Setting up your screens for teaching
At Amplify, we recommend a two-screen setup when teaching in your classroom.
Let’s talk through the setup in more detail:
Start your class
From the lesson brief, teachers can open up the Teacher Guide by clicking on the Teach button.
This opens up the Teacher Guide tab, which allows you to start class, view the lesson with teacher notes, monitor student work, and present the lesson content on a second screen.
When you are ready to teach, hit Start Class and select the class period you are teaching. This will open up your Presentation tab, and pull students who are working on a device into the lesson.
Note: Those with teachers-only digital licenses will only be shown the No class selection option.
Begin presenting
The Presentation tab is a student-facing slide deck, so your students can follow along with your lesson.
You can drag the Presentation tab to a separate presentation screen and control the Teacher Guide tab on your own laptop or device.
The Teacher Guide tab allows you to privately view the lesson. You can:
Freely navigate and view slides by clicking on the slide itself to preview what might be upcoming and review your teacher notes.
Pace your student’s progression and pause the lesson.
Control your screens and teach
To control what you’re presenting to students, you can either click the purple buttons with forward and backward arrows on your Presentation tab OR you can use the purple buttons with forward and backward arrows on the Teacher Guide tab.