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In some rare cases the PL advancement button disappears. This happens in just a few of our learning screens, and only seems to affect mac book pro users!

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Architect a Learner-Centered Culture,Literacy 2: Teacher Centered vs Learner Centered Culture: Slide 2

Users with access to the Digital Convergence Framework can access reports on the district's progress over time. These District Reports are available in the dropdown navigation below your name in the upper-right corner, and they are broken into three categories:

Digital Convergence Reports

Professional Learning Reports

Key Milestones Reports

Making Reports Public/Private

Each report can be exported in a range of file formats, and narrowed to display results for a selected date range. Read on for details on each type of report.

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Update: Reports now have an additional feature to make them public via their URL. See the final section of this article for details.

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Digital Convergence Report

DCF Managers

This report provides details on your district's progress on the DCF over time, including the following items:

DCF Score: This graph shows how your district's overall DCF Score has changed over time. When a date range is selected, the graph adjusts to display growth over that date range.

Shape of Change (Driver Stages): Here you can see the Stage your district is working on in each Driver, as well as the owner assigned to each Driver. When a date range is selected, the darker green bar shows the Stage for your district at the start of the date range. If the stage increased, the bar extends in a lighter green color to its Stage at the end of the date range. If the stage decreased, the stage loss is shown as a grey bar. The assigned Driver Owners are displayed as of the last day in the date range.

SIs Completed: This list details all SIs your district has completed, in numeric order. SIs that were once marked as Complete but have been updated to incomplete are not listed. When a date range is selected, only the SIs marked as Complete during the date range are displayed. SI Owners and statuses are shown as of the last date in the date range.

SI Owners Assigned: Here you can see all users that have been assigned as SI Owners in your district. When a date range is selected, only the users who were assigned to be SI Owners during that date range are displayed, and the SI status shown is the status as of the last date in the date range. SI Owners removed or replaced prior to this data being collected will not be displayed.

Tasks Created: This list details the tasks that have been created in any SI. Hover over the SI number to see the SI name, status, and owner. When a date range is selected, only tasks created during that range are displayed, and the SI and Task statuses shown are the statuses as of the last date in the date range. Note, task statuses may be unavailable for some date ranges, and deleted tasks are not listed.

Work Products or Resources Shared: Here are the Work Products and SI Resources your district has added. The orange icon indicates items that are shared with All Districts. When a date range is selected, only items that were added during that date range are displayed. Items that have been deleted are not listed, and items that have been edited show their most recent version.

Goal Cycle Snapshot: This snapshot shows the status of your district's Goal Cycle. If a date range is selected, it shows the Goal Cycle as of the last date in the date range. Goal Cycles ending in date ranges prior to June 2018 will display the Goal Cycle as it was on the date it was marked Finished. More recent Goal Cycles will show the exact SIs and Target Date in the Goal Cycle as of the last date in the selected date range.

Professional Learning Report

This report provides details on your district's progress on professional learning items, including the following:

District PL Goals: Here you can see the progress of your district's coaches and teachers on the four PL Goals set in SI 31. When a date range is selected, the darker bar shows the percentage of users complete on the goal at the start of the date range. If the percentage increased, the bar extends in a lighter color to the percentage at the end of the date range. If the percentage decreased, the loss is shown as a grey bar. For some date ranges, this data may be unavailable. For more details on this progress, explore the related SIs in the Professional Learning Driver of the DCF.

School Leaders Trained: This list displays the School Leaders who have completed the Change Management module. These users are assigned as School Leaders in SI 50. Visit that SI for more details. When a date range is selected, only the School Leaders that completed training during that range are displayed, and statuses are based on the last date in the date range.

Coaches Trained: This list displays the Coaches who have completed the Instructional Coaching module. These users are assigned as Coaches in SI 32. Visit that SI for more details. When a date range is selected, only the Coaches that completed training during that range are displayed, and statuses are based on the last date in the date range.

Micro-Certs Awarded: Here you can see how many micro-certifications have been awarded to users in your district. Note, these numbers include all district users, whether or not they are marked to count in PL stats. When a date range is selected, only the micro-certs that were awarded during that date range are displayed, and the average is calculated by the number of users in the district and the number of micro-certs awarded at the end of that range. For date ranges prior to this information being available, the averages will be excluded.

Schools and/or Cohorts Created: Here are all the Schools and/or Cohorts your district has created in the Modern Teacher platform. When a date range is selected, only the Schools/Cohorts that were created during that range are displayed, and number of members is based on the last date in the date range. For some date ranges, data on members may be unavailable. Items that have been deleted are not listed, and items that have been edited show their most recent version.

PL Resources or Attachments Shared: Here are the PL Resources and Attachments your district has shared. The orange icon indicates items that are shared with All Districts. Note, Attachments that are not publicly shared and Resources from your district's PL Builder do not appear here. When a date range is selected, only items that were added during that date range are displayed. Items that have been deleted are not listed, and items that have been edited show their most recent version.

Key Milestones Report

This report displays the statuses and work products on critical Success Indicators throughout the DCF. The orange flag indicates work products that are shared with All Districts.

By default, the first six Key Milestones, from Stages 1-2 of the DCF, are displayed. If your district has started uploading work products to the later stages of the DCF, the list will automatically expand to show these Key Milestones as well.

This information is also available in your District Portfolio, but only work products shared with All Districts will be visible to users outside your district.

Making Reports Public/Private

Each report page now has the option, shown above, to make the report public. This option appears at the top right of the page, next to the Export option, and is visible only to . Clicking the "Make Public" option will open a popup asking you to confirm. By default, the report is private and only available to users in your district with access to the Digital Convergence Framework. When the report is public, it will be available to anyone with the link, logged in or not. This public option allows you to easily share your district's progress on the DCF, PL, or Key Milestones, by linking to it on your district website, via an email, etc.

Once the report is made public, the "Make Public" option changes to "Make Private." DCF Managers can make the report private again at any time. Note, making a single report page public does not impact the other reports. If you would like all 3 pages to be public, you must select this option on each page.

Note, on the DCF and PL Reports, the Resources sections will be hidden from the public view. On the Key Milestones Report, all Work Products will be made accessible on the public view, regardless of their original share settings.

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The clip below from the Professional Learning Overview demonstrates the Discussionpage type from 4:22-4:37 before continuing to demonstrate the ReflectionPage section.

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Discussion Pages

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Discussion pages provide an opportunity to collaboratewith other teachers as you progress through the module. Each page will include a Description with a prompt for Discussion, and may also include Resources, just like Reflection Pages.

All users have the option to participate in the Discussion with their users only from your District, or with users from All Districts. If you are associated witha School or Cohort, you'll also have a tab with the option to discuss at that level. If you are associated withmultiple Schools or Cohorts, you'll have a dropdown to select your desired group for discussion. Each of these options for discussion include your number of unread comments in parentheses.

A checkbox at the bottom of the discussion area gives you the option to to receive notifications when new comments are added. All users can manually subscribe or unsubscribe by checking/unchecking this box. Note, your subscription is specific to the discussion you've viewing, so if you subscribe to the discussion in the My District tab, you will not be automatically subscribed to the discussion in the All Districts tab.

Update:You can edit or delete your own discussion comments using the pencil and trash icons at the upper right corner of your comments, and you can direct-reply to another user's comment by clicking the reply icon at the upper-right of their comment. See above image for icon placement. Replying directly to a user's comment will send them a notification email.

Just like on Reflection pages, you can change the status of Discussion pages in the upper left corner, from Not Started to In Progress or Complete. Note that if a new tile is added to the module after you have received your micro-certification, this tile will be marked as "Attained" with a green dot status icon, instead of being marked as "Complete" with a green check status icon. The "Attained" status also appears on Discussion pages if you pass the Pre-Assessment for the module. This status indicates that you are note required to complete the tile, but you have the option to do so.

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The clip below from the Professional Learning Overview demonstrates these page typesfrom 4:37 through the end of the video.You may also be interested in more information on the Coaching View.

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Reflection Pages

PL Permissions

Image A: Reflection Page with Resources

These pages provide an opportunity to reflect on your learning as you progress through the Module. These pages may include a set of Resources, as shown above in Image A, or an embedded video, as shown below in Image B.

Image B: Reflection Page witha Video

You are able to add multiple text entries and/or a file uploads to these pages, and some users, based on their PL Permissions, may be able toaccess the page to provide coaching feedback, as shown in Image C below. Note that the name and profile pictures will not appear to the left of the comments until more than one user has commented on the page.

Image C: Fluency Reflection Page with Coach Feedback

To change the status of these Tiles on the PL Framework page, use the tool as shown below in Image D to update the pagefrom Not Started to In Progress, Ready for Review, or Complete. Note that some pages will not have the option to be marked as Complete. These pages can instead be marked as Ready for Review, which will send a notification to the relevant user(s) based on their . These users can then mark the page as Complete after providing any necessary coaching feedback.

Image D: Reflection Page with "Ready for Review" Status

Finally, note that if a new tile is added to the module after you have received your micro-certification, this tile will be marked as "Attained" with a green dot status icon, instead of being marked as "Complete" with a green check status icon. The "Attained" status also appears on Reflection pages if you pass the Pre-Assessment for the module. This status indicates that you are note required to complete the tile, but you have the option to do so.

This article will cover the following information on the quizzing tools available in district-created modules:

The Difference between Pre-Assessments & Literacy Checks

Completing Pre-Assessments & Literacy Checks

Pre-Assessment Results

Literacy Check Results

CreatingPre-Assessments & Literacy Checks

Special Cases when Creating/Updating Quizzes

Note: Any district user may be assigned a district-created module that contains a Pre-Assessment or Literacy Check to complete, but only district-level PL Managers and invited Collaborators have access to the PL Builder, in which the district-created modules are built. For more information, see the more detailed articles on PL Permissions and Inviting Collaborators.

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The Difference between Pre-Assessments & Literacy Checks

Micro-Certification

Image above: Module on My District PL page with Pre-Assessment as first tile & Literacy Check as last tile

In the PL Builder, districts can create and assign their own custom PL modules. These modules include pages, represented as tiles, for users to access Content and complete Reflections, Discussions, and Quizzes. The two types of quizzes are explained below:

Pre-Assessments:A Pre-Assessment is meant to check for prior knowledge at the beginning of a module. It is meant to help users identify the information they already know or don't know about the content of the module. Users have one attempt to submit it. If the user scores 80% or above, they have demonstrated that they are already familiar with the content, and they automatically receive a Micro-Certification for the Literacy level of module. The other Literacy tiles are marked as Attained and are optional to complete. If they score below 80%, they can proceed with the rest of the module to receive their Micro-Certification.

Literacy Checks:A Literacy Check can appear throughout the module and is meant to check for understanding. Users have multiple attempts to submit it. The user must score 80% or above in order for the page to be marked as Complete. A history of the user's scores on each attempt to pass the quiz isvisible below the status.

The top of these quiz pages appears the same as the top of Content, Reflection, and Discussion pages, with a Description, an optional set of Resources on the right, and a Status in the upper-left corner. Unlike the Reflection and Discussion pages, however, the user cannot manually change the Status of the page. Instead, the Status is automatically set based on their quiz score.

Below the Description of the page and above the quiz questions, the quiz is identified as either a Pre-Assessment or a Literacy Check.

For more details on these two types of assessments, view the video above and/or explore the rest of this article.

Completing Pre-Assessments & Literacy Checks

Image above: Unsubmitted Literacy Check with answers selected

To complete the Pre-Assessment or Literacy Check, select at least one correct answer for each question by checking the boxes to the right of the answer options, and click Submit at the bottom of the page. Note, if a question has more than one correct answer option, you must select both correct answers for the question to be marked as correct. If you leave the page before clicking Submit, your answers will be lost.

After clicking Submit, you'll see a message at the bottom of the page the briefly explains your results, and you can review your answers, shown in the images that follow in this article. The answer options you submitted are indicated by a grey arrow, questions scored as Correct are markedwith a green check, and questions scored as Incorrect are marked with an orange X, as shown above. Your score will appear in the upper-left corner, and depending on the quiz type, you may be able to Retake the quiz. Read on for more details on quiz Statuses and Retakes.

Note, ifsomeone updates the quiz in the PL Builder afteryou have submitted it, the grey arrows and feedback on which answers are correct or incorrect will beremoved. This removal is due to the possibility that the new version of the quiz may include updatedquestions with different correct answers. In this case, you can view the updated quiz questions, but your score is still based on the version of the quiz you last submitted. If you have the option to Retake, your next attempt will be on the new version of the quiz. The original version of the quiz will no longer be accessible.If in the rare case that youare in the process of completing the quiz when the updates are published, youwill receive an error when youattempt to submit the quiz, directing youto refresh the page and complete the new version.

Pre-Assessment Results

Image above: Attained Pre-Assessment

If you score below 80% onthe Pre-Assessment, your status on the page will be marked asAttained. You do not have the option to Retake. You can review your results and move on to the next tile of the module.

Image above: Complete/Passed Pre-Assessment

If you score 80% or above onthe Pre-Assessment, your status on the page will be marked as Complete. You do not have the option to Retake.Your micro-certification will be automatically marked as Complete, and your next required step for the module is to move on to the Fluency level, if there is one available.

Image above: Tiles marked as Attained after passing the Pre-Assessment, Micro-Certification Complete

As shown in Image 1C above, all other tiles for the module (excluding any available Fluency tiles) are marked with theAttained status if the Pre-Assessment is passed, indicating that they are not required to be completed. However, you do still have the option of completing any Reflection or Discussion tiles; you can submit comments and attachments on these pages as usual, and you can manually mark them with the Status of Not Started of In Progress as you're working (which will mark the Micro-Certification as In Progress instead of Complete), or mark them as Complete when you are done (which will keep the Micro-Certification as Complete).

If the module contains a Literacy Check, you do still have the option of submitting it. Note, however, that if you score below 80%, both the tile and the module will be marked with the Status of In Progress. If the module contained an additional Pre-Assessment, you can still view it, but you cannot Submit it.

Literacy Check Results

Image above: Literacy Check scored below 80%, marked In Progress

If you score below 80%the Literacy Check, your status on the page will be marked as In Progress. Your attempt is recorded and visible by clicking the Status. You can review your results and try again. When you click Retake, your previously-submitted answers are cleared, and you can answer the questions again. Just like the first time,if a question has more than one correct answer option, you must select both correct answers for the question to be marked as correct. If you leave the page before clicking Submit, your answers will be lost. If you score below 80% on a Retake, your attemptis again recorded, and you can try again.

Image above: Literacy Check marked Complete, with history of Attempts below Status

If you score 80% or above onthe Literacy Check, your status on the page will be marked as Complete, and your option to Retake will be removed.

CreatingPre-Assessments & Literacy Checks

Image above: Add Tile popup with the "Quiz" Tile Type selected

In the PL Builder, you can create a Pre-Assessment or Literacy Check by adding a Quiz Tile as shown above. You can then enter the pagejust like Reflection and Discussion Tiles, and there you can edit the Title and add a Description, Resources, and a custom Tile Image as explained in the article on Creating Page/Tile Content.One key difference between the Quiz Tiles and the Reflection and Discussion Tiles, however, is that Quiz Tiles have no Requires Review setting. Instead, they have a Quiz Type setting, shown below.

Image above: Quiz Type selector

Selecting the Quiz Type is a critical step in the creation of a quiz, and it cannot be changed after the quiz has been published. An explanation of the quiz type is available to users at the top of their quizzes, so they know which type of quiz they are completing. The quiz types are explained as follows:

Pre-Assessment:A Pre-Assessment is meant to check for prior knowledge. Users have one attempt to submit it. If the user scores 80% or above, they automatically receive a Micro-Certification for this module. If they score below 80%, they can proceed with the rest of the module to receive their Micro-Certification.

Literacy Check:A Literacy Check is meant to check for understanding. Users have multiple attempts to submit it. The user must score 80% or above in order for the page to be marked as Complete. A history of the user's scores on each attempt to pass the quiz will be visible below the status.

For more details on the difference between these two quiz types, see the other sectionsof this support article. By default, all Quiz Tiles are set as Literacy Checks. Note, Pre-Assessments are not available in the Fluency level of the module, because Fluency is meant to emphasize the application of a new skill, whichcannot be "tested out" of.

Below the Description, you can create your quiz questions. Enter your question prompt and at least two answer options. To add additional answer options, click the "Add Option" button. To add additional questions, click the "Add Question" button. Indicateat least one correct answer per question by checking the green box to the left of the answer option. Note, if multiple correct answer options are selected for a single question, the user must select all correct answers to receive credit. If they select only one of the correct answers, the questionwill be scored as incorrect.

