Checking your students’ work ……………………. 9
About students having access to MEL……………. 14
Frequently Asked Questions………………….……. 17
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SPEAKOUT – MYENGLISHLAB
GUIDELINES FOR TEACHERS
Account / Username / Password 1. You will receive a Student’s Book
as part of your material. On the back cover there is Student
Access
Code. Don’t use the code that comes in your Student’s Pack. If the
Access Code is still covered, uncover it and send it to:
[email protected]
2. In case you forget your password, send an email to these
addresses to request it:
To:
[email protected] Cc:
[email protected]
3. Don’t change your password. In case you had to change it, send
the new password to the emails above
immediately.
e.g.: SU-201309-B01-7:00
Cycle:
Schedule:
7:00 - 10:00 7:00F
9:00 - 12:00 9:00F
10:45 - 13:45 10:45F
13:00 - 16:00 1:00F
18:00 - 21:00 6:00F
EVERY OTHER DAY
8:45 - 10:45 8:45A
9:00 - 12:00 9:00B
11:00 - 13:00 11:00A
13:45 - 15:45 1:45A
16:00 - 18:00 4:00A
18:15 - 20:15 6:15A
18:15 - 21:15 6:15B
4. Select the corresponding product (book) and click on “Create
course”.
5. Copy the course ID so you can give it later to your
students.
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6. Go to Settings > Course Management and on your new course
click on “Edit”.
7. Click on “Course settings”, go to the “Messenger” area and click
on: “Turn off messenger for this course”.
In that way students won’t be able to send messages to each
other.
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* In this area (Course settings), you can: - change the name of
your course (if you made a mistake) “Change course details” - find
your Course ID - delete the course at the end of the cycle “Delete
this course”
8. Go to your course: Click on “Course” and in “Change course”
select the new course that you have just created.
9. Hide from the second unit of your cycle to the last unit of the
book.
Don’t hide units from previous cycles or the Video Podcasts
section.
10. For your first unit, hide all the lessons, except the first
lesson of the first unit of your cycle.
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IMPORTANT: If you know that you won’t be able to go back into the
system to show the corresponding units/lessons/exercises that you
have hidden, don’t hide anything.
At the beginning / end of your course
1. On the first day of classes (and every time you have a new
student) give them the course ID so they can join your class. If
your students are in B01 or you have many students that are new to
Speakout, show them how to navigate and use myenglishlab. Also you
can register new students (students who have just bought a new
Speakout book) if they feel that they are not very techie. Go to
Settings > Course Management > on your course click on
“Edit”, and in “Manage Students” click on “Register new
student(s)”.
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Fill in the required information (make sure your student has an
active email account) and preferably use your student’s email
address as Username.
If you do not know the student’s email address the registration
process will use yours. The student may amend this when they sign
in. The password is auto-generated (the student will be prompted to
change the password on first use). If you want, you can put
something easier (like password1).
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Optionally you may add the 16-character access code. If you don’t
have the Access Code, your student will have to provide it once he
logs into the system.
2. Once the cycle finishes, you have to delete your course.
Go to Settings > Course Management > Edit (on the course you
want to delete) > Course Settings > click on “Delete this
course”.
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Checking your students’ work To see your students’ work, click on
“Gradebook”
In the “Change view” part, select “Practice only”
You will see your students’ progress:
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Click on the units and the lessons to obtain more specific
details:
If you click on the individual exercises, you will see the “Common
error report”
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Sometimes the system doesn’t read some characters and this is why
some answers might appear as if they were wrong. If there is an
answer that you would accept, you can click on “Accept” so that
your students get the marks for this question.
To see how many exercises your students have completed, click on
the name of the student and select “Practice only” again:
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In this way, you will be able to see how many exercises your
students have done:
If you want to see how your students performed the first time they
did the exercises, choose “First attempt” in the Practice
Part:
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About students having access to MEL Find below a link to a video
that explains how to have access to MEL for the first time (for
students): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odBHJUGRqmI IMPORTANT: If
a student finishes a book and buys another one (for example,
finishes B06 and buys the Pre-Intermediate book to start studying
B07), it is not necessary to create a new account. They
should:
- Go to www.myenglishlab.com/speakout and - Click on “Log in” -
Enter the access code provided in his/her new book and click on
“Next”:
Click on “Next” again
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In this part they should not click on “Create an Account” because
they have already created one with their previous book. Instead,
they should type their username and password in the “Sign
in”:
Then students should click on “Finish” and continue with the steps
the system will ask them for:
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Students can see their progress in the same way teachers do. If
students click on “Gradebook” they won’t see their work
automatically. They have to go to the “Change view” part and click
on “Practice only”.
