BEFORE YOU PUBLISH | EDPUZZLE SETUP
Connect Edpuzzle before assigning
Use these public lesson links to add the videos to your Edpuzzle account and connect each lesson in this Canvas course:
- The Art of Logo Design: Edpuzzle lesson | original video
For each Edpuzzle assignment, choose Edit, keep Submission Type: External Tool, choose Find, then Edpuzzle. Select the matching lesson from My Content, save, and test it in Student View.
Open Edpuzzle's Canvas setup guide. If you are not using Edpuzzle, the original-video links above let you run the lesson without the integration.
FACILITATOR’S GUIDE · SW6
Facilitator’s Guide: Pitching and Presenting
Everything you need to run this unit.
⏱ ~5 class periods🎭 Make: a personal logo and a personal brand video💻 Adobe Express · Canva · EdPuzzle
A note on the look: the two student lessons in this module wear their own orange and pink. This guide wears the career-brand slate that runs across every college and career readiness item, because that is the thread this unit belongs to. Same unit, two voices — the student pages are the loud one on purpose.
The unit at a glance
| Module item | What happens | ~Time |
|---|---|---|
| Pitching and Presenting — two lessons, one personal brand | ||
| EdPuzzle | The Art of Logo Design | Runs first. Lesson 1 opens by telling students they have already watched it. This assignment has no description in Canvas — the page is the video and nothing else, so set it up out loud. | ~20 min |
| Lesson 1: Personal Logo and Brand in Adobe Express | Two periods in Adobe Express. The logo needs their name, one icon that represents them, and no more than three colors. Worksheet plus the share link come back through Google Docs. | 2 periods |
| Lesson 2: Personal Brand Video | Two periods. Seven or more slides, the logo from Lesson 1, meaningful images, music they chose, and ten “I am…” statements from the brainstorm. Adobe Express or Canva, their choice. | 2 periods |
Materials + prep
- Adobe Express through ClassLink, signed in with the school account, tested before Lesson 1. Canva is the alternative for Lesson 2 only.
- EdPuzzle class code, tested.
- Both Google Docs worksheets opened and checked yourself — each lesson turns in from that tab, so confirm the hand-back path works before you assign it.
- Headphones for Lesson 2. Every student is auditioning background music at the same time.
- The student example videos linked in Lesson 2 — open one as a class before they start building.
Watch-fors
- The EdPuzzle carries the setup and has no text on its page. Lesson 1 refers back to it as something already done. Play it as a class, or at minimum say what it is for, because the Canvas page itself says nothing.
- This brand looks backward as much as forward. The Career Fair Expo is already behind them — they researched a career, built a booth and pitched it. Point at that: this is the same skill turned on themselves. It then goes forward into the Capstone presentation and into the ePortfolio in Closing Week, which asks for this exact logo by name.
- The default music is the tell. Lesson 2 flags it directly: students leave whatever track the template came with. Make changing the music a check you actually do, not a line on a checklist.
- Hold the three-color rule in Lesson 1. Name, one icon, three colors maximum. It is the whole design lesson, and it is the first thing to go when a student discovers the sticker library.
Grading
Lesson 2: Personal Brand Video is the unit’s Major grade, at 100 points. Lesson 1: Personal Logo and Brand is a Minor grade worth 5 points, and the EdPuzzle is set to 0 — 105 points in the module. Both lessons submit through Google Docs, so the worksheet with the share link pasted in is what you grade.