Be sure to click "Save" before exiting the page. If you exit the page without saving, you will be asked to confirm. If you confirm, your unsaved changes will be lost. And remember, users will not see the quiz, or any updates to the quiz, until the next time the module is published.

Special Cases when Creating/Updating Quizzes

Note, there are a few special cases to be aware of when creating quizzes:

If you add multiple Pre-Assessments to the module, the user only has to pass one of them to receive their and mark all other tiles as Attained. If they pass one of the Pre-Assessments, marking the other one as Attained, they will not have the option to submit the Attained one.

If you add a new quiz to a module after a user has completed their micro-certification, their micro-certification will remain Complete and the quiz will be automatically marked as Attained. If it is a Pre-Assessment, they will not have the option to submit it. If it is a Literacy Check, submitting the quizwill be optional.

If you publish updates to a quiz after users have submitted it, the users' the grey arrows (indicating which answers they submitted) and feedback on which questionswere correct or incorrect will beremoved. This removal is due to the possibility that the new version of the quiz may include updatedquestions with different correct answers. In this case,the users can view the updated quiz questions, but theirscore willstill be based on the version of the quiz theylast submitted. If theyhave the option to Retake, theirnext attempt will be on the new version of the quiz. The original version of the quiz will no longer be accessible. If in the rare case that they are in the process of completing the quiz when the updates are published, they will receive an error when they attempt to submit the quiz, directing them to refresh the page and complete the new version.

Thisarticle provides information on the Discussion section of the Dashboard, similar to Discussions within Success Indicators.

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The clip below from the Dashboard Overview demonstrates the Discussion section from 3:27-4:17 before continuing to demonstrate the My Success Indicators section.

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To the right of the News Feed on the Dashboard,you'll see aDiscussion area. This area serves as an open discussion zone for users to ask questions and collaborate. As shown in the above visual, below any discussion post you can see anyone who as liked the post, and you can see the first 3 comments. Click the comment icon or the "View Comments" option to view all comments on the discussion.

All users can click to "Start Discussion", which will open the popup shown below. There, you willhave the option to ask the question to All Districts or only to My District. If you are a Member of Manager of a School or Cohort, you'll also have the option to start a Discussion only with those users in the "Share discussion with:" dropdown.Note, District-level PL Managers can start and participate in Discussions with all Schools and Cohorts in the district.

The person starting the discussion can choose whether or not to send a notification email if they are starting the discussion with their district or a school or cohort.

Once a discussion has been started, users can "like" and comment on it, just like in the News Feed.Users can subscribe to receive when new comments are added. Any user with access to the Discussion can manually subscribe to or unsubscribe from receiving notifications by manually checking the subscription box at the bottom of the Start Discussion popup, shown above, or the Comments popup, shown below.

You can edit or delete your own discussion comments using the pencil and trash icons at the upper right corner of your comments, and you can direct-reply to another user's comment by clicking the reply icon at the upper-right of their comment. See above image for icon placement. Replying directly to a user's comment will send them a notification email.

The Discussion section by default displays only the five most recently started Discussions that have been shared with you, but you can use the Load More option to see older discussions. To narrow the results, you can use the filter, shown below. The filter will include the default option of All Discussions, Discussions (started by any District) Shared with All Districts, Discussions shared Only with My District, and Discussions started by and shared with a School or Cohort in which you are a Manager or Member.

This video provides an introduction to the Digital Convergence Framework components of the Modern Teacher Platform. You may also want to explore the full DCF Overview article and watch the video introduction to the Professional Learning component.

For district leaders with access to it, Modern Teacher's Digital Convergence Framework is the heart of theplatform. This article provides an overview of the items listed below, as well as links to more information:

7 Stages

6 Drivers

Success Indicators

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The animation below demonstrates the DCF, including expanding a cell on the Grid View to view the SIs, switching to the List View, filtering SIs on the List View, and editing the Goal Cycle by adding and removing SIs. (Note, only the users with appropriate permissions can edit the goals.)

Clicking a Stage or Driver title displays a list of all SIs in that Stage or Driver, shown in the image below. Clicking that Stage or Driver again, or clicking the X in the upper-right corner, returns you to the regular Grid View.

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7 Stages

The Digital Convergence Framework (or DCF) progresses through 7 Stages to demonstrate growth over time. These Stages are represented as 7 columns.

6 Drivers

The DCF is also organized into 6 categories, called Drivers. These Drivers are represented as rows and include the following: Leadership, Instructional Models, Modern Curriculum, Digital Ecosystem, Professional Learning, and Community.

Success Indicators

At the intersection of each Stage and Driver is a cell with quick stats. Clicking on the cell will expand a view to show the individual Success Indicators (SIs) found within that section of the DCF. These SIs are actionable steps to guide your district through Digital Convergence. Each SI displays the Owner and Status, and clicking on the SI takes you to the SI Page which provides more detail.

Additional Features

The Digital Convergence Framework can be viewed both as a Grid or a List. Your selection will be remembered if you leave and re-enter the page. In Grid View, you can also click a Stage or Driver to view only those SIs as a list, and click again (or click the X in the upper-right corner) to return to the full Grid View.

The DCF is meant to provide guidance through a multi-year effort to transform traditional classrooms into modern learning environments, personalizing learning at scale. In order to keep this effort organized and manageable, each district is able to set its own Goal Cycles. You can click to show or hide the goals at any time.

Additionally, the DCF provides a quick and easy way to view Related Success Indicators when in the Grid View, highlighting the items on whichusers might want to collaborate.

The DCF also allows a Driver Owner to be assigned to each Driver, providing a clearly designated manager and point of contact for each Driver.

Lastly, a new area of the platform allows you to view the National Network, where you can explore other districts across the country and collaborate as you move through the DCF.

Remember that not all users have access to the DCF. By default, users have access only to the Professional Learning component of the platform, but the can grant access to the DCF at any time.

The Digital Convergence Framework is meant to provide guidance through a multi-year effort to transform traditional classrooms into modern learning environments. In order to keep this effort organized and manageable, each district is able to set its own Goal Cycles. This article will provide an overview of the following features:

Viewing a Goal Cycle

Editinga Goal Cycle

Finishing a Goal Cycle

Starting a New Goal Cycle

Note: Only users with access to the DCF can view the Framework and the District's Goal Cycle, and only users with certain permissions can start, edit, or finish Goal Cycles.

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The videobelow demonstrates how to view, edit, and finish a Goal Cycle, as well as how to start a new Goal Cycle and how to update the statuses and owners of the SIs in the Goal Cycle. Note that these features are demonstrated both in the Grid and List views of the Digital Convergence Framework and in the Goal Cycle page.

Update: You can now only start, edit, or finish a Goal Cycle from the DCF page, not the Goal Cycle page. This allows you to see your Projected Score update in real time as you edit your Goal Cycle. The Projected Stage is the stage your district will achieve on the DCF if you complete all SIs in your Goal Cycle.

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The animation below shows how to view and edit your district's Goal Cycle in both the Grid and List Views of the DCF.

Reports

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Viewing a Goal Cycle

If a Goal Cycle has been started for the district, all district users with access to the DCF can preview it ontheir Dashboard, as shown below. This visual can be used to quickly scan how many SIs are in the Goal Cycle, how many are not started, in progress, ready for review, or complete, and who has been assigned asthe SI Owner for each SI. Hovering over an SI (shown with SI 35 below) provides a card with the SI title, the Stage and Driver the SI is in, the SI Owner's name, and a hyperlink to the more detailed SI Page. This view of the Goal Cycle is also available in the DCF tab of the District Reports.

Users with access to the DCF can also view the Goal Cycle on the Digital Convergence Framework pageby clicking the "Show Goals" option at the top-right corner. The "Show Goals" option then changes to "Hide Goals", which will return the user to the regular view of the DCF. Your selection to show or hide the goals will be retained even if you leave the page or log out. Users can also see the district's Current DCF Stage, and their Projected Stage. The Projected Stage is the stage your district will achieve on the DCF if you complete all SIs in your Goal Cycle.

Note that only users with permissions to edit the Goal Cycle will have access to the pencil edit icon in the blue bar near the Projected Stage. Also note that on the Grid View, you can click any Stage or Driver to view a short list of the SIs in that Stage/Driver, and Goals will be highlighted or hidden depending on your Show/Hide Goals selection. Click the Stage/Driver again, or click the X in the upper-right corner, to return to the normal Grid View.

Above: Viewing a Goal Cycle on the Grid View of the DCF

Above: Viewing a Goal Cycle on the ListView of the DCF

Lastly, users can now view the Goal Cycle on its own page, accessible via the dropdown menu below "Digital Convergence" in the main navigation. This page organizes all SIs in the Goal Cycle into rows by their SI Owner, and columns by their Status (Not Started, In Progress, Ready for Review, or Complete). SIs without an owner will appear in a row titled "Unassigned."

Above: Viewing a Goal Cycle on theGoal Cycle page

Note, if you're viewing the Goal Cycle Page on a mobile device or small browser window, you'll only view one column at a time.By default, you'll view the Not Started column, but you can switch to view the other columns be selecting their status, as shown below.

Above: Mobile View of theGoal Cycle page

Editing a Goal Cycle

Users with the correct permissions (in this case, the district's DCF Managers and Driver Owners) can alsoedit the current Goal Cycle. These users can click the pencil edit icon near the Projected Stage in the blue bar, both on the Grid or List Views of the DCF. They can then edit the Target Date (click Calendar icon), as well as add or remove SIs from the Goal Cycle by checking or un-checking the box at the bottom left-hand corner (in Grid View) or right-hand side (in List View) of the SI Tile. When done editing, these users can click Save to update the Goal Cycle. They will be prompted to share their update in the News Feed, and the stats on the Dashboard and Reports will be updated to reflect their changes.

Above: Editinga Goal Cycle on the Grid View of the DCF

Above: Editinga Goal Cycle on theListView of the DCF

Users cannot edit the Target Date or add/remove SIs to/from the Goal Cycle on the Goal Cycle page, shown above. On that page, however, some users can drag and drop the SIs on this to change their status and/or owner, as shown in the animation above. DCF Managers can change any SI Status and Owner. Driver Owners can change the status and owner of any SI in the Driver they own. SI Owners cannot change theowner, but they can change the status of their SI to/from Not Started, In Progress, and Ready for Review. Only DCF Managers and Driver Owners can change the SI from Ready for Review to Complete.

Finishing a Goal Cycle

Users with the correct permissions (in this case, the district's DCF Managers and Driver Owners) can also finishthe current Goal Cycle. Finishing the Goal Cycle will not change any SI Statuses, but will clear all SIs and the target date, providing a clean slate on which to start a new Goal Cycle (see below).

To Complete the Goal Cycle, click the pencil edit icon, and then click the Finish button in the yellow bar at the top of the Grid or List Views of the DCF. Userswill be given a warning before finishingthe Goal Cycle. Note, finishingthe Goal Cycle will clear all goals and reset the Goal Cycle stats that appears on the Dashboard and Reports for all DCF users in the district.

Above: Finishinga Goal Cycle on the Grid View of the DCF

Above: Finishinga Goal Cycle on theListView of the DCF

Starting a New Goal Cycle

If the district does not have a current Goal Cycle, that section of their Dashboard and the Goal Cycle page will appear as shown below:

Above: Goal Cyclesection of Dashboard when no Goal Cycle is set

Above:Goal Cycle page when no Goal Cycle is set

In this case, users with the correct permissions (again, the district's DCF Managers and Driver Owners)can start a new Goal Cycle. These users will have access to a "Start Goal Cycle" button in place of the "Show Goals" button on the DCF, as shown below.Note, a new Goal Cycle cannot be started from the Goal Cycle page, but it can be started from the Grid or List views of the DCF.

Above: Start Goal Cycle option on Grid View of DCF

Above: Start Goal Cycle option on ListView of DCF

The user can complete the following steps to start a new Goal Cycle:

Click the "Start Goal Cycle" Button.

If in Grid View, click into any cell to view the individual SIs you might like to add to your Goal Cycle. If in List view, consider using the search box and filters to find the SIs you're looking for.

To add an SI to your Goal Cycle, check the small box in the bottom left-hand corner (in Grid View) or far right (in List View) of the SI Tile, visible in the video and animated visuals above. Similarly, unchecking the box will remove the selection from your Goal Cycle.

To add a Target Date to the Goal Cycle, click the small calendar icon in the blue bar need the Projected Stage and select a date from the calendar.

Click "Save" in the yellow bar at the top of the DCF. The Goal Cycle will be started, and the userwill be prompted to share in the News Feed. Note the stats on the Dashboard and will be updated with the new Goal Cycle information.

Depending on your DCF Permissions, you may receive these notifications in the Notifications Dropdown Menu.On the Notification Preferences tab, you can select which Notifications you would also like to receive via email.

Driver-Wide Preferences:

These notifications are available to DCF Managers and Driver Owners. Driver Owners will see column(s) only for the Driver(s) they own, while DCF Managers will see columns for all Drivers. These preferences apply to all SIs across the Driver. By default, the following send emails:

The due date for a SI in your Driver has been missed. This email alerts you to update the due date and assess why the goal was not met.

A SI in your Driver has been marked as Ready for Review.This email alerts you to review the work in the SI and determine whether or not mark it as Complete.

A SI in your Driver has been marked as Complete.This email alerts you to a key step in your Digital Convergence journey. You may wish to log in and review the work that was done to complete the SI, and see how its completion has impacted your DCF score.

SI Team Notifications:

This set of notifications applies to SI Owners, Task Owners, and SI Participants. However, users canedit their preferences on these notifications based on their permission. For instance, theycan opt in to get all emails for the SIs in whichthey'reSI Owner, only get Task-related emails for the SIs in whichthey'rea Task Owner, and get no emails for the SIs in which they are just SI Participants.

The Notifications that are checked to send emails by defaultalert the user when they are as follows:

Your SI has been marked as Ready for Review.This email alerts you to review the work in the SI.

Your SI has been marked as Complete.This email alerts you to a key step in your Digital Convergence journey. You may wish to log in and review the work that was done to complete the SI, and see how its completion has impacted your DCF score.

A due date has been added to your SI. This email alerts you to the timeline for your SI completion.

The due date for your SI is approaching or has passed. This email alerts you to update the due date and assess why the goal was not met.

If you do not wish to receive email notifications for these items, simply un-check the box. Or, if you would like to receive emails for any of the other items, simply check the box. Regardless of email preference, you will receive all of these notifications in the platform.

District-level PL Managers as well as School and Cohort Managers receive these notifications in the Notifications Dropdown Menu.On the Notification Preferences tab, you can select which Notifications you would also like to receive via email.

Subscription-Based Notifications

This same set of notifications applies to district-level PL Managers as well as School and Cohort Managers, but users will only receive notifications and see the columns on the Notification Preferences page for the Schools or Cohorts that apply to them. District-level PL Managers see all columns and receive all notifications, while School and Cohort Managers receive only the notifications and see only the columns for the School(s) and/or Cohort(s) they manage.

Users canedit their preferences on these notifications separately for each School and Cohort. For instance, theycan opt in to get all emails about one school, while choosing to get no emails about another.

Due to the large number of users these Managers may have access to, only one of these notifications are checked to send emails by default: A user in a school or cohort you manage marked a PL Page as Ready for Review.This notification alerts the manager to the fact that a user is ready for their coaching help or feedback.

Users can easily customize the email preferences to be alerted any time a member is assigned to or unassigned from their School or Cohort, and any time the PL Page of a member of their School or Cohort is marked as Complete, or un-marked as Complete.Regardless of email preference, these users will receive all of these notifications in the platform.

For more detailed notifications on specific users' PL Pages, see the article on the .

All users receive the Professional Learning notifications shown below in the Notifications Dropdown Menu, and users with access to the Digital Convergence Framework also receive the notifications listed under Digital Convergence.On this General Notification Preferences tab, you can select which Notifications you would also like to receive via email.

Professional Learning Permissions

The Notifications that are checked to send emails by default are shown in the screenshot above. These notifications are as follows:

Professional Learning

All users by default receive the following two notifications related to their progress on professional learning:

One ofyour PL Pages has been commented on by a PL Manager: This sends an email so you know to take a look at the comment, which may contain feedback on your work on a PL Module. To see who has the ability to view and comment on your PL Pages, see the resources on .

You received a Fluency Micro-Certification: This usually occurs when a Coach has reviewed and marked one of your last Fluency Tiles as Complete.

