Teacher's guide Glosboken

Glosboken.se is a digital tool that helps you study language, spelling and concepts in a fun, effective and individual way.

In Glosboken, it is easy for you as a teacher to create e.g. glossary exercises, tasks with multiple choice questions and homework quizzes that you can easily and easily share with your students. In the Glosboken there are also various adaptations that you can choose to assign to your students. This is e.g. speech synthesis support, possibility to give points even if the student spelled a little wrong, add hints, image support and example sentences, etc.

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Create Account

Go to the website https://glosboken.se. If you do not belong to a Google or Microsoft school, you create your account directly on Glosboken's home page. If you belong to a Google or Microsoft school, you can skip this particular step and instead log in via the Google or Microsoft button with your usual account details.

Enter a username (it must be unique), your email address and a password of your choice. Click that you accept Glosboken's terms and policies. Create Account!

Select the school you belong to

In the next mode, you will get to choose which school you belong to. You only do this the first time you either create an account or log in. You will receive suggestions for different schools based on what you enter. Select your school in the list view.

Change from student to teacher status

When you log in for the first time, your account has so-called student status (if you use G Suite for Education, you can skip this step, as Google knows whether you have teacher or student status). To change from student status to teacher status (so you can see statistics and create homework quizzes) you need to change this after logging in (you only need to do this once). Click on your profile picture in the top right corner and select Profile.

Then click on the pencil at the bottom of the page in the right corner. Change from Pupil / Student to Teacher. Here you can also fill in your first and last name. By entering your name, the student can more easily see who has created various courses and exercises.

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Login

Go to the page https://glosboken.se and click Log in at the top right of the page.

There are four different login options:

• With username and password

• With your Google account

• With your Microsoft account

• With your Skolon account

• With your Feide account

Regarding logging in with Skolon

If your school is connected to Skolon, you can log in to Glosboken both from Skolon and from Glosboken's website. If you already have an account with Glosboken and log in with Skolon for the first time, you must select Connect with account, if you want to keep your content in Glosboken. If you are a brand new user of Glosboken and log in with Skolon, choose Create new account instead. Note that this choice only appears the first time you log in.

Regarding logging in with Feide

If your school is connected to Feide, you can log in with your Feide account. If you already have an account with Glosboken and log in with Feide for the first time, you must select Connect with account, if you want to keep your content in Glosboken. If you are a brand new user of Glosboken and log in with Feide, choose Create new account instead. Note that this choice only appears the first time you log in.

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Create a course

Once you've logged in, you'll be taken to your home page. The page initially contains a course with some example exercises. On the start page, you will access courses that you yourself create afterwards. You are recommended to create your own course before you start creating your own exercises.

To create a course in Glosboken, click on the plus sign at the top right of the start page. A course is a kind of folder that keeps your exercises in order. You can e.g. create a course for different subjects you teach or for different grade levels.

Once you have created a course, you can name it, e.g. English or Class 8A. You can then choose whether you want to give it a description (optional). If you want a special background color for the course, choose one of the theme colors.

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Exercises and folders

When you enter your created course (by clicking on the name), you can create exercises. An exercise contains the words the students are to learn and/or the questions and texts they are to study on. At the bottom right of the page there is a plus sign. When you hover over this, you will be given a choice whether to create an exercise or a new subfolder.

If you click Create exercise, you create a new exercise directly in your course. If you choose Create folder, a subfolder is created in your course, into which you can then add other folders and exercises.

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Create new exercise

When you click on Create exercise, you end up in the exercise's editing mode. It is in this mode that you create your various tasks for the students. Name the exercise, e.g. English glossaries v. 5.

Select the type of exercises you want to create by selecting the question type.

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Vocabulary

With this choice, you create vocabulary exercises in different languages for your students. Place your cursor in a word field to be able to choose which of three different ways you want to write your exercise task. The first is to let the students themselves write in the correct answer. The second is to let the students choose the correct answer (from up to four different options), i.e. as a multiple choice question. The third is verb questions. You can change the answer method by clicking on the small down arrow on the right.

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Write the correct answer

If you choose Write the correct answer, you enter the word in the language you want to translate from (in this case Swedish). Then the (in this case) English translation which is the target word for the exercise. If a word has synonyms, you can add these using a comma. You can get the student right regardless of which translation he or she enters. You can also enter a complete question, e.g. "When did Gustav Vasa die?". Or "What is the name of the capital of France?". The student then answers with a year or with a word.

You select the language under the language selection buttons. It is important to select the correct language under the language selection buttons as there is speech synthesis for some languages.

