Students

Every student needs a hero to scaffold and support their learning. Taking time to read, review and set up Hero correctly will ensure that everything will run smoothly for your students and their teachers.

Prepare Hero so your students can view, contribute and interact with content.

1. Review your app settings
• Add student email addresses to their profiles.More...
• Decide what pages you want teachers, parents and students to add comments on posts.
• Add ‘About this Page’ information to help students with posting.More...
• Decide what pages you want students to view content and add posts to.More...
• Turn on the goal setting options for students by navigating to the Basic Options page in the Administration menu.

Introduce Hero to your students.

Introduce your internal team to the steps for bringing students onto Hero.

1. Share your plan and best practice guidelines with staff
• Inform your staff of the school’s plan for bringing students onto Hero and who to seek assistance from.
• Develop and share posting guidelines for students.More...
• Set and share school-wide expectations around the frequency, timing and content of student posts. E.g Should a student post be unedited ideas or an edited and proof-read post?
2. Ensure staff know how to communicate effectively with students
• Create a slideshow or screenshots of what the student app looks like for your school.
• How to add a Simple Survey to a Student Feed post (Premier)More...
• How to post to the Student FeedMore...
• Creating a group of studentsMore...

Engage

Make it easy for students to log into Hero and add learning content.

1. Set up the app and log in.
• Ask students to download the Hero by LINC-ED app onto their tablet or to bookmark go.linc-ed.com on their laptop.
• Get your students logged into Hero to set their passwords. More...
2. Teach your students how to use Hero.
• Hero Student Challenge for junior students: Add QR codes to the Hero Student Challenge that link to short screencasts demonstrating each “I can …” task. Students can watch the videos on a tablet to assist with comprehension.
• Run the Hero Student ChallengeMore...
3. Share your expectations for posting with students and provide scaffolds for this.
• Create scaffolds such as post sentence starters to help students write posts. A rubric could be developed to extend this e.g. “I can write a post that describes what is in my picture”, “ I can write a post that describes what is in my picture and reflects on my learnings”, “ I can write a post that describes what is in my picture, reflects on my learnings and explains what I would do differently next time.”
• Create a screencast specific to your class posting requirements.
4. Encourage parents to engage with learning goals and posts by adding a ‘like’ or ‘comment’.
• Make use of the Family Action PackMore...
• Add ‘About This Page’ information for parents such as Comment Sentence Starters.More...

Inspire

Regular review, reflect and update:

1. Undertake a review of student engagement.
• Survey your students to gather feedback on their use of the Hero app.
2. Undertake a review of staff use of the Student Feed and Super Simple Survey features to ensure best practice.
• Is the Super Simple Survey feature being used to gather student understanding of tasks? Student wellbeing?
• Are the teachers communicating with students regularly via Hero posts and use of the Student Feed?
• Is the timing and frequency of posts appropriate?
• Is all communication being sent through the one channel - Hero?