How to Prepare for Daily Use

This guide will take you from "I don't know what to do" to "I don't know how I taught without this!" in a few minutes. If you take the time to personalize your Merlyn experience, you will save more time, experience less burnout, and feel more present in your classroom.

Shortcuts, Reminders, Timer, & Questions

Shortcuts

You can create shortcuts to links for your favorite sites, and assign them to remote buttons all within in our Teacher Toolkit!

Creating new shortcuts

1. From the Teacher Toolkit, click on "Shortcuts" 

2. Click Create a Shortcut in the upper right hand corner.

3. In the pop-up window, choose Link from the drop down.

4. Enter easy-to-remember voice requests for your new shortcut, as well as the full URL (http/https is required).

5. Click Create Shortcut at the bottom of that window to save! 

Note: On Merlyn Display, you can only create voice shortcuts. Remote shortcuts are not yet available.

Reminders

You can create custom reminders that will popup on your screen to remind you to take an action.

Create a Reminder with a Voice Command

1. Press the push-to-talk button and issue the following commands to create a reminder:
   • "Remind me to (content of reminder) at (time/day)"
   • Example "Remind me to take attendance at 10:00 AM every day."
   • If the reminder was successfully created, you'll see a prompt with confirmation. 
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Timers

You can start and control timers using your voice. The Newline classroom tools timer is fast, easy to use, and provides a great on-screen visual for your class.

• To set a timer, hold the push-to-talk button and say "set a timer for <x amount of time>
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• To end the timer, hold the push-to-talk button and say "Cancel the timer"

Questions

Inquisitive students learn faster. Capture those curious learning opportunities by creating and answering questions using Merlyn!

• For question answering, use the push-to-talk button to ask a question, and Chat will open to provide an answer. 
  • Example: "How far away is the sun?"

• To create discussion questions, use the command "Let's Discuss". 
  • For example "Let's Discuss the solar system"
• The Teacher Toolkit will open and prompt you to choose your grade level to ensure the question generated is appropriate and on-grade level for you students.
• Click "Generate Discussion Question" to proceed. 
• Our AI will generate a question for you to use as discussion, check for understanding, formative assessments, exit ticket, etc...
• If you would like a new question, click on "Regenerate"