The Your Agora Teacher Panel has three main parts.
The Catalogs contain all the material made on Your Agora. They also have collections of tags that allow you to easily filter results to help you find exactly what you need.
The Clipboard lets you preview, edit, review, and grade all material on the platform.
The Organizer lets you create, view, edit, and add students to courses.
You can find material to use in your courses in one of three catalogs: ‘public’, ‘personal’, and ‘school’. If you and/or your school is new to Your Agora, ‘personal’ and ‘school’ will be empty.
Click on ‘public’ to open the public catalog.
To search by title, use the search bar.
Click on tags from the drawers or use the search tag bar to help you filter your results down to only material that is relevant to you.
Any tags that will yield no results will not be selectable.
Remove selected tags by clicking on them in the tags tray.
Open a piece of content in the clipboard by clicking on its name in the catalog or by clicking on the clipboard icon
in the organizer.
Click on the edit button
to open it in edit mode.
Make the changes you want by editing texts, adding or removing questions or embedding new material.
Click on the save button
to save your changes.
Select which catalogs you would like to save the changes to (see image below).
Select how you would like to save the changes (as an improved version or as a totally new piece of content) (see below).
Click on the plus button
in the upper right corner of the catalog.
Select the type of material you would like to make, for example matching.
Add your title, description, questions and answers.
Use the shuffle button
so the answers no longer line up with the questions.
Add tags
to help yourself and fellow teachers find the content in future searches.
Click on the save button
to save your changes.
Click on the plus button
in the upper right corner of the catalog.
Select the type of activity you would like to make, for example Individual work.
When it opens on the clipboard, add a title.
Use the embed button
to create and add new exercises and resources to the activity. Then fill in the fields of the newly embedded material.
Hover over a piece of content in the catalog and click on the embed button
to add an existing exercise or resource to the activity.
Click on the save button
to save your new activity.
Open a piece of content in the clipboard by clicking on its name in the catalog or by clicking on the clipboard icon
in the organizer.
Click on the ‘Preview Student View’ button
to see it as the student would.
Click on the ‘start’ button
to do the assignment.
After answering the questions, click on the ‘submit’ button
to simulate turning it in.
Rate the assignment as the student would by selecting the most appropriate emoji for difficulty, interest, and relevance (see below).
Click again on the ‘Preview Student View’ button
to exit the student view mode.
Open a piece of content in the clipboard by clicking on its name in the catalog or by clicking on the clipboard icon
in the organizer.
Click on the print button
to open a pdf version in a new window.
If the material has questions, choose to print with or without the answers.
Use your browser’s print function to print the assignment or save function to save it as a pdf on your computer.
Open a piece of content in the clipboard by clicking on its name in the catalog.
Click on the ‘assign’ button
and move your cursor over to an open course.
Click anywhere inside the course’s agenda to assign your content to that class.
Select the assignment type and click on the save button.
In the organizer, click on the dropdown arrow
next to the open course’s name and select ‘Create New Course’.
Enter the name of the course and fill in any other important fields.
“Location", "School Contact", and “Teacher Contact” have the ability to add links. Adding a location link is very useful for video conference courses. To add a link, first find the link in the application you are using and copy it. Then click on the link icon
and paste it in the field box that opens.
Using a contact link is a good way of making it easier for your students to contact you because they will be able to click on the contact information instead of copying and pasting. Here are some of the most common formats for properly entering links:
Email: mailto:name@site.com
Phone: tel:+999999999999
Skype: skype:username?chat
WhatsApp: https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=999999999999
Telegram: https://telegram.im/@username
Select the course and assignment settings that are right for your course. Will you be tracking attendance and participation? Do you want students to be able to redo some types of assignments but not others?
After you have added all important information, click on the save button
to save your changes.
When creating a new course or editing and existing unstarted course, you can opt to have it “Scheduled” with each class tied to a date or “Unscheduled” with no dates associated with the classes in the course.
In the burger menu
next to the dropdown arrow , select ‘Edit Course’.
In the course information pane (see below), select ‘Scheduled’.
Select the start and end dates of the course (see below) and set the regularly scheduled days of the week.
Click on the save button
to save your changes.
Please note: Once a course is started, you can NOT switch between scheduled and unscheduled!
In the organizer, click on the dropdown arrow
next to the open course’s name.
You will see a list of personal courses. If you are a member of a school, you will also see the name of the school and the list of courses in that school.
