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How To Use Your Teacher Toolkit

To open your Teacher Toolkit Click on the Teacher Toolkit link at the bottom of your Q‐Pod. In addition, you can always access your Toolkit by going to the main website at www.QuestAtlantis.org. From here, click on “Educators” and then “Teacher Resources.” Here, you will find a link to your Teacher Toolkit.

My Desk The Teacher Toolkit will always open to “My Desk,” which is your homepage. Here, you’ll notice that there are various tabs in colors near the top of the Toolkit. We’ll look at each of these sections in order. As you go through these pages, be sure to look at and do the activities in the boxes. The “Things to Do” section will have your outstanding tasks. Since you have not yet registered your students, that item is listed as one of your tasks. You will also notice that you currently have some Quests to review….these are the Quests submitted by your colleagues in this PD workshop. You’ll have an opportunity to review these submissions later in this training.

How to Use Your Teacher Toolkit

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“Class Summaries” gives an overview of all Quests assigned or pending in your classroom. If you have multiple classes, you can use the box beside the title to click on a particular class.

The “How‐To‐Guide & Resources,” under “Bookmarks,” provides you with instant access to the most frequently asked questions. This is the first place to go to get answers to important questions. Click on the “How‐To‐Guide” to browse all the resources available to you. When you are finished, simply close the window. You can also access your Guide by clicking on the button in the top right of every screen in the Teacher Toolkit.

See below for details.

This is your Class Shardflower. See below.



Help

If there is a time when you don’t remember which tab is for what purpose, simply click “Help,” in the upper right hand corner, and notice that all of the tabs are now encircled in a red dotted line. Roll your mouse over each section, and notice a coral colored pop‐up window that explains the purpose of each section.

Now, look on the right side of your Toolkit in the “My Desk” tab. You’ll see your name and your “Current Class,” but no other information.

Let’s Edit Your Personal Information Click on the “Edit” button to enter in your current information. Be sure to add your email address and contact information. This information will only be seen by you and the QA Team. Fill in the appropriate information and hit “Save.” Note that if you have more than one class, a drop‐down menu will appear, and you can choose your “Current Class.” Be sure to save your information in each class.



Journal

The Journal is a personal space to record notes, reminders, or other helpful information. Some teachers have included a number of generalized responses to Quests which they can then copy and paste into their Quest reviews. Simply click “Add Entry” to include your message. You can make the note private or can allow members of the QA team to access this information. Click “Save,” and your notes will be stored.

The Shardflower By clicking on the Shardflower Icon on “My Desk,” you will open this window. Here, you are able to choose which Social Commitment(s) you would like to focus on this year. You may select up to three commitments, and you may change them at any time. You may also leave a comment regarding why you are choosing to focus on those commitments.



A Note Regarding Buoys

All QA teachers have one or more “Buoys” assigned to their classes. It’s a funny name – and we can’t remember its origin – but, Buoys play a huge role in the QA experience. They are the local facilitators who act as a liaison between kids and teachers, the core QA design and research team, and the Atlantian Council. If you are confused, have a question, or need some direction with anything QA, don’t hesitate to contact your Buoy. As facilitators and researchers, Buoys can jump into and use your Teacher Toolkit, create new classes for you, assist you with registration, and a host of other tasks.

My Questers

This section of the Toolkit is where you can register your students, see your class lists, look at the Quest breakdown for your students, keep track of your Consent Forms, and more. When you open the “My Questers” tab, you’ll notice you have two classes listed: your PD class, and your own classroom at your school.

Important Reminder: Please remember to download and print the most current version of the Informed Consent Form from our website (http://atlantis.crlt.indiana.edu/centers/00‐4060_AV_Consent_Form_Package.pdf). Please do not hand out Informed Consent Form Packets after the Expiration Date found in the last page of the Informed Consent Form!

The “T” beside your name means you have teacher status.

Keep track of your Consent Forms

When you check this box (by clicking in it), it verifies that you have received your student’s signed copy of his/her Consent Form. Checking this box will also enable that student’s account to become active. Please note that if we do not receive your original signed Consent Forms within 60 days of your students’ accounts being activated, the accounts will be disabled. One consent form is all that must be completed and returned to Quest Atlantis per Quester and is good for multiple years of participation in Quest Atlantis.

