realsmart allows users to appoint additional editors on any item they wish. This allows for small groups of students, or even entire classes to edit and work on an item together.

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Your realsmart items can be shared in more ways than just the one.

You can actually embed them as you would with any other web content. Items be put inside WordPress posts, emails, or even inside of other realsmart items. This is particularly useful if you want to use an item as evidence within another realsmart item.

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The feedback system is a simple, efficient and effective method of communication between learners and mentors. It allows evidence to be assessed from any computer, and allows learners to access this feedback from school or even at home.

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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.

A few years ago as part of a Learning to Learn course I was teaching, we asked students to create a website ‘all about them’. This was supposed to be a really engaging way for students to reflect and share their understanding of the first module of work, and a bit different from creating a PowerPoint or a poster.

The problem was, creating a website isn’t that easy, is it? You need students to understand some pretty complex software. I used Microsoft Front Page – just teaching them basic web design took weeks. Then we had the problem of hosting these websites (getting them online), which was near impossible. So at best this became a lesson in using front page, and students shared their work by rotating round the classroom and looking at each other’s computer screens.

rweb has completely revolutionised this approach. In less than a minute (before you can even say ‘hyperlink’!) you can create a website structure, without even having to worry about the esoteric skills associated with web design. Students using this structure can add content to each page using the web cell editor within realsmart.

But this is where rweb really gets going. Students and teachers can ‘share’ their websites with each other, really online. And the best bit is that using an agreed success criteria and asking students to create a page with this on, allows everyone you have shared your rweb with to add comments and feedback.

That’s real assessment for learning, baby!

*watch this video to see how easily you can create your own rweb.