datacation highlights may 12, 2014

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The DataCation developers have been busy building features, based on user requests, to improve your experience with Skedula and our other portals. The features below will be rolled out from now through the fall. Student Submissions – We are currently beta testing our student work submission in approximately 15 schools. The student submissions can leverage the power of Google docs, but are flexible enough to allow uploads that do not use Google. When configuring the feature, schools will have the option to: 1. Allow teachers to use any Gmail account or restrict the teacher account to a certain domain, including the school’s Google apps domain 2. Allow students to use this feature through PupilPath without an email address or restrict student access to a certain domain, including the school’s Google apps domain Teachers will see this change to the create assignment attach file area: 1. Attach as Supplemental Material – this is the same as our current upload feature 2. Attach as Required Material – this will allow students to upload work documents through PupilPath. Teachers can attach an existing Google doc, a new Google doc or a Word, Excel or Powerpoint file. Teachers can also choose to allow students to upload miscellaneous files for their assignment. When a student logs into PupilPath, they will have the option to open the Action document and complete the assignment. Parents and teachers will have a view only option for the assignment through PupilPath. If miscellaneous uploads are allowed, the student can upload their files through PupilPath.

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           The  DataCation  developers  have  been  busy  building  features,  based  on  user  requests,  to  improve  your  experience  with  Skedula  and  our  other  portals.    The  features  below  will  be  rolled  out  from  now  through  the  fall.      Student  Submissions  –  We  are  currently  beta  testing  our  student  work  submission  in  approximately  15  schools.    The  student  submissions  can  leverage  the  power  of  Google  docs,  but  are  flexible  enough  to  allow  uploads  that  do  not  use  Google.    When  configuring  the  feature,  schools  will  have  the  option  to:  

1. Allow  teachers  to  use  any  Gmail  account  or  restrict  the  teacher  account  to  a  certain  domain,  including  the  school’s  Google  apps  domain  

2. Allow  students  to  use  this  feature  through  PupilPath  without  an  email  address  or  restrict  student  access  to  a  certain  domain,  including  the  school’s  Google  apps  domain  

 Teachers  will  see  this  change  to  the  create  assignment  attach  file  area:  

1. Attach  as  Supplemental  Material  –  this  is  the  same  as  our  current  upload  feature  2. Attach  as  Required  Material  –  this  will  allow  students  to  upload  work  documents  through  

PupilPath.    Teachers  can  attach  an  existing  Google  doc,  a  new  Google  doc  or  a  Word,  Excel  or  Powerpoint  file.    

Teachers  can  also  choose  to  allow  students  to  upload  miscellaneous  files  for  their  assignment.        

 When  a  student  logs  into  PupilPath,  they  will  have  the  option  to  open  the  Action  document  and  complete  the  assignment.    Parents  and  teachers  will  have  a  view  only  option  for  the  assignment  through  PupilPath.    If  miscellaneous  uploads  are  allowed,  the  student  can  upload  their  files  through  PupilPath.  

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       Submission  assignments  will  have  a  document  icon  displayed  in  your  gradebook  or  the  Grade  Assignments  page  that  indicate  the  status  of  the  student  submission:     Grey  –  missing/not  submitted     Yellow  –  submitted  and  pending  review     Green  –  submitted  and  reviewed    

   If  the  required  document  is  a  Google  doc,  teachers  will  have  the  full  power  and  functionality  of  the  Google  platform  to  read  and  edit  the  student’s  work,  including  comments.    Teachers  can  choose  to  grade  and  lock  the  document  from  further  editing  or  leave  the  document  open  so  the  student  can  revise  their  work.  

Editable/upload  for  students  only

View  only  for  parents  and  teachers

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 Adding  comments  to  student  work:    

 Once  graded,  teachers  can  choose  to  publish  the  work  to  the  Student  Portfolio  page.    This  will  allow  users  to  view  student  work  throughout  their  enrollment  at  the  school  without  having  to  keep  file  cabinets  full  of  papers.  

   

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Following  are  two  assignment  scenarios  and  how  our  Student  Submission  Uploads  will  support  the  assignment.    

1. The  teacher  assigns  a  book  report  on  Catcher  in  the  Rye  a. Create  an  assignment  called  "Catcher  in  the  Rye:  Book  Report"  and  attach  2  documents  

as  Required  Materials  and  one  as  Supplemental  Material.  b. Document  1  is  named  "Answer  These  Questions"  and  is  a  Google  Document  that  has  

short  answer  questions  listed  with  a  blank  spaces  for  the  answers.    c. Document  2  is  named  "Catcher  in  the  Rye  Book  Report  Book  Report.doc"  and  is  a  

Microsoft  Word  Document  that  describes  what  you  expect  the  students  to  complete.  d. Document  3  is  named  “Catcher  in  the  Rye  Book  Report  Rubric.doc”  and  is  a  Word  

Document  that  explains  the  grading  rubric.  e. When  students  go  to  complete  the  assignment,  they  have  links  to  "Answer  These  

