Mr. Patel uses various online tools to engage his 7th grade science students in a unit on scavenger hunts. He creates a Brightspace Capture event to guide students on an on-site scavenger hunt and runs live polls to keep them engaged. For homework, students participate in a Brightspace Pulse discussion and Mr. Patel assesses their posts. He uses data from polls and discussions to identify struggling students and creates a new Course Adventure Pack module to increase engagement. Throughout the unit, he tracks engagement using the Class Engagement Dashboard and User Progress Tool, and sets up automatic badges to motivate students, resulting in a successful unit.

2. A day in the life of a
K-12 teacher and
his class

3. In Mr. Patel’s 7th grade science class, online and blended learning
takes place throughout the year. At the beginning of each unit, he
prepares by building a Brightspace Capture event to guide students
through an onsite scavenger hunt about the upcoming unit topics.

4. During class, students are assigned
to watch the Capture event on their
mobile device. As they move around
the school grounds, the internet
coverage is poor – but that’s no
problem. The event adapts from
HD to SD, so they can keep
watching without interruption.

5. Throughout the scavenger
hunt, Mr. Patel runs a live
poll to keep his students
engaged and on-track. He
then shares the results of the
poll which helps the students
find the next location.

6. For homework, the students go to their Brightspace Pulse mobile app
and participate in a discussion on the findings from their explorations
during the Capture event. For their next class, Mr. Patel assesses the
discussion posts and automatically pulls results, so that the class can
go over the findings as a group.

7. Judging from the results of the polls and discussions, Mr. Patel can tell
this unit is going to be a challenge. To help increase engagement, he
decides to create a new course module of this unit using the tools in the
Course Adventure Pack.

8. With large class sizes, and students learning at different levels,
developing differentiated learning paths can be time consuming. But
thanks to the Course Adventure Pack, Mr. Patel now has time to look
at the Class Engagement Dashboard to see which students are at-
risk, struggling, or unengaged in the material. He can then reach out to
those who need extra guidance to get back on track.

9. Throughout the remainder of the unit, Mr. Patel continues to track class
engagement with the Class Engagement Dashboard. He notices most
students are engaged in the material, but uses the User Progress Tool
to dig deeper to view the engagement of each student. This data
reveals that many of his students are using the content as directed,
but some are not.

10. The success of each student is a top priority for Mr. Patel, and he
knows encouragement through awards and badges is something that
really motivates his students. Using release conditions within
Brightspace, he is able to set up Automatic Badging and Awards with
ease – saving him time as he keeps his students engaged.

11. With the unit completed, Mr. Patel is pleased with the class progress as
it was a great success, and the students are happy to have been
rewarded for their efforts.