Using RealSmart for Personal Tutoring

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Why?

• To recognise good things that you do and reward them.

• To encourage you to be more independent and a better learner (everyone can improve).

• To make your weekly Personal Tutoring slot more useful.

How?

• Every week you meet your Personal Tutor for 20 minutes.

• In advance you use RealSmart to add new achievements and targets you have met.

• Most weeks you have a tutor time in a computer room to do that (but you can do it whenever you have time online)

How does it work?

• The next slides walk you through using the system.

• It shows the first unit you will do – but it works the same for everything.

Step One – Go to Moodle and click on RealSmart

Your tutor will give you a name and password to use

It will look something like this

Set your profile photo, change your password and

choose your design here

It will look something like this

This is the section we will use today to record

progress

This is the list of the units open to you – click on it to open it

These are the parts to work on

Each section has skills that you can give yourself a red, amber of green mark for

Sometimes there is a button to let you add evidence or a personal statement

Everyone does the Induction Unit

• It shows that you know how to use the system and how things work around college – it is really easy to do.

• There is no reward for completing it • Once you complete it you unlock the next

units

Years 12-13

• Go straight to Ambition 3 – you miss out the easy units.

• Ambition 3 is all about service to college, helping others and in particular helping other students.

• It leads to Ambition 4, 5 which are about setting personal challenges and finally 6.

Ambition 6

• The highest award available in college• Means you will have done voluntary work

inside and outside Lodge Park and really shown what you can do (think references and UCAS!)

• Leads to the Governor’s Award and V Certificate