Take a Big Step Towards Smart Classrooms Easily!
HiTeach 5 has four major smart teaching application tools. These four well-refined smart classroom essentials include "
Allocation," "
Activity," "
Assignment," and "
Assessment." The interaction Activity tool enables synchronous whole-class interaction, allowing for teaching decisions to be adjusted based on interactive data charts. The Assignment tool enables synchronous whole-class tasks, adopting more diverse classroom practices and assessments. The Assessment tool enables synchronous whole-class quizzes, conducting more precise classroom teaching and review based on quiz data statistics and analysis. The Allocation tool enables synchronous whole-class differentiated instruction, pushing differentiated materials based on student interaction, task, and quiz data. Research from years of AI Sokrates data analysis system studies shows that as long as the functional combinations are applied appropriately, they will have a profound and magically effective teaching impact.
4As of Effective Engagement:
Allocation / Activity / Assignment / Assessment
✨HiTeach power tool 1: Synchronized Allocation (Content "Push")
HiTeach's material push function is a key tool in smart classrooms for improving teaching efficiency and interactivity. It enables teachers to instantly transmit diverse teaching content to students' personal devices (tablets, laptops, etc.), achieving more interactive and differentiated instruction.
HiTeach offers a variety of flexible push mechanisms to meet different teaching needs:
Current Page Push: Teachers can instantly push the content currently on the HiTeach page, including electronic whiteboard writing, annotations, inserted images, text, etc., to students, making it convenient for students to view key points simultaneously or engage in subsequent interactions.
Object-Based Material Push: When pushing a page to students, teachers can retain the elements on the page (such as images and text objects), allowing students to manipulate these objects (move, rotate, etc.) on their end, creating a more interactive learning experience.
File Push: Teachers can directly transmit prepared files (such as PDF, Word, PPT, images, videos, etc.) to students, who can then open the files on their own devices for previewing, reviewing, or completing related tasks.
Differentiated Material Push: This is one of HiTeach's most powerful features. Teachers can push materials of different difficulty levels, content, or hints to different groups of students based on their learning progress, responses, or test results, truly implementing teaching tailored to individual needs and meeting individual learning requirements.
Through HiTeach's material push function, teachers can:
Improve Teaching Efficiency: Quickly distribute materials, saving class time.
Enhance Classroom Interaction: Share content in real time, guiding students to participate in discussions and operations.
Implement Differentiated Instruction: Provide customized learning resources based on student needs.
Enrich Teaching Activities: Combine push functions with other HiTeach features to design more diverse learning tasks.
Promote Autonomous Learning: Students can view teacher-pushed materials for learning at any time.
。SYNCHRONIZED ALLOCATION (1) PUSH “This Page” 。SYNCHRONIZED ALLOCATION (2) PUSH “Objectified Page (movable object-based pages)”: Click here to learn more.
。SYNCHRONIZED ALLOCATION (3) PUSH “File”
。SYNCHRONIZED ALLOCATION (4) PUSH “Differentiated Push”: Click here to learn more. ✨HiTeach power tool 2: Synchronized Activity (Interaction)
Whether in physical classrooms or online teaching, the instructional design of teacher-student interaction is very important. Especially during the recent COVID-19 pandemic, the shift from physical classrooms to online classes highlighted the importance of teacher-student interaction, but it also became much more difficult. Although video conferencing systems have chat windows for messaging, it's not easy for teachers to manage both the teaching materials and the messages. Furthermore, it's challenging to grasp the learning status of each individual. By utilizing synchronous interaction functions, the interaction difficulties of online classes can be overcome, and of course, physical classrooms can also gain more diverse implementation methods. Based on on-site teaching or remote video conferencing systems, combined with the synchronous interaction functions of our many years of research and development teaching system HiTeach 5, high-performance synchronous interaction activities such as
pushing questions, synchronous feedback, real-time statistics, and data application can be executed anytime, anywhere, fully grasping the learning status of every student online or on-site.
HiTeach 5 synchronous interaction functions include five interaction types:
single answer question, multiple answer question, true/false, fill-in-the-blank(cloze question), and Buzz-in. These are teaching questioning strategies familiar to teachers in the classroom. Simply press the function button, and the system will activate the corresponding operation function, guiding students to choose answers or answer questions. At the same time, it will automatically receive feedback data from all students on the teacher's end. When the teacher presses the statistical chart or flip card button, the teacher can easily choose to display the overall response data chart and individual student’s answer. Teachers will be able to further conduct focused-discussion, knowledge scaffolding, or deep-questioning based on these essential data.
Understanding students’ learning progress through interactive activities is essential to ensure effective learning outcomes. This is applicable to in-class lessons or online distance teaching and learning. However whole-class interaction in a traditional classroom or online conference learning is a challenge that teachers face. It is even more challenging if understanding of individual learning progress is necessary.
。SYNCHRONIZED ACTIVITY (1) Single Answer Question
。SYNCHRONIZED ACTIVITY (2) Multiple Answers Question
。SYNCHRONIZED ACTIVITY (3) True-False Question
。SYNCHRONIZED ACTIVITY (4) Cloze Question
。SYNCHRONIZED ACTIVITY (5) Buzz-in Question
✨HiTeach power tool 3: Synchronized Assignment (Task)
A highly interactive lesson design revolves around a student-centric assignment design approach. In the previous chapter we discussed about synchronized activity which is initiated and managed by the teacher. Synchronized assignment, on the other hand, are student-focus whole class assignment tasks.
