A Step-by-Step Guide to Edubot
We prepared a 7-step simplified set of workflows designed to help you master the Edubot methodology. Each workflow yields practical results and sequentially builds upon the previous one.
1. Get introduced to the Edubot solution!
Let’s start with a general introduction to the complete Edubot solution: the e-learning system, the content pools, and the methodology.
Watch our Welcome to Edubot video.
2. Get familiar with the Student App!
Get to know the workings of the Edubot Student App! If you are a teacher, you might want your students to watch this video before they start working with Edubot.
Watch our video: Introducing Edubot Student app
3. First steps on the Teachers’ Platform
Every journey has to start somewhere. Start here before diving deep into Teachers’ Platform!
Introducing Edubot Teachers Platform
Watch our video: Introducing Edubot Teachers Platform
Here is a step-by-step guide for you on how to create a new group (available only in English).
For further instructions and information, please refer to the relevant section of the teachers’ user guide: Creating and managing groups
Now you have a group, but you will also need students in it.
You can invite students to join Edubot and your group.
Here is how you can do that: Inviting users to your group
Obviously, your students will need email addresses to complete their registration and join your group.
If you don’t feel comfortable with registering your students with their e-mails, contact the project team so that we can create a group for you with technical users
Write to our email address below if:
- you don’t want your students to register with their e-mail addresses, and you prefer us to add them to your group with technical usernames
- you want us to share some routes with your group(s)
interregioforum@gmail.com
4. Next step on Teachers’ Platform: Copy learning routes for your group!
Once you have your learning group created, you might want to get immediate access to the content pools. You can do that by copying the learning routes to your group.
This is the best solution to get access to Edubot contents, as:
- You can do this on your own, without the support of our team, so you don’t have to wait for us.
- The copied routes will be your own, which allows you to modify them without affecting the original contents.
Copying the routes you want might take some time, as it gives a serious task to the server. Each learning route contains over 100 learning units, which will be copied as well. Please pay attention to the warning messages: you are not allowed to copy more than 500 units at once, as that would overload the server.
Here is a step-by-step guide for you (only in English): Copying a learning route for your own group
Once you copied a route, you can use it in your learning group.
If you want to know more about learning routes, have a look at this section of the User Guide.
5. Next step: Create your own learning routes by using copied content modules!
Learning routes are built of one or several content modules. You might want to combine those modules on your own. This will give you flexibility to create and set up new learning routes using existing content.
All content modules are public and free to be accessed. You might want to look for specific subjects you are interested in; maybe someone has already prepared content you can use.
Here is a step-by-step guide on how to proceed (only in English): Browse public modules and make a copy of a public module for your own use
Once you copied the content modules you need, this is how you should create your learning route in your group.
You have to apply some settings to your learning route in order to make it playable for your students.
Here is how you can do it: Set up a learning route
If you want to dig deeper into route settings, here is all you need to know about them.
You may want to add gamification to your route. It is not mandatory; the route will work well without it as well, but you may want to use it as a motivation tool for your students. If you do, please read the following section. If you don't, just go on to the next step.
Gamification and motivation in Edubot
Gamification in Edubot is designed to motivate both excelling students and those working hard to make some progress. We use digital elements to award students, but you can add your on motivational tools, and you can link them to real life. For example, in the Edubot pilot, students could gather Edubot stars in the learning process. Five stars were worth a 5 (Hungarian equivalent to an A in the US).
The tool we use is called Enchanted Castle game.
It is an animated framework story that you can choose to add to any route, but it works best in adaptive routes. According to the story, a Hero has to climb all levels of an enchanted castle to free the Target person kidnapped by the Ennemy. Each level of the Castle corresponds to a levelof the learning route. On the way,the Hero will cross diverse chambers of the castle. In some castles there are treasures hidden in chests, which the Hero can open if the user has gathered enough points in the learning session. As a bonus, the Hero gets gold coins every time (s)he gets one level higher in the castle (learning route).
