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Introduction ............................................................................................................................................................3 How Class Server can help you ............................................................................................................................. 3 Who this guide is for .............................................................................................................................................. 4 What this guide contains....................................................................................................................................... 4 How to use this guide ............................................................................................................................................ 5 Conventions used in this guide ............................................................................................................................. 5 Where to get more information ............................................................................................................................. 5

Print and Basic View Scenarios .............................................................................................................................6 About Basic View.................................................................................................................................................... 6 Scenario 1: Create and print an assignment aligned with curriculum standards.............................................. 7

Create and print an assignment with a Learning Resource ............................................................................. 7 Related task 1: Distribute an assignment online......................................................................................... 10 Related task 2: Create and print an assignment without a Learning Resource......................................... 10

Scenario 2: Grade the printed assignment in Class Server Grading ................................................................ 10 Grade the assignment ...................................................................................................................................... 10

Scenario 3: Create and print a report for a parent–teacher conference ......................................................... 11 Create, export, and print a standards report................................................................................................... 12

Related task 3: Create a scoring report for the entire class........................................................................ 14 Related task 4: Create a curriculum standards report for a specific assignment ..................................... 14

Complete View Scenarios.................................................................................................................................... 15 About Complete View........................................................................................................................................... 15 Scenario 4: Create a Learning Resource based on a Word document............................................................. 16

Create the Learning Resource.......................................................................................................................... 16 Related task 5: Use a template to create a quick multiple-choice quiz...................................................... 18

Scenario 5: Add an essay question with a rubric to a Learning Resource ....................................................... 18 Add an essay question with a rubric ................................................................................................................ 18

Related task 6: Add pages to a Learning Resources ................................................................................... 21 Scenario 6: Align a Learning Resource with curriculum standards .................................................................. 21

Align the Learning Resource with curriculum standards ................................................................................ 21 Scenario 7: Create an assignment aligned with curriculum standards............................................................ 23

Create the assignment ..................................................................................................................................... 23 Related task 7: Create a group ..................................................................................................................... 25

Scenario 8: Add an autogradable question to a Learning Resource ................................................................ 25 Add the autogradable question to a Learning Resource ................................................................................ 25

Other Tasks ......................................................................................................................................................... 28 Scenario 9: Configure Class Server - Teacher information................................................................................ 28

Related task 9: Add a new school ................................................................................................................. 29 Scenario 10: Edit your class Web page .............................................................................................................. 29

Edit a class Web page....................................................................................................................................... 29 In Conclusion....................................................................................................................................................... 33

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Introduction

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Introduction Welcome to the Microsoft® Class Server Teacher’s Guide. The Teacher’s Guide is a scenario-based guide designed to help you quickly and effectively meet your instructional goals using Class Server - Teacher.

Class Server - Teacher provides learning-management features that help you manage your curriculum online, assess your students’ achievements against curriculum standards, and generate reports on the results. Students and parents can get information online about classes, assignments, and curriculum standards on the companion Class Server – Student Web site.

Class Server – Teacher enables you to do all of these common teacher tasks:

• Create, edit, and assign Learning Resources.

• Create, distribute, grade, and return assignments.

• Align Learning Resources with curriculum standards provided by your school’s curriculum director.

• Assess assignments against curriculum standards.

• Create, print, and export reports that show student scores and assessments against standards.

How Class Server can help you You can use Class Server to create assignments that are aligned with the curriculum standards that your school’s curriculum director provides. When you grade an assignment, you can easily evaluate students’ work using these standards and provide individualized feedback, even if the work is submitted on paper or as an oral presentation.

Learning Resources and assignments can contain questions just like those on a traditional paper assignment. Many types of questions, such as multiple choice or fill in the blank, can be automatically graded (autograded) in Class Server. For assignments that contain writing elements, you can include rubrics to help you grade manually.

