Teachers are able to customize a Quill Lesson, our activities meant for instruction with a whole class or small group of students, after assigning it and before launching it. Some examples of how you may customize a Quill Lesson include:
Align prompts to material that you are discussing in class, such as books you are reading in class or material that is more relatable for the students.
Change the prompts to better suit your students' writing skill level.
Rewording or clarifying directions and objectives to fit a structure with which your students are familiar.
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Access a Quill Lesson from the Overview page
To customize a Quill Lesson, you first need to access the Quill Lesson. To access a Quill Lesson from the Overview page, please navigate to the Overview page in the Home tab.
Then, scroll down to the Present a live lesson section
Then, click the three dots in the More column to the far right of the name of the Quill Lesson that you would like to customize.
Click the Customize option.
On the subsequent page, click the Customize dropdown arrow and click the Make Copy option.
Name this edition of this Quill Lesson and click the Start Customizing button.
Access a Quill Lesson from the Launch Lessons page
To customize a Quill Lesson, you first need to access the Quill Lesson. To access a Quill Lesson from the Launch Lessons page, please navigate to the Launch Lessons page in the My Activities tab.
Then, click the magic wand icon to the far right of the name of the Quill Lesson that you would like to customize.
On the subsequent page, click the Customize dropdown arrow and click the Make Copy option.
Name this edition of this Quill Lesson and click the Start Customizing button.
Customize a Quill Lesson
On the page to customize a Quill Lesson, you may take any of the actions below.
Rename the title of a Quill Lesson
Click in the Edition Name field to rename the edition of the Quill Lesson.
Add a sample question to easily identify the Quill Lesson
Click in the Sample Question field to enter a sample question so that you may easily identify the customized edition of the Quill Lesson before launching it
Customize the title and text of a slide
For any slide in a Quill Lesson, you can click in the Title field on the left side of the page to edit the title of the slide.
For any slide in a Quill Lesson, you can click in the Prompt field on the left side of the page to edit the text of the slide.
On the right side of the page, you will see a preview of what the slide will look like for your students.
In a Quill Lesson, there are three types of slides.
A Static Text slide does not prompt students to submit responses, so Static Text slides are great slides to show the objectives of the Quill Lesson and examples of the writing skill relevant to the Quill Lesson.
A Teacher Model slide prompts teachers to model the writing skill relevant to the Quill Lesson. The Prompt field shows the prompt for which teachers need to model a response, and the Instructions field shows the instructions for modeling a response for the prompt.
The Students Practice slide prompts students to submit responses for the prompt. In the Title field, you will see either Paired Practice or Individual Practice. Although the format of these slides is the same, the way students engage with the content of the slide will be different. For the Paired Practice slides, students will work with a partner to submit a response, and for the Individual Practice slides, students will independently submit a response.
The Prompt field shows the prompt for which students need to submit responses, and the Instructions field shows the instructions for submitting a response for the prompt.
While customizing the text of a slide, there are editing features that you can use.
The Clear Slide feature removes all text from the slide.
The Reset Slide feature reverts the slide back to its original text.
The Bold, Italicize, and Underline icons can be clicked to emphasize certain aspects of the text in the slide.
The Quote feature inserts a gray text box for you to enter a piece of information to which you would like to call attention.
Publish the customized Quill Lesson
Once you have finished customizing the Quill Lesson, scroll to the bottom of the page and click the Publish Edition button.
To preview the customized Quill Lesson, click the View My Edition button.
After you have previewed the customized Quill Lesson, click the Save and Exit button in the toolbar in the upper right corner of the page.
Launch a customized Quill Lesson
To launch the customized Quill Lesson, when launching the Quill Lesson, make sure to choose the customized Quill Lesson from the My Customized Editions section on the page that prompts you to select the edition of the Quill Lesson.
Have more questions?
Please feel free to send a message to the Quill team using the green message bubble on the bottom right corner of the screen or email us at support@quill.org.