multiple Choice

True or False: You are able to look at past browsing history on any student in your classes.

• True

• False

Open Ended

How might you use messaging in your classroom?

Web Rules

• If you have groups set up the Group Web Rules override Whole Class Web Rules.

  • If no web rules are applied to the group that group will continue to receive the web rules of the whole class.

​Things to Note:

When making Allow and Block lists you do not need to include the www. or the https://

• Just include everything after the www.

• Example:

​Things to Note:

Incorrect​
www.edpuzzle.com

Correct​
edpuzzle.com

Things to note:

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Our screen is slightly different than the video. You will need to click on the list from the Allow lists if you want to change it.

Once you create your list you will have to toggle that list on and hit Apply Allow or Block Changes.

It is not enough to just make the list it must be toggled on and saved.

• Double check the website is the same for the students. The teacher site sometimes has a different URL.

• docs.google.com covers all docs, slides, and spreadsheets but NOT Google classroom.

​Things to Note:

Reorder

Reorder the following to show the correct steps for setting up and turning on an Allow or Block List.

• Click Web Rules on the toolbar

• Click Allow mode or Block Mode

• Click +Allow/Block List

• Click on the new list and add websites

• Toggle on the list you want and hit A

1

2

3

4

5

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

Multiple Select

Troubleshoot the problem: Choose the ways you could try and fix this problem.

• Have students close, not minimize their Chrome browser and open a new one.

• Immediately put in a tech request.

• Immediately email your instructional technology specialist.

• Double check that you have toggled on the correct Allow list.

Multiple Select

Troubleshoot the problem: Choose the ways you could try and fix this problem.

• Immediately email your instructional technology specialist.

• Switch to an Allow list only including the sites they need to be on.

• Follow the expectations and consequences you have set with the students when they are not using their device responsibly.

• Continue to add every single possible game website known to man.

AccessScan
Extension

Open Ended

Why might you use the AccessScan Extension in your classroom?

You completed the Lightspeed Teacher Training.

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Congratulations

​To get credit for this training you must do the following:

1. ​CLICK HERE here to make a copy of your Certificate of Completion. Follow the directions on slide 2.

2. Fill out this Google Form to get credit for your training.