illuminate training designed/ created by: susie calvin
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Illuminate Training Designed/
Created By: Susie Calvin
TABLE OF CONTENTS:1.) Logging in to Illuminate2.) Navigating the site3.) Using online help4.) Navigating the site (cont’d)5.) Working with rosters6.) Working with district assessments 7.) Creating/ Printing bubble sheets 8.) Scanning district assessments9.) Accessing the assessment results
Click on one of the topics to the left and you will be transported directly to that topic.
What is Illuminate?
Using Illuminate•The software is designed by teachers for teachers.• Illuminate is designed to replace PCG, NOT SYNERGY•The district goal is for teachers to use ILLUMINATE starting with the semester 1 final exam.
1.) This eliminates using the hand scanner (less time consuming).2.) Teachers can create their own summative assessments within the system with 5+ questions (great for closure at the end of class time).3.) Students can scan their own assessments using the teacher terminal.4.) Not comfortable with students near your computer? No problem!5.) You can collect the students’ bubble sheets & then scan on your own time. 6.) Immediate results!
POSITIVES USING ILLUMINATE
1.) Promethean remotes are not useable “at this time.” District is aware & is looking into a solution.2.) Have to use the camera on the laptop to scan using “on the fly” and/ or hover cam.3.) There is a “potential” problem with lights in the classroom causing a “glare” with scanning.4.) Windows in a classroom “could” also cause a glare.5.) Can disconnect the monitor from the unit & walk around, BUT there “can” be Wi-Fi difficulties and/ or glare from the classroom lights.
POTENTIAL PROBLEMS USING ILLUMINATE
GOOGLE CHROME OR FIREFOX ONLY
1. LOGGING IN TO
ILLUMINATE
LOGGING INGo to this website: https://phoenixunion.illuminateed.com
1. Type in: Username used for the district
2. Type in this password: welcome
3. Password will prompt you to change once you are logged in (recommended: use the same password for synergy).
4. Then Click “Next”
{This is also accessible on the Phoenix Union Website under “staff”}
CHANGING PASSWORD• Type in your password twice and click on the Save button.
CHANGING PASSWORD LATER
• You can change your password easily here.
LOGGING OUT
• Sign out is under CONTROL PANEL if you don’t logout, it doesn’t turn off (the browser remains open for a period of time).• You can be logged in at multiple locations/ browsers.
2. NAVIGATING THE SITE
This is the Dashboard Page
HOMEPAGE= MY DASHBOARD
CONTROL PANEL
• The Control Panel will drop-down messages regarding new releases and/ or updates automatically when you log-in.
3. USING ONLINE HELP
Illuminate Education
• Take a guided tour to learn all of the tools this software has and how to use them through Illuminate Education.
• Illuminate U has videos about everything
ANOTHER LOCATION FOR HELP• The Control
Panel tab offers another location for finding “Lessons & Videos”
• The Illuminate Announcements widget will give you messages and helpful hints.
ILLUMINATE ANNOUNCEMENTS
4. NAVIGATING THE SITE
( continued)
WIDGETS• Widgets are
customizable with categories you wish to have on your dashboard.
BULLETIN WIDGET• The Bulletin
widget will show district announcements & CANNOT be moved or changed by the teacher/ user.
ADDING/CUSTOMIZING WIDGETS
• Widgets are customizable with categories you wish to use to personalize your workspace/ dashboard.
OPENING WIDGETS• Currently
these widgets are closed
• Click on the arrow facing down on a widget and the widget will open.• Click on the arrow facing up and the widget will close.
OPENING WIDGETS
SEARCH MENU
• Helpful for looking for specific categories, tips, and students.
FAVORITES• Scanned
Assessment reports can be found here on your Dashboard
CHANGING THE DATE•You can easily change the Enrollment/ Rostering Date under the Control Panel tab. • It defaults with the access date.
5.Working with
Rosters
ADDING/CUSTOMIZING WIDGETS
• Add Class Roster
CLASS ROSTER DEFAULTS TO THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE
•When teachers log-in the next time the rosters will appear automatically.
MOVING THE ROSTER WIDGET• You can move the roster by grabbing the widget and moving it where you want on the page. • In this example it is moved to the top left.
Downloading Rosters From the System & Onto
Teacher Computer
DOWNLOADING A ROSTER
•A roster can be downloaded as an Adobe PDF file or a MS Excel worksheet.
MS EXCEL WORKSHEET• The file downloads with ease and is organized/ labeled nicely.
• The file downloads with ease and is organized/ labeled nicely.
ADOBE PDF WORKSHEET
6. WORKING WITH DISTRICT ASSESSMENTS
Assessments
“LIST ASSESSMENTS” UNDER “ASSESSMENTS”
ACCESSING/ USING DISTRICT CREATED CRTS1.) Click on 2015-2016 under year & don’t worry about the other categories.2.) Click “Search.”3.) Next, click on the appropriate CRT in the display window below.
EXAM PROMPTS YOUR NEED FOR
ANSWER/ BUBBLE SHEETS
1.) Click on “Print Answer Sheets” for pre-slugged district bubble sheets2.) Or, click on camera scan for on-the fly scanning.
Viewing District CRTs
VIEWING DISTRICT CRTSThis exam is locked and cannot be looked at and/ or edited except by the person who created it.
If the test is locked then this is the message box teachers will see.
Even though this says teachers can “View & Download” it is actually locked.
