Getting started for Content Developers
Table of contents
Steps to onboard as a content developer
Decide which implementation works for you
Sign up through our onboarding form
Work with our teams to get you started
Overview
What major challenges is Navigator solving for you?
You own your own data, and are given tools to leverage it, understand it and to make it work for you.
You bring your page, and we will give you our book: You, your teachers and students gain a rapidly expanding, research-backed map of learning, and GPS-like tools that guide you that you can link your content to. Within the open ecosystem, you can rapidly increase your content's reach!
You join a community built tool, built by fellow schools, researchers, educators and even students to solve your very real challenges. By working together, every challenge solved is shared with the whole ecosystem to the benefit of everyone!
What is Navigated Learning (NL)
Learning is complex, learners are diverse, and ecosystems are intricate. Gooru understands that school districts are committed to equity and equal access to results. In order for schools to achieve excellence for all learners, regardless of their starting location, learning abilities, and cultural backgrounds, they need to have transparent insight into their students' knowledge gaps and strengths, portfolio of learning activities, and learning preferences. Once this is achieved all stakeholders in the learning ecosystem can make in-the-moment, data informed decisions because they will be able to see where each learner is in their knowledge, skills, and mindsets. Schools need stakeholders to have real-time data about their students’ efforts and outcomes, so that everyone in the learning community can best support efforts for strong learning outcomes for all students. Gooru’s Navigator course addresses this issue and bridges the distance between teachers, guardians, students, and administrators.
What tools are included with the Navigator for content providers package
Navigator for Learners
Helps your students improve their scores and gain mastery through Gooru’s full spectrum of activities, personalized interventions, and customized routes. They can view their progress on their individualized Skylines and see them grow as they master each concept.
Navigator for Instructors
Provides your teachers with resources to fill gaps within your existing curriculum and gives them real-time insights into each student in each class. They can engage students with media-rich content and suggest personalized learning activities.
Navigator for Guardians
Navigator for Guardians provides real time data about their students performance to parents, guardians or other mentors.
Mission Control
allows administrators to access real-time data to coordinate and scale success. Everyone can feel confident in making data-informed decisions based on learning gains, learner performance across competency frameworks, and time spent on learning activities.
Navigator Library
With Navigator Library your teachers gain access to over 4 million open education resources across diverse authors, learning styles, and disciplines and can transform any curriculum into a Navigator course.
Navigator for Administrator
Lets the administrator set up a custom tenancy, roster users, and control other account settings for various roles and functionalities with precision.
Navigator for Developers
Navigator Platform includes APIs and widgets that allows the curated catalog and Navigated Learning functionality to be integrated into any 3rd party application.
Getting started
Decide which Implementation works for you
While independent learners and teachers could just start using Navigator simply by signing up, as a content producer you may already have users, content and even a platform. Therefore you may want to move your content across, or integrate Navigator into your existing products. For this our growing community have developed a number of tools. To gain access to these specialist tools you will either need to setup your own instance on your own servers, or have us host it for you. and we have several options to guide your decision. One great benefit as a content contributor, all of these tools are Free! :) This is a way for our community to say thank you
Self setup Or integration
Learn how to Integrate by visiting our Developer portal
Setup your own instance Visit our GitHub repo here
Create your own courses
Roster your learners
Comprehensive self service instructions are being developed.
$ FREE
Supported Setup
We setup your server
We support your onboarding requirements
We provide training to teachers and administrators
You gain access to premium courses and content.
Contact us for pricing.
Sign up through our onboarding form
Signing up will be a lot easier soon, for now, please email partner@gooru.org
Even if you are going to use the Self-service free option, please reach out and let us know how you will be using it. Consider joining the community as we all work together to solve each others challenges.
FAQ
Why would a content provider collaborate with NLC?
A content provider could reach out to a wider audience through the Learning Navigator effectively. The Platform offers content providers feedback on the quality and effectiveness of the content and helps content builders to build focussed competency oriented learning content.
Will a content provider be remunerated?
A content builder is encouraged to make their content open source and public. However, they can provide premium content and make it selectively available to their learners.
Can we have a dedicated library for our content?
Yes, Navigator allows you to create a featured library. Here is how it looks.
What are the general implementation Steps
What are the general implementation Steps
Roster Your Students, Teachers, and Administrators - Currently we offer onboarding users using single sign on with IMS Global OneRoster, ClassLink, Gmail, and WS Federation. Google Classroom and Clever Integrations are also coming soon.
Locate Your Learner - We provide flexibility in your learners’ starting locations. Districts can use existing NWEA or other standardized test scores, create a quick diagnostic, allow for teacher input, or use an approximation based on grade level to provide the starting location for their users.
Create or Access District Data Lake (Optional and at additional Costs) - Gooru can integrate with an already established district or school data lake or create one for you. This allows the raw data from a variety of 3rd party tools and apps to be gathered and analyzed in one tool, Mission Control. School districts can opt into this feature at no additional cost.
Training Sessions - We recommend atleast two training sessions per year to our districts. Our first training session will give teachers and administrators an overview and understanding of Navigator tools and how to use them. The second training happens two weeks later to address questions, concerns, and explore how to get the most out of Navigator. Please note that due to the current pandemic, all training sessions are remote and conducted over video chat.
Customize Navigator Learning Maps - Math Navigator has a built in scope and sequence that allows for Navigated Learning, but districts can choose to align our framework to their curriculum needs and standards. Districts can provide Gooru with their custom scope and sequence or choose from a publicly available option.
