OVERVIEW

Note: The Teacher’s Management System is available only with the multi-user installation of English
Discoveries Version 2.0 .

Important: Do not make changes ( Add, Delete, Edit, Add-to, etc.) to the Teacher’s Management System
whilst students are using the program.

The Teacher’s Management System is a special feature of the multi-user version of English Discoveries Version 2.0. The Teacher’s
Management System allows you to monitor and direct your students’ work on the program.

If your institution has installed the “multi-user” version of English Discoveries, a separate icon called “Teacher’s Management” will
appear alongside the icons for each module in the English Discoveries group on your screen. To utilize the Teacher’s Management
System, double-click on this icon.

 A default password to enter the system has been set. It is “m.”

 Type in the password.
 Click on “OK” or press the ENTER key to enter the password, or click on “Cancel” to cancel.
Note: When you type in the password, an asterisk appears on the screen in place of the letter.
 We recommend that you change this password to something agreed on by all the teachers in your institution who will be using the
system.
 To change the password, click on “Change Password.”
 Enter the old password in the top window and the new password in the bottom window.
 Click on “OK” or press the ENTER key to enter the password, or click on “Cancel” to cancel.
 Following the instructions, re-enter the new password.
 Click on “OK” or press the ENTER key to continue, or click on “Cancel” to cancel.
Note: When you type in the password, an asterisk appears on the screen for each letter.
After entering the Teacher’s Management System, you will see its Main Menu.

The Main Menu presents the following management options: Class List, Lessons and Reports. To select one, first choose the module
you require and then click on the management option you desire.

Within the management options, buttons with black writing are active, and buttons with red writing are inactive.
CLASS LIST

As its name suggests, this function of the Teacher’s Management System allows you to enter the names of all your classes that are
using the program, and list the students in each one.

 Enter the names of your classes using the table on the left side of the screen.

 To enter the name of a class (using the table on the left side of the screen), type in the name for that class in the small window
on the left side (e.g., “Class 1,” “Red” or any other suitable identifier).
 To actually register this new class name in the computer, click on “Add.”
 Click on “New” if you want to clear the window for typing.
 To delete a class name from your list of classes, click on it to highlight it, and then click on “Delete.” You may delete more
than one class at a time. Simply highlight the classes you wish to delete, and then click on “Delete.”
  To change a class name, click on the class name to highlight it and click on “Edit.” Change the name in the window. Click
on “OK” or press the ENTER key to enter the change, click on “Cancel” to cancel, or click on “Help” for help.
 To register your classes for more than one module, highlight the class or classes you would like to add, and click on the “Add
To” button. In the “Add To” screen, click on each one of the modules to which you would like to add the class or classes. You may
add the classes to more than one module at a time. Click on “OK” or press the ENTER key to continue, click on “Cancel” to cancel,
or click on “Help” for help.

 If you would like a printout of a class list, or several class lists together, including students’ passwords, click on the “Print”
button.

 Enter the names of your students for each class using the table on the right side of the screen.

 To list the names of the students in a class, first highlight the class name, then click on “Students à.” This will take you to
the Students table on the right side of the screen.
 To begin a list, either click on “New” or move the cursor to the window in which you will be typing.
 Type the name of a student, then click on “Add.” Enter the password for each student you add to the class list. Click on
“OK” or press the ENTER key to enter the change, click on “Cancel” to cancel, or click on “Help” for help. Repeat this
process until you have typed in the names of all the students in that class.
 To delete a student’s name from your class list, click to highlight it, then click on “Delete.” You can delete several students
at once, by highlighting on their names and clicking on “Delete.”
 To change a student’s name, click on the class name to highlight it and click on “Edit.” Change the name in the window.
Click on “OK” or press the ENTER key to enter the change, click on “Cancel” to cancel, or click on “Help” for help.
 You might find it useful or necessary to place one or more students in more than one class. For example, you might want to create
a special “advanced” group, or a “remedial” group, in which particular learners would focus on specific aspects of the program
while continuing with their regular work within their original groups. To add students to several classes, click on “Add To” and
follow the procedure used for adding classes to modules.

Note: When you add students to another group, their databases in the new group will be empty until they begin working in
their respective groups.

 The “Passwords” button in the Students’ table allows you to view or change the password of every student in your class(es).
 To change a student’s password, highlight the line with the student’s name. Then click on the “Change Password” button.
 You will see the student’s old password in the top window. Type in the new password in the bottom window. Click on “OK”
or press the ENTER key to enter the change, click on “Cancel” to cancel, or click on “Help” for help.
 If you click on “OK,” you will be asked to retype the password. Click on “OK” or press the ENTER key to continue, or click
on “Cancel” to cancel.
 To exit the Student Passwords Window and return to the Class List, click on “OK.”

