LiveText is an on-line program for education students to expand their use of technology. By incorporating this online program into the Teacher Education Program, students can now create an e-portfolio, submit evaluations on-line, instantly review professor’s feedback, and create unique lesson plans. With the purchase of Livetext membership, students also receive access to United Streaming. United Streaming is an online program created by Discovery Education that has thousands of educational videos, an Interactive Atlas, a Quiz builder, a Lesson Plan Library and so much more. Students will have a personal account with each of these programs the entire time they are enrolled as a student at UTC as well as one year after graduation.
Livetext also helps the Teacher Preparation Academy with collecting and organizing data to ensure accreditation for this college. With NCATE (National Council of Accreditation for Teacher Education) accreditation, students will be able to teach not only in Tennessee but other states as well.
Overview of LiveText Online Program
- Registration Process
- Log on to www.livetext.com
- Click “Register Account”
- Type in your Key Code
- Use your UTC ID as your LiveText Username and create a password.
- Make sure to use the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga as your University.
- Write down your username and password somewhere so you won’t forget it.
- Becoming Familiar with the Program
- There is a main tool bar going down the left side of the page with these titles: Materials, Reviews, Collaboration, Tools and References.
- Materials will be the most used section. It is here that you can create your documents and send them for review.
- Labels help keep things organized. You can make an “EDUC 201” label, so that you can put all your documents that you create for this class into it.
- The Reviews section allows you to see if your paper was sent to your professor and if it has been assessed or not.
- Collaboration will be used to make group correspondence easy and quick. This feature will be used if you are assigned to a small group that has to work together on a project or paper.
- In the Tools section, the account info allows you to access United Streaming and modify your standards. The forms category allows you to fill out forms online for future classes.
- References will be mostly used for the standard category. You can look up national or state standards by grade level and subject. This will be a great resource for lesson plans in the future
- Creating a Document
- Click on “My Work”
- Select “Create”
- Choose “Document”
- Under Document type, choose “Project” (This will be the most common type of document)
- Under Template, choose the assignment you want to work on like “EDUC 201: Disposition Paper”
- Under Title, be sure to include your name like “Jane Doe’s Disposition Paper”
- Read directions and attachments.
- Click “edit” on the right side of the page
- Delete the contents in the work space. You can create your document in LiveText, cut and paste from a word document, or attach your document.
- Click “Save”
- Click “Finish”
- You should see your paper or attachment. Go to the upper right tool bar and click “Share”
- This is where you are emailing your professor your work, so look for Review/Assessor and click “Look up name”
- Click “Last Name” and put in your professors last name.
- Once your professor is found, check his or her name and click “Add Checked”
- Your professor’s name should appear by Reviewers/ Assessors.
- Click “Finish” to send the document to your professor.
- Creating a Label
- Go to “My Work”
- Click “Create”
- Choose “Label”
- Create a Title. I would recommend using your Class Title or Course Number, so you can put all your documents from that course into that storage label.
- Click “Save”
- Once you have formed a document for a certain course, move it to that label.
- To move a document, click on that document and find the “Move” tab in the upper left tool bar.
- Click “Move” and select your label that you have made.
- The “Apply” tab allows you to have your documents in several different label areas.
- Filling out a Form
- Your professors will be sharing different forms with you to fill out during the course of your program. The forms will be sent to the “Forms” section under Tools.
- Click on “Forms”
- Select your form that you need to fill out. For example: Everyone needs to fill out a TEP Application Form.
- Fill out form and click “Submit”
