 So everyone, this session is called Getting Started Part Two. For those of you working with students in grades three through five and eager to continue learning about CISA. Thank you so much for taking time to learn more and join us here today. We are excited to continue our conversation. I'm Angela, I taught kindergarten for 15 years and if you've watched us in previous sessions, you probably already know a little bit about me. I would love to connect with you on Twitter. I'm at Mrs. Gadki and I'm really excited to have Cara Brem here with us as well. We're kind of tag teaming here today. Cara, do you wanna say hi and introduce yourself? Hi everyone, I'm Cara Brem, a CISA ambassador and I've taught third, fourth and fifth grade for 19 years and currently teaching middle school math. And you're welcome to connect with me as well on Twitter and Instagram, but I do have that third, fourth and fifth grade experience and I'm excited to be here to share with you today. Yay, we're so excited. And just before we get into today's content, for those of you that are joining us via viewing this maybe from YouTube or link to other resources, we do give out certificates of completion for attending our PD and PJs sessions. So just listen for a code given during this session. It actually will have six digits. So make sure you listen to the full code that will happen a couple of times during this session. You fill out a form and then you get your certificate. So let's talk about where you are maybe coming from for this session. So you are here today because you have already watched getting started with CISA for your specific grade level and this grade level of course would be grade three through five and you have created a teacher account in CISA and a class. We walked through that at the end of our session in getting started. So we hope you're set with that. We're gonna continue from that point here today. So as we look at the things we're going to explore, we're going to start talking about how to get started with students, a little bit more about connecting families. We'll take a quick peek at CISA's activity library and then spend a chunk of time answering your questions. Please note that if you want the slides for today's session, the link is on the screen right now. Those will come to you via email automatically if you are registered for this session. So let's start talking about how to get started with students using CISA. So the first thing of course is you probably need your students in your CISA class, right? So here on the screen, you're actually going to see two resources. They are both printables that you can actually use and print out. We really wanna accommodate whatever learning style you have. On the left, you're gonna see step by step instructions for adding students. If you are using email or Google sign-in, and on the right, you are going to see instructions for adding students to your class if you are using class code sign-in. And as a reminder, you would use class code sign-in if your students do not have email or Google accounts and or if you are potentially sharing devices in your classroom and you want students to actually access CISA very quickly. So those resources are here for you. And I actually want to show you how to do that. So in this session, I'm gonna actually give resources to you but also demonstrate quickly as well. So here I am in my CISA class, Mrs. Newteacher, okay? Because you might also be a new teacher to CISA. So I just created this class and account to hopefully replicate what you're feeling like in your CISA account that you just created with your class. So as I said, getting started with students, you need to make sure you have students. So in the bottom right, I'm just gonna tap on plus students as a teacher. And then you're going to get these questions coming at you. It's really going to guide you to the appropriate sign-in mode for your students. So you could say, yes, my students are going to use Google email or no. I'm gonna choose no right now and then decide if your students are one-to-one or share devices. I'm just gonna say one-to-one, why not? Okay, I can then go ahead and type the list of my student names. And you may have seen us show you this in a previous session, but just as a reminder, so we're all on the same page. The other trick as well is this wonderful link to paste the list of student names. That is huge and amazing. So once I get to at least six students in my class, and I'm gonna tell you why in a second, when I tap this green check, it's going to show me how I get my students signed in. And just to note for class code classes in the right, bottom right, this is where I'm gonna get my sign-in poster. The reason that I said make sure you have six students at least added into your class is because now when I tap this plus students button, that screen is going to always bring me to this pop-up, which gets me access to that sign-in poster. If you don't have at least six students added in a class code class right now, it's going to just kind of keep prompting you to add your students. So keep that in mind. If you are doing a class, if I go over here and I'm gonna create a new class, and this time I'm just gonna call this testing two, we're gonna pick fifth grade, tap the green check. If your students are using email or Google sign-in, when I go to add them right here, and I choose yes, they are using Google or email sign-in, boom, I don't add any student names at all, I am done. My students will just use this text code to join my class, okay? You can also in the bottom right, email students with instructions. They just use that code one time and then they will always access your class by signing in with their email and password. So that's pretty easy. So I showed you really quickly how to get students in your class. This is just a reminder on this slide for if you're using class code sign-in, make sure you hang up that sign-in poster, right? I wanna spend