Mastery Connect Francis Howell School District Beginning Year 2

 Training video location - HowellNet  Logging into MC  Set up building PLC Teams in addition to district Team  How to access district curriculum map (if one created) and create tracker from the C-Map  Create/share daily Touchpoints to monitor progress  Using MC for anecdotal notes  Install Grade Cam  Launch Socrative from within MC Objectives

 Training videos and help documents will be placed on HowellNet at the following location: Sign-in to HowellNet: Collaboration Sites> Teachers and Staff Resources> Mastery Connect> MC in > Or Link from tinyurl.com/hollenbecktechtinyurl.com/hollenbecktech HowellNet

  Click login  Username is your FHSD address  If password forgotten, click forgot password at bottom of box  Re-enter your fhsd and click submit Log in to Mastery Connect

Teams are a great way for PLCs to be connected. You are a member of a district PLC and a member of a department/grade level PLC. If your department chair has already added your Team, GREAT! Any missing members can be edited into the Team If not, click on the top right under Learning Community to add team. To edit team, under your team name and next to # of members click edit. Next to collaborators type in the rectangle the person’s name you need to add and hit enter- then click update Video to set up team: MtclI5OFk/edit?usp=sharing MtclI5OFk/edit?usp=sharing TEAMS - Accept District PLC Create/Accept Building PLC

Click on Learning Community Click on my school- if your job-alike is set up, under his/her picture- click follow Click on my district- narrow the search to your grade level and content area- under the picture, click follow You don’t have to accept/decline, you just get an saying someone is now following you Their new postings and yours will show up in the newsfeed unless you change the setting Video to follow job-alike PTE82SWM/edit?usp=sharing PTE82SWM/edit?usp=sharing Follow your PLC members

 From your home page click on Mastery Tracker  Click on Curriculum Map  Click on Shared with me  Next to the title of the map click create tracker  Create a name for your tracker (Ms. Smith's Math or ELA and include other info such as and the class hour)  Choose a color for that class/tracker  Select import students from SIS  Click Create Tracker  Some maps are large and can take up to 5-7 minutes to finish. You will see a spinning icon to show it is working.  dWYWM/edit?usp=sharing dWYWM/edit?usp=sharing How to Access District Curriculum Maps

 Go to Mastery Tracker  Click on the Tracker you want to work in  At the top next to the orange square with the three white lines is a white square with color squares. Hover your mouse over this white square.  Uncheck any units that you do not want showing in your tracker (this does not delete them, only hides them). This is also how you unhide them too.  GxXTlB6ME0/edit?usp=sharing GxXTlB6ME0/edit?usp=sharing How to hide units in my tracker

Click Common Assessments Click add assessment on right Fill in the information needed (subject, grade level, core/GLEs, standard or multi-standard, etc.) Upload the file from your computer Set your privacy settings. If you created it yourself, it can be shared with community. However, if you are using ANY copyrighted materials, or it is our district common assessment you must have the setting to district private or private to me. After filling in alignment, answers, point values, mastery level, and tags (if you will be using), click create assessment and then add to tracker. WEk/edit?usp=sharing WEk/edit?usp=sharing Create Daily Touchpoints (quick Formative Assessments) to monitor progress

Click Common Assessments To get an assessment from someone on your team who you are following, just go to your newsfeed, find the assessment, and click add to tracker To get the assessment from your teammate just fill in teachers: from my school, add in the subject and grade level to filter if needed. If you want to add the assessment with no modifications just click the add to tracker tab on right- To add an assessment from the community, please view the video below. 9fRHJSYlk/edit?usp=sharing 9fRHJSYlk/edit?usp=sharing Add daily assessment from the community

This quick video will show you how to create an assessment of your own, add it to your tracker and then score it. ZzdWYWM/edit?usp=sharing Quick Assessment Video create – add - score!

 mQwX3pwMms/edit?usp=sharing mQwX3pwMms/edit?usp=sharing  Click tracker  Next to student name click edit  Click student notes  Click edit  Type your notes and date them  Hit save Individual Student Anecdotal Notes

With all new laptops in the district, many will need to install the driver to make the webcam work with MC.  The first time you try to use your camera (to score an assessment) you will be asked to install the Grade Cam driver necessary for your computer.  Click install  Click run  Allow java always on this site Install Grade Cam

Mastery Connect has purchased the tech product Socrative. It is free for us to use and can be accessed from within your MC login. It is available to you if you wish to use.  Can launch from homepage on top right  Can launch from your tracker Launch Socrative from MC