Moderators are members too!

If you are the moderator of a class, you are also a member

This means that when you assign a lesson to your class, you will find the class and lesson in your My Lessons view as well, and you can complete that lesson exactly as if you were a student. 

For example, if you are the teacher of 9B, both you and your students can see the same view in My Lessons, and can complete the lessons:

Claas 9B lessons

If you have two classes and assign the same lesson to each class, you will find a fresh copy of each lesson in each class.

Why do we do this? What's the benefit?

Imagine you want to demonstrate a lesson to a class. You want to show them where to go, what to click on, then you want to write the first couple of responses as joint construction with student input.

Since you're a member of the class, you can show students exactly what they would see:

  • You can go to My Lessons, filter for the class, and click on the relevant lesson.
  • You can interact with the pages, record progress, write on screen and save your work.

You can do all this exactly as any student would.

Then, when you go to your next class, you can do exactly the same thing with a fresh copy of the lesson.

There's no need to switch views, create another account, or erase work from a previous lesson.

Your responses will be treated like any other member's responses:

  • You will see your responses (and checkpoint pieces if you complete them) in the relevant class dashboards.
  • Your responses will go into the response feed on that page (and into Wrotevote), meaning students can react and comment on them.

But your progress is not counted in the class progress dashboards. (For example, if a graph says 9/17 members have completed a lesson, that means 9 members excluding the moderator.)

Screenshot showing group progress