Scenario one: technology is available at home for most or all of your students and you want them to learn independently
In this scenario you will need to first make sure your students are added to a class on Lyfta. This will allow you to give your students independent access to a Lyfta lesson that you have selected, monitor their progress and save their responses.
What to do: If your students don't already exist on Lyfta the quickest way to add them and group them into a class at the same time is to use our
bulk upload feature. Click on the lesson plan you want to teach. Click 'Teach' and select the class name then click 'Start now' to launch the lesson.
This video shows you how your students will access their lesson remotely.
Tip: Give the 'Passphrase for student's to your students so they can log into their lesson at student.lyfta.com or via the iPad app: Lyfta Student.
Scenario two: your students have technology available at home and you teach live lessons using a video conferencing platform
In this scenario you will select a lesson plan you wish to teach to students and share it with them live through your video conferencing platform. This is similar to teaching with Lyfta from the front of your classroom or an assembly hall.
What to do: Before your lesson, it is important to make sure that your video conference settings enable you to share sound from your computer, then click on the lesson plan. Click 'Teach' and 'In front of the class'. Share your screen with your students. You can then lead the students through the lesson, gaining their ideas and feedback, working through the lesson in real time.
Tip: numerous teachers and school leaders have said that this works well for sharing the Lyfta storyworlds, articles and even videos with students in real time. Please note that the quality of the videos in this scenario may be impacted by internet bandwidth.