Synchronized assignment plays a crucial role in collaborative learning where teachers make use of inputs and data from students’ participation to facilitate knowledge creation. This is especially important during online distance teaching and learning where effective learning outcomes will rely on the interaction between the teacher and students located at individual learning spaces.
HiTeach 5 is newly designed to enhance the teaching and learning effectiveness through various synchronized assignment strategies shown below:
Teacher–Students Interaction: Assignment Approach
A. What is Synchronized Assignment?
Synchronized Assignment is a new feature connecting HiTeach 5 teacher’s software and Web IRS 5 – web-based student response platform. The teacher can easily begin a lesson with the required teaching material loaded, by clicking a single “Start Lesson” button. Once started the teacher can launch an ASSIGNMENT simply by clicking the “work collection” button at the particular assignment description slide, and the same assignment page will appear on the students’ Web IRS 5 interface. Teacher could monitor the progress of every student’s assignment according to the completion time, seat, and group setting. From the collection view the teacher can select and compare the assignments, annotate, analyses, and organize discussion activities involving the whole class.
B. Aligned Assignment
Whenever the teacher navigates to any other assignment page, every student’s view will be automatically aligned and display the corresponding page when the teacher activates the new assignment. This greatly improves the efficiency of the lesson proceeding.
C. Assignment History
While conducting the assignments, the teacher can navigate back and forward to any previous assignment to provide additional support before re-activating it if the previous attempt by the students is not satisfactory. Students could also view the assignment history to make references or necessary amendments according to the teaching instructions.
D. Multi-approach Assignment
While conducting an assignment, the teacher can decide on different forms of submission according to the lesson objectives. For example: page/picture, audio recording, video recording, and also document files (PowerPoint, MS Word, PDF …etc) that generate the best learning outcomes.
。SYNCHRONIZED ASSIGNMENT (1) Picture / Written
。SYNCHRONIZED ASSIGNMENT (2) Voice Recording
。SYNCHRONIZED ASSIGNMENT (3) File Submission
✨HiTeach power tool 4: Synchronized Assessment (Test)
To enhance teaching quality and effectiveness, modern classrooms increasingly emphasize real-time learning assessment. Whether in response to special circumstances like synchronous online teaching or in regular physical classrooms, effective technical support can make teaching more effortless, engaging, and efficient. Especially during the recent pandemic, many online learning models emerged, such as synchronous online classes, blended online/on-site classes. Among these, synchronous online classes are the most difficult and challenging, but they are also the closest to offline classroom teaching formats, and a model that is more likely to ensure teaching quality and effectiveness.
However, what are the necessary technology support that will be necessary to ensure effectiveness and efficiency? What are the necessary data-driven technology that improves the quality and outcomes of learning? HiTeach 5 offers a variety of quiz functions that can significantly enhance learning engagement and effectiveness in different teaching scenarios, as well as help teachers implement diverse assessments.
A. Synchronized Assessment
Synchronized Assessment makes use of HiTeach 5 assessment and Web IRS 5 response features. Once the lesson is started, the teacher can activate the assessment mode by importing a digital test paper from our question bank stored in our cloud-based IES and clicking on the "Self-pace test" icon. Once loaded, the students Web IRS 5 interface will change to a digital question and answer sheet, where the whole class can attempt the test concurrently.
Along the way. the teacher can monitor the progress of every student and click on "End Test" when everyone has completed the assessment. Once completed, HiTeach 5 will automatically mark every script based on the pre-set answers, calculate and consolidate the scores of all the Single Answer, Multi-Answers, True-False, Cloze Question, and Writing Question. Every student will also receive their results sheet.
From this point onwards the teacher will immediately be able to understand the performance rate of this assessment as well as the overall performance analysis diagram, to conduct interactive analysis based on the student response data analysis of every question.
B. Multi-Question Format
Synchronized assessment is conducted based on the question bank that has been pre-uploaded onto IES via MS Word or MS Excel template. This is how easily our traditional assessment test papers could be converted to a digital question bank, where teachers could conduct assessments as part of in-class learning, post-lesson online assessment, and combination of Script-OCR assessment.
There is also a variety of different types of questions that teachers can choose to combine and form a completely new assessment. For example: Single Answer, Multi-Answers, True-False, Cloze Question, and Composite Question; these questions can be presented with text, pictures, audio, and video materials.
C. Interactive Review
Once the Synchronized Assessment is completed, every individual question will be presented as an additional page showing the question, performance statistics, data pie chart, and bar chart. The teacher will be able to conduct a data-driven post-assessment analysis. During the interactive analysis, teacher can make use of HiTeach 5 interactive features like smart pick-out, response data chart (bar chart and pie chart), flip cards (show answer), differentiated push of analysis materials.
D. Performance Data Analysis
At the end of the Synchronized Assessment, HiTeach 5 will automatically send all performance data to Sokrates Cloud Platform and PLAYTOL Learning Assessment Analysis System. These data will be available for teachers to perform Question Analysis, Results Analysis, Diagnosis Analysis, and Remediation Planning, which will be able to study the performance of the students across different subjects, all subjects, and academic semester.
Synchronized Assessment is a strategic new feature that meets the demand of this period, providing a comprehensive and holistic assessment approach that enriches the synchronized classroom; ensuring seamless connection between teacher and students via online distance learning; making HiTeach 5 a strategic tool for student performance analysis.
