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GOALS FOR THE DAY

1. Advanced Tips and Tricks in Forethought

2. The Team Planner

3. Formspace: PLC Form

ADVANCED TIPS AND TRICKS IN FORETHOUGHT

1.Bolded Dates2.Schedule Menu3.Default Text4.Switch Courses5.My Activities

ADVANCED TIPS AND TRICKS IN FORETHOUGHT:BOLDED DATES

If we master the bolded date phenomenon, master Forethought, will we. Yes.

How-To Video

ADVANCED TIPS AND TRICKS IN FORETHOUGHT:

SCHEDULE MENU•Access all entries on your schedule (click to add to your planner for a day)•Add a spot to make Notes for the Sub•Add a New Special Entry•Delete Today’s Plans

ADVANCED TIPS AND TRICKS IN FORETHOUGHT:DEFAULT TEXT

To ADD to the district template (Procedures area):

•Type what you would like to be repeated every day in your white space

•Click the wrench icon

•Choose to “Set as Default Text for Entry”

If we master the bolded date phenomenon, master Forethought, will we. Yes.

ADVANCED TIPS AND TRICKS IN FORETHOUGHT:

SWITCH COURSES

Integrate subject areas by switching the course curriculum so that you can work with TEKS from any of the courses you have on your schedule, no matter which course entry you are clicked in.

For example, I can be in my ELA entry box, but switch the course so that I can integrate Social Studies TEKS into a particular lesson.

ADVANCED TIPS AND TRICKS IN FORETHOUGHT:MY ACTIVITIES

Use My Activities to:-Bundle groups of TEKS-Save a lesson for future use-Plan a lesson before you know which date you want to teach it-Great potential for PLC work when asking the question: what should the students know and be able to do?

ADVANCED TIPS AND TRICKS IN FORETHOUGHT:MY ACTIVITIES

Once your standards have been selected, and any other lesson components that you want to save are completed, click the GEAR icon.

The activity will now be saved under the first standard that was selected.

You can open it, click Use in Plans and add it all to your plans automatically.

BUILDING A TEAM PLANNER

A Team Planner allows you to collaboratively plan for learning.

Each team member MUST copy lessons from the team planner to his or her own planner.

BUILDING A TEAM PLANNER

•Teams can be created by any teacher and only one member needs to create the team planner.

•Teams are collaborative and there is no "Team Leader."

•Team members can be added and removed by any member of the team.

•Once the last team member is removed, the team is removed from the system and all team content is erased!

•Team Planner Lessons should be copied to individual planners each week.

•Principals can view all team information and content.

BUILDING A TEAM PLANNER

•Click “Create a New Team” at the bottom left of your screen

•Click Next

•Give the Team a detailed and distinctive name.

•Your principal will see all Team Planners listed by the name written here.

BUILDING A TEAM PLANNER

•Click “Add a Member”

•It is usually best to search by last name only

•Once all team members have been added, click Next

BUILDING A TEAM PLANNER

•Add the courses for which you will be planning within this team

•You will add these courses the same way you did when you setup your own schedule

•You cannot rename courses in a team planner

BUILDING A TEAM PLANNER

*Note: If your individual planner has multiple entries attached to the same “course” (for example English Language Arts course for both the Reading and Writing Workshop entries), the entries in the team planner will need to be in the same order.

Since you cannot change the name of a course in the team planner, it will copy like courses to the teacher planner in the same order they occur in the team planner.

BUILDING A TEAM PLANNER

•Once you have added and organized all of the courses, click Next

•You are now ready to plan in a team

•Click “Return to My Planner”

WORKING IN YOUR TEAM PLANNER

•You will now see your Team Planner listed on the left side of your screen

•Click on the name of your team to enter the team planner

WORKING IN YOUR TEAM PLANNER

Adding content to a Team Planner

1. Select the entry and use the “Check out and edit” icon to check it out. (Shown above) If another team member has already checked out the lesson, you will be alerted and will have to wait until they save it.

2. The lesson becomes editable to add learning standards, attachments, etc. You will interact with the plan just like in your own planner.