What does this button do? When you see this button, it means there is additional data that is currently hidden from view. Click on this button to expand that list. Conversely, clicking on will collapse the view.



Registration & Class Lists Registering a Quester You can register your students by clicking “Register a Quester,” found below the list of students. Before you can register a student, you need to have some basic information for each of your students: First name, Last name, DOB, gender, username and password. Refer to the How‐To‐Guide under “Essentials for Teachers” for some guidelines in choosing appropriate usernames and passwords.

Consent Forms Once you’ve registered a Quester, please note the columns related to Consent Forms on this Registration page. The column entitled “Consent – Teacher” is a place for you to keep track of the students for which you have received a signed informed consent form. This helps the QA Team confirm that consent has been given by a student’s parent or legal guardian.

The column entitled “Consent – QA Team” allows QA Buoys or Administrators the opportunity to confirm that they have received the original consent form for that Quester. Informed consent is required before any student is allowed to logon to QA. Please help us ensure the security of our system and the rights of all participants.

Register a Test Child in your PD Class (NOT your real class!) • First, be sure your “Current Class” is your PD class. • Then, click “Register a Quester,” and enter:

o First Name o Last Name o Date of Birth o Username o Password

• This is the same process you’ll use when you register Questers in your real class.



What does this symbol mean? When you see this symbol, you’ll know this is something that requires your attention. Roll your mouse over the symbol to get more information.

Once you have registered your Questers, you have 60 days to return your consent forms to us: Donna Stevens, Quest Atlantis, Indiana University, 1900 East 10th Street, Eigenmann Hall, Room 524, Bloomington, IN 47406. Please note that our consent form has been translated into the following languages: Chinese, Italian, Korean, & Spanish. These may be found under the Resources & Downloads section of the How‐To Guide in your Teacher Toolkit.

If a child’s parents cannot agree to the audio/videotaping clause of our Consent Form, you will need to request a Limited Consent Form from a QA team member. You will then need to indicate that this child has Limited Consent by clicking the pencil to the right of the box which corresponds to that child’s name and clicking Save on the Limited Consent pop‐up window. A Limited Consent image, a yellow triangle with an exclamation point, will appear beside his/her consent box once this information has been saved.

What does this symbol mean? You can roll your mouse over this symbol on the My Questers page or the Student Record page to look up their password. You can’t look up another teacher’s password, but this will work for any of your students.

What does this pencil do? This button will allow you to edit the content on that page. Click on the pencil to activate the edit function.



Student Records

If you click on a student’s name in your “My Questers” tab, you can view their username, password, Quest submissions, and even review their chat and email. You can also remove 3D or 2D rights, change from multi‐user to single‐user mode here (or on the “Rights” page), as well as change their passwords. Note that some of this same information is also listed in the “Class Summaries” section of your “My Desk” homepage.

Rights In this area, you can see that you and your test student have all appropriate rights to the 3D and 2D space, as well as community Quests and reviews. You won’t need to change the 3D/2D settings unless a student has broken the I‐BURST rules (or if there is any other reason why you wanted to block them from using the 3D space). To block a Quester from seeing other Questers and from being able to chat and e‐mail, simply click the checkbox under the single‐user column for that Quester; to restore multi‐user rights and the ability to chat and e‐mail, just uncheck the single‐user checkbox by clicking in it

Stats This page will give you a quick overview of your students’ activity, including the number of logons, Quests pending, submitted, accepted, etc.

Class Reports This page will provide another break‐down of activity by the students in your class.

When you switch a Quester from multi‐user to single‐user, you will be prompted to leave feedback with the rationale behind why you changed the Quester’s status.



My Curriculum This is where to browse for Quests, Missions, and Units, add Quests to your Planner, see Active Quests, Missions, or Units, and access your “Dropbox,” which is where you review submitted Quests.

Click here to remove or grant 3D or 2D Rights.

Click here to change password.

Click here to review Quest Submissions.

