1. Kickboard Staff Training ACADEMICS
Overview – this slide deck (and accompanying facilitation guide) outlines Kickboard’s academic capabilities. Feel free to edit this powerpoint for your school’s needs. All parts of the site should take about 90 minutes to introduce.
PREWORK – if you are going to use gradecam, your staff will need to download the plugin before the training here: (don’t worry about steps 2 and 3). If you are going to model gradecam during your training, make sure you have printed bubblesheets to scan as an example.

2. ACADEMICS TRAINING AGENDA
General Site Overview
Making Groups
Creating Assessment Scorecards
Academic Data Analysis
Reports

3. Logging In To Your Kickboard Site
(no www)
Edit this slide by adding in your school’s Kickboard URL
Have teachers navigate to their site and login. (Remember there is no “www” at the beginning of the web address)
NOTE – Internet Explorer is not very compatible with Kickboard. Chrome is not compatible with gradecam. Try to use Firefox, or Safari.
TROUBLESHOOTING TIPS – you (the admin) can check each staff member’s username by navigating to settings → staff on your Kickboard site and clicking on anyone who is having trouble logging in. You can also reset their password and add their address on that page.
Username: first initial of first name + entire last name
Set Password: click “Forgot your password?”
Bookmark it!

4. Kickboard Overview
Navigating throughout Kickboard

5. Getting Around Kickboard
Introduce navigation banner at the top:
Go over each tab, left to right:
- Dashboard – teachers will default to a course dashboard, admins to the school dashboard. All users can toggle to each dashboard by selecting them in the dropdown under dashboards (even multi-school!). Dashboards are designed to give you a general overview of performance
- Students – information about specific students is found here. Student profiles can be found on the roster tab, master lists for groups to edit on the groups tab, as well as individual student Intervention plans.
- Academics – houses all functions for academics input and output (analysis and leaderboard). This is where your training will focus today.
- Culture – the culture tab will be on the site regardless of whether or not you are implementing the culture side of Kickboard.
Settings – for teachers this will only show “My Profile” and “Log Out”
? – links to help articles about the page you are currently viewing. At the bottom of the menu the “Explore the Knowledgebase” link will take you to Kickboard University – an archive of all help articles and directions from Kickboard. The “Ask a Question” link will create an sent directly to our tech support test with a screenshot of the page you are viewing (for technology troubleshooting)

6. Why Kickboard? Why Kickboard?
Have leaders explain why they chose to bring Kickboard to their school this year. What are they trying to achieve with the support of Kickboard?
This is pretty much just a teacher-facing version of their goal

7. Entering Academic Data
Entering standards mastery data from your assessments into Kickboard

8. Assessment Scorecards
Academics > Assessment Scorecards
Assessment Scorecards are how you enter skill mastery data in Kickboard.
This is where you you see all the assessments entered for each course (teachers will only see courses they are assigned to)
Click the “bright green button” to create a new scorecard.

9. Enter Scores by Skill
Entering scores by skill will give you an overall mastery percentage for each standard and subskill you enter.
It will not give a question-level breakdown of mastery.
Using this input method requires knowing the total points possible for each standard that was assessed.
Fill in the assessment details
Add additional skills that are on the assessment (gloss over the subskill option)
Choose the total points possible for each skill
Click Next

10. Add Students to the Scorecard
By Default all students in the course grade level will be selected.
Best practice – uncheck “select all” and then check off the groups to be included on this assessment.
You can even hand pick just some students from within a group (for a re-test, for example).

11. Manual Score Entry Manually enter students’ scores.
You can use your arrows or tab keys to move from cell to cell.
Kickboard does not recognize scores over 100%.
The cells will turn green as they automatically save in the system.
Each student’s overall score on the assessment will appear next to their name.