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Choose the correct answer

With the option Choose the correct answer, the student will get different answer options that you can enter yourself. These answer options will then be presented in the study mode of the same name (see section Study Modes - Choose the correct answer). If you do not enter any multiple choice options, the other study words will be randomized as multiple choice.

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Verb

With the Verb option, students can study different beginning forms of verbs, e.g. infinitive, preterite and supinum (go, went, gone) or different inflections depending on which pronoun governs (I am, you are, he/she/it it) etc. You can enter up to six different answer options.

All words must be entered correctly and in the correct order, both if the student is to get it completely right in the study mode and in the homework interrogation mode.

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Dictation

With the dictation exercises, students can independently study spelling e.g. Swedish words by having them write a target word that is read aloud in a sentence using speech synthesis.

Type the target word (the word you want the students to study) in the top field, followed by a sentence containing the word. In study mode, the speech synthesizer will read out the entire sentence and then repeat what is to be written.

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Question answer

With the Question/Answer question type, you can write different study questions for the students that you want them to study, e.g. "When did Gustav Vasa die?". Or "What is the name of the capital of France?". The student then answers with a year or with a word.

When you place your cursor in a text field, you can choose whether students should type in their answer or choose the correct answer from four options. You can change the answer method by clicking on the small down arrow on the right.

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Add new exercise task

To add a new word or task, click the plus sign in the small vertical menu to the right of the task view. This menu also contains some other extras that you can add to your task. If you want to delete a task, click on the trash can at the bottom.

Import already written questions

You can easily import already written exercise tasks from Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets if you have word lists or question lists in one of those formats. If so, click the Import questions button. Select both the question and answer columns and select Copy.

You then paste the selected text into the text field that appears after clicking on Import questions. Now question tasks are automatically created based on your words and questions. Finish by clicking Import Questions.

Extra features

Add sample sentence: Here you can insert the target word in a context. If the target word is "table", you can e.g. write "Put your keys on the table". The target word will be given in the study mode, but with the help of the context it may be easier to come up with the word. Delete the sample sentence by clicking the trash can on the right.

Add comment: Here you can add a comment after the students have entered their answer, both for correct and incorrect answers. Delete the comment by pressing the trash can on the right.

Add Hint/Hint: If you want to give students a hint to guess the word, you can do so using this button. The clue then appears in the study mode. Delete the clue by clicking the trash can on the right.

Add image: By adding an image, you give students extra support if they have difficulty reading the text and need clarification. You can directly upload images from the Internet that you can choose from or you can choose to upload your own image.

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Special characters

Depending on which language you have set, you have the option of bringing up various special characters that make it easier to write certain letters and characters that are only used in some languages (the image shows Spanish characters).

You can click them off with the red cross in the upper right corner. If you do not want them to be displayed at all, you can set this in your settings (see Settings - General).

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Share exercises by inviting students

In order for your students to have access to the exercises in your course, they need to become participants in the course. Students will then be able to use the exercises in the different study Modes, but they will not be able to make changes or delete them.

To share the course with your students, click the share button at the top right.

If you do not want students to have access to all the exercises in a course, you can choose to share only one exercise with them. Alternatively, you can create a subfolder in your course that you choose to share with students. If you share a subfolder, students will have access to all the exercises you put in that folder, but not other exercises higher up in the folder hierarchy.

There are three different ways to share your course and/or exercise after you press the share button:

1. Via a clickable link that you e.g. email your students or post on a school platform. When students click on the link, they end up directly in the created course or exercise.

2. Via Google Classroom (if the school uses this). In the student's Google Classroom, a link to join the course or access a specific exercise will be posted.

3. Via Microsoft Teams (if the school uses this). It is possible to create a task with an exercise link directly in a selected team or to a specific class.

Add students if your school is connected to Skolon

If your school is connected to Skolon, there is another way to share an exercise. Inside a course or folder, you can click the button Participants. Hover or click the plus button at the bottom right and select Add yourself. Click on the students who should have access and then on Save. Students can now directly find the course, folder or exercise in Glosboken without having to click on a link.

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Different positions inside an exercise

When a student enters an exercise, different training possibilities and other choices are visible. These are Study Modes, Play, Participants, Statistics and Print. Only the person who is the administrator of the course itself gets the Edit option.

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Study modes

Here there are up to five different exercise modes depending on the type of exercise you have created (Gloss exercise, Dictation or Question/answer).

Review: In the review mode, all questions and answers in the exercise are reviewed by first showing the question and then the answer. Both question and answer can be read out with speech synthesis.