Digital Convergence

By default, users with access to the DCF do not receive any email notifications related to the DCF Goal Cycles, etc. However, if you are assigned as a DCF Manager or Driver Owner, you will receive the following two emails by default:

A new Goal Cycle has been created: This notification alerts you to your new district goals. It is recommended to log in and check the new goals.

The current Goal Cycle Target Date is approaching or has passed: This notification will send when the date is one month away, one week away, today, or has passed.

If you do not wish to receive email notifications for these items, simply un-check the box. Or, if you would like to receive emails for any of the other items, simply check the box. Regardless of email preference, you will receive all of these notifications in the platform.

In addition to the notifications users can customize with their Notification Preferences, users can also subscribe to receive notificationson actions in the PL Builder. Users with access to the PL Builder can use these notifications to monitor when changes are made to the Professional Learning modules they are working on building.

Animation

List of Notifications

Users have the option to subscribe to receive both in-platform and e-mail notifications when any of the following actions occur on their selected module:

Another user has been invited or removed as collaborator on this module.

A new tile has been added.

The title of a tile has been edited.

The description of a tile has been edited.

The Requires Review setting of a tile has been changed.

The tile image of a tile has been changed.

The resources in a tile have been edited.

The quiz questions in a tile have been edited.

A tile has been deleted.

A deleted tile has been restored.

A tile has been reverted to its most recently published version.

A tile has been copied.

Tiles have been rearranged.

A Fluency section has been added to the module.

The module has been published for the first time.

Changes to the module have been published.

The assignment of the module has been changed.

In addition to the notifications users can customize with their Notification Preferences, users can also subscribe to receive notifications on specific PL Pages or Discussions. This article will explain how to subscribe to notifications for the following:

Dashboard Discussions & News Feed Posts

PL Discussion Pages

PL Reflection Pages (Managers Only)

SI Discussions

Dashboard Discussions & News Feed Posts

SI Discussions

By default, users do not receive in-platform or email notifications about comments being made on Dashboard Discussions or posts in the News Feed.Users will receive a notification email when a new discussion is created if the user starting the discussion selects this option.

All users can manually subscribe to receive notifications by opening the comments popup and checking the subscription box, as shown above. Once subscribed, the user will receive both in-platform (in the Notifications Flag Dropdown) and email notifications when new comments are added. The user posting the discussion has the option to subscribe when posting, or later when commenting.

Users can manually unsubscribe from these notifications at any time by un-checking the subscription box. Unsubscribing will stop notifications both in the platform and via email for that discussion.

PL Discussion Pages

By default, users do not receive in-platform or email notifications about comments being made on PL Discussion Pages unlessthey manually subscribe by checking the box at the bottom of the page, shown un-checked above.

Users will only receive notifications about comments being added to the Discussion Tab in which they are subscribed. For instance, if the user subscribes to a discussion in one selected School in the SchoolTab, they will only receive notifications when comments are added in that School Discussion. They will not receive notifications for comments being added to another School, Cohort, or in the My District or All District Tabs.

Once subscribed, the user will receive both in-platform (in the Notifications Flag Dropdown) and email notifications when new comments are added.

Users can manually unsubscribe from these notifications at any time by un-checking the subscription box. Unsubscribing will stop notifications both in the platform and via email for that discussion.

PL ReflectionPages

By default, users receive in-platform or email notifications about comments being made on PL Reflection Pages based on their General Notification Preferences, but users with access to the Coaching View can also manually subscribe on a per-user basis by following the process below.

A PL Reflection Page is marked as Ready for Review.

The appropriate users receive an in-platform notification (and an email notification depending on their School & Cohort Notification Preferences ).

The usercanreview the page via the Coaching View. If they make a comment to provide feedback, they are automatically subscribed to receive notifications if new comments are added.

If the userdoes not make a feedback comment, they still have the option to subscribe to receive notifications if new comments are made on the page by checking the subscription box shown above.

Once subscribed, the user will receive both in-platform (in the Notifications Flag Dropdown) and email notifications when new comments are added. Note that these notifications apply only to when new comments are added to the page of the user that was being reviewed in the Coaching View, allowing notifications to be customized on a per-user basis.

Users can also manually unsubscribe from these notifications by un-checking the subscription box. Once un-checked, the user will not be automatically re-subscribed if they continue to comment on the page.

SIDiscussions

By default, users do not receive in-platform or email notifications about comments being made on . Relevant users will receive a notification email when a new discussion is created if the user starting the discussion selects this option.

All users with access to the SI can manually subscribe to receive notifications by opening the comments popup and checking the subscription box, as shown above. Once subscribed, the user will receive both in-platform (in the Notifications Flag Dropdown) and email notifications when new comments are added. The user posting the discussion has the option to subscribe when posting, or later when commenting.

Users can manually unsubscribe from these notifications at any time by un-checking the subscription box. Unsubscribing will stop notifications both in the platform and via email for that discussion.

This article provides an overview of the different Notification Preferences pages you have access to based on your District Management Permissions, Digital Convergence Framework Permissions, and Professional Learning Permissions :

General Notifications

Success Indicator Notifications

School and Cohort Notifications

Subscription-Based Notifications

Choose-to-Sent Notifications

PL Builder Notifications

Video:

Visuals:

PL Builder

Above: Notifications Flag and Dropdown

Above: Navigation to Notification Preference Pages

Written Explanation with Visuals:

All notifications appear in the platform, but you will only receive notifications via email based on the preferences you create on these pages. Some items are checked by default to send a notification email - these defaults are shown in the images below, but all items areeditable, so you can identify the exact set of notification emails that works for you.

General Notifications

All users have access at least to the Professional Learning General notifications. Users with access to the Digital Convergence Framework will also have a few Digital Convergence notification options on this page. By default, only a fewof them send emails. More details are available here.

Success IndicatorNotifications

You have access to this tab and these notifications if you havethebeen assigned the DCF Permissions of DCF Manager, Driver Owner, SI Owner, Task Owner, and/or SI Participant. You will only see the area(s) and column(s) for the permission(s) you have been assigned. More details are available here.

School and Cohort Notifications

District-level PL Managers as well as School and Cohort Managers receive these notifications in the Notifications Dropdown Menu. See the resources on Professional Learning Permissions.More details are on these notifications are available here.

Subscription-Based Notifications

You can use Subscription-Based Notifications to be updated when comments are added to discussions or pages you're interested in.

Choose-to-Send Notifications

If another user completes an action they want to alert you about, you may receive one of the Choose-to-Send Notifications.

PL Builder Notifications

You can also subscribe to receive PL Builder notifications if youhave access to the .

This article will cover the following features of the PL Builder :

Assigning Modules

Publishing Modules

My District PL page

Note: Only district-level PL Managers and invited Collaborators have access to the PL Builder. For more information, see the more detailed articles on PL Permissions and Inviting Collaborators.

Video Clip:

The clip below from the PL Builder Overview demonstrates Assigning & Publishing modules, and then accessing them on the My District PL page,from 3:12-4:25 before moving on to demonstrate additional tools for Building PL Modules.

Written Explanation with Visuals:

Assigning

Coaching View

Image 1A above: Assign Option

Image 1B Above: Assign to the Entire District

Image 1C Above: Assign toselect Schools or Cohorts

Assigning the module allows you to select which users in your district youd like to have access to the module on the My District PL Page. You can assign to the Entire District (Image 1B above), or assign to Select Schools and/or Cohorts in your district (Image 1C above). If youd like to assign the module to a group of users that is not yet set up, you can set them up as a Cohort if you have the appropriate PL permissions or District Management permissions.

If the module has not been published yet, the assigned users will not see the module until it is published. Once the module has been published for the first time, the assignment can be changed, and the newly assigned users will receive immediate access to the currently published version of the module. You do not have to re-publish to change the assignment.

Update: If the module has been published before, you now have the option of triggering an email notification to the assigned/unassigned users via a checkbox above the save button in the Assign Module popup. The assigned/unassigned users will receive an in-platform notification whether or not the email option is checked.

You can unassign the module from Schools or Cohorts by un-selecting them in the popup shown in Image 1B above. When the module is unassigned, users will be unable to access their work on the module, including their micro-certifications and any comments theyve made or attachments theyve uploaded to the module's pages/tiles. If you later decide to re-assign the module to the same users, their work will become accessible again, and their tile statuses and micro-certifications will be retained from the last time it was assigned to them.

Publishing

Image 2A above: Unpublished Module

Image 2B above: Tile with UnpublishedChanges

While creating a new module in the PL Builder, youll notice the entire module is marked with an orange Unpublished border, shown in Image 2A above. When youre ready to make the module available for users to complete, you must first Assign and then Publish the module. The assigned users will receive a notification based on their General Notification Preferences, and the module will then become available on their My District PL page, shown below.

After a module has been published for the first time, you can continue working on it in the PL Builder. Your changes will not be visible to the assigned users until the module is published again. If you add new tiles or new copies of tiles, they will be marked with an orange Unpublished border. If you make changes to a published tile, the tile will be marked with an orange Unpublished Changes boarder. If you rearrange or delete tiles, those tiles will also be marked with orange borders titled Rearranged or Deleted. Before publishing, all unpublished changes can be undone. You can Revert the changed tiles and Restore the Deleted Tiles as explained in the article on Building PL Modules. Once the module is published again, your updates will become available to the assigned users, and you will be unable to undo these changes.

Note, you do not need to re-assign the module when you publish updates. Once the module has been assigned and published for the first time, the assignment can be changed without re-publishing, and the module can be re-published without re-assigning.

Also note, if you add a new tile to a module after a user has completed their micro-certification, their micro-certification will remain Complete and the new tilewill be automatically marked as Attained.Unless the tile is a Pre-Assessment, the user will still have the option to manually complete the tile, but it will be optional because the user has already received their micro-certification on the module.

Update: You now have the option of triggering an email notification to the assigned users via a checkbox above the save button in the Publish Module popup. The assigned users will receive an in-platform notification whether or not the email option is checked.

My District PL Page

Image 3A above: Navigation to My District PL page

Image 3B above: My District PL page

Users access their assigned district-created modules on the My District PL page. Most users will not have access to this page in the navigation, shown in Image 3A above, until they are assigned a module. They can then complete the module, just like the Modern Teacher PL modules.

One exception is for PL Managers ; even if they are not assigned a module, they will receive access to the page when a module is assigned to the School, Cohort, or District they manage. They can then use the to access the appropriate users work and provide feedback. PL Managers can also access a table, shown in Image 3C and 3D below, with information on which users have been assigned which district-created modules. District-level PL Managers will see this information for all assigned district-created modules, which School and Cohort Managers will see only the modules assigned to their school or cohort.

Image 3C above: Click to reveal table with module assignments, to the left of the Coaching View user select

Image 3D above: Module assignments, visible to PL Managers

Thisarticle provides information on the New Feed found within the SI Page.

Note: Only users with access to the DCF can view and be assigned to work on Success Indicators. Users without access to the DCF do not see DCF-related posts in the News Feed on the Dashboard.

Video:

Thisclip from the Success Indicators Overview shows the SI News Feedfrom 2:00-2:20 before moving on to demonstrate SI Discussions.

Update: You now have the option of adding a news feed post. See below for details.

Visual:

News Feed & Sharing

Written Explanation:

Toward the bottom of each SI Page, you'll see a News Feed, similar to the News Feed on the Dashboard. This News Feed is automatically filtered to only include posts related to the SI you're currently viewing.

You can "like" and comment on each of these posts, and view the likes and the first three comments just below the post. Click the comment icon to view all comments or add your own. In the comment popup, you can subscribe to receive notifications when the item is liked or commented on. Additionally, you can filter this News Feed to show posts from All Districts or only My District, and All Posts or posts that include Files Only.

You can also now use the "Add Post" button to write a brief post to appear in the News Feed for that SI, and you can choose to share these posts with all districts or keep it private to your district. Note, these manually added posts appear only in the News Feed within the SI; they do not appear on the Dashboard News Feed. For more detail and visuals on this functionality, see the detailed article on the .

Note, if no content has yet been shared for the SI, the News Feed section will be hidden until an post related to the selected SI is shared.

This article details how to create your district's custom PL Goals using Success Indicator 31, including the following information:

Related SIs in the PL Driver

Creating 4 PL Goals

Aligning Modules to each Goal

Publishing the District PL Goals Page

Adding a Custom Image to the District PL Goals Page

Notifications on District PL Goals

Note: Only users with access to the DCF can view and be assigned to work on Success Indicators.

Video:

Update: A progress bar and status icon has been added to indicate the logged in user's progress on each goal.See Image 1C below.

Written Explanation with Visuals:

Related SIs in the PL Driver

permissions

Throughout the Digital Convergence Framework, you can view Related SIs to explore the relationship between varying Success Indicators. In the Professional Learning Driver, many of the related SIs progress through the Stages and reference the "district's PL Goals". These goals are set in SI 31 in Stage 2 and carry though the remaining Stages of the PL Driver, as shown above.

Creating 4 PL Goals

In SI 31, a special area is available below the Description and Resources with space to add in the district's custom Professional Learning Goals. The following permissions types have the ability to add and edit these goals: DCF Managers, the PL Driver Owner, and the SI 31 Owner. These users can click the pencil edit icon to open a popup where they can adda description of the district's goals. There is a 500 characterlimit, but if you'd like to add more details on your district's goals, you can upload a document with additional information to the Resources or Work Product sections of the SI. Note, these goals should be closely aligned with the district's work on the Instructional Model and should aim to support teachers as they implementthe district's Digital Convergence efforts.

Aligning Modules to Each Goal

Once your district has defined its four goals, your next step is to identify which Professional Learning Modules support each goal. The same users who can add and edit the goals have the permissions to align the goals modules: DCF Managers, the PL Driver Owner, and the SI 31 Owner. Both Modern Teacher modules and district-created modules can be aligned to each goal. For more on district-created modules, see our resources on the PL Builder.

Publishing the PL Goals Page

Image 1A Above: Publish Goals Page Option in SI 31

Image 1B Above: Navigation to Published District PL Goals Page

Image 1C Above: Published District PL Goals Page with Custom Image

After creating your district goals and aligning modules to support teachers in achieving each one, the final step is to publish your District PL Goals Page. This Publish option is shown in Image 1A above and becomes available only after at least one module has been aligned to one of your district goals. (If the page has already been published, an option to Re-Publish will become available whenever changes are made to the goals in SI 31.) Publishing will add a new option in the dropdown navigation below Professional Learning for users in your district, shown in Image 1B above. Clicking this option will take your district users to the new District PL Goals Page, Image 1C, which displays the text of each goal.

Clicking the goal expands an area below with access to the aligned modules for that goal. Users can complete these modules here, or in the Modern Teacher PL and/or District PL pages. Work on the same module between these locations will sync. PL Managers can also access the Coaching View from this page as well as the Modern Teacher PL and District PL pages. Note: District-created modules will only be visible on the District PL Goals Page to users who have been assigned those modules.

Your progress on each goal is indicated with a status icon and progress bar. The example in Image 2B above shows that the user has completed all modules for Goal 1. On Goal 2, they are Complete on the first module, In Progress on the second, and Not Started on the third, so their overall status on Goal 2 is In Progress. When using the Coaching View, the status icon and progress bar will update to that of the selected user instead of showing your individual progress on each goal.

Notifications onDistrict PL Goals

The following users will receive in-platform notifications when changes are made to the goals in SI 31: DCF Managers, the PL Driver Owner, the SI 31 Owner, SI 31 Task Owner, and SI 31 Participants. For more information on these types of users, see the article on DCF Permissions. They will receive notifications for the following actions:

The text of one of the goals was edited.

A module was added to or removed from one of the goals.

The goals were published or re-published to the District PL Goals page.

All district users will also receive in-platform notifications when the District PL Goals page is first published. Following the initial publication, if a user publishes an update, they have the option to send an email notification with the checkbox shown below. Users will receive an in-platform notification about the update whether or not the email option is checked.

Adding a Custom Image to the District PL Goals Page

When the District PL Goals page has been published, some users will have the option to add an image of the district's Instructional Model at the top of this page, as shown above. Users with the to do this include the following: DCF Managers, PL Managers, the PL Driver Owner, and the SI 31 Owner. The addition of this visual is meant to reinforce the alignment between the Instructional Model and the 4 PL Goals. Once the image has been added, district users will see it at the top of the page as shown in Image 1C in the above section. Prior to this image being added, regular district users will see only the expandable 4 Goals at the top of the District PL Goals page.

