1) The document describes an educator's experience using the online platform Chalkup to teach students in Sabak Bernam, Malaysia from October 2014 onwards. 2) It details how the educator was able to engage students on the platform through discussions, assignments, sharing materials and media, and communicating via chat. 3) Despite issues with internet connectivity in the area and some students' lack of familiarity with online platforms, the educator saw a high level of participation over five months, including students continuing to engage over holidays.

1. Chalkup- Our online platform in Sabak Bernam (Oct. 2014 onwards)
Amin Neghavati

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After a two-month trial of
SchoolKeep, Schoology,
Edmodo and Chalkup, I
decided to use this platform.

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The participants joined in 5 easy steps.

4. THIS IS
HOW IT ALL
STARTED
October 2014

5. I created four classes
and added Andrea
Barker as a co-teacher
to them.
Colour coding
makes life
easier.

6. When you click on
each course, these
options appear.

7. The list of course participants
and their e-mail addresses.

8. All teachers and
students on one page
There is a chat box to reach
online course participants.

9. All your chats and
online messagesThe admin toolbar is always here.

10. Interestingly, the chat feature can be
disabled for the duration of the lesson.

11. You can start a discussion, ask a
question, add/embed a link, add/embed
a picture or a video, start a poll, quote
or start a collaborative project.
This is what
happens
when you
click on ‘new
discussion’

12. Then, you decide which classes the
new post should appear in.

13. After a short while, the dashboard will
look like this.

14. This is the class admin bar where you can click
to see the discussions, assignments, materials,
gradings and the participants.You can also invite
people to each class here.

15. All your classes can be seen here.You just need
to click on them to see the details.
A list of recent
discussions
The chat feature

16. All materials you share can be reached through
this tab.
Drag and drop files
from your desktop
here or add them
from Google Drive.

17. Let’s check the assignments section.

18. different types
Your message and any necessary files from your Google Drive.
The estimated time the students should spend on this.
The due date (this will appear in their calendar).

19. You can attach an interactive rubric for the assignment and use it later to mark the submissions.

20. How to create a rubric

21. How to create a rubric

22. The students can see a list of
their assignments here.

23. CHALKUP ONLINE SUPPORT

24. CHALKUP ONLINE SUPPORT

25. CHALKUP ONLINE SUPPORT

26. CHALKUP ONLINE SUPPORT

27. CHALKUPYOUTUBE CHANNEL
FULL OFVIDEOTUTORIALS

28. CHALKUP HOW-TO FILES
THE ADMINISTRATOR’S
GUIDE TO GOING
PAPERLESS
A Digital Resource By
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The Complete Guide to:
Engaging Students with
Online Discussions
a resource by
Chalkup: Instructor Getting Started Guide
2014 Getting Started Guide
https://www.chalkup.co
Any questions?
Send an email to services@chalkupedu.com
Or, Submit a support ticket: http://support.chalkup.co/hc/en-us/requests/new

29. Things we have done in Sabak Bernam
and the level of participation I have experienced.
A Google
Hangout with
the e-moderator

30. Things we have done in Sabak Bernam
and the level of participation I have experienced.
A Google
Hangout with
the e-moderator
(The Hang-out How-to guide is available)

31. Things we have done in Sabak Bernam
and the level of participation I have experienced.
A paper-less
letter writing task
He was absent that
session but turned up
on the platform and
completed the task!

32. Things we have done in Sabak Bernam
and the level of participation I have experienced.
A paper-less
letter writing task
She was absent but
turned up on the
platform and
completed the first
task!

33. Things we have done in Sabak Bernam
and the level of participation I have experienced.
A CP shares a photo of the
board and her friends start using
the target language (agreeing and
disagreeing) in the comments!

34. Things we have done in Sabak Bernam
and the level of participation I have experienced.
The board photo
for the previous
forum chat.
Documents and photos can be downloaded or saved to GD directly.

35. Things we have done in Sabak Bernam
and the level of participation I have experienced.
The CPs create
an online game,
share and play it
and comment on
the grammatical
points of the
game.

36. Things we have done in Sabak Bernam
and the level of participation I have experienced.
They share class
photos with each
other.

37. Things we have done in Sabak Bernam
and the level of participation I have experienced.

38. Things we have done in Sabak Bernam
and the level of participation I have experienced.
Non-ELT links (an indication
of trust in the platform) are
shared by CPs for a couple
of times.

39. Things we have done in Sabak Bernam
and the level of participation I have experienced.
A CP shares an interesting
article with his friends.

