Classroom for Educators

The purpose and intent of Classroom is to provide educators with an easy to navigate, flexible, web-based application that not only allows creating, managing, and analyzing standards-based questions and assignments, but also produces a standards aligned report card. In addition, assessments in Classroom integrate with Homeroom allowing educators to seamlessly monitor student progress throughout the year.

Educators can:

1. Compose questions and assignments or assessments.
• Create multiple choice, true/false, mult-select or scored answer questions to be used in assignments or assessments.
• Align those questions with standards, from the CCSS, EARLs & GLEs, NGSS, or district standard banks.
• Assign points to the questions and the threshold for meeting standard.
• Attach media, like videos, images, passages, math symbols, and links to questions.
• Add existing questions to an assignment or assessment from a question bank.
• Assign performance levels to assignments or assessments for progress monitoring.
• Add teacher and student instructions and standards to assignments or assessments.
• Reorder, edit, delete or copy questions and assignments
• Share questions and assignments with other educators in the district.
2. Work on questions, assignments or assessments, and gradebooks.
• Create gradebooks, by subject, period, or student group.
• Assign standards to gradebooks, add class terms and contributors, and create a syllabus and curriculum.
• Add assignments and assessments to gradebooks.
• Reorder, edit, copy, export, or delete questions and assignments or assessments in gradebooks.
• Schedule and publish assignments or assessments which students can take on-line.
• Exclude any student from a particular assignment or assessment.
• Print assignments or assessments when a computer is not available to the students.
• Enter student answers from a printed assignment or assessment directly into the gradebook for automatic scoring.
• Modify an automatic score or enter a score for a scored answer question.
• Monitor student submissions in real-time for multiple choice and true/false answers when administered on-line.
• View the status of all assignments and how many students have submitted work and/or completed each.
• Grade students by standard, or traditionally by class terms, and on non-academic measures. 
3. Browse and share questions and assignments or assessments with other educators in the district.
• Export questions created to a district-managed question bank(s).
• Assemble questions into assignments or assessments and export them to a district-managed assignment bank(s).
• Assemble assignments into a gradebook template and share the gradebook via course code.
• Assemble assignments and gradebooks which constitute an entire curriculum by grade or subject.
• Browse all shared question and assignment banks belonging to the district.
• Browse all standards banks belonging to the district.
4. Access student profile information and reports, and activate or adjust student account settings.
• Select a single student to see their profile and high level information.
• View a student’s performance by learning standards.
• View and print a student's report card by learning standards, assignments, or gradebooks.
• Activate student accounts.
• Assign student passwords.
5. Analyze questions, assignments or assessments by standard or score and access reports on student progress.
• Examine a student's performance relative to the entire group and view aggregate values for questions and standards.
• Examine group performance on assignments or assessments from a learning standard perspective.
• View assignment or assessment results for a single student question by question or for a single question student by student. 
• View the results of identified Classroom assessments in Homeroom.
• Use assessment results in Homeroom to create tiered student groups.
• Use assessment results in Homeroom data extracts to create student growth charts.
• Compare Classroom assessments with other assessments, state, district, school, etc. in Homeroom.

[Updated: 12/24/14, prh]