1 – Firstly, make sure you have a user login set up. You can do this by going to the ‘admin’ section on your jotter site and clicking ‘add user’.
Fill out the details there with whatever you want the user to log in with. Check their application roles have ‘Site’ set to ‘Viewer’ or above.

2 – Then, return to the site. Click ‘Manage’ and ‘Pages’ and then find the page you want to make private in the left hand side. Click ‘access’.

3 – Check ‘private page’ and then enter the name of the user you want to be able to access the page. Set their access to ‘view only’. This will be automatically saved.

Log out of ÌÇÐÄVlog´«Ã½ and when viewing the page as a non administrator you will be asked for your login credentials.

You can use your new private area to upload confidential documents and share meeting dates, improving communication between staff, governors or your PTA.

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You’ll be given a page similar to ones used to update slideshows or any other situation where multiple documents are called for.

Press Select to add an item to the file list. You can add as many as you like and change orders with the arrows to the right in the bottom panel. When you’re satisfied, click Choose. You’ll now have a nicely formatted file list ready for people to download from:

To add files in future, click the box in Edit mode, then click Update from the dropdown grey bar at the top of the screen. Looks a lot nice than a series of bullet points, right?

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Last week we showed you how to use Exercises in Learn to create and manage homework assignments and more. These are a great tool, and using some basic built-in Jotter functionality, we’ll soon be able to extend it to make it even better. Note that, while you can set this system up now, it won’t be enabled fully until an update in a couple of weeks, which we’ll make you aware of!
First of all, for this to work best we recommend setting up a dedicated Learn page for homework and assignments – if all the objects are on the same page it’ll be easier overall to find and manage them. So, following the advice from last week, fill up a page with assignments.
Make sure the due dates are properly filled out!

Once you’ve filled out your page, it’ll look something like the above image. It’s a bit busy, and there’s the problem of students being able to submit homework before it’s even been properly set! We’re going to need to hide these, which Jotter can do automatically for us!
In Edit mode, click on the Exercise (this also works for any other object in Learn, Site or ePortfolio) and you’ll see three icons pop up in the top right. You’ll probably be familiar with these, as they let you move or delete objects.

Click on the cog in the middle to bring up the Advanced Settings – don’t worry, there’s nothing that advanced here! Choose the date you’d like the homework to be set and enter it into the “Date visible from” box. You can also set an expiry date if you want, but note that after this time students will no longer be able to see their feedback.
And that’s literally all there is to it! As the term goes on, the new items will appear for students to submit homework and exercises to, without you having to lift a finger.
Please note – this is a preview of an upcoming feature (time-sensitive content) not yet available in Jotter Learn.
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Once you’ve chosen where to put it, the following dialog will pop up:

Give it a descriptive title and explain the exercise in the two free-text boxes. The checkboxes below let you customise how you’d like it to present. The due date will stop accepting responses after a set time and date, while enabling feedback will let you give more detailed responses to students’ work.
Now you can save and publish the page, because as far as the editing is concerned, you’re all done – ÌÇÐÄVlog´«Ã½ will take care of the rest. Here’s what an exercise will look like – your students’ version will be identical but without the “See the results” link in the top right.

When your students access the page they’ll be invited to upload and submit files – alternatively, if you have Office 365 integration, they can be imported directly from OneDrive, and once done will see this page:

Now let’s go back to you as a teacher/administrator. Clicking on “See the results” at the top of your document will bring you here:

I’ve already graded the submissions of pupils 1 and 2, so let’s take a look at pupil 3 and grade their work. Click a student’s username and you’ll see this screen:

Through the boxes at the bottom you can assign a grade and score (make sure to click the “Save grade” and “Save score” buttons!). Additionally, the “Add new feedback” button will bring up a free text box, allowing you to give more detailed feedback. Once this is all filled out, the student will receive a notification when visiting their version of the page informing them that they have feedback – they can also respond to this as a comment, and so can you.

