 Welcome to Introduction to CESAW Activities. CESAW Activities allow you to create structured experiences that transform learning. CESAW Activities allow you to provide text and audio directions, multimodal examples, or an engaging image, and interactive, multi-dimensional templates. You'll also be able to add teacher notes, tag activities to folders and skills, and share activities with colleagues. That's a lot you can do, all in CESAW. In this training, you will customize existing activities, create an activity of your own, and keep everything organized. Let's customize an existing CESAW activity. First, find a CESAW activity to customize in the community library. Click the green Add button, and then Assign Activity. Click the Community tab, and explore ready-to-assign activities from CESAW and our community of ambassadors. You can start with our Getting Started collection. Save an activity by clicking the heart. Remember, all saved activities can be found in my library. Click the three dots, and then Copy and Edit. When you copy and edit, you can customize any part of the activity. Click the trash can next to the audio directions, or click the X next to the example to replace them with your own. To modify what students complete, click on the template for student responses. Change text, add photos, or videos of your own, and more to make the template work for your classroom. CESAW Plus and CESAW for schools users can add additional pages to the template. Multi-page is a premium feature. When an existing CESAW activity has a multi-page template, teachers using free CESAW cannot edit the template at this time. Don't forget to save. Your customized activity will save as a copy in your my library. You'll know which one is yours because it will have your name on it. We recommend removing the original activity from my library to keep things organized. To remove an activity from my library, click the activity, the three dots, then remove from my library. A quick note about activity library limits. All teachers can assign as many activities to students as they wish. There is no limit to how many activities you can assign or students can complete. There are limits in how many activities you can store in my library at any given time. If you hit your limit, free up space by clicking the three dots on an activity to remove or delete it. Pause the video now, find an activity from the community library and customize. You can also create CESAW activities of your own. In my library, click Create New Activity. Easy, fill out your activity details. We'll walk you through each part. First, include a descriptive title. Then type step-by-step directions. Notice you can add emojis and CESAW icon shortcuts. Those are the words you see between the colons. When you type CESAW icon shortcuts into your instructions, they transform into icons when you click Save. Click the link in the video description to learn more about icon shortcuts. You can also record voice instructions. Attach a multimedia example like an exemplar instructional video or a picture that gets students interested and excited. You can use any CESAW tool to add your example. When you attach an example, you see a preview. Note that students can only view the example. They won't be able to respond on it. If you wanna be able to provide a template for student responses, click Add Template for Student Responses. You have access to all CESAW's learning tools to create your template. Most teachers start with a drawing tool. On the CESAW Canvas, create guided and interactive templates with text, shapes, photos, videos, and more. CESAW Plus and CESAW for Schools users can create multi-page templates that support dynamic, multi-step learning experiences. Just click Add Page to add up to 20 pages per activity. You see a preview when your template is attached. Save the activity you're ready to assign. Assign the activity to your whole class or to select students. Click Assign, choose a class, or multiple classes to assign to all students. To assign to select students, click Edit Students Folders Skills. In the Student tab, check the box next to the students you want to receive the activity. Click the green check, then click Assign. Teachers with multiple classes can repeat this process for each class to assign the activity to select students across classes at once. Pause the video now to create your first CESAW activity, then practice assigning to select students. As students complete CESAW activities, premium users track and support student engagement with the Progress Activities view. Progress is a premium feature for CESAW Plus and CESAW for Schools users that helps teachers track student engagement with CESAW activities. Access Progress in the Progress tab. It's here on the right next to the Inbox tab. Progress is only available on the web at this time. It's not viewable from the class app on mobile devices. In the Progress tab, there are two views, the Activities view and Skills view. The Default view is the Activities view. This is where you track completion of CESAW activities. Track which students have completed an assigned activity, including an at-a-glance summary. The color under each activity indicates the percentage of students who have completed the activity. For instance, the red means that less than 50% of students have completed the activity, while dark green means that 100% of students have completed it. The colored icons indicate post completion status. An empty red circle means the student has not yet started the activity. An orange check means that the post is saved as a draft. An unfilled green check means that the post is waiting for teacher approval. And a filled green check means that the post is complete and approved. Click on a post status to see the post. Hover over the activity for more details. To hover, move your cursor over the activity, but do not click. When you click on an activity, you see the summary view. Click on a student to view, engage with, or approve their post. You can also track the status of activities each student has been assigned, including an at-a-glance summary of completion for that student. The colored bar indicates completion rate. With your cursor, hover over the student for more details. Click on a student's name to generate a progress report of completed activities. You'll see a list of activities that are not started, that are in draft and completed activities. Click on the link to open the activity, or copy or print the report. Note that progress is only visible to teachers and administrators. To share progress with students and families, click copy on the progress report and paste it into an email or a document. You can also filter activities by students, folders, skills, or activity. Progress activities view helps identify engagement trends, helps you follow up with students who might need more help, and provides students and families with actionable progress reports. Pause the video now, click the progress tab and explore activities view. We have two teacher-tested tips to stay organized. When students complete activities, those activities disappear from their activities tab, but those activities do not disappear from your activities tab. Take a few minutes each week to organize your activities tab so only active activities show in your tab. When all students complete an activity or an activity is no longer relevant, clear it from your activities tab. To clear out old activities, click the three dots on the activity. If there are student responses, you'll be prompted to archive. Don't worry, student responses are not deleted. This just clears the activity from your tab. If no students have responded, then you'll be prompted to delete it. You can always go back to my library and assign it again. Next, keep my library organized with collections. Activities you save or create in my library show in the order that they're saved or created, which means it can be kind of hard to find what you need quickly. Collections help you organize my library and save time. Remember, any activity or collection you create is always private to you. In my library, scroll to the bottom to my collections. Create a new collection by typing a title and clicking create. You might make collections by subject, unit of study, or another system of your own. Organize activities into collections by clicking activities not in a collection. You'll see all the activities you need to organize. On an activity, click organize and select a collection or create a new collection. Once you organize activities into collections, it's easier to find and assign them. Simply click on the collection title under my collections. And there's your collection. Any activity you tag to this collection will show here. Another way to add an activity to a collection is by clicking the three dots on an activity, then add to collection. Select the collection you wanna add it to and then it's added. Keep in mind, there are some limits. If you need to delete a collection, click on a collection, click the three dots, then click delete collection. Don't worry, this will not delete the activities in the collection. Pause the video now. Clear out old activities from the activities tab, create your first collection in my library and give yourself a big high-five for being an organized superstar. You did it. You're ready to transform learning with CESAW activities. Thanks for learning with us today. You can find more free training at web.csaw.me forward slash training. See you again soon here at CESAW.