Confer Training

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Training Videos

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Creating an Account and Logging In
While you can use Confer without an account, you have the added benefits of being able to sync, backup and share your data when you have an account. This video will show you how to quickly create an account and how to log in to your account.

Adding Your First Subject
This video will show you how to add your first subject to the Confer App. Use this method if you have created your class lists in Pages, Word, or Google Docs and will be importing it using your email.

Adding Students Directly to the App
This video will show you how to add your students directly into Confer. You only need to do this with your first subject. After you have added students to your first subject, then you can add them to a additional subjects directly from the existing list.

Creating Your Class List in Pages
This video will show you how to create and export your class list using Pages to use with the Confer app.

Creating Your Class List in Word
This video will show you how to create and export your class list using Word to use with Confer.

Create Your Class List - Google Docs
This video will show you how to create and export your class list using Google Docs for use with Confer.

Emailing Your Class List
If you created your class list using Pages, Word or Google Docs, you will need to email this document to the address you are using on your iPad. This video will show you how to email the .txt class list document you created to use with Confer.

Adding Students to First Subject (Email)
If you created your class list in Pages, Word, or Google Docs and emailed it to yourself, you will need to open it to add to Confer. This video will show you how to add the students to your first subject. You will open the list from the email you sent yourself and add the students from there.

Adding Additional Subjects
Once you have added your first subject and your students, it is a bit easier to add additional subjects with the same students. This video shows you how to add additional subjects and populate the subject with students from a different subject.

Editing a Subject
This video will show you how to edit the title, and how to add and delete a student from an existing subject.

Deleting a Subject
This video will show you how to delete a subject you created using the Confer app.

Deleting a Student
This video will show you one way to delete a student from a subject.

Another Way to Delete a Student
This is another way to delete a student from a subject.

Editing Student Information
This video will show you how to edit student information - first name, last name, level - in Confer

Introduction to Adding Notes
This video will give you an overview of what types of information and data you can add to your notes in Confer.

Creating a List of Notes in Google Docs
This video will show you how to create a list of notes you will want to use in the Confer app using Google Docs. You can also follow these steps in Pages or Word as long as you export as a .txt document. You will export this as a .txt document and email it to your iPad email account.

Emailing Your Notes to Add to Confer
This video will show you how to email the notes you exported as .txt files to your iPad. Be sure to use the email address you have set up on your iPad.

Importing Your Notes from Email
This video will show you how to import the list of notes you emailed to yourself into a subject that you have created.

Adding Student Notes to a Notetaking Field
This video will show you how to add a note from a list or type in your own note in one of the notetaking fields. If you type in your own note, this note will be added to your list within the subject area.

Adding a Note Using the Microphone
This video shows how to use your microphone to record a new note. You must have a current device and internet access.

Adding One Note to Multiple Students
This video will show you how to add one note to several students at once.

Modifying an Existing Note
This video will show you how to modify an existing note by deleting one of the components or changing the date.

Editing Fields
This tutorial will show you how to edit, delete and add fields to the Confer app. The default note fields are strength, teaching point, and next steps.

Sharing a Subject
This video will show you how to share a subject with a colleague so you can each add notes. You only need to share once and the creator of the subject would be the person to share with colleagues.

Deleting a User from Sharing
This tutorial will show you how to remove a user from a previously shared subject.

Syncing
This video will show you how to sync your data so that you can access it from different devices and share with colleagues.

Changing the View of a Subject
This video shows you how to change the way you view a subject. You can view the list of student names or open it up a bit more to view specific fields or all of your fields.

Creating Groups
This video shows you how to set up groups of students in Confer.

Moving Students in Groups
This video shows you how to quickly move students between groups in a subject.

Disbanding a Group
This video shows you how to disband a group that you previously created in Confer.

Flagging Students
This video shows you how to quickly flag a student. This app allows you to select from 5 different flag colors to flag a student.

Sorting
This video shows you how to quickly sort your students based on their notes.

Searching
This video shows you how to search for certain words within a subject in Confer.

Exporting Printable Documents for All Students
This video shows you how to export a printable document containing the notes of all students in a subject.

Exporting Printable Documents for an Individual
This video shows how you can export a printable document that contains all of the notes from one student in a particular subject.

Exporting Printable Documents of the Current View
This video shows you how to export a printable document of the current view of a subject.

Exporting Comments
This video shows you how to export your existing comments in a subject. This allows you to have a record of these comments and share them with a colleague who may want to use the same comments in their subject.

Exporting Your Roster
This video shows you how to export your student roster from a particular subject.

Logging Out
This video will show you how to log out of Confer.