Student Access - How to Provide it for Free
This week, we’ve updated all the how-to portions of the site: how to navigate it, how to set up student access, how to ask questions and more. The larger InThinking team also created a set of video tutorials to help you out too. We've included one of those videos below.
But, I find a personal example or anecdote more powerful than just telling you to click a link or watch a video.
How I’m Using Student Access
For my new grade 11 Language and Literature classes (DP Year 1 students), I have given them access to very select portions of InThinking. We started this year with a unit titled “The Representation of Gender” and we are working through two non-literary bodies of work: Liza Donnelly cartoons and Men’s Health magazine covers. So, those portions of the site are available to my students.
At the same time, we are also working on Paper 1 skills. And they have a Paper 1 in-class exam next week! But there’s A LOT on the site for students for Paper 1. I’ve limited them to the “Revision” portion of Paper 1 and only 5 exemplars (from the May 2024 exam).
Why? Well, I want students to study for their exam next week. I also want to provide them resources I trust in that revision. And I have told them to study for the exam by doing 3 things:
1. Know your terms!
2. Read model example(s) and compare yourself to the model to learn what to improve and how.
3. Practice reading, annotating, and outlining for a Paper 1 under timed conditions (see steps 1-11 in the link)
The video below walks you through setting up student access for your students.
YouTube Tutorial - Setting Up Student Access
Final Thoughts
I find student access helps me a lot when I am not in the classroom! The internet is a Wild West of sorts, and I have no idea what advice my students are getting and from whom. By providing student access, my students feel supported at home, when they are alone, studying by themselves. That’s a big win for me and makes student access – a free part of your subscription – worth it in my eyes.
Best,
Tim