New Features: Enhancements for Teachers

1. New Features:Enhancements for Teachers Presenter: Kathy Cuppy

2. Overview This session will highlight the upcoming enhancements found in the Instruction folder These new features will be available beginning June 30.

3. How Will This Work? Feb. 9-June 27 –Teacher coaches and/or professional development team may attend a free online demonstration of the new tools scheduled for approximately one hour. www.infinitecampus.com/demo Jan. 15-June 15 – Look for updates about the release in the Campus Connections, which is distributed on or about the 15th of each month. March 14 – Request the upgrade in your preview site. You can do this through the normal request process. March 24 – Use the free self-paced simulations and curriculum materials on the Campus Community. Take advantage of the free training options. The schedule and instructions for registration are listed below under Infinite Campus University. June 30 – Request the upgrade to production on the GA date expected on or around June 30 through the normal request process. June 30 – Start using the new tools and enjoy the benefits of this new functionality.

4. Highlights ~Improved ease of use when creating and entering assignments -~Managing assignments scored with multiple alignments to standards, including scoring individual alignments ~Ability to easily place assignments into multiple sections ~Accessibility to assignment management, teacher preferences, grading calculation options and category management from a single screen ~Options for sorting and filtering assignments by date, name, term, standards, tasks, categories and student groups ~View the calendar-based daily planner offering daily, weekly and monthly views ~Print options of the daily planner for teachers, substitute teachers and administrators to provide assignment and activity content printed by date range and section with preferences to include descriptions, objectives, and references

5. Teacher Coaches It is important that all users of these tools receive training. We are especially urging all Campus Teacher Coaches to go through the steps recommended above. If your teacher coaches can gather at one time for training, it is recommended that you consider the live webinar ICU training opportunities available.If your district wants to track if teacher coaches have completed training, you can have them enroll in the self-paced course IN1136 Teacher Tools New Features (registration information listed below under Infinite Campus University). When the teacher coach completes the training and receives the certification of completion, have them email the certificate to the appropriate district staff.

6. Self Paced Session IN 1113 – Instruction Module ENHANCED Self-Paced Visit icu.infinitecampus.com to register

7. Campus Community Resources Forums > Instruction Contains: -“New Tools For Teachers” Video Series 1-5 -General Instruction Questions -Release Information Knowledge Base> Instruction Contains: -Documentation https://community.infinitecampus.com/kb/display/DOC/Assignments -Release Notes and More

8. Agenda Assignments Student Groups Daily Planner Campus Community FAQ’s

9. Assignments Tool ~ Work flow from left to right

10. Grade Calculation Options ~ If a Grading Scale is not set, Grade Book will not display the points earned by a student or the resulting grade (the yellow area for in Progress Grade).

11. Weight Categories Vs. Using each score % value • A student receives 20/20 on one assignment and 50/100 on another. • The normal Campus grade calculation will be 58.3% (70/120). • If “Use Score’s % Value” is used, the same student with the same scores will have a 75% [(100% +50%)/2].

12. Assignment Tab Layout ~ Clicking in the box in the column headings will select or deselect all items ~ Clicking on the Double Arrows in the column headings will change the order from either Ascending or Descending ~ Based on the Due Date, the Alignment is determined. Grading Task > Category > Term

13. Score Layout

14. Flag Explanation Dropped – (Dr) the dropped value is based on lowest percent within the category Turned in – (T) No mathematical impact, keeps from showing Late on portal Missing (M) Lowers overall grade (percentage/score) Late – (L) No mathematical impact on grade, unless teacher enters a lower value Incomplete – (I) No mathematical impact on grade, unless teacher enters a lower value Cheated – (Ch) Score counts as a zero Exempt – (X) Score has no impact on grade calculation

15. Daily Planner • 1. Used to create Activities • 2. Will show School Day events on calendar • 3. Will see Attendance events • 4. Will see Assignment due

16. Misc. Points to Remember Grades are tied to a section, not the student • If a student moves from one section to another, the grades do NOT move with him/her Student Group affiliations do not show up on Portal

17. FAQ’s What happens to assignment grades when students are removed from a student group?  Before they were lost if the student was changed during a term. The graded assignments will not be lost.

18. 2. When the assignments are copied, it blanks out the due date, but does it blank out the assigned date as well?   Yes, the assigned date is also blank when assignments are copied. This only happens when the term dates from the source section and destination section do not match.

19. 3. Is the grade book last updated timestamp available in Ad Hoc as a reportable field? This data cannot be retrieved via ad hoc. It can; however, be pulled in the Grade Book Usage Report.

20. 4. Will the Assignment Copier allow teachers to copy across schools and calendars only if the Teacher Assignments (Census) are present?  Even if a teacher’s district assignment is end dated at a school, the copy assignments feature is still available for a teacher to copy assignments from that school. …as long as they are a teacher on the section of that course.

21. 5. When will documentation in Campus Community for the new teacher tools be available? Documentation is currently available on the Campus Community. https://community.infinitecampus.com/kb/display/DOC/Assignments

22. 6. What resource is available where I can train my Building and Teacher Coaches on the new teacher tools before the June 30 availability? Districts can currently request that these tools be placed on a preview environment. A support ticket needs to be created for this.

23. 7. We do not want teachers creating or selecting their OWN grading scale, we want it to be set for all the courses…we use two Weighted scale and Un-weighted Scale…we do not want them to create their own, is this something that we can prevent or lock them out of doing? Within Instruction > Admin > Grading Scales, giving teachers read rights or no rights will prevent them from changing a district setting.  Not having access still allows teachers the ability to select the grading scale from Edit Grade Calc Options.

24. 8. Does “Drop the Lowest Score” still need to be checked before grades are entered because it will start after next grade is entered or can we check this at any time? You can now use the “Drop the Lowest Score” at any time.

25. 9. This question is about the ability for teachers to copy groups and assignments from one year to the next.  Our school does not roll sections forward.  We have too many changes each year for that to be feasible.  If we are only rolling forward our courses and not our sections, will teachers still have the ability to copy categories and assignments from the past school year to the current year? If you do not roll the sections forward, the teachers will not be able to copy the assignments into the future year. However, once your sections are created and the teachers are assigned to those sections, they can then copy assignments from the past school year to the current year.