SWIFT ADVANCED TRAININGSummer, 2013District Technology Facilitators:
• Chris Allen• Dustin Foster• Thomas Suttle• John Hardy
Please log in to your SWIFT site[RSD-Internet Portal Homepage SWIFT 2.0+ ]
If you need assistance with your username or password, please ask
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Participants will extend their SWIFT skills beyond the set of topics covered in the SWIFT-Basic class. Skills covered will include:
Menu Link Discussion Page Blog Page Event Calendar Quiz Collection page Using Contact Page to enable submission of digital
assignments (using rules-based Outlook folders) Using passwords to restrict access to portions of SWIFT
site
Participants will apply their newly learned skills and techniques to their existing SWIFT sites.
SWIFT-BASIC COURSE – QUICK REVIEW
Navigation (including getting to other SWIFT sites)
http://www.rentonschools.us/start/vs
http://staff.rentonschools.us/
Overview of SWIFT dashboard (Site Manager page)
Overview of Editor toolbar (Rich Text Editor)
• Side bar menu• Site menu• Diskquota indicator• Top menu
• Page menu• Management area
SWIFT-BASIC COURSE – QUICK REVIEW
Page types covered:
Static Content page (e.g., Homepage)
File Collection page
SWIFT-BASIC COURSE – QUICK REVIEW
Page types covered:
Links Collection page
Contact Form:
HOW WILL YOU USE YOUR SWIFT SITE?
Who is the target audience? Students? Parents? Community at large?
What is the site’s purpose? Display student work and/or assignments? Communicate with parents? Instructional materials repository?
Keep efficiency in mind Minimize additional workload How often will you update?
MENU LINKS
Appear in the Site Menu, along with other site pages, but are not actually pages at all.
Enable site visitors to quickly jump to another website.
The “School Website” entry on every staff member’s SWIFT site is a Menu Link.
MENU LINKS
From your SWIFT dashboard page, click on the create page button (Side Bar menu).
In the pop-up window, give your Menu Link a title and, using the dropdown Page Type menu, select Menu Link (beneath the Basic header).
MENU LINKS
Select “Unpublished” for the time being and then click on the button.
In the Edit Page Details window that appears, enter the URL for the web page you are linking to:
Make your Link Target selection (Same Window or New Window) and then click on the button.
MENU LINKS
After you’re sure the URL to your linked page is accurate, click on the button (upper left).
In the Side Bar menu, click on the name of your site to go to your SWIFT dashboard:
From the dashboard, click on the Visit Site button (Top menu) to see how your new Menu Link looks to site visitors:
Blogs are like a keynote speech one-to-many communication speaker (blogger) is in control of the discussion questions and comments from the audience are allowed like a journal authored by an individual (sometimes teams)
Forums are like social mixers many-to-many communication everyone is at equal level, milling about, discussing with
others anyone can start a topic and anyone to respond to one content is usually segmented by topic rather than by people
BLOGS & DISCUSSIONS - WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?
DISCUSSION PAGE – CREATING/EDITING
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DISCUSSION PAGE – CREATING/EDITING
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DISCUSSION PAGE – VISITOR’S VIEW
BLOG PAGE – CREATING/EDITING
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BLOG PAGE – CREATING/EDITING
BLOG PAGE – VISITOR’S VIEW
EVENT CALENDAR – CREATING/EDITING
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EVENT CALENDAR – CREATING/EDITING
EVENT CALENDAR – VISITOR’S VIEW
QUIZ COLLECTION
Great for practice (reviewing skills) Not really for HW/scoring Results can be emailed in (no login required)
Another Option Skyward Online Assignments
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QUIZ COLLECTION – CREATING/EDITING
QUIZ COLLECTION – CREATING/EDITING
QUIZ COLLECTION – CREATING/EDITING
QUIZ COLLECTION – CREATING/EDITING
QUIZ COLLECTION – CREATING/EDITING
QUIZ COLLECTION – VISITOR’S VIEW
At bottom of quiz:
DROP BOXES FOR STUDENT ASSIGNMENTS
Students turn work in via SWIFT
Teacher creates rules in Outlook to organize this work
Emails from students are automatically filed into Outlook folders:
DROP BOXES FOR STUDENT ASSIGNMENTS
Assignments from Period 2
DROP BOXES FOR STUDENT ASSIGNMENTS – VISITOR’S VIEW
THE OUTLOOK SIDE OF DROP BOXES
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THE OUTLOOK SIDE OF DROP BOXES
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Move message with specific words in the Subject to a folder2
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THE OUTLOOK SIDE OF DROP BOXES
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THE OUTLOOK SIDE OF DROP BOXES
RESTRICT ACCESS TO PORTIONS OF SITE
You can password protect . . . . . . your entire SWIFT site . . . individual site pages . . . individual items on a page.
Passwords can then be shared with individual students, groups of students, parents, colleagues, etc.
And don’t forget Publish & Unpublish Entire site - or - individual pages
Begin work on a page & “hide” it until ready. Prepare content in advance and publish it later. Unpublish older files or individual items no
longer needed (rather than deleting them).
RESTRICT ACCESS TO PORTIONS OF SITE
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RESTRICT ACCESS TO PORTIONS OF SITE
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RESTRICT ACCESS TO PORTIONS OF SITE
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