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Class Server: Tips and Ideas
Katy Ramsey Onekama Middle School FTL Lead Teacher
Roark Pargeon Bear Lake High School FTL Lead Teacher
How to create a lesson:
You must create the lesson in your Learning Resources and then make an assignment using the lesson. Don’t just use the Assignment Manager unless you just want to give directions.
1. Double click on My Learning Resources at the top of your screen.
2. Click once on Create a Resource at the top on the right.
3. You may choose any format you like – I prefer the blank one unless I have a Word document to add.
If choosing a blank screen:
4. After you choose Blank, pick out a background. Any of these will work fine.
5. Once you get your screen loaded click once on Change Title and Properties at the top left. This allows you to name your resource and label it.
If choosing to import a Word document:
6. Choose Import Word File and then browse your files to open the file of your choice. The program will load that word document directly into Class Server. If there are questions on that file you’d like students to answer, you will need to add questions. See below.
Inserting Pictures, Hyperlinks, and Files:
7. Other options you have include inserting a picture, hyperlink or file. You can do this by clicking on Insert (on the toolbar), and then choosing which you’d like to add.
8. To insert a picture you need to have the picture saved in your file or on a disk. When you click on Insert, picture, you will choose which picture you’d like to add.
9. To insert a hyperlink you will need to highlight the words, or picture, you’d like to link with a website. Then choose Insert, Hyperlink. The easiest way to insert the link is to highlight the address on the web and copy it. Then you can paste it into the link box.
10. To insert a file, for example if you want students to see a file on copyright you put together within a lesson, you choose Insert, file. Then browse for the file you’d like to add.
Adding Questions
Any time you want the students to choose or type an answer, you must add a question. There are various types of questions to choose from.
1. Choose Add a Question from the toolbar.
2. Select the type of question you’d like to add. (The computer will grade the first 6 types of questions for you because it requires you to put in an answer.)
3. The Matching question does scramble the options to choose from. It gives students the whole list for each letter.
4. Don’t forget to put in the point values for correct answers.
5. If you choose the Essay or Short Answer option, I recommend inserting a Rubric for grading. Click on the Add a Rubric button. Choose Next, and then select the type of Rubric you’d like to add. I ALWAYS go with the Checklist option. This way I can choose the number of criterion and the point value of each. (My students now complain if there isn’t a rubric to check before submitting their work!)
6. In graded work, the correct answer is shown as a green circle. If the student got that answer right, there will be a green dot in the center. If they got it wrong, the answer they put down will have a red X over it.
Class Web Pages:
1. From your Home Page, click on Edit Class Web Pages which is under the green Getting Started menu in the upper left corner. Your school’s home web page will open in a new window.
2. Choose the class you would like to edit from the left hand side of the screen by clicking on it.
3. From the new screen you can choose to edit Class News, Class Events, and the Links you would like your students to access.
Class News:
4. I use this box for ongoing information ~ IOWA testing schedules, long term projects, etc.
5. You edit this information by clicking on Edit and typing in the information you want the students to have.
6. Don’t forget to choose the dates to post the information.
7. Click on Done when you have completed your edits. This will save your changes and post them.
Class Events:
8. This is the area where I post what students will be doing in class for the week, including activities and upcoming tests.
9. You edit this information the same way you edit Class News. Click on the Edit button next to Class Events. Links:
10. To post links you want your students to use when going online click on the Edit button next to Link.
11. Type the title you want the students to see. (CBS News)
12. In the Web Address box copy and paste the address you want the students to go to by highlighting it while online, right clicking and choosing copy, and then go back to the Class Server Web Page screen. Now right click in the Web Address box and choose paste. This way you won’t have to worry about typing the address exactly as it appears.
Assignment Manager:
How to Create Groups:
1. Click once on Assignment Manager.
2. Below the Archived Classes is a Green Box called My Students and Classes, double click on it.
3. Click once on Create a Group and click Next.
4. Click on the arrow for the pull down menu below Classes.
5. Highlight the students you would like to place in a group and click on the Add button to move that student into the new group you are creating. To choose more than one student at a time hold down the shift key as you click on the student names (they must be in a row).
6. Create a name for your new group (Red, Gold) by clicking once on the textbox below Group name: and typing the name of your group.
7. Click on Finish or press Enter.
How to Change Students’ or Parents’ Passwords:
1. Click once on Assignment Manager
2. Below the Archived Classes is a Green Box called My Students and Classes, double click on it.
3. Click once on Change student or parent passwords below My Students: and click Next.
4. Click on the arrow for the pull down menu below Classes. And choose the class the student is in whose password you’d like to change.
5. Click once on the student’s name and options on the right will become available. You may choose to change the Student Password or the Parent Password. Click on your choice and type the new password in both text boxes, then click once on Ok.
Creating Reports:
1. Click once on Assignment Manager
2. Click once on the Green Oval Create a Report.
3. The Reports Wizard will open. Read the box and click once on Next.
4. The Scoring Chart will automatically be selected. Choose Next again.
5. Next select the Class or Group by clicking once on the down arrow and click once on the Class or Group you would like to make a report for. You may leave Select all assignments checked or you may choose a range of due dates. You change the dates by either clicking once on the number to change or by clicking on the down arrow to see a calendar and choose a date by clicking once on that date.
6. Click finish. A Report will be created. From this window you can Export (or send) the report to Excel (a Microsoft Spreadsheet Program). From the new Excel window you can print or save the document to a folder. You can also Print the report by choosing Print Report in Excel.
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