Teaching with Writelike ARCHIVED NOV 2023

Assigning lessons

Writelike has a lesson library, which you can see under Browse.

Browse lessons

The most important rules with Writelike lessons are:

  • You can preview a lesson in Browse.
  • To save work, the lesson must be assigned. 
  • You can assign a lesson to yourself or to a class you moderate.
  • You can assign the same lesson to multiple classes. (Each assignment represents a fresh copy of the lesson.)
  • You cannot assign a lesson multiple times to the same class. 

When you create a class, the class is automatically assigned How to Writelike, so you can get started with it straight away. You can find other lessons in Browse.

Assigning from Browse Lessons

In Browse, click on a lesson or course card and click Assign to Classes. This will let you quickly assign the same lesson to multiple classes.

Assign to group

Assigning from the Manage Class page

In the class's profile page, click Assign Lessons. This will take you to the Browse view. Anything you assign will be for this particular class. 

Assign lesson from group

Lesson packs are collections of lessons that can be assigned as a group or individually.

Some lessons make more sense if they are completed in the order presented in the pack:

  • For instance in the Gone or That Eye, the Sky lesson packs, the lessons follow the arc of a whole book chapter, each extending the action, so they make the most sense and provide the biggest impact when completed in the given order.
  • By contrast, in courses such as Storm Boy or Phoenix the lessons sample unrelated points in the source texts so they can be completed in any order. 

Students can complete the same lesson in different classes without any issue.

However, if a student wants or needs to repeat a lesson in the same class, it can only be done by over-writing the existing lesson.

  • If the student's prior work in the lesson isn't worth preserving, then there's no problem—they can just type over their old responses.
  • If you or the student want to preserve the prior work, then either/both of you should export it from the Responses view (either My Lessons > My Responses (for the student) or My Lessons > Manage Class > Reponses (for the teacher)).

You can delete a lesson in the Manage Class view by clicking the menu button next to the lesson and selecting Remove lesson.

Warning!

If you delete a lesson from a class, all the responses will be deleted as well!

Download any responses you want to save by going to My Lessons > Manage Class > Responses and clicking Download.

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