Open Learning - Teacher Assistant
Learn how Teacher Assistant roles support grading and classroom management in Open Learning.
This article walks teachers through using the Teacher Assistant option within Open Learning programs.
For a full page view of the demo, click here.
For a Spanish version of the demo, click here.
Note: This feature is currently only available for California Reveal and is for teacher use only.
Article Contents
What is the Teacher Assistant?
Teacher Assistant AI Disclosure
Assigning Resources Through the Teacher Assistant
What is the Teacher Assistant?
McGraw Hill’s Teacher Assistant is an AI chat bot that allows teachers to receive instructional planning support through natural language conversations. The Teacher Assistant helps teachers understand what instructional resources are available with the course and quickly find relevant materials to better differentiate instruction for students in the moment. It has the potential to dramatically increase the findability of relevant content within a course, allowing a teacher to more quickly gain value from the Open Learning course experience.
The tool will not be able to provide information on student data.
The feature is only available from the Dashboard, Course, and Course Resources pages within the program.
Teacher Assistant AI Disclosure
AI makes mistakes. Check important information. Teacher Assistant uses generative AI and may miss nuances, and responses may not be accurate, complete or reliable.
Users should carefully check responses before implementing suggestions. Outputs from Teacher Assistant are not to be attributed to and do not represent the views of McGraw Hill.
To learn more, click here.
Access the Teacher Assistant
1. SSO or log in at my.mheducation.com.
2. Launch the course.
3. Navigate to the Dashboard (A), Course (B), or Course Resources (C) page.
4. Click on the Teacher Assistant button.
Dashboard
Course
Course Resources
Using the Teacher Assistant
The Teacher Assistant will open in a side panel on the page.
D. Click the information button to view the Teacher Assistant AI Disclosure.
E. Click the arrows button to toggle between Fullscreen and side panel views.
F. Click the X button to close out of the Teacher Assistant.
If you close out of the current chat and reopen the Teacher Assistant, it will reopen with your previous chat history.
G. Click a prompt to get started, or write your own prompt in the Ask Teacher Assistant for field at the bottom.
Note: The suggested prompts will only show if it is a new chat.
As the Teacher Assistant works to provide an answer, it will show with the Working on it... phrase.
It will then show as Here's what I found once it has an answer for the prompt.
H. Click the +New Chat button to clear the chat history and start over.
Assigning Resources Through the Teacher Assistant
When resources are provided within the Teacher Assistant, teachers have the option to assign those that are student-facing.
1. Click the Options button under the resource.
2. Click Assign from the menu.
A. To view the resource, click the Open in a new tab button.
B. If there is only an Open in new tab link and no Options button for the resource, this means that the resource is for teachers only.
3. On the Assign panel, enter an Assignment Name.
4. Select a Start Date and Time.
5. Select a Due Date and Time.
C. If you would like to allow students to submit the assignment after the selected Due Date and Time, check the Allow Late Submission box.
D. The assignment automatically selects All Students assigned to the roster.
Click the Edit (pencil icon) button to select specific students to assign the resource to.
E. To provide a different Due Date and Time for select students, click the Add Extension button.
F. Select an option from the Gradebook Category that you would like the assignment to be associated with.
For more information about gradebook categories, refer to the Open Learning - Gradebook article.
6. The default Assignment Visibility is set to Visible.
Note: If the Assignment Visibility is set to Hidden, students will not be able to see or access the assignment.
7. Select the number of Class Attempts.
8. If the Class Attempts is selected as 2 or 3, select the preferred Grade Calculation option.
G. To provide specific students with an additional attempt, click the Edit (pencil icon) beside Individual Attempts.
9. Select the preferred Student Scoresheet option. This option is only available if assigning an assessment.
H. To copy the assignment to additional classes, select the class(es) from the Copy to classes section. This option is only available if you have more than one class using the same content.
10. Click the Assign button.
