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Teaching Commons Administrator Guide

Administrators can add materials, sessions, and offerings to the Carnegie Foundation’s Teaching Commons database.

On the Teaching Commons frontend, members can view Featured Sessions and Offerings added by the administrators, filter items by Category and Audience Level, search for Keywords, and browse by Topic.

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LOG IN

Enter your Teaching Commons Email and Password at https://teachingcommons.carnegiefoundation.org/admin/ and select Sign In

Select Forgotten it? to reset your password

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OPTIMIZE FILES

Optimize your files for uploading on the Teaching Commons

Compress large PDF, video, and image files: https://www.youcompress.com/

Compress PowerPoints:

- From your PPT, select File > Compress Pictures > On-screen (150 ppi) > Okay

- Save your PPT file with a name of fewer than 50 characters

ADD MATERIALS

From the Teaching Commons editing dashboard:

Select Materials to add new materials to the Teaching Commons materials database

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Select + Add a Document

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- Add the document Title, Collection, Tags, Material type, and Choose File

- Select Upload

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The item can now be added to sessions and offerings

ADD A SESSION

From the Teaching Commons editing dashboard:

Select Curated Library

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Select Sessions

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To add a Master Session, select + Add a Master Session

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Core

- Add a session Title

- Check whether or not to make the session public

- Note: All sessions should be set to Private until reviewed by the Communications team

- Add a Version name, Notes, information About this session/offering, a Summary, Notes to facilitators, Google template url, Google srd url, Audiences, Featured image, Number of minutes, and Moves and tools, as appropriate 

- Select Save

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Authors

- Select the checkboxes beside appropriate Authors for the session

- Select Save

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Materials

- Select the checkboxes beside appropriate Materials for the session

- Select Save

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Taggables (Categories, etc.)

- Select the checkboxes beside appropriate Subcategories, Categories, Objectives, and Teaching cases for the session

- Select Save

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The session has now been added to the Teaching Commons database

To add a Session Version, select the Master Session to which you would like to add a version

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Select + Add a Version

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Core

- Check whether or not to make the version public

- Note: All versions should be set to Private until reviewed by the Communications team

- Add a Version name

- Add/edit applicable information about the new version

- Select Save

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Authors

- Select the checkboxes beside appropriate Authors for the version

- Select Save

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Materials

- Select the checkboxes beside appropriate Materials for the version

- Select Save

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Taggables (Categories, etc.)

- Select the checkboxes beside appropriate Subcategories, Categories, Objectives, and Teaching cases for the version

- Select Save

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The session version has now been added to the Teaching Commons database

ADD AN OFFERING

From the Teaching Commons editing dashboard:

Select Curated Library

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Select Offerings

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To add a Master Offering, select + Add a Master Offering

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Core

- Add an offering Title

- Check whether or not to make the offering public

- Note: All offerings should be set to Private until reviewed by the Communications team

- Add a Version name, Notes, information About this session/offering, a Summary, Notes to facilitators, Google template url, Google srd url, Audiences, Featured image, Number of days, Facilitator’s Agenda, Offering type, Background information, Essential questions, and Prerequisite knowledge, as appropriate

- Select Save

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Materials

- Select the checkboxes beside appropriate Materials for the offering

- Select Save

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Sessions

- Select the checkboxes beside appropriate Sessions for the offering

- Select Save

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Categories/Subcategories/Objectives

- Select the checkboxes beside appropriate Subcategories, Categories, Objectives, and Teaching cases for the offering

- Select Save

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The offering has now been added to the Teaching Commons database

To add an Offering Version, select the Master Offering to which you would like to add a version

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Select + Add a Version

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Core

- Check whether or not to make the version public

- Note: All versions should be set to Private until reviewed by the Communications team

- Add a Version name

- Add/edit applicable information about the new version

- Select Save

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Materials

- Select the checkboxes beside appropriate Materials for the version

- Select Save

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Sessions

- Select the checkboxes beside appropriate Sessions for the version

- Select Save

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Categories/Subcategories/Objectives

- Select the checkboxes beside appropriate Subcategories, Categories, Objectives, and Teaching cases for the version

- Select Save

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The offering version has now been added to the Teaching Commons database

HELP

Contact support@carnegienetworks.org with any questions

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