Comprehensive Grade Reporting will provide educators a simple way to access student progress.

Educator First Impact:

• Educators will now be able to quickly show student progress reporting that reflects the difference in student progress and performance.

Call Outs: 

• The Performance and Progress Summary Report will now include a column for Course Grade.
• The Year-to-Date Score will be updated to “Current Grade” to help differentiate student scores between total points possible on assignments both completed and incomplete.

Questions on Comprehensive Grade Reporting? Click here to submit them! We'll respond or add them to future training sessions. 

Keyboard Navigation is an accessibility feature that will allow students to access functionality and navigate content, as well as to complete assessments and other tasks while using Calvert curriculum and CTN to complete their schoolwork.

The update will include:

• A Daily Schedule that the user can tab through on the page
• The ability to tab out of a page that is playing a video
• Updated Tool Tips
• Login errors shown in an area easily read by a screen reader

Questions on Keyboard Navigation? Click here to submit them! We'll respond or add them to future training sessions. 

Grading Period Reporting will provide Educators a method to establish flexible grading periods within CTN that will allow them to segment the course curriculum according to their school’s unique reporting periods.

Highlights to Sell:  

• Educator First Impact
  • Admins can set Grading Period type and dates from the Administrator Settings screen in CTN. A set number of pacing days corresponds with each period to ensure appropriate sequencing in the course.
• Efficiency
  • For mid-sized to large districts, educators, administrative staff, and Learning Guides will be able to quickly generate reports for distinct grading periods that capture all student work on the pacing days allocated to those periods and nothing else.

Call Outs: 

• Edmentum curriculum experts have set default Grading Period breakpoints for the 2022-23 school year.
• School Administrators can change the Grading Period type and dates at any time. Once entered, the dates for each type will save even if another period is selected so that they don’t need to be re-entered if Admins need to switch back to the type used earlier.
• The teacher can view the Grading Period set for the institution by viewing the course. There is a toggle to display or hide Grading Period breakpoints in the course structure.
• Grading Period reporting will not carry over to Genius. This is a CTN-only feature.
• The Performance and Progress Summary Report and the Target Percent Complete reports can be run using the Grading Period set for the institution. 
• If an institution needs to adjust the Grading Period breakpoints, they can request that a special Curriculum Administrator user role be created for an individual with curriculum decision-making authority. That user will be able to adjust the breakpoints for each type as necessary to suit their institution’s curriculum sequence.

Resources:

School Administrator setting Grading Period date ranges:

Teacher/Support Educator/Learning Guide/Admin generating reports with Grading Periods enabled:

Curriculum Administrator viewing Grading Period breakpoints:

Questions on Grading Period Reporting? Click here to submit them! We'll respond or add them to future training sessions. 

This release enables educators to set an individual learner’s pacing day to an earlier or future day and choose additional actions they would like to take for the impacted lessons. Teachers may choose to grant retakes for submitted lessons when resetting the pacing day, and to omit lessons to exclude from the student’s grade when advancing it.

Highlights to Sell:  

• Educator First Impact
  • The ability to adjust pacing will enable educators to both advance and reset students’ pacing days while choosing to grant retakes or omit lessons.
  • An easier way to correct students mistakes without needing to invest significant amounts of time or wait for a support ticket to reach the dev team.
• Efficiency
  • This release will ease a common administrative task to give back time to teachers so they can do what they do best—teach! 

Call Outs: 

• Lessons that have been omitted for the entire class cannot be restored at a student level.
• This feature is not intended to prevent students from proceeding past their pacing day if they figure out how to do so. Instead, this empowers educators with an easier way of addressing that when it happens.
• This release is a revision and rebranding to the functionality of Skip Lesson. The Adjust Pacing button has replaced Skip Lesson, and will now appear where the previous button was located on the Overview and Progress tabs in the Teacher Dashboard.
• Students can find retake notifications, along with any note from their teacher, on the Notifications screen as usual. Bulk retake notifications will be collapsed into a single notification item to prevent clutter or confusion on this screen.

Resources: 

Adjust Pacing Tool in CTN:

Adjust Pacing Icon:

Grant Bulk Retakes modal when resetting pacing day:

Grant Bulk Omits modal when advancing pacing day:

Bulk Retakes notification in Student view:

Retake designation in a student’s Suggested Daily Schedule:

Questions on Adjust Pacing Enhancements? Click here to submit them! We'll respond or add them to future training sessions.

