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Managing Courses

This article explains how to manage courses in Forefront.

Updated over a month ago

If you are making significant changes adding subjects, adding sub-curricula, or adding grade levels email [email protected] to avoid issues.

Terminology in Forefront

  • Assessment: sets of questions or observational frameworks with defined scores, performance levels, and Standards alignments (ex., Fall G2 USNS)

  • Program: sets of assessments, can be grouped into “parts” (ex., Universal Screeners for Number Sense)

  • 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

  • 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.

Course Management for Clients

Changing Program or Part Names, or Documents Folders

Step 1: Navigate to the Course Management in the left sidebar. Click the course that is being modified.

Step 2: Click the text in the "Part" or "Program" column (for assessments) or the "Folder" and "Sub-Folder" columns (documents) to type text, or use the dropdown to change the text.

Course Management to Connect with Forefront About

  • Adding grade levels

  • Adding subjects

  • Configuring intervention courses

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