Navigate the Coachly Panel

If your district purchases Coaching licenses, then you may have a Coachly tab in your HMH Ed™ banner. Coachly provides you with one-on-one coaching from trained HMH professionals, which includes the option to communicate with your coach (or coaches) using the chat feature as well as live sessions.

Details about how to navigate the Coachly panel are provided below.

 

    Click an area of the page to view details.

 

Coachly Home panel with letters identifying all the sections of the page  

 

 

 

Coachly Banner Tab

 

 

 

Coachly tab showing a red circle with the number 2

 

    To open the Coachly panel, click the Coachly tab in your Ed banner.

 

When you have a message response, a red numeric notification appears beside the Coachly tab in your banner. This notification appears as soon as you log into Ed and specifies how many unread messages are pending.

 

 

Drag-and-Drop Bar

 

 

The Drag-and-Drop bar drag and drop bar allows you to move the panel around on your Ed page and reposition it where it works best for you as you perform tasks in Ed.

 

    To reposition the Coachly panel, click and hold the Drag-and-Drop bar, move the panel to the desired location, and release the bar.  

 

 

Note: Positioning of the panel persists when navigating to another page in Ed. If you refresh your page, however, the Coachly panel closes and resets to the default position.

 

 

Close Button

 

 

 Closes the Coachly panel.

 

    Click the Close button to close your Coachly panel.

 

 

 

Coach Name and Link

 

 

Coach Name and arrow link

 

Displays the name of your currently selected coach, the coach's area of expertise, and (if additional coaches) an arrow to view and select additional coaches.

 

    Click the arrow buttons button beside the selected coach to view your additional coaches. If you have been assigned more than one coach, the Select another coach panel appears, listing your coaches in the order that the Coachly licenses were assigned to you.

 

Select another coach list

You can select a different coach from the list. The selected coach displays at the top of your Coachly panel.

 

For complete details, see View and Select Coaches.

   

 

Expiring/Expired Licenses

If your Coachly license for a given coach is within 30 days of expiring, a banner appears at the top of your Coachly panel providing you with the date of the license expiration. You are advised to contact your administrator with questions about your license status.

Coachly banner stating that license is expiring

 

If your license with a coach expires, the banner at the top of your Coachly panel indicates when the license expired. Your Coachly panel and any discussions that you had with the coach can be opened and viewed in a read-only state.

Coachly panel showing a banner stating that the license is expired

 

If you have additional active licenses, Coachly defaults to the next coach in the list that is attached to an active license.

 

 

Coachly Panel Option Tabs

 

 

Coachly panel tabs

 

 

Home Tab

Provides a quick overview of upcoming sessions and next steps with your selected coach.

 

 

Chat Tab

 

Coachly panel showing a chat between a teacher and coach

Allows you to chat and share files with your coaches.

 

    Click the Chat tab, type your message in the box at the bottom of the panel, and then click the arrow button to send.

 

      Messages are text only and include time and (if not today) date stamps. You can expect a response from your coach within 24 hours of sending a message.

 

      When you have a message response, a yellow icon message notification appears beside the Chat tab.

Chat notification within Coachly panel

 

      The Chat panel allows you to send files to your coach and receive files from your coach.

 

For complete details, see Chat with Coach and Share Files with Coaches.

 

 

Sessions Tab

 

Coachly panel showing My Sessions selected and a Join button on a Coachly session

 

Allows you to view a list of the scheduled sessions with your selected coach, schedule sessions, edit or cancel sessions, and join sessions.

 

    Click the Sessions tab to view upcoming sessions scheduled with the selected coach.

 

      When a session is within 15 minutes of the start time, a Join button appears on the session card.

 

      You can edit or cancel sessions by clicking the vertical ellipsis button vertical ellipsis button.

 

For complete details, see the following:

Schedule Coachly Sessions

Edit or Cancel Coachly Sessions

Join Coachly Sessions.

 

 

My Coach Tab

 

Coachly panel introducing Coach Terrie R

 

Provides you with information about your coach.

 

    Click the My Coach tab to view a brief message detailing your coach's experience.

Letter F

 

My Schedule

 

 

My Schedule section

Lists your scheduled Coachly sessions and allows you to open your Sessions tab to join, schedule, or edit sessions.

 

Next Steps

 

 

Next Steps section

Schedule a session

     Opens the Sessions tab where you can schedule a session with the selected coach.

 

Select a topic of focus

     Opens the Select Your Focus panel, which displays topics from which you can select an area of focus.

 

 

For complete details, see Select Focus for Coachly Sessions.

 

Letter H

 

My Focus

 

 

My Focus panel

Shows the topic of focus that you selected and displays resources shared with you by your Coach.

 

The top two resources appear on your Home tab.

 

 

Resources title and arrow link

    Click the topic title to view the full list of resources.

 

The Coachly Resources panel appears with a full list of the resources your Coach has shared with you.

 

Coachly Resources panel

 

 

    Click a resource on either the Home tab or the Coachly Resources panel to open the resource directly in a side panel attached to Coachly.

Resource selected from Coachly Resource panel

 

You can close the open resources panel by clicking the X in the top-right corner.

 

See Also:

Message with Coaches

Schedule Coachly Sessions

Join Coachly Sessions

Edit or Cancel Coachly Sessions

Select Focus for Coachly Sessions