This article explains how curriculum and courses work in Forefront.
New feature! Use the Standards Coverage tool to assess how effectively assessments address standards. Learn more here.
Watch the Course Configuration webinar recording on demand here.
Terminology in Forefront
- Assessment: sets of questions or observational frameworks with defined scores, performance levels, and Standards alignments
- Program: sets of assessments, can be grouped into “parts”
- Curriculum: the assessments, standards systems, and documents
- Subject: can be used to organize curricula
- Lens: a way to highlight key standards or combine standards systems (Read more about lenses here.)
- Course: one or more curricula and associated documents and report cards
- Class: a group of students in a school with a teacher and a course
Examples of Course Set-Ups
An elementary school teacher has:
- one class of students
- in the course third grade
- subjects are math, science, social studies and ELA, which are each a curriculum with their own programs of assessments.
A middle school teacher:
- teaches the subject math
- she has several classes in the course Sixth-Grade Math
- has lenses to look at assessment results through the lenses of state standards, priority standards, and historic student data.
A large school district allows teachers to choose between two math instructional systems.
- For each grade level course
- teachers choose between curricula of the systems, to have the correct assessments and programs.
How To Set Up Courses
Single-Subject Course
Prerequisites: Users must have a district management level role to configure courses.
Step 1: Navigate to the courses page. Click “Courses” in the left side navigation, then click “Create New Course.”
Step 2: Name the course and select the applicable grade level(s).
Step 3: In-app text explains next steps. Click “Create curriculum.”
Step 4: Name the curriculum as prompted.
Step 5: Select or create the subject.
Step 6: Configure standards lenses.
Read about lenses and setup how-to here.
Step 7: Add assessments by clicking “Add assessments” and browsing for the appropriate assessments.
Step 8: Add parent reports (if applicable).
For more information on standards-based grading report card configuration, click here to watch a webinar on-demand.
Multi-Curriculum or Multi-Subject Course
To configure a multi-subject course, follow the above steps. Then:
Click the three dots in the upper right corner. Then add a new curriculum, or a new subject and new curriculum.
Follow the same steps again to create additional curricula.
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