Index

• PLS QuickStart Guide
• What is Pamoja? What is Pamoja Lesson Suite?
• Classes and Units in ManageBac+
• Import Pamoja content to your classes
• Review and customise your units and lessons
• Adding or customising tasks
• Presentation Mode
• Pamoja Lesson Suite FAQ
• Integration Questions & Support

PLS QuickStart Guide

What is Pamoja Lesson Suite?

Read more about Pamoja and the different integrations available within ManageBac+ here.

Pamoja Lesson Suite provides teachers with a range of tailor-made resources to use in their classroom, including course content broken down into lessons, student assessment and monitoring tools. A solution to save teachers time on course preparation whilst developing skills in online learning methodologies.

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Classes and Units in ManageBac+

Via Classes > Browse all classes > Add Class, you can add a new Pamoja course. Select the academic terms the course will run in, the subject, grade level, and teacher. Once done, click Save Changes at the bottom. 

Important Note: You cannot change the subject of a class once created, so make sure the subject is correct before saving changes! See our tutorial on adding classes here for more details.

Units are housed in Classes in ManageBac+ and are shared between all classes of the same grade level and subject. You can create or edit Units in classes if you are assigned as teacher to the class or have administrator access in ManageBac+. Please see Creating DP Unit Plans for further details. 

Import Pamoja Lesson Suite to Classes

Import Complete Units & Resources via your Task & Unit Roster

Teachers are able to deliver the Pamoja lessons as-is in one-click, or adapt & customise the Units, Lessons and Stream to suit their teaching & learning needs with full support for HL and SL differentiation.

If teacher prefer, they can add Pamoja Lesson Suite Lessons and Resources to their existing units. To do so, please skip to the following section Import Resources to your selected Unit via Stream & Resources.

Please note: Units are housed in Classes in ManageBac+ and are shared between all classes of the same grade level and subject. Thus, importing a Pamoja Lesson Suite unit will appear in all relevant classes. Please see Creating DP Unit Plans for further details.

To import complete Units along with Tasks, Lesson Experiences and Resources, please navigate to your Class > Tasks & Units > Import Unit & Resources on the right hand side > Pamoja Lesson Suite.

Import a Unit

Under Select a Unit, tick the radio button to select a full Unit. This option will import the Unit and the number of Lesson Plans & Resources listed. Search via keywords to find a particular unit.  

Import Lesson Experiences

Under Select Lesson Experiences, you can select a single or multiple lesson experiences by clicking on the name of the Lesson. Ticking the Lesson Experience will enable all items in the Stream by default. 

As Lessons and Streams are unique to the unit in each class, you can also view those Lessons and Streams in other class sections via the class dropdown

Customise your Stream

Under Customise Your Stream you can individually select or deselect the resources by ticking or unticking the box to the left of it. Quickly Select All or None at the top. 

For Tasks, you can optionally import as Draft and set a due date.

Confirmation of Import

At the bottom of the page a confirmation on the number of Lesson Experiences and Resources being imported will display. 

Click Proceed with Import at the bottom of the page. To import another unit or resource, click Proceed with Import and Next. 

Once imported, this will be indicated in the resource bank, outlining if it has already been imported, by whom and when.

Import Resources to your selected Unit via Stream & Resources

Teachers can also add just the Lessons and Resources from Pamoja Lesson Suite to their existing units. To do this, navigate to an existing unit > Steam & Resources > Import Resources > Pamoja Lesson Suite to add content to an existing unit, including Lesson Experiences, Resources, and Tasks.

Select a Unit

Under Select a Unit, tick the radio button to select a full Unit. This option will select the Unit and list its available Lesson Plans & Resources in Step 2. Search via keywords to find a particular unit.

Import Lesson Experiences

Review and edit Units and Lessons

Prerequisites:

• Have existing Pamoja units and lesson experiences

Once you’ve imported your units, lessons, and resources, you can find them listed via the Tasks & Units page of your class, and also further customise them in the same way that you would normally edit your own units, lessons, and resources (including the dates you’ll be delivering them to students, along with other additional information or custom unit content).

To customise the unit plan, go to the unit plan > Planner. You can add additional unit content or edit the details of the unit (e.g. the unit description, start date, end date, or duration) here.

To customise a lesson experience, go to the unit's Stream & Resources, and click Edit next to the experience.

Each lesson experience should already be pre-filled with the necessary content to discuss during that lesson, organised chronologically in the Stream of that lesson.

The resources within each lesson experience may also include some practice content for your students pre-built via AssessPrep or OSC Study, which will appear in-frame within lesson notes.

Adding or Customising tasks

You can add tasks brand new or edit pre-built Pamoja Lesson Suite assessment tasks for students based on the lesson experience content they’ll need to show evidence of learning for.

You can add a new task via Stream & Resources > Assessment Task in the unit, or via Tasks & Units > Add Task. The tasks you add will show up in your personal calendar and also the calendar of the students, class, and year group. You can also edit an existing task via Tasks & Units > click the three-dot icon next to a task > Edit, or via the class Gradebook > Tasks > select a task > click on the pencil icon. To learn more about adding and managing tasks, click here. 

Tasks can be added using our internal dropbox to upload student work, or Google Doc templates can be linked (please note that some pre-requisite setup by admins may be required). You'll be able to use our Split-Screen Gradebook to annotate and grade student work. 

Presentation Mode

If your school will be delivering some of your classes online, you can add Online Lessons to your Stream & Resources within your lesson experiences. These will be visible to students in their dashboard and class calendars. We integrate directly with Zoom, or you can use other meeting tools. 

Online Lessons also allow you to enable KeyChat, Student Notes, and Private Questions. To learn more, click here. 

Pamoja Lesson Suite FAQs

What is Pamoja Lesson Suite and how will it be integrated into ManageBac+? 

Pamoja Lesson Suites are pre-built courses consisting of Units, Lessons, Assessments (both formative and knowledge-check style questions) as well as Stream & Resources. These will be directly available within the ManageBac+ Global ResourceBank, and available for all subscribed ManageBac+ Customers to import into their Classes. Please connect with us via sales@ManageBac.com to learn more about how to subscribe for PLS in ManageBac+.

What content is used for Pamoja Lesson Suites?
For the IB Diploma: Content across all subjects has been developed by the Pamoja Academic team. It does not require the use of any specific textbooks, other than via Haese for Mathematics and via Hodder for Economics. This means that there are no licensing fees for textbooks other than Haese and Hodder, and means that Lesson Suite content replaces the need for schools to use textbooks for the subject currently available within Lesson Suites.

What are the key benefits of Pamoja Lesson Suites?

Pamoja Lesson Suites are most analogous to Kognity Digital Textbooks or InThinking Subject Sites, but with accompanying Units & Lessons that have been pre-planned in a sequence aligned to the Syllabus together with Summative Assessment Tasks (e.g. Student paper). The goal is to provide a roadmap & baseline for a Teacher to use within the Subject.

The key benefits of Pamoja Lesson Suites for a school are as follows:

• Pre-built Course Templates, which are comprehensive, fully aligned to the Syllabus, sequential & paced, and end-to-end encompassing both the Units & Lessons as well as Summative assessments.
• Designed for asynchronous, online course delivery vs. a teacher may be more used to delivering synchronous in-class lessons (Pre-COVID-19).
• Flexible for the Teacher to be able to pick & choose content, and to enhance and adapt the Course content.
• Proven Exam Outcomes: Pamoja online courses deliver better than average IB DP exam scores overall.