Student Help Guide

QuickStart

Follow these steps to get up-and-running in the Coaching Companion. Refer to the in-depth topics in this guide for more information about completing your course assignments.

1. Register for an account.
2. Login to the Coaching Companion.
3. Go to your Course home page
4. Open your first assignment and follow the instructions to complete the assignment.
5. When prompted, upload video to your assignments.
6. Review comments left by your Instructor and peers.
7. Finish all assignments for your course.
8. If you have any questions, reach out to support@earlyedualliance.org. We’re here to help.

Manage Your Account

How to create a new account

How to login

How to edit account information

How to reset a password

Manage Your Course

How to find a course from the home page

Complete Assignments

How to view an assignment

How to find assignment instructions and grading rubric

How to view an assignment video

How to add video to an assignment

How to delete a video from an assignment

Manage Comments

How to add comments to a video

How to read comments in an assignment

How to view Play-by-Play comments

Interact with your Community of Reflection and Practice (CORP) Group

How to leave feedback for your CORP group

Prepare Video for Upload

How to compress a video

 

Manage Your Account

How to create a new account

1. Navigate to the EarlyEdU Coaching Companion™ URL for your program location (e.g., www.location.earlyeducoach.org).
   • If you don't know this URL, send an email to info@earlyedualliance.org.
2. Click the Register button in the lower left-hand corner.

3. Enter the requested information in the form: First name, last name, e-mail, create a password, repeat password to confirm, institution.
4. Click Click Here to Complete Your Account Registration button in the lower left-hand corner.
5. A confirmation email will be sent to your account.

How to login

1. Navigate to the EarlyEdU Coaching Companion™
2. Enter the email address used to register the account.
3. Enter password that was emailed to you.
4. Click the Click here to Login button

How to edit account information

1. Login to the EarlyEdU Coaching Companion™
2. Click My Account from the home page.

3. Edit the information in the form: email, first name, last name
4. Click the Update button
   

How to reset a password

1. Click Reset Password on the login page.

2. Enter the email associated with your account.
   • If you do not know what email was used to create the account, send an email to info@earlyedualliance.org

3. Click the Send button. The system will send you an email with a temporary password.
4. Use the temporary password to login.
5. From the home page, click My Account on the main menu.

6. Click the Update Password bar
7. Enter a new password in the Enter New Password field.

8. Enter the same password in the Repeat New Password field.
9. Click the Update button.

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Manage Your Course

How to find a course from the home page

1. Login to the Coaching Companion.
2. All currently registered courses will show on the home page.
3. Click on the course bar to see grades or to add/edit assignment content - including videos.

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Complete Assignments

How to view an assignment

1. Click the correct course bar from the home page.
2. Click the View button next to the assignment to open the assignment page.

3. The assignment will open in the Assignment tab. You can click the Instructions tab to understand what tasks you need to complete.

How to find assignment instructions and grading rubric

1. Click the correct course from the home page.
2. Click the View button next to the assignment to open the assignment page.

3. Click on either the Instructions tab or the Grading Rubric tab to see contents.

How to view an assignment video

1. Click the correct course on the home page.
2. Click the View button next to the assignment to open the assignment page.

3. When you can see the video on the page, click in the video frame to start playback.

How to add video to an assignment

1. If your video is over 500 MB, follow the instructions to Compress Your Video before uploading to EarlyEdU Coaching Companion™.
2. Click the correct course bar on the home page.
3. Click View button next to the correct assignment.

4. Click the Add New Video bar.

4. Click the Choose File button and then choose a video from the file manager (this will look different depending on the device from which you are uploading a video).
5. Enter a descriptive title for the video in the text box.
6. Click Upload. A progress bar will show the status of the video upload.

7. After uploading, the video will be encoded (the process may take up to an hour.) During this time, do not close the browser window. It is important to verify that the video has encoded before closing the browser completely.

8. Review the file when the encoding is completed.
9. Rotate the image, if necessary, by clicking the Rotate button.

How to delete a video from an assignment

1. Click the correct course bar on the home page.
2. Click the View/Configure button next to the assignment that contains the video you want to delete.
3. Click the Edit Content button under the main menu.
4. Click the edit (pencil) icon at the top left of the video.

5. Click the Delete button at the bottom right of the form.

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Manage Comments

How to add comments to a video

1. Open the assignment that contains the video to which you want to add comments.
2. To add a timestamped comment, click directly on the video at the time you want to add the comment. The video will pause and display the comments form.

3. Enter your comment and then click the Save Comment button.
4. To enter a general comment, scroll below the video and click the Add Comments bar.
5. Enter your comment in the form that appears and then click the Save Comment button.

How to read comments in an assignment

1. Open the assignment where you'd like to review comments.
2. Scroll past the video to see all comments added to the video.
3. Comments that are linked to a time in the video will display a timestamp. Click on the timestamp to start the video at the correlating time.

4. When the video is first displayed, there is a refresh icon at the bottom.
   
   Click this icon to display the options to Reply | Edit | Delete.

4. Click Reply to add a comment to an existing comment.
5. Click Edit to change the text of your comment.
6. Click Delete to delete your comment.

How to view Play-by-Play comments

Play-by-Play assignments allow your Instructor to tag your video with discrete tags know as Interactions. This is a quick way for your Instructor to provide feedback on specific actions or attributes in your video. A Play-by-Play Interactions shows up in the comments area, however it has a different look than a generic comment. The interaction will be tagged with a word or a phrase that your Instructor is looking for in your video, as well as an associated color.

1. Complete a Play-by-Play assignment, noting the type of interactions your Instructor would like to see and creating a video where you display these types of interactions.
2. After your Instructor has finished reviewing your assignment, open the assignment and scroll to comment area. Note the interactions your Instructor has used to tag your video.

3. Click on the timestamp to open the video to the point that your Instructor tagged with this interaction.

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Interact with your Community of Reflection and Practice (CORP) Group

Being of member of a CORP group allows you to practice giving and receiving feedback to a small group of your peers. There are a few things to understand about the CORP assignments that will help you in these interactions.

How to leave feedback for your CORP group

1. Open a Community of Reflection and Practice assignment.
2. Click the Add a New Video bar and then follow instructions to add a video to the assignment.
3. Review the list of the members of your CORP group by clicking the Group Submissions tab and selecting a name from the dropdown list.

4. Leave feedback by adding comments to the video or respond to other comments.

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Prepare Video for Upload

There are many factors to consider when recording video to produce the highest quality media. Click the button below to review the Video Recording Guide and to learn some best practices for creating your videos.

Click Here To Download The Video Recording Guide

How to compress a video

Video files over 500 MB must be compressed before uploading to the EarlyEdU Coaching Companion™.

We suggest using Handbrake to compress video files.

1. Download Handbrake (https://handbrake.fr).
2. Click on the download button on the home page, and then follow the download and installation instructions.
3. Refer to one of the following guides to use Handbrake to compress your video
   • Video Compression for PC
   • Video Compression for Mac

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