Click here to edit Student



Browse for Quests

Click on “Browse for Quests,” under the “Browse” tab, and look for the “Browse by Category” box, which appears as a small, green box on the right hand side of your screen. You can browse for Quests by social commitments, worlds, units, subjects or standards, or alphabetically. Note that there may be several pages to browse through. The arrow buttons will help you scroll through the pages.

Clicking on the name of the Quest will provide you with a description, will tell you where the Quest is located (your students will need to use the coordinates listed), and can even provide statistics about how many other classes have tried and completed this Quest.

If you click you can see the Quest as your students would see it. If you think you might like to do this Quest but aren’t sure, you can add it to your planner by simply clicking “Add to Planner.” This Quest will then appear in your “Quest Planner” tab, as described below. If you are sure you would like to assign this Quest to your class now, you can click “Assign.”

What does this symbol mean? If you or your students see this symbol in a Quest, it just means that you have not yet assigned it. Once a Quest is assigned and available to your students, it will be

replaced with this symbol:

Please note that if a Quest has a pre‐requisite, you will see this symbol:

Let’s Find a Quest Under the “My Curriculum” tab, click on “Browse for Quests.” Try to find the “Finding the Van Gogh Room” Quest. Remember, you can search alphabetically, by social commitment (Environmental Awareness), or by subject (Science). Once you find the Quest, click on the name to bring up a Quest Description.



Assign or Add Quests to Planner Once you find a Quest you might like to use, you can choose to “Assign” or “Add to Planner.” To assign or add just one Quest, simply click on the appropriate action beside that Quest. If you would like to add a series of Quests on a page, you can check them all and then click either Assign or Add. Adding a Quest to your Planner means you have saved it for further review. You will still need to Assign it if you want to make it available to your students. You can assign Quests easily from your Planner from either the Browse or Quest Planner tabs.

When you are assigning Quests, you will need to make a few decisions: Will this Quest be reviewed by you, the students in the class, or the larger QA community? Is this a required Quest? Will you require a reflection to be a part of the submission? If you click “Assign” from the Browse menu, a pop up window will appear, asking for these decisions to be made.

You can also choose to which classes you will assign this Quest (if you have more than one class). You can indicate these choices from the Quest Planner pages before you assign a particular Quest as well.

Active Quests

Once the Quests are assigned, they will appear in your “Active Quests” tab. If you have inadvertently assigned a Quest, you can easily “unassign” it under your “Active Quests” tab, as well. This tab will also give you a breakdown of all the Quests you have assigned, and how many responses have been received for each of those Quests.

Click here to Assign or Remove this Quest from the Planner.

Click here to choose the type of Review, whether or not the Quest is required, and if a Reflection is required.

Click here to unassign multiple Quests.

Click here to unassign a single Quest.



Customizable Goals & Resources When assigning a Quest, you have the option to Customize the Goals and/or Resources of the Quest or use the Default Goals and Resources. To change the Default to Customized Goals and/or Resources, in the Assign Quest to Classes pop‐up box, click on the black drop‐down arrow next to the word Default and Click on Custom. You may Label the Custom Goal/Resource as well as enter a Description of the Custom Goal/Resource. The Default Goal or Resource will appear in the Description for your convenience if you are merely wishing to slightly edit or add to an existing Goal or Resource. Please note that you will be prompted to provide feedback if you do Customize a Goal or Resource. You will need to click in the checkbox next to the class(es) for which you wish the Customized Goal/Resource to appear; then, click the Assign button.

Browse for Missions

You can “Browse for Missions” in the same fashion you browsed for Quests. Click the “Browse for Missions” link to bring up a list of Missions you can assign. You can click on the sign to expand the Mission and look at the various tasks.

Once you have reviewed the Mission, you can assign it to your class by clicking “Activate.” Once you hit Activate, you will have the choice of assigning it to as many of your classes as you like. Be sure each class is checked and click “Submit” to assign the Mission.

Hint: You may click on the red boxes with white plus signs in them to see the Default Goals and Resources.

To keep the Default Goals and Resources of the Quest, simply leave the Goals and Resources Boxes at Default on the Assign Quest to Classes pop‐up box.