After an assignment has been graded, you can use the reporting feature to get a high-level view of how your whole class, or specific students within the class, did on that assignment. Within a report, you can click a score to view the actual assignment and the work that generated the score. You can adjust this score if necessary.

Class Server reports also enable you to capture grading and standards assessment data to help you identify student needs and prepare administrative reports.

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These features mean three things of importance to you:

• Class Server can ease some of your administrative recording and reporting load.

• The standards integration in Class Server allows you to align assignments and Learning Resources with the standards available at your school. You can then track and create reports on student performance against these standards.

• Class Server reports help you to pinpoint the areas where students are having difficulties or are excelling, so that you can adjust your teaching to focus more effectively on students’ individual needs.

Figure 1: Class Server reports

Who this guide is for This guide is for teachers who are new to Class Server and for teachers who want an introduction to the most significant features of Class Server.

What this guide contains This guide is built around scenarios that illustrate the use of the most significant features of Class Server. The guide is divided into Print and Basic View scenarios, Complete View scenarios, and other Class Server – Teacher tasks you may want to try.

Each of the scenarios begins with an introduction describing what you might want to accomplish. Then the scenario provides a step-by-step illustration of how you might use Class Server to accomplish your instructional goals.

Each scenario may contain one or more sidebars to explain concepts in the scenario. It may also contain brief explanations of related tasks and where to find more.

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How to use this guide In the Table of Contents, find a scenario that matches a task you want to perform. Read through the scenario and any sidebars. Then perform the task yourself, referring to the scenario for clarification on how to accomplish the task. When you’re done, try the related tasks to learn more.

Note: The scenarios are designed to show you how a task might be accomplished. They are not designed to duplicate the exact elements that you will find in Class Server. For example, your Curriculum Library will likely be configured differently than the example given in the first scenario.

Conventions used in this guide This guide uses specific text-formatting conventions to help you complete procedures:

• Bold formatting is used for user interface elements (command names, button names, and other controls) that you must interact with. For example: Click Next.

• Italic formatting is used for new concepts when they are first introduced. Basic View is a simplified view in Class Server – Teacher

Where to get more information To get additional information about Class Server, try the following sources:

• Help Press F1 or click the Help menu in Class Server - Teacher. To search effectively, type a short descriptive phrase in the Type word(s) to search for box in the Search tab. For example, type this: print an assignment

• Web The Microsoft Class Server Web site at http://microsoft.com/ClassServer gives you access to case studies, tools, training opportunities, solution providers, technical information, and support.

Print and Basic View Scenarios

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Print and Basic View Scenarios This section provides scenarios to help you work in a print-based environment in Basic View.

About Basic View Basic View is a simplified view in Class Server – Teacher. This view is recommended if your students have limited or no access to computers and you will not be creating Learning Resources.

In Basic View, you can use Learning Resources that have been created and aligned with standards by your curriculum director or another teacher using Complete View in Class Server. (In Complete View, you can also create your own Learning Resources.)

You can create, print, grade, and report on assignments in Basic View. Class Server will save summary scores and your comments, which you can print or include in reports.

Paper is the primary method for distributing assignments created in Basic View. Students will be turning assignments in on paper, and you will comment on students’ work within Class Server - Teacher.

By comparison, Complete View assumes that assignments will be distributed and turned in by students who are working online. (You can still print and grade assignments on paper.)

Figure 2: Basic View

Sidebar: What are Learning Resources?

Learning Resources are exercises, projects, or assessments that you can incorporate into your assignments in Class Server.

Like a textbook or a worksheet, a Learning Resource can contain pictures, background information, and questions. You can also include a rubric or links to reference material.


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Scenario 1: Create and print an assignment aligned with curriculum standards For this scenario, imagine that you need to create an Earth Science assignment that is aligned with standards for your students’ age group. Most of your students do not have home access to the Internet and will need you to print out the assignment. For the purposes of the standards in this scenario, we will assume that you are teaching at a school in the state of Washington, U.S.A.

