Schoolnet IICurriculum Manager
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Trainer/Consultant
Objectives
Participants will understand how to:
•Navigate Curriculum Manager
•Recognize the hierarchy of instructional material types
•Plan for success
•Create and link materials
•Edit, copy, and delete materials
•Import files
Needs Assessment
Have you already covered these topics?
•Locating existing instructional materials in the Classrooms
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•Creating lesson plans in Classrooms
•Submitting and approving workflow
INTRODUCTION TO CURRICULUM MANAGER
Curriculum Manager
Curriculum Manager is a tool that allows district-level users to build a course scope and sequence.
Benefits of Curriculum ManagerFlexibility—you determine the best way to load curriculum.•Load all materials as searchable, free-standing components in any order•Link materials to create a scope and sequence for a full curriculum•Map curriculum to courses and schedule it on lesson planners
TEACHERS AND CURRICULUM
How do teachers access curriculum?
• If you build curriculum and map it to courses, teachers will see a link to the curriculum for their selected classes
• You can push mapped curriculum to teachers’ lesson planners
Items Searchable in the Materials Bank
If you use Curriculum Manager to load lessons, resources, and units, teachers can search for the materials in the materials bank and through the standards, even if the materials are not built into a full curriculum.
Suggested Materials
Suggested materials appear automatically on the initial search screen unless this option is disabled.
Which suggested materials appear?
Suggested material selections are based on:
•Upcoming assessments (materials aligned to standards on upcoming tests that had the lowest mastery rate)
•Upcoming instruction (materials aligned to standards that have been scheduled on the teacher’s lesson planner)
•Recent assessment results (materials aligned to standards on recent tests that had the lowest mastery rate)
And the following rules:
•Lesson plans are suggested over instructional units
•If the user has no sections assigned or there are no suggestions available, the five “most popular” materials appear
What are the different “pieces?”
Curriculum Design
Curriculum
Curricular Units
Instructional Units
Lessons
Resources and Assessments
Think about the structure of curriculum in Schoolnet as a hierarchy of design elements.
Curriculum
Curriculum:•Course content for an entire year•Relevant to a particular subject or grade level •E.g., 8th-Grade American History
Curriculum is the highest level of design in Schoolnet.
Curricular Units
A series of curricular units makes up the curriculum and may also be referred to as the “scope and sequence.” Only Curriculum Managers can create curriculum and curricular units.
Curricular Unit:•Represents how the curriculum content is broken up over the school year•E.g., the first nine weeks of the American Revolution
8th-Grade American History
Instructional Units
Instructional units may be aligned to curricular units, and the duration for each may vary by topic, grade level, or unit of study.
8th-Grade American History
First nine weeks of American Revolution
Instructional Unit:•Divides curricular units into smaller topics or units of study•E.g., the thirteen colonies
Lesson
Lessons are daily instructional plans that address a theme or topic related to a particular instructional unit.
Lesson:•Daily instructional plans•E.g., “Who was Betsy Ross?”
First nine weeks of American Revolution
8th-Grade American History
The Thirteen Colonies unit
Resources and Assessments
8th-Grade American History
First nine weeks of American Revolution
The Thirteen Colonies unit
Betsy Ross lesson
Resources and/or Assessments•E.g., video: “Making Our First Flag”
Resources can be loaded in many formats and linked to other materials as desired.
Curriculum Structure
Standards are linked to the curriculum and related materials. Courses can be mapped to the curriculum.
History, Grade 8Course 3050
Standards •Subject•Objective•Student Expectation
8th-Grade American History
First nine weeks of American Revolution
The Thirteen Colonies Unit
Betsy Ross lesson
Video: “Making Our First Flag”
Material Types and Relationships
Curriculum (represents the entire length of the course)
Nine-Week Segment Resource
Instructional Unit
Nine-Week Segment
Instructional Unit
Resource
Resource
Resource Assessment
Assessment
Lesson Plan Lesson Plan
PLANNING FOR SUCCESS
Identify materials across grades that are going to be loaded into the system. Then prioritize the load order.
For example:
• Math grades K–5
• Special ed grades 11–12
• Science grades 6–8
• Social studies grades 6–8
• Math grades 9–12
District Materials Inventory
• Create a list of all the publishers that you use; arrange the list by subject and grade
• Ensure that the district has the digital rights to enter materials from a publisher into Schoolnet
• Ensure that the district has the rights to print materials (publishers can “lock down” their PDF files to prevent them from being printed)
Publisher Materials
What is already loaded?
Inventory by Standard
To identify gaps in the loaded material, perform a standards search and look at the number of materials available per standard and type.
Who will do what?
• Users with permission to use Curriculum Manager can create materials directly in the district bank
• No approval is required when adding materials
• How will you divide up subjects and grade levels?
• Will you incorporate units, lessons, and resources submitted by teachers?
