What is Wixie?
By: Laura Gonzales Davis
What is Wixie?
Wixie is a publishing and creativity platform that lets students share what they know through their art, their voice, and their writing. Student work is done in and stored in the cloud making it easy to access and share from different locations and devices.
Wixie Introduction
How do Teachers access Wixie?
1. Teachers Go to https://hcpss.me/
2. Click on the Wixie icon.
3. Log in with your active directory (your computer/email login credentials)
2. Click on the Wixie icon.
3. Log in with your active directory (your computer/email login credentials)
How do students access Wixie?
Wixie is web-based, so it is available on any of our computers as well as any tablet (free downloads from the app store). Students can even access it at home!
At school:
At school:
- Click on any web browser
- Then click on the Wixie icon
At home visit:
What can students create with Wixie?
With Wixie, students can use paint tools, text options, clip art, and voice recording to create projects like digital books, ePubs, and printed comics that showcase their content knowledge.
- Wixie lesson ideas
Wixie supports effective instruction
Teachers are connected to students and classes and can create and assign work, develop activities, create rubrics, and evaluate projects for their classes. For example, with WIxie, teachers can:
- Create and assign activities designed to help them meet specific learning goals.
- Manage student work and progress, as well individualized and differentiate instructions
- Evaluate student projects.
Need more help?
Please take a look at these flyers created by our wonderful Wixie Guru, Carrie Trudden.