Sharing is not the only way to distribute your realsmart items. By setting your items’ access you can share the content with fellow mentors so they can edit the file like it’s their own.

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Adding your google presentations into your realsmart items is a very quick and easy process. We will be using the embedding technique that has already been discussed in THIS GUIDE.

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The ‘Webcell’ editor doesn’t just allow us to post plain text and images. Through HTML code we can create almost anything. This guide will take you through the HTML process step-by-step and give you a few practical examples of what you can achieve.

Using the ‘Webcell’ editor

Just in case any of you were wondering, this is what we call the ‘Webcell’ editor.

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Embedding content is a powerful tool that can make your realsmart items stand out from the rest using vibrant multimedia content. It’s a very quick and simple process that anyone can do using basic HTML.

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We’ve posted our ’0-6 Month Guide’ again because we think it’s the most useful bit of kit we’ve got – and it will help you to start using realsmart immediately!

What’s more, we’ve uploaded this using ‘Issuu’ so that you can browse the guide in this page, rather than having to download the PDF. Click on the image below to read the guide at your leisure……

To download a copy of this PDF click here.

Q: How much learning time is wasted finding passwords?

A: None!

ANY teacher can find out the usernames of their students and reset their passwords quickly and easily in realsmart.

• When you’re in realsmart, open up the desired unit that you are working on and select the correct group / class that you’re working with (use the ‘shares‘ tab at the top of the page for this).

• Then select the ‘passwords‘ tab – again this is at the top of the page. This will then display all of the usernames for that particular group, and give you the option of resetting passwords should this be necessary.

*This negates the need for loads of staff having admin rights. We normally advise against there being more than 2 administrators for realsmart. This is because any changes in the admin area can seriously impact on mentor / learner data and work, and we need to be able to trace accountability – something we can’t do if there are 20 different admin users.

Winton School have taken realsmart fully on board and are starting to roll it’s use out across the whole school.

Whether it’s using rafl and rpassport on whole area Project Days which incorporate Modern Foreign Languages, ICT, and English, to using rcast to blog minutes of Leadership Meetings, the staff have become enthused and the kids are loving it! The Head has even started presenting at conferences using rmap instead of Powerpoint! On one of our support visits we talked to some of the staff about why they liked realsmart, what they were currently using it for, and their hopes for the future.

Click on the videos below to find out more.

Click  here to see Winton on youtube, where amongst other things they discus the merits of using realsmart.

We’ve posted our ’0-6 Month Guide’ again because we think it’s the most useful bit of kit we’ve got – and it will help you to start using realsmart immediately!

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I thought I’d share this with you….. the other day I was building a unit for one of our clients and trying to insert some video clips as guidance.

Everything I was uploading was effectively getting cropped and not displaying properly because the clips were too big to display in the page. This was driving me crazy!

However, there’s a very easy way to fix this which was staring me right in the face. When you’re uploading video content you select the ‘insert audio 0r video’ icon ().

This then displays the following screen;

Select the ‘browse‘ icon () and you can either upload a new clip, or select one that already exists in your file manager. Fairly straight forward – and all done in the ‘General’ section. What I hadn’t noticed was the ‘Advanced’ tab in this window…..

WOW! By clicking this I was presented with loads of options – autoplay, re-size to fit the page, and many more…

This was ace, and meant I didn’t have to spend loads of time trying to work out how to crop / re-size my videos before I uploaded them. I just clicked the ‘re-size to fit page’ option, saved my content and …. hey presto! When I viewed the guidance in my unit it played perfectly!!!

So it just goes to show, you can teach an old dog new tricks!

Click on the link to see how easy it is http://screencast.com/t/GJlq6fGTr

Q: How much learning time is wasted finding passwords?

A: None!

ANY teacher can find out the usernames and passwords of their students quickly and easily in realsmart.

• When you’re in realsmart, open up the desired unit that you are working on and select the correct group / class that you’re working with (use the ‘shares‘ tab at the top of the page for this).

• Then select the ‘passwords‘ tab – again this is at the top of the page. This will then display all of the usernames and passwords for that particular group, and give you the option of resetting passwords should this be necessary.

*This negates the need for loads of staff having admin rights. We normally advise against there being more than 2 administrators for realsmart. This is because any changes in the admin area can seriously impact on mentor / learner data and work, and we need to be able to trace accountability – something we can’t do if there are 20 different admin users.