GENERAL

Send an email to info@mrspriestleyict.com with the subject line ‘SMA TEACHER TOOLS NEW ORDER’, along with your order number and the phase you have just purchased and these will be assigned to your account.

You will need to log in using your SMA teacher tools account to access the slides.

Once you have had an account created, your slides will appear under . Here you will be able to find your phase(s) that you have previously purchased, click on the chunk and then the lesson that you need.

Check you have successfully logged in correctly with the email address provided upon sign up.

Check under for your lessons and slide shows.
If they aren’t there and you are missing a phase, please email info@mrspriestleyict.com with the subject line ‘SMA TEACHER TOOLS LESSONS’ with the phase you are missing.

Check your team or school have signed up to Structured Maths Approach Teacher Tools. This is not included in the team or school license and is an additional add-on. If your team or school have signed up, once you have logged in using your email addresses added to your account, the phases and slides will appear under .
Under the slide show there is a left, right and 3 dots button. Click on the 3 dots and then choose and your slide show will appear full screen. This will turn off all the tools and only have a slide show.
To hide the drop down menus at the top click on the button on the top right and all of the menu will compact. To open the menu again click on the button.

When you have finished teaching the lesson and you are ready to move on, click the <mark complete> button at the top and it will check off the lesson. You are able to come back to it any time through the slide navigation.
The checked lesson will show a check mark next to it in the drop downs and also on the lesson hub screen.

TEACHER TOOLS

There is a white space on the left of the screen where you are able to use to model, draw, annotate and teach students in the lessons.

You are also able to use all three tools directly on top of the teacher slides making modelling explicitly easier and more hands on.

If you are looking for free modelling, head to and then and it will take you to a blank canvas where you can use the whole space for modelling and direct teaching. There are no slides integrated in that space allowing you to freely model and select what you need.

There are three main teacher tools on this platform:

  • Pen = this is a pen or drawing tool that allows you to draw, annotate and edit on top of the slides or next to the slides. There are multiple colours to draw with: black, pink, yellow, green, blue and red.
  • Place value blocks = these produce ones, tens and hundreds place value blocks for bringing in place value teaching and learning. These can be colour selected and moved around or produced anywhere on the page. To add a block, click on the block you need, choose a colour and click on the page where you want the block to appear.
  • Tens frames = this creates a tens frame with counters that auto-fill into the template. These can be changed colours and you can click any of the ten frames to add a counter. The counters can be deleted off to remove them also.
There isn’t a save feature to store your modelled teaching or work. To save what you have done to either export or refer back to, take a screenshot of your screen and modelling.

To delete the work you have done (drawing, place value blocks or tens frames) click on the individual rubbish bin when the tool is selected to delete the work you have done with that tool. Or select the rubbish bin tool under the tens frames and it will delete all of your work and turn off the tools.

You will need to clear the slide of your work before moving to the next slide.

Head up to the tools section of the drop down at the top and select . This will turn off all the tools on the left and make them disappear from view. To turn them back on again, head to the tools section of the drop down at the top and select .

If while using the platform the tools aren’t working, try logging out and logging back in or opening the website on a new browser/tab.

If you are still having issues please send an email with a screenshot of your problem to info@mrspriestleyict.com with the subject line ‘SMA TEACHER TOOLS ISSUE’ and the team will get back to you as soon as possible.