Quick StarterManagers

Welcome to the Curio.ca family!

As a new subscriber, you’ll find great tools on Curio.ca to help you get started. Curio.ca is a

streaming platform with amazing Canadian content, designed to fit the learning needs and technology

requirements of today’s educators. So jump in and get comfortable.

Here’s how:

What is the most important step in your Curio.ca launch? Spreading the news to your teachers!

• Share the Curio.ca Quick Starter for Teachers PDF with your users.

• Announce the Curio.ca launch in your next newsletter.

• Post the launch on your resource centre website.

• Encourage your teachers to sign up for the Curio.ca monthly NEWSLETTER to help them stay in

formed on our latest additions. Look for the Newsletter section at the bottom of every Curio.ca page.

• Follow us on TWITTER and FACEBOOK and retweet our newest titles.

• Become a Curio.ca super-user, or identify teachers who are super-users. Consider offering a Curio.ca

workshop at your next in-service.

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GET THE WORD OUT!

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• Take a few minutes to watch our starter tutorial GLOBAL OVERVIEW that will give you a general tour

of the platform.

• You can also read more about navigation tips and practical tools in our GETTING STARTED WITH

CURIO.CA section.

• As a manager, the first thing you want to get familiar with is your account parameters and how to

manage the accounts you set up for your teachers. For example, you can set administrator privileges

for other members of your group or set age-group restrictions for all.

• Get acquainted with our robust statistics tool to better understand and track your groups’ viewing habits.

• Take a few minutes to watch the tutorial ACCOUNT CONFIGURATION AND STATISTICS to find out more.

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KEY FEATURES FOR MANAGERS / ADMINISTRATORS

ON YOUR MARK, GET STARTED WITH CURIO.CA!

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OUR CHANNELS

• Do you know that we offer CHANNELS — like National Geographic and our popular

current-events series News in Review — that you can add to your basic Curio.ca subscription?

• Ask us how to upgrade your subscription to include this exceptional content.

OUR CATALOGUE

• Want a quick overview of our newest and most popular content, recommendations, key platform

features and much more?

• Take a look at our PDF CATALOGUE which is renewed every season.

CUSTOMIZE AND SHARE

• Take a few minutes to look at our tutorial SHARING CONTENT AND USING PLAYLISTS to become

familiar with the simple steps teachers can take to organize and share video content with students.

• With our Annotations tool, teachers can drop in their own start point on the video timeline — or as

many start points as they like — add notes to each, save and share with students.

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Don’t forget the importance of repeating the message! Use your newsletter and web site to periodically

remind teachers about Curio.ca content, tutorials and how-to guides. And if you encourage your

teachers to sign up for our NEWSLETTER, we’ll remind them for you!

Look for the Contact Us section at the bottom of every Curio.ca page. There, you’ll find our email,

phone and fax numbers — don’t hesitate to get in touch!

STAY IN TOUCH!

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