Spaces Adds New Features for Creating Better Digital Portfolios!

Areas is a excellent electronic portfolio service that I’ve been working with and recommending for the very last few of years. Like all fantastic edtech resources, it started off with a handful of genuinely excellent and exclusive options. Given that then it has steadily extra additional attributes based on feed-back from academics like you and me. And just in time for the annual ISTE conference, Areas has unveiled a bunch of new options.

If you are likely to the ISTE conference you can understand all about Spaces by dropping by their booth (#1549 located north of the BrainPop booth and two rows south of the NearPod set up in Hall H). You can also book time for a demo with the Spaces workforce and get a no cost t-shirt when you fulfill with them. Those who aren’t attending ISTE and individuals who are attending and would like to get a preview of the new attributes must browse on.

A lot quicker Enrollment and Less complicated Exercise Sharing
Nothing at all stops momentum in a classroom like owning to go close to to each and every college student and say “click here” or reply to learners expressing “it will not allow me in.” That is why Spaces has introduced new enrollment and sharing possibilities.

There is now an choice to deliver QR codes for your learners to scan to be a part of your Spaces classroom account. Students just scan a QR code and are enrolled in your course. Look at this short movie to see how it performs.

In Spaces you can produce actions for your students. College students can look at the things to do by logging into Spaces. But that is not the only way to share activities with your college students. The easiest way for pupils to uncover functions is in the LMS that you are making use of for your lessons. Exclusive URLs are generated for every single action. You can submit all those action URLs in your LMS. Moreover, Google Classroom people have the option to article immediately to their Classrooms from their Areas accounts. Get a appear at this quick video clip to master additional about activity URLs and sharing.

Curriculum Standards, Targets, and Proficiency
Last drop Areas added the possibility to tag college student perform with curriculum goals and or alignment to state expectations. The best component of that for me was that Areas created it tremendous uncomplicated to obtain the specifications and utilize the tags to submitted operate (observe my demo). Spaces is now increasing that ability to pursuits.

Now when you generate an exercise in Areas you can tag it with the standards to which it aligns. The advantage of doing this is each artifact submission that a student tends to make for that action is instantly tagged with the correct conventional. This is beneficial in exhibiting students’ development toward assembly specifications. For a glimpse of a students’ see of action completion, observe this short online video.

Talking of development toward conference requirements, in August Spaces will be rolling out proficiency scales. Proficiency scales will seem as shade-coded labels that you can implement to your students’ submitted get the job done in Spaces. Imagine of this as a swift way to notify pupils if their do the job satisfies a proficiency standard, requires more work, or if it exceeds expectations. Leap to the 27 next mark in this video clip to see Areas proficiency expectations in use.

Create a “Best of” Portfolio
One of the items that 1st drew me to Spaces was the capability to make unique, team, and total course portfolios. But until now there wasn’t a way to quickly set the exact submitted operate into many portfolios. That has adjusted with the most recent update to Areas. Now you can rapidly copy students’ function from a team or class portfolio into an person portfolio. This tends to make it feasible to do anything like build a “best of” portfolio for college students to share work that they have finished in groups and completed individually through the yr.

Find out More and Get Began!
As pointed out at the starting of this put up, Spaces will be at ISTE this 12 months. You can find them at booth 1549 positioned north of the BrainPop booth and two rows south of the NearPod set up in Hall H. Inform them I sent you!

If you are not attending ISTE and you want to learn more about Spaces, just take a seem at my demo video clips here and then signal-up for a totally free account to get commenced.