Discovery Education: Sharing Media Between Teachers and Students

Discovery Education has thousands of media and interactive resources available to all AISD teachers and students.  All teachers and students already have accounts created for them which connect students to teachers automatically.  Teachers can assign videos, interactive labs, or any other media to students individually or to the entire class at the same time. And students can even create digital presentation posters (called Board Builders) and easily share them with their teachers.

First, let's look at how to share between teachers and students and then look how to make this work more easily for teachers.

Students Share With Teachers
When students login to Discovery Education, they can share videos and their Board Builder products with teachers. When sharing, students can click the teacher menu to show a list of their teachers.

Teachers Share With Students

Teachers can use the assign feature to share with individual students and entire class groups. First, click on the triangle at the top right of your media and use the Assign option. 

In the Assign window, click the Assign to Classroom menu to select a specific class that you teach. Your classes should automatically show up.  Select it and click the Assign button at the bottom.  The assigned media will show up on the students' Assignment tab when they go to the Discovery Education website.

Change The Name Of Your Classes
In the previous picture, you see how all of this teacher's classes share the same name. This is not helpful, but you can change these names.  First, go to your My DE page in Discovery Education. Click the Classroom Manager tab and select My Classes.

Click My Classes to show the list of classes assigned to you. You can click the + next to the class to show the students assigned to that class. 

Once you know which period each class is, you can click the Edit option to rename the class in Discovery Education.

Rename your class and click save. 

One last tip for sharing.  For teachers who use Google Classroom, you can click the Share button to locate the Google Classroom icon. Using that icon, you can assign content directly to your Classroom announcements and assignments from the Discovery Education website.

Discovery Education has videos, audio files, digital texts, audio books, images, lesson resources and so much more.  Go to DE today and find lots of How To documents and videos under the Professional Learning tab.  

For more information or on-campus support, contact your AISD Technology Design Coach!