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Use umbrellas and categories to separate standards into families or hierarchies.
This makes it easier for the teachers in the school to use the standards and it enables more meaningful reports.
Use language that is concise and easily understood by students and parents. Students and parents will be able to see every standard attached to every assignment
It's okay to include both habits of mind and content standards in the school standards. Teachers can tag an assignment with multiple standards, so it is easy to assess and extract meaningful data about what students are learning and how they are doing it.
During the course of the year, you can reorganize and rename your standards as you see fit. Behind every standard is a unique key that is never changed. You can imagine that assignments are associated with the key, not the name of the standard. So for example, if you change the name of a standard to clarify the meaning, that is helpful, as the connected assignments will stay linked and the updated name will carry over.
On the other hand, let's suppose what you really want to do is delete a standard and replace it with something else, but you try to streamline this process by changing the name of the standard to something completely different. For example, you change the name of the standard 'Performs operations with fractions' to 'Describes the impact of key events in history'. This is not a good idea, as every standard associated with the fractions standard would then be tagged to the history standard. Instead, just delete the math standard and create the history standard.Be aware that after deleting a standard that is associated with data, all of the data will become 'orphaned': the data will still exist, but it won't have a standard to give it meaning. When this happens, a teacher will have to attach the assignment to another standard and reenter the grade. You should avoid doing this unless you are absolutely sure the standard needs to be deleted.
School Inputs are how your entire schools will rate student performance. Often in standards-based education, inputs are qualitative. They have descriptors such as 'Exceeding','Meeting', and 'Developing'. In MasteryBook, you might use letters to enter these grades: 'E','M', and 'D', respectively.
Because all schools are different, inputs are entirely customizable. You can have three inputs or twelve, whatever is best for your school. However, you will need to rank inputs using numerical values or 'Ratings'. For ratings, higher is better. You can assing weights to inputs in the Account Tab
Lastly, an 'Auto-Comment' is a comment that is automatically given to an assignment that gets this input. Auto-comments are visible to students.
An 'Auto-Comment' is a comment that is automatically given to an assignment that gets this input. Auto-comments are visible to students.
For example,
| Input | Rating | Auto-Comment |
| S | 3 | Satisfactory |
| S* | 3 | Satisfactory, but encouraged to continue to focus on this standard. |
The schoolwide ratings should each be assigned to a color. These colors are use in many different types of reports. The color key assigns a description for these reports. This is different than an auto-comment. An auto-comment is a comment that is automatically entered for every assignment that is given the paired rating. The color key is how the colors are described in the legend for any reports that are generated.
Please go back to use the version 2.0 editor.
Please go back to use the version 2.0 editor.
Here you can add, delete, and change the names of the units for each of your classes. Unit names can be associated with standards to help you structure your course.
Import standards from a CSV following this format (Do NOT include a header):
| The full description of the standard in the first column | Abbreviation (optional) |
A comment shortcut provides a fast way to enter comments in MasteryBook. It is best to understand the utility of this by using an example.
Suppose a teacher allows a student to revise and resubmit his or her work. The teacher will enter a new grade for the revised work, but would like to enter the comment, "Original assignment did not meet expectations. This mark reflects the work after it was resubmitted and reevaluated." This comment is several keystrokes and if resubmitting work is the norm in this teacher's class, he or she might appreciate a shortcut.
A comment shortcut is exactly that. The teacher can assign the comment to a short code, like "RE". To quickly enter the code, the teacher need only type '#RE ' and the comment will automatically populate the comment bar.