We've been hearing all kinds of lessons being created and captured with Submit:
- Some teachers have been having their students dance and express themselves to music
- Other teachers have been using Submit to capture students' fluency and expression while reading
- Science teachers have been capturing students' home experiments, especially in the kitchen
- And Writing teachers have asked students to narrate their brainstorms before writing an essay - what are the three most important elements of the paper they will write, what are some of the details they want to capture, what will the overall topic and thesis statement include, etc.
Some examples being shared by other teachers include:
Webcam + Microphone Assignments
- Singing along to a song
- Counting objects
- Identifying living and non-living things
- Demonstrating fractions of a whole
- Read-alouds (books, poetry, etc.)
- Performing a speech
- Reporting on the weather
- Demonstrating a math equation using an online whiteboard
- Editing (or peer reviewing) a written piece
- Presenting a family tree students have created
- Circling shapes in a PDF that students can mark up
- Completing online vocabulary activities or exercises while narrating
- Writing a reflection and sharing additional details verballyIt's been really awe-inspiring to hear about the great ways that teachers and students are creatively using Submit to stay connected!
Using a Video as Instructions
If you want to make a Submit assignment where you record yourself asking questions in a video to have the students to respond to, you can:
- Use the Screencastify Recorder extension to record yourself asking the questions (https://youtu.be/ZfcpY61ao38)
- Use the video and publish it to YouTube (https://youtu.be/3A0weL24UXA)
- Make the Submit assignment with a title, and instructions that ask students to:
- Click record
- Watch and respond to the video on Youtube, pausing after each question
This assignment could capture the students' webcams while they view and respond to the YouTube video.
When students use this assignment:
- They click "Record"
- Watch and respond to the YouTube video
- Return to the original tab and click "Submit"
Having Students Submit a Reflection with their Screencastify Submit Video
Students can share videos and documents (or other files) to Google Classroom. This means that you can ask students to create a reflection or transcript of their video to also turn in with their Screencastify Submit video!
Sharing a video to Google Classroom
To share a Submit video to Google Classroom, students:
- Click on "Share video to Classroom"
- Choose class
- Choose assignment
- Click "Go"
- Click "Attach"
- Click "View Assignment"
But, students can also add additional files to their Google Classroom assignments!
Adding additional files to assignment
To share a Google Doc (or other file) with a reflection or transcript of the video, students:
- Click on "Add or create"
- Click on "Docs"
- Type (or copy and paste) the reflection or transcript
- Go back to the Google Classroom tab
- Click "Turn in"
Now, a student has turned in both a Screencastify Submit video and a written reflection or transcript!
Share in a Google Slide
With Screencastify Submit, a teacher can give students both an assignment link to record a video and a link to the folder of videos for them to view at any time.
- Create a Google slide with two links - the first for the assignment and the second for the folder of videos
- To get a link to the Submit assignment, copy and paste that link from the Submit dashboard into the Google Slide
- To get a link to the subfolder of videos, click on the submissions link to open the Submit subfolder. Right-click on the subfolder to grant permission for all students to view videos. Copy and paste that link into the Google Slide.