So hello everyone thank you very much
for joining me today for this webinar. My
name is Marta and I'll be giving you a
walkthrough of Cambridge Online
Mathematics. Great alrighty, so just a
brief overview of the platform Cambridge
Online Mathematics or COM is the
digital learning platform for
mathematics from Cambridge University
Press. The platform houses our
international digital maths products to
support Cambridge Checkpoint
Mathematics, Cambridge IGCSE Mathematics
and Cambridge International AS & A
Level Mathematics. As a teacher on the
platform you'll be able to set tasks and
assign tests for individual
students or entire classes, as well as
create reports to track student progress
and performance all of which will be
very useful tools in teaching your maths
students remotely. We have recently
extended our Cambridge Online
Mathematics trials from 15 days to 90
days so to access these extended trials
simply go to our home page at Cambridge.org,
click through to our education
section
locate our teaching and learning from home section, click through to find out more
 
while that loads I'll just go ahead and
click this through. On our teaching and
learning from home section scroll down
to secondary, click access maths trial and
you will be taken to a form. After
reading all this information please play
pay close attention to the final
question asking about your students by
letting us know how many students you
would like to include on the platform.
Our customer services team will be able
to send you your login details along
with a spreadsheet containing access
codes for your students that they will
use to register for Cambridge Online
Mathematics. You and the students will
also receive a class key, which will
enable them to be linked to a virtual
classroom within the platform. If you
have any questions regarding this form
please ask us now or feel free to email
us and we'd be happy to help.
Now that we've registered, we'll go ahead
to our home screen. Here after your
students receive their access codes
they're able to register for the
platform in the student section here and
logging in is simply in our home tab on
the right.
So as you can see this is our home tab
for Cambridge Online Mathematics and you
can navigate through the courses up here
Cambridge IGCSE and Checkpoint
Mathematics are both additional resource
for your students and are able to be
used alongside the physical textbooks,
they are also identical in terms of
layout and features on the platform. AS & A Level Mathematics is a digital
version of the textbook and the layout
on Cambridge Online Mathematics is a
bit different so I will be covering both.
We'll start today with IGCSE
Mathematics, as you can see our chapters
are located on the left with our topics
located on the right, if I click through
each chapter you can see that each
chapter begins with a topic quiz
we'll start our walk through here. Our
topic quizzes begin with Level 2
questions as our Level 1 questions are
contained within each topic and are
designed to be answered while your
students view the topic notes. Our level
2 questions begin the review these
questions check your understanding of
the basic skills covered in this group
of lessons. Level 3 questions require you
to completely understand the maths in
this group of lessons and challenge
questions ask you to bring in skills
from other groups of lessons. If we go
through level 2 questions you can see
they take on a variety of formats
multiple-choice, or write-in, working out
different problems and if I click submit
answers or check answers the platform
will automatically tell you how many
you've scored, how well you've scored. If
you've answered any of the questions
incorrectly the platform will direct you
to the exact part in the in the lesson
that you need to review in order to
answer the questions correctly,
the platform also do this after every
incorrect question within the quiz. I'll
click through to here to get us into the
actual topic, but that is also accessible
if you click this little arrow up here
to chapter 1.1. So immediately we see all of our content
is on the left, all of our texts goes all
the way down and all of our features are
located on the right. We'll start with
the content on the left,
the light blue words you see here are
those that are linked to our dictionary
which is accessible clicking through
here and the back arrow takes you back
to the topic the dark blue words are
keywords from the content and if you
keep scrolling down you'll see the
content prompts you to either click a
widget, or print a worksheet. In this
specific topic we'll be going over these
specific resources in this section. Here
we'll begin with the features on the
right with our walkthroughs, these are
exactly what they sound like, they walk
your student through the topics being
presented to them on the left. You can
see a summary of your walkthrough before
you begin it and when you're ready you
can go ahead and click begin, in this
case they want me to write in the
millions place value. I'm going to go
ahead and answer this incorrectly to
show you what the platform does
automatically, it tells you that you were
incorrect but it asks you to try again.
