For most of us, starting on or around March 16th, our lives got thrown into a whirlwind, both personally and professionally. As the technology leader in your district, like so many others, you undoubtedly found yourself with a lot of new challenges that needed to be addressed right away.  From working with your instructional leaders to put together a remote teaching and learning program, to addressing the lack of connectivity for some students, to figuring out how to still meet the requirements for public participation of school board meetings, and the list goes on and on. [...]

How to Safely Link Videos in Your Classroom Assignments Do you want to include videos in your classroom assignments without having to sort through suggested videos or deal with advertisement pop-ups? You can keep your students focused and avoid these distractions using MyVRSpot’s uploading and sharing tools! The sharing tools are available to all MyVRSpot user accounts and your videos can be shared publicly or privately. To add a video to an assignment, simply upload a video into your MyVRSpot account from your computer or mobile device, a URL (even from YouTube or Vimeo), or record [...]

How Students Can Use Video Responses to Demonstrate Learning Students can easily record and submit video response to their teachers using the MyVRSpot platform Do you teach Spanish, Mathematics, History, English, Drama, Orchestra or, really, any class? Do  you want a new and engaging method to check your students’ understanding of a subject other than a multiple-choice quiz? Then consider using MyVRSpot’s built-in Video Recorder tool and sharing features. The Video Recorder tool is available to all MyVRSpot user accounts. Your students will be able to quickly and easily respond to a prompt or assignment [...]

Quizzes Within Videos - SmartSpot Teachers are using increasingly more videos in their lessons to support self-paced learning, for flipping the classroom, or even for homework. Rather than assign your students another video that will turn into a passive task, make it a graded assignment or quiz using MyVRSpot’s SmartSpot tool! This feature is included with all teacher and student User accounts. With SmartSpot, users can create quizzes in four different question formats, and insert those questions throughout or at the end of your videos. While students view the video, the questions will appear at each [...]