Classroom for Educators

Classroom is a flexible, web-based application designed for educators to create, manage, and analyze standards-based assignments and assessments, ultimately producing standards-aligned report cards. It supports both traditional and standards-based grading systems.

Benefits for Educators

• Flexibility: Adapts to different teaching styles and workflows.

• Organization: Reduces paper clutter with a centralized repository for assessments and grades.

• Collaboration: Enables sharing of best practices with colleagues. 

• Efficiency: Saves time with features like automatic scoring and progress monitoring.

• Data-driven Instruction: Provides insights into student performance for informed teaching decisions.

Classroom empowers educators to create a personalized and efficient grading and assessment system, ultimately enhancing student learning.

Key Features:

• Flexible Question, Assignment, and Assessment Creation:
  • Questions Types: Supports multiple choice, true/false, multi-select, and scored answer questions.
  • Custom Assignments: Create unique assignments using questions aligned with various standards from the CCSS, EARLs & GLEs, NGSS, and integrated third-party item banks such as NWEA. 
  • Multimedia Content: Attach videos, images, passages, math symbols, and links to enhance 

• Gradebook Management: 
  • Single & Multiple Gradebooks: Flexibility to create multiple gradebooks for different subjects, periods, or student groups or use a single gradebook for uniform teaching. 
  • Differentiation: Tailor instruction with separate gradebooks for varying performance levels in subjects like reading and math. 
  • Curriculum Assembly: Compile assignments and assessments to form a comprehensive curriculum by grade or subject.

• Collaboration: 
  • Gradebook Sharing: Share questions, assignments, and gradebook templates with colleagues to streamline grading processes and coordinate assignments.
  • Cross-Subject Coordination: Collaborate with other teachers in shared classes for consistent grading.
  • Assessment Bank: Import and share assignments from district-level banks; searchable by standard, difficulty, or complexity.

• Assignment and Assessment Tools:
  • Batch Assignment: Efficiently assign multiple assignments to groups of students simultaneously. Schedule and publish online assessments or print for offline use.
  • Custom Groups: Create tailored student groups for differentiated assignments.
  • Integration: Existing student groups in Homeroom can be directly linked to gradebooks in the Classroom.
  • Management Tools: Easily reorder, edit, copy, export, or delete assignments and assessments.
  • Grading: Grade by learning standard, class term, or non-academic measures. Automatically score or enter student answers from paper submissions. Modify an automatic score at any time. 
  • Real-Time Monitoring: Track student progress and submissions as they occur.

• Reporting:
  • Student Profile Access: View individual student profiles, assignments, and performance reports. 
  • Aggregate Data Analysis: Identify trends and areas for improvement through comprehensive reporting. Generate and review reports on student performance by learning standards, assignments, or gradebook. View assignment or assessment results for a single student question by question or for a single question student by student. Compare student performance with the class or a specific group.
  • Standardized Reporting: Generate and print report cards aligned with learning standards.

• Integration with Homeroom:
  • Growth Tracking: Use assessment results for tiered student group creation and growth tracking.
  • Data Sync: Automatic syncing of student data and assessment between Classroom and Homeroom. Compare Classroom assessments with other assessments in Homeroom. (Assessment Widget, Assessments filter of the Student Groups Widget, Data Extracts involving assessments or as part of Risk Indicators if configured.)
    • NOTE: Your district data administrator must designate a Classroom assignment or assessment as visible in Homeroom. Once configured, the results of the assessment or assignment are automatically updated each night. (When necessary, a data administrator can update results manually.) 

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