Schoolnet Instructional Management Suite IMS Pearsons marketleading suite

Schoolnet Instructional Management Suite (IMS) Pearson's market-leading suite of student assessment tools. Create, manage, and deploy standards-aligned classroom, school, and district benchmark, formative, and interim assessments. Make informed decisions by analyzing student assessment and performance data with interactive dashboards and reports. Make instruction more cost-efficient by deploying a rigorous and consistent standardsbased curriculum directly to teacher desktops. While you are waiting for the presentation to begin please login to my. ncedcloud. org 1

Welcome to Navigating Schoolnet

my. ncedcloud. org The Schoolnet icon is 2 nd from the left and it titled “HB-IIS-LEA 600”

Moving from Power. Teacher to School. Net A second way to login into Schoolnet…. If you happen to be in Power. Teacher, and want to go to Schoolnet you can click the Schoolnet link in the left-hand column. 4

Home Page & Notification Alerts Let’s look around your Schoolnet homepage. The Home Base icon or the white circle icon with the red house inside will always bring you back to the homepage. The notification icon, on the top of the start page shows assessment and assignment notifications; simply click the icon to view your notifications. Check correct name, correct role and correct school. 5

Verifying Sections & Rosters It is considered best practice to verify your “Sections & Rosters” before getting started each school year. Clicking My Account, at the top right of homepage and then clicking the Sections & Rosters tab on the next screen will take you to the verification page. You can also choose the color of your Lesson Planner for each of your sections here. 6

Opening the Dashboard In the blue banner, put your cursor over School & District Data, a drop down box will appear, click on “Dashboard”. . 7

Dashboard Features Across the top you will see 3 tabs. The KPI dashboard tab is used to find information about your school’s student performance. KPI stands for “Key Performance Indicators”. Place your cursor over “View KPI Key” and a drop box will appear giving you valuable information about the symbols, colors and abbreviations used throughout your Dashboard. Use the “Benchmark Tests” tab to locate Benchmark test results and the “Report Bank” tab to locate reports that were created for your use.

Reports “Report Builder” and “Saved Reports” can be found in the School & District Data drop down also.

Student Performance Going back up to the blue banner; put your cursor over “Classrooms”. Click on “Student Performance” in the drop down. 10

Student Performance On the Student Performance page; #1 shows where you choose the section you want to analyze. #2 is where you choose the type of test and then click on the test you want from the list. #3 shows the types of analysis you can choose. 1 3 2

Test Anaylsis Page On the previous slide I chose the “Early Humans Exam” from the list and now I see this screen. The test is listed at the top. Data analysis choices are in the middle and at the bottom you see the test statistics. Use the Trends Report if you want to compare multiple test results.

Teacher’s Home Page You are also able to analyze data for your classes on your Schoolnet homepage. Here is a screen shot of an actual CMS teacher’s home page. Shows the last 10 tests given at a glance.

Analyzing Data Clicking Here are 3 screen shots of different ways to analyze your data. Standards Mastery on the top left; Skills Analysis on the top right; Item Analysis on the bottom right.

Standards Mastery Report Ability to use your lesson planner from this report and click on the “M” for Materials to help you reteach a standard. This bar offers valuable information. How many test items per standard, number of students who scored within a certain percentage range, times you taught the standard, times you have the standard scheduled for teaching and the times this standard was used in an assessment. Click on a results link within the standard if you want to take a closer look at.

Standard Mastery Report Groupings This page allows you to see all students in each score group and gives you the ability to choose a Score Group to add to a Student Group.

Student Groups Back to the top of the page; put your cursor over Classrooms in the blue banner and please click “Student Groups”. We are now going to take a look at grouping students for more focused instruction. 17

Student Groups You will want to make sure the “Student Name” radio button is selected. This will display ALL of your students, from every class, in alphabetical order.

Creating Student Groups Once all your students appear, select “New Group” from the drop down menu; check the students you want in the group and then click “Go” In the next window , assign a group name and category (optional), then select “Save”. Group names will appear behind the student’s name. 19

Student Workspaces “Student Workspaces” is a new area of Schoolnet. You will find it under Classrooms. • Use the student workspace for classroom projects or for portfolios that stay with the student over time. • Teachers assign students the task of creating end-of-term portfolios to showcase exemplary work across classes. • The portfolios stay with the students from one school year to the next so that the students’ new teachers can benefit from viewing a showcase of the students’ work. See “Schoolnet Information & Resources” under Quicklinks on the Intranet for a how to use Student Workspaces Power. Point presentation.

