Sending Assignments and E-Learning Materials
With schools in uncharted waters now that remote learning is being deployed, Flyer Connect has a guide on how to ensure students have access to what they need to be successful, even at a distance.
Flyer Connect is guided by a few key principles, which we believe are more important than ever with the current school closures: equity, access and engagement. That’s why messages and private chats on Flyer Connect translate into over 100 languages and we don’t require logins to our platform. All families should be able to engage with their children’s’ schools, even if their phone numbers change regularly, they don’t have an email, their home language is not English, or they do not have internet access at home.
With that in mind, we designed our app so that you can easily deliver assignments and e-learning materials. The following steps will ensure you are sharing information in a way that students and families can keep up with.
Step 1: Think through what you want students to accomplish this week
Some examples of outcomes might be:
With a clear outcome in mind, it’s much easier to clearly communicate the one action item you want students to complete.
Step 1: Send Assignments, Reminders, and Deadlines in a Broadcast Message
Broadcast messaging is the most direct way to communicate with families and students. They will receive translated notifications when you send a message, and messages will appear in their newsfeed on the app.
Think about the goal you wrote for your students this week, and what action you want to see them take. There are various messages you might send through Flyer Connect: assignment notifications, links to resources, or heartfelt reminders that you miss them using emojis and photos. When sending assignments, you can insert an image directly into the message, link to a website, or send the assignment as an attachment. No matter the type of message, we have three guidelines for sending assignments.
Most Relevant information goes first
Give a specific action that is clear what families need to complete
Give a deadline
Step 2: Syncing your Google or Outlook Calendar to your Group’s Profile
As a group admin, our latest feature update gives you the ability to sync a calendar to your group. You don’t need to add a new calendaring tool to your life, we sync to Google or Outlook, so that you can add daily assignments for students to access, right in the calendar tool that you’re already used to.
When creating a calendar event to send e-learning materials, use the description section to give additional information on the assignment, with live links to the work, to your online classroom, or a video. Students can keep up with the dates they need to get work done because it’s clearly organized in a calendar for them.
You can even connect your Google Classroom calendar into your Flyer Connect application. Google Classroom automatically generates a calendar for you. Any time you create an assignment, Google Calendar generates a calendar event on the due date. Families and students can see those assignments directly on the Flyer Connect app.
Originally published at https://www.flyerconnect.org on April 13, 2020.
