Common Core Standards
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How to
The Common Core State Standards are designed to be relevant to the real world, reflecting the knowledge and skills that students need for success in college and careers. This document will provide step by step instructions on how to associate the standards with lesson plans and assignments.
- Select GradeBook.
- Select Subject at the bottom of the window for which an assignment is being created/edited
- Select Marking Period at the bottom of the window for which an assignment is being created/edited
At this point you will need to either start the process of creating a new assignment or you will need to edit an existing assignment.
When creating a new assignment the steps below will walk you through the process of attaching the standards to the assignment.
- Select the Assignment icon at the top of the gradebook window.
- Select New.
- Enter the Assignment Title, Category, and Grade Type.
- Click in the Core Standards field and a list of Content Areas (English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies) will appear on the left of the screen. At this time there are standards only for English Language Arts and Mathematics. Science and Social Studies will be added as they become available.
- At the bottom left of the screen will be a grade level. The default value will be the grade level of the course. The set of standards to be displayed will be based on this value. The grade level can be changed by clicking on the drop down arrow.
- Each Content Area is further divided into one or more Domains.
- Each Domain has one or more Clusters. After selecting a Cluster, the standards will be listed on the right side of the screen with a light brown background color.
- To select a standard, click the green plus sign at the top left corner of the standard. The background color will change to a blue background and the green plus sign will change to a red X.
- The selected standard(s) will appear at the bottom of the screen.
- To unselect a standard, click the red X. The background color will return to the original light brown and the red X will be replaced with the original green plus sign.
- To save the selected standards, click the Submit button at the bottom right of the window.
- The standards selection window goes away. The Assignment window will be on the screen with the selected standards listed in the Core Standards field.
- Continue entering information about the Assignment and save the assignment.
If the assignment already exists, use the method of editing an assignment with which you are familiar; then, follow the steps above beginning with step 5 to add the standards.
To search for a specific term/word within the standards use the following steps.
- In the upper right of the standards window is a search field.
- Click in the field and type the word(s) for your search; then, press enter or click on the icon at the end of the search field.
- All standards that have this word in the description will be displayed on the screen. The list will include standards from all Content Areas not just the current selected area.
- You may select items from this list of standards as described above.