This article will cover the following permissions-related items in the PL Builder :

District-Level PL Managers &the PL Builder

Invited Collaborators & the PL Builder

Video Clips:

The clip below from the PL Builder Overview demonstrates Inviting Collaboratorsfrom 5:50-6:24 before moving on to demonstrate additional tools for Building PL Modules.

Written Explanation with Visuals:

District-Level PL Managers

Subscribe to PL Builder Notifications

Image above: PL Manager's view of PL Builder. Able to edit only first module.

As explained in the article on Professional Learning Permissions, some users are assigned as PL Managers for the district. These users can manage the district's PL users, create and manage Schools and Cohorts, use the Coaching View with all district PL users, etc. These users also have full access to the PL Builder. There, they can see all district-created modules and create new ones. Note, School and Cohort managers do not have this access.

Note, while the PL Managers can see the modules created by other users, they cannotedit the modules unless it is a module they themselves created, or a module they have been invited to collaborate on.

If the PL Builder becomes cluttered with too many modules, PL Managers and Invited Collaborators can use the Hide Modules option as explained in Building PL Modules.

Invited Collaborators

Image above: Invite Collaborators popup open

Image above: Invited Collaborator's view of PL Builder

Once a module has been created, the PL Manager can use the Invite Collaborators tool, shown in Image above, to invite more users to work on building the module. Any user in the district can be invited as a Collaborator, and they will receive access to the PL Builder in their navigation.

Update: The user inviting the collaborator now has the option of triggering an email notification to the invited user via a checkbox above the save button. The invited user will receive an in-platform notification whether or not the email option is checked.

Unlike PL Managers, Invited Collaborators will only see the module(s) they were invited to collaborate on in the PL Builder, and they will have no option to Create new modules, as shown in Image B above. They can, however, invite additional Collaborators to work on the module, and they can use all the tools available for Building PL Modules and Creating Tile/Page Content. They can also Assign & Publish the module.

If you are collaborating with other users on the creation of a module, you may wish to on that moduleto receive alerts when changes are made.

In order to complete a Success Indicator, it can be helpful to break it down into smaller Tasks. This article will provide an overview of the Task functionality included within the SI Page :

Viewing Task Tiles

Adding a Task

Viewing theTask Page

Editing the Task Title and Description

Deleting a Task

Editing the Task Status

Assigning the Task Owner

Adding Attachments

Adding Comments

Note on Permissions : DCF Managers and all members of the SI Team (the Driver Owner, SI Owner, Task Owner(s), and SI Participants) can view, add, and edit the SI's Tasks. Basic users with access to the DCF cannot see the Tasks section within the SI Page. Basic users without access to the DCF (with PL access only) cannot access the DCF, SIs, or Tasks. Appropriate usersreceive notifications whenever another user adds to or edits a Task.

Video Clip:

Thisclip from the Success Indicators Overview demonstrates how to work with SI Tasksfrom 3:26 to the end of the video.

Written Explanation with Visuals:

Viewing Task Tiles

notifications

The Tasks section on the SI Page is hidden from Basic Users, but the DCF Managers and all members of the SI Team can view this section, shown above. Each Task for the SI is represented by a tile with a preview of the Task's Title and Description, the Task's current Status and Owner, and icons indicating how many comments the Task contains, and if the Task contains any attachments. Clicking on aTask's tile will take you to the more detailed Tasks Page.

Adding a Task

To add a new Task, click the + button in the Tasks section of the SI Page. In the Add Task popup, you'll be able to add a Title and Description for the Task. As noted in the popup, additional details including a Task Owner, status, attachments, and comments can be addedon the more detailed Tasks Page shown below.Appropriateusers will receive notifications whenever new Tasks are added to an SI.

Viewing the Tasks Page

Clicking on any Task's tile on the SI page takes you to the more detailed Task Page, shown above. This page includes breadcrumb navigation at the top to help you easily return to the SI Page, and the Task's Title and Description. Users can add edit the Task and add attachments and comments on this page as explained below.

Editing the Task Title and Description

Users can click the pencil icon to the right of the Task's Title to open an Edit popup, in which you can edit the Task's Title and Description, shown above.Appropriateusers will receive notifications if this change is made.

Deleting a Task

Users can click the trash/deleteicon to the right of the Task's Title and edit icon to Delete the task. Deleting the task will delete all comments and attachments, and the action cannot be undone. You will be asked to confirm before deleting, as shown above. Appropriateusers will receive notifications if this change is made.

Editing the Task Status

Just like when managing the SI Page, users can click the Status icon in the Task's Manage Bar to edit the Task's Status from Not Started to In Progress or Complete. Unlike Success Indicators, Tasks do not need approval before being marked as Complete, but appropriate users will receive notifications if this change is made.

Assigning the Task Owner

Just like when managing the SI Page, users can click the "Owned By" section of theTask's Manage Bar to edit the TaskOwner. To assign or change the Owner, the user will need to begin searching for a user in the text field, select the desired user from the search results, and click Save.

Update: You can now also remove a currently assigned owner without adding a replacement by clicking the "Remove Owner" button.You can choose whether or not to send an email notification to the assigned/unassigned user.Additional users may receive in-platform notifications if this change is made.

Adding Attachments

All users with access to the Tasks Page can add attachments by clicking the + button in the Attachments section at the top of the page. Attachments can be in the form of files of links, and the uploader can edit or delete any attachments added in April 2017 or later. Appropriateusers will receive notifications if attachments are added to the Task.

Adding Comments

All users with access to the Tasks Page can add commentsby typing into the field at the bottom of the page and clicking "Add Comment". Appropriateusers will receive whencommentsare added to the Task.

This article covers how to manage the following items for Success Indicators, all of which appear in the top "Manage Bar" of the SI Page. Permissions detailing who can complete each action are included in the Written Explanation section below. For information on Tasks within an SI, see the article on Managing Tasks :

Status

SI Owner

Due Date

Work Product

SI Team

Update: You can now navigate between SIs by hovering over the Stage or Driver above the SI Title.

Note: Only users with access to the DCF can view and be assigned to work on Success Indicators.

Video Clip:

Thisclip from the Success Indicators Overview shows the Manage Bar from 0:15-1:20 before moving on to demonstrate Success Indicator Resources.

Animation:

assign a Driver Owner

Written Explanation with Visuals:

Status

By default, SIs all start with the status of Not Started. As work is completed on the SI, the status can be updated to In Progress, and when the SI Owner decides, he or she can mark itas Ready for Review. Then, the Driver Owner or DCF Manager will receive a notification to review the SI, and they can mark it as Complete.

To change the status, the user must click on the current status icon in the Manage Bar to open an editable area, select the new status, and click Save. The user will have the option to share this new Statusin the News Feed. Note that the status of SIs in the district's current Goals Cycle arereflected in the Goal Cycle stats on users' Dashboards.

Permissions:Only the Driver Owner and DCF Managers can change the SI to any status, including marking the SI as Complete. The SI Owner can change the status to/from Not Started, In Progress, and Ready for Review. Task Owners, SI Participants, and Basic Users cannot edit this part of the Manage Bar, but they can see the current Status.

SI Owner

By default, SIs do not have an assigned Owner. When it is decided who should be in charge of the SI, the Driver Owner or DCF Managers can assign the SI Owner.

To assign or change the Owner, the user must click on the "Owned By" area of the Manage Bar, begin to search for a user, select the desired user from the dropdown of relevant results, and click Save.The user will have the option to share this new SI Ownerin the News Feed.

Update: Once an Owner is assigned, this portion of the manage bar will turn green. Also, you can now also remove a currently assigned owner without adding a replacement by clicking the "Remove Owner" button, and you can choose whether or not to send an email notification to the assigned/unassigned user.

Permissions:Only the Driver Owner and DCF Managers canassign or change the SI Owner. SI Owners, once assigned, Task Owners, SI Participants, and Basic Users cannot edit this part of the Manage Bar, but they can see the name and profile picture of the currently assigned SI Owner.

Due Date

By default, SIs do not have an assigned due date. If a due date is desired, the SI Owner, Driver Owner, or DCF Managers can assign it.

To assign a Due Date, the user must click on the "due by" item in the Manage Bar, select a date on the calendar, and clickSave. When the Due Date is approaching, SI Team members will receive a notification.

Update: When an Due Date is in the future or the SI is Complete, this area of the SI manage bar will turn green. If the due date is in the past, it will turn red, and when it is within a week away, it will turn yellow.

Permissions: The SI Owner, Driver Owner, and DCF Managers can add or edit the Due Date.Task Owners, SI Participants, and Basic Users cannot edit this part of the Manage Bar, but they can see the current due date.

Work Product

By default, SIs do not have an uploaded Work Product, and SIs do not require a Work Product in order to be marked as Complete. On the SIs in which a Work Product is produced, the SI Owner, Driver Owner, or DCF Manager can upload it to the SI, and it will be visible to all users in the district.

To upload a Work Product, the user must click the Work Product section of the Manage Bar, add a Work Product File or Link with an optional Description, choose to share with "All Districts" or "My District", and click Save. The Work Product will appear on in the SI manage barfor all DCF users in the district, and will appear in the News Feed, SI Resource section of the SI, and Resource Library for users with whom it is shared.

Permissions: The SI Owner, Driver Owner, and DCF Managers can add the Work Product. Once a Work Product has been added, only the user who uploaded it can edit it. However, the SI Owner, Driver Owner, and any DCF Manager can Delete it so that a new one can be added. Task Owners, SI Participants, and Basic Users cannot usethis part of the Manage Bar, but all users can click to preview and download the currently uploaded Work Product.

SI Team

By default, the SI Team section of the Manage Bar is empty. When the Driver Owner or SI Owner is assigned, they will appear in the SI Team, and they can add Task Owners and SI Participants to the Team as well.

To view the SI Team, any user can click the SI Team section of the Manage Bar, and click Close to return to the regular view of the SI. To add SI Team members, see the list below:

To add an SI Participant, current members of the SI Team can click the Add Participant button, select a user or users from the popup shown below, and click Save.You can choose whether or not to send an email notification to the assigned/unassigned user.

To assigna Task Owner, current members of the SI Team can use the Tasks Manage Bar.You can choose whether or not to send an email notification to the assigned/unassigned user.

To assigna SI Owner, appropriate users can use the SI Manage bar as explained above.

To, the DCF Manager can use the popup available on the Digital Convergence Framework.

Update: When the first user is added to the SI Team, this area of the SI manage bar will turn green. Also, DCF Managers and Driver Owners can now copy the SI Team from one SI to another.

Permissions:All district users can view the SI Team. All current members of the SI Team (the Task Owner(s), SI Participant(s), SI Owner, Driver Owner, and DCF Manager(s)) can add SI Participants to the Team and Task Owners to the Team. Driver Owners and DCF Managers can also add/edit the SI Owner, and DCF Managers can add/edit the Driver Owner.

Above: Popup to Assign SI Participants

Like most social technologies, Modern Teacher's platform includes a News Feed with the ability to share, like, and comment. This article documents each of these features:

Share a Post

Like a Post

Comment on a Post

Filter Posts

Add a Post

Video Clip:

The clip below from the Dashboard Overview demonstrates the News Feed and Sharing from 2:47-3:27before continuing to demonstrate the Dashboard Discussions section.

Update: You now have the option of adding a news feed post. See below for details.

Visual:

The image below identifies the News Feed area of the Dashboard, with a "like" and comment visible on the first post.

DCF

Written Explanation with Visuals:

Sharea Post

All content in the News Feed is generated by users choosing to share when they performcertain actions, like finishing a Goal Cycle or completing a Success Indicator. These types ofactivities trigger a Sharing Popup (shown above) prompting the userto share. You always have the option not to share, andyou usually have the option to share with alldistricts or only with your district. Once you share, your post will appear in the News Feed as it is previewed in the Sharing Popup.

The following actions in the platform will provide the option of sharing in the News Feed:

Receiving a Professional Learning Micro-Certification (automatically shared unless you opt out on your Edit Profile page)

Assigning an Owner of a Driver or Success Indicator

Marking the Status of a Success Indicator as Complete

Uploading a Work Product or Resource to a Success Indicator or PL Page

Starting, Updating, or Finishing a Goal Cycle

Updating the district's Logo, Tagline, or News Post

Like a Post

Users can "Like" any post in the News Feed by clicking the small thumbs up icon below the post. All users who have liked the post are listed just below it. If more than 3 users have liked the post, you can click the "1 other" or "2 others" etc. option to expand the full list of users. You can remove your "Like" by clicking on the icon again.

Comment on a Post

Users can read and add to the comments on any post in the News Feed. Read the first 1-3 comments just below the post, and read additional comments by clicking the small commenticon below the post, or by clicking the "View Comments" option below the 3rd comment when available. A popup will appear, displaying any previous comments and providing a space to add your comment below. After adding a comment, you'll have the option to edit or delete it, as shown with the small pencil and trash icons on the first comment in the image above.

Update: You can now also direct-reply to another user by clicking a small reply icon in the upper-right of their comment. Replying directly to another user's comment will send them a notification email. You can now also subscribe to receive notifications (both in-platform and via email) when the post is liked or commented on in this comments popup.

Filter Posts

To narrow your results, you can filter the News Posts to showcontent about the DCF and/or PL (if you have access to the DCF), posts from all districts or only your district, and all types of posts or only posts that include a file or attachment.

Add a Post

In addition to items shared in the News Feed due to actions completed, like receiving a Micro-Certification or completing a Goal Cycle, you can now manually add a brief (100 word maximum) post. Click the "Add Post" button at the bottom of the News Feed, and select if you'd like to share the post with all districts or keep it private to your district. If you have access to the, you also have the option of making your post visible only to other users with DCF access. Lastly, you can select whether or not you'd like to receive notifications (both in-platform and via email) when the post is liked or commented on. Once the post is added, it can be liked and commented on as explained above.

This article provides details on the actions that can be performed onthe district's Userspage by the district's Users Manager as well as PL, School, and Cohort Managers.

Search forUsers

Add New Users

Edit Existing Users

Deactive Users

Import Users (available to Users Managers Only)

Export Users

Assign UsersManagers(available to Users Managers Only)

Note on Permissions: School and Cohort Managers can only see and edit the users who are assigned as members to the school or cohort they manage. School Managers can edit a user's school assignment(s), Cohort Managers can edit a user's cohort assignment(s), and PL and Users Managers can edit both of these items. Only Users Managers can assign a user District Management Permissions,grant or revoke user access to the DCF, and deactivate or reactivate users.

Video Clip:

This clip from the District Management Permissions video demonstrates how UsersManagers can manage the district's users. The clip runs from 2:30-3:10, at which time it begins to demonstrate how to manage the Schools and Cohorts.

Update: Users Managers now also havethe ability to Deactivate users. See below for details.

Visual:

School or Cohort

Written Explanation:

Search forUsers

All users with access to this pagecan search for the name any user in the district.

Add New Users

All users with access to this page can click the Add User button at the top of the page to open a popup. Here, you can enter aname, email, password, any relevant School or Cohort assignment,and click Save to create the new user. An additional field for SAML ID isavailable for districts that have set up a Single Sign On (SSO) integration with Modern Teacher. Only Users Managers can assign District Management Permissions or grant/revoke access to the DCF. Users with access to the DCF by default are set to not count in the district's PL Stats, but they can be manually edited to be included. Only Users Managers and PL Managers edit whether or not a user should count inthe district's PL Stats (see below for more detail). Note, if the email is already in use, you will receive an error. Also note thatyou have the option to send a Welcome email when creating new users.

Edit Existing Users

Users with access to this pagecan click the pencil edit button to the right of any user's name to edit their information, with fields just like the Add User popup. Just like when adding users, only Users Managers can assign District Management Permissions or grant/revoke access to the DCF. Users can also update their own name, email, password, and School/Cohort enrollment on their Edit Profile page. Note that the Users Manager cannot see the user's current password, but can create a new one.

By default, all users without access to the Digital Convergence Framework are considered teachers and are marked to "Count in PL Stats". Users with DCF access by default are marked as not counting in these stats. Users Managers and PL Managers can edit this setting. If a user is marked as mot counting, the userwill not count in the Comparison Stats towards the total number of users in the District or in any School or Cohort in which they have been assigned as a member, and they will not appear in the Individual User Results. A note in the Comparison Stats section of these users' Dashboards will inform them "Your stats are currently being excluded." They can continue to complete the PL as usual, and their personal pie chart in the Comparison Stats will update accurately, but they will not count towards the district total.

Update: Above the save button, you can select whether or not to send an email notification to the edited user to inform him/her of the edits. The user will receive an in-platform notification either way.

