When you log into your Quill account, you will first see Quill's Home page. The Home page includes information and actions that help you best leverage your Quill account. Please read more about Quill's Home page below.
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Onboard to Quill on the Home page
When you first create a Quill account, Quill will guide you through a series of onboarding steps to set up your account.
When you sign up for a Quill account as a teacher, you will first be taken to the Home page in your Quill account, and you will see the options to either experience a demo of Quill by clicking the Start exploring button or jump directly into using Quill by clicking the Let's go button.
Complete tasks to get started with Quill
When you've either completed the demo of Quill after clicking the Start exploring button or clicked the Let's go button, you'll see an onboarding checklist on the Home page, which walks you through the necessary first steps of getting started with Quill.
Clicking an empty circle next to a task will bring you to the relevant page to complete that task.
As you complete these tasks, you will be able to track your progress by returning to the Home page at any time.
Once you have completed all of the tasks, you will see the full Home page! In addition, the widget to contact our Support Team will appear at the bottom right corner of the page so that you can contact our Support Team with any questions that you may have.
See a summary of activities that you have assigned and that your students have completed
The summary widget at the top of the Home page allows you to see either a weekly or yearly summary of the number of activities that you have assigned and a weekly or yearly summary of the number of activities that your students have completed. Please click here to learn more about how the numbers in the summary widget are calculated.
See your students' Quill Diagnostic reports
The Diagnostic Results widget allows you to quickly view the number of students in a class who have completed a Quill Diagnostic out of the total number of students in the class who were assigned the Quill Diagnostic. To see the Quill Diagnostic reports for the students in a class, click the View button within the Results column to the far right of the Quill Diagnostic's name.
Launch a Quill Lesson
In the Present a live lesson widget, you can click the Present button to the far right of a Quill Lesson's name to launch it and implement it with your students.
In addition, you can click the ellipsis within the More column to the far right of any Quill Lesson's name to reveal a menu of options to preview the Quill Lesson, customize the Quill Lesson, or download the lesson plan for the Quill Lesson.
Please click here to learn more about the Present a live lesson widget.
See when a student completed an activity
The Activity Feed widget allows you to see when a student completed an activity and the proficiency score that the student earned for the activity.
Explore handy actions that you can do from the Home page
The Handy Actions widget contains several links to different actions that can be taken in your Quill account.
See a daily article from the Teacher Center
The Daily Tiny Tip widget is a fun way to check out different Teacher Center articles and read about best practices for using Quill!
See highlighted articles from the Teacher Center
The Teacher Center Highlights widget showcases a curated selection of essential Teacher Center articles. Click the See all resources button to navigate to the Teacher Center.
See Reading for Evidence activities about world history
Our Curriculum Team has paired with the OER Project to create Reading for Evidence activities about world history. Whether used on their own or as part of the full OER Project curriculum, these resources are a valuable addition to any high school world history classroom.
Click on the World History Activities widget to view and assign Reading for Evidence activities about world history.
See Reading for Evidence activities about AI knowledge
Our Curriculum Team has paired with aiEDU to create Reading for Evidence activities about AI knowledge. Whether used on their own or in conjunction with aiEDU activities, these resources are a valuable addition to any high school ELA or Computer Science classroom.
Click on the AI Knowledge Activities widget to view and assign Reading for Evidence activities about AI knowledge.
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.