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National Geographic Learning Online Practice
Primary Platform Guide Students/Parents Guide
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents 2
1. Introduction 3
2. System requirements 4
3. Signing into the Online Practice 5
a. Sign in using the credentials provided by your institution 5
b. Self-register your child 5
c. Forgotten password 7
4. My account 9
5. Platform overview 10
6. Unit, Lessons, Activities and Games 11
1. Activity Types 13
2. Games 20
7. Progress 25
A. Student Awards 26
B. Parents View 28
8. Messages 29
9. Support 31
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1. Introduction
This document explains how to use National Geographic Learning Online Practice.
The Online Practice has been optimized to be used on mobile devices (smartphones
and tablets) as well as on both laptop and desktop computers.
It includes activities and games for practice and exam preparation.
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2. System requirements
The recommended system requirements to use the product are:
Operating system:
● Windows (64-bit only) 7 / 8 / 8.1 / 10
● Mac OS 10.13 or higher
● Ubuntu 18.04 or higher
Tablets and smartphones:
● iPad generation 2 or higher
● iPhone 6 or higher
● ndroid 7.0, Hardware as per oogle Pixel 1 reference
Browser:
WINDOWS
● Chrome latest version
● FireFox latest version
● dge latest version
MAC
● Safari latest version
Internet Speed: 2 Mbps
RAM: 4 Gb
Space in Hard Drive: 100 Mb free space
Screen Dimensions:
● 768 * 1024 px for landscape use
● 1334 * 750 px for portrait use
To ensure optimal results, configure your display screen to 100% scale within the
Display Settings:
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3. Signing into the Online Practice
Access is granted through learn.eltngl.com, where you will need to:
a) Sign in using the credentials provided by your institution
b) Self-register your child
a. Sign in using the credentials provided by your institution
Once in the Online Practice home page, click on Sign in and type the username and
password provided by your institution.
b. Self-register your child
Once in the Online Practice home page, click on Register my child and fill in the form.
You will need:
1. Access code. Find the Access code in the inside front cover of your Student Book
or in the interior pages of the Printed Access Code package. The code is a 10-
character alphanumeric code.
2. Course Key. The Course key is an 8-character alphanumeric code that should be
provided by your institution or teacher. If your child is a Self Study student and
studies on her/his own without being part of any institution, please visit
ELTNGL.com/coursekey.
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Whether you are registered to a teacher-led course or you plan to self-study, you will
need to have both an access code and a course key. The process for signing in is the
same.
Complete the form with your child’s details, include your email address and define a
username and password to use when signing into the platform.
Remember that you can only register for one course at a time.
Finally, acknowledge and accept the terms and conditions of the platform and click on
Register your child.
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You will now get a “ egistration successful” message and be brought to the Online
Practice home page, where you will need to sign in with your credentials.
c. Forgotten password
If you forget the password, there are two ways to reset it:
1. Ask your institution to provide you with a temporal password that will let you log
in and then set the password you would like. With the password your institution
provides you, go to the main page (learn.eltngl.com) and Sign in with your
username and new password.
Once signed in, the following pop-up window will appear where you will be able
to set a new password:
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NOTE: Your Current password now is the temporal password the institution
provided you. Passwords must be minimum 8 characters, include 1 number, 1
uppercase and 1 lowercase.
Click on Update and your password will be reset.
2. From the main page (learn.eltngl.com), click on Sign in and then on the Forgot
password? link to reset it.
Enter your email address where you would like password reset directions to be sent:
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Then follow the instructions sent to your email.
*You may choose to select “ emember me” to avoid repeating this process in the future.
4. My account
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Click on the icon to view your child’s account profile: name, last name, username
and platform language.
5. Platform overview
There are three main screens:
● Home: view all your lessons and activities
● Progress: see your child’s progress
● News: communicate with your teacher
If your teacher assigned homework, it will display after you sign in.
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From this screen, click on a Unit to view the lessons within the unit.
6. Unit, Lessons, Activities and Games
Each Unit of a course has several lesson cards, and each lesson card has several
activities and games.
Visual indicators tell the student about their progress on each card.
Activities are represented with circles and games with stars .
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White-filled circles and stars represent activities and games that have not been completed.
After activities and games are completed, they will become green circles and stars
.
You can also track your child’s progress within a lesson. If the lesson card is completely
yellow, it shows that none of the activities from the lesson have been completed.
If the lesson card contains some orange, it means that your child has completed some of
the activities and games from the lesson. If the lesson card is completely orange and has
a green check mark, it means your child has completed the whole lesson.
