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Frog VLE Update Quick Start Guide

April 2013

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Frog VLE Update: Quick Start Guide

Contents

New Features ............................................................................................................................. 1 Feature Enhancements ............................................................................................................. 1 New Features Overview ............................................................................................................ 1

Learning Styles Application ................................................................................................... 2

Feature Enhancement Overview ............................................................................................... 7

Quick Launch Menu .............................................................................................................. 7 Text Activity Widget ................................................................................................................ 7

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Frog VLE Update: Quick Start Guide

We are pleased to announce that we have updated your Frog VLE to enhance the functionality and features. The changes to your Frog VLE are outlined in this guide. This Quick Start Guide will provide you with all the information you need to get started using the new features of your Frog VLE. For a more detailed overview of the new features and functionality please see the Frog VLE User Guide available to download from the Frog Community Site.

New Features

Learning Styles Application New Learning Styles application added to the Quick Launch menu. This allows students to find out their preferred learning style: Visual, Auditory or Kinaesthetic.

Feature Enhancements

Quick Launch Icons Cosmetic changes made to the Quick Launch menu. The application icons have been re-designed to be easier to read. Text Activity Widget Save Activity button changed to Submit Activity.

New Features Overview

The following guide is designed to get you using your new features quickly and easily. Not all features listed are available to all users. For a more detailed guide to the new features please consult the Frog VLE User Guide, available to download from the Frog Community Site.

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Learning Styles Application

What does the Learning Styles application do?

The Learning Styles application allows students to find out their preferred learning style; Visual (seeing), Auditory (listening) or Kinaesthetic (hands on) based on their response to a series of questions. Once a student has taken the test the students preferred learning style will then be visible to the teacher.

Why is knowing my students Learning Style important?

Learning Styles theory dictates that each student has a preferred way of absorbing information. Some learn better by seeing, some by listening and others by actually doing. The Learning Styles application can help teachers to identify their student’s preferred Learning Style. Once a learning style has been identified, you can then maximize it to enhance the student’s education. It is important to remember that no one learning style is better than the others; it is all about what works best for the individual student. Visual Learners:

• Learn through seeing the world around them. • Think in pictures and need to create vivid mental images to retain information. • Enjoy looking at maps, charts, pictures, videos, and movies. • Need to sit near the front of the class so they need to see the teacher’s body

language and facial expressions to fully understand what is being said. • Have visual skills which are demonstrated in puzzle building, reading, writing,

understanding charts and graphs, manipulating images, constructing, fixing, designing practical objects, and interpreting visual images.

Auditory Learners:

• Learn best through verbal lessons, classroom discussions, talking things through and listening to others.

• Have highly developed auditory skills and are generally good at speaking and presenting.

• Think in words rather than pictures. • Have auditory skills demonstrated in listening, speaking, writing, storytelling,

explaining, teaching, using humour, understanding the syntax and meaning of words, remembering information, arguing their point of view.

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Kinaesthetic Learners:

• Learn through moving, doing and touching.

• Express themselves through movement. • Have good sense of balance and eye-hand coordination. • Remember and process information through interacting with the space around

them. • Find it hard to sit still for long periods and may become distracted by their need for

activity and exploration. • Have skills demonstrated in physical coordination, athletic ability, hands on

experimentation, using body language, crafts, acting, miming, using their hands to create or build, dancing, and expressing emotions through the body.

How does a student use the Learning Styles application?

After logging in to Frog as a student, click on the Learning Styles icon in the Quick Launch menu.

The Learning Styles application will launch. Click anywhere inside the box to continue.

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You will now be presented with a series (29) of questions. Don’t worry about getting them right or wrong; there is no right or wrong answers. Click on an answer to move along to the next question.

The amount of questions left to answer appears in the heading at the top of the page.

After answering all the questions your preferred Learning Style will be revealed.

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To understand more about your preferred learning style click on the VAK – Getting the most out of it button. This will display a page of hints and tips to help you get the most out of your learning style.

To close the application click on the X in the top left hand corner.

How does a teacher use the Learning Styles application?

After logging in to Frog as a teacher, click on the Learning Styles icon in the Quick Launch menu.

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You will now see a list of all students that have taken the Learning Styles quiz. The results are indicated in the column on the right. Their preferred Learning Style is highlighted in green.

To close the application click on the X in the top left hand corner.

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Feature Enhancement Overview

Quick Launch Menu

The icons in the Quick Launch menu have been re-designed to make them easier to read.

Text Activity Widget

There is a small change to the Text Activity widget. The button for submitting/saving the text activity now displays ‘Submit Activity’. This does not change the functionality of the Text Activity widget.

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