To utilize the My Quizzes feature of MYcaert.com, you will need to follow the directions below. The data retrieved after the quizzes are taken can be utilized in a vareity of ways. 1) Build a course outline- for your courses. 2) Add students- to utilize the student platform. 3) Create new quiz by: "Add Questions from the CAERT Question Bank". "Add Questions by Course Outline" "Add Questions from previous quizzes" These are the three most common ways teachers create quizzes. Once your students submit the quiz, you can view their 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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MYcaert.com allows you the opportunity to control and maintain assignments remotely. For example, if your students finish reading their e-units and completing their assigned homework sooner than you planned, you may assign more work or a pop-quiz! To begin, this is a simple 4-step process. See the pages mentioned in the User’s Guide,: 1)Build a Course Outline (pg. 7), or blog link 2) Add Students (pg 14) or blog link 3) Manage Course Rosters (pg 15-16) 4) Assign/ Maintain E-Units and PowerPoints (pg 18-19) TIP: If your school utilizes Google Classroom, please see our blog that explains how to use the Google Single-Sign-On. It all starts with a course outline. You will need to build one in order to assign e-units and PowerPoints. For additional help, you can see a short video tutorial here! Each Eunit contains:
Having troubles assigning Eunits? If your students are unable to see assigned Eunits, it is likely that you are are using a previous course outline. To resolve this issue, follow these steps:
Customized/Personal Assignments You can also add customized dates and assignments to student calendars. For example, you may have assigned a project for students in a specific course. The calendar will allow you to add important deadlines, and important documents for the student(s) to view, in the Custom Calendar! Under my students, click “Assign E-units/PPTs to Students.” Then, click the “Custom Calendar.” Then, designate the student(s) who will see the task or assignment, and upload any important documents. Like us on Facebook for a daily tips, tricks, and special announcements!
Have you renewed your subscription for this school year? Renew your Agriculture or CTE libraries, and place your orders here. Schools are back in session nationwide, and we have put together a list of our top three back- to-school practices in MYcaert. 1) Copying Course OutlinesTeachers will copy a course outline, instead of creating a one, to separate the annual results from assessments. Copying course outlines from a previous year is a simple task. Under My Courses, select the course outline you wish to duplicate. On the course outline page, select the “Make a Copy of this Course Outline”. Next, you will rename the course outline for this year. You can make changes to this course outline- adding or deleting lessons. 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. 2) Adding StudentsOnce you have created your cours(es), you can add students. We just made a major adjustments to the "Add Students" page that will help Google Education Schools. Review the single sign-on for Google users here. Simply add new students underneath the "My Students" tab. You may add up to 15 at one time. "Manage course rosters" underneath "My Students" to review all your students are in the correct courses. 3) Assigning EUnits- Updating Assigned DatesIf you reuse a course, instead of making a copy, this is important. Under "My Students", select "Maintain Assigned E-units/PPTs". On the following screen, select maintaining E-Units or PowerPoints. The process is the same for each. Next, select a course in the box provided. Finally, remove the assign and due dates and click "Save Updated Status to Assigned/E-Units or PowerPoints". Like us on Facebook for a daily tips, tricks, and special announcements!
