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Mote seamlessly integrates with Google Classroom to create a more robust and meaningful student experience. With the Chrome extension installed, Mote’s recording tool becomes easily accessible in the following areas on Google Classroom while posting prompts, sharing content, and offering feedback:
Stream 💬
Assignment 📄
Quiz assignment 📝
Question 🤔
Material 📚
Private comments 🗨️
Combining Mote and Google Classroom enhances communication and engagement by allowing teachers to share audio messages in innovative ways within this LMS. Let’s delve into the following quick and impactful use cases for integrating Mote within Google Classroom:
Stream Posts → Building connections & clarity
Audio Embeds on Assignments → Context & accessibility
Feedback in Comments → Personalization & inclusivity
Peer-to-Peer Feedback → Amplifying student voice
1️⃣ Stream Posts:
Class announcements in the stream are more engaging and accessible when a mote message is embedded. Consider recording a welcome message at the beginning of the week outlining key objectives, expectations, and special reminders. A mote message like this within Google Classroom’s stream helps create a personal connection with learners and their families. Mote also ensures that students, particularly those who struggle with written instructions, receive easy-to-understand guidance.
2️⃣ Audio Embeds on Assignments:
Teachers can embed mote messages on assignments, adding verbal instructions or more context to tasks to help diverse learners be more successful. Multilingual learners can access mote audio embedded in a speaking or writing prompt that includes instructions read aloud in English, with the option to have the message transcribed and translated. This scaffold builds confidence in completing complex, multi-part tasks and supports comprehension in students.
3️⃣ Feedback in Comments:
Teachers can leave Mote audio comments on student work within assignments, providing more actionable and nuanced feedback that supports listening comprehension. A specific use case for this integration involves a teacher using Mote to provide audio pronunciation tips on a student’s oral presentation script. This idea would enable students to hear specific corrections and refine their speaking skills while receiving more supportive feedback.
4️⃣ Peer-to-Peer Feedback:
Students can record mote messages as part of an assignment or to provide feedback to their classmates, fostering self-expression and collaboration. In a peer-review activity, have learners listen and respond to each other’s audio recordings about a shared text. This student-facing method for using Mote encourages active listening, critical thinking, and meaningful dialogue between peers.
Mote's integration with Google Classroom provides learners access to information in different formats, encourages deeper engagement, and supports learning styles with tailored feedback. By enhancing communication and promoting collaboration, Mote helps turn Google Classroom into a more interactive space for developing essential speaking and listening skills.
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With Mote's Read Aloud features across webpages, PDFs, and images, any content you share will be accessible to your students with audio accommodations that support the development of speaking and listening skills.