My Cooking Counts User Guide V1

PILOT 2014-2015
My Cooking Counts
Teachers’ Guide
Contents
2. Welcome
3. Getting started
4. Adding students
5. Student passwords
6. Student login
7. Student help sheet
9. Teacher - Recipes
12. Teachers – Reporting
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Welcome
Thank you for agreeing to pilot My Cooking Counts - a new tool
exclusively for secondary schools in England, Northern Ireland and
Wales.
My Cooking Counts allows:
• you to create usernames for your students
• you to add recipes, for your students to use
• you to monitor student progress
• students to record the recipes they cook, including a photograph
• students to rate the food skills they demonstrate
• students to note the main ingredients they use
• personalised certificates to be printed
• reports for Year groups or the whole school to be generated.
This teachers’ guide will help you get started and use My Cooking Counts at school. If you
have any questions, please email [email protected] and someone will get back to
you.
We will contact you to find out how you and your students are using My Cooking Counts next
term. This will take the form of an online questionnaire. We would also like to visit some
schools to see My Cooking Counts being used.
Once again, thank you for taking part!
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GETTING STARTED
Creating your school account
1. Go to http://mycooking.mosquito-digital.com/
2. Under Teacher, click the word ‘Register’.
3. Enter your details, going through the registration process.
Keep a note of your username and password below!
4. BNF will also confirm your registration by email. Once you receive the email from BNF,
you can get started.
5. You are now registered to use My Cooking Counts - you can access the tool at school or
at home.
School username (Email Address):
School password:
Note: Please create one account for your school. You can share the username and
password with colleagues. This will allow you to generate whole school reports.
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ADDING STUDENTS
Creating student usernames and passwords
1. Go to http://mycooking.mosquito-digital.com/
2. Login as a teacher.
3. You will go to the Student Management screen, by default.
4. Click on ‘Add students’.
5. You may add students manually: Click ‘Add students manually’, add their first name and
last name, followed by Year Group – the name and Year Group must be separated by a
comma (e.g. Jon Smith, 8).
6. Alternatively, you can upload a list of students. A template is available. Click ‘Import CSV
file’.
Download the template (a .csv file).
Complete the columns - first name, last name and Year Group (i.e. 7, 8, 9, 10 or 11).
Save the template (as a .csv file).
Click ‘Upload file’ - locate the file you have just saved.
7. Click ‘Add students’ - the students will now be uploaded to your school account.
8. Students will be added to the school.
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Printing student username and passwords
1. First, you will need to provide all students their own unique username and password.
2. Go to the Student Management area.
3. Click the ‘tick box’ next to the student name you wish to print. (You may wish to ‘filter’ the
names – you can do this by Year Group or Key Stage. You can also sort the names and
Year Groups in order.) If you click the ‘tick box’ above the first name, this will highlight all
names.
4. Click ‘Print selected’.
5. A new window will appear. Print the usernames and passwords, using the Print function
in your web browser.
6. Cut the names into strips and give to the students. You may wish to remind students to
stick this in their work books.
Note: Students need a Username and Password to login to My Cooking Counts.
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STUDENTS LOGIN
1. Tell students to go to http://mycooking.mosquito-digital.com/
2. Ask them to click on the Student icon, then to enter their username and password.
Click ‘Log in’.
3. They will then be taken to their own personalised area.
4. Here students can add recipes that they cook, rate skills they demonstrate, record the
main foods they use and print their own certificate.
5. You may wish to give students Pages 7-8 - an easy guide for students.
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Students
My username is:
My password is:
Login
1. Go to http://mycooking.mosquito-digital.com and click on ‘Students’.
2. Enter your username and password and click ‘enter’.
Recording what you cook
My Cooking Counts helps you to record everything you cook. It has a number of recipes in
its database, but you can also add your own (including a photo). Your teacher may also add
some recipes. You can print out all the recipes!
After you’ve cooked, use My Cooking Counts to record the recipe and rate your food skills.
Remember, be honest about your rating. You can cook dishes again and improve your
rating!
Find a recipe – from the database
1. Click ‘Find a recipe’.
2. Search for a recipe - this can be by name, food group or food skill.
3. Click the recipe you’ve cooked, followed by ‘Select’.
Add your own recipe
1. Click ‘Add your recipe’. Type in the recipe.
• Recipe name: Type in its name.
• Recipe image: Upload a photo. Click ‘Browse’ to locate the
image to upload.
• Recipe type: Savoury or sweet?
• Ingredients: List the ingredients (pressing return will add to a
new line).
• Equipment: List the equipment (pressing return will add to a
new line).
• Method: Type in the steps of the method. To add another
method press the ‘+ Add another Step’.
• Prep time: Add the preparation time.
• Cooking time: Add the cooking time.
