PDFs: large font resulting in 50-page print-outs
One point of feedback is that although the lessons are easily accessed on a phone or tablet (including links to resources, which is a nice feature), when a lesson is selected for printing, PDF or direct to printer, the font sizes are quite large. This results in each lesson requiring about 50 single-sided pages. Also, if printed to a PDF, there are no document margins, which makes the PDF more difficult to work with.
If you are teaching directly from the ABC lesson, with no modifications, then this may be a good option for those with the ability to use their phone. I prefer to use the scanned lessons on my iPad where I can mark up the lessons with my Apple Pencil, insert pages, highlight, etc. This helps me to organize my thoughts and to stay on track while teaching. Is there a way to reformat the PDFs to make them easier to work with when prepping for a lesson?
Hello Hannah,
I checked on your ABC Digital classes and saw your Grades 4-5 and PreK-1 classes are currently on Unit 6, Lesson 58. Provided that is correct, I have included the current and next unit's Teacher guide PDFs for your use. If you need any more files, please let me know!
Grades 4-5 Units 6-7 Teacher guides:
16-1-121_U6_G4-5_Teacher.pdf
16-2-121_U7_G4-5_Teacher.pdf
PreK-1 Units 6-7 Teacher guides:
16-1-101_U6_PreK-1_Teacher.pdf
16-2-101_U7_PreK-G1_Teacher.pdf
We will be adding the Teacher Guide Unit PDF in lesson 1 of each unit. Units 14 and onward will have them, and we will be going back and adding them to Units 1-13 as well.
Blessings,
Arthur
When the new digital version is released will it be sold as a subscription service or once I purchase will I always have access? Sometimes we need to go back an review.
Hi Terre,
Actually, the answer to your question is yes on both counts. It will be sold as a subscription service, but you will retain access to all the lessons you have unlocked so long as your subscription remains active.
Also, we will be listening to the feedback and expanding the access scope to ten lessons instead of five. Between that and not revoking access to past lessons, we'll be providing a lot more flexibility with the access model. I don't have a time frame for these updates to share, but definitely before ABC Digital leaves early access. Thanks for your feedback!
Blessings,
Arthur
new director can't access lesson downloads/materials
I added a new director but they can't download the material for the class lessons. Is there another step I am missing? I had them log out and back in as well as clear their chrome browser cache.
side note: I absolutely LOVE ABC digital. Please keep up the good work and let us know if there are other ways we can help!
Hi Ross,
This has been fixed! I just checked on your classes and confirmed that your second director can now download the resources.
Please let us know if you run into any more issues!
Blessings,
Arthur
Change lesson schedule
ABC Helpdesk,
We need Unit 3, lesson 21 - Effects of the Fall to show in mydigital for Feb 9. Can you all change our lesson order on ABC myDigital. Thank you.
Hello James,
Happy to help! Your lesson schedules have been updated to Unit 2, Lesson 21 on Feb. 9th.
Blessings,
Arthur
ABC Curriculum ESV Version Digital Access
I am from Canada. How will I get a digital access of the lessons (teacher's guide grade 2-3) from Unit 1-4 ESV Version? I tried to do it, but I did not get a digital access code in my email. Some of my teachers want to access the teacher's guide digitally. I bought the ABC Sunday School curriculum Unit 1-4 from PreK to middle school for 2020. Please advise.
Hello,
I will send you a new code to your email. Let us know if you have any issues with accessing the content.
Thank you for your patience,
Ben Sherrick
teacher access to resources
When teachers log in they can't access any of the resources? Why? I need them to be able to see all of the printable to be able to use this to prepare at home. Please help quick.
Good Afternoon Karen,
I am happy to report that the teacher access issue has been fixed! Please let us know if you find any more content issues! Thanks!
Blessings,
Ben Sherrick
PDFs
Would it be possible to just open the PDFs for viewing instead of having to download them?
Hello Amanda,
Thank you for your suggestion for a PDF Viewer option! Our current option for PDFs is to just download them. Your request has been submitted.
Blessings,
Ben Sherrick
Ability to Skip Lessons or Change lesson dates
With Easter quickly approaching I would like the ability in the beta to be able to pause our sequence of lessons to do 2 of the ABC Easter lessons. Is that something you will have available to do by then? I am just getting my teachers signed up and I want to avoid the confusion of the dates not matching in the Beta or the work of having to recreate the class and re-invite 40+ teachers to the class. Or at least the ability in the class info to change the dates of the lessons. We have the option to select the unit we are starting with when we create the class, it would be nice to be able to edit that date in the classes.
Thanks,
Amanda
Hello Amanda,
I looked into your classes, and see one scheduled to start on March 1st. Did you want that class adjusted at all, or is it already good to go?
Regarding the ability to change the dates of the lessons, that is as a top priority as we continue to develop the ABC Digital platform. We completely understand your frustration with that and appreciate your feedback!
Blessings,
Arthur
Hi Amanda,
Yes, they will be up soon! Our current ETA is midway next week, if not sooner.
Blessings,
Arthur
Easy Access to Resources for a Whole Unit
Prior to Digital, resources for a unit could be downloaded in one complete file. This allowed me to print the whole unit at once. Now that we're using Digital, it's a great tool for some of my teachers but some of my teachers do not have reliable internet access due to the rural nature of our area. So, I still need to print info for those teachers. Is there a better way to access resources other than going through each lesson for each class? It is a bit time consuming and tedious as I have had to click generate PDF up to 3 times for each document before getting a download. Also, once I was able to print from the "print" option and other times only by downloading the file.
Good morning!
The new ABC Resources page is still missing some content, such as the complete lesson downloads, full unit printable PDFs, and KJV version. While we add the missing content to the new page, we have retained the old ABC Resources page here: https://myanswers.com/edu/resources/v1/. That should meet your needs for the time being.
Please let us know if you need anything else!
Blessings,
Arthur
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