The material's content may consist of on-screen text, a link to an external website, and/or a file attachment. If there is a file attachment, a clickable Attachment pill appears next to the Content pill, to allow you to navigate quickly to attached files, and icons indicate at a glance what kind of attachments are included. If populated, the following additional content properties show, as well:

• Aligned Standards: standards aligned to the material, shown under their standards documents. Only standards that are directly aligned to the material are listed here.

A link to View Mapped Standards appears if a material is aligned to standards that are mapped to other standards and that belong to a document in a standards set. Under any other circumstances, the View Mapped Standards link will not appear.

• Linked Materials: other materials that have been linked to this material. The linked materials are listed by material type, and the title of each linked material is a hyperlink to that material's detail page. If a linked material is removed from the materials bank you're using to link to it, the material will no longer appear as a linked material.
• Organizers: system-configurable tags for custom-categorized materials.
• Assigned by Me: for resources only; teachers can view and manage a historical listing of their assignments for a selected material. Click Sections assigned to view a list of sections that have been assigned the material.

The following material actions appear across the actions bar at the top of the page.

• Schedule provides options for scheduling materials to your personal lesson planner. Choose the calendar and date to schedule the material, then click either Save and Go to Planner or Save and Close. Repeat this process to schedule the material for multiple days. To access additional tools: Click the material name to open a page with material details and additional tools for applicable materials. This option is only available for curricular unitThe largest "building blocks" of a curriculum.(s), instructional unit(s) and lesson plan(s).
• Save / Remove saves or removes the material from the My Materials section of Search. The link to remove a material from My Materials will specify "Remove from My Materials" when you hover over it.
• View Related Materials displays a list of other public materials mapped to the same standard(s) as the material in view.
• Export create a PDF or Microsoft Word doc version of the material, including the material's content, tables in the content and in information about the material, the material's aligned standards, a list of any files attached to the material, and a list of external links. For more information on exporting a material, please see the dropdown in this help topic entitled "To export a material".
• New Linked Material allows you to create and add a new linked material directly from the material's detail page. Choose from the dropdown menu to add an Assessment or a Resource, or a Lesson Plan if you are starting from an Instructional Unit. After creating the new linked material, choose Save to go to the new material's details, or choose Save and Return to [material type] to return to the detail page of the material to which you linked the new one. New Linked Material is only available for Lesson Plans and Instructional Units.
• Build Express Test brings you to the express testA test that is generated by the system based on selected standards. creation page where the standards mapped to the material have been pre-selected.
• Assign a resource material to students for one or more classes and include instructions or comments. This option is only available for teachers who have been assigned sections and includes the ability to assign resources from their personal, public, and other content provider materials banks. Materials that are pending approval can also be assigned to students. Resources without content cannot be assigned by teachers to their students.
• Edit makes changes to the materials that you created or a copy of an existing material. This option is only available for materials from District/Local repositories.
• Copy creates and displays an identical copy of the material, amending the title with the word (Copy). The copied material is automatically added to My Materials.

These approval actions appear on the right side of the page. Some of these actions may vary, depending on the configuration of your Schoolnet site and on whether or not the material is part of an active review cycle. For actions taken, a timestamp appears next to the action in the material's review history.

You can review instructional materials, in order to share them with other users in the system. You can request, provide, and document approval for materials while keeping them private and available only to you, if your default institution is a school and if a system operator has enabled this option for one or more material types. If a system operator has enabled the option, you can also exchange artifacts that provide rationale for the material or prescribe specific edits during the review process.

• Submit to School|District|State Bank: send private materials that you have created to the materials reviewers for your institutionInstitution refers to a school, region, district, or state.. If the material is approved, the material’s status changes from pending to public, and the material is available in Search to others at your institution. If the material is returned, it reverts to the user who created it, who can edit and resubmit it, using the Resubmit button. If you have submitted a material, you can cancel the submission any time before its final approval. If you cancel the submission, it no longer appears on the Pending Materials list, but you can still access it as you did before submitting the material. Anyone else part of the review cycle may receive a notification of the cancellation. The option to submit a material does not appear for materials that are part of an active review cycle.

  Materials that are already public and belong to an institution's bank may be submitted to the next institution by any reviewer at its current institution. Any reviewer at a public material's current institution may perform any of the actions described above for private materials.

• Approve for School|District|State Bank to approve the material (with linked materials, if applicable) for use in a public bank. This option is only available for material reviewers. Comments related to this review cycle will also be visible. Some materials banks may require more than one approval. If more than one approval is required for the material you are approving, you will see the remaining number of approvals required. If your approval is the last one required, you will see a final approval notification. In multi-tenant environments, you may find the option to make this material accessible to users in all districts by selecting Designate as All Districts, if the system operator has enabled it.

