PLS Roster Overview/Video

This video will give you an overview of of the PLS system.

Dashboard View

 

PLS Roster View:  

PLS Roster View: will display your current students as of today’s date. To update the date range, click on “Student Roster” and select from report criteria.

1. Select School Year/Track
2. Select Date Range by reporting Period/or set Manually
3. Click Search to apply changes

• *If accessing as a supervisor, only the teachers you supervise will appear in the “Students belonging to” field.
• *If you are a supervising teacher, the Teacher of Record will display your name based on login.
• *If you are set as a highly qualified teacher (content teacher) for any students’ classes in the PLS you will be able to view the student folders by choosing your content class in the Course dropdown.

Filter Section On PLS Roster 

You can filter what appears on your roster by changing different features in this section.  

You also have the option to Print and Export your roster from this screen

Once you load your Roster:

You will see the list of students based of the filters you chose in the filter section.

Pre enrolled Students will appear in BLUE on your Roster

Enrolled Students will appear in Green on you Roster

Current grade level of the student will appear to the Right of the Students Name

Student Activity View: shows educational activities students, parents, or teachers have listed on any learning log document type. If students are enrolled in site based classes and teacher claims positive attendance, this is also noted as activity and visible in the activity monitor. 

•  *Some of our online curriculum integrations will bring in time - on - task and or activity submitted to be displayed here. 

If the Cell is RED in the Activity Box this means no activity has been logged for that day

If the Cell is GREEN with a PAPER ICON, it means activity has been logged for that day

• *Activities can be logged by Students, Parents, and or Teachers

Click the Paper Icon to view what activities have been logged for that day

Click the Arrow Under Parent and Guardian Column to view Current information

 

 

Click the Arrow Next to the Students Name to open the Students Record

 

Edit a CMS or PLS Class

You can Edit a PLS & CMS class in the Student Roster

Click the Cogwheel next to the class 

Click Edit CMS Class

 

PLS View

Click Edit Class

 

3 Tabs Across the top of Student Record

The 3 Tabs across the top of the Student Record is where you can click for more detailed information and gather reports for Individual students

1.Courses Tab

• You can see the Courses (1)  the Student Is Enrolled in as well as any Curricula(2)  that is attached to the class 
• You can also view Gradebooks under COURSE tab (see 2nd Image below)

2. Reports Tab:  Manage Student Progress, create Master Agreements, 
3. Student Dashboard Tab: View a complete picture of all student related details and link to student and/or parent portals.

 

LEARNING PERIODS (LP) Column: You can Assign/Grade/ and Maintain student gradebook

• RED Gradebook Icon indicates no assignments have been created for this learning period
• BLUE Gradebook Icon indicates assignments are created
• Green Gradebook Icon indicated that at least one assignment has been graded

 

Reports Tab:  Tracks the Students’ Progress

 

Learning Periods Column: Is the list of Learning Periods defined and saved in your school calendar.

Attendance Column: Is an option to take single student LP attendance

AWR Column: Is a detailed list of graded assignments completed in a class for that learning period (Assignment and Work Records)

Click the Icon in the AWR column to expand and view students completed work in detail

AWR Detailed View: Assignment Work Record is a detailed report that can be Archived

You can make your filtered selections based on what you want to view

• *Filter by Assignments
• *Filter by Learning Periods
•  *At the end of the Learning period, you can have the document signed and archived electronically

Or

You can click Preview Report

Preview Report View

1. Signature Line/Learning Period
2. Class
3. Curricula
4. Assignments Completed during the period

Work Summary: Displays a summarized version of what we just viewed on the AWR Report


Learning Logs: Tracks Student Activity
Learning Logs User Guide

• Click the Icon  in the Learning Logs Column to open for a more detailed view

Learning Logs Filter Page: Is a way to have different views of the activities for the day for each student

• Click Review Log once you have chosen your options

Grid View

Mark the box when the student was involved in educational assigned activities (box will then turn green once it has been marked as completed for the day)

 

Grid Log MA lists the classes the student has on their Master Agreement (click the classes for the day they participated in, box will then turn green)

• *Students and or Parents can log in daily and check the areas the child was engaged with
• *If the Box is green activity has been recorded
• *If the box is white/gray no activity has been recorded for the day

Write In Logs (4 different logs) All the logs have the same options

• P.E.
• Music 
• Reading
• Learning Log

 

Activity Logs: Shows learning Activities the student has participated in

• *You can Archive this document by clicking the “Archive Tab upper left-hand corner
• *Information will also be pulled in if you are using a Supported Curriculum Bridge

Work Samples: Upload samples of the students work click the icon to open next screen

Work Samples User Guides

Archiving/ Uploading Work Samples for Multiple Students
How Students Upload Work Samples or Assignments
Teachers : Uploading Work Samples for a Single Student
Teachers: Review Student Uploaded Work Sample/ Assignment Submissions

• Transcripts categories are listed Horizontally across the top of the toolbar
• If you have two classes with the same category will both, be listed
• Click the Upload Icon to upload a work sample from your computer

Or

Click the Phone Icon to upload a work sample from your phone

• *You can set filters and generate a compliance report to see who has generated a work sample for class and who is missing work
  OR
• Students can Upload Work Samples from their Portal,if a student Uploaded a Work Sample you will see a Paper Icon Next to the Learning Periods

Progress By LP: Another view of what the student as completed this period

• Click the icon Under Progress By LP to filter and view your report

View of Report from Progress By LP column

• *Depending on the filters you select all the Assignments, Objectives, and Standards are displayed

Mass Print Reports Section: This section you can run a report of all your students displayed at once

• Click Mass Print Reports

Engagement Log: Is a teacher driven log that allows the teacher to mark if the student has had live interaction, Synchronous instruction, or Academic Progress each week

Additional Feature with Mass Print Reports

• Click the Engagement Logs Icon  

• Change the Week you are viewing by clicking on the School Week Dropdown

Click “Generate Report” 

 

Report View of All Students 

• Check the box next to each student to mark how the student was engaged each day click save

Or

Mass Selection Option

• Click the arrow next to the day of the week you want to update, a dropdown will appear, and you can choose the activity you wish to update.  This action will mark all your students at once for an activity of engagement, then click save

Depending on how your system is set up, all the activity sources will display in the Student Activity column. 

• Click the Icon to view the activity for that day (a dropdown will appear to provide you with the overview)

Student Dashboard Tab: Displays Demographic information as well as provides a link to the student portal

• Click the arrow next to the student’s name to open the student record
• Click Student Dashboard Tab 
• Click Student Portal Link (this link will take you to the student’s portal as if you are logged in as the student)

Student Portal View:

Student Dashboard View: Students can enter their activity on their portal as well as view the entries made

Click Log Type to view log or enter activities (students and teachers have the same view of the log)

Create Master Agreements/ Addendum From the Student Roster:

Master Agreements:  You can set up your master agreements in School Pathways PLS, this allows your school to create, distribute, sign and archive master agreements online.

Open the Student Record from the Roster by clicking the Arrow next to the student you want to work with

Click The Reports Tab

Click Master Agreement

Report Type is already set to Master Agreement

Scroll down the page to view all the selection options you have for this report. Some selections may already be filled in based on your school administration set up in our system

Click Save Master Agreement to generate this agreement

You can use the Default name for the Master Agreement or You can change the name if necessary

Click Save Settings

The Window will change/ and the default will show that you are working with the Master Agreement you just saved

 

The PLS will Generate the Master Agreement

All the Legal Board requirements are pulled into the Master Agreement Atomically, it is also state compliant with built in boxes for signature lines

*Click in the INVITE Email Address Field, an email address will appear if the email address is stored in the students record, you can also type the email into the email address field to fill in, if the student doesn’t have an email address you can use the parents email address.

*There are two sections that will need to be signed by the student/Parent and the Teacher (Scroll down to view more)

*Click in the Supervising Teacher Field to enter your name or check the box below to activate your e-signature

* You can add another person to sign the document if needed

* As you scroll down the page you will see the responsibility section that will be viewed by the parent and student (Parent and student will sign again as they did before)

You will now get a screen that will show you the document has been saved, You can see the document you created has two signatures on it (your signatures), and that four invitations have been sent out.

• Click the Return to go back to the roster

 

Master Agreement Sent  Notifications:

When the checkmark next to your semester (Semester two in used in this example) is orange instead of red it means the Master Agreements have been sent

 

To View the Documents in School Pathways you Created

Teachers > Compliance > Sign Documents Compliance

• On this page you can filter the documents by year, school track and enrollment rage
• Click Report Title dropdown to choose the report type you wish to view

• Red Check mark means the document needs to be signed (they will turn green once signed)
• You can also, invite others to sign document 
• Resend invite if needed (the invite others link will change to finalize once it has been signed

Click the Finalize Link to submit the final document for approval

*The digital Master Agreement is stored in an online archive with all your other documents, this makes it easy for you to pull up all the stored agreements as needed. 

School Pathways PLS brings together all the students work in one place when you need it.

 

Extra Features for the Student PLS Roster:

• Show full Email Addresses in addition to the email icon that was already present. 
  By clicking the arrow in the header, emails will be displayed for the user.