At the beginning of the year, the principal sent out a list of Learning Resources available in your school’s Curriculum Library. The set of Learning Resources for Earth Science is aligned with your school’s standards. You plan to find the appropriate Learning Resource and use it to create an assignment. You will then print this assignment and give the paper copies to your students. You will be working in Basic View.

Note: The Curriculum Library and Mineral Identification Learning Resource referred to in this scenario are hypothetical examples. What you find in your Curriculum Library will vary depending on the configuration implemented by your Class Server system administrator.

Create and print an assignment with a Learning Resource

1. Click Open Curriculum Library. The school’s custom Curriculum Library opens to show the Learning Resources that your school has made available.

2. Navigate to the Sciences category, and then click Mineral Identification with Standard Alignment. The Assignment Preview window appears, allowing you to review the directions and standards that the Learning Resource is associated with.

Figure 3: Assignment Preview window


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3. Click View Learning Resource to preview the Learning Resource. This lets you view the Learning Resource as if you were a student.

4. Click Assign Learning Resource to create an assignment using the Learning Resource. The Assign a Learning Resource window appears, with information about the copyright and licensing restrictions for the Learning Resource.

5. Click Next. The Add cover page information window appears.

6. Change the title and any other appropriate information, and then click Next. The Review, add, or delete standards window appears, enabling you to change the standards that the assignment is aligned with.

7. Review the standards that the Learning Resource is aligned with, and then click Next. The Select who will receive this assignment window appears.

Figure 4: Assignment distribution

8. Select your class from the Select a class to assign to list, select Entire Class, click Add, and then click Next. The Select a due date for this assignment window appears.


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9. Select a date from the Due date and time calendar, and then click Next. The Ready to print assignment window appears.

10. Review the summary information about your assignment.

11. Click Preview this assignment before printing to review the assignment.

12. Click Finish to complete the wizard. The Print Answer Key dialog box opens. Note: This dialog box only appears if the Learning Resource used in the assignment has an answer key. Otherwise Class Server – Teacher will go directly to the Print window in the next step.

13. To print the assignment, click Assignment. The Print window appears.

Figure 5: Print window

14. Click Print to print to your default printer. The assignment is sent to the printer. You can collect the printout, photocopy it for your class, and then hand out the assignment.

Note: Some Learning Resources may not be appropriate for print distribution. For example, Learning Resources that use Macromedia® Flash or other animation technology may not print in a usable fashion.


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Related task 1: Distribute an assignment online

To distribute the assignment online, repeat the steps above. Click the Allow Online Access button in step 8, and then click OK. This will allow students to access the assignment over your school’s network or over the Internet from home.

Related task 2: Create and print an assignment without a Learning Resource

You may want to create assignments without using Learning Resources. An assignment created without a Learning Resource simply provides instructions and other assignment information for your students to use on a paper assignment. You can also align the assignment with curriculum standards. Students receive a cover page (also known as an information page) with the title and instructions for completing the assignment.

After the students compete the paper assignments, you can add your comments, standards assessments, and grades, just like you can with online assignments. You can also create, edit, and save reports showing student progress.

To create the assignment, click Create an Assignment in the left pane, and then follow instructions 5 – 15 above.

Scenario 2: Grade the printed assignment in Class Server Grading

In this scenario, the Earth Science assignment you created has been returned by your students, and you want to grade it. When you grade, you will specify a point value, called a score, for each question or assignment. Since the assignment is aligned with curriculum standards, you will also assess each students’ performance against the standards. You will work in Class Server Grading, so that the scores will be saved online and can be used later to create reports.

Grade the assignment

1. In Grade and manage assignments, click the Earth Science assignment.

2. Click Grade.

Figure 6: Basic View assignment options

Sidebar: What is the difference between a score and standards assessment in Class Server Grading?