DeactivateExisting Users

Only the district's Users Managers can deactivate users, by clicking the trash icon to the right of the pencil edit icon, shown above. Deactivated users will no longer be able to access the platform, and they will be removed from the PL Stats and from the options to assign or select users throughout the platform, including the option to select the user in the Coaching View. However, none of their work (resources shared, discussions commented on, tasks created) will be lost. All of their resources, permissions assignments, and comments will appear to other users as they did before, but clicking the user's name will now prompt a message that the user is no longer active in the platform.

To reactivate a user, the Users Manager can click the Deactivated Users button, shown above, to be taken to a page listing all deactivated users for the district. Clicking the button to the right of the user's name will reactivate them, granting them access to the platform again. All of the user's previous assignments, statuses, comments, etc. will appear exactly as he/she left them.

Note, users do not receive notifications when they are deactivated or reactivated, so the Users Manager may wish to notify them of these changes.

Import Users

If the Users Manager needs to add a large number of users all at once, they can use the Import feature. By clicking the Import button at the top of the page, you will be taken to a separate Import page where you can download the Import Template. Complete the template, listing the users' names, emails, passwords, and permissions, and upload the completed template. If your template contains any duplicate email addresses or missing required information, you will receive an error. If not, your users will be successfully added to the system.Note thatyou can choose whether or not you'd like these users to receive a Welcome email before importing them. Also note that users (new and existing) can also be imported directly into a .

Export Users

All users with access to the District Management Users page can export the existing users. This export will provide a spreadsheet of the existing users' names, email addresses, permissions, and school/cohort membership/management. Note, School and Cohort managers' exports will only include other users in the school/cohort they manage.

Assign UsersManagers

UsersManagers can be assigned at district setup, and they can be added at any time. Existing UsersMangers have access to the Assign Managers button shown above, which opens a popup to allow them to select more UsersManagers. Users Managers can also assign the UsersManagerin the Add/Edit User popup available on this page.

Update: The user assigning the Users Manager can choose whether or not to send an email notification to the assigned/unassigned user(s). The user(s) will receive an in-platform notification either way.

This article provides details on the actions that can be performed onthe district's Schools and Cohortspages by the district's Users Manager and PL Managers. Because the functionality of these two pages are the same, this article will use screenshots and examples only from the Schools page.

Add or Import Schools or Cohorts

Search for a School or Cohort

Edit ExistingSchool or Cohort Names

Assign Managers and Members to a School or Cohort

Import Users to a School or Cohort

Send a Welcome Email to the Users of a School or Cohort

Delete a School or Cohort

Video Clip:

This clip from the District Management Permissions video demonstrates how UsersManagers and PL Managers can manage the district's users. The clip runs from 3:10-4:00, at which time it begins to demonstrate how to manage the DCF.

Update: An additional feature not shown in the video has been added to delete schools or cohorts. See below for details.

Visual:

self-enroll

Written Explanation:

Add or Import Schools or Cohorts

There are two options to create Schools or Cohorts, available only to the Users Managers and district-level PL Managers. They can be added one-by-one with the Add button, or a list can be imported with the Import button. The Import button will take you to a page where you can download the import template and upload its completed form. Note that you will receive an error when attempting to add a School or Cohort with a name that is already in use in your district.

Search for a School or Cohort

All users with access to this page can search for existing Schools or Cohorts in the field shown above. Note that School and Cohort Managers will only see results of the Schools/Cohorts they manage. If they search for a School/Cohort in the district that they do not manage, the search will return no results.

Edit an Existing School or Cohort Name

It's easy to edit the name of an existing School or Cohort. Just click the pencil edit button inthe Name column, shown above, to open an Edit Name popup. Note that if you try to edit the name to a name that is already in use in your district, you will receive an error.

Assign Managers or Members to a School or Cohort

For each School or Cohort, you can manually assign and unassign Managers and Members with the pencil edit iconsin the last two columns on the page. Clicking the pencil edit icon in the Managers column, for instance, will open the Assign Managers popup with the name of the selected school or cohort, shown above. In this popup, you can browse or search for users, and users who are already assigned will appear as already checked. Use the School or Cohort filters tonarrow the search results - these filters will display the users who are already assigned as Members of the selected filters.

The user assigning the School/Cohort Managers/Members can choose whether or not to send an email notification to the assigned/unassigned user(s). The user(s) will receive an in-platform notification either way.

Import Users to a School or Cohort

In addition to manually adding Managers and Members in the popup as shown in the previous section, you can also import users to a School or Cohort. Click the import icon next to the name to be taken to the import page, where you can download and complete the template. You can import both new and existing users to a School or Cohort on this page, and you can send these users a Welcome Email by checking the box next to the Import button before importing. When importing existing users, only the users' emails and assignment as Manager or Member are required. These users' existing names and passwords will be retained. When importing new users, however, the names and passwords fields are required.

Note, users can also in the districts' School or Cohort on their Edit Profile page. When users enroll, the PL Managers will receive a notification.

Send a Welcome Email toUsers ofa School or Cohort

If you'd prefer not to send the Welcome Email to your School or Cohort users upon Import, you can always send it later with the option shown above. This email will inform the users that they have been added to the selected School or Cohort, and will remind them whereto log in.

Delete a School or Cohort

You can now delete a school or cohort by clicking the trash icon to the right of its name.Members and Managers of theschool/cohortwill not be deleted, but will be unassigned from the group. The ability to select the school/cohort in the Comparison Stats on the Dashboard, start a Discussion with the group, filter users by the group, etc. will be removed. This action cannot be undone.

Update: The user deleting the School or Cohort can choose whether or not to send an email notification to the members and managers of the group. The user(s) will receive an in-platform notification either way.

This article provides details on the actions that can be performed onthe district's Newspage by the district's News Manager.

Add News

Edit News

Add a Drafts

View Archived News

AssignNewsManagers

Video:

This clip from the District Management Permissions video demonstrates how NewsManagers can manage the district's News Post. The clip runs from 2:03-2:30, at which time it begins to demonstrate how to manage the district Users.

Visuals:

Above: District Management News Page

Above: District News Post on Dashboard

Written Explanation with Visuals:

Add News

News managers can add News Posts to display on the district's Dashboard. To add a new News post, navigate to the News page and click the Add News button, which opens the popup shown above. There, youcan add the content of the News Post, as well as an optional URL to hyperlink the News Post on the Dashboard to an online resource. Note that News Posts have a 140 character limit to ensure they fit on the Dashboard. To make the News Post visible on the Dashboard immediately, selectPublish. To save the post for later, select Save as Draft.

Edit News

News Managers can edit the currently published News Post, or any Draft they have saved. Clicking the Edit button opens the same popup as shown above, from which you can Cancel or Save your edits.

Work withDrafts

When adding a News Post, News Managers have the option to Publish or Save as Draft. Saved Drafts appear in the Drafts section of the News page, as shown above. News Managers can delete, edit, or publish any post in this Drafts section.

View Archived News

At the bottom of the page, News Managers can see any Archived News - any posts that have previously been published on the district's Dashboard. Archived News posts include the date theywere published for reference.

AssignNewsManagers

NewsManagers can be assigned at district setup, and they can be added at any time. Existing NewsMangers have access to the Assign Managers button shown above, which opens a popup to allow them to select more NewsManagers. Users Managers can also assign the NewsManager permission to any user on the district's User Management Page.

Update: The user assigning the News Manager can choose whether or not to send an email notification to the assigned/unassigned user(s). The user(s) will receive an in-platform notification either way.

This article provides details on the items that can be edited on the district's Brand page by the district's Brand Manager.

Logo

Banner Image

District Name

Tagline

Assigning Brand Managers

Additional Information for the National Network

Update: You can now drag and drop images to add your logo and banner, and you can remove these images without adding replacements.

Video Clip:

This clip from the District Management Permissions video demonstrates how Brand Managers can manage the district's Brand. The clip runs from 1:37-2:02, at which time it begins to demonstrate the district News. Note, additional new features not shown in the video are detailed below.

Visual:

National Network

Written Explanation with Visuals:

Logo

The district's logo appears on the district's Dashboard, shown above.This logo can be added and updated on the Brand page. We recommend using a square logo with transparent background for best results. Accepted file types include JPEGs, PNGs, and GIFs.

Banner Image

The district's Dashboard includes a default banner image as a background, shown above. This banner image can be customized on the Brand page. We recommend using a wide image - note that the image will not be fully visible on smaller screen sizes.Accepted file types include JPEGs, PNGs, and GIFs.

District Name

The district's name appears on the Dashboard as shown above, and in a range of places throughout the platform including the News Feed and the National Network section of the SI Pages. If you'd like to edit the district's name, you can do so on the Brand page.

Tagline

The district's tagline appears just below thename on the Dashboard. If your district has a tagline or special branded name for Digital Convergence, it can be added on the Brand page. Note, the tagline hasa ten word limit.

Assigning Brand Managers

Brand Managers can be assigned at district setup, and they can be added at any time. Existing Brand Mangers have access to the Assign Managers button shown above, which opens a popup to allow them to select more Brand Managers. Users Managers can also assign the Brand Manager permission to any user on the district's User Management Page.

Update: The user assigning the Brand Manager can choose whether or not to send an email notification to the assigned/unassigned user(s). The user(s) will receive an in-platform notification either way.

Additional Information for the National Network

Additional items are now available on the Brand page. Brand managers can now add the following: Superintendent (must be a user in the district), point of contact (can be a user in the district or an alternate email address), date joined the Modern Teacher National Network, number of elementary and secondary schools, approximate number of teachers and students, and percentage of students on free or reduced lunch. This information will appear in the component of the platform.

This video will demonstrate the Professional Learning Coaching View, which allows users to receive feedback and progress through the Fluency components of each Module. For details on who can access this Coaching View, see the resources on PL Permissions.

Note, in addition to viewing and responding to users' comments on Reflection and Discussion tiles, the Coaching View now allows you to see information on the users' e-learning interaction tiles, including the time spent on each one and the number of times it has been viewed. See the article on these e-learning interactions for more details.

The Coaching View also now allows you to see users' responses, scores, and attempt histories on Pre-Assessments and Literacy Checks.

Coming Soon

This article will cover the following information on the Pre-Assessments & Literacy Checks found in Modern Teacher PL modules:

The Difference between Pre-Assessments & Literacy Checks

Completing Pre-Assessments & Literacy Checks

Pre-Assessment Results

Literacy Check Results

Transition from 2018 Quiz Versions

Note that PL Managers can view users' results, including their status, score, answer selections, and attempt histories, in the Coaching View.

Note: If your district is using the PL Builder to create its own modules, you may wish to explore the related article on how to create these types of tiles.

Video:

Written Explanation with Visuals:

The Difference between Pre-Assessments & Literacy Checks

Micro-Certification

Image above: MT Module with Pre-Assessment as second tile & Literacy Check as last tile

Most Modern Teacher PL Modules have a Pre-Assessment toward the beginning, and a Literacy Check at the end of the Literacy level. The two types of quizzes are explained below:

Pre-Assessments:A Pre-Assessment is meant to check for prior knowledge at the beginning of a module. It is meant to help users identify the information they already know or don't know about the content of the module. Users have one attempt to submit it. If the user scores 80% or above, they have demonstrated that they are already familiar with the content, and they automatically receive a Micro-Certification for the Literacy level of module. The other Literacy tiles are marked as Attained and are optional to complete. If they score below 80%, they can proceed with the rest of the module to receive their Micro-Certification.

Literacy Checks:A Literacy Check appears at the end of the Literacy level of the module and is meant to check for understanding. Users have multiple attempts to submit it. The user must score 80% or above in order for the page to be marked as Complete. A history of the user's scores on each attempt to pass the quiz isvisible below the status.

The top of these quiz pages appears the same as the top of a Reflection or Discussion page, with a Description and a Status in the upper-left corner. Unlike the Reflection and Discussion pages, however, the user cannot manually change the Status of the page. Instead, the Status is automatically set based on their quiz score.

Below the Description of the page and above the quiz questions, the quiz is identified as either a Pre-Assessment or a Literacy Check.

For more details on these two types of assessments, view the video above and/or explore the rest of this article.

Completing Pre-Assessments & Literacy Checks

To complete the Pre-Assessment or Literacy Check, select at least one correct answer for each question by checking the boxes to the right of the answer options, and click Submit at the bottom of the page. Note, if a question has more than one correct answer option, you must select all correct answers for the question to be marked as correct. If you leave the page before clicking Submit, your answers will be lost.

After clicking Submit, you'll see a message at the bottom of the page that briefly explains your results, and you can review your answers as shown below.

Image above: Submitting quiz and reviewing feedback

After submitting the quiz, you'll see the answer options you submitted indicated by a grey arrow, questions scored as Correct are markedwith a green check, and questions scored as Incorrect are marked with an orange X. Each question includes written feedback in orange or green as shown above, including a hyperlinked line indicating which part of the module the question is related to. Feedback appears by default on incorrect answers, and if can be expanded on correct answers by clicking the info icon to the left of the green check.

Your score and status appears in the upper-left corner of the page as well as on the tile, and depending on the quiz type, you may be able to Retake the quiz. Read on for more details on quiz Statuses and Retakes.

Pre-Assessment Results

If you score below 80% onthe Pre-Assessment, your status on the page will be marked asAttained. You do not have the option to Retake. You can review your results and feedback, and move on to the next tile of the module.

If you score 80% or above onthe Pre-Assessment, your status on the page will be marked as Complete. You do not have the option to Retake.Your micro-certification will be automatically marked as Complete, and your next required step for the module is to move on to the Fluency level.

Image above: Tiles marked as Attained after passing the Pre-Assessment, Micro-Certification Complete

As shown in the image above, all other Literacy tiles for the module are marked with theAttained status if the Pre-Assessment is passed, indicating that they are not required to be completed. However, you do still have the option of completing any Reflection or Discussion tiles; you can submit comments and attachments on these pages as usual, and you can manually mark them with the Status of Not Started of In Progress as you're working (which will mark the as In Progress instead of Complete), or mark them as Complete when you are done (which will keep the Micro-Certification as Complete).

Even if you passed the Pre-Assessment, you do still have the option of submitting the Literacy Check as well. Note, however, that if you score below 80%, both the tile and the module will be marked with the status of In Progress until the Literacy Check is passed.

Literacy Check Results

If you score below 80% on the Literacy Check, your status on the page will be marked as In Progress. Your attempt is recorded and visible by clicking the Status. You can review your results and feedback, review areas of the module related to the questions you missed, and try again. When you click Retake, your previously-submitted answers are cleared, and you can answer the questions again.

Note that on retakes, you will receive different versions of some questions, so it's unlikely to see the exact same Literacy Check twice. Just like the first time,if a question has more than one correct answer option, you must select all correct answers for the question to be marked as correct. If you leave the page before clicking Submit, your answers will be lost. If you score below 80% on a Retake, your attemptis again recorded, and you can try again.

Image above: Literacy Check Passed & marked Complete, with history of Attempts below Status

If you score 80% or above onthe Literacy Check, your status on the page will be marked as Complete, and your option to Retake will be removed. Just like on attempts with scores below 80%, your passing score will be recorded and visible in the Attempt History area as shown above.

When you pass the Literacy Check, more detailed feedback becomes available, so you can take a close look at the right and wrong answer options before moving on to Fluency.

Transition from 2018 Quiz Versions

Note, if you completed a Modern Teacher Pre-Assessment or Literacy Check prior to late November 2018, you will have seen a different version of the quizzes. Your score and status are based on your original submission(s), and an orange banner message, shown below, is visible to remind you of this update. Most of the questions remain the same as the 2018 versions, but you can view the latest questions below the orange banner. If you were In Progress on a quiz, you can click Retake at the bottom of the page to complete the new version.

Image above: Literacy Check Passed & marked Complete, with history of Attempts below Status

Driver Owners serve as the key point of contact over their Driver on the Digital Convergence Framework, and they have special permissions, including the ability to edit the district's Goal Cycle and edit all Success Indicators in their Driver. If you're a DCF Manager, you can assign Driver Owners as shown below.

Note: Only users with access to the DCF can be assigned as Driver Owners, and this feature is onlyavailable in the GridView of the DCF.

Video Clip:

Theclip below from the Digital Convergence Framework Overview demonstrates how to assign Driver Ownersfrom 1:35-1:57 before moving on topreview the more detailed SI Page.

