Project Lead the Way LMS Welcome to the Project Lead the Way Learning Management System Workshop Charise Williams Project Lead the Way Career Pathway Coordinator Long Beach Unified School District

 What is the Learning Management System?  Why Use It?  How Do I Get Started? How to Access myPLTW  Know Your User Rights-What You Have Access to  Rostering-Enrolling Your Students  Learning the Interface  Access to Courses  Managing Classrooms  Managing Assessments  Download EoC Scores  LMS-Teacher vs. Student View  Let’s Take it “Home”  Module Browser  Files  Syllabus Setting  Outcomes LMS Learning Management System Workshop Long Beach Unified School District2

 Us vs. Them-The Gradebook Debate  How to Use Grading Tools  Activity #1-Grade a student’s work using Interactive Grading Tools  Activity #2-Grade using Speed Grader  Other Uses for the LMS  Announcements/Calendars  Groups  Quizzes  Content Maps  Content Blueprints  PLTW Assessment Bank  End of Course Exam  Activity #3-Create and Post LMS Quiz  Data-Course Analytics  ePortfolio  STEM Premier  Activity #4-Create an ePortfolio  Organize Sections  Add Pages  Customization  Q and A  Exit Survey  Dismissed: Go Use It LMS Learning Management System Workshop Long Beach Unified School District3

What Does it Do?  A way to simplify teaching and learning by connecting all the digital tools teachers use in one easy place. Long Beach Unified School District4

The Learning Management System The Digital Tool??

Why myPLTW?? myPLTW  Project Lead the Way uses Canvas/Instructure online classroom through the portal, myPLTW. LMS  It is the access point for the Learning Management System (LMS), which includes:  Management of Student Rostering  Access to End of Course Assessment (access is dependent on the user role).user role  Course Curriculum and Files  Grades and Attendance  Professional Learning Communities and Professional Development Long Beach Unified School District6

What is the Learning Management System? an online educational management system that allows PLTW to:  Deliver course content in a more flexible format than the dated.chm file type.  Enable more frequent and timely updates to course resources.  Facilitate more collaborative learning and robust professional learning communities across the PLTW network.  Increase your efficiency and effectiveness as a PLTW teacher by providing you with a customizable environment.  Support more in-depth and continuous teacher professional development opportunities. Long Beach Unified School District7

 Access through my.pltw.org I How Do I Get Started? ….. Long Beach Unified School District8

 Frequently Asked Questions Frequently Asked Questions LMS Home Screen Welcome to myPLTW Long Beach Unified School District9

Know Your User Rights Long Beach Unified School District10

 Rostering needs to be done for the following reasons:  Allows teachers to enroll students into the PLTW Learning Management System (LMS)*  Allows teachers to register their Computer Science, Engineering, and/or Biomedical Science students for the End of Course Assessments**  Allows PLTW to better serve students by knowing more about the PLTW student population at the state and national level.  Your students will not be able to access the course through myPLTW. Rostering Rostering- Enrolling Your Students Live View Long Beach Unified School District11

How Do I Use It? Features Features Long Beach Unified School District12

 Access to Courses Long Beach Unified School District13

Long Beach Unified School District14 Access to Courses

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Long Beach Unified School District16 Managing Classrooms

Long Beach Unified School District17 Managing Classrooms

Long Beach Unified School District18 Managing Assessments

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Long Beach Unified School District20 Download EoC Scores

LF LMS Features  Teacher and Student View  Home Page Customization  Courses and Groups  Grades  Calendar Long Beach Unified School District21

LMS Features Long Beach Unified School District22

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Files Files Teacher Student Long Beach Unified School District24

Speed Grader  Show Grades  Ease of Grading Features  Point Type  File Type  Rubric  Peer Review  Group Points Long Beach Unified School District25

Activity #1 Long Beach Unified School District26 Task: Grade a piece of Student Work Using Interactive Grading Tools

Activity #2 Long Beach Unified School District27 Task: Grade a piece of Student Work Using Speed Grader Create a Grading Rubric

Modules and Assignments  Adding Modules  Adding Assignments  Editing Assignments  Adding Rubrics  Inserting Video Content (Insert Tacoma Narrows)  Inserting Links Long Beach Unified School District28

 Comments  Change settings/view .csv format to download and transfer to other grade books  Google Drive Integration and Other Grade books  Conference/Collaboration and Google Docs Using the Grading Tools Long Beach Unified School District29

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 How to Create Announcements  How to Create Groups  How to use in Group Projects (grading options) Announcements, Groups and Peer Review Long Beach Unified School District31

 Content Maps and Blueprints  Test Banks (Settings)  Creating Your Own Creating Quizzes and Tests Long Beach Unified School District32

Professional Learning Community  EoC Assessment Documents  Activity #3- Create a Quiz Sample Long Beach Unified School District33

EoC EoC EoC End of Course Exam  No exam for LAUNCH, Gateway, and EDD Long Beach Unified School District34

 What is STEM Premier? What is STEM Premier?  How does STEM Premier benefit PLTW students? How does STEM Premier benefit PLTW students?  How do my students subscribe to STEM Premier? How do my students subscribe to STEM Premier?  How can I encourage my students to take advantage of STEM Premier? How can I encourage my students to take advantage of STEM Premier?  Read our best practices on how to implement STEM Premier.best practices STEM Premier Long Beach Unified School District35

Portfolio ePortfolio  Set-up-Using the Getting Started Wizard  Customizing  Photos, Gravatar  Adding Sections  Innovation Portal (EDD PowerPoint link) Long Beach Unified School District36

 App for Both Android and Apple  Other Free Courses on CanvasFree Courses Canvas App & Stuff Long Beach Unified School District37

All Else Fails…  Use the HELP button  Frequently Asked Questions Frequently Asked Questions Long Beach Unified School District38

 Q and A  Exit Survey  Dismissed: Go Use It LMS Learning Management System Workshop Long Beach Unified School District39