Educator Guide
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Overview
An easy and intuitive project management application for yourself or teams to work together from different physical locations and help keep track of important deadlines.
Key Features
Views: View team projects from every angle with board, timeline, table, calendar, dashboard, map and workspace views. Additional views require a Premium or Enterprise account.
Automate: Automate your workflow with Butler. Create rules, buttons and commands to automate almost any action in Trello.
Power-Ups: Add featured Power-Ups including Card Repeater, Slack, Jira, two-way Card Mirror & Sync by Placker, Timeline, Calendar, Time Tracking by Planyway, Time in List by Blue Cat, Gmail, Microsoft Teams, Google Drive, List Limits, Read Me and Voting.
Templates: Copy and customize templates with templates from the Trello community. Featured categories include business, design, education, engineering, marketing, project management and remote work.
Integrations: Trello offers 186 integrations, allowing your team to use apps that they have already been using or discover new ways to get work done.
Benefits
Help organise many aspects, both personal and educational.
Collaboration: Shared workspaces make it easy for students and teachers to work together on projects or creations
Cloud storage: updates immediately
User-friendly
How these features can be used in the classroom to enhance teaching and learning
Trello is used by teams that need to lay out the tasks and responsibilities in an easy-to-read fashion so they can stay on top of them. Therefore, it can be used by a small group of students that need to work together on a project.
Getting Started
Potentially visit the Guide first.
Make an account on www.trello.com.
There are personal boards and team boards.
Start a new board/project and name it. You can edit it and decide who it is for.
Make a (to do) list en add different cards with tasks.
You can tag labels, checklists, data and photos or URLs to your cards.
Other members will receive a reminder when adding a date or deadline to the cards.
Considerations and potential concern of using the tool
Trello is not well suited for larger teams that are working on a more complex project. Since Trello is a web-based tool. it has limited offline functionalities. For more features and capabilities, Trello has paid plans.