Educate students wherever they are with Lessonbank
Improve access to instruction
Lessonbank gives school districts the ability to engage remote students in their in-person classes. Not only does this help absent students attend classes they would otherwise miss in person, it gives students an opportunity to take a full schedule of teacher-led classes that can be attended in person, synchronously online, or asynchronously online to better meet their unique needs and circumstances.
Providing this level of support, flexibility, and engagement can even give school districts a competitive advantage to win back and retain students in this new era of competition for public school students
Livestream your lectures
Lessonbank was built with Google Meet to engage remote students and to make lecture capture a friction-free experience
As a One Roster certified autonomous solution, Lessonbank syncs with your school's master schedule to automatically schedule, generate and share Meet links for every class on the schedule.
When students cannot attend in person, they can attend virtually by clicking the'Launch Class' link in Lessonbank at the start time.
If students can't attend virtually for whatever reason, they can still get credit for attending by watching the video of the missed class in its entirety--as Lessonbank can track progress and report back the result to your student information system to update attendance records
Record, caption and transcribe lectures
Lessonbank makes lecture capture as simple as hitting the record button. But before you do, you have the option of including two valuable features:
First, you can include live captions in multiple languages to assist students during the live stream.
Second, you can auto-generate a text transcript of the lecture for students. Combining a transcript with the lecture video offers a powerful form of multi-sensory learning that can drastically improve learning and comprehension.
And if teachers are uncomfortable on camera, they can turn off the camera altogether and simply share their screen and audio--which still provides a great remote learning experience.
Archive, share, and reuse lectures
When class is over, Lessonbank automatically archives the video for teachers and students in their own personal archive.
Teachers can search their archive of past classes to find videos that are helpful in remediating truant and struggling students.
Additionally, teachers can use their classroom lecture videos to deliver flipped classroom learning experiences.
The best part about using Lessonbank to generate content for flipped learning is that the content is relevant--and delivered by the student's actual teacher.
Lessonbank also transcribes the audio into a lecture document that students can use for notes and to read along with the lecture.
Lessonbank then shares the video and document with students and parents for review and remediation in their own personal archives.
And of course, if something goes wrong, teachers can delete the video at any time and replace it with a better video from another section.
With Lessonbank, teachers control the entire recording process--from starting and stopping--to deleting and replacing videos.
Stop losing to cyber schools
Why spend $5-10k per student per year on curriculum and staffing to offer a district-run cyber academy when you can offer students a full schedule of teacher-led classes that can be attended synchronously or asynchronously for $12 per student per year
Deliver high touch online instruction
Remote students can experience an in-class learning experience--complete with hand raising, class participation, and real time audio and video enabled engagement--from anywhere in the world. And unlike cyber schools, all classes are led by actual certified teachers
Increase participation with reactions
Reduce pressure for students to participate by enabling students to make emoji reactions to classroom instruction. Reactions appear in the teacher's tile, and at the bottom left of the screen. It's important to give modern students modern ways to engage
Collaborate with breakout rooms
Teachers can use breakout rooms to give remote students an opportunity to collaborate and work in smaller groups--and all while remaining in the online class being live streamed on Google Meet. Breakout rooms are an important feature for online learners
Gain insights with polls
Teachers can create polls for students to vote on during class. These polls can be useful for making checks on comprehension, facilitating discussions, and collecting anonymous responses to questions. They're also great gamifying class quizzes
Clarify with Q&A sessions
Regardless if you're teaching in-person, online, or a combination of both student types, it's important to leave space for questions. With a couple clicks, teachers can run interactive Q&A sessions to assess student comprehension and gain valuable feedback
Grow your ADM
Lessonbank offers schools a real opportunity to grow ADM (average daily membership) by giving students a second chance to attend class online, and a third chance by watching videos of missed classes. It can also grow ADM by winning back cyber charter students
