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Create Materials

Curriculum managers who have been provisioned with the Manage curriculum operationOperations are used to assign special site capabilities, such as editing page content or moderating forums. They are assigned to Roles. can create educational materials and quickly add these materials to their repository. Materials that can be created include curriculum, curricular unitThe largest "building blocks" of a curriculum., instructional unitThe generic name for educational material type that can be a “building block” of a curricular unit or stand alone as a thematic unit. Instructional units can cover a specific unit of time or content., lesson planA designed teaching approach to a specific portion (e.g., Understanding Quadratic Equations, Causes of WWII, etc.) of a complete curriculum., assessment, and resource. When creating new materialsMaterials is the generic term that encompasses curricular units, instructional units, lesson plans, resources and assessments. Public, shared materials are searchable in the Materials Bank., the properties that are available are dependent upon the type of material that is being created. These properties may include custom configurations for each material type. School districts determine the properties that are useful for their institutions.

You can verify your roles and operations by clicking My Account and looking under Other Roles and Operations.

ClosedTo create new materials
  1. Go to Curriculum Admin > Curriculum Manager.
  2. Click the New button.
  3. Select the material type: Curriculum, Curricular Unit, Instructional Unit, Lesson Plan, Assessment, or Resource.
  4. Define the material properties (* demotes a required field):
    5. Field
    Description

    Title*

    Enter a descriptive title for the material that will make it easy to locate later.

    Subject*

    Choose a subject.

    Grade Range*

    Choose a narrow grade range (e.g., 1 to 1) or broad grade range (e.g., 1 to 12).

    Description*

    Enter a synopsis of the material. The entered value displays in the search results.

    Duration

    Enter the duration of the new materials (e.g., days).

    Format

    Only appears if the new material is a resource.

    For Students

    This option is available only for the resource material type. Resources are tagged for student use and have content defined may be assigned by teachers. A resource can be linked to only one type of content within a File and URL type. However, more than one template may be used as the content type. Once a resource has been assigned to students, it cannot be deleted. The content for an assigned resource may be changed but the resource must be linked to content.

    • Yes - make the material visible to students.
    • No - make material only visible to educators.

    By default, materials that are not marked for students are visible only to educators and cannot be assigned to students.

    Author

    Indicate the author of the new material.

    Publisher

    If applicable, enter the name of the publisher (or leave defaulted to your institution's name).

    Keywords

    Associate keywords and phrases to make it easier to locate the material when searching.

    Rights

    Enter comments regarding publishing rules for a material.

    Additional Attributes

    Select 'Yes' to indicate additional properties for usage. 'No' is selected by default:

    • Cost - Requires an additional charge
    • Restricted - Use of the material is restricted
  5. Click Save as Draft to close or Save & Edit to save your work and access additional sections such as Content, Aligned Standards, Organizers, and Linked Materials.
ClosedTo add edit materials
  1. Go to Curriculum Admin > Curriculum Manager.
  2. Use the filter to locate the material.
  3. Select the check box for the material, and then click Edit.

Materials may only be edited by curriculum managers (with the manage curriculum operationOperations are used to assign special site capabilities, such as editing page content or moderating forums. They are assigned to Roles.) from the originating institutionInstitution refers to a school, region, district, or state.. This option will not be available for material that was created by another institution.

Enter optional information to provide additional information to optimize filtering.

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