Choose the correct answer: The student must choose the correct answer (out of four answer options) to answer the question. If you have entered your own multiple-choice options, it is between these that the student chooses, otherwise the other words in the exercise are presented randomly as options.

Write the correct answer: In this option, write a written answer to the question. Enter the target word and click Enter or Reply.

Listen and answer: Here you get the target word read aloud using speech synthesis. The student enters the target word himself. Then click Enter or Reply.

Mixed questions: This option mixes different question options such as Choose an answer, Write the correct answer and Listen and answer.

When you are in an exercise and want to return to the main view with all other exercise modes, click on the cross at the top right of the exercise box.

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Play

For Vocabulary exercises and Question/answer exercises, there are three games that students can play to study their tasks in a slightly different way.

Memory: The students play memory with the task of matching question and answer.

Wack a mole: "Whack a mole" is a game where the target word comes up and students have to quickly click on the correct answers.

Glosjakten: Drive a police car and catch the right "word thieves" that you meet along the way. You control the police car using the arrow keys (forward/backward/up/down). Along the way there are also different forms of power-ups that affect the game in different ways.

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Participants

Under the button Participants you see who are participants in the course, the folder and/or the exercise. If you want to access a participant's profile information and see which courses they are a participant in, click on any participant. Anyone who clicks on your distributed sharing link becomes a participant (see Share exercises by inviting students).

Make someone an administrator

You can choose to make a special participant an administrator along with you, e.g. a colleague whom you want to have access to your exercise and/or course. Both then have the same rights to edit in the exercise. Click the three dots to the right of a participant and select Make Admin. This is also where you can make the participant a normal user again.

Remove a participant

If you want to remove a participant from your exercise, click on the three dots to the right of the participant and select Remove. Just keep in mind that if you've shared an entire course or folder to the participant higher up in the folder hierarchy, the participant will still be able to access the exercise further down the hierarchy.

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Print

Under Print, you can print out your study tasks in four different ways.

Print Flashcards: The document is printed as word cards, so-called flashcards.

Print glossary: The documents are printed with both question and answer.

Print interrogation: The document is printed with all the questions to be answered.

Print larger sample: The document is printed with a little more space for answers.

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See students' study stats

Under Statistics inside an exercise, you can see different students' exercise statistics in a certain exercise. You can see how many times a student has studyd and which words they answered correctly and incorrectly.

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Edit

If you are the administrator of the exercise, you can edit the exercise (eg add more tasks, remove or otherwise change) by clicking Edit.

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Go back one or more levels

To return to the home page, click on Glosboken icon at the top left of the page. If you want to return to a folder or course that is higher in the folder hierarchy, click on the name of the folder or course at the top left next to Glosboken icon.

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Create homework quizzes

You can create homework quizzes for your students based on the various exercises you have done and previously shared with your students. A homework examination is a kind of test where the students' knowledge is tested in slightly more formal forms. You as a teacher get e.g. see the students' results after they complete the homework quiz. Only teachers with teacher status have the opportunity to create and start a homework inquiry.

In the first step, you choose a course and then the exercise you want the homework quiz to be based on.

Then click on the three dots next to your profile picture and then on Create a new homework question. Now a homework question is created based on the information you have in your exercise.

Before you start the homework interview

Before starting the homework quiz by pressing the start button, you can review your questions under the Questions tab. If there is an assignment you want to remove, you can unmark it before you start the homework examination.

You can also see which students you share the homework quiz with by clicking Participants. If you do not want to share the homework quiz with any particular students, you can deselect them in this view.

Adaptations

When you are inside the homework question, under the tab Participants you can individually customize the question for some (or all) students by clicking on the symbols under the heading Adjustments.

Start and stop the homework interview

When you have made any adjustments and checked which students are participants, you can start the homework interview.

When you click Start and activate the homework quiz, you lock all other modes in Glosboken for the students. They will only be able to do the homework question. When all students have completed the homework question, stop it with the stop button. Students may change their answers before submission, but they will not be able to see your correction until after the homework quiz is completed. If you have valued an incorrect answer at, for example, 0.5 points, all other similar incorrect answers are automatically valued at 0.5 points. You never need to correct the correct answers, it happens automatically.

Correction of homework questions

During an ongoing homework quiz, you can correct the students' answers. If a student writes an incorrect answer, you can choose whether the answer should give 1, 0.5 or 0 points. In this mode, you do not see which student you are correcting. Students will first receive a preliminary result until you have decided on a score for the assignment.

See the students' results

By clicking on the Results tab, you will see all students' results and see if they have completed the homework quiz. By clicking on a particular student, you can also see how a particular student has answered each task.

