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Contents

• A) What is Kami? pg.
  • 1. Installing Kami onto your device pg. B) Setting up your Kami classroom
  • 2. Connecting your Google Drive pg.
  • 3. Installing Kami onto Student’s devices pg.
  • 4. Connecting Student’s Google Drive pg.
  • 5. Sharing your license pg.
  • 1. The tool bar pg. C) Navigating Kami
  • 2. The menu bar pg.
  • 1. Google classroom pg. D) Integrations
  • 2. Canvas pg.
  • 3. Schoology pg.
  • 1. Kami for English Language pg. E) Kami across the curriculum
  • 2. Kami for Math pg.
  • 3. Kami for Science pg.
  • 4. Kami for ELA and Social Studies pg.
  • 5. Kami for Special Ed pg.
  • 6. Kami for foreign Language pg.

Setting up your classroom with Kami

Now you are ready to get started with Kami - great stuff! Follow our easy step by step instructions to set up Kami on your own device and then your students.

One | Installing Kami To Your Device

Before you start you need to install the following three extensions from the Chrome web store:

Kami Chrome Extension

Split and Merge tool

Kami Screen Capture tool

This ensures you have full functionality and access to all of our tools. Notes: Be sure to check with your Google Administrator that your students have the ability to add extensions, if they do not, ask the administrator to whitelist the following three extensions. Google Administrators also have the ability to push out extensions to student accounts, ask your administrator to push out the following three extensions. You can do this following the instructions here. Once these extensions have been downloaded onto your device you will need to:

1. Open the Kami app.

2. It will ask you to create a login. Follow the instructions on screen and make sure to

use your school email address. Hey presto you can now use Kami on new blank pages. Next we need to link Kami to your Google Drive so that you can open any PDF or document and edit using Kami’s tools.

Two | Connecting Your Google Drive To Kami

1. Find a document in your Google Drive which you would like to open in Kami.
2. Right click the document in your Google drive.
3. In the menu that appears select “ Open with ”.
4. Select “ Connect more apps ”
5. Search for Kami in the search window that opens.
6. Then simply click the green “Rate it ” button. Check out a quick demo on how to follow these steps: Instruction video Once you have completed the following you can open any Google Drive file with Kami.

Three | Installing Kami to Student Devices

As with your own set up, all your students will first have to install the following three extensions to their devices:

Kami Chrome Extension

Split and Merge tool

Kami Screen Capture tool

1. Sign into Kami on your teacher account.
2. Click the Profile icon in the top right, then select " Enter License/coupon ."
3. Enter your license key into the appropriate field.
4. Click Apply. A green popup message will then inform you that your profile has been successfully updated.

5. Everyone who clicks on this link will be added onto your license. Congratulations! Now you have Kami successfully installed onto everyone’s device and you’re ready to start.

Navigating Kami

There are two distinct interfaces within Kami:

1. The toolbar : The black bar which appears on your left hand side in the app. It provides the tools you need to interact with files.
2. The menu bar : The indigo bar which appears at the top of the screen. It provides the tools you need to manage your overall Kami settings and file functions. The toolbar Kami’s wide selection of tools gives users the freedom to interact with files in whichever way best suits their learning. Let's have a look at some of the tools you can find on our toolbar and how they can be used:

One | Reading and manipulation tools

At the heart of Kami is the ability to close read and move through files. To do this we have: ● Select tool: Your basic mouse tool allows you to interact with the file without creating annotations. You can also use it to copy and paste. ● Hand tool : Expressly for navigating the file, the hand tool enables easy scrolling.

● Drawing: This tool allows for freehand drawings to be made anywhere on the file. The stroke thickness and transparency can be adjusted, as can color. The tool can be adapted to create perfectly straight lines by holding shift before drawing. ● Shapes: This tool allows you to place shapes on your PDF. You can create circles, squares, and lines in any colour and to whatever size. ● Eraser: The eraser tool removes shapes, text, signatures, and drawings that have been made onto your PDF. To use the eraser tool, simply click and drag over the annotation that you wish to remove.

Four | Features for inserting media

Lastly, you can insert a range of media into your Kami file: ● Insert image: Using this tool you can insert an image from a variety of locations: your own documents, Google Drive, Google Image safe search or a webcam photo. ● Insert signature: This is used to upload and store your signature to sign PDF files quickly. You can upload an image of your signature, draw it into the file or even draw on your phone - whichever method works best to get the highest quality version. The menu bar The menu bar functions as your navigation centre for the whole Kami app. It contains all the tools you need to save, find and send work, alongside your general profile settings. Let’s have a look at how to use the menu bar commands. Moving from the left of your screen to the right we start with:

One | The left hand side

1. Kami Account

There are multiple types of Kami accounts. Your type of account will be stated on the left-hand side of the bar.