In this way, students will see how many exercises they have done
and the score they got:
You can also see how a student’s page looks like by clicking on
“Course” and on “Student View”
Should you have any queries, don’t hesitate to contact us:
[email protected] [email protected]
1. Is it compulsory for teachers to use MyEnglishLab?
Yes, it is. All teachers must use the online tool as this is one of
the components of the SPEAKOUT
series.
2. Is it compulsory for students to use MyEnglishLab?
No, it is not. However, teachers should encourage their students to
use the tool as it has lots of
benefits for them. If there are students who claim he/she does not
have access to the Internet or
that is not into technological components, do not penalise them.
Tell them they can always do the
exercises in the regular Workbook, but that their teachers will not
be able to monitor their progress
and they will not get the same hints or help in the regular
Workbook.
3. When do we have to create our courses?
When we are assigned courses.
When we are reassigned courses.
When we come back from holidays and are assigned a Saturday course
which has already
started with another teacher.
4. When do we have to delete our courses?
When the course finishes (on the day of the exam or on the day of
marks).
When a course is closed or reassigned to another teacher.
When we go on holidays and our Saturday course will be in charge of
another teacher.
5. When do we have to give the Course ID to our students?
On the first day of classes along with other important general
information such as Evaluation
Dates.
When detecting students who were absent on the first day of
classes.
6. Can students use MEL if they don’t have an e-mail?
No, he/she can’t. To register, the student must have an e-mail as
the system will ask for one in case
the user loses their username or password.
7. If students change their schedule, can they be moved to their
new course?
No, they can’t. If this happens, the new teacher has to provide
them with the new Course ID.
8. If I’ve created a course, but I made a mistake in the name of
the course. Do I have to delete it and
create it again?
No, you don’t. You only have to change the course information.
Please, check page 6 for more
information about this.
9. Do we have to set an “End Course Date” when creating a
course?
No, you don’t. You mustn’t modify this part. If you do this, the
course might become “inactive” and
will not be able to delete it. You only have to name your course
and choose the correct book
(Product). Just ignore “End Course Date” part.
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10. There might be some students that use books that belonged to a
friend or relative. How will they
use MEL?
If a student is using another person’s book, the person who
borrowed the book should also “borrow”
his/her account. This means that they should ask the owner of the
book for his/her Username and
password to have access to the tool. When the student has access to
the owner of the book’s
account, he/she will find the exercises that were previously done
with “Try again”, not with “New”.
To clarify this to our students we can make a comparison with the
Student’s Book. If we do not buy
a new one and borrow a book that belonged to another person, we
will find the answers written
down and we will have to erase them. Something similar happens with
MEL, students will not find
“New” exercises to be done. They will find the “Try Again”
option.
11. What are the advantages of MyEnglishLab that I can tell my
students?
By using MyEnglishLab, students will be able to:
Do the exercises online instead of using the regular Workbook. It’s
easier, more attractive
and interactive.
If students get a wrong answer, the system does not give the
correct one. They will find hints
and help icons. By clicking on them, students will open windows
with grammar explanations
or clues to get the right answer. In this way, MEL makes them think
and analyse the exercises
instead of just “checking” with the Answer key.
If students use MyEnglishLab and join a class, the teacher will be
able to monitor their
progress. This is “Informed teaching”: Teachers can check the
“Common Error Report” and
prepare some remedial work based on their student’s mistakes.
Lessons can be entirely devoted to do the Student’s Book, speaking
and communicative
activities and reinforce weak aspects instead of “doing the
workbook” in class, as this can
be done at home and teachers can check students are doing it.
It promotes autonomous learning with guidance. Students can learn
on their own at home
and come to class with specific doubts.
It has a message system and teachers can communicate with students
to make them
remember some important activities in class. Students can also send
messages to the
teacher in order to justify answers or ask for some information.
(Important: don’t forget to
disable the messenger among students; communication must only take
place between the
teacher and his/her students).
12. There are new students all the time. How can I help them get an
account in MyEnglishLab?
Explain briefly what MyEnglishLab is about and tell them they have
to go to the webpage indicated
in the book and use the access code. If they need further support,
they can go to the SAC. The people
in charge have been trained to support students.
13. Can I use the Access Code that appears in the book I receive in
my centre?
No, you can’t. It is prohibited to do it. If you receive a
Student’s Book with the access code still with
the protective cover, remove it and send the code to Gustavo
Sánchez Piérola, E-Learning
Coordinator:
[email protected] indicating the level
(Elementary, Pre-Intermediate,
Intermediate or Upper Intermediate) Teachers are not allowed to use
this code.
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14. What should I do if my students have technical problems with
MEL?
First, try to help them. If you can’t solve the problem, tell them
to go to the Reception Area. The
staff there have received special training to deal with these
difficulties. If they can’t help them, they
will contact the E-Learning or Studies Area.