  Be sure to check linked materials. When you approve a material for a public bank, the materials linked to it are also approved.

• Submit for Approval send a private material that you have created to the materials reviewers at your school for approval. If the material is approved, it will not become public. It will not be available to other users at your institution. For this option to be available, your default institution must be a school, and a system operator must enable it for the material type that you are submitting.

  If a private material is linked to a private parent material, and the parent material receives final approval, the private linked material is approved, as well. This will appear in the material's review history.

• Approve for Private Use to approve a material for its creator to use, without submitting it to a materials bank. Materials linked to the private material will also be approved for private use. Taking this step will also make that material unavailable again to you, unless the owner later submits it to the school bank.
• Remove from School | District | State Bank to remove a public material from its current materials bank. This option is only available for material reviewers. Materials that are pending approval cannot be removed. For state customers viewing the details of a Curriculum or Curricular Unit, you cannot remove that Curriculum or Curricular Unit unless it is already in the state bank. If you remove from a District bank a material that is shared with all districts, then none of the districts will have access to it. If you remove a material that contains linked materials, the linked materials will not be impacted.
• Return to return material that requires revision before it can be approved.
• Share with All Districts: A reviewer at the district level may share CU, IU, LP, A, and R type materials with users in all districts. Any linked materials included in 'All Districts' materials are only visible to users when the parent or 'source' material is accessed, unless that linked material was already or separately designated as 'All Districts'. This also applies newly linked materials attached to an All District material. This action does not appear in the material's Review History.
• Remove from All Districts:  Select this option to recall a shared material from other districts. This material is no longer shared, and any linked nested materials that were not separately designated as 'All Districts' are no longer visible or accessible to users in other districts. This action does not appear in the material's Review History.
• Add a Comment: When users take any of these actions, they may enter a comment to share with other users participating in the material review. A system operator must configure this before users can access it.
• Notify other Users: If the system is configured, a user who takes an action and other users who are part of a material review may receive system alerts or email messages when an action is taken.

You can also share artifacts such as files and URLs through the comments screen when submitting, returning, resubmitting, or adding non-final approval for a material. This functionality is available for Curricular Units, Curriculum, Instructional Units, Lesson Plans, Assessments, and Resources. Depending on configuration, you may receive a notification when artifacts are added or deleted. If notification emails are sent when submitting, returning, resubmitting, or adding non-final approval for a material, the shared artifacts will be linked in the notification emails. Submitters and reviewers can delete artifacts that were added with previous comments. Artifacts are intended to be a means to an end (a material or set of materials reflecting consensus of submitter and reviewers) and are not preserved for posterity. When a review cycle is closed (final approval is given, or submitter cancels submission), access to all artifacts shared during that cycles is removed, so save any artifacts you wish to keep and consult beyond the final approval.

You can rate a material for other users. Hover over the material's average rating to see the rating broken down by how many ratings it has at each rating level (1- 5 stars). You can also see the number of unique ratings that exist for the material. This feature is available for Lesson Plans, Instructional Units, Assessments, and Resources created within Schoolnet that are not private and are not created by the user entering the rating. Ratings may also be available for external materials that have ratings enabled. To rate a material, hover and click over the ratings stars, then select the number of stars you will rate the material. Your rating is submitted and saved when you click. After you have submitted a rating, you can remove your rating with the link that appears next to the material. If you want to change your rating, you can hover and click on the desired number of stars to overwrite your previous rating. Ratings are individual. One user cannot edit another user's rating, and one customer site cannot update another site.

A material's review history, including its status in a current review cycle, is visible to some users on the material details page. A Review History pane is part of the Material Detail screen, and the most recent step in the review process is also visible in the right sidebar, if the material is currently in review. Only review cycles in which the user participated or was authorized to participate are visible in the Review History. For example, a district reviewer would not see the details from review cycles to grant approval for private use or approval to add to a school’s bank.

When you export a material, you create a PDF or Microsoft Word doc version of the material, including:

• the material's content
• tables in the content and in information about the material
• the material's aligned standards (grouped by document)
• a list of any files attached to the material (but not the attachments themselves--attachments may only be viewed and downloaded when the material is viewed online)
• a list of external links (clickable in a Microsoft Word doc export).

If you create a PDF, it is downloaded automatically to your computer.

If you create a Microsoft Word doc, you will have a chance to modify the file title and select the location to which it will be saved before downloading the material. You can open the downloaded doc in Microsoft Word for Windows or Mac, or in Google Docs. For any images in the material, as much as possible, the Microsoft Word doc will use the same dimensions as the html. If the image's dimensions are too big, it will be scaled down proportionally, not trimmed.

Like the version online and the PDF, exported Word documents for Curricular Units, or any Curriculum that contains Curricular Units, may show some aspects of their linked Instructional Units in large tables.