Visual:

Written Explanation with Visuals:

Assigning a Driver Owner for the First Time

If a Driver Owner has yet to be assigned to a Driver on the Digital Convergence Framework, DCF Managers will see a small "assign" option below the Driver title. Clicking "assign" will open the popup shown above, and the DCF Manager can select a district user to assign as the Driver Owner. After being assigned, the Driver Owner's name and profile picture will appear just under the Driver title as shown below.

Update: The user assigning the Driver Owner can check the box in the popup to send an email notification. Whether or not the box is checked, the user will receive an in-platform notification.

Changingan existing Driver Owner

If a Driver Owner hasalready been assigned but needs to be changed, the DCF Manager can click the Driver Owner's name just below the Driver title to open the assigning popup to select a new user. Both users will receive a notification that they have been assigned or unassigned as Driver Owner, and the new Driver Owner's name and profile picture will appear below the Driver title.

Update: The user assigning the Driver Owner can check the box in the popup to send an email notification to both the assigned and unassigned users. Whether or not the box is checked, the users will receive in-platform notifications.

In addition to choosing to receive notifications on their Notification Preferences pages, users can also choose to send notifications when completing some actions. This article will explain how to choose whether or not to send notifications when completing the following actions:

Assigning Users

Editing Users

Assigning or Publishing a Module

Starting a Discussion

Deleting a School or Cohort

Publishing Updates to the PL Goals in SI 31

Assigning Users

PL Builder

Whenever you assign a user a new role or permission, you have the option to trigger an email notification. Users will receive an in-platform notification either way, but you can control whether or not to send the email. The same goes for unassigning a user.

The animation above shows the location of each of these actions:

Assign Driver Owner

Assign SI Owner

Assign Task Owner

Assign SI Participant

Assign Managers of the district's Brand, News, or Users

Invite Collaborator to a module in the PL Builder

Assign School/Cohort Managers/Members

If you are assigning users to a group that already exists, such as a school or a set of SI Participants, only the newly assigned users will receive the notification. If you are both assigning and unassigning users, both the assigned and unassigned users will receive the notification.

Editing Users

When making changes in the Edit User popup, shown above, you can select whether or not to email the user about the changes being made. Users will receive an in-platform notification either way, but you can control whether or not to send the email.

The Edit Use popup allows you to make changes to each of the following areas:

Name

Email

Password

Access to Digital Convergence Framework

Assignment to count in or be excluded from PL Stats

Management Permissions

School/Cohort Management/Membership

If you make multiple edit, multiple notifications will be sent.

Assigning or Publishing a Module

Image above: Assigning a Module in the PL Builder

Image above: Publishing a Module in the PL Builder

When publishing a module in the, or changing the assignment of a published module, you can choose whether or not to trigger an email to the assigned users.Users will receive an in-platform notification either way, but you can control whether or not to send the email.

Starting a Discussion

When starting a discussion, either on the Dashboard or in a SI, you can choose whether or not to trigger an email to the users with access to the discussion.Users will receive an in-platform notification either way, but you can control whether or not to send the email.

Deleting a School or Cohort

When deleting a school or cohort from the school/cohort district management page, you can choose whether or not to trigger an email to the managers and members of that group.Users will receive an in-platform notification either way, but you can control whether or not to send the email.

Publishing Updates to the District PL Goals in SI 31

When publishing changes to the district's PL Goals in SI 31, you can choose whether or not to trigger an email to all users in the district.Users will receive an in-platform notification either way, but you can control whether or not to send the email.

Recent updates to some internet browsers, including Chrome, have impacted how some users are experiencing the sound in some Professional Learning tiles. We're here to help get these issues resolved!

If you experience an issue with the sound, try the five steps below to ensure your experience with the Modern Teacher platform is as smooth as possible.

1. Hit "Pause" and then "Play"

All elearning tiles have a pause button at the far left of the timeline at the bottom of the screen. Simply hitting Pause and then hitting it again to Play may be enough to trigger to the browser that you would like to hear the sound. You could also rewind the timeline slightly and hit Play.

2. Change Internet Browsers

Browser settings can get complicated and can affect a range of your online functionality. Often times, making sure your browser software is up to date can be a solution, but if you don't have time for an update or to dig into browser settings, it can be simplest to switch browsers and see if that solves your tech issue. If you're working in Safarior IE, try Google Chrome or Firefox, or vice versa. If your issue is consistent across multiple browsers, you should continue with the steps below.

3. Change Chrome Autoplay Setting

If you're using the Chrome browser, visit chrome://flags/#autoplay-policy (copy and paste into your address bar) and change the setting from "Default" to "No user gesture is required." Note this change will apply to other sites you visit on your browser, so video ads may auto-play without you clicking on them.

4. Change Chrome Sound Setting

If you're using the Chrome browser, visit chrome://settings/content/sound?search=sound (copy and paste into your address bar) and add https://cloud.scorm.com to the "Allow" list.

5. Have IT Admin Change Chrome Setting

If you're on a shared WiFi network, your network administrator may be able to make changes to Chrome's setup for easier access to sound, as noted in this article.

If the above suggestions do not resolve your issue, you can always open a support ticket to communicate directly with the Modern Teacher team.

Thisarticle provides information on the Discussion sectionfound within the SI Page.

Note: Only users with access to the DCF can view and be assigned to work on Success Indicators.

Video Clip:

Thisclip from the Success Indicators Overview shows the SI Discussions sectionfrom 2:20-2:45 before moving on to demonstrate the National Network.

Visual:

notifications

Written Explanation:

Toward the bottom of each SI Page, you'll see aDiscussion area, similar to the Discussions section of your Dashboard. This area serves as an open discussion zone for users to ask questions and comment on the work being done on the SI across the district or across the nation.

You can "like" and comment on each of these discussions, and view the likes and the first three comments just below the post. Click the comment icon to view all comments or add your own.

All users can click to "Start Discussion", which will open the popup shown below. There, you willhave the option to ask the question to All Districts or only to My District.

The person starting the discussion can choose whether or not to send a notification email to DCF Managers and members of the SI Team (Driver Owner, SI Owner, Task Owners, and SI Participants in that SI). This option is checked by default, but can be unchecked to start the discussion with no notification. Users with access to the discussion will still receive an in-platform notification.

Once a discussion has been started, users can "like" and comment on it, just like in the News Feed.Users can subscribe to receive when new comments are added. Any user with access to the Discussion can manually subscribe to or unsubscribe from receiving notifications by manually checking the subscription box at the bottom of the Start Discussion popup, shown above, or the Comments popup, shown below.

You can edit or delete your own discussion comments using the pencil and trash icons at the upper right corner of your comments, and you can direct-reply to another user's comment by clicking the reply icon at the upper-right of their comment. See above image for icon placement. Replying directly to a user's comment will send them a notification email.

Note, if no there is no content in the News Feed and no Discussions have been asked yet for an SI, the "Ask Question" button will change, as shown below. Asking the first Discussion question will expand the Discussion area to otherusers viewing the SI Page.

The inventory tools in SIs 21 & 28 help district leadership identify the digital content (SI 21) & digital tools (SI 28) adopted by your district, the areas in which they are being used, and the areas in which the content/tools are missing or unknown. This article will demonstrate and describe the following components of the Inventory:

Table View

Indicate Amount of Content/Tools

Add New Content/Tools

Add Existing Content/Tools

List View

Add New Content/Tools

Edit Existing Content/Tools

Align to Grades & Subjects

Filter Content/Tools

Note on Permissions: Only users with DCF Access can see these Success Indicators and their inventories, and can export the inventories as a PDF or CSV. Only DCF Managers and members of the SI Team (Driver Owner, SI Owner, Task Owners, and SI Participants) can add to or edit the inventory. The SIs can be marked as Complete only after adding some information to the inventory.

Animations:

The animations below demonstrates how to add new and existing content to the SI 21 Inventory, as well as how to edit, align to grades/subjects, and filter that content. The additional images throughout this article are also from SI 21, but all functionality is the same in the SI 28 Inventory.

Table View Animation:

List View Animation:

Written Explanation with Visuals:

Table View

Indicate Amount of Content/Tools

In the table view of the inventory, you can easily see the areas that have "No Content," "Some Content," and "Enough Content" in your district. The cross-section of each grade and subject is clickable, and some users (see Note on Permissions above) can click any of these three options to indicate the amount of digital content available. The current status will appear selected in blue. Areas with some content are indicated with an orange icon on the table, and areas with enough content are indicated with a green check.

Note, the functionality in SI 28 is the same for tracking the amount of digital tools instead of digital content.

Add New Content/Tools

When clicked into a specific grade and subject in the table, some users(see Note on Permissions above) can click to Add New Content. Adding content here indicates that the content is available to teachers and students of the selected grade and subject area.

A title is required, and additional fields are available to add a link, a description or notes, to indicate if the content is free or paid for, and to indicate whether or not the district is able to access data on utilization of the content.

A feature has also been added to include Tags, shown below. You can select from a few default tags by clicking the dropdown arrow on the right of the tags line, orcreate your own custom district tags by typing into the field and clicking Enter. Tags can be removed by clicking the X icon to the right of their name. Once a tag is created, it can be seen and re-used by other district users in the SI. It is not shared outside of the district, and tags created in SI 21 are not automatically transfered to SI 28, or vice versa.

Once a piece of content has been added, the grade/subject area will automatically update from "No Content" to "Some Content" (unless it had previously been updated to "Some Content" or "Enough Content"). See the above on Indicate the Amount of Content/Tools for more information.

Note, the functionality in SI 28 is the same for adding new digital tools instead of digital content.

Add Existing Content/Tools

When clicked into a specific grade and subject in the table, some users(see Note on Permissions above) can click to Add Existing Content. Adding content here indicates that the content is available to teachers and students of the selected grade and subject area.

All pieces of content previously added in the Table or List Views of the Inventory are available, and the content can be searched or filtered by currently aligned grade and subject area to narrow the results.

Once a piece of content has been added, the grade/subject area will automatically update from "No Content" to "Some Content" (unless it had previously been updated to "Some Content" or "Enough Content"). See the above on Indicate the Amount of Content/Tools for more information.

Note, the functionality in SI 28 is the same for adding existing digital tools instead of digital content.

List View

Add New Content/Tools

Users can switch between the Table and List Views of the Inventory with the "View Table/List" button in the upper-right corner. When in the List View,some users(see Note on Permissions above) can click to Add Content. It is not necessary to include the grade and subject area of the digital content when adding it form the List View.

Like when adding new content from the Table View, a title is required, and additional fields are available to add a link, a description or notes, to indicate if the content is free or paid for, and to indicate whether or not the district is able to access data on utilization of the content. The ability to add tags is also now available, as explained in the Add New Content/Tools section in the Table view above.

All information is visible in the List View for each piece of content. The Paid/Free and Data Available/Unavailable are indicated with icons to the right of the content name. In the above image, for instance, STEM Interactive is free and no data is available, while Thorn Learning Companion Website is paid with data available.

Once a piece of content has been added, it can be edited, deleted, or aligned to a grade and subject area. See below for details.

Note, the functionality in SI 28 is the same for adding new digital tools instead of digital content.

Edit Existing Content/Tools

Clicking the pencil edit icon in the bottom-right corner of any piece of content opens the edit popup shown above. Here you can add to or edit the content title, link, tags, description, and pricing and data information. You can also delete a piece of content by clicking the trash/delete icon to the right of the edit icon. Deleting the content will remove it from both the Table and List views, and its alignment to content will be lost. To align the content to grades and subjects, see below.

Note, the functionality in SI 28 is the same for editing digital tools instead of digital content.

Align to Grades & Subjects

At the bottom-left of any piece of content,some users(see Note on Permissions above) can click to add aGrade & Subject. This opens a popup, shown above, where you can select the grades and subjects in which this content is available and supported. If the content supports the same subject(s) in multiple grades, you can include all grades and subjects on one line item in this popup. If the content supports different subjects in different grades, we recommend adding a separate line item for each grade or subject area.

Note, the functionality in SI 28 is the same for aligning grades/subjects to digital tools instead of digital content.

Filter Content/Tools

All content in the List View can be filtered by aligned grade, subject area and/or tag. Filters are available at the upper-right of the Inventory, shown above. Combining filters, for instance 3rd grade and Math, will show only results that match bothselected filters. Note, filter selections are retained when toggling between the Table and List Views.

Note, the functionality in SI 28 is the same for filtering digital tools instead of digital content.

Technology issues can happen for countless reasons. Did something freeze up? Are you unable to complete an action? Maybe your wifi connection was interrupted. Maybe your device needs to install an update. We're here to help get these issues resolved!

If you experience a technology issues, try the five steps below to ensure your experience with the Modern Teacher platform is as smooth as possible.

1. Refresh

Simply refreshing your screen can solve a range of issues, and since it takes just a matter of seconds, it's usually best to try this step first. If your internet connection is down, you'll likely receive an error message confirming this issue, and your next step should be to re-establish an internet connection.

2. Restart

Restarting your device can shut down lots of open programs that may be running in the background of your work, allowing your device to "focus" on the task at hand.

3. Change Internet Browsers

Browser settings can get complicated and can affect a range of your online functionality. Often times, making sure your browser software is up to date can be a solution, but if you don't have time for an update or to dig into browser settings, it can be simplest to switch browsers and see if that solves your tech issue. If you're working in Safarior IE, try Google Chrome or Firefox, or vice versa. If your issue is consistent across multiple browsers, you should continue with steps 4 and 5 below.

4. Try Another Device

This step may not always be an option, but it can be a workaround fortech issues that are isolated to your device. It's possible that your computer is in need of an update that is preventing it from functioning properly, and in this case, using another device may be your best bet.

5. Open a Support Ticket

If the above tips don't solve your problem and you're feeling stuck, we are here to help! Fill out the form at this link to get in touch directly with Modern Teacher's technical team. We can help you troubleshoot and resolve any issue you're experiencing in the Modern Teacher platform. We're also happy to answer any of your platform questions and take feature requests. We're looking forward to hearing from you!

The PL Builder Overview and Building PL Modules articles provide a range of resources to help you create your district's custom Professional Learning Content. However, those articles don't provide details on adding content to the pages, or tiles, of your module. You'll find that information here. This article will cover how to add and edit content on your PL pages, including the following:

Editing the Title

Adding a Description

Adding and Editing Resources

Changing the Requires Review Setting

Adding a custom Tile Image

Viewing Unpublished Changes

These content tools are the same on all tile types: Content Pages, Reflections, Discussions, and Quizzes. For more information on the differences between these types of tiles, see the "Adding Tiles" section of the Building PL Modules article.

Note: Only district-level PL Managers and invited Collaborators have access to the PL Builder. For more information, see the more detailed articles on PL Permissions and Inviting Collaborators.

Video Clips:

The clip below from the PL Builder Overview demonstrates adding page/tile contentfrom 1:47-3:05 before moving on to demonstrate how to Assign & Publish the module.

Written Explanation with Visuals:

Editing the Title

Building PL Modules

Image above: Click the pencil edit icon to edit the title

Image above:Title edit in progress. Click the check to save.

The title of the page, or tile, is createdwhen you add the tile to the module. However, you can edit the title by clicking into the tile and clicking the pencil edit button to the right of the existing title. This opens an editable area to change the existing title, as shown above. Click the X below to cancel, or the check to save your new title. Remember, if the module is assigned and published, assigned users won't see this update until the module is published again.

Addinga Description

The Description is arguably the most important part of the page. It gives the users direction as to how to respond in the Reflection or Discussion area. In addition to text, the Description has tools in the editor, shown above, that allow you to include hyperlinks and embedded images, videos, and other webpages. Click the Edit button to open the editor, and click Save when you're done adding or editing your description.Remember, if the module is assigned and published, assigned users won't see this update until the module is published again.

Above is a brief animation of how to embed an external website. Embedding a video is similar. Click the embed icon in the toolbar, paste the address of the website you'd like to embed, and allow the URL to process for several seconds.Embedding can be an excellent option for having teachers collaborate on Google Docs, etc. Note, though, that a user's work within the embedded site is not available in the Coaching View. Also note, many sites do not allow embedding. In this case, a preview of the site will be generated, with the option to click to open the site in a new browser window.

Addingand Editing Resources

Image above: Option to Add Resources

Image above: Option to Adda Resource File or a Resource Link

Like the resources sections of the Modern Teacher PL Pages and the Success Indicators, pages in the PL Builder allow you to add and edit both files and links, as shown above. Once a resource has been added, only the uploader will have the options to edit or delete it. Also, these resources can only be added, edited, or deleted from the PL Builder. If the uploader accesses the resources on the published version of the page, or in the Resource Library, they will be reminded to return to the PL Builder to make any changes. Note, these Resources will appear in the Resource Library only for users who are assigned the module, and they will not appear until the next time the module is published.