When you are grading an assignment that is aligned with standards, you can use scores or standards assessments:

• The score is the number of points you award for a question or assignment

• A standards assessment is a value of 1 to 4 indicating a student’s achievement against standards.

These measurements can be used to track and create reports on student progress.


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3. Click a student's name on the left to view the assignment information for that student.

4. Type the appropriate points next to the student's name.

5. To add comments for the student, type in the Teacher Comments box on the information page.

6. To assess the student’s performance against curriculum standards, select the appropriate performance level for each standard.

7. To grade the next student’s assignment, click Next Student in the upper right of the window.

When you are finished entering all of the students’ scores for this assignment, click Finish Grading.

Figure 7: Grading with comments and standards

8. Click Finish and Close. Your assignment list is updated. The assignment now appears in the Grading complete section.

Scenario 3: Create and print a report for a parent–teacher conference In this scenario, you are preparing for a parent–teacher conference, and you want to create and print reports showing each of your students’ progress against standards. You plan to create these reports, export them to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, and then print them for use in the parent–teacher conferences. In this scenario, you will create one of these reports.


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Create, export, and print a standards report

1. Click Create reports on the left. The Welcome to Reports Wizard window appears.

2. Click Next. The Select a report type window appears.

Figure 8: Select a report type

3. Select Standards report for a student, and then click Next. The Select a student and assignment for the standards window appears.

4. Select a class or group.

5. Select a student.

6. Select the Select all assignments option.

7. Click Finish to open the report. (See an example report on the next page.)


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Figure 9: Report showing student achievement against curriculum standards

To print the report:

1. In the report, click Print Report in Excel. The Print window appears. Note: Microsoft Excel 2000 or later must be installed on the computer.

2. Click OK.

To save the report in Excel:

1. In the report, click Export Report to Excel. The report opens in Excel.

2. On the File menu in Excel, click Save As.

3. Type a name for the report, and then click Save.


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Related task 3: Create a scoring report for the entire class

You may want to see how every student in a class performed on a range of assignments. The steps are the same as above, only you select Scoring Chart for the report type.

Related task 4: Create a curriculum standards report for a specific assignment

You can also create a report showing how every student performed against standards for a specific assignment. Again, the steps are the same, except you select Standards report for an assignment for the report type.

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Complete View Scenarios This section provides scenarios to help you work in Complete View.

About Complete View Complete View has all of the features of Basic View. In addition, you can use Complete View to create, save, edit, and share your own Learning Resources. You can divide your class into groups, and use these groups to distribute different assignments. You can also create, grade, print, and report on assignments, like in Basic View.

Complete View is recommended when your students have reliable access to computers and you are more comfortable with Class Server.

In Complete View, online distribution is the primary method for giving assignments to students, and grading and commenting on students’ work. Students work on their assignments and submit them online. Class Server is used to save summary scores and comments, to print this information, and to create reports.

For these Complete View scenarios, we assume that all of your students have access to computers, either at school or at home, to complete their assignments.

Figure 10: Complete View home page


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Scenario 4: Create a Learning Resource based on a Word document In this scenario, you have existing curriculum materials that you developed using Microsoft Word. One document has instructions for a presentation about the French Revolution, and includes suggested reference materials to help students prepare for the presentation.

Now you want to use this Word document in Class Server as a Learning Resource that you create assignments from. You will use a Class Server template to import your existing Word document into a new Learning Resource, and then assign the Learning Resource.

Note: This scenario is a hypothetical example designed to show how you might import a Word document into a Learning Resource. The Word document referred to in this scenario is only an example.

Create the Learning Resource

1. In Complete View, click My Learning Resources.

2. Click Create a Resource in the upper right. The Welcome to the Create a Learning Resource Wizard window appears.

3. Click Next. The Select a template window appears.

Figure 11: Select a template

4. Select Import Word File, and then click Next.

Sidebar: What are templates and themes?

