If you have just recently subscribed your school to The Ultimate Study Tool for A Level Maths, here is a quick-start guide to help you get going. Below are guides to all of the things you will need to do to give your students access to our vast library of resources and to make your life as a teacher easier.
How to upload students.
The first thing that you as a teacher will want to do is upload your students to the study tool. To do this you will need a spreadsheet with all of their details in it. Click the button below to download a blank version of the spreadsheet to fill in and upload.
Once you have downloaded the spreadsheet, the following video shows you how to go about uploading your students. For now, you will need to notify your students that you have uploaded them and tell them to do a password reset to log on for the first time. We are current working on having the system email students when they are uploaded and have them set their own password in their first logon.
How to create classes, add/remove students from classes and restrict/enable viewing of lessons
If you want to organise your students into classes, this is possible in the Ultimate Study Tool for A Level Maths. This will allow you to enable/restrict access to the lessons and content that you do or do not want different groups of students to see, although the default is that all students have access to all student (not teacher) content.
The following video shows you how to create and manage classes.
How to view lesson content as a teacher
As a teacher, you are able to view both student content and techer-only content. This is done very easily by clicking the top-right menu and selecting “Courses” from this menu. This will allow you to navigate through all of the content available.
How to make resources available/unavailable to students
Important Note: The drip-feeding of content only works if students are in classes. If a student is not in a class, you will not be able to restrict the viewing of any content for that student.
There are certain resources that are by default unavailable to students until a teacher allows them to see it. For example, the end of lesson tests and the corresponding mark schemes are left to the teacher to decide when they should be made available to students. The following video guides you through the process of making these resources available/unavailable to students.
The number of these how-to tutorials will increase as more features are added. We are always working hard to improve things so if you notice anything that you think could improve, please let us know!