Curriculum, Lesson Plan Modules & the Standards-Based Gradebook work together to simplify daily planning for teachers and give insight to Curriculum Directors, while effectively communicating progress to students and parents.
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The curriculum module allows you to create Standards-Based Curriculum Maps. Each map is broken into units. Unit templates can be defined by each school system and can include areas that contain:
Curriculum supports multiple models and frameworks, including the Understanding by Design (UbD) Framework.
Curriculum can be shared with groups, and you can implement an approval workflow. Curriculum can be easily copied and downloaded as a Word Document or a PDF.
Teachers see the curriculum when building their daily lessons and can easily use Curriculum Standards, Text, Resources and Assessments in their Daily Plan.
The Lesson Plan has a variety of features, including:
Administrators can review teachers' plans from one location and can view completion statistics on their dashboard.
The Digital Academy Gradebook has 3 different grading modes:
A Standards-Based Grading Screen that lets you drill down from Essential Standards to Indicator Standards to Individual assignments. Overall Standard grades can be calculated automatically based on the student's progress on individual assignments.
The Gradebook also includes our proprietary “Smart Grader” that allows you to view and mark up digital documents, online tests and programming problems. You can watch and listen to video and audio submissions.
All features allow you to differentiate assignments and allow you to provide feedback to your students on their work.
