Class Sessions in Nexus
On the home screen, you can see the class details of all classes you have access to:
- School admins can see all the active classes in a school.
- Campus admins can see all the active classes of a campus.
- Teachers can see all the classes they are associated with.
- Coach or Training managers can see the classes of all the schools they are associated with.
For each class, you can see the current unit, lesson, school, and campus details.
Selecting a class will open the Attendance Screen which allows the user to take attendance, start a practice session, or start an official class session.
Without downloading unit material you cannot access the attendance page or start a class.
Attendance Screen
What is the Attendance screen for?
The attendance screen is where attendance for a session is taken and where you can start a class session or practice session for the selected unit and lesson number.
The class name followed by current date is displayed on the header of the Attendance screen. All the students of the class are displayed below the header with their avatar and name. You can record student attendance for respective unit and lessons. From the same screen you can start a class or practice mode.
How to Record Attendance
The Attendance page displays all the registered students of the class. The total attendance count is displayed within parentheses next to "Attendance".
Click on the student’s name to mark absent. Clicking again will mark the student as present. The total Attendance count will keep on updating as you mark a student absent or present. By default, all students are marked as present.
How to start a Class - Class Mode or Practice Mode
The top right dropdowns allow you to select the required unit and lesson number for a class session or a practice session.
Practice mode or Class mode can be started by clicking the respective button available on the Attendance page. Clicking on "Start Class" or "Start Practice Mode" will start a session in the selected mode.
Class mode must have at least one student present to start a session.
Practice mode provides all the functionality of teaching class mode lesson, but the attendance history and progress check questions will not be logged or counted. Also, the lesson cannot be marked as complete. However, you can cast the screen, annotate, and use the app as they would in a real class.
Practice mode should be used to view/practice a lesson's content without students and should never be used to teach a class.
Nexus Session View
In either a class mode or practice mode session, teachers will be able to teach the lesson plan and access all the main features of Nexus.
The left side panel is the Lesson Plan panel. In it, the Unit and lesson number are displayed, along with the slides for the exposure in Component view and the list of components in Lesson Plan view.
The bottom of the screen is the teaching instruction panel. On it the component name, the order of the current content in the lesson, the order of the current page in the component, and remaining time of the component are shown, along with the teaching instructions.
On the right panel, there are 3 buttons (4 buttons if a progress check slide is being taught)
- The Cast button will initiate or terminate the casting connection
- The Fullscreen button allows you to display the component full screen on the tablet
- The Hide/Show Splash button will display the GrapeSEED splash screen on the display device
The Cast button should only need to be pressed once, at the beginning of your session. You do not need to terminate the cast connection while teaching. To stop showing content during a class session, use the splash screen.
How to view Annotation Panel
When the full screen view is selected, teachers will see the annotation panel at the bottom of the screen. The panel has all the necessary annotation tools such as color selection, pencil, eraser, pointer, and shapes.
To easily draw the shapes, start from the top left of where you want the shape and drag digonally down.
Laser pen and pencil are not real-time. Mark-up will be displayed when you lift your finger.
Progress Checks
When a progress check has been included in the lesson plan, the progress check icon will appear on the right side of the viewing window as the actvity slide is displayed. When clicked, a flyout will appear with a question to be asked and the suggested students who could be asked. The teacher will have the ability to select each of the student avatars and mark their answers as correct 
or incorrect 
.
Three students are selected from the list of "present" students (attendance) who have not answered that particular progress check. As students are assessed, they will be removed from the list for that progress check. In addition, you are not required to ask all 3 students, these are just suggestions. It is up to the teacher to gauge student engagement and time management for the class.
If students answer correctly and are marked accordingly, the data is saved.
If students answer incorrectly, a carefully selected component that has the same learning objective is placed into the student's next REP playlist. This is Active Learn!
Additional Content
When all components in a lesson have been taught, the Additional Content button will appear at the bottom of the lesson plan panel for some components. If the content has been downloaded, you will see a checkmark, if it has not been downloaded, you can click the download icon to download it. The additional content is the REP audio and/or video for the component and is not required to be used in class. This is a additional content in case you have extra time in class.
If it has not been downloaded, the user can download it by tapping on the Additional Content button, or by downloading the optional content in the download manager.