Getting started

• The teacher home page

  You'll be taken to your Teacher home page when you log in to Siyavula as a teacher. From here, you can navigate to: Your teacher dashboard Your assignments page All Siyavula’s maths and science questions Our professional development tools Our national leaderboards Our professional development tools On your Teacher Home page, you’ll immediately see quick links to some oFew readers

• How to use Siyavula

  Where to start There are many ways you can use Siyavula to support your teaching objectives, and starting by answering the questions below will give you some guidance as to where to start. Where do you want to use Siyavula? You can use Siyavula as part of your teaching, by showing learners examples, or by asking them to work on questions in class. You can also use Siyavula for homework or extra revision outside the classroom. What technology do you and your learners have access to? IFew readers

Ways that work: using Siyavula in your class

• Teacher Tools

  Question Bank As a teacher, you have access to all of Siyavula’s questions in our question bank, making it much easier for you to find questions on a particular topic. The question bank orders questions by subject, grade, topic, and difficulty level. You can both view and do any of the questions in our question bank. Textbooks You are free to use the Siyavula textbooks, which you can findFew readers

How to track learner progress

• School Activity Report

  This report gives teachers an overview of their school’s activity, by subject, grade, and teacher. The report can be viewed online on the Siyavula website and downloaded as an Excel spreadsheet. The report measures a school’s activity against pre-determined key performance indicators (KPIs) that include registration, activity, and learning levels. Information is given both as a table and as charts. In addition to this information, teachers can choose to include infoFew readers

• Assignment Reports

  For classes: The class assignment reports give detailed results for an assignment. When you click on the Assignments Reports link, you’ll see a list of the assignments that have been sent to that class. Clicking on the link takes you to the assignment report. They contain the following information: Title of assignment: this includes information on which teacher created the assignment, when it was created or updated, the number of questioFew readers

• Summary Reports

  The summary reports give teachers an easy-to-view, yet detailed, picture of how a class is using Siyavula. Learner practice will be shown for the year to date, and average mastery across all chapters in the curriculum. How to view a class summary report: At the top of your page you are able to change tFew readers

Leaderboards

• Class Leaderboards

  How to access leaderboards If you scroll down on your Teacher Home page, you can click on the Class Leaderboards button under Classroom Tools to go to the leaderboard function. You can also find Leaderboards in your dropdown menu at the top of your screen. Creating leaderboards at your school Using a leaderboard is a great way to create excitement and positive competition among yourFew readers

Managing your classes

• How to reset a learner's password

  You can manage your classes from your teacher dashboard. Under each class name is the Overview link. Clicking on here will take you to a list of all the learners in your class. You can update a learner's password by clicking on Overview. How to reset a learner's password Once you click on Overview, scroll down to your list of learners. Select the learner/s whose passwords you wiFew readers

• Learner Duplicate Accounts

  Sometimes learners create a new account instead of logging into the account they have previously created. This is because they either forget their log in credentials or they made a spelling mistake with the email address or in their name details. A user can update their personal details if they are able to log in. If they have forgotten their password only but remember which email address or mobile number they used, they can reset thFew readers

• How to share Class Access Codes with Learners

  If you have individual classes set up on Siyavula, you can send your class access code to your learners via email or WhatsApp to allow them to join your class or you can give them the access code and they can link to your class via their home page. Once they have joined your class, they will receive the assignments you set for them and they will appear in your class reporting. What is an access code? When you have individual classes setup on Siyavula, each class has an access code which is uFew readers

• How to link and unlink learners from your class

  You can manage your classes from your teacher dashboard. Under each class name is the Overview link. Clicking on here will take you to a list of all the learners in your class. You can link and unlink learners to and from your class, by clicking on Overview. How to link a learner to your class Click the Overview link to get to your list of learners. At the top, you will see a Link LeFew readers

• How to transfer a learner to another class

  You can manage your classes from your teacher dashboard. Under each class name is the Overview link. Clicking on here will take you to a list of all the learners in your class. You can transfer learners from yours to another class, by clicking on Overview. How to transfer a learner to another class Once you click on Overview, scroll down to the list of your learners, and: Select theFew readers