1. Apex Updates 2010-2011 School Year

2. The New Look of Apex

3. Details, details, details…. 1.Teachers click on the tab to create new classrooms 2.System Check Up is now on the page 3.Grade Book now has a W I D E R display 4.Use the button to create a student, classroom, or announcement 5. The Alert indicator is now a flashing red dot

4. A Change of Vocabulary Old → New My School → Home Current Enrollments → Courses Section → Course Tools → Tabs + Quick Links User Profile → My Profile Manage Accounts → Staff + Students New → Add Expired student → Archived student Log In; Log Out → Sign In; Sign Out Product Type → Solution

5. New Copy Feature Copy Classroom Feature You can now copy courses that HAVE NOT BEEN UPDATED. You open your 2009-2010 course and then click “copy”. You will just have to change the course name.

6. Course Configuration Our course configurations have been set for our site. –Mastery 80% –# of Attempts = 3 –Open-book Assessments –Randomized question order –Do not show question feedback –Do not allow answer review Students will automatically be withdrawn from a course if they do not log in for 25 consecutive days

7. New Copy Feature What is copied? Course settings Outline Manager changes: Hidden + Additional activities Grade Book settings: Excluded + Proctored activities Teacher enrollments What is not copied? Student enrollments Due dates

8. Grade Book Syncs to Outline Manager

9. Course Customizations All course customizations should occur using the Outline Manager. What if I unhide an activity using the Outline Manager? The activity will not be automatically un-excluded in the Gradebook. This is a one-way feature meaning if you… –Hide an activity = the activity is Excluded automatically –But if you want to add it back in = you will have to make changes in the Gradebook

10. Print All Printable Student Activities