Changing the Requires Review Setting

Image A Above: Require ReviewSetting

Image B Above: Tile that does not Require Review. User able to mark as Complete.

Image C Above: Tile that does Require Review. User able to mark as Ready for Review.

By default, users can progress though the module at their own pace. When they finish responding to a Reflection or Discussion, they can mark the page as Complete, as shown in Image A above. However, sometimes you may want users to have to check-in with a teacher mentor or coach before a page is marked as Complete. In this case, you can changethe page's Requires Review setting to Yes, as shown in Image B. In this case, users will only have options to mark the page as In Progress or Ready for Review, without the option to mark it Complete, as shown in Image C. When the page is marked as Ready for Review, anyone who is assigned as that user's PL Manager will receive a notification. They can then use the Coaching View to review the user's work and give feedback, and only they can mark the page as Complete. In fact, tiles that do not Require Review are shaded grey in the Coaching View, while those that do Require Review are in full color. Remember, if the module is assigned and published, this update won't take affect for assigned usersuntil the module is published again. If users had previously marked the tile as Complete, it will remain Complete unless it is manually changed.

Addinga custom Tile Image

By default, each tile appears witha blue icon as a visual. Content pages have an eye icon, Reflection pages have a pen icon (or sometimes an upload icon, if the page requires a file upload), Discussion pages have a chat icon, and Quiz pages have a graduation cap icon. If you would prefer to customize the image that appears on the tile, you can do so with the Tile Image selection, shown above. If you add a custom image, you will have the option to replace it or to return to the default icon.Remember, if the module is assigned and published, assigned users won't see this update until the module is published again.

Viewing Unpublished Changes & Previewing Published Version

Whenever a change is made to a published tile, including changes to the title, description, resources, Requires Review setting, or Tile Image, the tile is marked with an orange "Unpublished Changes" border. This border is meant to serve as a reminder that the assigned users are seeing a different version of the tile than what you are seeing in the PL Builder. If you enter a tile with unpublished changes, the area of the tile that has been changed is marked with an orange asterisk to help you more easily identify where the changes took place. In the example above, for instance, we can see the tile has unpublished changes on the Title and Resources, but the Description, Requires Review Setting, and Tile Image are unchanged. Click the "View the published version here" text to compare the version in the PL Builder tohow the page currently appears to assigned users. If you would like to discard these unpublished changes, you can Revert to the currently published version as explained in thearticle.

Modern Teachers PL Builder allows districts to create their own Professional Learning Modules, similar to those available in Modern Teachers Professional Learning.

This article provides an overview of the PL Builder, including information on the following:

Adding Modules & Tiles

Creating Tile/Page Content

Working with Tiles: Copy, Rearrange, Delete, & Revert

Assigning & Publishing

The "My District PL Page

Video:

For a quick, under 2 minute introduction video to the PL Builder, see the PL Builder Intro. The video below provides more detail.

Navigation Note: PL Managers and Invited Collaborators will only have access to the PL Builder if the page is available in the district's PL Navigation settings.

Update: In addition to embedding images and videos in the PL pages, you now also have the ability to embed other webpages. For details, see the article on Creating Tile/Page Content.

Visual:

Modern Teacher PL

Written Explanation:

Adding Modules & Tiles

PL Managers for the district have access to the PL Builder and the Create Modules option. Once a module has been created with a title and description, pages of content can be added, shown as Tiles. The three types of tiles are Content Pages, Reflections, Discussions, and Quizzes. Once a tile is added with a title and type selection, content can be created on the page as explained below. An additional level of tiles can be added with the Add Fluency option, and if additional users are desired to help in the creation of the module, they can be granted access via the Invite Collaborators option. Note, Collaborators that are not PL Managers for the district will not have the option to create new modules in the PL Builder, and they will only see the modules on which they are invited to collaborate.

Note, Cross-District users can also create modules and copy them to the districts in their group. See the article on the Cross-District View for more information.

Creating Tile/Page Content

Clicking on any tile allows you to add and edit content on that page. There, you have the option to add a Description (including hyperlinks and embedded images, videos, or other webpages), Resources (files or links), and a custom image for the tile. You can also mark if the tile Requires Review. For more informationon these features, see the detailed article on Creating Tile/Page Content. At the bottom of Reflection or Discussion tiles, you can preview the area in which the users will respond to any prompt in the Description. On Quiz pages, youll instead have the option to create your quiz questions in this area.

Working with Tiles: Copy, Rearrange, Delete, & Revert

A range of tools are available to help you work with your tiles. Tiles can be copied, rearranged, and deleted, and deleted tiles can be restored until the module is published. Tiles with unpublished changes are marked with an orange border, and you can Revert the unpublished changes to return the tile to its currently published state.Additional tools are also available to Hide modules youdon'twant to see in the PL Builder, and to subscribe to notifications when changes are made to a module.For more information on these tools, see the detailed article on Building PL Modules.

Assigning & Publishing

When youre ready to make your module available to users, you can assign the module to the entire district, or to select schools and/or cohorts. The module will not become available to these users until it is Published for the first time. Once it has been published for the first time, the assignment can be changed without re-publishing, and changes can be published without re-assigning.For more information on these tools, see the detailed article on Assigning & Publishing Modules.

The "My District PL Page

Once a module has been assigned to a user, they will gain access to the My District PL option in their navigation below Professional Learning. (They may also have access to a District PL Goals page, and to the PL Builder.) On the My District PL page, users can access and complete any district-created modules that have been assigned to them. PL Managers can also use the Coaching View to provide feedback. The layout and features of the My District PL page are similar to the page.

This article will provide an overview of SI Resources, including the following:

Accessing and Previewing Resources

Adding Resource Files

Adding Resource Links

Filtering Resources (updated)

Editing Resources

Deleting Resources

Note: Only users with access to the DCF can view, upload Resources to, and be assigned to work on Success Indicators.

Note about Sharing:Adding an SI Resource to an SImakes that Resource visible inthe Resource Library and the SI Page for other users in the district. Choosing to share the Resource with All Districts makes the Resource available in the Resource Library and SI Page for users in other districts as well. There is no optionto uploadan SI Resource and keep it private only to the uploader.

Video:

Thisclip from the Success Indicators Overview shows how to work with SI Resourcesfrom 1:20-1:50 before moving on to demonstrate the SI News Feed and Discussions. Note, the ability to drag and drop your resource file is now available.

Written Explanation with Visuals:

Accessing and PreviewingResources

Resource Library

Many Success Indicators have Resources available from Modern Teacher and from other districts in the National Network to help get you started. To access these Resources, navigate to the SI Page and click any resource to the right of the Description.Note that resources provided by Modern Teacher are marked with a small MT logo in the bottom right-hand corner to easily distinguish them from resources shared by districts. If resources havenot yet been provided on anSI, the Resources Section willnot yet be visible.

Clicking on a resource will prompt a Preview popup, shown above, with details on the resource, including who uploaded it, who has access to it, and an optional description. From that popup, you can download or open the resource file or link.

Adding Resource Files

All users with access to the SIs are able to add SI Resources Files. The user can click the + button at the top of the Resource section, select "Resource File" from the popup shown above, andselect the desired file from their computer. A file can also be dragged and dropped to be added. The user can then add an optional description and choose if they'd like to share this file with all districts, or keep it private to their district.

If the user selects to Share with "My District," the file will bevisiblein the SI News Feed, Dashboard News Feed, SI Page, and ResourceLibrary for all DCF users in the district.

If the user selects to Share with "All Districts," the file will bevisiblein the SI News Feed, Dashboard News Feed, SI Page, and ResourceLibrary for all DCF users in all district.

Adding Resource Links

All users with access to the SIs are able to add SI Resources Links. The user can click the + button at the top of the Resource section, select Resource Linkfrom the popup shown above, enter their URL or Link in the space provided and an optional description, and click Save. The user can then choose if they'd like to share this link with all districts, or keep it private to their district.

If the user selects to Share with "My District," the file will bevisiblein the SI News Feed, Dashboard News Feed, SI Page, and ResourceLibrary for all DCF users in the district.

If the user selects to Share with "All Districts," the file will bevisiblein the SI News Feed, Dashboard News Feed, SI Page, and ResourceLibrary for all DCF users in all district.

Update: You can now add a Title to your Resource Link in addition to the URL and Description.

Filtering Resources

As shown above, you have the option to filter SI Resources to show All Resources (default), Resources shared by All Districts (which excludes Modern Teacher resources), only Resources shared by My District,Your Resources, or only Resources shared by Modern Teacher. You can now also combine these options with a second filter, which lets you narrow the results from All Types (default) to SI Resources or Work Products. Work Products are the single final deliverable for an SI. There can be only one Work Product, while there can be unlimited Resources.

For additional filters and search tools, see the . Note that when there are more than six Resources for an SI, the Resource section paginates as shown above, so the user can browse through multiple pages of Resources.

EditingResources

Once a Resource has been added to an SI, it can only be editedby the user who added it. When a user clicks on a resource they have added, the Preview popup will contain options to Download or Open, Edit, and Delete. When editing, you have the options to remove and replace the file or link, updatethe description, and change the sharing settings. Edits will appear toall users with access to the resource in the Resources section of the SI Page, the Resource Library, and the News Feed.

Deleting Resources

Once a Resource has been added to an SI, it can only be deleted by the user who added it. When a user clicks on a resource they have added, the Preview popup will contain options to Download or Open, Edit, and Delete, shown above in the Edit Resources section.Deleting a Resource removes it for all users from the Resources section of the SI Page, the Resource Library, and the News Feed.

The Resource Library houses all of the the Resource files and links shared throughout the Professional Learning and Digital Convergence Frameworks. You canbrowse, or use the Search option and the filters, to find exactly what you need. This article will cover the following items related to the Resource Library:

What's in the Resource Library

Search Tool

Filters

Note: Only users with access to the DCF can view the DCF-related resources in the Resource Library. All users can use the Resource Library to access the resourcesshared in the Professional Learning pages of the platform.

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Note: The video below demonstrates how SI Resources are shared in the Resource Library. See the remainder of the article for more information on how Professional Learning resources are now also available in the Resource Library.

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Digital Convergence Framework

Above shows the Resource Library as it appears to users with both PL and DCF access, with a filter to narrow the results to resources related to DCF or PL.

Above shows the Resource Library as it appears to users with PLaccess.

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What's in the Resource Library

PL Resources include all Modern Teacher Resources found inthe Reflection and Discussion pages throughout the Professional Learning modules, shown above.

PL Resources alsoinclude all Resources uploaded and shared by users in the in the Reflection and Discussion pages throughout the Professional Learning modules, shown above. The resources you upload will be available to you and to any users who are assigned as your PL Managers in the Resource Library. They will only be available to other users if you choose to share them.

DCFResources include all Modern Teacher Resources (marked with MT) and district-uploaded resources, found in the Resource section of the SI Pages as shown above.

DCFResources also include all Work Products that are uploaded to SIs in your district (example shown above), and all SI Work Products shared by other districts.

You will only have access to items from other districts if the user who uploaded the Resource or Work Product chose to share with All Districts. The option to share resources with All Districts or to keep them private only to Your District are shown above.

Search Tool

All items in the Resource Library are currently searchable by their name.Note that you can also see the uploader, district, and page the resource came from on each resource tile in the library.

Filters

Filters are available to narrow the Resource Library results, as shown above. Filters can be combined for even more specific results.

DCF & PL - This filter will only be available if you have access to the (DCF). In this case, the default will be to show resources from both the DCF and PL pages throughout the platform, but if you'd like to narrow the results, you can select one or the other. If you do not have access to the DCF, you will automatically only see PL-related resources in the Resource Library, and this filter will be unavailable.

All Resources vs. All Districts vs. At ThisDistrict vs. Modern Teacher - Note that Modern Teacher Resources are not included in the "All Districts" filter, but are included in the "All Resources" default. Also note that if your district has not yet uploaded any Resources or Work Products, the "At This District" filter will produce no results.

All Modules vs. Specific Module - This filter is only available when viewing PL resources. This view is the default if you have access only to PL in the platform. If you also have access to the DCF, you'll first need to select PL from the DCF & PL filter. You can then use the Module filter to view only resources available in the selected module.

All Stages vs. Stage - This filter is only available when viewing DCFresources. If you have access to the DCF, you'll first need to select DCFfrom the DCF & PL filter. This filter then lets you focus on a particular Stage in the DCF, so you can find resources appropriate to your District's current Stage.

All Drivers vs. Driver - This filter is only available when viewing DCFresources. If you have access to the DCF, you'll first need to select DCFfrom the DCF & PL filter. This filter then let's you focus on just one of the five Drivers in the DCF, so you can findresources that are relevant to your area of work.

This article provides more detail on the following options in editing your Profile :

Profile Picture

Email

Password

"Introduce Yourself" Bio

School and Cohort Membership

Opt Out

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News Feed

Written Explanation:

Navigation Reminder: You can access the Edit Profile page by selectingProfile fromyour dropdown menu and clickingthe Edit Profile button as explained in the Profile Overview.

Profile Picture

By default, your profile picture will be a blue box with the initials of your first and last name. If you'd like to change this default, you can do so on this page. Note that uploaded profile pictures appear on your Profile and throughout the platform immediately upon upload, whereas the other edits on this page will not appear until you click "Save" at the bottom of the page.

Email

Editing your email changes the email that appears to other users on your public Profile. It also changes the address at which you will receive email notifications based on your Notification Preferences.

Password

In order to update your password, you must correctly enter your current password. If you have forgotten your current password, you can reset your password from the Login page.

"Introduce Yourself" Bio

This field is meant to provide a brief introduction of yourself to the other users in the platform. Try to keep it short and sweet - the bio will appear as one paragraph on your Profile page.

School and Cohort Membership

Thissection shows any schools or cohorts you are a member of in your district. You can edits this information to self-enroll in additional schools or cohorts. Note, Cross-District users do not have this option. Users with District Management Permission for User Management or users with PL Permissions can instead enroll Cross-District users into the schools or cohorts in their districts.

Opt Out

You have the option to opt out of a public profile.By default, you will be opted in, meaning your Profile will be visible to users in yourdistrict and other districts in the platform. Users can access your profile by clicking your name or picture wherever if appears in the News Feed or SI Page. If you choose to opt out by un-checking the Public Profiles option, your name and profile picture will no longer be clickable to users outside of your district. Users within your district, however, will still be able to click and access your Profile.

You can also opt out of having your Micro-Certifications shared in the . By default, a post is shared in the News Feed any time you receive a Literacy or Fluency Micro-Certification, but if you prefer to keep this information private, you can use this opt out option.

Modern Teacher's Digital Convergence Frameworkis broken down into Success Indicators (SIs), which are actionable steps to guide a district through the transition from traditional classrooms to modern learning environments. SIs can be viewed at a high level on the Digital Convergence Framework, but the SI Pageprovides more detail.

This article gives an overview of the following components of the SI Page, and links to additional articles to provide more information:

Manage Bar

Description & Resources

Tasks

News Feed

Discussions

National Network

Related Success Indicators

Note: Only users with access to the DCF can view and be assigned to work on Success Indicators.

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Related SIs

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Manage Bar

The following items can be edited in the Manage Bar by users with the correct permissions :

Status

Owner

Due Date

Work Product

SI Team

Description & Resources

Modern Teacher provides a Description and set of Resources to help districts get started on the SI. Users can also add and share Resources here.

Tasks

Districts can break down each SI into more manageable Tasks with individual Task Owners. Permissions determine who can see, add, and work on an SI's Tasks.

News Feed

The News Feed here is automatically filtered to only show posts related to the selected SI. Just like on the Dashboard, posts in the News Feed can be liked, commented on, and filtered to show only posts from your district and/or only posts including files or attachments. Additionally, you can now manually add a news feed post. More details are available in the article on News Feed & Sharing.

Discussion

The Discussion section appears to the right of the News Feed. Any user can as a question about the SI, and just like posts in the News Feed, Discussions can be liked and commented on. Note, Dashboard Discussions provide another location to collaborate with the National Network, but the Discussions section within each SI is meant to keep the conversations organized around the SI and its related Tasks.

National Network

The National Network section displays the names of other districts that are working on or have completed the selected SI. If specific users are working on the SI, their profile pictures will be visible below their district name.

Related Success Indicators

Some SIs will have this section at the bottom of the SI with quick links to . It can be helpful for the district to have the same users collaborate on Related SIs instead of working on each one in isolation.