• Food groups: Click on the main food groups used in the
recipe.
• Food skills: Click on the food skills demonstrated by the
recipe.
2. Click ‘Add recipe’.
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Rate your skills
Once you’ve added a recipe, you can rate
yourself.
1. Click ‘View recipe’ for the recipe
you wish to rate.
2. Click ‘Ready to rate’.
3. Rate each food skill using the
stars.
4. Click Save.
5. You can retry a recipe again,
looking to improve your skills.
6. My Cooking Counts give you an
average score – this is based on
the average of all your food skills
rated for a recipe.
7. My Cooking Counts give you an
average score for all your
cooking – look to improve this as
you progress.
Print a certificate
The certificate shows how many times you’ve
cooked, along with the food groups used and
food skills demonstrated. It also shows the
average score achieved.
1. Click ‘Print certificate’.
2. Print the certificate through the web browser.
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TEACHERS
RECIPES
Adding your own recipes
You may wish to add a school recipe, allowing your students access. You only need to add a
recipe once - and it will be available to all students. Your recipe can include a photograph
(this is optional).
1. Login in.
2. Go to ‘Recipe Management’ and click ‘Create new recipe’.
3. Compete the form on the screen, i.e. enter your recipe:
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Recipe name: Type in its name.
Recipe image: Upload a photo. Click ‘Browse’
to locate the image to upload.
Recipe type: Savoury or sweet?
Ingredients: List the ingredients (pressing
return will add to a new line).
Equipment: List the equipment (pressing
return will add to a new line).
Method: Type in the steps of the method. To
add another method press the ‘+ Add another
Step’.
Prep time: Add the preparation time.
Cooking time: Add the cooking time.
Food groups: Click on the main food groups
used in the recipe.
Food skills: Click on the food skills
demonstrated by the recipe.
4. Click ‘Add recipe’.
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Managing your recipes
In My Cooking Counts when creating your own recipes you may wish to make your recipe
available to others in the school or show and hide recipes at different times. The Recipe
Management area will allow you to do this.
1. Go to ‘Recipe management’ and click ‘My Recipes’.
2. Click ‘View recipe’ to edit the details a recipe.
If you wish to publish a recipe to the School, select a recipe by the tick box in the first column
and then press ‘Publish selected’. This will make it available to all your students.
‘Unpublish selected’ will unpublish a recipe from the school, but recorded data will remain.
‘Delete selected’ will delete a recipe and all recorded data with it. (This is not
recommended.)
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Viewing recipes already added
My Cooking Counts already contains a number of recipes.
1. Login in.
2. Go to ‘Recipe management’ and click ‘My recipes’.
3. Recipes will be listed below – from here you can edit, print, delete and publish.
Viewing recipes added by your students
Students can add their own recipes in My Cooking Counts. On occasion, you may wish to
make a student recipe available to others in the school – helping to share good practice.
1. Login in.
2. Go to ‘Recipe management’ and click ‘Custom Student Recipes’.
3. Select the recipe by the tick box in the first column and then press ‘Publish
selected’.
‘Unpublish selected’ will unpublish the recipe from the school but recorded data will remain.
‘Delete selected’ will delete a recipe and all recorded data with it – this will affect reporting.
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REPORTING
You can generate reports for specific Year Groups, Key Stage or the entire school. These
reports will provide you with details on recipes cooked, skills demonstrated and food groups
used. It will also tell you the total number of recipes cooked in your school, including the
number of savoury and sweet. Reporting could be used to promote your department/faculty,
as well as support the recommendations set out in the School Food Plan (England).
Year Group/Whole school Reporting
1. Click ‘Reports’. There will be a short delay while the system gathers all the data.
2. Select a specific Year Group, Key Stage or ‘All’ (whole school).
3. Add a start date and end date (optional) - useful if you wish to compare/monitor trends.
4. Click ‘Go’ - a report will be generated.
The report shows:
• Total number of students
• Number of dishes cooked (savoury/sweet)
• Average number of dishes cooked by a student
• Recipes cooked, Food groups used and Cooking skills demonstrated.
The Average score and Average overall percentage are based on the ratings pupils give for
their food skills.
5. Click ‘Print’ to receive a printed report.
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Individual students
You can review the recipes cooked by individual students.
1. Click ‘Student Management’.
2. Click on a student name.
3. You will see an overview for the student.
4. Scroll down to view the recipes
cooked.
5. Click on a recipe to see details
- such as how a student has rated
specific food skills for specific
recipes.
Certificates
You can create and print certificates for individual students. To save time, ask students to
print their own certificates throughout their food work. This will help towards monitoring and
tracking their progress.
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Click ‘Student management’.
Click on a student name.
Click on ‘Print certificate’.
View and print the certificate.
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