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ProgressBook 6.1.0 Fall ReleaseTeacher Documentation for New Features

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Lesson Plans

Creating a New Lesson Plan …………………………………………………….…..3

Adding Standards………………………………………………………….………... 5

Adding Attachments to Lessons……………………………………………………..5

Scheduling a Lesson…………………………………………………………………6

Lesson Plan Sharing..……………………………………..…………………………7

Lesson Plan Search…....…….……………………………………………………….8

5 Day Lesson Plan View..………………………………………………………........9

Import a Lesson Schedule.…………………………………………………...……..10

Lesson Templates……………………………………………………...……………11

Assignment Types Screen

Assignment Types…………….……………………………………...……………..12

Assignment Column Icons

Assignment Column…………………………………………………………..……14

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Lesson Plans

The lesson plans piece of ProgressBook is completely new and will allow users to format, save, search,edit and schedule lessons. Lessons will be able to be imported and scheduled from last year and newlessons can be created and saved for later use.

Creating New Lesson Plans

Create a new lesson plan:

• Click on the ‘add new lesson’ link either from the lessons area or under the lessons columnon the dashboard.

• On the lesson plan maintenance screen, give the lesson a title and body.

• Private Notes can be entered for the teacher, which are not viewable by anyone else, evenif the lesson is shared or made public.

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• The information box at the bottom of the page is optional, but is highly recommended tomake sharing and searching lessons easier on the lesson plan search page. In the Share?Dropdown, specify how to share the lesson. Choose from one of the following:

1. With teachers in my list (default option) – will only allow the teachers that werespecified on the lesson plan sharing screen to search for and view the lesson.

2. No – If this option is chosen only the author (teacher) will be able to see andsearch for the lesson.

3. Make public - choosing this option will allow anyone in the district to search forand schedule the lesson for their classes.

• Save the lesson plan. The lesson will now be able to have standards and attachments addedto it as well as be scheduled for a class or classes.

Note: The lesson must be scheduled before it will appear under the lessons tab on the classdashboard. Scheduling a lesson is covered below.

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Add Standards:

• After the lesson plan has been saved, click the ‘add standards’ link under the lesson infotab. A new window will open to search for and add benchmarks and indicators for theStandard to the lesson.

Add Attachments:

• To add an attachment to a lesson, enter a sequence number, name and description(optional). Click the save button.

• The upload attachment button will now be available to upload an attachment for thelesson.

• Once the attachment has been uploaded, click the view attachment button and a newwindow will open to display the contents of that attachment.

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Schedule the lesson:

To attach a lesson to a particular class or classes, either click the schedule link under thelesson info tab or click the schedule tab to schedule the lesson. The lesson must be scheduledin order for it to appear on the dashboard or for it to be able to be searched for on the lessonsearch page.

• Enter the dates that the lesson will be scheduled for.

• Choose a class or classes that the lesson will be scheduled for. To schedule the lesson formultiple sections of a class, check the box on the far left hand side of the course group toinclude all of the classes in that group.

• Once the lesson has been scheduled, it will appear on the left hand side of the schedule tabscreen for the classes and dates that it is scheduled for.

• Using the schedule link under the lesson info tab will open up a new window which willallow dates to be chosen and classes selected for the lesson. Once the lesson is scheduledon this window it will appear in the list on the lesson schedule screen.

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Lesson Plan Sharing

Lesson plans can now be shared among staff members that are listed as being able to use the lesson planson the ‘Setup lesson plan sharing’ link.

• To share lesson plans click on the ‘setup lesson plan sharing’ link on the teacher homepage andthen click ‘add teachers to my list’. Check the box next to all of the teachers that will be allowedto access the lesson plans and click the update button.

• The teachers in this list will then be able to view any lesson that is specified as Withteachers in my list in the ‘Sharing?’ drop down when the lesson was created.