If I write in an incorrect answer one
more time, this time the platform tells
me I'm incorrect and gives me the
correct answer, so your students are able
to quickly check their understanding and
improve their knowledge. In this case we
only have one walkthrough but this
varies between topics. Our next feature
here is our Scorcher, the Scorchers are
quick fire fun ways to check your
students understanding, they are able to
play against the world their school or
the students in their class. We're going
to go through the scorcher just so you
can see how it works.
It counts us down and as you can see I'm
going to go ahead and write in the wrong
answer again just to showcase what the
scorcher will do for your students after
they're all complete. So you can see it
goes very quickly and keeps your
students engaged the whole time.
So this platform gives you your final
score, your final time and compares your
high scores with
those of students in your school, you can
also click through each page to see your
solutions. So once again in every step of
the way Cambridge Online Mathematics is
making sure that your students are
checking their understanding and
improving their knowledge. The next
section here are our resources, so these
are the ones I've mentioned below in the
text, the first section here Number
Reader is our widget resource identified
by the gear image on the left. In this
case it is a Number Reader so these
widgets are often very interactive and
they just add another element of
understanding for your students so
instead of them answering the same
questions and answers they're able to
display their learning in an interactive
visual way. I'll just go ahead and
complete this very quickly.
As you can see there's no right or wrong
it's just displaying a concept and we're
able to see the number I've just created
in Words and in Bundles and then you can
go ahead and reset there.
We've also got another widget here as
well as a worksheet, our worksheets are
identifiable with a little piece of
paper located to the left of them these
worksheets open in a new tab, they're
able to be downloaded and saved and
shared with your students I'll just wait
till this loads.
Excellent, so as you can see it's a
pretty standard format of worksheet but
you can again download and share with
your students. The last section here are
our questions, these are similar to the
topic quiz questions we just we talked
about in the beginning of the of the
walkthrough and they start with Level 1
questions. The answers for which are
found in lesson notes and then go up in
difficulty all the way up to challenge
questions. These questions look a tiny
bit different as you only see them one
by one, you can filter through this way.
The next section that we'll go over in IGCSE now that we've gone over the content
and the features on the right is our
little toolbar here in the top left
corner, the first of which simply being
the ability to print, the ability to go
full screen and most importantly our
ability to create a task. This is an
excellent remote teaching functionality
as it allows you to assign assignments
from our activity section for your
students, you're able to name them, choose
a start date. If you for whatever reason
need to change your topic group from
IGCSE to Checkpoint you can go ahead and
change that, double check you've got the
right course and write a message to your
students. After you save that they'll go
ahead and receive that task.
The next section here is our shared link
feature so this can be shared with
people who have a valid Cambridge Online
Mathematics account so of course you can
copy this here click clipboard and send
it to your students if you want them to
find this exact part of the IGCSE
resource. Our last option here is to
create a bookmark, you can choose your
folder, change your bookmark name and
it will tell you the location, so as I meantioned
IGCSE is very similar
to Cambridge Checkpoint Mathematics, so I'll
just quickly show you that.
So here the chapters are called units
but once again we've got our units on
the left and our topics on the right and
every unit starts with the topic quiz. If
I go into the actual content
you'll see right away that the format is
exactly the same. All of our text and
content is located on the left with all
of our features located on the right.
I'll move on to our Cambridge AS & A Level
Maths now.