Navigate to Lesson Planner Under Classrooms again please click “Lesson Planner”. 21

Lesson Planner The Lesson Planner has many great features to make your life easier and help you stay organized. You have a “Lesson Planner Calendar” for each section you teach plus a personal calendar. You are able to choose to view your calendar by day, week or month. You are also able to add materials, standards and events to your calendars using the icons on the left side.

Adding items to Lesson Planner Calendar As an example – I clicked on the 4 th icon in the list. This is the Create an Event icon. To add an event, click and hold the event you want; drag the event to the appropriate date and drop it. In this example, I chose a Field Trip and when I dropped the field trip icon onto the calendar another box opens so you can add more detailed information. When finished, select the + sign to save. Choose an event and drag and drop it to the date you want to schedule

Adding Notes and Files to Lesson Planner Calendar If you place your cursor on the bottom of any date you will notice a note pad and paper clip will appear. If you click on the note pad you will be able to add a note to the date. Clicking on the paper clip will give you the ability to add a file to that date.

Instructional Materials Under Classrooms again, click on ”Instructional Materials”. Schoolnet offers an Instructional Materials bank that is always growing. These items are easy to search and can be shared with your Lesson Planner or assigned to your students.

Instructional Materials Use the search filters at the top to look for information pertaining to your subject. Choose the “Material Types” you are looking for and your “Intended Audience”. Schoolnet uses symbols to help identify the materials. On this screen, LP stands for Lesson Plan and R stands for Resource. Using the links on the right, you can also save, schedule or assign the materials. As an example - click “Assign”. A new window will open; enter the due date, the dates you want it visible to the students, any instructions or comments and click the sections you want it to go to. Click the “assign” button and your done.

Assignments Once you have assigned materials to your students you will be able to view those by clicking “Assignments” under Classroom. Your Assignment List will appear and you will be able to Filter by Section. This is a great way to keep track of your assignments.

Student Home Page This is a look at a student’s Schoolnet home page. Note the “Student Research Center”; the “Take the Test” section for online testing; “Upcoming Assignments” where all assignments will be listed; “My Student Profile” will show all tests previously taken; and the “Review a Test” section.

Assessment Admin In the blue banner under the Assessment Admin icon select Dashboard in the drop down. 29

Assessment Dashboard The Assessment Dashboard is available for administrators and teachers to quickly view and manage assessments that have been created for their sections or school district. My Tests displays a list of all tests that have created, with the most recent modified tests presented first. Recommended Tests appears to school-level administrators only. This shows a list of tests that the district has recommended to schools. School administrators may assign these tests directly to teachers by clicking the Assignment Status and accepting or editing the course-based Quick Assignment. Upcoming Test Windows are used by districts to plan and organize upcoming benchmark administrations by linking a specific test to a test window. Test windows are available in the unified calendar and can be viewed district-wide. In Progress Tests are tests that have been created and scheduled and which the start date is either today or earlier. Upon test completion, student scores are sent to the Gradebook so that they may be included in students’ final grades. Scheduled Tests are tests that are ready for administration and that have a start date after today’s date. 30

Co-Authoring “Co-Authoring” is also a feature in Assessment Admin. When multiple people want to create a test together this is the perfect place to do it. The test will stay in Private Draft until all are satisfied and then it can be released. This section will list all coauthors. You can create folders to organize tests you are working on. Click on a folder and the Folder Details page opens. List of tests within the folder.

Finding a Test In the Assessment Admin area; let’s skip over the center section for just a moment. Finding a test is simple when you use this search feature. Click on Find a Test. 32

Finding a Test Use the filters at the top to narrow the search. Once you find the test you are looking for click the test name to access the Test Detail screen. 33

Advanced Search Clicking on the “Advanced Search” option in the filter area will help you narrow your search. Searching by the last name of the “Test Creator” is a great way to look for tests created by Curriculum Specialists for your use.

Create, Schedule, Assign, Track Now let’s go back to the center section in the Assessment Admin area; this is where you create, schedule, assign and track the completion of assessments. Please click Create and we will get started creating your first assessment. 35

The End : ) This concludes the Navigating Schoolnet overview.