Exploros is a platform designed for teacher-guided student exploration. Before you get started, it can be helpful to learn a few terms.
Learning Experience – At the heart of Exploros is the learning experience. This is a lesson or activity. We call it a learning experience because it varies based on what students bring to it!
Active Experience – When an experience is in the Assigned list, it is active and ready for students to complete.
Elements – Interaction types used to collect student responses. Each element has a specific instructional purpose and is used to support both participation and assessment.
Experience Card – Each experience is represented by an Experience Card, providing an overview of the experience name, description, core and extension tags, standards, and badges.
Experience Dashboard – The teacher control center for an active learning experience. It is where you manage students and monitor real-time progress as instruction unfolds.
Responses – In Exploros, all forms of student posts are referred to as responses. These can be polls, drawings, graphic organizers, open text, and more.
Scenes – Scenes are the pages in a learning experience. They grow in length depending upon the amount of student response within a learning experience.
Teacher Gate – A teacher gate is a lesson pacing control feature. When locked, students cannot advance beyond a gate, and only the teacher can unlock a gate. You typically use them when you want to discuss student posts before moving from one scene to the next.
Teacher Notes and Teacher Moves – Teacher notes appear in pink boxes within the learning experience and provide guidance for facilitating instruction. These notes are visible only in the teacher view. The instructional decisions and actions teachers take in response to student thinking and the guidance within teacher notes are referred to as teacher moves.
Users:
Exploros has three main kinds of users: Teachers, Students, and Administrators
Teachers are typically classroom teachers who guide the learning
Students are typically classroom learners who are most commonly together in the social classroom, but that is not a requirement. Exploros also works for self-paced, flipped, and remote learning.
Administrators can be at the campus or district level. They can co-teach, but most commonly are overseeing progress in various ways, utilizing Exploros reporting.