MyELT INSTRUCTOR GUIDE
HOW TO CREATE ASSIGNMENTS?
I. CREATE A COURSE
1.
Go to MyELT.heinle.com. Enter your username and password, and then click Sign In.
2.
Click Course.
3.
Click New Course.
4.
Enter your course information.
4.1. Course name: [Class code] – Ms. /Mr. [Teachers’ Full Name]
Example: B0103 – Ms. Bui Thi Phuong Lien, E0254 – Mr. Nguyen Van Dat Hien…
4.2. Course Number: [Phase] – [Semester].
Example: Phase 2 – Sem 1, Phase 3 – Sem 1, Phase 1 – Sem 2
4.3. Course Starts On: The day the first class starts. If you enter a future date, the course will not appear to
students until then even if they are already enrolled in it.
4.4. Course Ends On: 5 days after the last day of the class. The course will no longer appear to students after this
date.
5. Click Create Course.
6.
Write down the code or “key” assigned to your course so you can give it to your students to enter when they
enroll in your course, and then click Save Course & Exit.
Note: The Course Key also appears on the Courses tab in MyELT.
II. CREATE ASSIGNMENT
1.
Click Assignments.
2.
Make sure the title of the course/class that you want to add the assignment to appears at the top of the page.
If not, click the arrow to the right of the current title and select the correct course. Note: You must create a
course before you can add an assignment to it.
3.
Click Create Asignment
4.
Click the plus sign
to the left of the book with the content you want to assign to see its Table of Contents.
5.
Click the box to the left of one or more units and/or activities you want to assign. If necessary, click the plus
sign
to the left of an item as many times as necessary until you see the material you want to assign.
Create assignments which match the content of your lesson (please see example). If you seriously follow this
rule, there will be no duplicated assignments from different teachers sharing the same class.
6.
Click Continue.
7.
If you have selected the multiple-assignments, click OK when the confirmation message appear.
8.
Group name: [Date of the lesson] – [Unit] – [Periods]
Example: November 2 – Unit 1 (Periods 1,2,3), Nov 4 – Unit 1 (Periods 7,8,9), Nov 6 – Unit 2
9.
Click the Takes allowed arrow and select the number of times you want to let students try the assignment(s).
10. Set the date when you want to make the assignment(s) available to students and when it is due.
10.1. Assignment available date: The date of the lesson. Teachers must create the assignment before going to
class or take time using class computer to do it during the break time and show students.
10.2. Assignment due date: Students usually have 2-3 days to do homework because they must complete the
assignment of the last lesson before they go to the next lesson.
11. When you are done, click Save.
12. Review the summary of the assignment(s) you created. When you are done, click Return to go back to your
main Assignments page.
ENROLL STUDENTS
2 ways to enroll students into your classroom:
1. By students: All students have to create an account to access to the instructor-led course which requires
teachers’ course key and students’ content on the book they bought. They can follow the instruction in the book to
enroll themselves.
2. By teachers: In case that your students cannot enroll to your course, please help enroll them on your teachers’
account following these steps:
- Student - > Enroll
- Search for your students by typing the information as requested:
You can only find the students who have already signed up to MyELT so please check students enrollment after
you give them the COURSE KEY and please check their progress every day and ask them in class whether they
have any problem access to their account or enrolling in your course.
STUDENT PROGRESS REPORT
Teachers must keep track of students’ task completion and fill in weekly report sheet every Wednesday.
Grade -> Report Creator -> Student Assignment Progress Report
Weekly Report:
- Check your student progress every week and write down in the Report sheet attached in the class file the
information of 2 columns Total Assignment Given and Total Assignment Taken.
- Remember the percentage shown in the report is the cumulative percentage score, not the percentage of task
completed.
- Submit your Report every Wednesday.
COMMON PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS
PROBLEMS
1. My students cannot
enroll into my course
using the course key.
POSSIBLE REASONS
expired assignment/course,
wrong technique of adding
resources, incorrectly
typing…
SOLUTIONS
immediately enroll those students using your
account, show them how to add resource again.
2. My students cannot
see the assignment.
expired assignment/course,
poor Internet connection
3. The students’
percentage isn’t shown
correctly on their
account.
browser cache
teachers can expand the due date for these
students if they report the problems to you when
the assignments are still available. If not, they are
regarded to miss their homework.
check the students’ progress on your account
tell students to clear the browser cache on their
computer as the link below
http://support.chinagoforit.com/wiki/article/view?id=12
4. My students cannot
create their accounts
- wrong username
(students usually put space
or use Vietnamese when
they type their log-in ID for
signing up)
- wrong course key/content
code
5. I want to expand
the due date.
6. My students have
problems with
speaking parts
(microphone,
headphone…)
Technical issues
tell students to carefully the information when they
sign up for an account.
Teachers can decide to expand the due date for
students. Please consider this and do it as your
decision. Don’t need to ask OMI for permission but
be careful because it may create a bad habit to
students.
Encourage students to go to the school library to do
their homework.