Junior Great Books Digital Classroom Help

If you have registered with your access codes, please check your email to activate your account. Please check all folders, including spam folders. The email will come from noreply@content2classroom.com. If you don’t receive an account activation email or if your access codes aren’t working, please contact support@greatbooks.org.

Please check that you’re using the correct email address and password. If you are unable to retrieve your password using the Forgot Password hyperlink on the sign-in page, please contact support@greatbooks.org.

Once you’ve logged into JGB Digital Classroom, click the user icon in the top right corner of the screen and click on Profile. Then click the Change Password button. If you are not logged in, use the Forgot Password hyperlink on the sign-in screen.

In the roster screen, you can click on a student’s password to reset it.

When a student is registered in a class, any materials assigned to that class will automatically be available to the student.

Yes, please contact us at support@greatbooks.org to set up a time to discuss LTI integration with our IT department.

Yes, if your school uses self-registration. In the roster section of your class, use the Edit button next to the name of the student whose account you wish to edit. If your school uses LTI, the system you’re using will automatically handle this.

After you log in, click the button in the upper right-hand corner of your screen that says +Add/Join Class. In the pop-up window, select +Add New Class. The next window will ask you to name the class, and create a start and end date (usually the start and end dates of a semester or an academic year). NOTE: If you wish to immediately assign an assignment to your class, make the start date of the class one day before the current date. When you have filled in the information, click Save and your class will be created.

In your list of classes, find the class you wish to add students to, and click on the Rosters hyperlink. This will take you to the Roster page for the class, where you have a few options:

• If your students are using email for your class, you can email them the access code to the class. Use the Student Access Code on the right side of the Roster page. The student can then go to classroom.greatbooks.org and use the access code to register. Once registered, the student will have immediate access to the class when they log in.
• If your students already have JGB Digital Classroom accounts, they simply need to use the Student Access Code to gain entry to your class. On their My Dashboard page, each student will have the name of their current class at the top of the screen. If they click on it, a dropdown menu of all the classes they are enrolled in will appear, along with a +Join Class button. If they click on +Join Class, they’ll see a pop-up window asking for an access code. Once they enter the appropriate Student Access Code, they’ll be immediately enrolled in the class.

If your students are not using email or are too young to register themselves, you can always add them to your class manually. On the Roster page, click on the +Add New Student button in the top right corner. Fill out the information, including the student’s username and password. Once you add a student to your class this way, the student only needs to go to classroom.greatbooks.org and sign in with the username and password you created for them.

Once you’ve created your class, click the hyperlink that says Book. On the next page, click the +Add Book button in the top right corner. The next page will list all of the courses you have purchased. Check the box to the left of any course you wish to use in the class. Once you’ve made your selections, click Save in the top right corner of your screen. Your course(s) will now appear in your class, and you can access each one by clicking the Open button on the right.

NOTE: If you have already created your class and have added books prior to August 11, we suggest that you remove any books you have previously added to your class. You can do this by clicking the hyperlink that says Book, underneath your class name. Click Remove to remove these books from your class, and then click “Yes, Continue.” You should see that there are no courses assigned to your class. Then, follow the above instructions to add JGB DC materials.

If you have a class that is still active from last year, we suggest you change the end date of the class to a date in the past, which will archive your class. You can do this by clicking the hyperlink that says Class Settings, underneath your class name. If you have not done so already, create a new class for this school year. Then, follow the above instructions to add JGB DC materials.

Select the class you want and open the course. Navigate to the session you want to assign, and click on the Assign button. Note that only student-facing sessions can be assigned.

Select who will receive the assignment:
Entire Class will send an individual version of the assignment to every student in your class. You can then edit the assignment for individual students or the entire class as needed. Use this option if you want to provide individualized instruction or different due dates for different students, or if you want to exclude some items from grading for some students.
Groups allows you to send the assignment to one or more groups of students in your class.
Individual allows you to send the assignment to just one or a few students in your class.
All Classes allows you to send the assignment to students in more than one of your classes that are using the course.

Enter the start date and due date for the assignment. The assignment will close on the due date at the time provided, so make sure you give students enough time to complete the assignment.

If you wish to change any of the Reports & Grading settings, just slide the toggles accordingly. Sliding the toggle to the right enables the setting; sliding the toggle to the left disables the setting.
Release to reports: This setting lets you decide whether you want the assignment included in your standards and course reports. You can change this setting at any time, even after the assignment is graded.
Release grades to students: This setting lets you decide whether you want students to see their grade on the assignment. You can change this setting anytime before you grade the assignment.
Students can review work: This setting lets you decide whether you want students to review the assignment once it’s been graded. You can change this setting anytime before you grade the assignment.

You may also add any necessary student instructions. When you’ve entered all of the information, click the black Assign button on the bottom of the pop-up window.

NOTE: You may create an assignment before it’s ready to go to students. If you set the start date to be anytime in the future, the assignment will remain in Locked status (meaning students cannot view or open it) until that date.

NOTE: If you want your students to complete only some of the items in a session, assign them the full session and tell them which items to complete. You can then exclude the items you asked them to skip in the Gradebook (see the note on excluding items from grading in the Using the Gradebook section below).

Once you have created an assignment, it will be listed on your Assignments page. You can access this page by clicking on the Assignments tab in the top right corner of the purple banner. This tab allows you to see all of the assignments you have made, across all of your classes. You can see information about each assignment, along with three options for what you can do next:
View allows you to see a blank version of the assignment.
Edit allows you to change the parameters of the assignment (e.g., the status or due date).
Gradebook allows you to review and grade students’ work.

Click here to view a step by step guide.