Deck

1. Create Deck

A Deck is a canvas or a Map where you can create an interactive lesson to engage students. Explore the Deck Gallery for decks made by other teachers. You can copy a deck to your dashboard and adapt it. Your available deck allowance depends on your plan and account; check Pricing or your dashboard before creating or sharing more decks.

On My Dashboard, choose Start empty deck to build on the map, or Create a Full Lesson for a guided start.

Next, give a name to your deck; for example, Training Material.

1.1 Deck Background

To add graphics or a background video to your deck, click on the 'Edit Background' button.

Choose from the default graphics, or copy-and-paste your own image (CTRL+V) to be uploaded. Click the 'Save and Exit Background Editor' once you have completed to back to adding Activities.

You can read more about making eye-catching Background Templates here.

You can also add amazing Deck Background Videos! Read more here.

1.2 Activities

There are three different Activities which you may use within the Deck:  Slide & Video Activity, Study Set Game, and Signpost.

You will need to drag and drop these Activities into your Deck Builder.

1.3 Learning Paths

Learning Paths are used to connect your Activities. You must click on the dotted lines to link up the activities that you have inserted onto the Deck Builder to create a path. A properly linked path will light up in green. Path Entry Point is where you expect the student to start the lesson path. It is possible to have multiple entry points, so be careful on how you are configuring the lesson.

The Activity Entry Lock is a powerful feature to increase engagement among students with the lesson. Just by adding a password lock to an Activity, students will be challenged to complete the Activity. To add a lock to your Activity, click on the drop-down icon and select ' Set Activity Lock...'.  Read more here on how you can configure the lock for your Activity.

1.4 Preview Deck in Teacher and Student View

You may preview the current deck in the Test Classroom by clicking on 'Preview Deck'.

The Test Classroom is a sandbox for you to test both the Teacher's and Student's views; Teacher’s view is on the left, and Student’s view is on the right.

Open Preview Deck to choose a teacher or student preview. The default preview shows the Teacher's and Student's views side by side on wide screens and stacked on narrow screens.

Preview as Teacher · Preview as Student · With 1 Demo Student · With 2 Demo Students

2. Assigning Deck in your Deck.Toys Classroom

Deck.Toys Classroom is the environment where all the real-time progress and data is tracked. This is also the place where Classroom study set games can be played.

To share the deck to your students to play in the real-time, multiplayer environment, do the following steps:

1. Create a Deck.Toys Classroom

2. Assign the deck to the Deck.Toys Classroom

3. Share the Deck.Toys Classroom address/URL to your students

For Free Plan, you can assign up to 2 decks per Classroom. For Pro Plan, you can assign up to 10 decks per Classroom.

3. Sharing Deck with other teachers

You can opt to share your deck with other teachers (not students) in the following settings:

1. Off: Your deck is not accessible by anyone except you. This is also known as your Private deck. Assign this private deck to your Deck.Toys Classroom for your students to access.  Learn more about assigning deck to Classroom here.

2. On - With Link: Teachers with the link can view or copy your deck. It still counts toward your private deck allowance. The sharing link is for teachers, not for collecting student responses.

3. On - Public: Submit the deck to the Deck Gallery for other teachers to find and copy. Public submission may be unavailable on some accounts and requires approval. Read the Deck Gallery standards before submitting.

4. Deleting decks

Once a deck is deleted from your dashboard, it will be deleted entirely from Deck.Toys, both in private deck allocation and in the Deck Gallery if you had published this deck before.

Deleted decks cannot be retrieved.

To delete the deck that you have created, go to your 'My Dashboard' and click on the drop-down menu on the particular deck. Select the 'Delete' option from the menu.

A pop-up screen will appear to confirm your deletion. Select 'Yes, delete it!' to confirm.

5. Organizing your decks

Organize your decks in folders on the dashboard. Select New Folder, or open a folder's menu to add a subfolder. Use the deck sort menu to choose Name (A–Z) or Newest.