Bitstrips for Schools is an educational tool that allows teachers to engage students using comics. Teachers can create classrooms and assign activities for students to complete. Students can create avatars and comics, share and comment on each other's work, and complete various activities assigned by the teacher. The tool aims to make homework fun and motivate students while teaching critical skills across different subjects.
1. Bitstrips:
Bitsrips for schools is an educational tool that engages students using something they love:
comics.
Use Bitstrips for:
Design and dress fully pose able characters
Add scenes and props from our growing collection, or import your own images
Share, remix, collaborate and comment!
Get students hooked on reading and writing
Motivate them by making homework fun
Spark their creativity - the possibilities for self-expression are endless
Teach a wide range of critical skills
Adapt lessons from any subject
Great for K-12, university students, ELL and children with autism
Assign them to your students, review their work and provide individual feedback
Create and share your own activities
2. Teachers can only sign up and create classroom and invite their students.
3. After creating the account, i should create my classroom.
And this is the link and the code that my students should have it to login:
4. Next I’ll need to add the name of every student and I give him the code and the link to login
into my classroom.
I should create my avatar and every student should also do it. Here are some of the steps that
I should follow to create my avatar (this is also be done by students).
Teacher’s avatar: student’s avatar:
5. Then the avatars appear in the class photo.
The teacher now can make activities for his students.
And it will appear in home page.
Now let’s create a comic.
Here I choose how many page I want to create.
6. When I finished the comic it looks like this:
and I add my comment here:
7. My students can’t see my comics unless I shared my comics with my class
If you notices there are many options in the top of my comic:
Comment: I can put a comment and my students can.
Laugh: that means that this comic make laugh.
Edit: I can edit my comic by add or remove something.
Share: first I should share it with my class than share it with other programs.
Blog: share on blog.
Download: I can download my comics as Html, Pdf, and Jpeg.
Print: I can print my comic.
Flag: I can flag this strip.
Back to home page. We find many options:
Home:it’s home page, every one find his avatar, classroom, and shared comics, and activities
in progress.
Activities: my activities:
8. Activity library: we can browse activities from there.
Create an activity:
Gallery: in the gallery I find all the comics I created me and my students.
My comics: here I can see my comics and create a comic.
9. Characters: here I find characters I created.
Students: here I can see the list of students.
Pricing: this prices are given by special offers to schools and teachers.
Help: this tool is for all kinds of helps.
Settings: here I can change the settings of my account, the class settings, the class
permissions, comics, characters, other images….
10. Now we will see how the students will use this tool.
First of all I should give my students the code and the link that they can have access to the
classroom created by me.
every student choose his name from the list
and he choose his own password
Now he have access to the classroom and he can answer the quizzes.
My students have the same options as me, they can make comics themselves and share them
but first I should check it and approve it.
11. The most important thing is to complete the activities.
Everyone: teacher and student can see the comic done by other if they share it.
And they can put also comments .