Create one document style sheet or multiple style sheets by subject and/or material type (if appropriate) that include rules for:
• Font type
• Header font size
• Body font size
• Bold font
• Bullet type
• Image size
Brand Your Curriculum
Creating a File Structure
Develop naming conventions for:
•Folder structures
•Newly created source files
•Titles:
- Curriculum
- Curricular units
- Instructional units
- Lesson plans
- Resources
- Assessments
Creating Naming Conventions
• Use the same naming convention across grade ranges and subjects
• Don’t include dates
• Be consistent
Naming Convention Best Practices
NAVIGATING CURRICULUM MANAGER
Searching/Filtering for Materials
Use filters to find materials in the district bank.
Search materials by:
•Type
•Grade
•Draft status
•Subject
•Publisher
•Date modified
•Keyword
On the lower part of the screen, notice that all curriculum materials are sorted by title.
Navigating Through the Materials
CREATING NEW MATERIALS
Types of Materials
When creating new materials, first select the type of material you want to create.
Choose to create a curriculum, curricular unit, instructional unit, lesson plan, assessment, or resource.
Material Properties
Next, add information that will help categorize this item. Enter a title, subject, grade range, and description.
Saving the New Material
Creating Content
• Enter content directly in the fields; resize the screen as needed
• Use the menu to navigate from field to field
• Use the template and a URL or an attachment (if you use the template, add attachments in a later step)
Avoid using:
• Multiple spaces (use either an indent or tab)
Multiple spaces do not translate well into HTML code.
• “Copied and pasted” columns
The columns of text will turn into one column in HTML code.
• Keep it simple
Simple can be elegant—the more complex the formatting is, the more issues that may arise when copying and pasting.
Formatting Considerations
Aligning Materials to StandardsAlign standards to all materials (except curricular units).
Linking Related Materials
Adding Organizers
Tag materials by selecting organizers. Tags improve “searchability” when using the advanced search options.
EDITING MATERIALS
Editing One Item
To edit one item:
1.Use the filters to find the item
2.Click View Results
3.Select the item
4.Click Edit
Editing One Item
Editing Multiple Materials
• Make mass changes to any of the fields on the Properties tab
• Select multiple materials—or different types of materials—to edit at one time
Editing Multiple Materials
Viewing Structure
COPYING MATERIALS
Copying Materials
To copy materials, use the filters to find the item you want to copy. Select it and click Copy.
The same item name appears with the word “Copy” next to it.
DELETING MATERIALS
Deleting Materials
IMPORTING FILES
Importing Existing Materials
To import existing materials, on the Curriculum Manager home page, click Import Files.
Indicate the File Type
Browsing for Files
Importing Files
Adding Details to Imported Files
IMPORTING SPREADSHEETS
Importing a Spreadsheet
• Use the Import Spreadsheet File button to bulk upload large numbers of the same material type at one time, while keeping the Properties tab field the same for all of the materials
• Load materials as URLs
• The first step is to download a sample file that has the correct format; once it’s prepared, upload the spreadsheet
Selecting the Material Type
Downloading a Sample File
Opening the Sample TSV File
Using the Text Import Wizard
Using the Text Import Wizard
Entering Data and Saving the New File
Fill in the required fields:
•SubjectID – Subject of the material
•Lograde – The minimum number in the grade range
•Higrade – The maximum number in the grade range
•Title – Name of the material
•Description – Description of the material
Uploading the New Spreadsheet
Uploading the New Spreadsheet
First, select the file you want to import and click Open.
The Select Spreadsheet to Import screen will list the file you selected.
Then click Import.
Importing Spreadsheet Files
Uploading the Completed File
Completing the Bulk Upload
• Last, complete your bulk-uploaded shells and align them to the curriculum
• If you uploaded the file correctly, you will see the materials you bulk uploaded at the top of the list
• All the bulk-uploaded materials will have a status of DRAFT
MAPPING CURRICULUM AND COURSES
• A curriculum may be mapped to multiple courses• A course can also have multiple curriculums
Department, grade, and course data
comes into Schoolnet through
the nightly SIS data load.
Curriculum is created in CM.
Curricular materials may be created in
CM or in Classrooms.
Curriculum
Curriculum Mapping
Mapping Curriculum to Courses
Map courses to curriculum to provide teachers easy access to their course materials.
SCHEDULING CURRICULUM
Scheduling Curriculum
Unscheduling Curriculum
• Click Unschedule All
• To remove just one piece, click the x on the last day
View Published Curriculum on Planners
Curriculum is like a living organism that constantly changes, and therefore, it requires regular maintenance.
Ongoing Curriculum Maintenance
Key Topics from Today’s Class
• Permissions
• Searches
• Creating new materials
• Editing materials
• Copying materials
• Deleting materials
• Importing materials
• Importing spreadsheets
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
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Where can I find helpful resources ?• DPI and Pearson have loaded a variety of helpful materials into
Schoolnet including (search Home Base in Instructional Materials)
• Quick Reference cards
• End user PowerPoint's
• Training Scripts
• Schoolnet contains screen specific help on every screen ( to access click the )
• For Hardware and Software questions click System Requirements at the bottom of My Schoolnet (main start screen)
Where do I find more information
• IIS webpage for further information:
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/homebase/
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