HOW TO DO PADLET

Introduction

• Padlet is a Web 2.0 free online tool that known as an online bulletin board. It is ideal for making open-ended questions and elicit multiple student responses.

Step 1: Open the Padlet website

• Open the web browser (Mozilla Firefox*/Google Chrome*/Safari*/ Internet Explorer*)

• Enter the URL: - https://padlet.com

• Wait for the website to load. The website would look like this:

Step 2: Register/Login• For first time users, it is required for you to register

for an account in order to use the tool. Click “Login/Sign Up” as shown in the picture below:

You can login with your Google or Facebook account

If you don’t have both, you can register it directly through this website by entering required information such as your email and password

Step 3: Create new Padlet• After you have login, you can now create a new

Padlet like shown in the picture below:

• Now you have a new blank Padlet as shown in the picture below:

Click “Modify this padlet” to change the background of your wall

Give your wall a description

Give your wall a portrait

Give your wall a title

Choose a wallpaper style, or add your own

Choose your layout on how posts appear on your wall

These settings allow you to choose who can view the wall and how the wall can be accessed

Your wall should now ready for posting!Double click anywhere on the wall and a virtual “sticky note ” will appear. From there enter your title/name

Then you can either write something

Embed a link

Upload something

Or take a webcam photo

This setting allow user to copy and paste code to embed in blog or website

Highlight all the code and press ctrl+c to copy

Step 4:How to insert Padlet into GOALS

• Open GOALS system (http://goals.usim.edu.my).

• Login using your ID (Staff ID Number and eWadi password).

• Click My courses.

• Choose the course that you want embed a Padlet.

• Click “Turn editing on”.

• Click “Add an activity or resource”• Choose “label”

• Edit settings for the “Label” activityClick show editing tools

Visible = Show

Click HTML button to embed a link

HTML source editor will appear as shown in the picture beside Press ctrl+v

to paste the code from Padlet

Click Update button

After the code has embed, the Label will shown

as the figure below

Click “Save and return to course”

This is the final result of how the Padlet will appear on your

course