Patina Education Experimental

Patina Video Classroom

This tool is for partner organizations. Patina runs private video classrooms where a trained volunteer meets one adult learner, and it is not open to the public while we are testing it.

Teaching a learner? Everything you need is already in your Patina email: your classroom link and your password. Open that link to meet your learner. There is nothing to get from this page.

I am a coordinator

The coordinator site is password protected. Your key is the one you use to create rooms.

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Set up a classroom

  • Create the room for this partnership at Patina Rooms. It gets its own link and password.
  • Send the volunteer that link and password in their matching email.
  • They open the same link every week with the same learner. It works for 90 days.
  • Nothing is recorded.
Go to Patina Rooms

Your student link

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Your video lesson

Your teacher invited you to a video lesson. When you tap the button, your phone will ask to use your camera and microphone. Tap Allow.

Free. Nothing is recorded.

Teaching this lesson? Open your teacher page

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Check your camera and sound

Speak, and the green bar should move.

Background

Your picture above shows it live. The first one can take a few seconds to appear.

Nothing is recorded. Your name is shown to the other person and is not stored by Patina.

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Your classroom

Type the password from your Patina email. You only do this once on this computer. Your student never needs it.

No password? You are the student.

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Your classroom

You are the teacher in this room. Your student uses the same link you are on now, and joins without typing anything.

Your student link

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Not your device? Forget this password

Patina Video Classroom Connecting… 0:00
Your student sees your camera only
Tap to make this bigger

What your student sees

Pick the pen from the toolbar and draw. Your student sees your marks as you make them.

Your student is seeing your screen

This is exactly what is going out. You do not need to switch tabs to check.

Stop sharing my screen

Invite your student

Send this link. It opens this lesson only.

Copied. Paste it into WhatsApp, a text, or an email.

Send in WhatsApp Send as text Send by email
Your student is done writing
Your student's writing Student is writing…

Welcome!

Your teacher can see and hear you. If the connection gets weak, you can turn your camera off and keep talking. The lesson works with sound alone.

Waiting…
Camera off
Connection unstable. Turning your camera off usually keeps the sound clear.
Patina can't use your camera or microphone. In your browser's settings, allow Camera and Microphone for this site, then try again.
Your browser is blocking the sound.
Your student is here.
Write on the line with your finger
Turn your phone sideways for a longer line

Volunteer resources

Chat Not saved

Before you share your screen

  • Sharing a website or a video? Choose Chrome Tab.
  • Sharing another program? Choose Window.
  • Your whole screen is never offered — it would show the classroom inside itself. Pick one tab or one window.
  • For YouTube or music, keep Also share tab audio on.
  • The drawing toolbar appears with your share — pick the pen and your student sees every stroke. The Annotate pill brings the toolbar back any time.

Invite your student

Copied. Paste it into WhatsApp, a text, or an email.

Send in WhatsApp Send as text Send by email

Citizenship FAQ

Current internal guidance for citizenship volunteers

Open in new tab

Your screen is being shared, so your student can see this document.

Students cannot see this FAQ document. Do not share it with your student. Using a link from it? Click the link. It opens in a new tab, and you can share your screen for just that tab.

Internal volunteer resource. Maintained by Catholic Charities. For general program guidance only; case-specific questions should be referred to program staff or an accredited legal-services provider.

Opening the FAQ…

The FAQ could not be displayed here.

Open the current FAQ in a new tab

Your lesson keeps running in this tab.

Your name, sound and camera

Your student sees this instead of "Teacher". First name is plenty. It is never sent to Patina and never stored with the lesson.

Speak, and the bar should move. If it doesn't, pick a different microphone.

Quietens traffic, fans and other rooms so your voice is easier to understand. Turn it off if you want music or another person in the room to be heard.

Off. No captions are shown. Captions help a learner who reads more easily than they hear, and you can switch them on for just a hard moment.

Runs on a computer, not a phone. It uses some battery, so turn it off if the call gets choppy.

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Session ended

Thanks for teaching with Patina.

Before you go

Optional, and quick: two questions for the program coordinator.

1. Did the video tool work well today?

This opens your own email app with the note written for you, so you can read it before it goes. Patina sends and stores nothing.