Yumu is a safe online space for your students to support their learning at home.
Go to My Workspace, the purple tab on the top right
and click on my student groups.
Here we'll create a student group.
Later I will share resources and activities with this student group.
Click on the green button to create the group,
give your group a name
and then click on the green button.
This will create the group to which you can add the students and resources.
This is what your screen will look like when you've created your group.
Now you need to add your students.
The whole group can be added in one. Go from a class list,
either from a text document or a spreadsheet. Using cut and paste
click on the green Add Students tab to get started with this
and now select option number one.
Add Students.
You'll notice there's a question mark on the right-hand side of the screen.
If you click on this
it will display a short video showing you how to add students to your class.
I'm going to show you how to add the students now.
But you can click on this again in the future. If you need a reminder
highlight the names in your text document
and then right-click and select 'Copy' from the drop-down menu.
Then
click to put your cursor in the top left name box
and then right-click and select 'Paste' from the drop-down menu.
All the names will be put into the boxes for the whole group,
and then all you need to do
is click Add Students and it will add them all to your group.
As you can see, all twelve pupils have been added.
Login has been created for each of your students,
and a login letter has been created for each one of them, too.
This letter contains all the information that your students
will need in order to log into Yumu.
The website also creates
an all-in-one PDF document with all of the students'
login details, a principal sticker sheet
and a spreadsheet.
To use Yumu more flexibly, select the appropriate student group
and then click on the Yumu Packages tab,
where you'll see a number of packages that have already been created for you.
Click on the package that you would like to add. This is instantly added to that group.
The packages that you've selected will be displayed at the top of the Yumu Packages screen
just here.
Alternatively, you can click on the Assignments tab
and add lessons or units that you have created.
Select any of your lessons
and then click the green 'Add the selected lesson' button.
Finally you can open the More options menu
for any lesson by clicking on the ellipsis icon,
the three dots
and selecting +GROUP
Again we're going to add it to the Year 5 group.
This will add it to the Assignments for that group.
Now, if we go back to our group,
we can see at a glance how many Yumu Packages and Assignments
our students have access to.
You can change the order that you'd like your assignments to appear in
by clicking and dragging them into the order in which you wish them to appear.
All changes are automatically saved.
If you wish to set completion dates
click on the calendar icon
and select the dates that you wish the assignment to be completed for.
You can see the assignments as they will appear to your students in Yumu
by clicking their View in Yumu button here.
This opens in a new tab
and will show you what your students will see
when they open assignments in Yumu.
For further guidance
click on HELP where you will find guidance on creating your own lessons,
uploading your own resources
and much, much more.