STEP 1 – Identify your purchase method
PURCHASE THROUGH STORES OR BOOKSTORES: Once your purchase of materials has been processed, you will need to activate the codes that appear on the back cover of your books on: https://license.miltoneducation.com/ Once you activate your products, you will receive your login credentials and instructions for accessing the digital platform via email. Remember to activate all your products at the same time so that they are all linked to the same user account.
DIRECT PURCHASE OF MATERIALS AT THE SCHOOL: The school will provide you with your materials, and you will need to activate the codes found on the back cover of your books or the Read & Play or Read & Prep codes at https://license.miltoneducation.com/ Once you have activated your products, you will receive access codes and instructions for the digital platform via email. Remember to activate all your products at the same time so that they are all loaded under the same user account.
PURCHASE THROUGH A LINK CREATED FOR YOUR SCHOOL: The school will provide families with a purchase link through which they can buy materials by card. They will need to select their child’s grade and class and enter their child’s information. After completing the purchase, they will receive their login credentials for the online platform at the email address they used to register. Printed materials, if included in their purchase, will be delivered to the school at the beginning of the school year.
STEP 2 – You can now access the Teacher Panel
Milton will provide your school with a specific activation link so you can register your teacher account. On the first screen, select the classroom(s) where you will be teaching and click Continue.
Complete your personal details: Name and surname and email you will use to access the platform.
We will send a confirmation link to your email address. Check your inbox for the activation message to continue the registration process. Click on Activate Account.
A new page will open where you can create your password.
Enter a secure password.
Confirm the password.
Click Finish Signup to complete the process.
Once you have created your password, you will have access to the Teacher Panel, which you can access by going to panel.miltoneducation.com. If you haven’t received the email to activate your password or you have forgotten it, just follow these simple steps:
- Log in to panel.miltoneducation.com and click below on the link “Forgot teacher/parent password?”
- Enter the teacher email address you activated and click Send to receive an email where you can reset your password by choosing a new one. Remember to check your spam folder. If you see the message “Unknown or invalid email” when you click “Send,” write to https://www.miltoneducation.com/soporte-ticket/ from your teacher email address.
STEP 3 – Set up your classes and students
You can view and edit your groups and students in your Teacher Panel.
- Click on the “Students” menu in the top navigation bar and choose one of your groups from the drop-down menu at the top right, for example: “4º A Primary”.
- You can edit class numbers, the names and surnames of each student, and their usernames and passwords. To edit, click the “Edit students” button, make the desired changes, and then click “Save.”
- If necessary, you can move any student from your classes to any other class at the center (even if you are not a teacher of that group). To do this, select the student and press the “Change Student Class” button.
- You can customise the Bookroom and Trainer levels for each student by selecting one or more students and clicking on “Edit” above the Bookroom column.
- By default, your students will have a preconfigured level in Bookroom according to their grade (e.g. Level 04 for 2nd Primary students), but you can modify this initial level by raising or lowering it.
- The “maximum” Bookroom level you set for a student will be the level they will see on the platform when they log in.
- You can also set a minimum level below which the student will not be able to read.
- Remember that you can also set the maximum and minimum Trainer level for each student.
- Finally, we recommend that you leave Auto-advance active, which allows the students, when they have completed a level, to advance to the next one automatically.
You can learn more about this at the end of this video.
STEP 4 – How to view the content and project it in class
Teachers can display any content from textbooks or readings in class. To display the content in class, from your Teacher Panel, click on “Student Mode”, choose your class and a new tab will open with a platform identical to the one your students see.
- In “Student mode”, in the Textbooks, you can show the answers to the activities by clicking on “Show answers” (Primary only).
- And you have all the Bookroom and Trainer levels available to show any reading to your students.
In the Tools tab of your Teacher Panel, you’ll find tools to make your classes more dynamic: you can reward students with coins, display a timer, play a roulette game to choose a random student, reward students with medals and exclusive teacher avatars, and more. This video explains how.
STEP 5 – Get to know your teacher resources
In the Resources section of your Teacher Panel, you will find useful resources to prepare your classes, prepare unit exams, etc.
If you use one of our Textbooks you have the following materials available:
- Teacher’s Guide
- The teacher’s answer key with the answers and the audio scripts.
- Lesson plans for each session.
- Classroom and general teaching programs.
- Inclusive Learning Activity Bank (ILAB)
- Learning Situations
- Two editable exam templates for each unit, one standard and one more advanced.
- Download the audio files for each unit
- Ability to customize which units and sections are visible to each of your groups.
- Extra resources, etc.
If you use Read & Play or Read & Prep you can:
View a catalogue with the readings and exercises for each level.
Configure the visibility of each resource for your students.
Class Games: a Kahoot! type exercise bank in real time.
You also have 15 downloadable Cambridge exams, 3 for each level: Starters, Movers, Flyers, A2 Key and B1 Preliminary for Primary and 3 per course for Secondary and Baccalaureate.
In this video we explain how.
STEP 6 – Create your first “Assignments” task
In your Assignments tab you can assign tasks to your students (Primary and Secondary only)
- Click on “New assignment”.
- Choose a name for the assignment.
- Select the class and the students to whom it is addressed.
- Add up to 10 assignments. They can be from Bookroom, Trainer or textbooks.
- Finally set the date when the assignment will start and the deadline for students to complete it.
- Don’t forget to save the assignment.
Your students will be able to see the pending assignments in their student platform in the “Assignments” section of the home, bottom left. Once you have created a task, you can edit it and view a report. This report includes a list of your students and which of them have completed each of the tasks for that assignment. You will also be able to see the score of the exercise and the questions and what each student has answered. All exercises are self-corrected.
We explain how to create Assignments in this video.
STEP 7 – Messages with your students
You can communicate with your students directly from your Teacher Panel.
- Go to the Students section and you can write a message to one student or send a message to all students in the class.
- Your students will be able to reply individually only to you.
- The messaging system does not allow private messages between students, only between the teacher and the student.
Additionally, students have access to the Classwall, which is a public group where they can post messages that all students in the class and the teacher can see. If you do not want your students to be able to use them, you can disable both messaging and the Classwall in the “Settings” menu for each of your classes. Learn how to use these features in this video.
STEP 8 – Become an expert
Now that you are familiar with the main features, you can become an expert teacher with some advanced features (Primary and Secondary only):
- In Settings you can further customise your classes by choosing whether they have access to Rankings, Classwall, calligraphic or capital letters in Read Play and Read Prep, limit the number of daily readings, activate or deactivate the students’ dictionary and choose whether it translates to another language or not, etc.
- In Content, you can create your own content and activities with text, images, PDFs, as well as multiple-choice, open-ended, or file-based answer exercises. Exercises created by a teacher will also be available to the rest of the teachers at the school.
- In Analytics, you can see the usage statistics of all the work your students have done.
- In Gradebooks you can create your own weighted evaluation criteria and fill in the marks of each student to obtain a weighted grade.
Furthermore, if you want to continue progressing at your own pace, Milton Academy will help you reinforce your knowledge, review key processes, and discover new ways to adapt the platform to the needs of your center and your students.
We explain these features in this video.