The TeachSmart® Daily Activities Plan feature enables you to preselect and preload the activities you want to share with your class on any given day.
- To begin, we’re going to review how to select and preload activities, which you do by selecting Daily Activities Plan in the top Home Page banner.
- You will be prompted to enter a group name for the Daily Activities Plan.
- If you’ve already created a group, you will be prompted to select the group you want to add activities to.
- Next, select the date on which you want to add activities. You can choose any date that falls after the current date, which, in this example, is February 21. We’re going to create our Daily Activities Plan for Friday, February 23. To do so, simply click the day/date.
- Upon selecting the appropriate date, you will return to the TeachSmart® Activity Page. From here, you can select from any of the activity categories to search for activities. We’re going to start by loading a Daily Routine activity by clicking the Daily Routines tile.
- All of the Daily Routine activities will populate the page. Scroll until you find the activity, or activities, you want to add. For this example, we're going to add one Attendance Chart activity by selecting the green Add to Daily Activities Plan button.
- Upon that selection, the newly added activity will appear at the top of the activities list.
- To add more activities for the date you chose, click the blue text box that reads, Return to the Previous Category, in the bottom-left corner of the page. This will return you to the Activity Page.
- From here, we are going to add a Literacy/Phonological Awareness activity by clicking the Literacy tile.
- Upon this selection, all the Literacy/Phonological Awareness activities will appear. We are going to add the activity Breaking Words Apart. Click the green Add to Daily Activities Plan button, and the activity will appear in the panel above the activities list.
- You can continue adding as many activities as you want for the date you choose. After you add the last activity, select the green Done button, and you will return to the Home Page.
- From the Home Page, you will see that the calendar date is shaded to signify that it has a Daily Activities Plan in place. The list of activities for that date is shown in the space to the right of the calendar.
- When you are ready to launch all of the activities preselected for that date, click the green LAUNCH ACTIVITY PLAN button. The activity software RMEasiteach will launch "behind" the TeachSmart® software.
- Along the bottom of the screen, you will find tabs for all of the TeachSmart® activities you selected and launched. Shown here is the first Daily Routine/Attendance activity we selected for February 23. All of the activities open to the teacher’s details page. To open the activity the children will play, select Next.
- As children interact with the activities, they can click Listen for instructions.
- Leave the activities open throughout the day. You can easily copy them to another date. To do so, return to the TeachSmart® Home Page, and select Daily Activities Plan from the top banner.
- From here, you will return to the calendar preview page. Select the day from which you want to copy the Daily Activity Plan (for our example, it is February 23).
- Next, you will return to a page that looks similar to the following example. Select Copy Plan to Another Day. Select a date from the menu that appears.
- Selecting activities for the Daily Activities Plan enables you to preload and launch activities to your TeachSmart® interactive display so that they are ready and waiting for you and the children in your classroom!