Education Genius’s “Guide to Educator Accounts” by Jerdotcom Lyrics
To claim your "Educator" role1. Sign up for a Genius account
2. Send your username to the Education team at education@genius.comUnaccepted annotations and suggestionsWhereas all annotations appear on the site to regular users, Educators will see indicators on the left margin pointing to "unaccepted" annotations (a red circle) and annotations with "suggestions" (a yellow speech bubble): Unaccepted AnnotationsAnnotations with suggestionsThe Educator ToolbarA new "Educator" toolbar will now appear below each annotation allowing you to...Accept (or Reject) Student AnnotationsSend Feedback to StudentsThese features will also now be available to you within user profiles/student portfoliosClass PagesYou also now have the ability to create semi-private, unannotated "class pages" of popular texts:Create a "class" version of a textYour "class pages" will appear under your "artist" pageVerified EducatorsYour own annotations on your class pages will be marked by a green hexagonal indicator in the left margin because you are now a "Verified Educator" on the site. This will allow you to...Record or write a verified annotationAsk a question to which students can respondTag Pages as Course HomepagesAs an educator, you have the ability to create a "tag" for a particular course and use that tag's home page to manage your course materials. You can basically make your course home page look just like the front page of Lit Genius!Managing a Tag PageAdding a new tag will automatically generate a new tag page that will list all the texts tagged with that tag by order of popularity and include the "top scholars" for that tag.
If you want to experiment with our more advanced features, you can also make your course tag page look just like the front page of Lit Genius or History Genius by...adding a tag description and/orcreating postlets to highlight content on the page
2. Send your username to the Education team at education@genius.comUnaccepted annotations and suggestionsWhereas all annotations appear on the site to regular users, Educators will see indicators on the left margin pointing to "unaccepted" annotations (a red circle) and annotations with "suggestions" (a yellow speech bubble): Unaccepted AnnotationsAnnotations with suggestionsThe Educator ToolbarA new "Educator" toolbar will now appear below each annotation allowing you to...Accept (or Reject) Student AnnotationsSend Feedback to StudentsThese features will also now be available to you within user profiles/student portfoliosClass PagesYou also now have the ability to create semi-private, unannotated "class pages" of popular texts:Create a "class" version of a textYour "class pages" will appear under your "artist" pageVerified EducatorsYour own annotations on your class pages will be marked by a green hexagonal indicator in the left margin because you are now a "Verified Educator" on the site. This will allow you to...Record or write a verified annotationAsk a question to which students can respondTag Pages as Course HomepagesAs an educator, you have the ability to create a "tag" for a particular course and use that tag's home page to manage your course materials. You can basically make your course home page look just like the front page of Lit Genius!Managing a Tag PageAdding a new tag will automatically generate a new tag page that will list all the texts tagged with that tag by order of popularity and include the "top scholars" for that tag.
If you want to experiment with our more advanced features, you can also make your course tag page look just like the front page of Lit Genius or History Genius by...adding a tag description and/orcreating postlets to highlight content on the page