Working in LiFT
How to Tag Skills Directly to a Class
Skills are typically tagged directly to Evidence in your project building. However, LiFT also has the ability to tag skills directly to a class, not associated with any project. Why might you tag skills directly to a class? If your school uses ...
How to Add to Portfolios with Bulk Actions
In addition to using Bulk Actions to update Evidence Status, Send Comments, or to enter Rubric Ratings, you can to add Evidence to Portfolios. To Add to Portfolio with Bulk Actions: Click Bulk actions in your Class > Project page Select the learners ...
How to Switch School Roles
If a LiFT user has dual roles - both teacher and facilitator - or is now a registered user at multiple schools, it is easy to switch between roles. Click on your School button to the left of your name to access your School Roles. And then select the ...
How to See What Learners See
It's really important to be able to see the LiFT platform - and the projects you are building - through a Learner's perspective. There are two ways to do this: As you are building projects, and an overall view of all a Learner's classes. See What ...
How to Unstick (Refresh) Google
When a learner starts a Google Template assignment, LiFT automatically gives the student and co-teachers permission to access the document as 'writer'. Every now and again Google gets a little tied up in knots and doesn't set the permissions. When ...
How to See Skills with Their Definition and Skill Levels
Sometime the labels on skills in your framework are coded and its hard to remember what the code means. HSH.3.b.2 is what again? Learners may be even more confused. No worries! When you click on a skill in your Classes > Projects space or in the ...
How to Assign Skills to Classes (without tagging to evidence)
In some cases it's helpful to assign skills directly to students in your class rather than tagging those skills to a specific assignment. Assigning a skill directly, using the blue Assign Skills button in your Classes > Project page, populates your ...
How to Add Class Evidence Directly to Portfolios
Ever want to add Evidence to a Portfolio directly, without going to the Class > Project page? Click on a cell in your Classes > Portfolio view. Here you will see a list of the evidence in that skill portfolio. To add new evidence, click on the blue ...
How to Use the Clickable Summary Counts
Within your Class > Projects view, there are columns with summary counts to show how your class is progressing on each Evidence assignment. The columns display the number of learners whose status is Assigned, In Progress, Completed or Overdue. Click ...
How to Communicate with Your Class
You can easily communicate with your class in the Classes > Projects module. Select an Evidence in a Project. Click on the blue Bulk Action button in the upper right corner. Select on one or more individual students, or Select All and de-select ...
How to Support Students When They Get Stuck
The easiest way to support a student who has a question about using LiFT is to send them to the online Student Help Center. In the upper right corner of their LiFT screen is a grey ? icon. When they click on that icon, the Help Center will appear on ...
How to Use the Evidence Table
The Evidence Table is ideally suited for rapid status searches, using the search and filtering features at the top of the table. See How to Find Evidence on My Evidence Table. From your Evidence Table, it is possible to do the following: View, Add or ...
How to Find Evidence on My Evidence Table
Your Evidence Table displays Evidence from all Projects in all Classes. Pretty quickly, that list gets long. To find things, you need to learn to use the search and filter functions at the top of the table. Search by Learner - Enter a Learner's name ...