For teachers
Your first class, in five minutes
From signing in to your students' first results, in a one-minute film.
Read the text version
Scene by scene: what the video shows, then what the narrator says.
0:00
On screen: A gold ring around a countdown reading 4:51. Title: "For teachers. Your first class, in five minutes."
Narration: Your first class, in five minutes. Here's how it goes.
0:05
On screen: "Set up your class", step 1 of 7: "Sign in with your school account. Google or Microsoft." A laptop shows the sign-in page with Continue with Google and Continue with Microsoft.
Narration: Sign in with your school Google or Microsoft account.
0:09
On screen: "It tells you what to do first." The Instructor Dashboard, still empty, with "No students enrolled yet: invite your class" and the weekly email setting.
Narration: Your dashboard starts empty, and it tells you what to do first: invite your class.
0:15
On screen: "Invite your students. By email, or logins without email." The Invite students by email window open on the Students page.
Narration: Invite students by email, or make logins for students who don't have one.
0:21
On screen: "Your class, on the roster. 6 of 30 seats used." The Students page lists the class.
Narration: Your class lands on the roster, and you can see how many seats you've used.
0:26
On screen: "One group per class period." The Students page with a group being made for a class period.
Narration: Teach more than one period? Give each class its own group.
0:30
On screen: "Assign a course. The whole class, in one step." The course list opens beside the selected students: 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade and the rest.
Narration: Select your students and assign a course, in one step.
0:34
On screen: "Drag a lesson to set its due date." The Schedule: a lesson is dropped onto a day of the calendar and a green note confirms its due date.
Narration: Then drag a lesson onto the calendar to set its due date.
0:39
On screen: "The first answers. See the first results. The Lesson log." Each student's results by day: lessons finished and questions right.
Narration: As students work, their results build up in your Lesson log: who finished, how many they got right, and who's still going.
0:47
On screen: "Who needs you today." The Students page with a yellow notice naming the student who needs attention.
Narration: Your roster shows who needs you today.
0:50
On screen: "Fair Play: a conversation, never a verdict. Nothing here changes a mark." A Fair Play note headed "Likely had outside help" lists each sign, what else it could mean, and a button to send a check question.
Narration: And Fair Play points out patterns worth a conversation, never a verdict. Each sign comes with what else it could mean, and nothing here changes a mark.
1:00
On screen: Closing card: the Successful Mathematics logo, "Your first class, in five minutes", a QR code that opens the website, and "successfulmathematics.com".
Narration: Successful Mathematics. Your first class, in five minutes.
The five steps
- Sign inWith your school Google or Microsoft account, or an email and password.
- Invite your classBy email, or make logins for students who have no email. Teach several periods? Give each its own group.
- Assign a courseSelect your students and assign 6th Grade through Math 3, or College Algebra, in one step.
- Set the first due dateDrag a lesson onto the calendar. Homework, quizzes and tests then grade themselves.
- Watch the results come inThe Lesson log shows who finished and how they did, and your roster shows who needs you today.