If you do not wish to see either of these groups, uncheck the boxes at the bottom of the dropdown next to ‘Filter’ (see below).
To view archived courses, click on the box next to ‘Archive’ at the bottom of the dropdown (see below).
When the “Archived” filter is selected you will see all courses and be able to add and remove courses from archives by clicking on the archive button
to the right of them.
To select a course, click on its name. The dropdown will close and the course will load.
There are a number of important things you can do with all courses which are available by clicking on the burger menu button
next to the course’s name (see below).
Create New Course: I think you can guess what this does.
Start/End: You can “start” an unstarted course which gives access to the course by students. You can “end” a started course which closes the course to changes and new student submissions.
Add School: If you are a member of a school, you can add that school to any of the courses you create. Once you do so, the school becomes the owner of the course. If you are not a member of a school, you will be able to create your own school by clicking “Create School Account” in the modal that appears.
Edit: This allows you to change the the course information and course settings.
Share: This will share an exact copy of the course with another teacher. You will need to enter their email address to do so.
Duplicate: This will make a copy of the course for you with “(clone)” at the end of its name. Please note, some courses may take a few minutes to copy.
Archive: Selecting “archive” will hide the course from general view but you will still be able to access it by changing your filter settings (see above).
Delete: Be Careful with this option! There is a warning when you click it but once you delete a course, it is gone for good.
The settings of all assignments in a course can be modified along with other course settings.
In the burger menu
next to the dropdown arrow, select ‘Edit Course’.
Scroll down past the course settings until you see “Assignment Settings"
Select the setting for each assignment type.
Selecting “No redo limit” for homework, for example will let students redo all homework assignments as many times as they like whereas selecting “Can do only once” for quizzes means students will not be able to redo quizzes.
Note: Assignment settings can be changed at any time. For example, you may need to allow a student to redo one assignment. You can change the assignment setting to allow this and then change it back once the student has redone the assignment.
When a course has been scheduled, the calendar above the agenda will change appeareance. There will be a bullet point
below every date with a course assigned to it and each of the dates will be in bold. The selected month will still be in blue with dates belonging to the previous or subsequent months in black. Dates occurring before or after the start and end dates will be grayed out (see below).
To add or remove individual days of a course, In the burger menu
next to the dropdown arrow, select ‘Edit Course’.
Now, whenever you over the dates in the calendar, you will see either a red X or a green +.
Click on a date with a green plus
to add that date as a class in your course. Click on the red “x”
to remove that date as a class in your course. If there are any assignments in the class you decide to remove, a modal will appear asking you what you want to do with them.
Click on the save button
to save your changes.
In the organizer, click on the dropdown arrow
next to the open course’s name and select the course you wish to assign students to.
In the student roster to the right, click on the ‘add student’ button.
Enter the email of the student you would like to add to the course.
Your student will get an email invitation inviting them to your course.
If you have not already done so, remember to start your course by selecting ‘start course’ from the burger menu
or the student will not be able to view their assignments.
You must first have attendance and participation tracking turned on in the course settings. In the burger menu
next to the dropdown arrow , select ‘Edit Course’. Then ensure attendance and participation are both checked.
Click on the name or date of any class in your course’s agenda and the “Attendance & Participation” fields will open in the Student Roster to the right. Next to each student’s name will be a box for attendance and for colored dots for participation.
Select the box to the left to mark the student as in or not in attendance. Leaving the box empty will show attendance has not been checked.
Select one of the dots to give the student a participation grade. There are 5 possible: -2 (exceptionally bad), -1 (bad), 0 (neither good nor bad), 1 (good), 2 (exceptionally good). Consult your school or decide for yourself on a rubric that more clearly defines these 5 marks. It is very important to apply the marks consistently to all students.
You can open short answer and essay assignments that are ready to be graded from your notifications.
Alternatively, from an open course, click on an assignment with a short answer and/or exercise in it. It will appear in blue.
Move your mouse onto the name of one of your students in the student roster then click on the clipboard icon
that appears. The finished assignment will appear in the clipboard.
Click on the grade button
to begin grading the assignment. Note: all finished assignments can be viewed on the clipboard but only assignments with short answer or essay exercises will have this button.
Mark each short answer question as correct or incorrect and if you like, leave notes (see below).
For essay exercises, you can do the same except you should enter a custom score for each question.
Click on the save button
to submit the grade.