So as you can see our chapters are still
located on the left with our topics on
the right, but every chapter no longer
belong begins with a topic quiz to match
the actual textbook because AS & A Level
Maths on Cambridge Online Maths is a
digital version of the textbook. There
are cross topic review exercises located
every couple of chapters here. We're
going to go ahead and begin right in the
content, so right away we can see that
the formatting is completely different,
it starts with a prerequisite knowledge
section followed by a brief bit of text
moving on to your worked examples, you
can navigate by of course
scrolling down your page, or using the
little box in the top left here to go
down to your worked examples, or your
explore section. You've got your text
here in this section, part of the tabs,
you've also got a tab set that says
Exercise. The Exercise tab is simply
questions based on what we've learned in
this section using this little box in
the top left. We can navigate from
question to question, we can also choose
whether we want to show our workspace,
show our answers, or show the answers the platform provides and submit any answers
we've worked on. Our work has been
submitted so we're able to see our
results, the platform tells us how much
percent you've completed of the
assessment, it tells you the exact
correct answers and reviews your
responses for the content portion. That's
all we have for AS & A Level so we'll
move on to the features on the right
here, starting with our Desmos graphing
calculator, so this very wonderfully
displays exactly what your students
might see on a graphing calculator if
they don't have one nearby, or if they
just like to use it within the text this
is a great tool for them to be able to
do that and I'm just using my keyboard
here, but you can of course use the
keyboard built into the graphing
calculator here. There are also some
settings you might want to look into to
make it appropriate for your students
learning at the time. The next section here is our Desmos
geometry tool, this allows you to
construct a variety of geometrical shapes
and it'll tell you how to do it step by
step below. In this case we'll create a
polygon together, so as you can see I'm
following along with the instructions on
the bottom left hand side which is
prompting me to choose another point.
Lastly I'll choose another point to
finish. The tick mark indicates I've
created my polygon next, perhaps I'd like
to create a transformation. I'll define
this transformation as a rotation and
follow along with what the platform is
telling me to do here, choosing a point,
selecting an object to apply this
transformation and applying it. As you
can see I've rotated my object a few
times here, this little button lets us
undo our transformation, or redo it once
again. There's also a small settings
option here, our next section is our
Desmos scientific calculator, this allows
you to once again use the keyboard
function or use a calculator function.
Below here is your main calculator
section, here is an alphabetical keyboard
and here are functions you're able to
use. You can also switch the calculator
from radians to degrees and once again
there's a brief settings section here.
Finally we're also able to create a task
within AS & A Level Maths and this looks
exactly like how we saw in IGCSE and
Checkpoint, but of course the activities
here only include the topic or the
exercise.
Finally we are also able to share a link
using our little tool bar section here.
The next thing I'll show you is our
dashboard section, which you can access
via the toolbar up here, or simply by
clicking our Cambridge University Press
logo at the top. So because we are
currently in pure maths one of our
AS & A Level topics and it will tell you
that that is the course you are in and
allow you to access the last topic we
were in. Our dashboard for AS & A Level
Maths looks slightly different to our
IGCSE in Checkpoint so I'm going to go
ahead and start there.
 
So this is our dashboard for IGCSE core
and extended, it starts with our messages
function, very simply we're able to
compose a message, send it to students,
teachers or entire classes. You can
choose your subject here,
write in any of your messages, format
them, choose an expiry date if you wish
and go ahead and send it off. Your
students will receive this notification
here and if you receive any messages
from your students they will also appear
here.
Our reports function is split into two
for IGCSE and Checkpoint Mathematics the
first reports function lets you see all
of the class and student reports
available to you on the platform and
lets you see your classes. Here you can
also change your course group, your
course chapter and topic. If you so wish
if I change this report here, click
generate it will update below. I'm also
able to export this report as a PDF or
an Excel spreadsheet.
The second reporting function focus is
on our classes, here we can click on the
class name to view the class reports or
a specific student, it also shows us our
school administrators below.
Next we have our tasks functionality
this is where all the tasks that we've
created together are stored, you're able
to view previous tasks you've assigned,
see the progress that's being completed
by your students and you're also able to
close them. If you'd like to create a new
task, simply click new task and a very
familiar pop-up window will appear to
you.
Next we have our tests functionality, the
tests functionality is only available
for IGCSE core and extended and Checkpoint
Maths it is not available for AS & A Level
Mathematics. So you can see all of the
tests I've created here, I'm going to
create a test together with you now. The
platform will ask you if you'd like to
use the wizard or the manual selection
and we'll be going over both. The wizard
option lets you name your tests, describe
it and then choose the number of
questions per level for each selected
chapter topic and we'll go ahead and
select exactly which topic we want to
focus on. There we go.