 To enter English Discoveries the first time, you will need to provide your students with the passwords you have assigned them.
They will need to remember and use these same passwords each time they enter the program.

Note: The maximum length possible for student and class names is twenty (20) characters. The maximum length for passwords
is ten (10) characters.
 If you are working within the Class List option and wish to return from the right table to the left table, simply click on the
“ßClasses” button in the right table. If you wish to exit from the Class List option entirely, click on the “Exit” button in the
lower right-hand corner of the screen to return to the Main Menu of the Teacher’s Management System.

LESSONS

As you will have learnt in the User Manual, English Discoveries offers three types of lessons: My Lesson, System Lessons and
Teacher Lessons. The student accesses these various lessons by clicking on the Lessons icon on the lower shelf of English
Discoveries’ Main Menu.

My Lesson is an “adaptive” lesson: the computer “adapts” the activities it presents to a student to that particular student’s
performance. In this program, the student’s results on the Language and Vocabulary tests are the determining factors. If a student
achieves less than 60% on a particular Language or Vocabulary test, then the computer will construct an individualized lesson for
him/her.

If the My Lesson feature is not available to a student, it means that the student EITHER does not need additional practice in anything
at that time OR has not yet completed sufficient Language or Vocabulary activities for the computer to judge.

System Lessons are lessons prepared by the pedagogical staff of English Discoveries. These lessons lead students through a set of
activities in the program in an order designed to maximize learning. The list of System Lessons is on the right hand side of the main
Lesson Menu. You can use these pre-programmed lessons to streamline and simplify your students’ self-access work on the program.

For full content details of the System Lessons, by module, see Appendix 8 in the Teachers’ Guide.
TEACHER LESSONS

In single-user versions of English Discoveries, Teacher Lessons can be made by using the Teacher’s Utility pen on the main Lesson
Menu. In the “multi-user” version, this Teacher’s Utility pen is unavailable because Teacher Lessons are made using the Teacher’s
Management System. Click on the “Lessons” button in the Main Menu of the Teacher’s Management System in the “multi-user”
version to access the screen in which you will work to make your Teacher Lessons.

PREPARING A TEACHER LESSON: BASIC INSTRUCTIONS

1. Click on a skill Section (Language, Vocabulary, Reading, etc.) from the upper left side of the screen to highlight it. Click on a
Topic to highlight it and see a list of sub-topics. Click on a Sub-Topic to highlight it and see a list of activities. Click on an
Activity to highlight it.
Note: Not all topics have sub-topics. In this case, clicking on a Topic highlights it and shows a list of activities.
2. Click on one of the buttons (1-8) under Tasks at the lower left side of the screen. This defines an activity in the lesson you are
building.
3. Repeat the previous steps until you have defined all of the tasks for the lesson. You may build lessons that contain between one
and eight tasks.
4. When you have finished defining the tasks, click on “Save Lesson.” Type in the name of the lesson. The name can be a
combination of up to eight letters or numbers.
Click on “OK” or press the ENTER key to continue, or click on “Cancel” to cancel, or click on “Help” for help.
Note: The only punctuation allowed is a hyphen (-).
5. Click on the “Print Lesson” button to receive a printout of the lesson.
6. When you click on “Assign,” you enter the Assign Screen. In this screen, you may assign the last lesson you created, or several
lessons already saved, to individual students or to entire classes.
 If you wish a lesson to be assigned to only one or several students, first click on the name of the class to which these students
belong. Then click on “Students à” to access the list of individual student names.
 Highlight the name or names of those students and click on “Assign.”
 To delete the assignment of a lesson to a class or student(s), highlight their name(s), then click on “Undo.”
Note: A number sign (#) will appear next to class and/or student names to indicate that a lesson has been assigned.
 To return to the class lists, click on “ßClasses.”
8. Repeat the above steps to build as many lessons as you wish. There is no limit to the number of lessons you can create for each
module.
9. To see a list of all the students or classes that have been assigned a particular lesson, click on the “List” button at the bottom of
the screen. Click on “OK” to return to the Assign Screen.
10. To exit the Lesson-building Screen, click on the “Exit” button in the lower right-hand corner of the screen.
Note: To build a new lesson, click on “File” in the upper left-hand corner of the screen. A menu will drop down. Choose
“New.”
PREPARING A TEACHER LESSON: ADVANCED INSTRUCTIONS

 To manage Teacher Lesson files, click on “File” in the upper left-hand corner of the screen. A menu will drop down. You can
manage the files by selecting one of the options:

New Opens a new lesson file and returns you to the Lesson-building Screen.
Open/Mult. Assign Opens an existing lesson to enable you to make changes to it, or enables you to assign several lessons at
once.
Save Saves the lesson that is open. (Works the same as the “Save Lesson” button in the Lesson-building
Screen.) If the open lesson is a new lesson, you need to type the name of the lesson file in the window.
Click on “OK” or press the ENTER key to continue, or click on “Cancel” to cancel.
Save As... Saves an existing lesson under another name (rename a lesson). Type in the new name of the lesson in the
window. Click on “OK” or press the ENTER key to continue, or click on “Cancel” to cancel.
Assign... Opens the Assign Screen.
Delete... Deletes an existing lesson. Click on the lesson or lessons you want to delete. Click on “OK” or press the
ENTER key to continue, or click on “Cancel” to cancel.
Print... Prints the lesson plan. For more information on printing in Windows, consult your Windows User’s
Manual or Print Manager Help.
Exit Exits to the previous screen or to the Main Menu. Clicking on this button repeatedly will exit the program.
 It is possible to modify existing lessons by clearing tasks.
 To modify an existing lesson, open the lesson by clicking on “File” and then “Open.”
 Click on the name of the lesson you want to open. Click on “OK” or press the ENTER key to continue, or click on “Cancel”
to cancel, or click on “Help” for help.
 Click on “Edit," on the menu bar. The command “Clear task...” will drop down. Click on it.
 Enter the number of the task you want to remove from the lesson, and click on “OK." Click on “OK” or press the ENTER
key to continue, or click on “Cancel” to cancel, or click on “Help” for help.

 It is also possible to perform several of these options by double-clicking on different places on the screen.

 Open a lesson file, or assign multiple lessons, double-click on the word “Tasks” on the Assign Screen
 Edit a lesson and delete a task, double-click on the specific task you wish to delete;
 Save a lesson file, double-click on the lesson name bar at the top of the screen.

Note: If you click on “Exit“ before you have saved a lesson, the computer will prompt you by asking “Do you want to save this
lesson?” You then have the option of clicking on “Yes,” “No,” or “Cancel.”
Click on “Yes” to save the lesson by name.
Click on “No” to exit the Lesson-building Screen without saving the lesson and return to the Main Menu.
Click on “Cancel” to return to the Lesson-building Screen.
REPORTS

The Reports option allows you to monitor the performance of your students. (Remember that the student can use the “Student
Records” utility anytime to see a record of his/her own performance.)

Note: This option gives him/her a cumulative, red and blue-colored representation of his/her performance, except in the “Local
Test” score window, where only the most recent Test score can be seen.)

 As a teacher, you have the choice of looking at a general overview of the entire class’s performance or at each student’s
individual work and progress. To access this information, click on “Reports” in the Main Menu of the Teacher’s Management
System.

 To access test reports for a class, first indicate the section of the program you are interested in. Click on the section you want in
the drop-down menu in the upper right side of the screen. To see a test report of class averages, highlight the class name, and click
on “Average.” To see a list of grades for all the students in the class, highlight the class name, and click on “Grades.”

 For a report listing individual student’s grades for a section, you will also
need to select a particular sub-section. Click on the topic you want from the drop-down menu in the upper right side of the screen.
The subtopics will appear across the top of the report table, along with the scores for the students in the class.

Note: Due to a lack of space on the screen, you will not be able to see all the scores for all the items in a particular section of
the program. However, all scores will appear on your hard copy of the report.

 Click on “Print” to receive a hard copy of the report.

 Click on the “Exit” button in the bottom right corner of the screen to return to the Reports Menu.
 To access a time report for a class, highlight the class name, and click on “Time.” With this report you will be able to see the
amount of time the students in the class worked in a particular module, to date.

 Click on “Print” to receive a hard copy of this report.

 Click on the “Exit” button in the bottom right corner of the screen to return to the Reports Menu.
 Click on “Students à” to move to the lists of your students’ names.

 Highlight the name of a student, then click on “Time” to see the amount of time a student worked in a particular module, per
session.

 Click on “Print” to receive a hard copy of this report.

 Click on the “Exit” button in the bottom right corner of the screen to return to the Reports Menu.
 To access test reports for a student or group of students, first indicate the section of the program you are interested in. Click on the
section you want in the drop-down menu in the upper right side of the screen. To see a test report of class averages for a group of
students, highlight the students’ names, and click on “Average.”
 To see the grades for a student or group of students in the class,
highlight the student or students’ names, and click on “Grades.” For this report, you will also need to select a particular sub-
section. Click on the topic you want from the drop-down menu in the upper right side of the screen. The subtopics will appear
across the top of the report table, along with the scores for the student or students selected.

 Click on “Print” to receive a hard copy of the students’ reports and exercises and tests.
 Click on the “Exit” button to return to the Reports Menu. If you wish to return to the list of classes, just click on “