How to navigate the site

Navigating the site

There are essentially three main ways to navigate your way around the site which contains hundreds of pages. Once you have the basics of these three ways you can then simply explore the site yourself to see the quality of exactly what it does contain.

1. Using the main headings

You can go straight to a main headings from the drop down headings on the home page marked ‘Teacher only pages’.

Similarly you can also go to the six main drop down headings under ‘Student access pages”’. As a subscribing teacher you have access to all the pages on the site.

All the secondary headings contained in each of the eight main ‘Teacher only’ topics are listed underneath the main heading, e.g. Delivering the programme contains seven secondary headings.  Clicking on the + sign on the right of these will open up further sub-headings, e.g. Teaching each topic & sub-topic has six sub-headings (note that the + sign changes to − when it has been opened).

Each of these six sub-headings can also be opened further. For example clicking on the + sign to the right of R1 brings up all the sub-topic covered under R1.

Once you click on one of the headings the page will open up and the associated pages are shown in the column on the left. 

Whenever you click on any page on the site it will bring up the page itself and any children of that page will be listed in the column beneath it on the left. If these associated pages also have children there will be a + sign showing on the right. e.g. R3 What are the mechanisms of chemical change?, 

This particular page contains an introduction to the R3 strand which includes proton transfer reactions, electron transfer reactions and electron and electron-pair sharing reactions. On the left you can see a breakdown of all the sub-headings under ‘Delivering the programme’ and the headings under the chosen sub-heading ‘Teaching each topic and sub-topic’. You can see in bold the page that is open and the children pages attached to it. These fourteen children pages are the separate sub-topics under ‘R3 What are the mechanisms of chemical change?’ 
Clicking on any one of them will open the page, e.g. R3.3 Electron sharing reactions .

Each sub-topic page under this main heading contains the same layout with the time for teaching the sub-topic, Guiding question, Pause for thought, Nature of Science, Learning outcomes, Teaching tips, Questions, Vocabulary, Practical work, Teaching slides and Other resources etc. etc.

Remember this page is only for teachers. You can see on the left that there are no children associated with this page. This is because students will need access to the tests and quizzes etc. Links to these pages are given in the teacher page itself but you can see that the children are attached to the corresponding page in the student access part of the site. 

• a practice quiz
• ten-question multiple choice test
• a collection of short-answer questions

The practice quiz is immediately available to students. You have control over the access to the multiple choice test and the short-answer questions depending upon whether you wish to set them as assignments or not (see Short cut to set an ‘in page’ task)

Features menu

Note that each page also contains a features menu. This is located immediately below the main heading and above the page summary, e.g. on this page

When activated these six icons show 1. Table of contents, 2. Add to favourites, 3. Add  notes (you can also use ‘sticky notes’), 4. Show the page in full screen, 5. Print the page and 6. Share the page on social media.

Note that on the ‘Student access pages’ there are two more icons. One in the form of a padlock that enables you to set the default to ‘ON’ or ‘OFF’, and the other in the form of an eye that enables you to view the page as a student.

2. Using the sitemap

The sitemap can be accessed from the drop down headings from the ‘waffle’ (nine dots) icon to the left of the "Teacher only pages' top heading on any page. This list contains eight items, the first of which is ‘Sitemap’. (Note that on a mobile phone the icon required is the same design but in a different position and there is also a link to ‘help’.) 

Then clicking on ‘Sitemap’ will show every page on the teacher only part of the site. There are many pages so you may need to scroll down a lot, and also scroll across if you want access to all the main headings, then just click on the page you want. 

The site map for the student access pages can be found by clicking on the ‘Student access pages’ box.

Note that the pages are colour-coded to show which pages are teacher only, which pages can be shared with students (mainly the quizzes, short-answer questions and multiple choice tests) and which pages students always have direct access to. 

For example in the student access pages you will see that students have immediate access to all the practice questions in the sub-topics for Structure (S) and Reactivity (R) in the eBook but the multiple choice tests and short answer tests are under your control so students can only access these pages when you allow it.

3. Using search

This is particularly useful if you want to find a certain word or phrase. For example “polyatomic”. The search button (a magnifying glass) is located to the right of the top headings.

Clicking on the search icon will bring up a box in which you can write a word or phrase. e.g.

Press enter and it will bring up all the pages containing that word or phrase. For example, the word “polyatomic” currently appears on 7 main website pages and once in a blog post.  Each of the pages, blogs or comments where the search word appears are then listed below together with a direct link to each page. It also uses ‘breadcrumbs’ underneath the title of the page to give its precise location. You can even search your own name to find any recent comments you may have made. 

Note that there is also a separate Filter facility on the left of every page.

This can be useful when there are many children pages as it filters out only those pages that contain the filter word in the title, e.g. “Assessment”.