To claim your "Educator" role1. Sign up for a Genius account
2. Send your username to the Education team at [email protected]
Unaccepted 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 Annotations
Annotations with suggestions
The Educator ToolbarA new "Educator" toolbar will now appear below each annotation allowing you to...
Accept (or Reject) Student Annotations
Send Feedback to Students
These features will also now be available to you within user profiles/student portfolios
Class PagesYou also now have the ability to create semi-private, unannotated "class pages" of popular texts:
Create a "class" version of a text
Your "class pages" will appear under your "artist" page
Verified 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 annotation
Ask a question to which students can respond
Tag 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/or
creating postlets to highlight content on the page