Adding Competencies to Assignments

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Adding Competencies to Assignments

• Update 12/13/04

STI Classroom
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Copying assignments from one class to another
does not copy skills/competencies!

• Many of you copy your assignments from one class
  to another.
• You should be adding skills, but if you have been
  copying activities, the skills have not copied
  from the other class.
• This means that it may be necessary to check
  assignments to see that you have
  skills/competencies attached.
• If skills/competencies are not attached, you will
  want to add them to the assignment.

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Adding Competencies/Skills to an assignment

• When creating a new assignment, click on Insert
  under skills.
• Choose which skill you would like to address on
  that particular assignment by clicking on the
  skill/comp.
• You should choose only 1 skill/comp per
  assignment.
• After selecting which skill/comp the assignment
  addresses, click Apply.

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Moving Assignment to Lesson Plan

• You will return to the assignment screen, but
  before you hit OK, I recommend that you put a
  check in Move to Lesson Plan. Now you can hit
  OK on the assignment.
• When you hit OK, you will have a window come up
  that says Create Lesson Plan From Activity. It
  is best to put a check in all 3 boxes and then
  hit OK.
• The Lesson Plan is an additional feature that
  could help with assignment planning as we move
  into next semester and next year.

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New way to copy Assignments

• Previously I had instructed to copy assignments
  using the Gradebook menu and Copy Activities.
• It does copy activities, but we have found out
  recently that it does not copy skills/competencies
  .
• We should no longer copy activities this way!
• A new way to copy activities, which will copy
  skills, is the Activity Import/Export feature.
• It is a very easy way to copy activities from one
  class to another.

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Copying Activities from one class to another
(with skills/comp)

• Go to the Activity List screen for the class with
  activities you want to copy.
• Click on Export on the bottom right corner of the
  window.
• A message telling you to select activities will
  pop up and hit OK.
• Select the activity(s) you would like to
  copy/export. You can pick more than 1.

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Exporting Assignments

• After clicking on the assignments that you want
  to export, click on export again.
• It will ask if you do want to export. Click on
  yes.
• Now that they are exported, you can import them
  into other classes.

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Importing Assignments

• Go to the class gradebook that you want to copy
  activities to.
• Go to Define Activities.
• Now you will click on Import.
• When you click on import, you will see the
  assignments that you exported from the other
  class.
• Select the assignments that you want to copy and
  click on import.

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Importing Assignments

• After you choose to import you will have another
  window pop up.
• You can choose to retain dates and skip if the
  category doesnt exist.
• THE IMPORTANT PART IS TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU PUT A
  CHECK IN THE IMPORT SKILLS IF LINKED.
• When you click on apply, the assignment, along
  with the skill/competency, will now be
  copied/imported to the class.