As you saw earlier on the results screen, you’re able to view the grades of the whole class as a handy list, as well as seeing who’s submitted their work! Even after the time has expired, pupils (and teachers) can of course go back in and see results.
Want to try this out for yourself? Check out the Learn app in the app store, you can get a 30-day trial for free!
Don’t miss next week’s tip, where I’ll be showing you how to use timed content objects to let you create an entire term’s worth of homework in one go!
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Luckily, they’re really easy to make in ÌÇÐÄVlog´«Ã½. First of all, we recommend creating a dedicated page for it. Start by creating a new page by clicking Manage then Pages when in the Site. Click Add Page at the top of the box, then set up the page like this:

Make sure “Show in menu” is not checked, then click Add Page. Navigate to your new page (it should be located at yourwebsite.sites.schooljotter2.com/sitemap). Enter Edit mode and remove the “Coming soon…” text from the text box. Now Insert Item > Sitemap.

Put it below the text box, but it doesn’t really matter. This will automatically generate a list of pages on your website in a hierarchical format. It’ll look something like this.

Now just save and publish your page and you’re all done! Note that if you add more pages to your website, you might have to update the sitemap – to do this, click on it in Edit mode then click on the Update button that will appear at the top of the page.

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You’ll be asked where you want to put it, as usual with these things. Then it’ll bring up the File Upload dialog box – we’ve gone over this before, but for everyone’s benefit here’s how that works again. Navigate to the folder you want to put the file in (or create a new folder using the Add Folder button at the top), then click Upload File.

You’ll get the following dialog box and can add your own documents here:

Note that not every filetype is supported (unsupported types will still be downloadable but will only display as a download link) – the full list of supported types is txt, text, rtf, htm, html, xhtml, pdf, doc, docx, xl, xla, xlc, xlm, xls, xlt, xlsx, ppt, pptx, pps, pot, ppsx, odt, ods, odp, odg, wp5, wpd, and pub. Click Add File or drag your file into the box, then click Start Upload, followed by OK. It should work its magic and leave you with this:

You can customise the width and height of the box through the grey bar that appears at the top of the page when clicking on the element. The controls along the top of the document will let you navigate it, and will work across devices (including mobiles).
Now save and publish the page and you’re done!

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This will let you configure your quiz. It has the following options:

• Title – The title of the quiz
• Description – Its description for the Resource library
• Display questions/answers in random order? – Checkboxes for those options
• Allow user to reattempt quiz – As title suggests
• Provide feedback at the end of the quiz – Gives direct feedback to end-users
• Add a pass percentage – When box is checked, you can specify what grade students must reach to pass the quiz.

Press Next and you’ll be taken to the section where you add the questions:

There’s four types of questions here (note that free-text is not self-markable, for obvious reasons), which we’ll go through in turn. Above is the Multiple choice option, selectable from the green Add Question button. Here you need to specify which options are correct by ticking the boxes next to them.
What’s important with this version is that you work out how you’re going to assign points – is it going to be one point for getting all answers correct, or one point for each correct answer? Assign points accordingly in the field at the top.

A single-choice, seen above, is very similar, but this time you need only choose a single answer.

True or false is the simplest type of question – simply type it in the box and specify whether it’s true or false.

Note that free-text answers, shown here, cannot be automatically marked, though a point value is still required. For example, a single-word answer might be worth a point, while an essay question could be worth more.
Once you’ve added all your questions (you can also add more later if you want to), click next and it’ll take you here:

You don’t have to fill this section in, but if you do it will help other users when it comes to sharing your quiz with the community. When done, click Next, taking you here:

This is the sharing settings screen, essentially. You can choose if you want to not share your quiz, share it within the school or publish it to the wider ÌÇÐÄVlog´«Ã½ community for general usage. It’s entirely up to you which one you pick. Click Create and that’s your quiz done!
Let’s put it on a page in Learn now. Go to the page, enter Edit mode and click Insert Item > Quiz.

You can now choose from any quizzes you’ve previously picked (as well as community ones if you like). Select Choose next to your quiz and it’ll be inserted nicely in the page. You can administer it and view results from anywhere it’s embedded as well as within Resources itself!

