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How to Use Kami

The pandemic has completely changed the education system right now. Teachers across the world are scrambling to find resources to teach students better in a remote setting. We’ve got plenty of resources for video teaching right now to deliver lectures, but delivering lectures is not the only part of teaching.

Worksheets are just as much important while teaching, especially when you’re teaching younger kids. Normally, teachers would have resources for the entire year ready, and they’ll print out the pages and pass them out to kids in each class as needed. But with remote teaching, things are looking a lot different. You can’t hand out the practice sheets to students simply. But with Kami, you can hand these out virtually!

What is Kami?

Kami is a digital classroom app that you can use to annotate, markup, and collaborate on PDF or Word documents. You can draw, write, comment, and much more with Kami on your documents.

It’ll basically allow you to share your worksheets with students and they can write their answers straight on the documents without having to print them. You can then further use Kami to grade their worksheets too. It makes the whole process seamless, even in the remote setting. And one of the best things about it is that it can be used with your existing Learning Management System like Google Classroom, Schoology, or Canvas. So if you use any of these tools for your classes, you can just integrate Kami right into your existing setup.

Kami works with a web app so you don’t have to download any additional software to use it to annotate your documents. Now, Kami has a freemium structure. So, basic features will work with a free account, but you need a premium account to access the more rich features.

Using Kami as a Teacher

Go to kamiapp.com and click on the ‘Create an account’ option to get started.

You can create an account using your email id and a password, or use a Google account to quickly sign up.

Then, you need to complete the sign up by further selecting what you’re using Kami for. The options include K-12 school, College/ University, Work, or Personal. The option you select will further determine the premium model for you as the prices vary for schools and professionals.

If you want to use Kami for teaching, select ‘K-12 school’.

Then, it’d ask for further details – whether you’re a teacher or a student, and if you’re using any Learning Management System and the name of your school. Fill in these details and click on ‘Finish’ to complete the Sign Up process.

The Home Page for Kami will open. You can select a document from either your Google Drive or locally from your computer. To start annotating a document, click on one of these options and select the document you want to annotate.

The document will open in Kami’s editor on the web. The free account gives you access to limited tools. You can draw (freehand and shapes), write text, comment (text-only), highlight/ mark the text. Select the tool from the toolbar on the left to use it.

Kami also has an ‘Annotation Summary’ feature that shows all the annotations and the pages they are on in a summary form. You can click the object in the summary to go to that page directly. It’ll be immensely helpful when you want your students to be able to go to your annotations easily.

To access the annotation summary, click the ‘Toggle Sidebar’ button on the toolbar at the header of the page.

Then, click the ‘Annotation Summary’ option from the new options that appear on the toolbar.

With a premium subscription, you unlock many new tools like Dictionary, Text to speech, Equations, Comments with voice recording, video recording, or screen capture, Media, and Signature.

The premium subscription costs $99/year for a teacher plan that allows a teacher to have up to 150 student accounts. Schools & Districts can get a custom quote from Kami’s team. But you can get a free trial for 90 days before deciding to buy a subscription.

Kami has a Split & Merge tool that’s quite interesting. The name gives away what the tool does. If you have a PDF that you only want a few pages of, you can use the Split & Merge tool to select and delete pages. You can also use the tool to merge pages from several documents into a single PDF. This PDF can then be stored on your computer, in Google Drive, or opened directly in Kami.

Sharing License with Students (Premium feature only)

When you’re using Kami for teaching, you can share your license with up to 150 students so they can have access to all the premium tools too. To share your license, click on the ‘Profile’ icon on the top right corner of the screen.

Then, select ‘License Dashboard’ from the menu.

The details of your license will open. Click on the ‘Administer License’ option.

You can either share the link or your license code with your students to give them access and add them to your account.

You can also manage your licenses and remove any students from the dashboard later on.

Activating License (As a Student)

When the teacher shares the license link or code with the students, the student will have to activate the license for their account. If you don’t have an account, create an account on Kami as a student first.

Creating an account as a student is the same as for a teacher. Go to kamiapp.com and click on the ‘Sign Up’ button. Create an account using either a Google account or an email id and password. Then, in the next step, select ‘K-12 school’ and ‘Student’ as your preferred choices.

Now, if the teacher shared the code for the license with you, click on the ‘Profile’ button on the upper right corner of the screen. Then, select ‘Enter License/ Coupon’ from the menu.

Paste/ enter the code you’ve received in the textbox and click the ‘Apply’ button and the license will be activated.

If the teacher shared a link with you, just click the link and sign in with your Kami account to activate the license.

Kami can be the tool you’re looking for right now. You can efficiently share assignments and worksheets with your students, even while teaching remotely. And with the ease of use and accessibility, you or your students won’t find it any trouble using it. And even if you’re looking to use it for personal or professional use, there are separate plans for everyone. You can even add it as an extension to Google Chrome.

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Are you ready to level up your Microsoft Teams with Kami? In this video, you’ll learn how to create Kami assignments in Microsoft Teams and easily share them with your students.

Greetings. I’m Nicole Rennie, I’m a Teacher Success Champion at Kami. I like to say I’m a Kami teacher, a Kami coach, and a Kami mom. And I totally love yellow, so you’ll often see me in this color. Let’s take a look at Kami’s newest LMS integration with Microsoft Teams. We are so excited to bring this to our Microsoft users. 

I love to use this All About Me template, especially at the start of year, I can open it directly into Kami, where I can give personal instructions right onto the page. The first thing I like to do is name my documents. So I know exactly how to find it in my Kami Uploads folder. I can choose the Comment tool, and put a Video Comment of personal instructions right onto the page for my students, the students can use the Voice Comment tool to speak up their name, I can learn the correct pronunciation, and we can build a sense of belonging in our classroom. 

Getting set up is super simple. Just head over to Teams. Choose apps from the left column. Search for Kami and follow the prompts to install the Kami app. To create a new Kami assignment, choose your team or class, choose assignments. Click on the create button, choose Assignment. And here’s your familiar assignment window in Teams. Over here you can choose apps, and select Kami from the app list. I’m going to choose a file from my OneDrive that I’ve already set up with some instructions in Kami, so I know where to find my file. Anything I do in Kami is automatically saved in my Kami Uploads folder. Pick the file that I would like to use, I hit select to choose the file and save. From here I could use a title and fill out the other populated sections of this form. And when I’m ready, I can hit the Save button. 

Students will see a new activity, they can go into their Team, into Assignments, and they can open their Kami assignment, they can choose the file with the Kami K next to it to open it directly into a Kami window. Students can use all the Kami features to have fun completing the task, and when done, they can simply hit Exit and Turn In as normal. Ones once you’re ready to give feedback and grade, go back to your Team. Select the students work from assignments and click on the Kami K to open up the document. You will have the support of all Kami’s tools and features to make giving your personal feedback super easy for you to do. Once you’ve chosen the feedback you’d like to give to your student, and even signed off the work, you can simply hit the X and return to the students as normal. We’re super happy that our Microsoft teachers can now easily use Kami right within Teams. 

Thanks for checking this out. Now you can have more fun with your own content enhanced in Kami or choose from our Kami templates in the Kami Library to create dynamic experiences. Let me help you to keep making connections and bring learning to life.

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