12. Questions?

13. Enter Scores by Question
By using the gradecam plugin with Kickboard, you can create bubble sheets for multiple-choice tests in Kickboard that align to your scorecard and the students you’ve selected.
Then scan the bubble sheets using your webcam or document camera and get instant mastery data at the question level.
Go to Academics → Assessment scorecards
Choose create a new scorecard
Fill in assessment details, choosing Enter Scores by Question

14. Align Questions to Skills
Change possible answer choices to align to your assignment (most often delete E)
Add additional questions until the total number aligns to your assignment (have them add 4, to make a 5-question quiz)
Choose a skill and correct answer for each question and assign the points possible. (make sure they select the same skill for multiple questions)
Click Next to choose the students.

15. Printing Bubblesheets
You can manually enter data by question also (just type in answers or scores like before).
But you can also use the integrated Gradecam feature to print pre-coded bubblesheets for each of your students.
Click on the Printer Icon to print the bubblesheets.
Ask them to bubble in some answers, as if they were students taking this quiz.

16. Scanning Bubblesheets
Once you’ve given the assessment, you will be able to scan in the bubblesheets to grade the tests instantly.
Academics > Assessment Scorecards, click the pencil icon to edit your assessment.
Back on the score entry page, click on the camera icon to scan the bubblesheets
Hold up a bubblesheet in front of your laptop camera
If you are the teacher scanning a stack of bubblesheets yourself, just hold up the next one and it will save it. You can quickly go through the whole stack.
If you want to have your students scan in their own bubblesheets, have them click the next button after they see their score. This will clear the results so that the next student doesn’t see.

17. Manually Edit Bubblesheet Answers
When you click done, you will be brought back to the score entry page, where you can edit the answer choices manually if you need to.

18. Questions?

19. Tracking Expectations
Use this opportunity to establish with your teachers the expectations for which types of assessments are to be tracked, department expectations (math should use gradecam) etc., and how often assessments are expected to be in the system. If this is going to be incorporated into your meeting structure, discuss how!

20. Analyzing Academic Data
Meaningful, flexible skill-level analysis of assessment data

21. Single Assessment Analysis
Click the analysis bar graph icon.
Single Assessment Analysis page shows each students overall score, plus their scores per skill.
Along the top column, you see each skill assessed and a overall average for the skill and a mastery breakdown.
The color coding on this page, is based on the Mastery Legend thresholds.
You can re-sort and re-configure the data in lots of ways to help you answer questions (click on standard to sort highest to lowest. Click again for lowest to highest).
You can order the columns by mastery (to see which skills to celebrate and which to reteach).

22. Question-Level Analysis
If you entered the scores by question, you can dive even deeper by clicking “Show Details” under a skill.
For each question aligned to that skill, you see percent correct, plus which answer each student chose.

23. Answer Choice Analysis
Clicking on the magnifying glass, allows you to see a robust answer choice breakdown.
See how many students chose each answer choice.
Make a note about why you think the students may have chosen a distractor (great for teacher collaboration on common assessments).

24. Compare by Group Compare > Groups
This view allows teachers to compare performance by class.
Also allows for teachers to discuss performance with students and classes without specific student information on the board.

25. Multiple Assessments Analysis
Analyze > Multiple Assessments
This is most like a traditional Gradebook
Each assessment expands to show the standards assessed
Use Refine Your Results to filter by time span, specific assessments, or certain student groups.

26. Multiple Skills Analysis
Analyze > Multiple Skills
Shows all skills assessed and overall mastery for each (according to the filters you’ve selected under Refine Your Results)
Each standard expands to show the subskills tested.

27. Single Skill Analysis Analyze > Single Skill
Dive deep into that particular skill.
See performance by subskill, then each subskill expands to show each assessment it was tested on.

28. Academic Progress Reports
You can see all assessment scores and missing assessments
You can toggle to skill mastery. Re-sort by any column.
Teacher can filter down to a particular group and list all students and scroll through each of them.
There are a couple of ways to get to this report:
You can also jump here from the student profile or academic analysis.

29. Student Profile Students > Roster > bar graph
Shows student-specific information. Many sections are clickable and will link you to more details

30. Course Dashboard Dashboards> Course
This is the homepage for teachers (but admins can see it as well).

31. Schoolwide Dashboard- Academics
Dashboard > School > Academics
This defaults to showing data for the current week, but the date range can be adjusted.