3. Do not forget to save.

COPY TEAM PLANNER LESSONS TO YOUR PLANNER

•You may copy plans from the Team Planner to your own planner just like you did for a Shared Planner

•Use the calendar icon to View Week’s Plans and enter the Copy Wizard

•Select “Copy to My Planner” and select the appropriate options and dates

•You may NOT copy plans to other dates within the Team Planner, but you can copy them to the dates you want in your own planner

“STAMPING” YOUR PLANNER

•If you have not yet clicked on the dates in your own planner that you would like to copy to from the team planner, you will need to first “stamp” them with your current schedule.

•You will know if the dates are ready to receive the copying because they will be bold in your planner.

“STAMPING” YOUR PLANNER

•To quickly turn a whole week bold, click on any date on your calendar and then switch to the week view. The whole week will then be stamped with your current schedule.

This is important because your planner needs to have entries for the team planner content to land when you copy.

Do not stamp a lot of weeks in advance. Remember, if you need to edit your schedule, you will have to manually update all future bolded dates with your new schedule.

SWITCHING TO THE WEEK VIEW

•To view your plans by week, click on the calendar icon near the top right of the screen.

•Click on “View Week’s Plans”

COPY TEAM PLANNER LESSONS TO YOUR PLANNER

•To quickly copy the entire week’s plans to the same week in your own planner, click “Copy Week”

•Only those courses in the team planner that are also in your individual planner will copy

•If more than one entry appears for the SAME course, it will copy the first in the team to the first in the individual, the second in the team to the second in the individual, etc.

COPY ONE ENTRY FROM TEAM PLANNER

•To copy just one entry to another day (instead of copying the whole day’s worth of plans), follow these steps:

•Click on the notebook paper icon to send this lesson to a date in your planner•Select the date and course entry where you want the lesson to be copied. Click OK.

TEAM PLANNER DISCUSSION BOARD

•In the week view, a Discussion Board is available for your team

•Click on the speech bubble icon to open the discussion pane

•Click on New Thread to post to the board

TEAM PLANNER DISCUSSION BOARD

•To view a post, click on it and it will expand to the full post

•Click on “Email Author” to send a message to that one team member via email

•Click on “Reply” to post a message that the whole team will be able to see

•Use the Discussion Board to continue your collaboration virtually!

TEAM PLANNER DISCUSSION BOARD

•Click on the wrench icon for more options

•Change the order of threads on the discussion board

•Note the option to receive an email when a new post is added to the board

• The discussion board will refresh each week.

WHAT’S NEXT?CHANGE TEAM PLANNER SETTINGS

•You may change your Team Settings at any time

•Click “Change Team Settings” at the bottom left of the screen

•Team Information allows you to change the name of your team

•You may add or remove members and/or courses from your team planner

•Remember, if you delete every team member, you permanently delete the entire team planner and all of its contents!

INTRODUCING: FORMSPACE

•Formspace is now open to all Birdville eduphoria users!

•To start, each campus has a PLC form to use for guiding and monitoring PLC work. These forms will be submitted automatically to campus administrators.

-Login to eduphoria!

-Click on formspace

-Click to “Submit New Form”

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•Select the General Forms Category

•For now, ignore the other categories

FORMSPACE

•You will see the PLC form for your campus listed here.

•Click on it to get started!

FORMSPACE

• Click “Save Draft for Later” to save your form.

•The Printer icon will allow you to save the form as a file and/or print it out

•You may click the “Submit Form” button at either the top or bottom of the form to send it to your administrators

•You may Delete the form. It will not be retrievable after you delete it.

•You may email the form to your other PLC team members before you hit Submit.

• You will also receive an email when the form is submitted that you can forward to other team members so that they may view the form’s contents

•Spell Check feature is available

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BIRDVILLE EDUPHORIA! WEBSITE

• Use the eduphoria! Feedback and Support Form to get answers to all of your questions and provide feedback.

• Access all presentations, handouts, videos, and other resources for eduphoria! Applications, like Forethought.

schools.birdvilleschools.net/eduphoria