Tegrity Notes

Instructor Guide

Introduction

This document contains guidelines and best practices on how to use the Tegrity Pen and the Tegrity Notes software during class, on a weekly basis, and when studying for an exam. In addition, this instructor guide will provide guidelines on how to promote Tegrity Pen usage in class and during study.

Clarifying Students Misconception About Tegrity Notes

The following must be communicated to the students.

• Students DO NOT need to study from the computer – many student think that Tegrity forces them to read their notes and study from the computer. This is a wrong assumptions.
  Tegrity helps students to create bookmarks on their notebook (e.g., using asterisk or star signs) in order to refer back to the recorded class, only when a question or additional clarification is needed. Thus, students should use their notebooks and refer to the computer only when they want to bring the instructor back at a specific point.
  If the student does not have a need to refer back to the recorded lecture, that’s is definitely OK
• Tegrity Notebook is not an additional notebook, but a replacement for the student’s current notebook. Student should use the Tegrity Notebooks using Tegrity Pen, and other colored pens and highlighters, exactly as they were using the traditional notebooks.
  However, student should remember that only notes taken with the Tegrity Pen create bookmarks to the recorded lecture.

Tegrity in Class

1. Remember to record every class
2. Remind your students to have their Tegrity Pen and Notebook out to start taking notes.
   Remember – you can track students who are using it, by utilizing Tegrity reporst.
3. Remind the students to install the latest Tegrity update (they will get and automatic message), since it fixes all the problem that they have experienced in the past.
4. From your teaching material, select an important topic that you have covered in the class, and request the students to review it. As an example, lets assume that the “Side Effects in Nancee Quinn’s “Autonomic and CNS continued” class is an important section. Nancee could have asked the students to review the “Side Effects” section since it is an important section, that might be covered in a test. The Instructor should ask the students to use their Tegrity Notes in case of questions in order to refer back to the recorded lecture, and that the instructor will not answer student’s questions if they have not used their Tegrity Notes first.
5. Whenever you mention a certain topic will be on an exam, ask the students to flag their notes, for example, with 2 asterisks. The mark will be a bookmark point for the students during study, allowing students to review this specific point when studying for the exam.

How you may use the Tegrity Pen even in a class that uses hand-out sheets

The following are recommendation for students on how to use handouts with Tegrity Notes

1. When using handouts, students should write the date in their Tegrity Notebook and the hand-out sheet.
2. Student can use their Tegrity Pen on both their hand-out sheets and their notebooks.
3. Whenever the students need to create a written bookmark for a section in their handout, students should use their Tegrity Notebook to simply mark a reference sign to the handout (e.g., asterisk + handout section #). This can be useful whenever the instructor discusses something the student would potentially like to review later, such as, a test question or a topic they do not fully understand.

Please remind the students: Even without using the Tegrity Pen in class, student can always view the class recording or part of it, later from D2L.

Viewing Reports and Statistics

1. You can access the viewing reports and statistics for your course by navigating to your D2L course, clicking the Tegrity button for Instructors, and then clicking Reports.
2. Using the Viewing Reports make sure that each student has imported his or her notes, and reviewed the lecture you asked them for.