Dr. Alice Christie's Using Hand-In and Hand-Out Folders Tutorial

Teacher Hand-Out | Teacher Receive | Student Hand-In | Student Receive

Teacher Hand-Out

When teachers wish to "hand-out" launch pages, HyperQuests, or documents to their students, they follow the following steps:

• Leave the Restricted Finder environment and go to the Panels environment
  • Hold down the Panels icon
  • Select their class (in this example: Dr. Christie's class)

 

• The panels environment appears with the class folder next to the teacher folder:

• Click on your folder (in this example: achristie) to select that folder.
• You can tell it is selected (active window) because it is highlighted and has a scroll bar on the right.

 

• File > Hand Out...

 

• The Hand Out Dialog Box appears/
• Scroll to the file you wish to "hand-out" to your class
• Select that file (in this example: great school)
• Click OK

 

• You have now distributed your file to all students! Congratulations!

 

Teacher Receive

When teachers wish to view documents turned in by their students, they follow the following steps:

• Move to Restricted Finder to Panels
  • Hold down the Panels icon
  • Select their class (in this example: Dr. Christie's class)

• Make your folder active by clicking on it (in this example: achristie)

• Scroll to the Hand In Folder:

• Open it and you will see all the files that have been "handed-in" by your students!

• Congratulations! You can now receive files from your students electronically!

 

Student Hand-In

When students wish to "hand-in" documents to their teachers, they follow the following steps:

• Students use only a Panels Environment
• From the Folder for their class, students select an application they wish to open: Word, for example.

• In Word, students create a new document or open an already created document.
• File > Save As

• Students scroll to the Hand In Folder
  • Select the hand In Folder
  • Click Open

• Give their document an appropriate name (may include initials or date). In this example: Assign to Teacher-AC
• Click OK

 

 

• The student's document is now in the Hand In folder ready for the teacher to view!

Student Receive

When students wish to view documents distributed by their teacher, they follow the following steps:

• Students use only a Panels Environment
• From the Folder for their class, students select the folder with their teacher's name (achristie in this example).
• Scroll to the Hand Out Folder:

• Open the hand Out Folder and a list of all files that the teacher is "handing out" appears.
• Scroll to the appropriate file:

• Double click to Open the file.
• The student now has a copy of the file the teacher "handed-out"!