2012

Updates

Teacher Landing Page

Change in naviga2on to Home, Planner, Progress, Library, Apps Tags and Filter Posts now located at top

Discover & Insights (new features)

Stream of Recent Ac2vity to track what is happening at a glance.

Send Now or Schedule

Choose to send posts now or schedule a day and 2me. Works for Notes, Assignments, Quizzes, and Polls

Discover
Use Discover to connect with others & get ideas

Get valuable resources and see who else is teaching this topic

Insights
Insights show you how students are feeling about assignments and posts

See overall performance on recent assignments

Check out who is most ac2ve in your groups and what is popular

Planner
Filter by group or view all

Create events or tasks

Planner - Week View

Scroll through the weeks

Tasks with no date show up here

Progress

Add a new grade and export to CSV to copy and paste into grade book.

Manage and access your Grades and Badges from the Progress menu

Library

Link your Google Docs account for easy access to documents

Unlimited Storage, accessible anywhere! Organize library into folders and share les and folders with groups

App Store

Access Paid and Free apps that can be used with students.

Filter Posts & Using Tags

Use Tags to keep posts organized and to nd them later. Share tags with students

Filter posts by Author or type (Assignments, Polls, Quizzes) to easily access the content you need.

Reactions

Students also leave Reac2ons on Quizzes once they are done

Reac2ons can be made for every post

Students leave reac2ons on all assignments and teachers leave one when grading

Grading Assignments
If students turn in a .doc or .pdf assignment, you can annotate on their work

You will need to select a reac2on for any assignment that you grade.

Manage Groups
Click on any group to get to members manage menu and to create small groups

Access Parent Codes, award badges and remove members

Create Small Groups

Create small groups from the menu bar found at the top of any class

Drag members of the class into the small group

Additional Features
Hide posts and updates from your Latest posts stream

Access Folders for each group from the groups menu bar

Archive or Delete groups at the end of the year

New Profile Page

Stay connected to others and get shared badges

Add any previous schools you have worked at

Student & Parent View

Student View

Students receive no2ca2ons for new grades, new assignments, alerts or replies

Unlimited storage for documents & other resources

Students can sort assignments by due dates

Parent codes are now on student pages

Backpack - Google Doc Integration

Students can link Google Doc Account for access to all documents

Students can turn in their Google Doc as an assignment or share it with the group

Parent View

Parents can receive email no2ca2ons for assignments by conguring their se[ngs Parents can add more than one child to their account using the parent code.

Parents can view only their own students grades

Parents can only view posts by their student or posts and assignments sent by a teacher (no visibility into other students ac2vity)