Questions"  and  "Book  Report.doc"  and  “Report  Rubric.doc”.    f. When  the  student  clicks  the  Google  document  "Answer  These  Questions",  a  clone  of  the  

google  document  is  created  for  that  child,  and  the  student  is  redirected  to  the  new  Google  doc.  

g. When  the  student  clicks  the  word  document  "Book  Report.doc"  they  can  download  the  doc  and  read  the  instructions.  The  student  can  then  create  the  essay,  in  any  editor  of  choice,  and  submit  the  new  file  into  the  placeholder  for  "Book  Report.doc"  

h. When  the  student  clicks  “Book  Report  Rubric”,  they  can  download  the  document  that  explains  how  the  assignment  is  graded.  

i. When  the  teacher  goes  to  grade  the  assignment,  there  will  be  a  maximum  of  two  documents,  and  they  will  be  named  "Answer  These  Questions"  and  "Book  Report.doc"    

2. Math  project  on  the  probability  of  color  distribution  of  m&m’s  vs.  Skittles.    This  is  free  formed  project  so  students  can  upload  any  files  they  want.  Create  an  assignment  called  “Candy  Color  Distribution”  and  check  “Allow  misc  uploads".  

a. When  students  go  to  complete  the  assignment,  they  can  upload  files  of  any  type.  Perhaps  images  of  their  experiment  and  scanned  written  calculations,  a  word  document  on  their  findings  and  an  excel  file  with  their  data  and  charts.  

b. When  the  teacher  goes  to  grade  the  assignment,  each  student  will  have  his  own  set  of  varying  documents.    

In  either  of  these  use  cases,  electronic  upload  is  not  only  option.  Students  can  always  submit  the  assignment  by  hand,  and  it  can  still  be  graded  as  you  would  any  other  assignment.      

We  know  that  once  this  is  rolled  out,  our  users  will  find  amazingly  creative  ways  to  use  this  feature.      

 

Anecdotal  Badges  –    

Many  of  our  schools  have  asked  us  for  a  way  to  quantify  and  track  student  anecdotals.    We  have  designed  and  are  testing  a  fully  customizable  way  for  schools  to  follow  anecdotals.    This  feature  allows  schools  to  define  weights  (positive  or  negative)  to  each  anecdotal  type  defined  in  Skedula.      

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Once  the  weights  are  defined,  badges  can  be  defined  based  on  the  total  points  earned  by  the  student.    The  badges  are  fully  customizable  -­‐  schools  can  set  the  point  value,  color  and  name  of  the  badge.    We  hope  this  flexibility  allows  our  schools  to  define  the  badges  to  match  their  school  culture  and  grade  levels.  

 

 

The  anecdotal  search  and  filter  area  will  be  modified  to  include  the  weights  and  badges.    In  additional  to  the  options  available  in  the  current  filter  (anecdotal  type,  student),  users  can  filter  based  on  number  of  points  or  badge  type.    The  screen  below  is  set  to  filter  students  who  during  the  month  of  March,  2014  earned  a  badge  of  Needs  Improvement.    We  hope  that  this  increased  functionality  allows  you  to  target  students  who  are  in  need  of  an  intervention  or  identify  students  who  have  exhibited  stellar  behavior.  

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The  filter  results  will  include  the  student’s  badge,  total  points,  and  positive/negative  point  breakdown.  

 

 

If  a  student  has  an  anecdotal  with  negative  points,  we  will  offer  a  resolve  function  so  this  incident  does  not  have  to  stay  on  the  child’s  record.    Resolving  an  incident  does  not  delete  the  anecdotal,  it  simply  removes  the  negative  point  value  from  the  student’s  total  points.  

 

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The  badge  and  point  values  will  be  displayed  next  to  the  student  picture  in  the  Skedula  student  portfolio.  

 

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This  information  will  be  added  as  options  in  our  form  letter  generator.    The  letter  below  is  a  sample  of  the  type  of  letter  that  can  be  generated  easily  for  each  student.    These  reports  have  all  of  the  features  of  our  report  generator  including  print  and/or  email  options  and  automatic  translation  into  home  languages.  

 

 

 

New  Cutting  Report  –    

Our  Cutting  Report  is  getting  new  options  –  users  will  be  able  to  define  their  own  report  based  on  their  individual  needs.    The  report  options  include:  

1. Start  and  End  Dates  2. Daily  Attendance  Value  (Absent,  Present,  Late,  Excused)  3. Number  of  Course  Absences  4. Number  of  Course  Presents  5. Number  of  Course  Lates  6. Number  of  Course  Excused  Absences  7. View  individual  teachers  8. View  individual  courses  9. View  individual  students  10. View  a  data  for  a  user  defined  group  

Multiple  filters  can  be  defined,  so  you  will  be  able  to  view  a  list  of  students  who  were  marked  present  for  daily  attendance,  but  had  at  least  1  course  absence  to  look  for  cutting.    You  can  also  look  for  

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potential  attendance  reversals  by  viewing  students  marked  absent  for  daily  attendance,  but  present  in  more  than  5  courses.      Teachers  will  have  the  option  to  simply  check  a  box  to  view  a  list  of  student  who  have  cut  their  class.  

