Installing TimeBack

Hi there folks.

Today let's get TimeBack installed on our machines.

There's a very simple process here and the good news is, is regardless of where you are in the world and whether you're on a Mac or a PC, this process is just about the same, but it definitely starts from the same place.

So that place is right here on my screen.

You can see that I've gone to my browser and, and navigated to app.timeback.com and I'm going to have two choices once I land on the website that you can see right here, Mac App Store or the Windows Store.

Now if you are in a country where we maybe don't have the app, in that App Store yet, no worries, you should see a direct install link and you'll follow that process and get to the same place.

Today I have two app stores to choose from and the what I'm going to select is going to be the Map App Store since I'm using Mac today.

And it's going to take me to this link where I can see some information about the app and then a button here to link to the App Store.

Now I'm going to go ahead and choose that button which should take me to the App Store.

And I've got an option here to download alpha time back and you can see maybe I've had this app on here before.

I'm going to go ahead and click the download link and you can see it's going to take about 25 seconds because our Internet provider bumped up the connection speeds.

Might take a little longer, might take a little less, but this is going to complete and then we're going to go through the actual installation steps for alpha time back to get this program ready.

First step there is to click open.

Easy enough.

All right, folks, so let's go into the next steps of getting Time Back on your machine.

Everyone should be looking at a screen that looks like this.

It says welcome to Time Back.

And your sign in option is to sign in with Google.

Now, every student will have an email address, and that's going to line up to whatever program or school they're a part of that's using Timeback.

your children, with, Alpha anywhere, will have a 2 hour learning, email address.

So it'll be something, probably their name or last name combination, @2hourlearning.com that's the email address that we want to use here.

And again, just because of the way these screen shares are set up, you may not see my dialog box pop up.

so let's switch chapters and I'll show you just the dialog box.

Okay.

At this stage, timeback is going to take you through a series of permissions that you'll need to enable on your computer for the program to work.

The first of those is going to be the built in camera for your computer.

Now the built in camera is providing important information back to the platform that very much supports insights, not just for you, but for your student as well.

Those insights include everything from is the student working?

Are they facing the computer?

are they maybe checking notes as they're working?

That's an important one too.

Now for regular skills, mom, dad and parents, you have the ability to disable this if you like.

Now our encouragement is to have video recording on and keeping the computer in a sensible place where the student is working, just to maximize the data capture.

The data capture is everything, but you do have the ability to turn this on or off.

And that also applies to the second permission, which is the microphone.

The ambient microphone can help report whether the child is working, reading aloud the things that are on the screen, or maybe they're distracted by a sibling or someone else.

Those learning insights really matter so you know where your child's study time is going.

So those two have, have mom and dad ability to turn off or on for skills.

Now for testing, mastery testing and map growth testing.

Those two must remain on just for the integrity of the test itself.

Okay, so keep that in mind.

Now the third, is required in all cases.

And that third permission you'll need to enable is to record everything inside the screen.

This will be, was the keyboard pressed?

was, the active window changed?

Were there button presses and things like that?

Those are going to be important just for the baseline data capture.

And again, that's a huge differentiator between Timeback, which is a software platform using a lot of data to help fuel efficient and powerful learning, and a, web program, that has students click through questions.

So those are the three you'll enable and then you'll land on the actual time back screen, which I'll show you in just a moment.

Okay, folks, so if you're looking at a screen like this one, that means that everything has worked well, you're in the right place, and you're looking at the time back anywhere main home screen that your students will see when they start their learning each day.

We'll get into how to navigate from here in a later video.