The Jonny Bear icons are meant to convey basic instructions to students, you can access these by clicking on the blue circle/Jonny Bear icon in the header of GrapeSEED Connect. After clicking, you will see the various options you can select:
After selecting an icon, the icon will change immediately for you and the students, however on the student screen, the selected Jonny Bear icon will first appear larger and slowly shrink into place in the header of the page.
Be sure to give verbal instructions, as these icons are simply a visual cue.
To manage your individual students, GrapeSEED Connect provides individual Student Management Buttons. These include audio/video control, sticker rewards, video expand and if the student has raised their hand, a control to lower their “hand”. To access these, simply hover your mouse cursor over the student video feed and they will appear above the student feed.
To manage your entire class at once, GrapeSEED Connect provides Classroom Management Buttons above the video feed gallery. These include audio/video control, and sticker rewards.
Toggling audio or video will have an effect for the teacher AND the students. If you hide all video feeds, students will also not see other students.
GrapeSEED Connect uses colored rings around the student video feeds to indicate to the teacher the state of that student. At this time there are 3 indicators that a teacher can see: Red, Blue, and Black.
In the image above, you can see a student feed with all 3 indicators on the left and no indicators on the right.
A red indicator means that the student has clicked on the “Raise Hand” icon for some reason. To turn this indicator off, hover over the student’s video feed and click on the .
A blue indicator means that the student is speaking. While you cannot turn this indicator off, you could choose to mute the student which will turn off their microphone and stop them from being able to speak.
A black indicator means that the student has the ability to select targets in the target match activity (interact with the materials). To disable their ability to do that, hover over the student video feed and click on the to toggle their interactivity.
GrapeSEED Connect has an instructional feature called one-on-one mode. One-on-one mode puts the teacher and selected student in a private channel, while the rest of the class sees only the most recent content shared prior to entering one-on-one mode. This can be used when instructed to by the lesson plans or when individual students need help or one-on-one instruction.
To enter one-on-one mode, click on the name of the student you want to have in the private channel. Once entered, the teacher will continue to have access to all the class materials in the lesson plan as well as the annotation palette, while also seeing a timer, indicating how long they have been in the mode and a large icon to exit the mode.
Meanwhile, the student who has entered one-on-one will see only the content, the teacher, and their own video feed. Other student video feeds will be hidden.
While the teacher and a student are in one-on-one mode, the rest of the class will continue seeing whatever was being shown in the content panel, as well as an visual cue that the teacher is in one-on-one mode with one of their classmates. While this view does not have an actual timer shown, there is an animated hourglass that should be a visual cue that the student should wait. The other student video feeds are also hidden.
To see what the student screen looks like with One-on-One Mode, please see the Parent Connect Guide