Note: Any lessons that are shared are only able to be edited by the author. Only the authorwill be able to edit it, even if it is shared. The other teacher(s) using the lesson will only beable to add private notes to the lesson.

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Lesson Plan Search

The lesson plan search page will allow teachers to search for lesson plans that they have createdand lessons that have been created by other staff members that have either made them public orspecified the staff member in their sharing list. Search criteria include the Content Area, GradeLevel, Class, Lesson Plan Owner, Unit description, and Keyword. For broad search results, useAll as the Owner criteria and do not include Keywords.

• A lesson can be previewed by clicking on the blue lesson name to open the lesson planview page.

• To use a lesson plan from the search page, click on either the pencil to edit the lesson andschedule it, or click on the calendar next to the pencil to schedule the lesson for a class orclasses.

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Lesson Plan 5 Day View

A new 5 day lesson plan view screen has been added to allow teachers to see a class’s lessons,assignments and homework for 5 days from the date specified. The page is customizable byusing the checkbox options to choose which options to display on the page.

• The list is ordered first by lesson, with the summary and detail underneath the lesson nameif they are chosen as options. Under those will be assignments if chosen and homeworkwill follow if chosen. Clicking on the names of any of the lessons, assignments orhomework will go to the appropriate maintenance page for editing.

• Clicking on the Create a lesson, Create an assignment or Create homework links will goto the appropriate maintenance screens to create the chosen option.

• If multiple classes share the same lesson, the first one in the list will display theinformation. The other classes will have a note saying which class to view for the correctinformation.

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Import a Lesson Schedule

Importing a lesson schedule will allow previous lesson plans to be imported from the lesson planbank and be scheduled for classes.

To import a lesson:

• Click on the import lesson schedule link on the teacher homepage, class dashboard orunderneath the lesson tab on the dashboard.

• In the class to import FROM: drop down, select the class to import previous lesson plansfrom.

• In the class list underneath option ‘(2’ on the left side of the screen, choose the classes toimport the lesson plans TO.

• Enter the dates for each lesson plan to be scheduled. The dates taught column is the datethat the lesson plan was assigned previously.

• Once the dates have been entered, click the Import button to schedule the lessons for thedates given.

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Lesson Templates

Teachers can now set up lesson plan templates that can be used when creating new lesson plans.A number of different templates can be created and a default template can be specified.

To add a template:

• Go to the lesson plan maintenance screen. In the text editor, there is a link in the toolbarthat says manage templates.

• Clicking on that link opens the manage templates window.

• Give the template a template name and format the body of the template. If this is going tobe the default template that shows every time a new lesson plan is created, set this to be thedefault template.

• Save the template. Go back to the lesson plan maintenance screen and above the managetemplates link is a template dropdown that will contain the templates that have beencreated. This will allow different templates to be chosen other than the default.

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Assignment Types

Setup Assignment Types is a ProgressBook feature used to set up categories of classroomactivities such as class work, homework, quizzes, tests, etc., and their respective mark type. Thisscreen replaces the old assignment types screen. Instead of having to specify assignment typesfor every individual class, this page can now be used.

• Each assignment type must be given a unique Name and Abbreviation. The Abbreviationcan be one to four characters and will be used on screens where space is limited. If anAbbreviation is not designated, ProgressBook will use the first three characters in theName.

• ProgressBook provides a variety of Mark Types including Points, Letters, Percentages,Pass/Fail and more. It is recommended that new ProgressBook users use Points as theMark Type for all Assignment Types.

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• Once created, designate which classes will use each Assignment Type by checking theappropriate class boxes. To enable sharing individual assignments among multiple classes,those classes must use the same Assignment Types in all categories.

Note: Do not combine Points or Percentages mark types with Letter grades in the same class.The system will be unable to combine them to calculate an average.

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Assignment Column on the Dashboard

• On the teacher dashboard, under the assignment section, the exclamation point (!) has beenreplaced by a question mark (?) to denote missing assignments so that it is consistent withthe Gradebook grid.