Curriculum Admin > Pending Materials

Pending Approval (Materials)

Any materials users create have an initial status of Private and may only be found and edited by that user. If a material (Curricular Unit, 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., Resource, or Assessment) might benefit other users, it can be submitted to a materials bank for review and approval. Depending on how the system is configured, it may also possible for users at a school only to submit their materials for approval and keep their status Private (not add it to the school’s bank). Administrators may also configure the system so that users at schools or regions submit materials directly to the district bank, bypassing their schools or regions.

Users with permissions to review instructional materials at their default institutions can review materials that have been submitted for approval by visiting the Materials tab on the Pending Approval page. The built-in filter and paging options make it easy to locate materials meeting specific criteria that have been submitted for approval. If desired, users can print a pending material using the print icon in the upper right corner.

Once approved, materials that were submitted to an institution’s bank are available to users belonging to that institution (or to institutions that belong to it). Materials that are linked to a parent material are automatically submitted to an institution's bank if the parent material is submitted, even if the linked material's status is private.

To learn how to submit materials for review, see Material Details.

ClosedTo view and approve pending materials
  1. Do one of the following:
    • Go to Curriculum Admin > Pending Materials.
    • Go to Instructional Materials > Find Materials, and then click Pending Materials.
  2. Search for the material or materials, and then select the appropriate rows. You can filter, sort, and hide columns as needed. You can also click the material name for a single item and approve from there. By default, pending materials are ordered by date submitted.
    • The grid may also include a column with the count of approvals still required to add any material to the institution’s bank if administrators have configured the bank to require more than one approval per material.
    • For school reviewers only, the grid may also include a column indicating the target date submitters entered for any materials they submitted for private use approval.
    • Users at the state level who have permission to manage curriculum can also find any Curriculum or Curricular Unit that has been submitted to the state.
  3. Click one of the following:
    • Approve materials that are ready to be shared with all users in the institution named at the top of the page. Linked materials, if applicable, will also be shared.
    • Return materials that require further revision before they can be approved.
  4. You can enter comments that will be added to the review history, add artifacts such as files or URLs, and choose to send an email notification of the action.

Materials that are not currently pending cannot be found in Pending Materials. This includes materials that have been returned, private materials that have already been approved, and materials that received the required number of approvals to be added to a public bank. To remove a material that has already received final approval and added to your institution’s bank, use the Instructional Materials search to find it, click its title, and use Remove from School|District|State Bank. If that option is not available, then the material may no longer belong to your institution’s bank.

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