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In addition, you can track progress at the unit level with the yellow progress bar under the
unit title that shows how much progress has been made in the unit.
1. Activity Types
There are several unique activity types and games. Four of them are non-scorable
activities: Flashcards, Memory, Games and Dialogue. The Done button at the end
of the activity will trigger completion of the activity and it will mark it as done in the
platform - star or circle is filled in.
If the activity has multiple screens, it is the Done button on the last screen that
triggers the completion of the activity. These activities will be represented in the
gradebook and they will always have a 0% score.
Some of the activity types include:
o Flashcards
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o Fill-in-the-Blank
o With drag and drop
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o With multiple choice
o Multiple Choice Multiple answers
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o Dialogue
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o Sequencing
o Matching
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o Highlighting
Within most activities, there are multiple screens. After you complete a screen, check the
answer by clicking the icon on your smartphone or the icon on your
desktop.
To move from a screen to the next one, use the arrow located at the bottom left corner
on your smartphone, or on the right-hand side of your desktop screen. To go to the
previous screen, click on the arrow.
After your child has completed all the screens, click on to see the final score.
After an activity is completed, your child will receive a message with the activity score
and an image :
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If the score is low, your child will receive a “Try again!” message:
Once the activity is completed, there will be several options:
● review each sub-activity answer by clicking the backwards arrow
● re-do the activity by clicking the arrow
● move on to the next activity by clicking the forward arrow
● close the activity and go back to the unit view
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2. Games
The Online Practice has several types of games. Some examples that can be found in
some programs are:
1. Crossword Puzzle
Students must complete the crossword puzzle by filling the blank spaces with letters,
using the keyboard. Once a new word is filled in correctly, it will disappear from the
screen.
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2. Boxdrop
This is a sorting game. Students cut the rope so that the item drops into the correct
category.
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3. Catch
Students click on the correct answers within geometrical shapes to score points.
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4. Guess the Word
Students find a “mystery word” by using the keyboard to choose letters.
5. Memory
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Students match cards that go together.
7. Progress
To track your progress, access the Progress view by clicking the award icon in the
top center of the screen. You will see all the awards you have won, as well as all those
you can still win by completing activities and assignments correctly. You can earn badges
and uncover surprises by progressing through activities.
If the course is teacher-led, you will find a progress summary in your assignments on the
left side of the desktop screen.
From this view, you can also print your awards by clicking the printer icon and
accessing the Parents View.
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A. Student Awards
There are two types of student awards:
● 1. Progress awards. There are three types of progress awards issued for
progress in a course:
· Blue: Award received when 1/3 of the activities have been
completed.
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· Green: Award received when 2/3 of the activities have been
completed.
· Yellow: Award received when 100% of the activities have been
completed.
Each award is visible from the beginning but is covered with “slime.” The
slime progressively uncovers the hidden image the closer the student
reaches the goal in four phases:
● 25% - 49% of a course is done.
● 50% - 74% of a course is done.
● 75% - 99% of a course is done.
● 100% - All of the course is done.
Each time the image gets clearer and covered with less slime, an
encouraging message will pop up next to the progress navigation icon.
When the award is uncovered, the slime will “explode” on the screen.
● 2. Skills awards. There are three types of skills awards issued for good
performance in a course:
· Orange: For when the student has scored 100% on 20% of all the
activities in the course.
· Purple: For when the student has scored 100% on 40% of all activities
in the course.
· Red: For when the student has scored 100% on 60% of all activities in
the course.
Each award is visible from the beginning but is covered with “slime”. The “slime”
uncovers the hidden video in four phases. Each time more of the video gets
uncovered, an encouraging message pops up next to the progress navigation
icon.
After one award has been issued, the counting for the next award starts again
from 0%.
When the last blob of slime “explodes,” the award will be shown After that, the
award will display. You can close the pop-up screen, and you can always go
back and click on each of the awards received to see them in full screen.
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B. Parents View
Parents can view the percentage of the unit completion at a glance, as well as
the activity results.
You can easily view another unit’s progress by simply selecting the desired unit
from the dropdown menu under “Parents View”.
For each activity you will see the last time your child modified it, the result
obtained, the number of attempts and the time spent to complete it. The result is
shown as a percentage of the activity completed correctly, and it follows a color
key.
The key of colors is explained when clicking the icon:
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Click on an activity to see the eye icon. Click on it to view the exact answers
given to an activity.
8. Messages
Easily communicate with the teacher via News. Check teacher Messages as well as
News from the institution the icon which brings you to the News section. Manage
all messages in your Inbox.
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Easily create a new message or reply back:
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9. Support
For more information, please visit support.eltngl.com/onlinepractice.