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Creating & Managing a Practical

Overview​

Teachers can easily create a practical for one of their lessons (classes) for a specific day. This will make use of the pre-created activities. A practical includes 1 activity and 1 lesson.

How to Create a Practical​

  1. Navigate to the "Teacher Portal" link in the navbar or card on the Practicality home page.
  2. Select "Manage Practicals" from the "Practical Work" card
  3. Press "Create Practical" or "Add Ad Hoc Practical". The difference is outlined here: Normal or "Ad Hoc" Practical?
  4. Enter the date and subject. The rest of the form will appear once the subject has been selected. The date should be the date you are doing the practical with your class. Only lessons and activities for the selected subject will appear as options.
  5. The "Teacher" field will auto-fill with your name, however, you can change this to any other teacher in your school if you are creating the practical on their behalf.
  6. You will be taken back to the "Manage Practicals" page where you will see your newly created practical in the list. You can use the buttons to edit it.

(Normal) Practical or "Ad Hoc" Practical?​

Normal Practical​

A normal practical populates students for a whole lesson to the practical. This is the normal usecase for teachers where you are undertaking a practical for a class. Note that the attendance feature is used to record absences for students who are not present.

Ad Hoc Practical​

An "Ad Hoc" practical allows you to select individual students to assign to the practical. This is useful for situations such as catch-up practicals for students who missed the original practical or a situation in which you are running a practical for a group of students from different classes.

Basic Operations​

  • The "Manage Practicals" page allows you to create, edit, and delete practicals.
  • In the "Actions" column you can:
    • alt text Take attendance. This will open a page where you can record the attendance status for each student. See (XXX)
    • alt text Mark Practical Work. This will take you to the page where you can record whick skills each student as achieved or not achieved for the practical (see XXX)
    • alt text More Actions
      • Edit - you can edit the date, lesson, activity of the practical.
      • Delete - delete the practical.