Sometimes an exclamation mark appears next to a student's result. This indicates some type of deviation. Deviations can be that the student has gone out of full-screen mode, has tried to paste text, etc.

Find completed homework assignments

If you want to enter a completed homework inquiry afterwards to see results etc., you will find it in your course or folder from which you created the homework test.

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Edit/move/copy/archive/delete

To edit the name or delete a course, folder or exercise from Glosboken, click on the three dots at the top right of the course, folder or exercise. The courses are deleted from directly from the start page or inside the course and the folders and exercises inside the folder or exercise itself. Then choose whether you want to edit the name or delete the course/folder/exercise.

You can also archive a course if you want to save it, but not keep it on the Start page. You can then find your archived courses under Profile button - View archive. Inside the archive, you can reactivate your archived courses.

If you select Remove Course, you will be prompted to confirm the removal by clicking Remove once more.

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Create a copy

In the editor mode inside an exercise, you can create a copy of your exercise. This is e.g. good if you have created an exercise that you want other courses to have access to. You choose which course or folder you want to put it in.

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Move to folder

With Move to folder you can move the entire exercise to another course or folder. Just keep in mind that if you move the study, all rights will be reset. This means you have to share it again for others to use it.

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Several exercises at the same time

You can perform different actions for several exercises at a time by marking them inside a course or folder.

After you have marked the exercises, you will get a few different choices at the bottom of the page.

Copy exercises: You can copy several of your exercises and put them in other courses and folders, but at the same time keep them in your existing course or folder.

Move to folder: With the Move to folder option, your exercises are moved to the selected course or folder and disappear from your existing course/folder.

Merge exercises: By merging two or more exercises, a new exercise is created in your course/folder containing all questions from selected exercises. The exercises need to be of the same type.

Update visibility: You can hide one or more exercises from your students. This can be useful if you are adding a new exercise to a course that is shared, but which you do not yet want to make available to students. However, the exercises that are hidden are visible to anyone who is an administrator of the course. When you want to make the exercises visible again, select them again and click Update Visibility.

Delete: With Delete you can delete several exercises at the same time.

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Profile button

If you click the profile button at the top right of the page, you can access settings, your timeline, your archive, your profile information, change your Google account or log out.

Settings

Under Settings, you set various general options for how you want Glosboken to behave when you study yourself. These are mainly functions that the students can use in the study mode. They therefore do not apply as general settings in the exercises or homework quizzes that you as a teacher create for the students.

Generally

• Save activities to the Timeline: With this setting, students can access their study and homework quiz results later by clicking on the Timeline on the home page.

• Questions appear in random order: The tasks appear in random order in study mode.

• Turn question-answer: The answer is presented and you enter the question word or question.

• Always read the question automatically: The question is always read out using speech synthesis, without you having to press the speaker icon yourself.

• Play a sound on correct answer: A ping is heard when you answer a question correctly in study mode.

• Show special characters: A set of special characters is displayed depending on the language you have set to simplify typing special letters that are only available in certain languages and keyboards.

Review

• Read the text in the study mode “Review”: The questions and answers are read out using speech synthesis in this study mode.

• Speed: Set the speed at which questions/answers will be displayed in Review mode.

Correction

• Ignore punctuation: You don't need to put different punctuation marks to get it right.

• Always differentiate between upper and lower case letters: The answer requires you to put the lower case/upper case in the right place.

• Write the correct answer to move on: The next task will not be presented until you have written your task correctly.

• Type all entered synonyms to get correct: If several different synonyms are entered, you must enter all of them to get correct.

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Time line

By clicking on your profile picture, you can access your timeline for events that apply to you, e.g. if you did an exercise or a homework quiz. This is mainly for students to be able to go back and see results from previous exercises (and how they were done), homework quizzes and when they were done.

The exercises will be to the left of the center line and the homework questions to the right. The different symbols show which exercise mode was used. Click on the title of the exercise to enter the exercise again or on the title of the homework question to see your result.

View archive

All your archived courses are displayed here. To reactivate a course, click on the three dots at the top right of a particular course and select Reactivate.

Profile

Under Profile you will find information about which courses you belong to, the date from when you joined Glosboken, which school you belong to and whether you have teacher or student status.

Change Google Account

If you are signed in with Google, this option will be present (not otherwise). With Switch Google Account, you will be signed out of your existing account and then able to sign in with another account.

Log out

Click on Logout to be logged out of the Glosboken. Sometimes you may also need to log out of the browser to be completely logged out.