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=November 23 Portal Training=

www.pdesas.org - Address for live site when it's ready

User name will be email address Default password is standards

Right now, all of site is password-protected. Eventually, there will be a public environment and a registered environment.

Public environment: -6 circle names in tabs at top of screen -Teachers, parents, students have access -Applies to majority of site

Registered environment: -Teacher tools - developed for educators for classroom: online portfolio, website builder, assessment builder -Other tools like access to diagnostic assessment data

Get home by clicking on "Home" at top right or SAS logo at top left

"Help" will contain training manuals and other tools for users; also 800 number available

Send feedback, questions, concerns to jratka@plsweb.com for right now

Right now, ESL and alternative standards are available in the standards section under downloads; they are not available in the drill-down menu; ELL standards will eventually show up as an overlay

Teacher Tools
My ePortfolio - virtual filing cabinet My Website - can put things on your website from your eportfolio My Profile - populate with personal info, also place to change password Admin Tools - available to certain SAS trainers

Standards
Browse Standards - drill down from standard area to grade level to standard (to eligible for those that have anchors); icon changes from arrow to SAS logo when you can no longer drill down. If you click on the SAS logo, you get a list of materials aligned to that standard or eligible content. You can save the hierarchy as a PDF.

View Standards - view standards/eligible content by content area and grade level, or by course name at the HS level

Keyword Search - search for standards/eligible content using keywords; can use qualifiers to only display standards/anchors/etc.

Vertical Viewer - see how the standards progress through grade levels; view standards as a chart

Downloads - download PDF or Word doc of standards

Materials & Resources
Search - search by keyword, grade level or content area (only RWSL, math, science/tech, social studies right now); results list title of resource, type, grade level(s)

Advanced Search - search by keyword, grade level or content area and select what types of resources you see

Units and lesson plans will be first resources when you do any search. There will be a third tab under materials & resources: Voluntary Model Curriculum (not available by December 7); will include learning progressions, units, lesson plans. Probably available mid- to late-January.

Quick search in upper right will allow you to do a quick search of materials & resources from any page

On each page, you can view a printer-friendly page, email the resource to someone else or save the resource to your online portfolio (available under Teacher Tools at the top right).

Instruction
Resource videos and print resources for instructional strategies; will be searchable

Curriculum Framework
Search by content area or grade level, or by course name at secondary level

Assessment
Summative, formative, benchmark, diagnostic

About Assessments - info about each of the 4 types of assessment

Assessment Builder - (teacher tool) - build tests aligned to standards

Reference Materials - resources

Diagnostic - will be built up for teachers

Interventions
List of resources for all students, not just special ed

Samples from today SAMPLE CLEAR STANDARDS View Standards Civics and Government 7th Grade 5.1.7.B Note - trail of bread crumbs across top

SAMPLE CLEAR STANDARDS Keyword Search Writing (nothing else) money (nothing else)

SAMPLE CLEAR STANDARDS Vertical Viewer Math 2.1 Grade 4 Count and Compare Numbers M4.1.1 M4.1.1.1 M4.1.1.1.1 Materials and Resources

ENABLE COOKIES

SAMPLE CLEAR STANDARDS Vertical Viewer Science and Tech 3.2 3.2.A 3.2.2.A: Grade 3 3.2.2.A.1

Materials and Resources SAMPLE: Keyword Search Thanksgiving