This overview provides users with an understanding of the SchoolCity's Learning Plans and their respective content. Additional material is continuously being added to all the pathways. These pathways represent the assigned learning but additional content may be found in the catalogs themselves.
The Learning Community is a paid subscription and access is limited. Check with your System Administrator to see if seats are available.
Catalog
The platform is capable of rendering 20 different item types, 16 of which may be authored by permissioned users. While most individuals may be familiar with traditional item types, like Multiple Choice, the use case and creation process of Graphic Gap Match and other technology enhanced item types is a fairly new concept. Participants of this course receive expert level information pertaining to the building of every authorable item type in the system. For each item type, the overview module provides an example of the item type and common use cases of such. Then dig deeper by watching the corresponding video that provides in depth explanations for every field option.
The Creating Items in Item Bank course (121 min) contains the following modules:
- Learning Objective - Creating Items
- Overview - Item Types
- Item Types Available
- Overview - Constructed Response
- Constructed Response - Video
- Overview - Evidence Based Selected Response
- Evidence Based Selected Response - Video
- Overview - Explicit Constructed Response
- Explicit Constructed Response - Video
- Overview - Gap Match
- Gap Match - Video
- Overview - Graphic Gap Match
- Graphic Gap Match - Video
- Overview - Graphing Lines
- Graphing Lines - Video
- Overview - Graphing Points
- Graphing Points - Video
- Overview - Hot Spot
- Hot Spot - Video
- Overview - Hot Text
- Hot Text - Video
- Overview - Inline Choice
- Inline Choice - Video
- Overview - Multiple Binary
- Multiple Binary - Video
- Overview - Multiple Choice
- Multiple Choice - Video
- Overview - Multiple Response
- Multiple Response - Video
- Overview - Numerical Response
- Numerical Response - Video
- Overview - Order Items
- Order Items - Video
- Overview - Writing Prompt
- Writing Prompt - Video
If you have access to the Learning Community, first log in, and then select Creating Items in Item Bank to directly access the course.
The Teacher Collaboration function, commonly referred to as the PLC function, allows for the formation of staff groups which may be configured to support a collective responsibility of student achievement. This function may be configured by System Administrators to increase a users data view beyond that of their traditional roster to include all students across the traditional roster of the collective staff group. This feature also enables advanced filtering and may be set to enable group-specific assessment storage locations and work spaces. In this course, System Administrators learn how to configure the PLC function to support collaboration within the platform.
The Teacher Collaboration Configuration for System Admin (PLC Setup) course (13 min) contains the following modules:
- Learning Objective - Teacher Collaboration
- Overview - Teacher Collaboration
- Configuring, Creating, and Managing Teacher Teams (Sys Admin) - Video
If you have access to the Learning Community, first log in, and then select Teacher Collaboration Configuration for System Admin (PLC Setup) to directly access the course.
The Teacher Collaboration function, commonly referred to as the PLC function, allows for the formation of staff groups which may be configured to support a collective responsibility of student achievement. This function may be configured by System Administrators to increase a users data view beyond that of their traditional roster to include all students across the traditional roster of the collective staff group. This feature also enables advanced filtering and may be set to enable group-specific assessment storage locations and work spaces. While System Administrators ultimately control the configuration and permissions associated with this feature, this course makes some general assumptions based on common setups to support participants in learning how to utilize the functions and features associated with the PLC function.
The Teacher Collaboration Features (PLC) course (22 min) contains the following modules:
- Learning Objective - Teacher Collaboration for Teachers
- Overview - Teacher Collaboration for Teachers
- PLC Assessment Tab - Video
- Reports through the PLC Lens - Video
- PLC Item Banks - Video
If you have access to the Learning Community, first log in, and then select Teacher Collaboration Features (PLC) to directly access the course.
The Student Group feature is utilized in a variety of locations to increase operational efficiency in both the reporting and assessment areas within the platform. Student groups may be created based on user selected criteria such as a student's location, class schedule, demographic flag uploaded from the Student Information System, and/or their assessment performance. With access to a student group, within the reporting module, users can effectively isolate the performance of a student group from the greater population via the student group filter. Within the Assessment module, users can perform a variety of group specific functions, including but not limited to, online activation and assessment monitoring- a game changer for small group administration and interventionist. In this course, learn how to create, share, and manage and ultimately use the student group feature.