40. Things we have done in Sabak Bernam
and the level of participation I have experienced.
A CP shares a website with
her friends.

41. Things we have done in Sabak Bernam
and the level of participation I have experienced.
A CP shares her letter with
her classmates.
(comments are not shown in this screenshot)

42. Things we have done in Sabak Bernam
and the level of participation I have experienced.
A CP shares her letter
written in response to a
class activity with her
classmates and asks for peer
marking.
(comments are not shown in this screenshot)

43. Things we have done in Sabak Bernam
and the level of participation I have experienced.
A CP shares her group’s
response to an activity as a
comment to the main file
and this encourages other
groups to do a similar thing.

44. Things we have done in Sabak Bernam
and the level of participation I have experienced.
A CP shares a class photo
on the platform.

45. Things we have done in Sabak Bernam
and the level of participation I have experienced.
A video is shared by the
trainer.

46. Things we have done in Sabak Bernam
and the level of participation I have experienced.
A CP talks about an
online assignment and the
e-moderator responds.

47. Things we have done in Sabak Bernam
and the level of participation I have experienced.
comments on a file
shared with the class

48. Things we have done in Sabak Bernam
and the level of participation I have experienced.
Learners can attach files (answer
files) to their comments.

49. Things we have done in Sabak Bernam
and the level of participation I have experienced.
The moodle
platform is under
maintenance and a
CP comments on
the class platform.

50. Things we have done in Sabak Bernam
and the level of participation I have experienced.
A CP shares a video
on the platform.

51. Things we have done in Sabak Bernam
and the level of participation I have experienced.
Goodbye message
before Christmas and
the e-moderator’s
message for the
learners

52. Things we have done in Sabak Bernam
and the level of participation I have experienced.
Similar Christmas
conversation in
another group

53. Things we have done in Sabak Bernam
and the level of participation I have experienced.
Our online interaction
during Christmas

54. Things we have done in Sabak Bernam
and the level of participation I have experienced.
Jan. holiday chat
between the trainer
and the CPs.

55. Things we have done in Sabak Bernam
and the level of participation I have experienced.
CPs talk about one of the
BC Webinars on the
platform

56. Things we have done in Sabak Bernam
and the level of participation I have experienced.
One of the participants
shares her notes after
watching a webinar.

57. Things we have done in Sabak Bernam
and the level of participation I have experienced.
The loveliest chat on the
platform between two of
the loveliest participants.

58. Things we have done in Sabak Bernam
and the level of participation I have experienced.
The CPs try mixed and
type 3 conditional
sentences.

59. Things we have done in Sabak Bernam
and the level of participation I have experienced.
Discussing the future
of our Chalkup
classes

60. Things we have done in Sabak Bernam
and the level of participation I have experienced.
Discussing the future
of our Chalkup
classes

61. Things we have done in Sabak Bernam
and the level of participation I have experienced.
A CP shares an Aptis task on Chalkup (after the end of the F2F course) and gives it an attempt.
The e-moderator and the trainer help with sentence structure.

62. Things we have done in Sabak Bernam
and the level of participation I have experienced.
The trainer
shares an Aptis
task (after the end of
the F2F course) and
a conversation
takes place
with a
participant.

63. CPs' ideas on going paper-less
(online survey Jan. 2015)
Question: Are you happy with the balance between paper and digital work in your training sessions? (Please explain.)
- Yes. I'm happy. I love the idea of digital work. A world without paper. Chalkup is
a very good alternative that he has introduced to us.
- Absolutely. He tries to reduce using paper and we refer to the exercises online.
Its enjoyable and interesting because its full of colours and animation.
- Actually, I'm more comfortable doing the training sessions using the digital tool
compared to paper. But, in the interim, I still need to use paper to copy the
notes during the lesson.The conclusion is, I'm happy with the balance between
both paper and digital work in my training sessions.
- Yes. I am very happy with the balanced usage of paper and digital work in the
training session. In fact, he managed to show that without paper (worksheets)
learning could still take place more effectively and more interestingly.
- Digital work truly gave us an opportunity to search, respond and write fast
but sometime we perhaps forget the website and cannot reach the source. Its a
good idea to have paper sometime.

64. FINAL NOTES
• Much of what was presented
might seem pretty common in
many parts of the world but the
fact that we managed to reach this
level of online participation in an
area where internet connectivity is
a serious issue and some
participants didn’t have a clear idea
what an online learning platform is,
makes this a real achievement in a
period of 5 months.
• Well done Sabak Bernam!