A quiet revolution has been happening within NetAcad and now that it is beginning to mature. Skills for All - is moving from a side project towards providing mainstream resources for the NetAcad community, and this is exciting.
We would like to encourage all instructors in our community to complete two small, and very useful tasks after reading this article.
First
Go to Skills for All and sign up, using your NetAcad login and review this Operating Systems course. After reviewing it, we feel that this may be the short, 12hr long asset that many of our Cisco Academies have needed for their Computer Science / Computer Hardware 101 education opportunities.
It will help you understand the potential of Skills for All.
Then secondly
Go to SkillsforAll.com - click on the person link in the top right hand side.
Then continue with your Cisco Networking (NetAcad) profile. You can see it at the very bottom of the next image.
Once you sign up, it will pick up your instructor status and you will have access to all of the resources as an educator and offer them with control to your students. You can edit the front page, create a self enrol link and see your student gradebook.
You can amend your profile, the default is always 'learner' under the Skills for All meta academy. However, as you can see from the next image ... you can push the down arrow next to skills for all.
Then, as if by some technological magic - change your profile, based on what/which academies you are connected to.
Ideally, you should select instructor. However, did you notice that you can also search for your academy. At this point, towards the top left - the My Classes link will now appear.
Now, almost in the same way as you have experienced on NetAcad, you can create classes for your students. Have a try and feed back to us what you think.