Once a Mission is assigned, a green star appears to the left of the word “Activate,” illustrating that the Mission has indeed been assigned to your class. When a Mission is assigned, every Quest and task within that Mission is automatically assigned as well. Be sure to read the paragraph below regarding your Active Missions for more information.

Browse for Units

You can “Browse for Units” in the same fashion you browsed for Missions. Click the “Browse for Units” link to bring up a list of Units you can assign. You can click on the sign to expand the Unit and look at the various tasks.

Once you have reviewed the Unit, you can assign it to your class by clicking “Activate.” Once you hit Activate, you will have the choice of assigning it to as many of your classes as you like. Be sure each class is checked and click “Submit” to assign the Unit.

Once a Unit is assigned, a green star appears to the left of the word “Activate,” illustrating that the Unit has indeed been assigned to your class. When a Unit is assigned, every Mission, Quest and task within that Unit is automatically assigned as well. Be sure to read the paragraph below regarding your Active Units for more information.

Dropbox

The next tab is your “Dropbox,” an area where you can review Quests that have been submitted. You may notice that there are several Quests already submitted in our PD class. To review a Quest, click “Review.” Since students can either write their Quest in the space provided OR submit it via an attachment, be sure to click on any underlined Attachment to download the file.

Click here to Assign this Mission, or “Activate” it, for your classes.



Let’s Review a Quest

Look for a Quest submitted by one of your classmates (if you are in a face‐to‐face training session, buddy up with your neighbor and review one another’s Quests). HAVE SOME FUN WITH THIS! It’s okay to sign your review with a tag like, Questfully Yours, The Atlantian Council, or Yours in Questing, etc.

If the Quest submission is acceptable, click “Accept.” If you would like the student to

revise it, click “Revise.” This data will be reflected on your class summary pages, and your students will be able to access their Reviewed Quests, in order to read your response, or to resubmit their work, from their Q‐Pod.

If you’d like to Review more than one Quest at a time, simply click the box next to each Quest you’d like to Review, and click on “Review.” All of the Quests you clicked will appear in a separate window.

The same is true for Printing. If you’d like to print more than one assignment, simply click the boxes next to the Quests you’d like to print, and click “Print” once. This “Print” feature can be handy if you work from a Mac at home, prefer not to use computers at home, are away from a computer, or for meetings or Parent‐Teacher Conferences.

Click here to Print this work.



Auto-Email Option when Reviewing Quests Some Quests have an additional option for you as you review the work of your students. An additional e‐mail may be sent to your students along with your review feedback. This e‐mail will be from a character in the Mission or Unit (Ranger Bartle in Taiga or Mayor Enoch in Stats, for example) and will automatically be generated and sent if you designate you would like it sent by clicking in the circle to the left of the e‐mail option. You can still provide your OWN feedback in the Reviewer Comments & Feedback box as well.

Student Reviews

If you gave your students an opportunity to review each other’s Quests, you can access those Reviews in the “Student Reviews” tab. Click “Rate” to rate this review and send notes to your students.

Click to rate this review.

Click to read the e‐mail



Active Missions & Units

The “Missions/Units” tab will give you a quick synopsis of how far along your class is in each Mission or Unit. The default page will show you all the Missions and Units that you have assigned. By expanding any one Mission or Unit, you can quickly see how many students have completed each of the tasks. If you roll your mouse over each square on the right hand side, you can see which students have completed the task and which have not.

If a box appears next to a task, that means that you have the opportunity to unassign that particular task if you choose. Simply “uncheck” the box, and the task is no longer assigned!

If the task is a classroom discussion, click “Done” when you are finished, and the system will give each child credit for having participated in the task.

Activities & Tools This tab will provide access to a variety of special functions for your Questers, such as Trading Post items, Bulletin Boards, Polls, etc.

Roll your mouse over each square to see the progress of each student. Uncheck

this Task to not include it in your Students’ Mission View. Click here to

give credit to those who participated in the class discussion.



