Web 2.

0 Tutorial:

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Spiral
• Spiral is an Web 2.0 tool that allows educators to interface with their
student in a variety of ways.
• It allows teachers to make formative assessments, similar to exit
tickets, using the Quickfire Activity.
• Allows students to discuss and add comments to presentations.
• Allows teachers to form teams of students to work on projects or
presentations together.
• Students can take polls, answer questions and make comments on
video clips.
• All this information is stored for the teacher to access later.

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Getting Started:

• Open up your Browser.

• Type “spiral.ac” into

the search bar.

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 • Click on the “Join
Free” button.

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 • Under “Sign up as”
select “Teacher”.

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 • This is the create
new account
window.

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 • Enter your email
address.

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 • Create your
password and
enter it into both
bars.

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 • Enter your
school’s name.

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 • Click on “Create
free account”.

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Exploring Features
Your account is now set up.
Now it is time to look at the features.

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 • There are five
tabs on the Spiral
ribbon.

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 The first is “Home”
• This is where you can
make and store
activities.

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 The second is
“Assignments”
• You can create, share,
and review
assignments under
this tab.

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 The third is “Classes”
• You can create,
sync and manage
your classes here.

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 The fourth is “Student”
• This is where your
students appear.
• You can call up
information about
each one and manage
their profiles.

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 The fifth is “Timeline”
• This keeps a log of
all the activities
launched in class.

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Creating a “Quickfire” assessment
Now that we are done exploring, we are going to
make a “Quickfire” assessment

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 • Select the “Home” tab.

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 • Click on the
“Quickfire” icon.

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 • Click on the “Plan”
icon.

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This is the “Quickfire” creation page

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 • Give your
presentation a
title here.

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 • Type your
question into this
dialogue box.

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 • Now select
whether you want
your student to
respond with text
Or or a drawling.

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 • Decide if you
want to add a
timer to the
question.

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 • If you decide to
add a timer, click
“No Timer”.
• A drop down
menu will appear
of possible times.

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 • You may also
choose to add an
Image.
• Click on the image
icon.

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 • This will open a
popup where you
can select a photo
to add from your
downloads.

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 • Add questions
with the “Add
question” button.

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 • When you are
done click “Save
and link to a class”.

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 • Now select the
class you want to
link it with.

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 • Now click “Save
and link to classes”.

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Launching Quickfire Assessments:
Now you can create Quickfire assessments.
This next part will show you how to launch them.

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 • Click the “Home”
tab.
• Click the Quickfire
you’d like to launch.

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 • Click the launch
button.

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This will direct you to a page like this:

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 • Direct your students
to go to the website
“gospiral.ac”.
• Tell them to enter the
classes pin number.
• They can use
computers or
personal devices.

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 • Wait until all your
students have joined.
• Their names and icons
will appear on your
screen as they log in.

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 • Once everyone joins
click “GO”.

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How to use your Live “Quickfire”
You have now launched a live Quickfire activity.
This will show you how to use key tools in it.

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 • Use the arrows on
either side of the
screen to move
forward or backward
through the quiz.

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 • Clicking this icon
opens another tab
and allows you to
preview student
answers without
displaying them on
the board.

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 • Clicking “Show
Answers” will display
the students answers
on the screen and
projector if configured.
• This also enables other
features.

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 • When a student’s
response appears it
Answer gives you several
options.

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 • The first option
makes the response
bubble bigger and
easier to read.

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 • This symbol marks
the students
response as correct.

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 • This symbol sends
the response back to
the student with the
message “Your
teacher would like
you to improve your
answer”.

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 • Once “Show Answers
has been clicked”
these options will
become available.

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 • This is one of the
most important
features.
• When clicked it will
make the student’s
answers anonymous
when appearing on
the screen.

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 • “Clear”, clears the
board of student
responses.
• It also sends them a
message requesting
them to modify their
answer.

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 • “Tick All” ticks all
student responses on
the board.

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 • “Show ticked” only
displays the answers
that have been ticked.

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 • Click “Add question”
to add additional
verbal or written
questions to the quiz
in progress.

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 Click “Finish” to end
the Quickfire activity.

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Finishing the Activity:
This has officially ended the Quickfire activity.

Spiral saves the students responses so you can go

back and inspect them.

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