Organise
Learn how to use SLS to set up class groups, manage resources in My Drive, and keep your teaching materials organised.
Organise
Use SLS to to organise your personal and class group resources, assignments and notifications.
A. How to create Class Groups in SLS?
B. How to organise Class Group Resources?
C. How to install/use Apps in Class Groups?
D. More about Class Groups
E. How to organise My Modules in My Drive?
F. More about My Drive
G. How to organise Starred Resources?
H. Ideas for Teaching & Learning
I. Tech Tips for Teachers
Will form teachers be given a class with their form classes on SLS? Right now, form teachers who do not teach the whole class have to form their own teaching groups in order to conduct FTGP lessons.
Schools are advised to create a class in School Cockpit (containing the form class students and teacher) and tag the class to a school-based subject, e.g. CCE. Once tagged to a subject, the form classes will appear in SLS.
Currently only teachers in the same Teaching Group can change password for students. Can SLS allow teachers to change a students’ password even if no TG is set up?
We have added the ability for form teachers to reset the passwords of students in their form class since Dec 2023.
How will edits in School Cockpit (SC) and in SLS Class Groups affect each other?
Information will sync only one way from SC to SLS. Updates in SC will appear in SLS. However, edits in SLS Class Groups will not appear in SC.
Can SC team + SLS look into a trigger button for school users to trigger a sync so that all the teaching groups involved can be updated. It takes very long for the sync to happen and manual pulling of new student names is very slow.
The R19 ability to add students to existing SLS Class Groups will allow you to add new students to a class immediately while waiting for the sync with School Cockpit. After the sync occurs, the student will automatically be treated like other students in the Class Group.
Will there be a storage limit in SLS in years to come?
At the moment, there are no plans to impose a storage cap currently, nor in the near future.
Schools will be informed in advance with enough lead time to make adjustments should there be plans to do so in the future.
What is the difference between observer role and co-teacher?
Assigning the Observer role mimics a physical classroom lesson observation where Observers passively observe Class Group activities (such as access Assignments, view Announcements and Class Group Forum interactions, without being able to edit or accidentally delete them) while the Co-teacher has almost similar access as Class Group Owners.
For more information about the differences between the roles, visit Create Class Groups.
Is it possible to create class groups of more than 100?
There is no limit to the number of students that can be added to a Class Group. However, multiple Assignment cards will be created for Class Groups with more than 100 students, making the monitoring more tedious. Also, the Learning Progress will only be able to display the learning performce of the first 100 students in the Class Group. Hence, for an optimal experience in monitoring students' learning, teachers are encouraged to keep Class Group sizes below 100 students.
Can SLS provide for building student portfolios so that it can accompany them throughout their time in the education system?
Yes, it is possible for teachers to do this by creating an Assignment in their current Class Group to hold the student artefacts. At the end of the year, teachers can move the assignment to the new Class Group for students to continue contributing to their artefacts.
Can teachers access/retrieve student work in cases when the student has not been taught by the teacher before?
For now, it is possible for students to visit their Past Class Groups, retrieve their work and put it in a new assignment in their current Class Group.