Pendergast Elementary School District
   
Introduction to Classroom Suite
 

This training will help you become more familiar with Intellitools Classroom Suite v4. In addition, completing the competency activity at the end will meet the requirement to 1.5 hours of AT related training for Pupil Services.

Overview Videos

The videos below provide a general overview of the program, as well as, all of the templates that are included with the software. Specifically included, and listed in recommended viewing order are:

File Names Viewing
Times
01 Intro to Classroom Suite            11:08
02 Intro to the Early Learning Templates            11:27
03a Intro to Reading Templates: Assessment              1:47
03b Intro to Reading Templates: Phonemic Awareness              2:49
03c Intro to Reading Templates: Phonics              4:36
03d Intro to Reading Templates: Fluency, Vocab, Comp              1:24
04 Intro to the Writing Templates              7:47
05a Intro to Math Templates: Assessment              2:35
05b Intro to Math Templates: Early Math Concepts              2:55
05c Intro to Math Templates: Whole Number Operations              6:10
05d Intro to Math Templates: Place Value              1:21
05e Intro to Math Templates: Fractions & Decimals              3:14
05f Intro to Math Templates: Money              1:07
                                                                                                 Total Viewing Time:            58:20

Skills Videos

These videos introduce you to the individual skills necessary to functionally use the program. These are the skills that are necessary to pass the accompanying competency assessment. The videos marked with an 11 are optional skills that may not be encountered by all staff.

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File Names Viewing
Times
01 Logging in to Classroom Suite              0:34
02 Adding a New Student              0:31
03 Changing a Student Password              0:34
04 Changing a Teacher Password              0:27
05 Customizing a Template              1:48
06 Publishing an Activity              0:54
07 Creating a Folder in Published Activities              0:24
08 Assigning Work to your Student              0:49
09 Generating a Report on Student Performance              1:19
10 Reviewing Student's Work in the Portfolio              0:36
11 Adding a New Teacher and Class              1:12
11 Checking on Student Progress and moving forward              0:54
11 Creating a Unit              2:00
11 Exporting a File                                                                                                 0:48
11 Importing a File              0:55
11 Moving a File in the Published Folder              0:28
11 Renaming or Editing a File or its Notes              0:28
                                                                                                 Total Viewing Time:            14:14

Establishing Competency

When you have completed the training series, you should be able to perform the skills listed below. In order to receive credit for this course, you will need to complete the competency activity based on your teaching position listed below. Please make sure you are comfortable with these skills prior to attempting the competency activity. Please contact your AT/IC team if you need any support.

Beginning Level Skills

  1. Launch Classroom Suite
  2. Login to Classroom Suite as a teacher level account
  3. Preview the available templates
  4. Explore the custom options on the available templates
  5. Publish a template to the published folder
  6. Create a new student user
  7. Assigning work to your student
  8. Login to Classroom Suite as student
  9. Complete an Assignment
  10. Reviewing student data
  11. Reviewing student work

Competency Activity

1. Create a Student with your initials (Matthew Press would simply be MP) and assign him to your class

2. Publish one of the templates below. We listed some suggestions by teaching position. When you save the template, save it with your name comp activity (E.G. Matthew Press Competency Activity)

LDR (Lower Grade) LDR (Upper Grade) MIMR/MOMR MOMR/SMR PreK
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Equivalent Fractions

Letter Recognition Assessment

 Errorless Writing Easy Explore
# of Columns = 2 Activity Type = Student must find simplest Fraction 4 problems in set Assessment type of letter names 2 sentence beginnings (I like and I don't like) 4 sentence endings - pick anything Choose Explore Dinosaurs
Words / Columns = 4 Require practice before challenge Passing % = 75 Uppercase Letter   Hide sizes toolbar
1st column - ake Use timer at 10s All Letters  

Change numbers to be 1 to 20
2nd column - uck   Require practice before challenge 90% passing  

Show colors and color names
Do NOT require practice before challenge Passing % = 90   Don't Use Timer  

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3. Assign the activity created in Step 2 to the student created in step 1

4. Log into classroom suite as the student in Step 1 and complete the assignment from Step 2

5. Log back into classroom suite as yourself and generate a report on the performance from Step 4

6. When the report is visible in Internet Explorer, save it to your H drive.

7. Submit the report to your AT/IC team via email (attachment of generated report)

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