Trading Post

The Trading Post is located in the OTAK Hub and is a place where teachers can offer customized “rewards” just for their students. Let’s add an item to your Trading Post. Find your real class and click on “Add an Item.” Provide a name and brief description of your item and the number of cols it will cost to your students. Once your students have earned Cols, they can spend them in the Trading Post to buy one of your items. Some items teachers have offered include:

• Lunch with the Teacher • Extra 5 Point Pass (allows a student to add 5 pts to any assignment) • Homework Pass (allows the student to be exempt from one assignment) • Classroom Helper for a day • Autographed Photograph of the Teacher ☺

Bulletin Boards

You may have already experienced Bulletin Boards in your PD Missions. This tab will take you directly to your classroom Bulletin Board where you can add topics for your students to discuss.



Award Cols & Items You can award either cols or unique avatar items to your students. These can be awarded for good behavior, to recognize a particular accomplishment, or simply to help address inequities due to the “digital divide.” For example, if you have a few students who do not have computers at home and may not be able to use the program as much as your more privileged students, you can opt to award them a special shirt or a cool pair of shoes to help level the playing field.

Co-Questing Co‐Questing provides you and your students the opportunity to work together with another classroom to complete Quests. The first step in Co‐Questing is to identify the Teacher with whom you’d like to Co‐Quest. It’s best to begin with a Teacher you know, for example a Teacher in your school. This way, you can just walk down the hall to arrange the Co‐Quest. If you’d like to be partnered with a Teacher whom you do not know, or an international Teacher, send an email to one of your Buoys, and they will set one up for you.

Assessments If a Mission has a test associated with it, you can review those tests here.

Award Cols & Items You can award Cols and other items to students for work completed in other areas. Choose your student and click “Award

Co-Questing Classes See below for details.



Once you know the name of the Teacher with whom you’ll be working, open your “Activities and Tools” tab, and click on “Co‐Questing Classes.” Once here, click “Add a Co‐Questing Class.” This will open a list of all the classes currently using Quest Atlantis. This will be a long list. Click on the name of the class with whom you’d like to Co‐Quest, and click “Save.” Please note that it’s important to contact teachers first, since some teachers may have multiple classes. As it is more difficult to remove a Co‐Questing class than to add a correct class, please take the time to contact the Teacher you’ll be working with first. Once the class has been added in your “Co‐Questing Classes” tab, you’ll want to assign Quests as you typically would. When your students open the Quest, you’ll want to instruct them to click “Click Here to Co‐Quest,” as shown below.

Students will then be shown the window to the right, where they must “Add Co‐Questers,” by clicking on the button shown. When they click “Add Co‐Questers,” they will be prompted to choose the student with whom they will work. You may assign names ahead of time, or let them assign themselves. The only names that will appear are the students in the class which you have already chosen.



My Records “My Records” will provide a list of all of the Quests you’ve assigned and have reviewed. This tab also provides a chance to look at all unreviewed Quests, and rated and unrated student reviews of Quests.

Once students have chosen (or been assigned) their Co‐Questing Partner, they will click “Save,” and begin their work.

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Your Q-Pod

The Q‐Pod (Quester Homepage) may be found in the right sidebar of the 2D Gateway and the 3D Browser. One may choose to either close the right sidebar or re‐open the

right sidebar by clicking on the or button found under the menu bar at the top of the browser page. The face in the upper left corner of the Q‐Pod is your avatar machine. By clicking on the face, you may select gender, skin color, eye color, and hair color (which cannot be changed after 24 hours via your avatar machine) as well as your clothing and accessory choices. If you do choose to change your avatar’s gender, skin color, eye color, or hair color, you may do so by Teleporting Home in the OTAK Hub and turning around 180 degrees so that you are facing South. Walk past the Virtual Reality Clock and head toward the volcano straight ahead. Climb to the top of the volcano and step inside the yellow statue (yellow human forms holding hands in a circle). Once inside the statue, a dialogue box will pop up in the right sidebar to guide you through the process of changing your avatar. Please note that the first time you change your avatar’s gender, skin color, eye color, or hair color there is no charge; every subsequent time, there will be a charge of 10 cols. You may always change your avatar’s clothes at no cost by using the avatar machine (clicking on the face) on your Q‐Pod.