the majority of the time here talking through this getting started guide. This is really a helpful resource for those of you that really want the step-by-step guide and mini-lessons for working with your students to get started. So I've already shared this link on the screen into our chat today if you are here live. So you can also go there right now and follow along with me. But I'm gonna click this link right now, and this is gonna take me directly to our help center. And you can go ahead and choose the guide that most appropriately, appropriately, my goodness, big word for me tonight, apparently, matches your grade level. And I'm gonna choose fourth grade because I know that's where my friend, Kara, is more recently coming from at this grade level. And as you'll see, we can just start peeking at this. I'm gonna show you some of the components here. So you have this page which has included in this guide, right? So if you're thinking, ooh, I only want the student challenge part, I can just skip to page six through nine and I'm all set there. So if we quickly just scan through this, you'll also see the page, What is CESA? Okay, just again, as you're building your knowledge about CESA, this is a great graphic to kind of refer to. Also, we have just a quick snapshot of how it works. If you've already joined us for our Getting Started webinar, you probably have a really good idea of what it looks like from the student and teacher view. And then we have this handy teacher checklist. So I think this really is valuable for those of you that you're planning to start in your classroom. This will come in handy just to make sure you've kind of follow all these steps that we suggest. And you'll notice here, step four after you have added your students is really to create and play a little bit more as a teacher so you feel confident in getting started. I'm gonna pause for a moment and just give the first three digits of this code you'll need if you're watching and recording. Those digits are seven, three, four. Okay, so as we go on in this Getting Started guide, here is the fun part, the student challenge for your specific grade level. And what this is, is this is literally filled with the many lessons, the step-by-step lessons you can do with your students. So I'm gonna kind of go through this pretty quickly to kind of give you an idea of the flow, but also know my intention is that you would, obviously refer to this and have this, maybe even print it out in your hand if you want that in your classroom. So lesson one, we are setting the purpose for keeping a journal or portfolio with CISA, right? Lesson two, we're talking about handling devices properly and storing them. Lesson three, we're focusing on how do we sign in and out? Of course, that's something we want our students to easily be able to do. You'll notice here that I am not starting right away inside CISA. And I think that's important to call out because we really want CISA to be a routine in your classroom. And some of these lessons that you'll see here are really focused on building that routine within your classroom, making sure you have some of these procedures in place to make it most successful for everyone. We really break down the steps of adding a post to CISA when we go into lesson four. We talk about the importance of the green add button. Then lesson five, this is when they're going to start creating their first post in CISA. For this grade level, we're suggesting that they take a photo, that they explore with text labels. And this is probably looking familiar to those of you that have participated in Kara's session as a teacher because you did the same thing. Then lesson six, we are setting and recording goals. We are adding the voice component onto photos here, just like you experienced as a student. Lesson seven, we're introducing the drawing tool. Students will be solving a math problem. You probably also are noticing that a lot of the suggestions that we are making are really easy to implement in your classroom because they're things that you're already doing. You're already teaching math. They're not so specific that you're trying to teach a completely separate lesson all about CISA. Lesson eight, we talk about reflecting on math work. So then students are going to be using the photo, voice and drawing. Lesson nine, we're again talking, of going a little bit more related to expectations. How are we posting to CISA? What's appropriate? What's not appropriate? Building those digital citizenship skills. Lesson 10, we are reflecting on learning in science. So again, we are building the student's ability to create with the most basic CISA tools but really enhancing what you're already doing in your classroom. And then lesson 11, fourth grade is all about connecting families and how do you start that with your students? So that is a really, really quick run-through of the many lessons and what you'll experience as you start reading through this guide. You'll also notice after that, we have ideas for your classroom which talks a little bit about the CISA activity library which we're gonna go into here momentarily. It also talks about next steps. So we have badges and certificates that you can print out for your students, a reminder to join us for sessions and of course connecting with us on social media. And at the end, you are going to see these built-in printables for you and these are really intended to print off and hang up in your classroom. So sometimes as a teacher, when we are starting, something new in our classroom, we're a little bit like, oh my gosh, I need these steps just as much as my students do, that's okay. But if you hang this up in your room, your students can also be empowered to give it a go on their own as well. So that's a look at the fourth grade guide. You'll notice that the guides in third, fourth and fifth grade look pretty similar. So keep that in mind as well, but we hope that's going to be a great resource for