 Welcome to CESA for Schools! Let's get set up! CESA uses the platform, content, and professional development to create a powerful learning loop that brings together teachers, students, and families. In this training, you will set up your CESA for Schools teacher account and learn to use essential CESA tools. First, set up your account. If you're brand new to CESA, your administrator creates an account for you. Activate your account by clicking the link that was emailed to you. The email looks like this. Click Activate your account and follow the prompts. That's it! If you already use Free or CESA+, make sure the email on your current account is your school email address. This allows your administrator to merge your current account with your new CESA for Schools account without losing any of your data. To check the email on your current account, click your profile icon on the top left. Click the gear icon, then account settings. Here's your account email address. If it's not your school email, click to change it. Type your school email, then click Update Email. You're all set! Your administrator handles the rest of the setup for you. Woohoo! Pause the video now! New users, activate your account. Existing users, confirm that you are using the school email address on your current account. Now that you're logged in, let's explore essential CESA tools, starting with the green add button. The green add button is where it all begins. When teachers click the green add button, you see this menu. We'll focus on the first two options in this video. To post to the class journal as a teacher, click the green add button, then post student work. You have access to all CESA learning tools to create your post. For example, use the photo or video tool to share classroom moments, or use a combination of tools to create multi-dimensional announcements, resources, discussion questions, and more. Upload a photo, add text labels, use the drawing tools, and even add your voice to create posts that get students excited, like this welcome post. Students also have a green add button. This is the student view. Notice it says student under the class name. The student view is very similar to the teacher view, with a few differences. When students click the green add button, they don't see the teacher menu. They go right to the learning tools to create their post. Students can share photos of their learning, like this, or they can capture a video of their learning, like this. And so much more. The green add button is perfect for quickly capturing day-to-day learning moments. View posts created by you and your students in the journal tab. The journal tab is the default view when you log into CSaw and shows all posts in the order that they're posted. To view posts by a specific student, click on their name on the right. You can also view posts by date. Click the calendar icon at the top rate of the journal. Note that this icon does not appear until something has been posted to the journal. It's your turn. Pause the video now and create your first post. The green add button is great for getting started. CSaw activities open even more possibilities. CSaw activities allow you to create structured experiences that transform learning, access ready-to-assign activities, like this, in the CSaw activity library. Activities include step-by-step student directions, teacher notes, a template for student responses, and more. How do you get to the activity library? Click the green add button. Click assign activity. You'll be taken to my library. My library is where you find CSaw activities you save and create. As a CSaw for schools teacher, you have access to a school and district library. This is where you find activities created by your school, district, or fellow teachers. You will also find CSaw lessons here if your school is a district who subscribes to them. To find out more, go to web.csaw.me forward slash lessons. Finally, the community tab is where you find free activities created by CSaw and our community of ambassadors. Our getting started collection for each grade band is in the community library. These activities help you start your year on CSaw. When you find an activity you like, click the heart to save it. Find the saved activity in my library. Saving activities does not assign them. To assign, click the green assign button. Don't see the green assign button? Make sure you save the activity first. When you click assign, you see a list of all your classes. Click the box next to one or multiple classes to assign it. To schedule an activity, click schedule and choose a date and time. Pause the video now. Find, save, and assign or schedule an activity. Let's explore the CSaw workflow. Assigned activities show in the activities tab. If you schedule an activity, you see it in the scheduled section. Students do not see scheduled activities until the chosen date and time. Here's the student view. Students see assigned activities in the to do section of their activities tab. To respond, they click add response. If no template is attached, students use any CSaw tool to create their post. If a template is attached, each student gets a fresh copy of the template to complete. Once students submit their responses, the activity moves from the to do section to the done section. They're ready to complete the next one. Back to the teacher view. You can view student responses by clicking the gray bar on an activity. See which students have completed an activity and which have not. Click on a response to see the post. Engage with student work by liking the post or adding a comment. Comments can be typed or recorded. Audio comments are particularly helpful for emerging readers and English language learners. Note that all posts must be approved by the teacher before they're visible in the class journal. When there are student posts for you to approve, a red bar appears on the bottom of your screen. Click review. Review each post and approve, send back or delete. Note, deleted posts cannot be recovered. Pause the video now. In your teacher account, pretend you're a student. Go to the activities tab. Click add response. Select sample student and complete the activity. You did it. You're set up with your CSaw for Schools teacher account and you've mastered the CSaw basics. With these skills, there's so much you can do on CSaw. And there's so much more we'd love to show you. Find more free training at web.csaw.me forward slash training. See you again soon here at CSaw.