Templates help you create Learning Resources more easily. The templates provide layouts for several common types of assignments. The provided templates include:

• Blank Resource

• Import Word File

• My First LR

• Creative Writing Assignment

• Math Quiz

Themes provide the background color, font, and font color for the Learning Resource. Themes can be changed in Learning Resource Editor.


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The Import a Word file window appears. Note: Microsoft Word 2000 or later must be installed on the computer.

5. Click the Browse button to find the Word file on your computer.

6. Select the file you want to import, and then click Open.

7. Click Next. The Complete the Create a Learning Resource Wizard window appears.

8. Click Finish. Learning Resource Editor opens. You can view and edit your new Learning Resource.

9. Click Change title and properties in the upper left. The Change title and properties window appears.

Figure 12: Change the title and other properties for the Learning Resource


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10. Type French Revolution Oral Presentation in the Title box.

11. Select Social Studies from the Subject list.

12. Select World History from the Topic list. Type any additional information you want, such as a short description of the Learning Resource, and then click OK.

13. Click Save and Close to save the Learning Resource.

Related task 5: Use a template to create a quick multiple-choice quiz

By using the Multiple Choice Quiz template, you can quickly create a Learning Resource to use as a quiz for your students. In addition to selecting the Multiple Choice Quiz template, you will need to select the number of questions and answer options, and then edit the blank questions to create your quiz.

Scenario 5: Add an essay question with a rubric to a Learning Resource Now that you have imported your Word document, you want to expand the Learning Resource by adding an essay question. You also want to add instructions for the oral presentation.

The students will type a short essay, about the influence of the American Revolution on the French Revolution, directly in the assignment.

To help you grade this question later, you are going to add a simple rubric.

Add an essay question with a rubric

1. In My Learning Resources, select the French Revolution Oral Presentation you created.

2. Click the Edit button in the lower right. Learning Resource Editor opens.

3. Click where you want to insert the question, and then click Add a Question in the toolbar. The Welcome to the Question Wizard window appears.

4. Click Next. The Select a question type window appears. (See this window on the next page.)


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Figure 13: Select a question type

5. Select Essay from the list, and then click Next. The Essay question window appears.

6. Select the Students type or cut and paste the essay into an answer box option for students to complete the essay, and then click Next.

7. Select the answer box size for the essay question, and then click Next. The Edit an Essay question window appears.

8. Click Add a Rubric. The Welcome to the Rubric Wizard window appears.

9. Click Next. The Select a rubric type window appears. (See this window on the next page.)


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Figure 14: Select a rubric type

10. Select Single Objective, and then click Next. The Edit a Single Objective or Multiple Objectives rubric window appears.

11. Type the information you want in the rubric.

Figure 15: Edit a rubric’s description, objectives, and criteria


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12. Select the Show this rubric to students check box, and then click OK.

13. Click OK to close the Edit a Question window.

Related task 6: Add pages to a Learning Resource

You can add additional pages to a Learning Resource. This way you can add more information or questions. While you are editing the Learning Resource, click the Manage pages link in the toolbar. You can then add a page, copy a page, rearrange the pages, change page titles, or delete.

Scenario 6: Align a Learning Resource with curriculum standards

In this scenario, you want to align your entire curriculum with relevant academic standards. Your school has created or acquired appropriate standards and made them available in Class Server.

You will find and add the appropriate standards for the French Revolution Learning Resource you created. For this scenario, you are a high school Social Studies teacher in the state of Washington, U.S.A.

Align the Learning Resource with curriculum standards

1. In My Learning Resources, select the French Revolution Oral Presentation Learning Resource you created, and then click the Edit button in the lower right. Learning Resource Editor opens.

2. Click the Change Standards link in the toolbar. The Review, add, or delete standards window appears.

3. Click Add Standards. The Add standards window appears. (See curriculum standards on the next page.)

Sidebar: Where do the curriculum standards in Class Server come from?

The curriculum standards in Class Server are obtained and provided by your Class Server system administrator. These standards are usually selected by your district’s curriculum director.