VIEWING DISTRICT CRTSThe box with an arrow shows the Current Permissions allowed. In this case the assessment can be viewed & downloaded.
BUT, this cannot be edited.
This is the message box when the box & arrow is clicked on.
VIEWING DISTRICT CRTSStudent View of the Assessment Teacher View of the Assessment
7. CREATING/ PRINTINGBUBBLESHEETS
WORKING WITH BUBBLE SHEETSThis is a blank bubble sheet where students will need to bubble in their id #
This is a pre-slugged bubble sheet with student information included.
PRINTINGPRE-SLUGGED ANSWER SHEETSSTEP 1.) Go to Assessments,STEP 2.) Print Answer Sheets
STEP 3.) Make sure you’re on “Print Pre-Slugged”
PRINTINGPRE-SLUGGED ANSWER SHEETS
STEP 4.) Click on “Generate”
PRINTINGPRE-SLUGGED ANSWER SHEETS
STEP 5.) A “pre-slugged” generated bubble sheet*Student Name/ id # is on the top
PRINTINGPRE-SLUGGED ANSWER SHEETS
STEP 6.) Downloading generated bubble sheets to save to computer
PRINTINGPRE-SLUGGED ANSWER SHEETS
PRINTINGPRE-SLUGGED ANSWER SHEETSSTEP 7.) Downloadingbubble sheets & saving to your computer.
Advanced Options with
Bubble Sheets
• You can add messages to the answer documents.
ADDING HEADERS & FOOTERS TO ASSESSMENTS
Automatic Default
Automatic Default
• You can add messages to the answer documents with the header and/ or footer.
HEADERS & FOOTERS
• Add the classes you wish to create pre-slugged bubble sheets.• Type in the # of
questions you want.• Then press
“Advanced Options”.
PRINTING MORE THAN ONE PRE-SLUGGED BUBBLE SHEETS
• The system defaults at one pre-slugged answer document per page. • Click on the arrow on “One
Form Per Page” to remove the default.• Next click “generate”.
PRINTING MORE THAN ONE PRE-SLUGGED BUBBLE SHEETS
• The system will now print two pre-slugged answer documents per page.• You can Xerox copy these
sheets so you don’t have to keep downloading and printing
TWO PRE-SLUGGED BUBBLE SHEETS PER PAGE
Printing Multiple Blank Bubble Sheets
Per Page
PRINTING MULTIPLE ANSWER SHEETS PER PAGE• STEP 1.) Under “Assessments” a drop-down menu appears with these 3 possible options
PRINTING MULTIPLE BUBBLE SHEETS PER PAGE
•Choose 10, 25, or even 50 questions (pre-made).
CREATING MULTIPLE BUBBLE SHEETS USING GRADECAM DIGITS GUIDE•Choose the “7-Digit GradeCam IDs” on page 6 (our students have a 7 digit # for their id #’s)
2 sheets per page
YOU CAN EVEN PRINT BUBBLE SHEETS WITH A LARGE NUMBER OF QUESTIONS
25 questions
50
questions 100 questions
BUBBLE CHOICES NEEDEDAn assessment can be made with however many questions are needed, so long as the document’s answer key is programmed into the system.
8. SCANNINGDISTRICT
ASSESSMENTS
PRACTICING SCANNING TECHNIQUES
•STEP 1.) Click on “Assessments”;
•STEP 2.) Click on “List Assessments”;
MARYVALE PRACTICE ROUNDSTEP 3.) Click on “2015-2016”
STEP 4.) Click on the desired CRT. For this example choose: “Maryvale Practice Round”
STEP 5.) Click on the “camera icon” to begin scanning
STEP 6.)-By default this will tell you to install, BUT just click on “Continue without”
SCANNING BUBBLE SHEETS
ALIGNING THE BUBBLE SHEET
STEP 7.) The bubble sheet needs to be aligned properly in front of the camera
SCANNING STUDENT RESPONSES
STEP 8.) The entire bubble sheet will outline in green, scan, & save results immediately
These are immediate results for just one (1) student.
BUBBLE SHEETS• Students can use a
pencil or a pen when choosing their answers.
• The bubbles don’t have to be perfectly colored in; the scanner will still
scan their answers.
Scanning Teacher Made Assessments
QUICK TEACHER ASSESSMENTS USING “ON THE FLY”
• On the Fly automatically defaults.
QUICK TEACHER ASSESSMENTS USING “ON THE FLY”• Type in the
number of questions you have.
• Then click “okay”
CREATING AN ANSWER KEY USING “ON THE FLY”
• Type in the answers for each question,
• Then click “Continue without”
SCAN BUBBLE SHEET FOR “ON THE FLY”• Illustrated
here is a blank answer document
9. ACCESSING ASSESSMENT
RESULTS
These are “basic” immediate results for four (4) students.
STUDENT RESPONSES: SCORE DISTRIBUTION
STUDENT RESPONSES: SCORE DISTRIBUTION VIA EXCEL WORKSHEET
Stud
ent
ID #
/ N
ame
Vers
ion
# Co
rrec
t
Answer choices the students chose.# Co
rrec
t
# Co
rrec
t
STUDENT RESPONSES: RESPONSE FREQUENCY VIA EXCEL WORKSHEET
LIST ASSESSMENT MASTERY GRAPHIC
LIST ASSESSMENT STANDARD PERFORMANCE &
LOWEST PERFORMING QUESTIONS