32. Academic Leaderboard Go to Academics > Leaderboard
The academic leaderboard let’s you see student academic performance across all their subjects by ranking student by GPA.
View options:
whole year average or single marking period
GPA only, Score Only, or both GPA and Score
Filter to a specific group
Sort it by any column
Print and Export

33. Students & Groups
If you will be creating the groups for your teachers, review that they can create their own (pull out, tutoring, etc.) if they choose to, but you can skip that part of the training and just show them the groups that they have already been assigned to.
REMEMBER – data is attached to a student, not a group. Students can be in infinite groups and moved back and forth and it will not affect data that has been put in the system.
Managing your student roster and organizing students into groups

34. Managing Students Students → Roster Students > Roster
This is the place to find a student & dive into a student’s profile
Most pages on Kickboard have filters in the black bar. Here it’s Active/Inactive.
Also throughout Kickboard, most lists are sortable by clicking column headers (in the blue banner)
Click on the orange Bar Graph Icon to dive into a student profile (mention this icon is used throughout Kickboard to mean “analyze” or “dig deeper”)
Admins can edit individual student info from here

35. Student Groups Students → Groups What are groups?
Groups are how your students are organized in Kickboard to facilitate data entry.
The most common groups are Grade Level groups, Homeroom/Advisory groups, and Class Period groups.
Some schools create tutoring groups, after-school club groups, focus groups, etc.
Students can be in as many groups as they need to be in and teachers can have access to as many different groups of students as needed.
Groups can be created at any time by teachers or admins

36. Managing your Groups
Briefly mention that this page also has a black filter banner with more options, like “My Groups”
Then discuss the action cog options:
Add/remove myself (Admins can access all groups throughout the site, but teachers can only access the groups they are a member of)
Edit (admins can edit any group, teacher can only groups they are a member of)
Teachers that teach the same cohort of students don’t need to both create groups, they can just create one and add themselves to it.

37. Creating & Editing Groups
Create a New Group (another big green button!)
Select Grade(s)- groups can contain students from multiple grade levels, if needed.
Move to Students column
Click the expand arrow next to grade level
All students selected by default- click grade level check box to deselect all
Select specific students for this group
Default Groups- Each student has 1 default group. This is usually the group you would want to hand out printed reports to, like a homeroom or advisory.
Move to Staff Column (admin only, teachers can only see whose assigned, not change it)
Click Create New Group
Editing a group uses the same interface- click edit under the action cog, make changes, save.

38. Our Plan for Groups Who is creating groups?
More of a planning question - do teachers need to know how to make groups? Do you need time during training for them to make their groups?

39. Reports
Kickboard offers a variety of ways to communicate with your staff and your families about their student’s progress
Kickboard offers a variety of ways to communicate with your staff and your families about their student’s progress

40. Student Reports
Teachers can edit the report templates that already exist or create a new one from scratch.
Go to Reports > Student Reports
Step through the screen instructions with them.
This is where you can see all the reports available to run, with the ones you’ve run recently in the top section.

41. Student Reports- Creating a Report
Click the green Create a New Report button

42. Student Reports- Running a Report
To run a report, click run.
Then you must select your report filters:
Date range
Sort by (i.e. the order you want them to print, either alphabetical or alphabetical by default group)
If your report includes academic info, you can select all courses or just a specific course.
Then you choose which students you want to print reports for. It can be a whole grade level, whole group, or even just one student.
Click Run Report
You can go ahead and print, or cancel the print job and review the reports on the Kickboard page.

43. Our Reports
Will you be sending home a weekly report? What is going to be included on the report? (academics and behavior)
What are the expectations for students returning the report? (to be signed by a parent)
Can teachers use reports in their classrooms?

44. Parent Student Portal
If you plan on rolling out the parent student portal…
The portal contains four sections:
Academic- The student’s current overall course grades
Missing Assignments- Any assessments flagged as missing for the student
Behavior- a summary of the student’s daily, weekly, and total point or dollar balances
Most Recent Behaviors- a list of the student’s 5 most recently recorded behaviors

45. Questions?