Contact the system administrator for details about standards for your school.


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Figure 16: Add curriculum standards

4. Click Historical Understanding (8–10). The available standards appear.

5. Select the check boxes for the two standards appropriate to the Learning Resource’s content, and then click OK. The selected standards appear. (See example standards on the next page.)


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Figure 17: Review the added standards

6. Click OK to close the Review, add, or delete standards window.

7. Click Save and Close to save the Learning Resource.

Scenario 7: Create an assignment aligned with curriculum standards

In addition to aligning a Learning Resource with curriculum standards, you can align an assignment with curriculum standards. If you are using a standards-aligned Learning Resource in your assignment, the Learning Resource’s standards are the basis for the assignment’s standards. (You can add or remove standards in this case.)

In this scenario, you will use your French Revolution Oral Presentation Learning Resource to create an assignment. In the process, you will add some instructions for the students, which will enable you to assess the assignment against an additional standard. You will add the additional standard.

Create the assignment

1. In My Learning Resources, select your French Revolution Oral Presentation Learning Resource, and then click Assign. The Welcome to the Assignment Wizard window appears.

Sidebar: Online distribution of assignments and assignment submission

In Basic View, assignments are only distributed online when you click the Allow Online Access button. However, in Complete View, this button doesn’t exist. In Complete View, assignments are distributed online automatically when you create the assignment. Students access and submit the assignments through Class Server – Student.

You can print and hand out assignments while in Complete View. To print, select the assignment, and then click the Print button in the lower pane.


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2. Click Next. The Add title and general information window appears.

3. In Student directions, type instructions to specifically address the conflict between aristocratic social organization and the national organization that arose in revolutionary France.

4. Click Next. The Review, add, or delete standards window appears.

5. Click Add Standards. The Add standards window appears.

6. Select Historical Understanding (8-10).

Scroll through the standards to find standard 2.3, and then select its check box.

Figure 18: Add standards

7. Click OK, and then click Next. The Select grading options window appears.

8. Select Yes, I want to approve the results using Class Server Grading. This is not an autogradable assignment.


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9. Click Next. The Distribute the assignment to students window appears.

10. Select the class from the Select a class to assign to list.

11. Click Add to assign the report to the Entire Class, and then click Next. The Add assignment dates window appears.

12. Change the Due date and time from the default of tomorrow at 8:00AM to next Tuesday at 8:00AM.

13. Select The assignment will be distributed immediately option, and then click Next. The Assignment summary window appears.

14. Review the information, and then click Finish to distribute the assignment to your class.

Related task 7: Create a group

In Assignment Manager you can click the My Students and Classes button. This will open a wizard that allows you to create and edit groups.

Scenario 8: Add an autogradable question to a Learning Resource One of the ways that Class Server can save you time is by autograding certain types of information, such as multiple-choice or fill-in-the-blank questions.

In this scenario, we will assume that you have created a short quiz on the French Revolution. You will add an autogradable multiple-choice question to this Learning Resource.

Add the autogradable question to a Learning Resource

1. In My Learning Resources, select the French Revolution Quiz you created.

2. Click the Edit button in the lower right. Learning Resource Editor opens.

3. Click where you want to insert the new question, and then click Add a Question in the toolbar. The Welcome to the Question Wizard window appears.

4. Click Next. The Select a question type window appears.

5. Select Multiple Choice from the list, and then click Next. The Multiple Choice question window appears.

6. Select the number of answer options you want, and then click Next. The Edit a Multiple Choice question window appears.

Sidebar: What is an autogradable question?

A question can be automatically graded by Class Server if it has a defined answer. Fill-in-the-Blank questions or Multiple-Choice questions can usually be autograded.

When you create the question and define the answer, you create an answer key. Class Server uses the answer key to compare the student’s answers to your answers and automatically grades the assignment.


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7. In the Text box, type the following: What year did the French Revolution begin?