Support Educators—IEP/504 coordinators, Special Education teachers, district-assigned tutors and counselors, and many others—play a major role in students’ learning. In our summer release, we have a new way of providing these educators with crucial visibility into student progress. We also have revamped our student selection UI for these educators and Learning Guides alike.

Highlights to Sell:  

• Educator First Impact:
  • This role will be available for school teaching and support staff, including IEP/504 coordinators, Special Education teachers, district-assigned tutors and counselors, and teaching assistants.
  • Enable districts to assign students to secondary/support educators, and empower those users with the same rights as a Learning Guide.
• Efficiency
  • Support Educators will have the same views to their students that a Learning Guide has. This includes the ability to view curriculum and progress, run reports, and add attendance time.
  • Support Educators can view multiple learners in different classes or grades, as assigned to them by their institution.
  • The ability to switch between tiles and list view

Call Outs: 

• Support Educator users will have the same views and permissions as a Learning Guide for their assigned students.

Questions on the Support Educator Role? Click here to submit them! We'll respond or add them to future training sessions.

In conjunction with the Support Educator Role, this release will update the landing screen UI so that Support Educators and all Parent-Type Users can toggle between an icon view and a new list view, regardless of the number of students associated with them.

Highlights to Sell:  

• Educator First Impact:
  • The landing screen will be easier to navigate and more informative for educators, regardless of how many students are associated with them.

Call Outs: 

• Users set up with the support educator role will have the same views as a Learning Guide with views into the students they are assigned to.
• Users will have the ability to toggle between the tile view or list view by their own preferences.

Resources: 

Grid View:

List View:

Questions on UI Enhancement for the Learning Guide and Support Educator Roles? Click here to submit them! We'll respond or add them to future training sessions.

We are now enabling institutions to easily control unit sequencing within a given course based on specific program, school, or district scope and sequence needs. A designated Curriculum Administrator at an institution now can drag and drop course units to "resequence" courses before the school year starts. This measure can help institutions align the student experience with broader pacing and reporting needs.

Highlights to Sell:  

• Educator First Impact
  • Unit Resequencing decreases the manual effort involved to set course-level changes in curriculum, originally only possible through the Omit Lesson and Skip Lesson tools, saving time and effort.

Call Outs: 

• A Curriculum Administrator can drag and drop units within a specific course up until the first learner has completed any lesson in the course.
  • As soon as a learner submits a lesson, the order locks into place and cannot be altered. For this reason, it is crucial that the Curriculum Administrator finalize all desired sequencing changes before the beginning of the school year.
• Only a designated Curriculum Administrator will have access to this feature. Institutions must request to have this role added. This user should be the same person designated to adjust Grading Period breakpoints as well, if the institution opts to use that feature.
• The content of the unit cannot be altered, including the name of the unit.
  • If a content editor moves Unit 4 before Unit 2, the name of the unit will remain intact.

Resources:

Curriculum Administrator viewing Course Structure with movable units:

Curriculum Administrator reaching Save point after moving Unit 4 to first position:

Questions on Optional Unit Resequencing? Click here to submit them! We'll respond or add them to future training sessions.

Students, teachers, and administrators can use their school-issued Gmail or Office 365 accounts to log in to Calvert Learning via Genius access, enabling a higher level of integration between classroom software applications.

Highlights to Sell:  

• Educator First Impact
  • An easier Edmentum integration into your district technology ecosystem with single sign-on (SSO) capabilities for Google and Microsoft.
  • Single sign-on (SSO) provides an increased level of student data security and streamlines classroom technology use—ultimately reducing down-time and maximizing time for instruction.
  • Educators must navigate many systems with different entry points and passwords. We can help them make their experience of using our technology easier!

Call Outs: 

• This will be available to all Calvert Learning customers, including schools and districts using EdOptions Academy services.

Questions on Google and Microsoft SSO? Click here to submit them! We'll respond or add them to future training sessions. 

Virtual & Blended Learning (VBL) Roadmap Roadshow Recording: The Roadmap Roadshows are hosted by the product team to help highlight the recent and upcoming releases for the VBL Portfolio (Courseware, Courses, Calvert, BASE Education).

Summer 2022 Calvert Learning Release Narrative: This document showcases the finalized Calvert Release Narrative for Summer 2022.

What's New Videos – Calvert (2022-23 YouTube playlist)

Marketing has created 5 customer-facing videos that explain the highlights of Calvert's summer release items. Review each video to gain a deeper understanding of the features and how they support educators and students. Review last year's sneak peek videos here.