The Advanced Filtering: Student Groups course (15.2 min) contains the following modules:
- Learning Objective - Student Groups
- Overview - Student Groups
- Creating Student Groups - Video
- Managing Student Groups - Video
- Scheduling, Monitoring, and Report Filtering by Student Groups - Video
If you have access to the Learning Community, first log in, and then select Advanced Filtering: Student Groups to directly access the course.
This course examines the Templates tab in the Admin module, including Accommodations, Demographic Profile Groups, Griddable Templates, Performance Levels, and School Abbreviations.
The Templates course (20 min) contains the following modules:
- Learning Objective - Templates
- Overview - Templates
- Accommodations - Video
- Demographic Profile Groups - Video
- Griddable Templates - Video
- Performance Level - Video
- School Abbreviations - Video
If you have access to the Learning Community, first log in, and then select Templates to directly access the course.
The Google Classroom Integration provides a simple way to share Item Bank, Express, and AKO assessments from the assessment platform to Google Classroom. This course covers all steps as they relate to admin setup, teachers sharing assessment to Google Classroom, and students accessing the assessment within Google Classroom. The integration allows teachers to have all data in one place between the two platforms, and provides ease of access for students by only logging into one platform.
The Google Classroom Integration course (19 min) contains the following modules:
- Learning Objective - Google Classroom Integration
- Overview - Google Classroom Integration
- Video - System Administrator Setup
- Video - Share an Assessment to Google Classroom
- Video - Google Classroom Integration - Student Experience
- Knowledge Check - Google Classroom Integration
If you have access to the Learning Community, first log in, and then select Google Classroom Integration to directly access the course.
This e-learning course will examine item and assessment statistics available through the Item Analysis Report in SchoolCity and will show you how it can be useful in reviewing and enhancing your assessments through a data-driven review process. The course will cover Classical test and item statistics including descriptive statistics, measures of reliability, p-values and point-biserial correlations, as well as Item Response Theory item parameters such as difficulty, discrimination and guessing. This overview will be equally beneficial for the district assessment team that analyzes district assessment performance as well as classroom teachers who create and review their own assessments. Upon completing the course, the participants will know how to use statistical tools that SchoolCity provides to analyze assessments for reliability and rigor and examine item performance for their difficulty, appropriateness and relationship to the rest of the test and use this information to refine assessments.
The Psychometrics course (51.1 min) contains the following modules:
- Video - Test and Item Analysis
- Video - Theory: Descriptive Statistics
- Video - Theory: Reliability Measures
- Video - Descriptive Statistics Application
- Video - Reliability Application
- Video - Item Difficulty
- Video - Item Discrimination
- Video - Distractors
- Video - Classical Test Theory Item Statistics
- Video - Distractor Analysis
- Video - Item Response Theory (IRT)
- Video - IRT Application
If you have access to the Learning Community, first log in, and then select Psychometrics to directly access the course.
This interactive course contains the first of the Data Cycle series where uses dive deeper into components of the data cycle. In this course, participants complete a simulation based on a scenario requiring them to build and publish an item bank assessment on the PLC tab.
The Data Cycle - Creating an Item Bank Assessment course (10 min) contains the following modules:
- Data Cycle - Creating an Item Bank Assessment
If you have access to the Learning Community, first log in, and then select Data Cycle - Creating an Item Bank Assessment to directly access the course.
Using Online Markup Items, assessments can be enhanced with assisted Text-To-Speech, Pop-up/Rollover Items, or other resources. Generally, they are used to provide assistance to students during their assessment. They can be used as an accommodation, or creatively to enrich the testing experience. These features are added either during assessment creation or can be edited after assessment creation.
The Online Markup course (18 min) contains the following modules:
- Learning Objective - Online Markup Items
- Overview - Online Markup Items
- Video - Text-to-Speech
- Video - Popup and Rollover
- Video - Resources
- Video - Custom Text to Speech
If you have access to the Learning Community, first log in, and then select Online Markup to directly access the course.