So once again it reminds me of the course
group and the chapter and the topic I'm
in and allows me to preview the
questions. On the right I can see the
correct answer,
I can also preview the test in its
complete form. If I save this test it has
been saved successfully and I can access
it in the 'My Tests' section, however I
have not assigned the test to do that. I
have to tick the box here and click the
assign option. Before we finish with
tests, I'll show you how to create a
manual selection test. This tool once
again allows you to choose your course
group, name your test, but you are able to
search through every question available
that the platform has created in Level
one so you able to preview them here and
if you like if you'd like to include it
in your test go ahead and click the
little arrow and include it on the right.
Once again we can preview the test, save
it and view it here and just like wizard
to assign it we have to tick the box and
then click assign here. There's also a
variety of tools you can also use for
your tests below.
Our next functionality is simply our
dictionary, which of course shows us all
of the dictionary terms included in the
content, we've also got our next section
here games and block buddies. Block
buddies is simply one of our games but
has its own little section in our
dashboard, so I'll just go over our game
section, very simply this is a variety of
games that you are able to assign for
your students via message or simply let
them know that they are available. It's a
great way to kind of break up your
students learning, if you'd like them to
have something different to do.
 
As I said the block buddy section is
just one of our games that's accessible
via the dashboard, our next section here
is school classes, which shows you all of
the teachers and students and classes in
your account.
 
Next we've got our my classes section so
it shows all of the classes you have as
a teacher on the platform. It lets you
look at some student information, where
they last logged in, their usage time and
some can account information you can
also view your school administrators.
Finally we have a bookmark section, so as
we saw before in the content we could
create a bookmark and this is exactly
where all of our bookmarks live so we
can see them in a bit more detail. We're
able to rename them, delete them, or edit
them here. We can also add new bookmark
folders such as the general one the
platform automatically creates for you
and the lesson plans one I've set for
myself.
That's our dashboard for IGCSE and
Checkpoint as those two are identical
and I'll brief you should briefly show
you how the AS & A Level dashboard
differs.
So as you can see we only have one
reports functionality here. This one will
still allow you to do everything the
other two functionalities included but
all in one section here with our class
and student reports. Just like in the
other one you are able to generate the
reports below and export them as a PDF
or an Excel spreadsheet.
We also only have the task section here
and we do not have the test section
included in AS & A Level Maths but
everything else is relatively the same
with the addition of the 'More Resources'
section.
Currently the resource available here is
a Desmos user guide if your students
need any help using those particular
features. The last thing I'll cover here
is just this toolbar in the top right
corner as I mentioned before your
messages will appear here in the
notification section. Your dashboard is
accessible through this little grid box
here. The magnifying glass lets you
search for anything on the platform. This
is our bookmark section where you can
see all the bookmarks you've created.
This is our Help Center which takes you
to a very very useful site that you can
direct your students to, or perhaps any
teachers that are starting on the
platform. It goes over everything I've
discussed in this walk through, step by
step in the form of guides, FAQs and
there's also a contact email there.
However feel free to contact myself or
any of my colleagues if you have any
questions about the platform. The last
little section here is our account
settings which shows you the products
you're currently using, your details as a
teacher, your class key and your ability
to add or renew a product.
Well that concludes the walkthrough
portion of our webinar for today, we'll
be sending out an email after this
webinar, which will include your
certificate of participation, a link to
sign up for a free trial of Cambridge
Online Mathematics, a link to watch the
recording of this webinar and contact
details for myself and my colleagues.
Please let us know if you'd like to
request a personalized demonstration of
the platform for yourself or your
colleagues. As I said if you've got any
questions now or in the future please
let me know via email. Thank you once
again for joining me and I do hope you
enjoy using Cambridge Online Mathematics!
 
