Transcript Customizing FTE Collections for Your Classroom

Customizing FTE Collections for Your Classroom
1. Go to www.goorulearning.org
2. Register. You may use FTE collections without registering, but you must have your
own (free) account to “customize” (edit and adapt for your students) collections.
3. Log in with your new user-name and password.
Once you’ve created an account, you can simply Login anytime you
return to Gooru.
OR, for faster access, bookmark the url and check “keep me signed in.”
Finding the Collection(s) You Want to Customize
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Make sure you’re logged in.
Type the title or a general topic in the search box.
Select “Collections” (rather than “Resources” or “Quizzes”)
Click the search button.
Scroll through the results until you find the collection you’d like
to customize
Position the cursor over any
collection in the left column to
highlight it. The thumbnails in the
right column allow you to quickly
see the resources in that collection.
Click the collection title in the left
column to open.
Familiarize yourself with the opening screen of the collection.
If you give
students this
url and tell
them to click
“Study” they
will access the
collection in
its original
FTE form.
The Econ Eddie “owner” icon tells you
this is the original FTE collection, rather
than one you’ve customized.
The + icon is the tool you’ll use
to add the collection to your
shelf for customizing. Click it.
Add the collection to your shelf by clicking the green
+ icon
Clicking the green icon opens a list of the folders in your collection shelf. You must click on
one of the folders to add the collection to your shelf before you’ll be able to customize it.
Success! The original FTE collection has been added to your shelf.
The collection you added will now be visible in your shelf
To customize:
1. Move the cursor over the collection thumbnail. Click the white triangle in the
gray circle.
2. Select “customize” from the pop up menu.
Renaming the collection makes you the owner.
You can rename the collection with any title to help you remember the purpose of the
customization. For example, if you have an honors class and a regular class, you might
copy the collection twice – naming one “Smith – period 3” and another “Smith –
honors”.
After giving the collection a new name, click OK to add an editable copy to your shelf.
You now have 2 copies of the collection on your shelf – the original
FTE collection, and your personal, customizable collection.
AND, most importantly, when you click the white triangle, you now have the EDIT
option will work.
One of the easiest edits is re-ordering. To move a resource, click and
drag. The green square will show you where the resource is being
positioned.
The edit screen provides many other editorial options:
edit the collection title and meta-data
play the collection
make and title additional copies
View each of the resources individually and add text narration for students
by clicking the blue resource-type icon.
Remove a resource by clicking the white X.
Expand the size and complexity of the collection by adding new segments.
Clicking the “Add a Resource” thumbnail at the end of a segment
opens a dialog box that configures to the type of resource you select.
After you save the added resource, it will appear at the end of the segment. Click
and drag to move it into the desired position in the collection.
Click “Play” to preview the collection as your students will see it and to
capture the url for student access.
Copy this url in the play mode to give students direct access to the
customized collection.
Note that Econ Eddie is gone, and you’re the new owner of the collection. (Not to worry,
though. Econ Eddie and the original collection are still on your shelf for future reference.)