2. Toggle Sidebar Clicking this opens up a vertical page navigation panel or sidebar to the left of your toolbar. Scrolling through this allows you to quickly find the right page of your file. You can close the sidebar by clicking the Toggle button again. 3. Find in Document The Find Document button locates words or phrases within your file. When you click the icon, a drop down box will appear with a search bar. Type in a word or phrase, and Kami will display how many times it is present and can highlight the instances, so you can find them on the page. 4. File Name Next to the Google Drive icon will be a line of text. This text is the name of the file. If you click the line, you can rename the file in Kami. Kami does not have access to local files, so this will not update a local file's name (you will need to export the file).

Two | The right hand side

5. Zoom Bar You can zoom in and out manually by clicking the plus or minus symbol. 6. Open File Clicking on the Open File icon will present you with a drop-down menu. Within it are a range of locations where you can open a file from, as well as a list of recent files, and tracked copies. Note tracked copies are a way to keep multiple versions of the same file. 7. Share Document

Extra tools OCR tool

One | What is the OCR tool?

The OCR tool (or Optical Character Recognition tool) is a technology designed to turn a scanned document into a fully digitally recognisable PDF. What does this mean exactly? Well when you scan a document into a computer, it can’t read anything on it. In effect the computer just sees the file as one large image. This is why you can’t interact with any of the features on the file, merely view it. The OCR tool basically gets the computer to actually read the scan you have given it. The program allows the computer to recognise all the characters written on it so that you the user can start to interact with the contents. For example, the Kami text-to-speech tool can’t read anything on a standard scanned file as it simply doesn’t perceive that there is anything there to read. But once the OCR tool has worked it’s magic, text-to-speach can identify and accurately read all the text! It’s important to use the OCR tool on scanned docs before loading them into Kami, as this ensures that all of Kami’s annotation tools will work properly. Remember if you ever find yourself having trouble selecting text with the tools, or if the Text to Speech is unintelligible, you are likely using a freshly scanned PDF that hasn't been read by OCR.

Two | Where is the OCR tool?

Our OCR tool is can be found on: ● The Kami app starting screen page, above your document options. ● In the Kami app menu bar, specifically the menu icon at the far left of your screen.

The OCR tool displayed in the Kami app starting screen The OCR tool under the menu icon in the menu bar

Three | How to use the OCR tool

Three | How to use the Split and Merge tool

Once you have clicked on the Split and Merge button you will then need to choose the file you want to Split or Merge. You can either drag-and-drop into this window or you can click the Drive icon to load a file from your Google Drive. When your document has loaded, you will be taken to the Split mode. Here all of the pages within the document will be displayed along the top of your window.

Click-and-drag the pages along the first bar to change up their order within the existing document. You can also move selected pages onto the lower row to create a seperate file that can be saved as a standalone PDF (these changes will not commit until you export the file itself).

Do this by uploading any documents you wish to be merged using the pink plus on the bottom left of your screen. Choose from either your computer files of Google Docs. Once the file has uploaded you can include them in your split mode rearrangements. Note: You can also select Google Slides or Docs and these will automatically fetch a PDF copy of these files and allow you to merge slides and pages from other document types.

Integrations

The Kami app integrates with a number of popular Learning Management Systems, including Google Classroom, Canvas and Schoology. This means that Kami’s functions can be used within an LMS, and files edited in the app can be saved and graded within the system. Basically, it saves time and makes for a smoother experience for everyone! Here is how to use Kami alongside your LMS:

One | Google Classroom

Kami has a free version, and a paid version for educators and this slightly alters your experience when using Google Classroom. The main difference between the two is that Kami’s paid version includes deeper integration to Google Classroom, such as built-in "Turn In" button, and assignment creation, to help simplify the process for students. We will look at how both versions can be used effectively within Google Classroom. Note To use Kami within Google Classroom you must first have:

1. Setup up your student in a Google Classroom Course.
2. Installed the Kami Chrome extension and app into both your own and your students' Chrome browser.

Free version

Instruction video

Teachers: Sending an assignment to students

Sending a Kami assignment to students through Google Classroom is very straightforward. Follow these 3 basic steps.

1. Select create an assignment from the left hand side bar.