This overview provides users with an understanding of the DnA's Learning Plans and their respective content. Additional material is continuously being added to all the pathways. These pathways represent the assigned learning but additional content may be found in the catalogs themselves.
The Learning Community is a paid subscription and access is limited. Check with your System Administrator to see if seats are available.
Advanced Features for Specialized Users
DnA offers a Points Based and Standards Based gradebook options for entering student grades. In this course, learn about the required permissions, getting up a gradebook, and managing gradebooks. Having the proper access, setup, and conventions are important in gradebooks, so please work with your organization to check for any preferences that may need to be set.
The Gradebook course (23 min) includes the following modules:
- Learning Objectives - Gradebook
- Overview - Gradebook Permissions
- Gradebook Permissions - Video
- Knowledge Check - Gradebook Permissions
- Overview - Gradebook Set Up
- Gradebook Setup - Video
- Knowledge Check - Gradebook Set Up
- Overview - Managing Gradebook
- Managing Gradebook - Video
- Knowledge Check - Managing Gradebook
If you have access to the Learning Community, first log in, and then select Gradebook to directly access the course.
Custom Reports are versatile reports that allow users to pull in almost any data point that exists in DnA into one place. In this course, learn how to create a custom report and then move on to more advanced features of the reports. Numeric values in custom reports can be color coded with Performance Bands, which allows for a quick view and understanding of displayed data. Additionally, charts can be added to reports to better organize data and drill in to specific aspects of the data. Students in these reports can also be created into a Student Group to quickly filter for data on a specific segment of students throughout the system. Custom Reports are a great way to get key data points into a single place.
The Custom Reports course (57 min) contains the following modules:
- Learning Objectives - Custom Reports
- Overview - Custom Reports Basics
- Custom Reports Basics - Video
- Knowledge Check - Custom Reports Basics
- Overview - Custom Reports Adding and Managing Columns
- Custom Reports Adding and Managing Columns - Video
- Knowledge Check - Custom Reports Adding and Managing Columns
- Overview - Custom Reports Performance Bands
- Custom Reports Performance Bands - Video
- Knowledge Check - Custom Reports Performance Bands
- Overview - Custom Reports Filters
- Custom Reports Filters - Video
- Knowledge Check - Custom Reports Filters
- Overview - Charts
- Charts - Video
- Knowledge Check - Charts
- Overview - Creating and Managing a Student Group
- Creating and Managing Student Groups - Video
- Knowledge Check - Creating and Managing a Student Group
- Overview - Form Letters
- Video - Form Letters
- Knowledge Check - Form Letters
- Adding Calculations
- Translations
- Adding a Window Column
If you have access to the Learning Community, first log in, and then select Custom Reports to directly access the course.
General Catalog
DnA offers a Student and Parent Portal, which offers a web-based solution for taking and reviewing assessments, accessing schedule information, reviewing grades, and other functions as determined by the district. This course guides students and parents/guardians through logging in to the portal and basic navigation. It provides students information on accessing an assessment, using common online testing tools, and reviewing an assessment. This course shows the student and parent portal experience. Content is available for public consumption and distribution.
The Student & Parent Portal course (18 min) includes the following modules:
- Learning Objective - Student & Parent Portal
- Overview - Student & Parent Portal
- Student Experience Overview
- Parent Experience Overview
- Knowledge Check - Student & Parent Portal
If you have access to the Learning Community, first log in, and then select Student & Parent Portal to directly access the course.
Use Google Single Sign On, or Google SSO, to quickly and easily authenticate users to access DnA with the click of the button. Users must have their Usernames match their district assigned Google email address to make the connection.
The Google SSO course (5.5 min) contains the following modules:
- Overview - Google SSO
- Video - Google SSO
- Knowledge Check - Google SSO
ZE Library is a collaborative tool that allows districts or organizations to download assessment and custom report packages. Some packages may by created by Illuminate, which allows for a place to start and build from to save time and have a high quality of materials. Organizations can also have custom Clients setup to share within regions, networks, and more to collaborate with other desired organizations.
The ZE Library course (7 min) contains the following modules:
- Learning Objective - ZE Library
- Overview - ZE Library
- Video - ZE Library
- Knowledge Check - ZE Library
The platform is capable of rendering numerous different classic and technology enhanced item types, While most individuals may be familiar with traditional item types, like Multiple Choice, the use case and creation process of other technology enhanced item types is a fairly new concept. Participants of this interactive course receive expert level information pertaining to the building of every authorable item type in the system. For each item type, the overview module provides an example of the item type and common use cases of such. Then dig deeper by watching the corresponding video that provides in depth explanations for every field option.
The Create Items in the New Item Bank course (53 min) contains the following modules:
- Learning Objective - Creating Items
- Overview - Item Types Available
- Overview - Constructed Response
- Creating Constructed Response Items in the New Item Bank
- Overview - Drag in the Blank
- Create Drag in the Blank Items in the New Item Bank
- Overview - Evidence Based Selected Response
- Create Evidence Based Selected Response Items in the New Item Bank
- Overview - Explicit Constructed Response
- Create Explicit Constructed Response Items in the New Item Bank
- Overview - Hot Spot
- Create Hot Spot Items in the New Item Bank
- Overview - Hot Text
- Create Hot Text Items in the New Item Bank
- Overview - Math Equation Response
- Create Math Equation Response Items in the New Item Bank
- Overview - Multiple Choice
- Create Multiple Choice Items in the New Item Bank
- Overview - Multiple Select
- Create Multiple Select Items in the New Item Bank
- Overview - Inline Dropdown
- Create Inline Dropdown Items in the New Item Bank
If you have access to the Learning Community, first log in, and then select Creating Items in the New Item Bank to directly access the course.
A DnA Assessment View can be configured to automatically send assessment data to eduCLIMBER. Areas of eduCLIMBER, such as the Assessment Manager, should then be reviewed to confirm all Assessment View pieces have successfully and correctly imported.
The DnA to eduCLIMBER course (8 min) contains the following modules:
- Learning Objectives - DnA to eduCLIMBER
- Send Assessment View from DnA to eduCLIMBER
- Managing Data from an Assessment View in eduCLIMBER
- Knowledge Check - DnA to eduCLIMBER
If you have access to the Learning Community, first log in, and then select DnA to eduCLIMBER to directly access the course.
Acadience Reading, formerly known as DIBELS, varies per grade level. It is typically accessed at the beginning, middle, end of the year and/or used as a progress monitoring measure. These variations are supported by DnA. While the assessment itself is not administered through DnA, inserting the scores supports a single repository of data and enables the prebuilt reporting suite for these assessments.
The DIBELS assessments available in DnA are: Acadience Reading, DIBELS 8th, DIBELS 6th, DIBELS IDEL
The Acadience/DIBELS course (11 min) contains the following modules:
- Learning Objective - Acadience/DIBELS
- Enter Acadience/DIBELS Data
- Import Acadience/DIBELS Data
- Reporting on Acadience/DIBELS Data
If you have access to the Learning Community, first log in, and then select Acadience/DIBELS to directly access the course.