Have you renewed your subscription for this school year? Renew your Agriculture or CTE libraries, and place your orders here.At the start of a school year, it is important for you to be prepared. In order to feel most prepared using MYcaert.com, we are sharing some recommended practices to ensure a smooth transition into the school year. 1) Create courses 2) Adding students 3) Assigning materials 1) Create Courses If you are new to MYcaert.com, and are unfamiliar with the various ways of creating courses, review this previous blog on Creating Course Outlines. Perhaps you would like to reuse course outlines from last year, you will simply "Make a Copy of Course Outline". Follow these simple steps: Under My Courses, select the course outline you wish to duplicate. 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. 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. 2) Adding Students Once you have created all your courses, you can add students. We just made a major adjustments to the "Add Students" page that will help Google Education Schools. Review the single sign-on for Google users here. Simply add new students underneath the "My Students" tab. You may add up to 15 at one time. "Manage course rosters" underneath "My Students" to review all your students are in the correct courses. 3) Assigning Work Review the User’s Guide, pages 18-19. - Assign/ Maintain E-Units and PowerPoints It all starts with a course outline. You will need to build one in order to assign E-units and PowerPoints. For additional help, you can see a short video tutorial here. You can also add customized dates and assignments to student calendars. For example, you may have assigned a project for students in a specific course. The calendar will allow you to add important deadlines, and important documents for the student(s) to view, in the Custom Calendar. This option is also found underneath "Assign E-units/PPTs to Students". Over the last year, we heard from several teachers who utilize Google Classroom. MYcaert.com has implemented a Google Single-Sign-On, SSO, option for students. This is a secure authentication system that enables Google users to sign in with their Google account logins. Students will not have to remember their MYcaert.com logins and passwords. They will click the Google icon to log in. How To When you add students to your account, you have an option to select Google Enable. Once you click "Yes" in that column, you will add the student's Google e-mail address. This can be their personal Gmail account, or their Google education account. If students are already in your roster, you will select "Edit Students" underneath the "My Students" Tab. Click the student's name you wish to edit, and then you will have the option to enable the Google SSO. Special Student Note: When students login for the first time with this feature on a device they will have to click the Google G "Sign In" button. When returning to MYcaert.com, the browser will do a quick search to ensure they are logged in to their Google account. Perks The SSO will allow you to assign links to e-units and online assessments in Google Classroom. The students can click the links and be taken directly to those assignments. The SSO also removes inconvenient steps in assigning materials to students. Assessments and materials remain password protected, and you remain able to track student attainment via academic standards. Do you have a suggestion for MYcaert.com to consider? Please provide your feedback here to help us track helpful suggestions.
As you wrap up this 2016-17 school year, we have a few suggested practices that will help ease the transition into next school year. 1) Cleaning up quizzes 2) Revising course outlines 3) Uploading files into My Community 4) Deactivating students 5) Removing Assignments 1) Cleaning up quizzes- You may wish to deactivate quizzes from previous years. Click "Activate/Deactivate Quizzes" under the MY QUIZZES tab. After clicking the link, the page displayed will list all of the quizzes that you have created. From this screen you can quickly change the status to either “Active” or “Inactive” for as many quizzes as you need to. No data is deleted in this option. If you want to remove a quiz and it's data permanently, you can delete quizzes. To delete a quiz, find the "Delete Quiz" option underneath "My Quizzes." When you click the link, a list of the tests you have created will be displayed. Click on the name of the quiz you want to delete. A question box will appear asking you if you are sure you want to delete the quiz. Clicking on OK will delete the quiz from your profile. When you delete a quiz, all previous student results from the quiz will also be deleted from your profile. 2) Revising course outlines - You may want to revise a course outline for next school year. You can do so by selecting the desired course under "My Courses". On the next page you can reorder the lessons in the course. See one of our previous blogs on revising course outlines. If you are wanting to add lessons to a course outline, see our previous blog on adding to a course outline. 3) Uploading files into My Community- With more time available in the summer, consider organizing your course materials using MyCommunity. Your favorite activities can be aligned with lesson plans, and other teachers can benefit from your additions. See our previous blog on My Community to learn more. 4) Deactivating students - When students graduate, it is important to keep their records for 5 years. Our system allows you to move students to "Inactive" , which will keep their records, but will remove them from their respective course rosters. To deactivate students, select "Edit Students" under "My Students". Next to each student who has graduated, select the Inactive bubble. Click "Submit". 