In this case, the (s)he expression refers to the fact that the Hero is chosen by the user at the beginning of the route: it can be a Prince, but it can be a Princess, a Robot, a Homeless or a Cat. The other two characters also have to be chosen. New characters can be earned on the way, if they are disposed in the treasure chests.
This concept assures that not only the excelling but also the hard-working students are constantly rewarded.
As a teacher, you are in control: you can place the treasure chests wherever you want, and you can also decide what the reward is in the chest.
Here is a simple guide on how to add a motivational frame game to your route.
In this document, you will find a detailed description of the framework game (only in English):
Detailed description of the Enchanted Castle motivational game
6. Next step: Create new contents for your learning routes!
The best way to unfold the complete functionality of Edubot is to create your own content.
You can work on your own, or you can cooperate with other teachers to create common contents.
There are two ways to approach the learning process: maybe you want to give some information first, then ask questions. This is ideal for teaching something new to the students. This is an approach that would require a linear route.
The other way is to ask questions first, analyze the answers, and give information based on the answers.
This is the way adaptive routes work.
When you create your content, your pedagogical goal should be cleared before you start.
Here is a guide comparing linear- and adaptive routes to help you decide.
If your goal is clear, let’s start creating your content.
Here is a short step-by-step tutorial for those who want to jump right into the content development process (only in English).
(If you feel like you need some more information, keep reading. 🙂)
You should start by creating some new units.
In Edubot, learning units can be used to pass over information in the form of text or video or to ask questions from the students in various formats.
Here is a detailed description of each unit type: Learning unit types explained
Here you can see how each unit type will look like in the Student App in all 3 different skins: Learning unit types displayed
Here is how you can create units: How to create learning units?
Once you have your units, you should organize them into a module. The module is the higher content structure used in learning routes. You will need a module to deliver your units to your students.
Learn here how to structure your learning units into modules.
If you want to know more about modules, blocks and levels, learn about the content structure here.
Now that you have your module created, you have to add it to one, or several learning routes, as described in the previous step.
Bonus: Ask the Assistant to support content creation
There is a special way to create content with the support of the AI Assistant.
Basically, you give a text to the Assistant, you tell it which engines to use and how many questions you want, and it will create them for you.
To do that, go to Teachers/Learning units and push “Create new”.
Scroll down and select the “AI” icon.
Type/paste your text.
Select the number of Millionaire and True or False units you want to create (0 or 1).
Select the number of task screens you want to have in each unit. (1 to 5).
Task screens mean that in your unit there will be several questions. After the student answers the question on the first screen, the second screen will show up, and so on.
Click on Save!
It might take some time for the AI to generate your units.
You can check the units on your desktop.
We advise you to review the units before publishing.
Here is an interactive demo of the whole process (in English): Creating interactive questions from text with AI
7. Next step: Combine adaptive digital learning and small-group tutoring!
If you have come so far, you are certainly ready to apply a combination of digital learning routes and differentiated personal tutoring in your student group.
First, you should check out your students’ results.
Analysing Results and Downloading Reports
An important strength of Edubot is the robust reporting system.
The system is built on two ideas:
1. The group performance and the personal performance are both important sources for a report, and
2. The learning process should be tracked down to every detail so that the challenges each student faces can be identified.
The reports can be accessed under the “Results” menu.
Here is a short guide on how to handle the reporting system: Reporting system presented in English
Pairing adaptive digital learning and personal tutoring
Edubot methodology is built on adaptive learning routes that adapt to the learning patterns of the students.
However, EDUBOT is not to create a digital system that takes over the complete learning process.
We believe that adaptive digital routes can be the most efficient if the learning process is supervised by teachers and the students regularly get personal support in the form of small group tutoring. The results of our pilot sessions also show that this is the way the best result can be achieved in preparation for exams.
See here how to combine the digital learning process with personal tutoring of groups of students facing the same challenges:
Another tutorial about creating clusters (only in English).
Further information
Should you have any further questions, please refer to the Assistant in the lower right corner of the platform’s screen:
However, the Assistant is not there to become a firewall between humans. Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, issues, or inquiries you have:
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