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Learning
Suite at AIS:
Teacher 2011
Guide
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2. Tutor Learning Suite at AIS: Teacher Guide 2011
Teachers’ guide
1. What is tutor
2. Tutor’s sections
 What students see
 What teachers see
3. My profile
4. How to manage my subject
 Editing Benchmarks and Activities
 How to grade
 How to create a reminder
5. How to maintain my subject’s site
 How to write Blog Posts
o Content Tags
o How to integrate multimedia content
 Youtube
 Slideshare/Scribd/Others
 How to upload pictures
6. Other topics
 Bookmarklet
 Facebook Integration
 How Parents see Grades

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WHAT IS TUTOR
This Student Information System with Social Networking tools allows:
 Students and parents to monitor their grades live. You will be able to organize your
curricular map (Benchmarks, Activities, and Percentages) from any place on Earth
with an Internet connection.
 Generate Thought Leadership in each community member by allowing them to
create individual profiles with Photos, Blogs, and a comment wall. These blogs feed
the School’s public website (i.e. Extranet).
 Complete surveys, forums, send direct messages and share multimedia content with
Students, Colleagues, and Administrators.
 Tutor is a Cloud Application, no need for burdensome server or IT personnel
investments.
TUTOR’S SECTIONS
What students see
 Blogs: Blogs belonging to every user, group and/or subject within the network.
Knowledge is freely shared, following our Open Source philosophy.
 People: A directory of every user in the platform. You can perform a search.
 Groups: A directory of all student and teacher Groups that are not directly related to
a subject but any other topic (an extracurricular, common interest, work group, etc)
 Subjects: A directory of every subject in the network, along with each of their sites.
 Calendar: An agenda of all tasks that teachers have assigned. Students can see any
homework or deadline assigned to the courses he/she belongs to.
 Grades: A record of his/her grades
 My profile: General information about the student. Pictures, interests, Wall and
Avatar.

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What teachers see
MAIN MENU
 Teaching School: Professional Development Forum. Created exclusively for teachers
and administrators.
 Blogs: Blogs belonging to every user, group and/or subject within the network.
Knowledge is shared freely, following our Open Source philosophy.
 People: A directory of every user in the platform. You can perform a search.
 Groups: A directory of all student and teacher Groups that are not directly related to
a subject but any other topic (an extracurricular, common interest, work group, etc)
 Subjects: A directory of every subject in the network, along with each of their sites.
 My profile: General information about the staff member. Pictures, interests, Wall
and Avatar.
CONTROL PANEL
 Administration Screen: Dashboard with every subject that has been assigned to the
given teacher (who logged in)
o Edit subject: Change benchmarks, activities (within those benchmarks) and
percentage weights of each.
o Grade subject by users: Evaluate performance on activities and benchmarks by
individual user.
o Grade subject by period: Evaluate benchmarks on a Group level (every student at
once, grading per task )
 Edit profile: Make changes in your avatar, interests and information.
 Edit account: Changes in your password, username, etc.
 Manage Posts: Add, edit, or delete any of your blog posts
 Inbox: Direct messages you have received.
 My profile: Shortcut to your profile.
 My Blog: Shortcut to your Blog.
 My Photos: Shortcut to your photos.
 My clippings: Shortcuts to all the content that you have clipped using our
Bookmarklet. Read more about the Bookmarklet at the end of this handbook.

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MY PROFILE
Your photo
album
Your Posts
Comment
Wall
Groups and Subjects to
which you belong

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HOW TO MANAGE MY SUBJECT
1. Log in and click on your Administration Screen.
2. You will find any and all subjects that have been assigned to you, a Homework
Calendar, and the option to Grade by User.
a. Homework Calendar: Here you will be able to create reminders on a Calendar
that your students will see, so that they can complete homework, essays, and
Projects on time.
b. Grade subjects by user: Here you will be able to grade each student on an
individual basis, looking at his/her progress throughout the different tasks and
evaluations during the current period.

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c. Edit Subject (i.e. File Folder with your Subject’s Name): Allows you to edit your
curriculum map, the weight that each of the activities has on the Benchmark’s
final assessment, and each of these benchmarks’ weight on the final subject
grade. You can also grade all students at the same time, on a per activity basis.

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How to maintain my subject’s site
You will find links to each of your assigned subjects on your Profile. Click on any of them to
edit the site.
A subject’s site looks like this:
Administration
Panel
Topics indexed
through TAGS
Photo
Albums
Subject’s Blog
Miembros

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HOW TO WRITE BLOG POSTS.
Option A: Click on “Write a Post!” in the Administration Panel on your Group/Subject’s right
sidebar.
Option B: You can also go to “Manage Posts” (which we explained previously on What
Teachers See”) and post from there –indicating that it is related to your subject and selecting
which one from a combo box.
Content Tags: All posts are organized around Tags, as topics are known in Web 2.0. Just
think of a good name that summarizes what your post is related to and write it on the “Tags”
field as you create it. It will be indexed immediately with all other posts in the platform, and
also on an individual tag directory within your own group.
Surveys: Take advantage of your post to survey readers. Write a question and create several
options. The system will calculate percentages as your students vote for their favorite
answer.

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How to integrate multimedia content
Youtube – scribd- slideshare- others
When you’re writing your post, you can integrate multimedia content from any other
platform that gives you an HTML code. With these lines of code, which you can easily get
from Youtube, Scribd, and Slideshare, you will give your communication a twist. Each of
these platforms has a unique way to point at this HTML code, but it generally appears under
the title EMBED—which means, “to insert code into another website”.
The steps are:
1. When creating your Blog Post, click on HTML
2. Paste on this dialog box any code that you obtained from an external site

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3. Click on Update.

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Other topics
Tutor Bookmarklet
Go to your Control Panel. Inside “My Clippings”, you will find a module from which you can
drag the phrase “Tutor It” into your Browser’s bookmark bar. Once it’s there, just click on
“Tutor It” anytime you feel like sharing interesting content and our bookmarklet will
automatically create a post on Tutor for you. With Tutor sharing with your students is fast
and fun!
Facebook Integration
If the email account that you registered on Tutor is the same as your main email account on
Facebook, welcome to the new phase of Facebook Connection! Log into Tutor with a simple
click, using your Facebook password & account. We will be launching great features
involving Tutor and Facebook in a near future, so be on the look for changes!
How parents see Grades
Parents must click on “Solicita las Calificaciones de tu Hijo en Tiempo Real”, one of the main
links at www.altamira.edu.co . Once their email has been registered by the administrator as
belonging to a given child’s parent, he/she will receive an instant grades report whenever
needed.