Would you rather watch a 3 minute tutorial instead? See our Windows Movie Video at the end of this blog entry. After you’ve created a course, you may want to view the standards aligned to the lessons in the course. This is a simple task. The standards are viewed in four simple ways.
If you are searching for lessons aligned to specific standards, you can do so by hovering over “My Courses” and selecting the area of study desired (IE: National AFNR, National Math, National Science, National English, or State Standards). By following the prompts, you will find the lessons aligned to those standards.
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In a previous blog post, we asked you to tell us what you would like to see in upcoming blogs. One request was “Best Practices” within MYcaert.com. Recently, we’ve received a few requests on how to create a course. This blog will focus on the best practice of creating a course, and example courses. Upon logging into MYcaert, you will land on a screen with each subscribed library shown. From this screen you have several options to create a course. A very simple option, is to create a course from a sample course outline. By hovering over My Courses, you will find several Sample Course Outlines to the right. You can select one of those course outlines, and select “Make a copy and save it to my courses”. You can rename the course, reorder the lessons, and remove lessons, or add additional lessons to the outline. Another way to create a course, from home screen, is selecting a library. For example, select Animal, Plant, and Soil Science. The following screen allows you to select the desired problem areas, taking you to the final screen to show you your lesson plan choices. Select the lessons you wish to save to your course outline, and create your custom course outline. You can also create a course outline by vocabulary term, academic standard, or library outline. By using the Library Outline feature, you can use more than one library to create a course. This allows you to add in FFA and Communication lessons to any standard agriculture class. In MYcaert.com you are not limited to what lessons you can put into an outline. A recommended number is 60-65 lessons for a school year. Check out our brief video tutorial, showing you how to create a course outline! Examples Courses: Non- Ag CTE Courses Business and Technology Concepts Business Marketing and Computer Education Computer Concepts and Software Applications Care & Learning Services Occupations SCCO Child Development and Parenting SCCO Culinary Occupations I SCCO Nutrition and Culinary Arts I SCCO Nutrition and Wellness Occupations SSCO Culinary Occupations II SSCO FCS Communications Health Science Technology Drafting and Design Green Construction Manufacturing and Production Technology & Engineering Education AGRICULTURE Courses Agricultural Biotechnology Agricultural Business Management Agricultural Communications Agricultural Construction and Technology Agricultural Leadership Agricultural Machinery Service Agricultural Mechanics and Technology Agronomy Agricultural Metal Fabrication Agricultural Sales and Marketing Animal Science Aquacultural Science and Technology Basic Agricultural Mechanics Basic Agricultural Science Biological Science Applications in Agriculture- Animal Science Biological Science Applications in Agriculture-Plant Science Environmental Science Food Science Technology Greenhouse Production and Floral Design Horticultural Production and Management Introduction to the Agricultural Industry Landscaping and Turf Management Natural Resources Management and Conservation Physical Science Applications in Agriculture Veterinary Technology Have you ever visited a restaurant for the first time, and had an amazing meal? What did you do next? Most often, people share their joy of their experiences with others. If you have enjoyed your MYcaert subscription, please share our New Subscriber order forms for Agriculture and CTE with a teacher who is not a current subscriber. Think of the new teachers in your state or one who is new to agricultural education. We also offer CTE libraries for the CTE colleagues in your your district. When you share our New Subscriber Order form for Ag Teachers or CTE teachers with a new subscriber, we will show our appreciation with a 10% discount on your next order! Be sure to list your name and your district on the form. Would you take a few minutes to tell us how we’re doing? At MYcaert.com, we are always seeking to serve our teachers the best we can. Please let us know what we can do to help you in your classrooms by taking this survey. Do you create your own assignments and worksheets? Do you use and assign materials from MyCommunity for your students? MyFiles, the red tab in MYcaert, is a great place for you to store your assignments, PowerPoints, and your own teacher files for each lesson and/or unit. Once you have created a course outline, your MyFiles automatically updates to include an overall file for the course. The overall course file, includes three smaller files: “Current Assignments”, “Expired Assignments”, and “Teacher Files”. You can store your files for your courses within the online MYcaert portal. What could be better to have all of your materials in ONE location? Once you have uploaded files into the correct folders, and assigned materials to students, you can actually view who has completed and turned in the assignments. You are also able to grade and comment on your students’ completed assignments. If you find materials within MyCommunity that you find beneficial for your class, you can also directly save those materials to “MyFiles,” by selecting the resource, and then selecting the course. If you have more questions on how to use it, check out Section 6 of the User’s Guide for step by step directions. You can also check out this quick video tutorial!
We've often been asked if MYcaert.com has a search bar for users. It does! Once you've logged in, under the "My Courses" tab, along the left, are ways to Generate List of MYcaert materials. The second to last option, "By Vocabulary Term" is often the desired search method. Using as many keywords as you need, and selecting search, a list of materials you have access to, is created. You can select as many lessons that suit your needs, and a course outline will be created. To select more than one item, hold down the "Ctrl" button on a PC, or the "Command" button on a Mac, and select your items. You can add those lessons to an existing course outline, or create a new one. You may find it helpful to search by your own state's standards, or by learning area. Those options are also found under "My Courses", along the left of the drop down menu. By Learning Area will allow you to select specific options within science, math, and language arts. Whereas, by "_________ Standard" will allow you to generate materials by specific academic standards. Have you been reading our blogs? We'd love for you to take a quick 3 question survey to tell us how we're doing!