Don’t have Learn or Resources? Speak to a member of our education team on 0800 862 0131 or email us at education@webanywhere.co.uk. You can also activate a free, thirty-day trial from the ÌÇÐÄVlog´«Ã½ appstore.
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First, you’re going to want to go to the Admin page on the ÌÇÐÄVlog´«Ã½ dashboard. Click Login Settings on the left.

By default, there’s nothing here, so we need to click Add Login Box at the top of the page, bringing up this screen.

In the Label box, give this tab a name – we suggest “Picture login”. From the Type dropdown, choose Pictures. You’ve now added the ability to log in through pictures! For neatness’ sake, you may want to repeat the above step with a “Manual login” label and Manual type. Once you log out, you’ll notice a change on the ÌÇÐÄVlog´«Ã½ login screen.

Clicking the Picture login tab brings up this screen.

Of course, we don’t have any picture logins set up so let’s do that now. Go back to the Admin screen – the Users tab should display by default, but if it doesn’t click Users in the left menu.

You need to set picture logins individually for students. To do so, pick the student you want to change from the userlist and click Manage picture login, highlighted in the image above.

You can now set a “username” and “password” out of the image tiles. To help with memorisation, you may want to create stories to go along with these, for example in the image above you might say “my dog took a rocket to the stars on his birthday.” You can remove symbols with the red X in the top right. Once you’re done, click Update to save, and you’re done!
Note that students cannot change their own picture logins, and that these are by definition less secure than regular passwords. If possible, we always recommend using a secure password whether it’s hiding a child’s school portfolio or the ÌÇÐÄVlog´«Ã½ superadmin page, but for young or SEN children such a solution isn’t always feasible. We hope you find this new tool useful and welcome any feedback you may have.

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Choose where you want to put it. The accordion will look like a series of headings that stretch across the space allocated to them. They look, once populated with content, something like this:

Clicking a title expands it, as I’ve done with the third and fifth options here. Let’s go back to the Insert page.

Once you’ve inserted your accordion into the page you’ll see this screen. By default there are three sections in the left-most column, but you can add more with the green plus button below. Otherwise, there are three areas to consider:

• Accordion title: The title of the section people can click to expand
• Accordion text: The text revealed when clicking on a section
• Select image: If you’d like to put an image in, you can

Press OK and your accordion will go live. And that’s all there is to it! If you’d like to see the accordions in action, you can visit my ÌÇÐÄVlog´«Ã½ page at . We can’t wait to see what you come up with!
You might want to use them for class information; we find they work particularly well as templates for FAQs. They’re a really useful tool and we’re pleased they’re now available in ÌÇÐÄVlog´«Ã½.
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You’ll be presented with the Settings screen – here you’ll want to click Widgets in the bottom-left.
The resultant page should be blank except for a Create New button in the top right (unless you’ve done this before. Click the Create New button and you’ll arrive here.

This is where you can customise the widget as much as you’d like. For now, we’re just going to focus on the user timeline, but if you’ve created Twitter lists (for example if you’re part of a multi-academy trust) you might want to use those too – they’re available in the tabs along the top. You can also create feeds based on searches – this is how we’ve created our “new schools” feed .
Let’s go over the options available to you:

• Username – Ideally your own school’s username, but it doesn’t have to be
• Options – Choose whether you want to include people’s replies to your tweets (we recommend excluding them) and to auto-expand photos (we recommend doing this).
• Height – How tall do you want your widget to be – we recommend leaving it as the default
• Theme – Depending on your website style you may want your widget in either a white or a dark grey style – this is entirely up to you.
• Link color – Again, depending on your style you may wish to change this

Now click Create Widget, and a little box of HTML code will appear at the bottom of the page. Copy it to your clipboard.
This next section might be familiar to people from a few weeks ago when I talked about embedding widgets into Site. Log into ÌÇÐÄVlog´«Ã½ Site, enter Edit mode and click Insert > Embedded Code.

Choose where you want your widget to go, then click Custom in the tab on the left and paste your code in the box provided.

Save and publish your page and the Twitter widget will work its magic, giving you a shiny new Twitter feed that’s interactive and informative.

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