 

The  report  displays  the  students  (for  each  date  you  requested),  their  daily  attendance  value  and  the  count  of  their  course  absences,  presents,  lates  and  excused  absences.    In  typical  DataCation  style,  clicking  on  the  numbers  in  the  student  list  will  display  the  exact  dates  and  courses  for  that  attendance  value.    

 

As  a  complement  to  the  Anecdotal  Badge  system,  we  will  include  a  way  to  bulk  add  anecdotals  based  on  this  cutting  report.    Users  can  post  a  cutting  anecdotal  to  all  students  listed  on  the  cutting  report  in  a  few  clicks.  

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Student  Document  Upload  –    

Do  you  scan  your  blue  cards  or  any  other  student  documents?    Do  parents  and  students  send  you  documents  electronically?    Are  you  tired  of  keeping  piles  of  trip  forms  in  cabinets?    This  feature,  once  opened,  will  allow  you  to  upload  documents  into  the  student’s  portfolio  page.    Only  users  with  proper  permission  levels  will  be  able  to  upload  documents.    Users  with  access  to  the  student  will  be  able  to  view  the  document.  

 

 

New  PupilPath  Home  Screen  –    

Our  development  team  met  with  a  group  of  students  to  discuss  the  home  screen  on  PupilPath.    Based  on  the  feedback,  we  have  made  the  following  changes:  

1. To-­‐Do  List  –  To  help  students  stay  organized  and  focused  on  what  is  due  next,  we  added  a  list  where  students  can  view  their  ungraded  assignments  and  check  off  those  that  have  been  completed.    Completed  assignments  can  be  removed  from  the  list.      

2. The  class  grade  area  has  been  updated  to  provide  a  stronger  visual  of  student  achievement  

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3. The  Event  Feed  at  the  bottom  of  the  screen  has  been  divided  into  several  tabs  so  information  is  easier  to  find.      

This  homescreen  will  be  rolled  out  to  several  testing  schools  shortly.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Native  Skedula  iPad  App  –    

Our  current  Skedula  app  is  a  web  app  made  for  all  tablets.    We  rolled  out  our  native  iPad/iPhone  PupilPath  app  this  year  and  are  currently  working  on  our  native  iPad/iPhone  Skedula  app  which  is  expected  to  rollout  it  the  fall.    This  native  app  will  provide  our  iPad  and  iPhone  users  with  the  native  functionality  they  have  on  other  native  apps.    Phase  I  will  include  attendance,  grade  input  and  several  student  portfolio  views.    These  are  some  of  the  first  screenshots  available  and  do  not  even  include  Skedula  styling.    The  screenshot  at  left  is  one  of  the  edit  attendance  views  which  allows  teachers  to  view  and  edit  a  student’s  attendance  by  month.  

 

The  next  screenshot  (at  right)  is  one  of  the  grading  screens.    Users  will  be  able  to  use  the  grading  icons  (shown  as  button  here)  defined  in  Skedula  to  quickly  add  grades,  use  the  top  slider  to  enter  any  numeric  grade  and  use  the  

bottom  slider  to  enter  a  curve  from  -­‐100  to  +100.    Comments  can  also  be  entered.  

 

 

New  DDC  View/Edit  Answer  Screen  –    

The  DDC  View/Edit  Screen  for  exam  responses  is  getting  a  full  makeover.    Users  will  no  longer  have  to  choose  from  a  dropdown  menu  or  scroll  through  pages  for  long  exams.    Data  entry  will  function  in  a  similar  fashion  to  the  Skedula  gradebook.    Users  can  type  in  the  answer  or  point  value  and  tab  to  the  next  cell.    The  current  cell  will  have  a  blue  frame  to  make  it  clear  which  student  and  question  data  is  being  entered  for  (see  below).    Valid  answers  will  turn  green  when  saved,  invalid  answers  will  turn  red,  indicating  that  they  were  not  saved.  

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You  may  have  noticed  on  the  screenshot  above  that  there  is  a  box  labeled  Sheets  for  Alvernaz  Munier,  Gregory  floating  above  the  answer  grid.    We  are  very  excited  to  provide  our  users  with  what  they  have  been  asking  for  –  a  way  to  view  the  student  answer  sheet  directly  on  this  screen.    Clicking  on  this  floating  box  will  open  the  scanned  answer  document.    This  will  make  it  easier  for  teachers  to  correct  answers  that  may  not  have  scanned  properly.  

This  page  is  in  round  2  of  testing  and  will  be  rolled  out  after  round  3  is  completed.  

As  always,  we  appreciate  your  feedback  and  are  excited  to  use  it  to  improve  your  Skedula  experience.    Rollouts  of  each  of  these  features  will  be  announced  on  our  blog,  which  is  available  on  your  Skedula  homescreen.