Discovery Education Experience

Most User Accounts are part of District Single-Sign On!

Check with your campus librarian or district technology department. Your district is required to have single-sign on in place for faculty, staff, and students.  Discovery Education offers a variety of free Single Sign On (SSO) integrations to quickly and securely access content. By implementing SSO, users will easily authenticate using their existing district credentials. This provides teachers and students easy access to their content, so they can keep learning in school, from home, and on their devices. Integrations & Access

Ease your user management and overcome access challenges by choosing one of the SSO integration options below. Each link provides a user guide and technical requirements so you can see if it meets your district needs.

Google SSO

Office 365 SSO

ADFS/SAML SSO

LDAP Active Directory SSO

ClassLink SSO

Clever Instant Login (SSO Only)

Ready to get started? A district-level administrator should complete the Single Sign-On Integration Services Agreement and we can help you with next steps!

Changed Campuses? Login to your profile and be sure you are assigned to the correct campus. If NOT, check with your technology department or click on Account Settings and manually enter the passcode for your new campus to change schools

Creating new teacher accounts using passcodes is easy!

If for some reason Single-Sign on is not yet functioning at your district, teachers may create their own Discovery Education account using their school's teacher passcode. Each teacher passcode is a random eight-character alphanumeric code (example: A123-B123). Passcodes are unique and specific to each individual school/building within your school district.

Once you obtain your school's passcode, go to www.discoveryeducation.com and click on the Passcode/New User tab. Enter your school's eight-digit passcode in the provided boxes, and click on Login. If you do not know your school passcode, please contact your school or district Discovery Education administrator or the ESC-20 staff appearing on this page.

You will be required to enter your information in order to create a user account.

Please note that your username must be at least 6 characters long and unique not only to your school but unique to the whole DE community. Please do not use personal information (such as Social Security Numbers) when creating your username. We highly suggest using your district email address as your username.

Managing Classes

Click on the links below to learn how to manage class accounts. Discovery Education also integrates with many Learning Management Systems (LMS) detailed at this site.

Note: You must first log into your Discovery account. If your school does not provide integration with your LMS, you can manually create a Discovery Education class and then add students from your school roster.

• Manually Create a Class 
• Manually Add Students and Co-Teachers to a Classroom
• Discovery Education Help Center

Online Training Resources - Educator Supports

Whether your teachers are new to the service or seasoned users, Discovery Education's Professional Learning Center provides great tips, tricks, and practical integration strategies for using this digital resource. Click on the Educator Supports button from the main menu to access: Resources include:

• Getting Started: Step-by-Step Guides for users on how to utilize all DEX resources. Includes Interactive Courses, information on Learning Management Systems (LMS) and DEX
• Timely Resources: Access to the Help Center, Join an Event, Community Favorites - recommendations across grade levels, on-demand webinars and archives, and links to Social Media networks 
• Hot Topics: English Language Learner Center and Social-Emotional Learning Center
• Instructional Strategies: SOS Instructional Strategies Channels, research-based strategies for integrating digital curriculum resources in meaningful, effective, and practical ways. 
• Professional Learning: Just in time professional learning resources as well as Learning on Demand via the DEN Community. Links also to Corporate Educational Partners eLearning Modules.
• Instructional Leaders: Resources for leaders, Equity Talks, and information on becoming a DEN STAR.

Educators who complete the interactive courses available via DEX receive certificates of completion that may be applied toward Continuing Education Credit at the discretion of their district.

Webinars

You have access to all archived webinars, including special events and walkthroughs of the Discovery Education Experience by logging in and selecting Getting Started OR Professional Learning from the Educator Supports button. Webinars and on-demand archives are available under Educator Supports / Timely Resources / Join an Event.

Note: Discovery Techbook subscriptions are not offered through ESC-20. These are purchased via your District's instructional materials adoption process.

Other Training Opportunities

• Top Tips for Discovery Education
• 10 Step Guide to Discovery Education Experience
• 50 Ways to Integrate Discovery Education Streaming

Contact us for your training needs.

Cyndi Zaragoza
Coordinator, Instructional Services

Susan Reeves
Consultant, Digital Age Learning

What is a Studio Project?

Studio is a Discovery tool that allows students and teachers to create a digital poster or slide show that may contain embedded videos (from Discovery Education or uploaded from other devices), audio files, text, images, and even attached documents.

Although a student may create multiple Studio projects, their projects will not be viewable to other users until their teacher has approved the project. Any edits made after the initial project approval will require resubmission to a teacher.

Students can only create Studio projects when they have an individual Discovery login. Once student accounts are created at the campus or district level, teachers will log into Discovery Education and go to their Classrooms channel to create classes and add students.

Multimedia Content Guidelines

Here are the file types acceptable for use in a Studio project:

• Videos: 3g2, 3gp, 3gp2, 3gpp, asf, asx, avi, f4v, flv, m4v, mkv, mov, mp4, mpeg, mpg, mts, qt, rm, wmv
• Images: gif, jpg, jpeg, png
• Audio: aac, ac3, amr, eac3, m4a, mp3, ogg, wav, wma

Files sizes are 100 MB maximum (usually video files under 5 minutes). Remember to select the segment of an overall video that is most applicable to the project.

To locate a citation for a Discovery Education video, open the full video, then look for the Details tab, View Citations button. Pre-formatted citations in MLA, APA, and Chicago Manual of Style are available.

Why Teachers Like Discovery

1. Appropriate and relevant content that has been curated and is aligned with state standards, plus practical instructional strategies. 

2. Student-centered learning where students can be curious and explore; where they can illustrate difficult or abstract concepts; where they can build experiences; where they can design, build, and demonstrate their new knowledge.

3. Differentiated instruction is possible when teachers assign different resources to students as a whole class or in small groups. In addition, the built-in  Assessment Builder and Quizzing tools can be used for formative or summative assessments. 

4. Quality professional resources such as instructional strategies, self-paced modules, and step-by-step guides are available to teachers.

5. Unique Discovery Education experiences such as virtual field trips and viewing parties take learning beyond the classroom walls. Your class can experience field trips around the globe, from the Arctic to Washington DC, and meet experts in a variety of fields.

6. The Discovery Educator Network (DEN) is a professional community that all teachers in Discovery Education subscribing schools may participate in for idea sharing and inspiration.

Ensure student and teacher access!

Your district is strongly encouraged to have single-sign on in place for faculty, staff, and students.  Discovery Education offers a variety of Single Sign On (SSO) integrations to quickly and securely access content. By implementing SSO, users will easily authenticate using their existing district credentials. This provides teachers and students easy access to their content, so they can keep learning in school, from home, and on their devices. Integrations & Access

Ease your user management and overcome access challenges by choosing one of the SSO integration options below. Each link provides a user guide and technical requirements so you can see if it meets your district needs.

Google SSO

Office 365 SSO

ADFS/SAML SSO

LDAP Active Directory SSO

ClassLink SSO

Clever Instant Login (SSO Only)

Ready to get started? A district-level administrator should complete the Single Sign-On Integration Services Agreement and we can help you with next steps!

Usage Reports

Discovery Education school administrators may run  reports from the My Admin screen > Reports Home. Reports are designed to be 'drilled down' for detailed information on usage at the teacher, student and resource level.