8. In answer option a, type 1776.

9. In answer option b, type 1786.

10. In answer option c, type 1789.

11. In the Points possible for this answer next to answer option c, type 5. Leave 0 for the points possible on the other answer options.

Figure 19: Edit a Multiple Choice question

12. To add a fourth answer, click Add an Answer Option. The new answer option d appears.

13. In answer option d, type 1799.


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14. Click OK. The new question appears in the Learning Resource.

Figure 20: The new question in the Learning Resource

15. Click Save and Close to close the quiz.

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Other Tasks In addition to academic tasks, Class Server offers several administrative features that are important to understand.

Scenario 9: Configure Class Server - Teacher information In this scenario, you have been assigned a computer to share with other teachers. You will all access Class Server from this computer. To do this, you must create a user profile for yourself through Class Server – Teacher.

1. Click Start, point to Programs or All Programs, and then click Class Server – Teacher. The Class Server – Teacher Sign-in window appears.

2. Click Account settings.

3. Select Create a user profile, and then click Next.

Figure 21: Create a user profile

4. Select your school in the Select a school list, and then click Next.

5. Type your user name in the Username box, and type your password in the Password box. Contact your Class Server system administrator if you do not have this information.

6. Click Next.

Sidebar: What is a user profile?

A user profile is stored information about your Class Server user account that enables you to sign in to Class Server from a given computer. The user profile is based on your Class Server user name and password, which are specified by the Class Server system administrator for each school.

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7. Accept the default settings for offline access, and then click Finish to save your profile. The Class Server – Teacher Sign-in window appears.

8. Click OK.

Related task 9: Add a new school

You may have a computer that you use to connect to more than one school. In this case, you need to create a user profile for each school, adding the school to your Class Server – Teacher list. Like adding a new profile, you start from the Class Server – Teacher Sign-in window and click Account settings.

Scenario 10: Edit your class Web page If the Class Server system administrator enables access to these pages, Class Server automatically creates school and class Web pages for your school. You can edit the pages for your classes (only the administrator can edit the page for the school, though).

You can use these class Web pages to give students and parents information about class news, events, and links to other resources.

In this scenario, you will edit a class page to break the news that one of the class gerbils has given birth, and to announce the date for the class science fair.

Edit a class Web page

1. Click Edit class Web pages on the home page. The School Web page opens. (This is the page for the entire school that your administrator can edit.)

2. In My Classes in the left pane, select the class page you want to edit. (See an example class page on the next page.)

Sidebar: What is a class page?

Class Server automatically creates a Web site for your school. You can connect to this site and access pages for your classes in Class Server – Teacher (if this feature is enabled).

A class page is a Web page specific to one of your classes. The page contains areas for news, events, and links to other Web sites of interest to the class.

Your students can view the class pages from most computers with Web access.

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Figure 22: Class page for students of Berg’s Class

3. Click Edit under Class News.

4. Type Josie Gives Birth!!! in the Title box.

5. Type the following in the text box: When I came in to class this morning, I found that Josie was the proud mother of four baby gerbils! I’ve moved Josie and her pups into a separate terrarium. Everyone is invited to come visit the new maternity ward!

6. Select a date to stop displaying the message in Stop displaying on date to a week from today. Note: By default, news items appear for one day.

7. Click Done to save the item. (See the new text on the next page.)

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Figure 23: Edit class news

8. Click Edit under Class Events.

9. Type Class Science Fair Projects Due in the Event description box.

Figure 24: Edit class events

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10. Select a date two weeks from today in Event date.

Click Done to save this event item. Your students, and their parents, can now view the news and events on the class Web page.

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In Conclusion We hope that these scenarios are useful to you as you familiarize yourself with Class Server. You will find many other features in the product as you start using it on a regular basis.

If you want more training on the product and how to integrate it in your classroom, check with your district’s professional development staff or instructional technology director to see what additional training is available for teachers.

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