Print the labels
From the assignment's list, Print the labels creates a PDF to print on a sheet of labels. Choose the format of your sheets:
| Format | Per sheet | The QR code | The student's name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35 × 35 mm (recommended) | 35 | The largest | Under it, one line |
| 48.5 × 25.4 mm | 40 | Medium | Beside the QR code |
| 38.1 × 21.2 mm | 65 | Small, to be tried | Beside the QR code |
The student's name is on the label, next to its QR code: it tells you which paper it goes on. So it ends up on the paper, which already bears it. On the 35 × 35, it is on one line, first name first: a last name too long is cut with "…".
Memos sent appear on the sheet. If recordings are still waiting, the page tells you so and offers to send them.
Print before you mark
You are at school, with the printer, and you will mark at home? Print first, and stick each label as you record its memo.
On the labels page, Prepare the QR codes creates a file and its link for each student who has none yet, without any memo. The list of the assignment then says QR code ready next to them.
Until you send the memo, the QR code only plays two short tones. If you forget one, the student hears those tones: the list tells you which papers are left.
A sheet already started, a label to print again
A class rarely fills a sheet. To use what is left of it:
- A sheet already started: touch the first free label on the small drawing of the sheet. The ones before it stay blank on the PDF, and printing goes on to a new sheet if needed. Stick these sheets with care: a sheet already peeled can catch in a printer, so check that yours accepts it.
- Choose the labels: tick only the students you want, to print again a label lost or badly stuck. Its QR code is the same as the first one.
Both can be combined, to print a single label on the free spot of an old sheet.
Print correctly
- Choose actual size or 100%, never "fit to page".
- Print on the side with the labels.
- Test first on a plain sheet.
Adjust to your sheet
Check on a plain sheet first
The grids were measured on real sheets:
- 35 × 35: margins of 12.5 mm at the sides and 18.5 mm at the top and bottom, 2.5 mm between labels;
- 48.5 × 25.4: margins of 8 mm at the sides and 21 mm at the top and bottom, labels edge to edge;
- 38.1 × 21.2: margins of 5 mm at the sides and 10.5 mm at the top and bottom, 2.5 mm between columns, rows edge to edge.
In every case, check on a plain sheet before using a real sheet of labels: printers shift a little.
Under Adjust to the sheet:
- Download the Check sheet and print it at 100% on plain paper.
- Lay it over a sheet of labels, in front of a window.
- If the squares do not line up, correct the margins and spacings, in millimetres, then try again.
These settings are kept and backed up with your data.
After printing
The sheet is sensitive
Until the QR codes are stuck, the sheet links each student's name to their memo. Keep it with you, then destroy it once everything is stuck. The same goes for the PDF: delete it from your downloads folder.
Hand the papers back in person, and tell the students that a photo of their QR code gives access to the memo.