 Manage a peer mentoring programMinimum version: FirstClass 8.0
Audience: Teachers
Experience:
 Features we use:
 SummaryWant an easy way to manage your school's peer mentoring program?
� Use a FirstClass conference as a workspace for projects and discussions.
� Create documents to outline processes.
� Use a FirstClass calendar to manage and track events and meetings.
� Use chat rooms for online meetings.
ExampleAnn Jones is a grade 12 teacher at Avalon Academy. As the coordinator of the peer mentoring program, she is responsible for overseeing the student mentors' questions and progress. To help these senior students understand the objectives and techniques for peer mentoring, she creates a conference called Peer Mentoring on her FirstClass Desktop to house discussions and guidelines.
Inside the Peer Mentoring conference, she adds:
� a document called Peer mentoring guidelines to list the guidelines
� a calendar called Peer Mentor Calendar to schedule events and meetings.
She also asks the FirstClass administrator to create a chat room called Peer mentor chat so she can hold online meetings (she does not have permissions to create chat rooms).
 Ann sets permissions for the Peer Mentoring program so that she has full control over all content, and the mentors can contribute to the conference. She also subscribes the student mentors to the conference so that the conference will appear on their FirstClass Desktops.
 She sets "Message expiry" to Never so that messages are not automatically deleted (if "Message expiry" is set to a number of days, messages are deleted after that time).
 The student mentors use this conference as a forum to ask and answer questions.
 Ann sometimes holds online meetings in the Peer mentor chat room. On the Attachments tab, she can provide files in the chat room for the mentors to download if necessary.
 When there is a program event, Ann adds the event to the Peer Mentor Calendar and posts a message to the conference. Ann can view the message history to make sure that all of the student mentors have read the message.
 | ||
