For a quick overview of teaching with Exploros, watch this video.

To teach an learning experience, click on it in the Assigned Experiences pane. Once in an experience, you can navigate to different areas in an experience using the bottom navigation bar.

The default teacher view is the Dashboard, whereas when students open an experience they go directly to the Activity. With the Dashboard, you can see which students are invited to the learning experience (indicated in black), which students are logged in (indicated in blue), and monitor individual student progress in the learning experience. Learn more about the Dashboard.

The Pack contains associated resources for the learning experience, typically in the form of articles and videos. There is a teacher Pack (with only teacher information) and a student Pack (which contains only student information). As a teacher, you can toggle between both to see everything. Students can only see the Student Pack. and articles and videos may be released to students only when they reach a particular scene.

You typically teach the experience using the Activity view. It contains the flow of the lesson, and student responses appear live as they participate and post. 

Navigation. A learning experience is divided into scenes. The length of a scene depends on the amount of content and discussion or interaction in it. As a teacher, you can freely navigate from scene to scene. However, in most cases, students cannot move on to the next scene until they have responded to prompts in the current scene and/or you have unlocked the next scene (explained below.)

Student Responses. When students respond to questions or prompts in the learning experience, you will see the results, live. Each question type (word cloud, open response, drawing, table, poll, etc.) will display slightly differently depending upon its purpose, but in general, it will show certain things.

Teacher Notes and Gates. Within the experience, you will see pink boxes containing teacher notes. These notes are only visible in your view and contain tips for how to teach the learning experience. Sometimes boxes also contain a lock icon (usually at the bottom of a scene.) These are called teacher gates, and they prevent students from moving ahead in a learning experience while you are teaching it in the live classroom, or going beyond a certain scene if you are flipping the classroom for part of the learning experience. Once you click on the lock icon, the gate will unlock, and students will be able to proceed as long as they have answered all required questions within the scene. 

More information on Teacher Gates and progressing from scene to scene.

That's a quick look at how to teach in Exploros. For a guided tour, we recommend you watch the 30-minute webinar. Once you get a few details down, teaching with Exploros is pretty simple - it's much like following a lesson plan that contains live student data to assist with teaching, and that gets all students involved.

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