Your Day in Spark

Also available as a deck

The Instructor onboarding deck walks through the same eight steps as slides with live demos on the same screen. Good for a first pass; this page is the same content in text form for reference.

The rest of this Help Center answers “how does this feature work.” This walkthrough answers a different question: what do I actually do, and in what order?

Read it start to finish once and you will have seen your whole day. After that, come back to the reference sections when you need the detail on any one step.

The Loop

Every teaching day runs the same eight steps:

1. Start Your Day on the Dashboard - everything you need is already on screen.
2. Read Your Schedule - who, when, and what needs you.
3. Check What’s on the Session - Spark assigned it already.
4. Join the Session - one button, near start time.
5. Teach and Launch Work - nothing reaches a student until you launch it.
6. End the Session - final, so read the confirmation.
7. Record Observations - two minutes while it is fresh.
8. Clear Your Action Items - everything Spark is waiting on.

Steps 1 through 3 happen before students arrive. Steps 4 through 6 are the session itself. Steps 7 and 8 are the wrap-up.

You can click through all of it

Every step in this walkthrough links to an interactive demo of the real screen, so you can try it before you do it for real with students in the room.

What This Walkthrough Skips

It covers the daily loop only. These come up less often and live in their own sections:

• Reviewing a student or a group - see Reading the My Students Table and Group Details Overview.
• Looking back at what you have already taught - see Session History for a Student or Group.
• Reports - see Reading the Growth Report.
• Your account and first sign-in - see Signing In for the First Time.

Start Here

Start Your Day on the Dashboard is step one.