The oval at the top of your Q‐Pod displays your QA Username and how many Lumins you have earned. (Lumins are earned by completing Quests, Missions, and Units. Each Quest, Mission, and Unit is aligned to one of the seven Social Commitments; as students complete Quests, Missions, and Units, they earn specified numbers of Lumins which represent their work on a particular Commitment as well as the difficulty level of the Quest, Mission, or Unit.)

The rotating charm (either the QA symbol or an M) is a link to your Mission Page. You may click on the charm to see all of your Active, Available, and Completed Missions. If you or your students would like to review your

Mission tasks at any time, you can find this information here. The icons on the left‐hand side of your Q‐Pod signify the Seven Social Commitments‐ from top to bottom they are Creative Expression, Diversity Affirmation, Personal Agency, Social Responsibility, Environmental Awareness, Healthy Communities, and Compassionate Wisdom. These icons become filled with color upon lumination in each of the Social Commitments. Clicking on each icon will bring up a description of the Commitment.

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When you luminate in a Social Commitment by earning enough Lumins in a particular Commitment, it affords you a variety of opportunities, one of which is the ability to change your Q‐Pod’s Theme. The Q‐pod depicted above shows the Default Q‐Pod. Other theme (or “skin”) options are from top to bottom and left to right Creative Expression, Diversity Affirmation, Personal Agency, Social Responsibility, Environmental Awareness, Healthy Communities, and Compassionate Wisdom:

The 8 circles on your Q‐Pod are buttons that provide (from left to right) Information, Access to Your QA E‐mail, Access to Your Quests, Your Me Button, Your Shardflower, Your QA Friends, Your Q‐Pack, and Helpful Links.

The Information Button‐ Allows you to see the latest QA News and Alerts, Read your Quests, Check the Bulletin Boards, Vote at the Polls, and View the QA Weblogs. The E‐mail Button‐ Brings up your QA e‐mail so that you may send and receive e‐mail to Questers in your class or other Questers who you have selected as “friends.” The Quests Button‐ Enables you to View the Quests that you’ve already submitted, as well as see those that are available to you. Please note that Quests that appear but are greyed‐out are Quests that have been assigned to another class of which the Quester is a part. In the event the Quester wishes to work on this

greyed‐out Quest, he or she may by clicking on the name of that Quest. This will open a window which will allow the Quester to change classes so that he or she may have access to this Quest.

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The Me Button‐ Permits you to share some things about yourself with other Questers. You may edit the items within your Me space by clicking on the pencil at the lower right‐hand corner of your Q‐Pod after you click on the Me button. Clicking on the pencil also allows you to switch your current class and change your Q‐Pod

theme.

The Shardflower Button‐ Brings your Shardflower up so that you may see in which Social Commitment(s) you have luminated. You may move your mouse over your Shardflower to see how many lumins you have earned toward luminating on a specific Social Commitment’s petal or leaf.

The Friends Button‐ Lets you maintain a list of friends you have made in QA. You may add someone to your Friends List by clicking on his/her avatar in the 3D space and then clicking on the Friends Button on his/her Q‐Pod. Then click Add to My Friends. You will receive a pop‐up window saying that that Quester has been added

to your Friends List. Clicking on the pencil at the lower‐right‐hand corner of your Q‐Pod after you click the Friends button, will allow you to edit your Friends List.

The Q‐Pack Button‐ “Opens” your Q‐Pack so that you may see all of the items you have collected in QA. Some items may be shared or given to other Questers. You Q‐Pack also hold your Cols, which are the official currency of the OTAK.

The Links Button‐ Shows some important links that will allow you to reach Atlantis Security, review the I‐BURST, and provide other shortcuts to areas of QA to which you have access. Your teacher teleports may also be found here. You may edit your Links List by clicking on the pencil at the lower right‐hand corner of your Q‐

Pod after you click on the Links button.

The emoticon in the lower left‐hand corner of your Q‐Pod allows you to portray your emotions to other Questers. You may change your emoticon by clicking on the emoticon and then clicking on the emoticon that

best describes your mood. Your emoticon choices are: If you have Teacher Rights, you may access your Teacher Toolkit by clicking on the Teacher Toolkit link here.

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