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Where do I find information about standards available for Atlas systems?
FlightSchool > Standards Alignment
What’s the difference between a widget and a school values category?
Widget only allow you to select items for the unit as a whole while school values allows you to connect a description to a check-ed off item.
How do I push district curriculum down to children maps?
Two options - go to the specific district map and push the unit
How do I make “the user” have the subject Math editing privileges?
Go to manage users, green button, choose subject that they have privilege to
What is school constant?
Place to turn on and off certain options for Atlas systems
How do we push a set of standards to an Atlas system?
Go to client entry and use the “standards push” area. Find the standard (after confirming copyright) and push the standards
Where can I see how many times lessons have aligned to some standards?
Go to standards alignment, select a set of standards, and look at standards overview
Create a UbD template for your school with a category that has your team name under stage 3
Go to manage templates, create necessary categories and create the template. Assign to school.
How do I merge course names?
Go to manage users, green button, choose subject that they have privilege to
What is TECA and when is it used?
Ability to have teachers add their own courses. It’s rarely used at this time, but it can be used when schools have teachers needing their specific courses created.
How do I add a flag to make a standard power (system-wide) + make it power?
Go to superadmin, add the visual flag, mark it power
How do I see how often a concept is taught visually?
Go to search, search for a specific term and use one of the visual graphs
Add some text that will show in the text/editable area everytime a new unit is created
Go to manage templates, go to hard coded area, find the category, add the text
Add 2 new teachers a course, 1 developers and 1 teachers
Add the teachers, find a course, add 2 users to the course and assign 1 as developers and 1 as teachers
How do I quickly add many teachers?
Use the CSV upload
How do I allow curriculum writers to flag standards as Focus or Supporting when they are writing their units?
Go to standards status management and create the two categories
I need to see that a widget item is checked off at least once across 6 different grades in one subject area. How do I see that?
Do a unit comparison where you select the item and see if it’s at least in one unit for each grade in a subject
Add a resource link to the "content" mapping category under the category name for your school.
Go to Manage Templates, find the category and add the html link.
What is required to setup 1Roster for a school? Who should use it and why?
Requires export of their OneRoster data and it should likely be big schools that have a lot of turn over.
What’s the difference between school type and schools?
Schools types allows you to select what grades courses will be assigned and allows you to filter by the “type of school” vs. school has a school type assigned.
What happens when a newer version of standards is released?
It depends! Sometimes the updated changes, when minimal, are pushed out into existing sets (maintaining alignments), most often a new version with the published year shows up alongside the old set, and sometimes we can even cross-walk between the old and the new.
A school is deciding between a widget, a school values, a standards filtered category and a free text category, what are two reasons you should capture using a widget, two reasons you would capture in a school values, two reasons in a filtered standards category and what are two reasons you should capture using a text box?
Widget:
1. Checkable
2. Analytics to view curriculum using checked-off items
School Values:
1. Connect the text to a checked item
2. Can check off items repeatedly within 1 unit
Standards Alignment
1. Want to connect it to Assessments/lessons
2. Using standards analysis to see what has been aligned to and hasn't
Free Text:
1. Using the RTE and ability to modify, edit as needed
Send an Atlas automated message to teachers who have fewer than 10 lessons
Curriculum Process Assistant, create a new module and draft a message to find all users who have less than 10 units.
Review the users and courses in the site. What three things would you look at to help them do a site clean up?
Remove inactive users, remove courses with no units, add teachers to courses with no teachers, clean up course list, review standards
Can I copy courses from another system? Can I copy lessons from another system? Where do I do it?
Site to Site copy in Flight School