With end of the semester exams around the corner, your mind is probably split between two places: creating semester exams, and preparation for 2nd semester. The past few blogs we have highlighted different ways you can re-use your quizzes- specifically, creating a quiz from existing quizzes. This feature is particularly useful for semester exams, choosing questions to compile from all the different quizzes you’ve previously assigned. You can also create a review quiz, with multiple chances for your students to view and submit. If you have already created your semester exams, you are likely preparing for second semester. As the first semester progressed you likely found that lessons may have taken longer, or took less time, depending on the topic and knowledge base of your students. In either case, you may need to reevaluate your course outlines for the second semester. To change a course outline for second semester, hover over My Courses and select the course outline you wish to change. Upon the course outline page, select the “Make a Copy of this Course Outline”. Upon the next screen you will rename the course outline for the second semester. In this example, I used “2nd Sem 16-17” after the original course name. You can now make changes to this course outline, without losing what you planned at the beginning of the year. You can delete the lessons you’ve already taught, along the right edge of the course outline. You can also reorder the lessons by selecting “Reorder Lessons in Custom Outline”. On this screen you can move the lessons by clicking and holding on the lesson you want to move, and dragging it to the slot desired. At the bottom of the screen, you must select “Submit” for the changes to take place. Want to see a quick video tutorial on this topic instead? Give yourself 3 minutes to watch this video!
At this point in the year, it is common to reuse your quizzes. Our last blog showed you how you can reuse quizzes for other classes; however this blog, will show you that you can create a semester exam re-using your quizzes from the semester. Follow these simple steps below.
3. On the next screen, use the drop down menu to select the name of the quiz below from which you wish to add questions. 4. Select the boxes next to each question, and then find the “Add Questions to Quiz” button. 5. If you wish to add more questions, you may do so following steps 2-4. Please see this video for a quick tutorial, via a recording from Citrix Webex. You may need to download a simple player to view. Best wishes on a successful exam season! Have you created a quiz for one class, that you would like to assign to another? For example, you may want a shop or lab safety test to be passed by all your students, not just the Mechanics students. Or maybe you are quizzing your students on a guest speaker that came to all of your classes. However you need this capability, it is a very easy process. First, hover your mouse over the MyQuizzes tab, and click “Edit Quiz”. After selecting a quiz to edit, it will be displayed on the screen, and several sections of links will be available on the right side of the screen. Select “Edit Quiz Parameters.” This will be the third blue header on the right. Once on the "Edit Quiz Parameters" page, you can select the course(s) you would like to assign the quiz to, by clicking the name. To select more than one course, hold the "Ctrl" key on PCs, and the "Command" key on Macs, while clicking the course names.
You may also notice on the "Edit Quiz Parameters page," the option for student views and submissions. If you have assigned this quiz to a class but would like to give them more opportunities at successful completion, you can increase the number of times the students can view and submit a quiz. You have assigned an assessment on My Quizzes to your students. They have completed it, and the grades were given. Now what? Each quiz question is aligned to the National AFNR Standards* and National Academic Standards. Users in certain states may find alignment to their state academic standards. One of the greatest traits of MYcaert system is the documentation of data. Once your students have completed a quiz, the results are held in the your database (NOTE: If a quiz is deleted, all data is deleted permanently). By selecting one of the options above, you can view your students' progress with the standards you have covered. To find these options, hover over MY QUIZZES, and select "Current School Year Report". Scroll to the bottom of the page. In the image below, I selected, "by National AFNR Standards". *If you are unfamiliar with the National AFNR standards you can find them starting on page 36 of this document. Last Monday we showed you how to: 1) Build a course outline- for your courses. 2) Add students- to utilize the student platform. 3) Manage course rosters- by organizing the added students to courses. 4) Assign & maintain assignments and e-units- to courses. After you’ve assigned coursework, the next step is assessment. MYcaert has an online assessment tool, with a bank of pre-written test questions. Each question is aligned to Common Core, Next Generation Science, and/or National AFNR standards. You can create your assessment in "My Quizzes". A lesson plan will have 10-15 questions in the CAERT question bank. To start, you will go to page 32 of the User’s Guide, and follow the simple steps. Then jump to pages 35-36, to "Add Questions from the CAERT Question Bank". After the quiz, you can view the quiz results under My Quizzes → Current School Year Report. Quiz Question Summaries This report shows how frequently a question is answered correctly or incorrectly to demonstrate validity and reliability and to indicate what concepts might require additional reinforcement. You can find this at the bottom of the "Current School Year Report Page." Quiz Scores This report lists all of the individual quizzes you have given to your students. Clicking on the name of any quiz will bring up a page listing the student scores for that quiz. It will also show if a student has taken the quiz more than once. You can click on the View Student Quiz Summary column to see each individual submission by a student. Additionally, pre-tests and post-tests have been a hot topic among teachers. A brief pre-test and post-test tutorial is available here, to show you how easy it is! Remember the “Edit Question” function. It enables you to create similar, not identical, questions for your post test!
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