Creating Lessons as a Contributor

BeED’s Learning Experiences (LEs) consist of engaging digital content that can be done for self-guided or independent learning. Through its interactive mapping feature, authors can create and organize media-rich lessons based on their preferred teaching methods such as Bloom’s Taxonomy, Flipped Classroom, Differentiated learning and more. These interactive content can then be linked to Places of Interest, used in the classroom or applied anywhere else, restricted only by cr...

Lesson Info Before starting an LE, you can access information about the LE by clicking on the Lesson Info tab. In this tab you will find information about the Place of Interest, the LE itself and the various concepts that will be taught in the LE. Main Map The Main Map is where you can get an overall view of the structure and content of a Learning Experience. You may choose to arrange your lesson based on a preferred teaching method, or simply in any sequence or arrangement that you wis...

To create Learning Experiences, you must first be in an Educator or Admin role. Please ensure that you switch roles first before doing so. Once your role is changed, click on the Contributor tab in the menu bar of your main dashboard in your browser. Clicking on the Learning Experiences button will result in a drop down menu on the left side of the screen containing the following options: Bundle This is a list of content purchasable/downloadable as a bundle. LEs for sale here are meant t...

Setting your Learning Experiences as Private allows you to: - Share your Learning Experiences with members of your institution only. In other words, educators and learners that you have added to a hub will be able to see your LEs if you attach them to said hub. Note: These Learning Experiences can only be used for educational or personal purposes, and not for commercial usage. - Skip the BeED vetting process. - Use any sort of media as long as it complies with the pri...

Setting your Learning Experiences as Public allows you to publish them on the BeED marketplace, otherwise known as the Nexus. By publishing on the Nexus, your Learning Experiences: - Can be purchased by other BeED users from anywhere in the world - Will need to go through the BeED vetting process for quality approval before they can be published - Can only use Creative Commons or Public domain media in order to refrain from copyright infringement. For more details on how to u...

The keywords you insert under SEO Title and Description help search engines such as Google and Yahoo! find your LEs. So make sure to include keywords such as the POI name, subject and topic in the SEO fields.

To better organise your work, you can create folders in your Library. - Click on “Explore” in your toolbar menu, and then select “Library”. - Click on the + icon located at the bottom right of your screen, and then select the “Create New Folder” icon. - Name your folder and click on “Create”. - Once you have created your folder, you can click on the three dotted icon located at the right of each folder tab to rename or delete your folder. - To organize and manage yo...

- In your library page, click on the + icon located at the bottom right of your screen, and then select “Create New Folder”. - Name your folder and click on “Create”. - Once your folder has been created, tap on the select icon located at the top right of your screen, and then tap on the LEs that you would like to move, and then tap on the folder icon. 4. Select the folder you want to move the LE into, and then tap on the folder icon. 5. You can tap the pencil icon to rename...