Sharing is Caring: Introducing Collaborative Teaching and Learning
A sense of collaboration and community is important for the success of any school. Collaborative environments allow teachers to feel appreciated and guided in their role. It’s not rocket science: when teachers collaborate and communicate effectively, they design richer learning experiences for their students. Today, we’re proud announce that collaboration tools are now available on Kiddom.
After months of researching, designing, engineering, and testing, all Kiddom users everywhere can now effectively collaborate with their colleagues. Hooray! 🎉
Here’s how collaboration works
- Adding a collaborator is as simple as entering their email address.
- As the class owner, you decide the type of access your collaborators gain, depending on each adult’s goals and roles (view vs. edit).
- Share your classes with multiple adults — there is no limit to the number of collaborators each class can have.
Adding a collaborator that can view your class 👀
- This means a collaborator may only see your class timeline and reports, without the ability to edit, add, or remove any assignments or students.
- A collaborator that can view your class won’t be able to see or send comments to students on assignments.
- This is best for administrators, instructional coaches, paraprofessionals, or support staff who may need access to student achievement data or assignments for their own focus areas.
Adding a collaborator that can edit your class ✍🏽
- This means a collaborator gains modification privileges for assignments, grades, commenting, class settings, and rosters.
- A collaborator that can edit your class has the ability to add additional collaborators.
- This is best for co-teachers in special education, multi-age, or interdisciplinary classes who share the responsibility of creating and grading assignments.
Teamwork makes the dream work
The Kiddom team believes technology should enable teachers to share and learn best practices across their school communities. In fact, our pilot school communities intend to make big strides this year using Kiddom, all of which are using our collaboration features a little differently.
While we’re excited about collaboration and what it could mean for teachers and learners, we recognize there’s more work to be done. Over the next several weeks, we’re building co-planning feature sets for curriculum to accelerate our vision of building a collaborative education platform.
In the mean time, what are you waiting for? Start sharing and tweet us with your collaboration best practices using #SharingIsCaring.
Update 9/19: Sharing curriculum with co-teachers is now available!
Editor’s note: You can only share personally identifiable information with other teachers and administrators at your school. Please confirm that sharing your class and student achievement data with others in your school community is allowed under your school (or district) technology policy.
