Schoolnet

Updates – Previews

Dan Urbanski, NCDPI March 10, 2015

Standardized Test Data

• Standardized data now from 12-13 and 13-14

• Includes:• EOC/EOG• mClass; DIBLES and TRC Rigby• ACT

• BOY data from mClass for 14-15

• BOG for 3rd Grade for 14-15

• Reminder: 13/14 3rd grader is today’s 4th Grader!

New Instructional Materials Added

The NCDPI Content Specialists continue to Increase the State Vetted Collection of Instructional Materials.

Recent additions:

Instructional Units: K -12: 49 Lesson Plans: K- 12: 686 Resources: K- 12: 620 Assessments: K- 12: 35 (Tasks, Activities)

New Assessment Items Added

2,660 additional benchmark assessment items were added.

Items have the publisher NCDPI_Benchmark and are available to district level users for creating district benchmark assessments.

The 2,660 items cover :ELA (grades 3 -8 and ENG II), Math (grades 3- 8 and Math I) and Science (grades 5 and 8 and Biology).

1,300 additional classroom items were also added.

These items have the publisher NCDPI_Classroom and are available to ALL users and intended for use by teachers at the classroom level.

Similar to the benchmark items, the 1,300 classroom items cover:ELA (grades 3 -8 and ENG II) Math (grades 3- 8 and Math I) Science (grades 5 and 8 and Biology)

District to District Sharing

• Districts can now designate resources to be shared with “All Districts”

• (Option is in addition to ‘Submit to State”)

Understanding Material Banks

TeacherSubmits

to School Bank

School Approves

District Approves

School Submits to

District Bank

Districts Designate

All Districts

My Materials(Teachers Individual

Materials)

Single School Items(All Teachers in the School)

Single District Items(All Schools

in the District)

School Materials

Bank

District Materials

Bank

All Districts Materials

Bank

All Districts Items(Shared Across

the State)

NEW !

State Vetted

Materials Bank

Assessment Admin Update

• Departments Now Mapped !

• Departments Mapped Appropriately (as of 3/4/15)

• Involves Scheduling Assessments (ex. CTE – Had to Search for Dept. Now Correct)

HBSC Known Issues & Hot Fixes

• Resolved: Can resume uploading CSV files of Student Performance as of 3/6/2015

• Update: Hot Fix to address scoring issues where assessment grades are not being shared with the gradebook to be applied approx. 3/11-3/13.

• Pending: Small # of student records showing duplicate LEA enrollment

Special Programs

• Pending: • Exploring How to Populate Schoolnet

with some Special Program Info

• Initial Programs Under Review:• AIG• LEP• Special Ed• Migrant

• Next Up: Exploring Bringing In Discipline and Attendance Info

Preview of Upcoming Attractions

• Schoolnet upgrade to 16.3

– Tentative April 18/19

– Just after last round of ‘most’ benchmarks

– DPI testing of 16.3 underway

Upcoming Webinars

• Introduction to Curriculum Manager – Mar 12th

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/452182456

– Create curricular units and district curriculum.

– Link resources to units.

– Bulk upload and manage your district materials

• Adv. Curriculum Manager – Mar 19th

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/472760608

– Develop and organize your district curriculum

– Define scope and sequence, course mapping.

– Schedule / publish curriculum to educators