Note: If the SI has no content for any of the above sections, these sections of the page will be hidden from view until content is available. The most basic view of the SI Page is shown below, with no Resources, Tasks, News Feed, Discussions, National Network, or Related SIs. In this view, only the SI Title, Manage Bar, and Description are visible, with options to add the first Resource or start the first Discussion.

Thisarticle provides information on the National Networksectionfound within the SI Page.

Note: Only users with access to the DCF can view and be assigned to work on Success Indicators.

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Thisclip from the Success Indicators Overview shows the National Networksectionfrom 2:45-3:10 before moving on to demonstrate the Related SIs section.

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Profiles

Written Explanation:

At the bottom of the SI Page, below the News Feed and Discussion areas, you can see the National Network. This section lists the names of the districts who are currently working on and who have completed the selected SI. The profiles pictures of the SI Team that is working on the SI will also be visible in some cases. If the users have not opted out of, you can click on the user's profile picture to access their Profile and reach out to collaborate on or discuss the SI.

This article provides details on how to manage the district's PL Navigation settings, a permission available only to district-level PL Managers. On this page, PL Managers have the option to hide navigation to the following PL pages for all users in their district.

District PL Goals

Modern Teacher PL

My District PL

PL Builder

By default, pages are available based on user permissions and district actions as explained below. To hide these pages from all district users, uncheck the boxes next to each option.The navigation dropdown will appear only if more than one navigation option is available to the logged in user. Note, you cannot hide all page options - at least one page must remain visible to all district users. Also note some options cannot be hidden until the page has first become available to the district.

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District PL Goals

District PL Goals are set in SI 31. When the goals are aligned to modules, users in SI 31 have the option of publishing the District PL Goals page, making it visible to all users in the district. On this page, district users can see the goals and work on the aligned modules. Hiding this page will prevent district users from seeing the PL Goals and aligned modules. Note, you only have the option of hiding this page after it has been published in SI 31.

Modern Teacher PL

The Modern Teacher PL Page is the default page available if the district has not yet published its PL Goals in SI 31. The MT PL page lists all available Modern Teacher modules. Hiding this page will prevent users from accessing the Modern Teacher modules unless they are linked to district PL Goals in SI 31, in which case the modules will be accessible on the District PL Goals page.

My District PL

The My District PL page is only visible if the district has created and published a module in the PL Builder. Additionally, it is only visible to members or managers of the cohort, school, or district to which the module has been assigned, so it is already hidden by default in most cases. However, choosing to hide the page here will make all district-created modules inaccessible unless they are linked to a Goal in SI 31. In this case, the modules will only be accessible on the District PL Goals page. Note, you only have the option of hiding this page after at least one district module has been published.

PL Builder

The PL Builder allows the district to create and publish its own professional learning modules. By default, it is only visible to district-level PL Managers and to users who have been invited to collaborate on a module. Hiding the PL Builder here will hide this page even to PL Managers and invited collaborators until the district is ready to begin its own PL module creation.

This article provides an overview of the primary features of the Dashboard:

The Banner

Goal Cycle Stats

PL Micro-Certifications

PL Comparison Stats

News Feed

Discussions

My Success Indicators

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Update: The visualization of the Goal Cycle at the top of the Dashboard has been updated to provide more information on the specific SIs and SI Owners.

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Cross-District View

Update: The visualization of the Goal Cycle Stats at the top of the Dashboard has been updated to provide more information on the specific SIs and SI Owners.

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Banner

The top of the Dashboard is customizable for each district and includes the items listed below. These items can be edited by users with the appropriate permissions - the Brand Manager can update the district' name, logo, banner image, and tagline on the Brand page, and the News Manager can update the district's news post on the News page.

Overall District Stage in the Digital Convergence Framework (visible to users with DCF access)

District Name, Logo, and Tagline

District Banner Image in the background

District News Post at the bottom of the banner

Goal Cycle Stats

A stats display to monitor the district's progress on the current Goal Cycle appears in the middle of the Dashboard only to users with DCF access. Goal Cycles are private and unique to each district. Users with DCF access can use this visual to quickly scan how many SIs are in the goal cycle, how many are not started, in progress, ready for review, or complete, and who has been assigned asthe SI Owner for each SI. Hovering over an SI provides a card with the SI title, the Stage and Driver the SI is in, the SI Owner's name, and a hyperlink to the more detailed SI Page.

Micro-Certifications

This section displays your current status on all available Professional Learning Modules. The badges display your Literacy status on the left, and Fluency status on the right. You can choose to hide or collapse this section of your Dashboard if you prefer for your Micro-Certifications to appear only on your Professional Learning Framework page.

Comparison Stats

This section allows you to compare your personal Professional Learning progress to the average at your District. If you're associated with a school or cohort, you can compare those averages as well. You can use the filters to select specific Modules at the Literacy or Fluency levels, and managers can see individual user results here as well. Note that some users are excluded from counting toward the district, school, or cohort totals. For more information, see this additional article.

News Feed

The News Feed appears at the bottom left of the Dashboard and includes information on how districts across the nation are progressing on Digital Convergence and Professional Learning. Posts in the News Feed can be liked, commented on, and filtered to show only posts from your district, posts about PL vs. DCF for users with access to both, and/or only posts including files or attachments. Additionally, you now have the option of manually adding a post. You can access the profile of users in the News Feed by clicking their name or profile picture. If they are un-clickable, the user or district has chosen to keep profiles private.

Discussions

The Discussion section appears to the right of the News Feed. Any user can start a Discussion, and just like posts in the News Feed, Discussions can be liked and commented on. You can choose to share your Discussion with All Districts, Your District, or any specific School or Cohort in your districtwith which you are associated.

My Success Indicators

The My Success Indicators section appears at the bottom right of the Dashboard for some users with access to the DCF. This section includes any Success Indicators (SIs) that you have been assigned to work on, with information on the SI Status, the other district members working on the SI, and the SI's Tasks. In this section, Success Indicators can be filtered by Status and by All SIs vs. only SIs in your district's current Goal Cycle. Clicking the title of any SI takes you to the more detailed SI Page.

Note about Cross-District Users:

While most users land directly on their district's Dashboard when they log in, some users have access to multiple districts, like districts organized by an ESA or ESC. These Cross-District Users land on a when they log in, and from there they can navigate to the Dashboard for each district in their group.

Users with District Management Permissions have access to some features not available to regular users. This article provides an overview of the different District Management pages available to these users:

Brand

News

Users

Schools & Cohorts

PL Navigation

DCF

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This video explains the District Management Permissions and provides a quick demonstration of how the assigned users can access and manage the district's Brand, News, Users, Schools & Cohorts, and DCF.

Update: Additional features related to the National Network are now available on the Brand page, and an additional page to manage PL Navigation has been added for district-level PL Managers.

Written Explanation with Visuals:

Navigation

Users with permissions forDistrict Management can access the relevant page(s) via their dropdown menu. This menu is available by clicking or hovering over their name, as shown below.

Digital Convergence Framework

Brand

Brand Managers have access to the district's Brand page, shown below. On this page, managers can assign more Brand Managers, edit the district's Name and Tagline, and upload a custom logo and banner image. Each of these items appear to district users in the top banner section on the Dashboard. Additionally, they can now add the district Superintendent, a point of contact, and information on the district's location type, date it joined the network, and number of schools, students, teachers, etc. This information appears in the National Network area of the platform.

News

NewsManagers have access to the district's Newspage, shown below. On this page, managers can assign more NewsManagers, add or edit a News Post for the district, save drafts for future News Posts, and view previous News Posts.The current News Post appears to district users at the bottom of the banner section of the Dashboard.

Users

UsersManagers have access to the district's Userspage, shown below. On this page, managers can add, edit, import, and deactivate or reactivate district users. PL Managers and School or Cohort Managers have limited permissions on this page as well.

Schools & Cohorts

UsersManagers, PL Managers, and School/Cohort managers have access to the district's Schools and Cohorts pages,shown below. On these pages, managers can add, edit, delete, and assign users to the schools/cohorts based on their permissions.

PL Navigation

District-level PL Managers have access to an additional page to control PL Navigation. This page allows the district to customize which PL pages appear to their district users.

DCF Managers

DCF Managers do not have access to the District Management pages, but they have special permissions on the .

See theattached PDF and the video belowfor an explanation of the following District Management User Permissions:

DCFManager

PL Manager

Users Manager

Brand Manager

News Manager

BasicUsers, with and without access to the DCF

See the articles on User Permissions for the Digital Convergence Framework and Professional Learning for information on more permissions, and see the articles in the District Management section of this Support Center for more details on the permissions shown here.

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Update: An additional permission to manage PL Navigation has been added to the PL Manager role.

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See theattached PDF and the video belowfor an explanation of the following Professional LearningUser Permissions:

PL Manager

SchoolManager

CohortManager

UsersManager

BasicUser

The districts first PL Manager(s) and User Manager(s) can be assigned with the District Management Permissions upon district setup. Following district setup, permissions can be assigned to new and existing users as detailed below.

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Update: It is notnoted in the above video, but only the district-level PL Managers and usersthey invite as collaborators will have access to the PL Builder. Additionally, only district-level PL Managers have the ability to change the district's PL Navigation settings.

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PDF Attachment:

This article will cover the following additional Professional Learning pages:

My District PL

District PL Goals

Note: Userswill only have access to the My District PL page if they are assigned a module from their district's PL Builder.Users will only have access to the District PL Goals page if their district has publishedProfessional Learning Goals in Success Indicator 31. Additionally, these pages must be marked as available in the district's PL Navigation settings.

Video Clips:

The clip below from the PL Builder Overview demonstrates the My District PL page from 3:40-4:25 before moving on to demonstrate tools for Building PL Modules.

The clip below from the article on SI 31 & District PL Goals demonstrates the District PL Goals page from 2:30 onward.

Update: A progress bar and status icon has been added to indicate the logged in user's progress on each goal.See Image 2B below.

Written Explanation with Visuals:

My District PL Page

permissions

Image 1A above: Navigation to My District PL page

Image 1B above: My District PL page

Users access their assigned district-created modules from the PL Builder on the My District PL page. Most users will not have access to this page in the navigation, shown in Image 1A above, until they are assigned a module. They can then complete the module, just like the Modern Teacher PL modules.

One feature found in the district PL modules that differs from the Modern Teacher modules is the quiz feature. For more information, see the article on Creating & Completing Pre-Assessments & Literacy Checks.

Note, PL Managers may receiveaccess to the My District PL pageeven if they are not assigned a module; ifa module is assigned to the School, Cohort, or District they manage, they'll receive access to the page. They can then use the Coaching View to access the appropriate users work and provide feedback. PL Managers can also access a table, shown in Image 1C and 1D below, with information on which users have been assigned which district-created modules. District-level PL Managers will see this information for all assigned district-created modules, which School and Cohort Managers will see only the modules assigned to their school or cohort.

Image 1C above: Click to reveal table with module assignments, to the left of the Coaching View user select

Image 1D above: Module assignments, visible to PL Managers

DistrictPL Goals Page

Image 2A Above: Navigation to Published District PL Goals Page

Image 2B Above: Published District PL Goals Page with Custom Image

District leaders work in Success Indicator 31 to create and publish theDistrict PL Goals. This action addsa new option in the dropdown navigation below Professional Learning for users in your district, shown in Image 2A above. Clicking this option will take youto the new District PL Goals Page, Image 2B, which displays the text of each goal.

Clicking the goal expands an area below with access to the aligned modules for that goal. Users can complete these modules here, or in the Modern Teacher PL and/or District PL pages. Work on the same module between these locations will sync. PL Managers can also access the Coaching View from this page as well as the Modern Teacher PL and District PL pages. Note: District-created modules will only be visible on the District PL Goals Page to users who have been assigned those modules.

Your progress on each goal is indicated with a status icon and progress bar. The example in Image 2B above shows that the user has completed all modules for Goal 1. On Goal 2, they are Complete on the first module, In Progress on the second, and Not Started on the third, so their overall status on Goal 2 is In Progress. When using the Coaching View, the status icon and progress bar will update to that of the selected user instead of showing your individual progress on each goal.

Image 2C above: Option to add an image of the district Instructional Model on the Goals page

When the District PL Goals page has been published, some users will have the option to add an image of the district's Instructional Model at the top of this page, as shown above. Users with the to do this include the following: DCF Managers, PL Managers, the PL Driver Owner, and the SI 31 Owner. The addition of this visual is meant to reinforce the alignment between the Instructional Model and the 4 PL Goals. Once the image has been added, district users will see it at the top of the page as shown in Image 1C above. Prior to this image being added, regular district users will see only the expandable 4 Goals at the top of the District PL Goals page.

Modern Teachers PL Builder allows districts to create their own Professional Learning Modules, similar to those available in Modern Teachers Professional Learning. For a brief introduction to the PL Builder, view the video below. For a more detailed demonstration, see the PL Builder Overview and explore the Additional Resources available.

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Navigation Note: PL Managers and Invited Collaborators will only have access to the PL Builder if the page is available in the district's PL Navigation settings.

Modern Teacher's Professional Learning Frameworkis broken down into Modules, which cover a range of topics relevant to today's Modern Teacher.

This article gives an overview of the following components of the PL, and links to additional articles to provide more information:

Module Titles, Descriptions, and Micro-Certifications

The Literacy Portion of the Module

Types of Professional LearningTiles

The FluencyPortion of the Module

The CoachingView

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Navigation Note: Depending on the district's PL Navigation settings, there may be a dropdown of options below Professional Learning in the navigation menu, including links to the District PL Goals and/or My District PL pages and/or the PL Builder. Or, the user may be taken to one of these other pages by default. Explore the linked articles for more information on these pages. This article focuses on the default Modern Teacher Professional Learning page.

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Coaching View of the PL Framework

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Module Titles, Descriptions, and Micro-Certifications

Module titles are listed on this page, with a badge to display your current overall status on the module. (This same badge appears on the Micro-Certification section of your Dashboard.) Clicking any Module's title will expand the module, revealing a brief Description and two separate badges to display your status on the Literacy and Fluency Micro-Certifications separately. Below the Description, you'll see the content of the Module broken into two levels.

The Literacy Portion of the Module

The Literacy half of the module is meant to provide new information, helping you to acquire new knowledge and skills. The Literacy Micro-Certification is achieved by completing all Literacy pages in the Module, or by passing the Pre-Assessment.

Types of Professional LearningTiles

Both the Literacy and Fluency sections of each Module are broken into smaller pieces, represented on this PL Framework page as tiles. These tiles open several different types of professional learning content, listed below:

E-Learning Interactions -This type of professional learning includes games, simulations, and interactive examples to demonstrate the key conceptsof the module. The number of times the tile as been viewed, how much time has been spent on it, and scores (when applicable) are now available on each of these tiles.

Discussion Pages - These pages allow you to process your learning with other teachers at your district or across all districts in the Modern Teacher National Network.

Reflection Pages - These pages provide directions, resources, and/or videos to help you reflect on your learning. Reflections can include file uploads, and some reflections require coach review and feedback.

The FluencyPortion of the Module

The Fluency half of the module allows for opportunities to apply and receive coaching on the new knowledge and skills acquired in Literacy. The Fluency Micro-Certification is achieved by completing all of the Fluency pages in the Module, some of which may require review, feedback, and approval from a coach.

TheCoachingView

Because of the importance of coaching in the Professional Learning Framework, users can be assigned as PL Permissions at the District, School, or Cohort level. These users can access the PL Framework of any members of their assigned District, School, or Cohort, to provide coaching and feedback. In the Coaching View, theycan select a user to review and provide feedback on. For more information, see the full article on the .

For initial setup, please complete the attached Users Import Template and return it to Modern Teacher.

Only columnsmarked "Basic Info" are necessary. You can assign permissions in this import in the columns labeled "Optional Permissions", but this step is optional and permissions can always be assigned later. For more details on permissions, see the articles on District Management Permissions, DCF Permissions, and PL Permissions. Note that if your district is set up for Single Sign On, you will have an additional column in the template. For questions on Single Sign On, please contact Modern Teacher Support.Additional optional columns are also available for assigning users to Schools and Cohorts for Professional Learning, but this step can also be completed at a later time. For more information, see the article on Managing District Users and Managing Schools and Cohorts.

After initial setup, the district's UsersManagers can import new users by following the steps below.

Written Explanation with Visuals:

1. Navigate to the District Management option in the dropdown below your name.

2. Click on the Users tab, then click Import.

3. Download and complete the Import template, then upload it and click Import.

Users Import Template Attached: