This lesson reviews how to navigate through the Top Navigation bar, Side Navigation Bar, and Launchpad in eduCLIMBER.
Top Navigation Bar
- Home button: When selected, takes users back to the Launchpad regardless of where they are in the system.
- Search tabs: Allows users to search for different categories of data. To learn more, visit District, Grade, and Class Tabs.
- Calendar: Events created in eduCLIMBER that pertain to the user. This can include Interventions, SLOs, Meetings, Tasks, and Progress Monitoring.
- Messages: Displays new messages sent to users, which may be personal, or district-level messages.
- Notifications: Houses notifications that are sent to users within the system.
- Educator Academy: Brings the user to the Renaissance Educator Academy site, which houses product training content.
- User Profile: This allows users to update personal preferences, such as default school, default data wall, and access to switch users if access permits.
Side Navigation Bar
- Quick Create/Enter: Quickly create an Action Item, Intervention, Incident, Meeting, Enter Assessment Scores, Create a Scatter Plot, or Export Data without accessing a specific module.
- Student Profile: Access a specific student's profile to view all data related to the student for current and historical years. To learn more, visit Student Profile Overview.
- Students 3D: Tool that allows users to drill into data to see a whole child view. To learn more, visit Students 3D Overview.
- Achievement Dashboard: Achievement Dashboard is a tool designed to help educators work smarter with an interactive dashboard tool with customizable visualizations of real-time data that create shareable insights and school improvement plans. To learn more, visit the Achievement Dashboard User Guide.
- Charting: Compilation of the charting options offered within the District, Grade, and My Class tabs.
- Collections: Create collaborative, virtual folders that will be placed on the Launchpad. To learn more, visit the Collections manual.
- Meetings: Feature that organizes team agendas and notes, as well as student information for students added to the meeting. To learn more, visit the Meetings manual.
- smartFORMS: Customizable forms that can be created and used for data collection and entry. To learn more, visit the smartFORMs manual.
- Incidents: Displays all incident data a user has entered and observed, as well as incidents related to students the user has access to. To learn more, visit the Incidents manual.
- Interventions: Tool to create intervention plans for a student or group of students, which can record attendance and comments, and analyze results. To learn more, visit the Interventions manual.
- Thresholds: Tool to create metrics on academics, incidents, and attendance. To learn more, visit the Thresholds manual.
- Action Items: Aspects of a smartFORM or Meeting that require user action. The Action Items module displays all items that are To Do, In Progress, On Hold, or Done, as they pertain to the user.
- Uploads: Tool to add data into eduCLIMBER, including Assessment, Attendance, Progress Monitoring, and Behavior data. To learn more, visit the Uploads manual.
- System Configuration: Admin-level feature used to configure aspects such as Attendance, District Information, School Information, and more.
Launchpad
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Calendar - Provides a visual of:
(Calendar Date can be updated using the calendar icon in the top right.)
- Open Assessment Windows - Number of open assessment windows on the calendar day.
- Action Items - Number of action items to complete on the calendar day.
- Open Incidents - Number of open incidents (that may need to be closed) on the calendar day.
- Meetings Scheduled - Number of meetings the user may need to attend on the calendar day.
- Ending Interventions - Number of interventions ending on the calendar day.
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Implementation Fidelity - Provides a quick calculation of:
- Procedures Completed - Percentage of procedures that have been completed in interventions.
- Participation Rate - Percentage rate of student participation in interventions.
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Intervention Tools - Provides quick access to:
- Record Participation/Attendance - Allows users to record intervention participation and attendance.
- Enter Monitoring Scores - Allows users to enter scores for Monitoring (Academic) Interventions.
- Enter Point Scores - Allows users to enter scores for Point Sheet (Behavior) Interventions.
- View My Interventions - View all interventions.
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Recent Students - Provides a visual of and quick access to:
- The most recently visited Student Profiles.
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Visualizations - Provides visuals and interactive graphs of:
- Incidents - Displays the incidents for each incident type within a two week period. The date range can be updated using the calendar icon in the top right.
- Attendance - Displays the attendance rates over the last year.
- Enrollment - Displays enrollment statistics, and the enrollment trendline over the prior five years, dependent on available data.
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Quick Links - Provides quick access to:
- User Tag Manager - User tags can be used to identify specific user groups and can also be added as a subscriber to a student’s account. Take a look at Manually Create and Manage User Tags to learn more.
- Student Tag Manager - Student tags provide individuals and teams a way to identify specific student cohorts based on any criteria. Take a look at Managing Student Tags to learn more.
- Collections - Collections are collaborative, virtual folders that can contain Charts, Data Walls, Forms, and Meetings. Take a look at Collections Overview to learn more.
- Program Evaluation - Program Evaluation analyzes comparisons on one test suite over time, allowing users to view overall performance on a single assessment, disaggregate data, and view the same grade-level data over time. Take a look at Program Evaluation to learn more.
- SLO - Student Learning Objectives (SLO) allow users to create learning outcomes based on assessment goals at different levels. Take a look at Student Learning Objectives (SLO) Overview to learn more.
The Program Evaluation quick link is only visible to users with the Access to Program Evaluation Dashboard permission.
Next Steps
To learn more about eduCLIMBER navigation, visit the Basic Navigation for All Users manual.