you. And really is a great next step for continuing to implement CISA. Kara, if you wanna chime in just for a second here, in your experience in the third through fifth grade classroom, how did you use the Getting Started guide? The Getting Started guide, my favorite part about it was probably the checklist because I wanted to make sure I didn't miss anything and it was so thorough, it was like, okay, well, I'm gonna go back because I didn't do that. And I really liked all of the ideas that were in there about the flow of just getting my students in. So having those tasks in there, I felt was pretty helpful because I wasn't trying to do too much at one time, I think sometimes we try to bite off more than we can do or more than even, we give ourselves credit for that we think we can handle and then it just becomes overwhelming and frustrating. And I liked that it was at a pace that maybe one day I could fit two of those things in, but another day I only had time for one and I didn't do them one every single day, it just didn't work that way for my schedule, but I was able to just see what was coming next, like, all right, we did this, now what would I do next? So that was helpful. Yeah, and I think you bring up a great point to Kara in the sense of let's plan for this, right? Let's plan for when these lessons are going to occur because I think sometimes what happens is when we don't plan and think ahead, you might not get to it or maybe you haven't thought it through as accurately or well as you wanted to, but if you take that guide and you start looking at your lesson plan book or however you're sketching out what's happening and you start to think about, ooh, this goes perfect in this math lesson or this would be perfect because we're going to do X or Y on this day. I think that's actually a really good thing to point out. So thanks, Kara. The next thing we're gonna talk about briefly here is all about connecting families and just a couple of reminders here. Before you invite a family member to CISA, it's really helpful to make sure you have a post in CISA because otherwise they're gonna join and they're like, what is this? I'm not seeing anything, right? So here are two ideas for you to post yourself as the teacher to start or of course, if you follow that getting started guide and your students are posting, they're already gonna have content there. The key is right here if you look at either one of these printables, the last step says to make sure you select all students when you're adding this to CISA, that ensures that when families join or even your students join, they're going to see that post right there waiting for them. So again, these resources are here for you. I also wanna call your attention to this website, web.cisa.me backslash families and what this is is all the info you need to introduce families to CISA. And I'm actually gonna go there right now and just show you a couple of things quickly because it has this intro video and this is really set up for the situation of if you're having an open house or a back to school or a parent information night and you are presenting formally presenting in front of maybe your classroom of parents or families, you can actually just project this on your smart board and go from here, okay? So there's a video introducing CISA, it actually talks a little bit more about what it is and then it actually has them sign up right then and there which I have found to be the most effective for getting families connected. There's also a tour of the Family app so they can look at that and kind of get an idea of what it looks like just you as you have the teacher, right? And then just a couple other helpful suggestions. So keep that in mind, keep that resource kind of tucked away in your pocket, ready to use when necessary. And then I also wanna point out how do you invite families? This is really again a step-by-step guide here, one pager for how do you actually get your families connected? So that is there for you as well and I'm actually going to show you how easy it is right now. So I'm gonna pop back into our class, when I wanna connect families, I'm gonna tap this plus families button in the bottom right and then it, oh, they're saying there aren't any students in your class yet. Oh, that's right because I created this email class, right? Let me go back into the third grade class where I know I have my students. Great reminder, CISA, thank you very much. Bottom right, I'm gonna go to Families and then it is going to say, hey, you should turn on Family Access and this again means they're not gonna see everything right now, you're just turning on the ability for them to access it when you invite them. So right now the options are printing a paper invite or sending them a viewing a sample email and then you would email this to the family, okay? So keep that in mind as well, really easy to get your families connected. The next thing I wanna talk about quickly here is the CISA activity library and when you joined us for Getting Started, we just maybe touched on this briefly but I'm gonna show you it a little bit more now in case you didn't get a chance to see it but you are already familiar with the flow where students go to that green add button and choose the creative tool that they're going to use to document and share their learning. When you use activities, it's a slightly different flow in the sense that teachers share activities with students, students respond using CISA's tools and then you approve them as the teacher, okay? So when you go into CISA as a teacher and you tap that green add button, you are going to see it say assign activity that's actually just changed today. It's going to say assign activity and when you choose that, that is going to bring you into, let me actually just do that for you right now because I want you to actually see what is going to happen when you do this. So I'm gonna go to the green add button, I'm gonna choose assign activity