What is LiveText?
LiveText is an Internet-based subscription service that allows students and instructors to "create, share, and collaborate on educational curriculum."
Faculty Benefits of LiveText
Faculty can upload their work, align it to current standards, share it with their students, guide student learning, track student progress, assess the student’s products, and work collaboratively with cohorts.
1. Allows for easy alignment with the latest state and federal standards for teacher education programs. Faculty can easily show “proof” that they comply with requirements.
2. Accurately assess student work based on custom rubrics and expectations.
3. Provides an enriching alternative to “Paper & Pencil” processes; addresses needs for student computer proficiency.
4. Provides a tool for the easy marking, editing, and evaluating of student work.
5. Simplifies web creation of projects such as electronic portfolios, freeing faculty to focus on substance rather than technology.
6. Allows faculty to work collaboratively on projects in real-time. Alleviates numerous revisions and email communications.
7. Information is easily replicated by “Cut and Paste” from existing digital documents; does not require the existing work to be redone.
8. Privacy is yours until you wish to share your data with others.
9. Access from multiple locations: school, work, and home.
Student Benefits of LiveText
Students can upload their work, align it to current standards, and share it with other students, instructors, and potential employers of their choosing.
1. Allows for easy alignment with the latest state and federal standards for teacher education programs. Students can easily show “proof” that they have completed requirements.
2. Allows students to showcase their work to future employers & others. This can include worksheets, lesson plans, and photos/video of classroom activities.
3. Provides powerful tools for creating lesson plans and unit plans—including built-in standards, resources, and templates.
4. Helps organize materials for portfolios.
5. Allows for easier creation and assessment of your electronic portfolio.
6. Provides all-in-one-place portability of work among different classes and across semesters, from initial field experiences and courses through student teaching and induction.
7. Privacy is yours until you wish to share your data with others.
8. For students using it from the beginning of their Junior year, the average cost is less than $20 per Fall/Winter semester, and will be used throughout the students’ program and into the induction years.
9. Access from multiple locations: school, work, and home.
10. Students will increase their technology skills by using LiveText.
Program Benefits of LiveText
Programs and department can upload their work, share it between faculty and staff, track student progress, assesses the program’s alignment with standards, and generate student / program reports.
1. Allows for easy alignment with the latest state and federal standards for teacher education programs. The program can easily produce detailed evidence and examples for accreditation.
2. Provides a central location for all student and faculty work eliminating the need for paper records.
3. Enhances opportunities for a more coherent program, as syllabi, guidelines, rubrics, assessments, etc., can be easily shared, discussed, and modified among department members.
4. Allows for a standard grading method for consistency throughout the department.
5. Encourages interaction between faculty members to collaborate on similar projects (i.e., if multiple professors teach different sections of the same course.)
6. Permanently preserves information for program auditing.
7. Encourages the appropriate use of technology for all participants.
Have a problem with this page? Care to see something added? Please send an e-mail to coe.livetext@emich.edu, and a member of the COE LiveText Support Team will contact you.
