This help document covers adding instructional settings to the course you are creating. The fields under this section are optional. They provide additional descriptive and helpful information about your course.
When building a new course, there are five steps. Adding Instructional Settings can be found under Step 1: Set Properties.
Instructional Settings (Optional)
Click the down caret to expand the Instructional Settings section:
Fields Available
Instructional Strategies: Select the type of instructional strategy from the drop-down menu. You can check more than one option.
Options Include:
Text-to-Speech
Close Reading
Concept/Word Cards
Novel Ideas
Mathematical Discourse
Annotation
Graphic Organizers
Technology-enhanced Content
Standards for Mathematical Practice: Select the standards from the drop-down menu. You can check more than one option.
Options Include:
1 - Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them
2 - Reason abstractly and quantitatively
3 - Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others
4 - Model with mathematics
5 - Use appropriate tools strategically
6 - Attend to precision
7 - Look for and make use of structure
8 - Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning
Difficulty Level: Select the difficulty level from the drop-down menu. You can only select one option or leave the field blank. Options include: Level 1, Level 2, Level 3
Level of Engagement: Select the difficulty level from the drop-down menu. You can only select one option or leave the field blank. Options include: High, Medium, Low
Instructional Emphasis: Select the instructional emphasis from the drop-down menu. You can check more than one option.
Options Include:
Conceptual
Procedural
Application
When done, click the Next button at the bottom of the screen to move on to Course Builder | Step 2: Select the standard set to be used with your course.