5) Removing Assignments- If you reuse assignments each year, this is one of the most important practices for you. Under "My Students", select "Maintain Assigned E-units/PPTs". On the following screen, select maintaining E-Units or PowerPoints. The process is the same for each. Next, select a course in the box provided. Finally, remove the assign and due dates and click "Save Updated Status to Assigned/E-Units or PowerPoints". If you are making personell changes this summer, please keep us informed. We want to ensure the new instructor is well-informed with MYcaert.com, and how it will ease their transition in the classroom. Complete our transition survey here: https://goo.gl/W9hTVV A common practice that teachers use to maximize their subscription is reusing quizzes to make a pre-test, and a post-test for a particular unit, lesson plan, objective, or set of standards. To create a pre-test you will add the questions that pertain the specific lessons you are teaching, from the CAERT Question Bank. To learn how to create a quiz, read our blog on creating and assigning quizzes. Most importantly, name your quiz "Pre-Test" Unit X or Pre-"Name of Unit X." The post-test can be created using an existing quiz. First, create a new quiz. Most importantly, name your quiz "Post-Test" Unit X or Post-"Name of X Unit." Upon creating the quiz, you will be directed to the page to select questions from your quiz. There, you will find the question menu on the right side of the screen. Click the first option “Select from Existing Quiz”. Next, use the drop down menu to select the name of the quiz from which you wish to add questions. Finally, select the boxes next to each question, and then click the “Add Selected Questions to Quiz” button. Utilizing the "Current School Year Report", you can view the students' scores from the quizzes/tests they have taken, between July 1 and June 30. The two most popular reports are: 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. 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. Previously, we have highlighted our Course Outline tool, and the lesson plans. This blog will concentrate on E-units, PowerPoints and additional files. We previously operated as an agricultural education textbook publisher started in 1932. When we created MYcaert.com we saw a need for digitized student texts which allow for easy updating. We went a step further and divided our digital texts into short, distinct content units we call E-units. Each lesson plan is accompanied by at least one E-unit of six to eight pages in PDF. When you create a course outline, you also create a customized digital textbook for your students. In every E-unit the reader will find:
Along with the E-unit, each lesson contains a PowerPoint file that can be edited for your classroom presentation format, or assigned directly to students. The content-centered PowerPoints were created by teacher request, with the intent to assign directly to students who missed class. MyCommunity offers a vehicle for MYcaert users to share useful supplementary materials. You are able to upload documents to share or download materials other teachers prepared. For more information, read this blog or click on the MyCommunity Tab. The E-units, checking your knowledge questions, PowerPoints, and other materials can be assigned to students. Read this blog on how to assign materials in MYcaert. The materials can also be assigned via Google classroom, or other digital formats that are password protected.
Previously, the Course Outlines feature was highlighted. Today’s blog will focus on the lesson plans. Each lesson plan has been written by a practicing teacher in the designated content area. The lesson plans have then been aligned to national academic standards, and some state content standards. A lesson plan is downloaded in PDF format, where specific parts may be printed for teacher use. To view the lesson plan, click on the red title of the lesson. To download to your computer, click on the grey arrow right of the title. Common best practices of applying the lesson plan are: 1) Content and background knowledge 2) Utilizing the Sample Test and Labs, and Assigning to Students 3) Utilizing the Visuals 4) Adding to My Community 5) Standards Alignment 1) Content and Background Knowledge- The lesson plans are content centered to ensure you have the depth of knowledge needed for the activities. Technical terms are highlighted to guarantee clear definitions. 2) Utilizing the Sample Test and Labs, and Assigning to Students- The sample test is a favorite feature in MYcaert. It can be printed on paper, or filed electronically and assigned through MyFiles in MYcaert, or through Google Classroom. We find teachers use this in a variety of ways - as a test, as a review for a test, or as a worksheet - saving them valuable preparation time. At the end of each lesson plan, a hands-on application is provided, and may contain more than one. Teachers utilize these similarly to the sample test. 3) Utilizing the visuals- The visuals make for great handouts or note aides. They can be printed, and edited to fit your needs. For example, if using an identification visual, you may remove the names of the body parts, and guide students in note-taking. 4) Adding to My Community - Teachers may create or add additional items valuable to the lesson with My Community. Be sure to review and make the items your own. If you have an activity or handout to add, please do. Be sure it is not copyrighted. Check out a previous blog on My Community. 5) Standards Alignment- Each lesson plan is aligned to national academic and AFNR standards. Certain states have lessons aligned to state standards or pathways. MYcaert.com provides you the option to print out those standards you teach. Check out a previous blog on Standards Alignment. Would you rather watch a 2 minute tutorial? Download the file below to access a Windows Media file.
Previously, we created Course Outlines. Now, let's add new lessons to existing course outlines in MYcaert.com. At times, you may discover you wish to add lessons to your existing course outlines. Simply log in and select the lesson plan library needed. Once highlighted, click the floating submit button. Next, select the units desired. Click submit. Finally, select the lesson plan titles you wish to add to your existing course outline, by checking the red boxes next to the titles. At the top of the screen click "Select All Lessons Below", if necessary. Select the Existing Course Outline from the second selection box, and click "Save". Additionally, you may wish to search for specific lesson plans. First, hover over My Courses, and select "Generate List of Caert Materials--> By Vocabulary Term(s)". Next, search by a specific term for the lessons you need. For example, “communications" was used to add to an Ag Business Course Outline. A list of materials matching the term(s) used is generated. Select the lesson(s) you desire to add by holding "CTRL" and clicking more than one lesson title. Click “Submit Query” in the right corner of the screen. Next, select the lessons desired by checking the box next to each red title. Then Select "Save to Existing Course Outline" and find the course outline you desire. Finalize by clicking “Save.”
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