Ie class get startedguide

Getting Started Guide
Using IE Class

Teaching with IE Class
When you first log into IE Class it is easy to get overwhelmed with everything and trying to figure
out just how to get started can be difficult. We have tried to provide you with a variety of useful
tools for planning and managing your course. The aim of this guide is to help you get on your way
with using the resources available in the IE Class curriculum as well as all the tools and features.

The curriculum, activities, and resources should be used as a basis for your lectures and class
presentations. IE Class was not necessarily intended to be a self-taught course, or to replace the
teacher and actual classroom instruction. We have added this section to help illustrate how IE
Class was designed to be used within the classroom and to help you be more successful with its
implementation.

IE Class is a tool intended to assist you with your instruction and your students in learning how to
design websites. As the professional in the classroom, please take the time to prepare your
lesson plan and familiarize yourself with the material on IE Class before presenting the
information to your students. This could include reading the online lessons and working the labs
ahead of time. Please do not teach by just telling your students to read the lessons and to do the
electronically assigned labs. Complete and thorough lesson plans should be prepared, as with
any other course, in order to get the most benefit from IE Class. We have provided you with a
lesson plan manager where you can create, store, and exit your lessons plans online for easy
access. The Lesson Plan Manager is explained later in this packet.

Working the labs in advance is strongly recommended. It will help you anticipate areas where
your students may get confused and need something explained in a different way. It will also give
you an idea of how long the labs will take your student’s to complete.

Starting Out

The first Foundations lesson is just an informational unit showing the students how to use and
navigate IE Class, and a basic introduction to working online. This lesson should be covered first.

When teaching the first lesson, walk your students through the various units and lessons, Lab
Resources, Lab Checkpoints, Student Center, and the Assigned Labs section. Have them follow
along with you as you demonstrate. Next, walk them through creating the required folders as
specified in the lesson worksheet. Some students may not know how to navigate their computer’s
file system or create folders, so this might need to be explained as well. Next, you can go through
the information in the lesson and discuss with them the information presented. Finally have them
complete the worksheet on their own. Afterwards you may want to go back and review the
worksheet with them.

You might consider combining most of the Foundations Foundations HTML Lesson
lessons with other hands-on lessons, such as the HTML Lesson
lessons in Unit 3. Lesson 1 NONE
Lesson 2 Lesson 1
The Foundations Lessons are not necessarily designed Lesson 3 Lesson 2
to go with any specific HTML Lesson; in fact they can be Lesson 4 Lesson 3
covered individually. The chart is just one suggestion as Lesson 5 Lesson 4
to how the Foundations lessons might be combined with Lesson 6 Lesson 5
the HTML lessons, but they could just as easily be Lesson 7 Lesson 10
paired with any other lesson in the course. Lesson 8 Lesson 11

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Teaching the Lessons / Concepts
The procedure for teaching the material on IE Class is very much hands-on, by both the teacher
and student. Website design is a skill and most people learn it best by simply doing it. When
presenting a topic, the teacher and students should be actively involved in the process. As the
teacher demonstrates and explains, the students should be following along. In the example
below, HTML lists are being taught from HTML Lesson 2.

1. Introduction & Demonstration: Give the students a general overview of the topic and
its relevance to web design.
2. Guided Practice: Walk students through completing simple baby steps of the
concepts. Check for understanding by stopping and looking at their browsers and
code.
3. Independent Practice: Have students’ complete labs individually to reinforce the
concepts presented.
4. Review and Informal Evaluation: Discuss and review any areas of confusion.
5. Enrichment and Extension: Have students apply the concepts at a bit higher level.
This will challenge the student’s understanding of the skill and concepts.

1. Demonstration of the technique being presented.
a. Point out the unordered list & ordered lists.
b. Explain the differences in the two.
i. Point out the bullets of the unordered list.
ii. Point out the numbering systems of the ordered lists.
2. Walk the students through different practice segments.
a. Have the students follow along with you as you create an unordered list.
b. Have them save the practice and look at it in their browsers.
c. Mention that there are three available bullets and how to change the
bullet of their list.
i. Walk them through changing the bullet to a circle or square.
d. Next walk the students through creating an ordered list and view it.
e. Show them how to change the numbering style to roman numerals,
upper and lower case letters, etc. Have them view their lists with the
different numbering types.
f. Show the students how to modify the starting position of the list. Ask
them why they think they might want to start an ordered list from the fifth
or sixth position, rather than the first.
g. Point out that this information can be found on IE Class HTML Lesson 2.
h. Assign the students HTML Lab 2-1 & 2-2 to complete on their own.
3. As students are working the labs, walk around the room to make sure they are
coding their documents correctly. Check for:
a. Proper HTML tag structuring.
b. Document structured correctly, defined head and body section.
c. Make sure their name is in the title and that the title is in the head section
of the page.
d. Check for closing tags.
4. Informally evaluate student performance by having them display their completed
labs in their browser while walking the room providing feedback on the students’
performance.
5. Extension: You can review the concepts by having them make simple changes to
their document, such as modifying the bullet from the disc to the circle, or
changing the numbers to letters without step by step instructions.

Only you will know how to best implement the curriculum in your class so your implementation of
the lesson may be different that what is shown here. This is only an example and one way the
information can be presented, but the topic includes a great deal of hands on learning on the
student’s part, and active teaching on the teacher’s part.


What the Students See

When your students log into IE Class, they will see the screen below. Across the top of the page
is the navigation menu. The Lab Checkpoints is a useful tool allowing your students to see an
example of what the completed labs should look like. The IE Editor is a simple text editor to view
HTML output. Code typed in the IE Editor cannot be saved; it is only for quickly testing and
viewing of HTML code segments during class lectures.

The students will have access to a tool called Student Center. From the there, your students can
take quizzes you have assigned to them, access messages you, or other students, have sent
them, complete the peer evaluations, or submit an error report.

Next to the Student Center button, is the Assigned Labs button where your students can access
any labs that you have assigned to them online.

On the right side in the top blue section are the various units. Within each unit are the different
course lessons.

The bottom blue box contains supplemental resources, including the Lab Resources. Some of
the labs require specific images. Your students can download the necessary images for the labs
by clicking on the Lab Resources button on the right side of their screen. From there they can
download the required images for the particular lab they are working on.

You can also customize the information on the Student Home Page by adding your own content
to the white space below the Student Center and Assigned Labs buttons. See the section on
Communication.

You are also able to access all the student Lessons as well. Just click on the Students menu at
the top of your screen after you log in and it will take you to the lessons.


Teacher View

When you log into your IE
Class account, you will see
the screen shown here. This
page is your Teacher Center.

From this screen, you have
access to all your online tools.
This reference guide will
introduce you to the different
features found on this page.

Setting Up Classes & Student Accounts
One of the first things you will want to do after getting
your IE Class account is to setup your classes and
individual accounts for your students. Each of your
students should be provided with their own individual
account on IE Class as required by the IE Class
Terms of Service. Students may not share login
accounts.

Before you can create your student accounts, you will need to create your classes. Each student
account must be assigned to a class. Once you have setup your classes, you can then create
your individual student accounts. Please note that it is imperative that you have your browser
settings set to allow popup windows from ieclass.com.

Step 1: Creating Classes

From the Teacher Center page, locate the box at the
top left that says Setup Class (Step 1).

Click on the Create Class button under the Class
Management tab.

A window will pop up asking you to enter a name for your first class. After you enter a name for
your first class, click the Add button. You will be given the option to create another class or if you
are finished, simply close the window.

Step 2: Creating Student Accounts

The next step after you have entered your class names is to
create your student accounts. It is suggested that you have
your class roster handy when completing this step. From your
Teacher Center, click the Create Student Account button
under the Student Accounts tab.


A small window will appear, asking you to
enter your student’s first and last name and
to select their class. After entering their
name, click the Add button and your first
student’s account will be created. The
system will automatically generate a
username and password for each of your
students as you add them. The window will
not close after your first student has been
entered so you may continue entering
students. The class you selected on your first student will remain selected for all subsequent
students entered until you select a different class. When all student names have been entered,
you may close the window. You can come back to the Create Student Accounts tool at any time
to create additional students accounts.

Step 3: Getting Account information to your Students

As you created each of your student accounts, IE Class
automatically generated a temporary username and
password for each of your students. To access the student
account information, click on the View Students button
under the Student Accounts tab. You will get a list of each of
your students grouped by class as shown below.

From this window you may see all the students registered under your account, edit individual
student accounts, or delete a student account. To get a printer friendly version of all your
students’ usernames and passwords, click the Print Usernames and Passwords button at the
top of the window. Each student row on the printout is wider so it may be easily cut into strips and
distributed to your students.

When your students log in for the first time, they will be asked to choose a permanent username
and password. From your View Students screen, you will always have access to their current
username and password.

Once the student has set their username and password, it cannot be changed from your Teacher
Center. You can always delete the student account and recreate it.

Deleting A Student Account

To delete an individual student account, you can click the Delete button from the View Students
window. To delete all students in a class, go to the View Classes window and delete the class.
When a class is deleted, all students accounts associated with that class are also deleted.


Quiz Builder

The Quiz Builder will allow teachers to create and save
quizzes which may be assigned to an entire class or to
individual students as necessary. The students will
receive the questions in random order. The quizzes are
automatically graded as they are completed and the
scores will be recorded for the teacher to view.
Students also have the option to print their completed quiz if you choose to have them do so. The
quiz scores may be viewed in the View Quiz Results screen. It is strongly recommended that
large test or important exams not be administered on the Quiz Builder. Any network glitch or loss
of connection could disrupt the scoring process.

PLEASE NOTE: Sometimes a school district proxy server or network configuration can
interfere with the Quiz Builder. It is important that you test the Quiz Builder prior to
assigning quizzes for grades. Students can print the quiz before grading to verify that the
graded results shown are the choices they selected. Printable quizzes are provided as an
alternative.

Step 1: Creating a Quiz
Before your students can take a quiz, one will need to be created. To create a quiz, click on the
Manage Quizzes button on the Quiz Builder menu.

At the top of the Quiz Builder screen enter a name for your quiz and click the Create Quiz button.
Your quiz is then created and ready for you to start selecting questions.


Step 2: Adding Questions to a Quiz

All your quizzes will be listed on the left side of the Quiz Builder window. To add questions to a
quiz, click on the EDIT button next to the quiz you want to edit.

After clicking the Edit button, the right side of
the Quiz Builder screen will change to allow
you to choose a category to select your
questions from. After selecting a category,
click the View button to move on to the
questions.

All the available
questions will appear
on the right side of the
Quiz Builder screen.
The answer choices
are listed below the
questions. The correct
answer choice is
indicated in Green.

Please be advised, quiz questions are entered by other teachers and as questions are added,
they immediately become available to all teachers using IE Class. Should you run across a quiz
question that you believe is inappropriate or incorrect, please make note of the Question ID
number at the top right of the question and submit it to us in a Support Ticket or Error Report. We
will either make the necessary correction to the question or delete it from the bank.


To add a question to your quiz, click the button. All questions that you have selected for
your quiz will appear on the left side of the Quiz Builder window. If you decide you do not want a
question on your quiz after selecting it, just click the DELETE button next to the question. You do
not need to worry about adding the same question twice to your quiz, the Quiz Builder will check
to see if the question is already on your quiz before adding it. However, you should be aware of
duplicate or similar questions in the test bank. Should you run across duplicate questions in the
test bank, please report the Question IDs of each identified question.

When you have finished adding questions to your quiz, click << Go Back to Quiz Main at the top
of the Quiz Builder window.

Step 3: Assigning Quizzes

Once all your questions have been added to your quiz, you may then assign the quiz to your
students. To assign a quiz, click the ASSIGN button next to the quiz you want your students to
take.

NOTE: Once you assign the quiz or students have taken the quiz, the quiz becomes locked for
editing. You will need to reset the quiz. See Step 5.

To assign quiz to an entire class

You can assign a quiz to all
the students of a particular
class by simply putting a
checkmark next to the class
name you want to assign the
quiz to.

When you click the Update button, the class will be assigned the quiz and students may log into
their account and take it at any time.

The students will only have access to the quiz so long as it is checked. If you no longer want a
class to have access to a quiz, uncheck the quiz assignment and click the Update button again to
unassign the quiz. Once a quiz has been taken, you cannot unassign it. You will need to reset the
quiz to remove the scores before it can be unassigned.

Quizzes for individual students

To modify quiz assignments for individual
students, click on the + sign next to the
class name to drop down your roster for that
class. When you assign a quiz to an entire
class, the Quiz Builder will automatically
select all students in that particular class. If
you have a student absent or for whatever
reason you do not want an individual student
to have access to the quiz, just remove the
check next to their name and click the Update button at the bottom of the window to update your
quiz assignments.


Duplicating a Quiz

If you would like to duplicate a quiz you can do so by clicking the Duplicate button. You will
prompted to enter a name for the duplicated quiz.

Once the new name has been entered. click the Create button to create the quiz. The duplicated
quiz will have all the same questions as the original.

Resetting a Quiz For A Class

When you assign a quiz to a class or individual student, the quiz becomes locked for editing. You
will need to reset the quiz for the entire class before it can be edited.

Clicking the RESET button will cancel any assignment you have set to your classes or individual
student. It will also remove all quiz results. Once the quiz has been unassigned, you can then edit
it and reassign it.

Printing A Quiz

You also have the option of printing the quizzes for your students to take on paper. If your
network or proxy server causes problems with the Quiz Builder performance, then the printed
quizzes should be given on paper rather than online. To print, click the PRINT button next to the
quiz name.


When you print the quiz, you will see a
preview of the printed quiz in the right side of
the Quiz Builder window. Below the
questions you will find the answer key.

Export and Saving Quizzes as PDF

You have the option to export any of your
quizzes as a PDF file. The PDF quizzes will
be the same format as the printed quizzes.
To export a quiz, click on the PDF icon next
to the quiz name.

Displaying Graded Quizzes to Students
When students submit their completed quiz, they will not be able to see their quiz results
immediately. When you are ready to show your class their graded quiz, place a check next to
Make Results Viewable. Students may then go back to the quiz to see how they did.


What do the students see?

When your students login and go to their Student Center,
they will see on the left side of the window a list of quizzes
that have been assigned to them. When they click on a
quiz, the quiz will be displayed on the right side of their
Student Center.

Getting the Results

The Quiz Builder will provide you with an easy to
read chart of your students’ scores on each of their
quizzes. To view the scores, click on the View Quiz
Results button on the Quiz Builder tab.

At the top of the screen
will be a horizontal list of
your classes. Click on
the class you want to
view.

The roster for the class you selected will be displayed along with the grades each of your
students made on all recorded quizzes. If a student has opened a quiz, you will see Taking in
place of the grade. Even if they just looked at the quiz and didn’t answer any questions, it will still
show Taking on your screen.

If a student failed a quiz and you want them to take it again, click the RESET button next to the
score it for the individual student. Once the quiz has been reset, the student will be able to retake
it. After a student has completed the quiz, you can view their specific quiz by clicking the VIEW
button next to the score.


Communication
IE Class provides a communication system allowing you to
exchange messages with an entire class or with individual
students, and to post announcements on your student’s
home page. You also have the option of allowing your
students to communicate with each other.

IE Messenger

The IE Messenger is similar to internal email with an Inbox and a Sent box for you to keep track
of your messages, however messages are sent through our system, not traditional email.

The messenger window will start out
showing your Inbox. Any messages
you have received will be displayed on
the right side of the window. If you
have no messages, it will say “Empty”.

From your Inbox screen, you can
either go to your Sent Messages
screen to see the messages you have
sent to your students, or you can go to
the compose screen to compose a
new message to individual students’
or to an entire class.

Sending Messages
To compose a message, click the Compose Message button from the messenger window. The
window will change to pull up your address book on the left and the compose message screen
will appear on the right.

You will see two categories of recipients
in your address book. The first displays
all your classes and below that are your
individual student names.

To send a message to an entire class,
click on the class name you want to
send the message to. The class name
will appear in the To field. To send a
message to one or more students, click
on their name and their username will
appear in the To field.

You cannot manually modify the
address in the To field. If you make a
mistake in selecting your recipients,
click the Clear Recipients button to
remove the selected address and you
can start again.

Once your recipients are selected, you may enter a subject and your message just like you would
with standard email. When you are finished composing your message, click Send to send your
message to your students.

When your students log in to IE Class, they
will receive an alert telling them that they
have a new message in their Inbox. You will
receive the same alert after logging in when
you have a new message in your Inbox. The
alert will continue to display until the unread
message is opened.

Student to Student Messaging

The messaging system does allow for your students to
send messages to each other, but you will need to
activate that feature before your students can use it. To
activate Student to Student messaging, click the View
Students button from the Student Accounts tab.

The third column in the View Students screen indicates whether or not the student has Student to
Student Messaging enabled. By default, all students start out with that option set to No, but by
clicking on the No, the option will change to Yes and those students may send messages other
students in their class.

When your students with Student to
Student Messaging enabled go to
compose a message, they will see a
group list called Classmates in their
Address Book consisting of the other
students in their class. They may select
any of the students in the list to send a
message to. They may not send a
message to a student in another class.

Students who do not have Student to
Student Messaging enabled will only see
the teacher group in their Address Book
and will only be able to exchange
messages with you.


Posting Announcements and Information on the Student Home Page

You may customize the content on your student’s home page with
your own information. To customize the content, click on the Edit
Student Page Content button the Messaging System tab.

From the window that comes up, you may enter your custom content for all your students to see
on their home page each time the log in. HTML tags may not be used and will be edited out by
the system. Your content will inherit the styles used on the student page.

You may want to put your contact information, important dates for your students to remember,
tutorial or lab hours.

When you are satisfied with the content you have entered, click the Update button to add the
content to your students’ home page. This will replace the default content that we placed there
with your own content. Your content will remain posted until you change it.


Student Assignments
There are three options under the Student Assignments tab.
The top allows you to create, save, and print your lesson
plans. The second allows you to assign Lab exercises and
Projects. The second is where you go to print worksheets
and their keys, and you can download the LabCode file,
which is a file containing all the completed code for all the
labs.

Lesson Plan Manager

The Lesson Plan Manager will allow you to easily
create and save your lesson plans directly online to
your IE Class account. There is no limit to the
number of Lesson Plans you can create. You can
edit your lesson plans at any time. This tool is
helpful for always keeping your lesson plans
together in one easily accessible location.

When you first open the Lesson Plan Manager, you
will see two sections. The top allows you to chose
and edit any saved lesson plans.

NOTE: If you do not have any saved lesson plans
you will not see the Saved Lesson Plans section.

You can plan out your lesson in the Create New Lesson Plan view that comes up when you first
open the Lesson Plan Manager. If you want to edit an existing lesson plan, select it from the drop
down list and click View Lesson Plan button and it will be displayed in the Selected Lesson Plan
view.

Update Lesson Plan: This will save any changes to your lesson plan. The Date Created will
remain as the date the lesson was initially created.

Delete Lesson Plan: If you want to remove a lesson plan from the list, click the Delete Lesson
Plan button. Please understand that once a lesson plan is deleted it cannot be recovered.

Print Lesson Plan: If you want to print your lesson plan, click the Print Lesson Plan button. The
lesson plan will be displayed in a printer friendly format.

New Lesson Plan: This button will take you back to the Create New Lesson Plan view. Be sure
any changes you made to your open lesson plan is saved before leaving the Selected Lesson
Plan view.

Labs & Projects

The Labs & Projects may be assigned to your students digitally by clicking on the Labs &
Projects tab. This will open the Lab Manager. Electronically assigning labs significantly cuts
down on the amount of paper you would use by eliminating the need to print and copy each lab
for each student. Second, students will always have access to the lab, even from home. Students
can also see the labs in color, which is helpful. When you assign a lab to a class, every student
you have setup in that particular class will be able to access the lab from their account by clicking
on the Assigned Labs button from their Student Home Page.

Across the top of the Lab Manager are buttons representing each of the units of study on IE
Class. As you click on a button, all the available labs for that unit will appear to the left, with a
window showing a preview of the lab to the right. HTML is set at the default unit to display when
the Labs & Projects window is opened.

To assign a lab:
1. Select the lab you want to assign. The lab should be displayed in the preview window on
the right.
2. From the Assign to: field, select the class you want to assign the lab to.
3. Click the Assign Lab button.

To unassign a lab:
1. Click on the Assigned Labs button.
2. Select the class to view.
3. Click on the Lab assignment that you want to remove. The lab will immediately be
unassigned and students in that class will no longer have access to it.

NOTE: All the labs are in Flash format; therefore you will need Flash Player 9 or later installed on
any computer that you or your students use to access IE Class.


Worksheets & Keys

Most of the student exercises with IE Class are hands-on (production) labs; however there are
some worksheets and written exercises available. All of these can be downloaded from the
Worksheets and Keys section. All worksheets are in pdf format, and cannot be electronically
assigned. You will need to print and run copies of the worksheets for each of your students.

Lab Keys

All the completed code for the lab exercises are
contained in the LabCode file. At the top of the
window that comes up is where you can
download the LabCode file. Notice there is a
Last Updated date. Always be sure you have
the latest’s version. As labs are added or
updated, the new or revised code is added to
the LabCode file. If you find that the code you
have for a lab does not exactly match the lab,
you may have an outdated version of the
LabCode.

Worksheets

Below the LabCode are all the worksheets
organized by Unit and Lesson. You can
download the worksheets and their keys as
needed from this page.


Teacher Support
The teacher support tab provides two options. Technical
Support Tickets and the ability to report an error. In short, if you
run into a technical problem with your account or the system,
that you need assistance with, you should submit a Support
Ticket. If you find an error or typo somewhere in a lesson, lab,
or worksheet, you should submit an error report to have it corrected.

Support Ticket

If you have an issue that you need support
with, we are more than happy to help. Click
on the Support Ticket tab and post your
question in the space provided.

Support Tickets are the fastest and most
efficient method of getting support. Once
you submit the ticket, it is instantly logged
and we are instantly notified. Support
tickets are logged and answered in the
order in which they are received.

Once your support ticket has been
addressed, you will see a popup window
when you log into your IE Class account
indicating that you have a message. You
should click on your support ticket to see
what the response was.

Report an Error

If you find an error anywhere in IE
Class, we want to know about it so
an error reporting system has been
established to easily report errors.

Please note that we cannot respond
to reports sent in through the error
reporting system. If you need
assistance or require a response,
please submit a support ticket.

When submitting an error report, please be as specific as possible. For example, if you find an
error in a lab, let us know the Unit Lesson and/or Lab number, and what the error is. Copying and
pasting the error into the space provided is the best way to report it. We will correct the error as
soon as possible.


Student Center
You have the option to limit your student’s access to their
student center and labs.

When you click on the Limit
Access tab, you will see a list of
your classes. By default, all your
classes will have access to the
Student Center. To restrict
access, place a check next to the
class name.

Students in classes with the checks are restricted from accessing their Student Center or
Assigned Labs. They will still have access to the online lessons.


Manage Account (Renew Account)
All accounts must be renewed each year. Your renewal date is at the top of your Teacher Page
with your Account Number.

We tried to simplify the renewal process as much as
possible by allowing you to renew your account directly on
your Teacher Center page. You will need to have an
approved purchase order prior to renewing your account.
Approximately 30 days before your renewal date, you should request a PO number for your
renewal. Once you receive your PO number, click the Renew Account button to initiate the
process.

You will see two screens in the renewal process. The first just shows you your current
information. There is nothing to change or edit on the first screen.

The second screen will
allow you to make
changes to your billing
address, your name, or
email address. Please
double check the address.
It should be the billing
address which may or
may not be the address of
your school.

If you have additional
student accounts, you will
see them in the Additional
Students field. You can
adjust the number of
additional accounts here.

To complete the renewal process, you will need to enter an approved PO number in the
appropriate field.

Note: Please do not enter filler numbers in the purchase order field (12345, 0000, etc.) just to
generate an invoice. This causes confusion when we invoice school district accounting offices
and when we process payments. We will be more than happy to send you a blank invoice if you
need one.

If you plan on renewing your account, but have not received a PO number by your renewal date,
please just email us and let us know the status. We can extend a grace period.

Once you have entered the information, click on the Submit Info button. An invoice will be
generated and sent to your email address that you provided. A notice will also be sent to us with
your information so we can process the renewal from our end.


Peer Evaluations
After your students complete their Web Design Projects, we suggest having them give oral
presentations to the class showing each page of their project and talking about the content and
design concepts used on each page. This serves to show other students in the class how other
students approached the project. Also, if students know they are going to be presenting their
project they, hopefully, will put more effort into building a quality site. Also, the feedback they
receive from their peers can be valuable in pointing out things they, or even you, could have
overlooked.

When you click on the Manage Evaluations button, you will
see the screen shown below.

Your classes will be displayed in the left
side of the screen. At the bottom of the
screen are two categories, Classes
Assigned to Evaluate Student Sites, and
Allow Students to View Evaluations
Online. Your classes are also listed at the
bottom with check boxes next to them. By
placing a check next to the class, you are
giving the students in that class the ability
to evaluate other students, or to view their
evaluations. We suggest only giving
access to one option at a time.

When you select a class
from the Classes menu on
the left side of the screen,
you will be able to select a
student from that class and
the screen shown here will
appear.

You can enter your own
comments about the
student’s project and enter
the grade for the student.

You can also see the comments the other students made about the student. Only the comments
with the checks will be displayed to the student. If you see that a student made inappropriate
comments, you can remove the check and the student will not see that comment. You can
remove a comment by clicking on the Delete button next to the comment. The students will NOT
be able to see who made each of the comments, but you can.

You should review all the student comments to remove any inappropriate comments from being
displayed to the on the student’s page before allowing students to view their evaluations.


The Students View

You will need to instruct your students on how to use the evaluation system. They will access the
evaluation system from their Student Center.

When you give your student’s access to the
evaluations, they will see the links on the left
side of the Student Center menu under Site
Evaluations where they can either select
Project Evaluations. These options will show
based on what you place check marks next
to from your Project Evaluations Screen.

When your students are completing
evaluations, they should select the name of
the student they are evaluating. From the drop
down list, they will see the students in their
class. They will not see their own name as
they do not evaluate themselves

They should comment on Good Points of the
project they are evaluating and Areas of
Improvement. Point out to students that they
should focus on design concepts, visibility,
balance, project requirements, etc.

Finally they can select a grade they feel the
project deserves.

When you give students access to view
their project evaluations, they will see the
grade you gave then (Official Project
Grade) and the average grade the
students in their class gave them.

They will also see all the Good Points
and Areas of Improvement comments
that their classmates made about their
project.

We have found that most students are
very anxious to see this information
following the project evaluations and
encourage you to take advantage of this
tool.


Teacher Comm

IE Class is not only instructional tools and curriculum, it is a community. The Teacher Comm
allows you to communicate with your colleges, ask questions, suggestions, and simply talk. It is a
feature we hope you enjoy and you are encouraged to introduce yourself once your account is
activated and to initiate and/or participate in the conversations.

With any open communication system, there must of course be guidelines. We are all
professionals and all conversations and comments must remain professional and appropriate at
all times. Please refer to the guidelines below or the IE Class Terms of Service before using the
Teacher Comm.

Teacher Comm Usage Guidelines:

 All conversations should be positive and professional in nature.
 There should be no derogatory comments about any teacher, school, or student,
posted on the Teacher Comm.
 There should absolutely be no student information or reference to an individual
student posted on Teacher Comm.
 Posting derogatory comments and complaints about IE Class are also
considered inappropriate. The teachers that help write, edit, promote, and
support IE Class also use IE Class and would find such comments rude or hurtful
and we want this to be a positive environment for everyone.
 Spamming and flooding is strictly prohibited.

Violating these guidelines could result in either disabling access to the Teacher Comm or full
account suspension.


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