and right now it's bringing me into my library. This is my own space where I have my own stuff, okay? You can see it's really blank right now. I haven't created any new activities. I don't have any collections of activities, but hey, I do need some ideas. I wanna browse the community library. So I'm gonna click right here and then I'm going to be brought into this tab right next to my library, which says community. This is where thousands of activities are waiting for you to use in your classroom. They are created by CISA ambassadors, okay? I am going to click on this getting started in third grade collection. This is what you're gonna wanna start with as maybe you explore activities. These are five activities for your students to use to get started with CISA. You might recognize this first one, right? So if I click on this heart, that is going to save it to my CISA library. And if I click it on it again, I can actually get a more close-up view of what is happening here in this activity. There are teacher notes down here that will guide you as you are exploring and learning about CISA and how does this activity work. You'll also notice that it has the instructions for students to follow. They can play audio instruction, but I'm actually gonna tap this assign button. You might see it say share right now in your version of CISA. And I'm going to choose the class I wanna share it with right here and I'm going to assign it to one class. So now when I go back to my class and I see I'm in the activities tab. So as a student, you can explore as a student. It says try as a student, right? So I am actually going to tap on add response and I can choose my name. I'm gonna say sample student because I'm just playing around, right? And I can also always tap up here and view instructions if I want to to remind myself like what am I supposed to do here? Your students can do the same thing. And then because this activity doesn't have a template attached to it, it's bringing me to a screen that looks just like the screen would look from the green add button if I were creating as a student. So I would then choose one of these tools to use. Of course, you would probably choose the tool that maybe your teacher suggests that you give a try. I am playing around, so I'm just gonna do, I'm gonna add a heart, let's try that. I'm gonna tap the green check. And then this is going, is added to my CISA class. You'll see that it's in the journal right now. Because I'm playing around and I'm in as a teacher, you're noticing that it doesn't require approval, right? Because I'm a teacher. I'm playing as a teacher and CISA knows that. When your students respond to an activity, absolutely that it will require approval just like they're adding to your class. So a student could tap on the activity tab and they would see activities waiting for them if you choose to assign them ahead of time, if that makes sense. So just to recap, a great place to start. If you want to even go into the activity library and explore that is the Getting Started Collection, okay? So I have buzzed through all sorts of things and I'm actually gonna pause for a moment and let Kara, you know, share some insights too as to where she sees activities fitting in to getting students started with CISA. What's your experience, Kara? So when I first started with CISA, I've used CISA for four consecutive school years with both fourth grade and seventh grade. When I first started, activities didn't even exist. So, you know, I didn't have that. And when I did start using activities when they came out, I found that I let my students use that green add button at first to get an idea of how to use those, all of those creative tools that are in there. And then I started with the activity flow through the activity library and using what was there and even eventually building my own as well. So I didn't start out right away with activities. I felt like they just needed practice adding from, you know, just that add button. And then I jumped into the activity library and found what worked or changed maybe a little bit, found something that would kind of work and changed it to make it work better for my students through editing and activity and then assigning it. But the, you know, the more you expose your students to that add button, which is where we started with, the activity flow will naturally, they don't even think twice about it. So I just think that the more, if you start with that add button and then when you're ready to play around with the activity library, they'll be ready to receive it and have that flow. Yeah, I think that's a great suggestion. I think, you know, if you think back to your experience in the getting started sessions with us, you know, it's important just to start simple and start seeing easy ways that you can enhance what you're already doing in your classroom with CISA, just using the creative tools. And then as you continue to grow as well, start exploring some of those activities that other CISA or CISA ambassadors have created and used in their own classroom as well. I'm gonna pause here just for a second and give the last three digits of the code you'll need if you're watching this recording, the last three digits are four, seven, nine. So we are going to head into our question component here of this session. So I am actually going to kind of show a couple of things on the screen here as well. While you're thinking of your questions and typing them in, I wanna make sure you know about our help center. This is really, really critical. Whenever you have any questions, make sure to visit there. Lots of resources are waiting for you there to support you. And as always, we've mentioned this before, but make sure you connect with our community on our various social networks. We love sharing ideas, so make sure you check that out as well. Kara's information is there so you can connect with her too. And of course, we hope you come back for more sessions as well.