Configure Intervention Courses

To create a course, including an intervention course, a user must have District Management permissions.

District Management permissions provide technical administrator access to a Forefront account. Users with these permissions can make changes to records, courses, and other structural configurations.

For a broader overview of course configuration options, see Managing Courses.

From the left-hand navigation pane, open Admin Pages, navigate to Courses, and select Create, as shown below.

Enter a course name and select the grade level associated with the course. Even when an intervention course includes content from multiple grade levels, the selected grade is primarily used for sorting and display on the Pacing Page. Select only one grade level, even when the course content spans multiple grades.

After making your selection, you will be directed to the first course management page. From this page, you can add or modify:

Firstly, select the three dot menu next to the term to select the course type as Intervention.

Only courses that have this type allow users to create interventions from reports.

In the example below, we will create a new curriculum. Select the button Create Curriculum.

When a course is aligned with an existing subject, such as Math or ELA, it will appear on the Pacing Page for that subject. When it is aligned with a new subject, such as Math Intervention or Reading Intervention, it will appear on the corresponding intervention subject page.

The course configuration area includes three primary sections:

Each section is described below.

Standard Lenses allow districts and users to focus results on selected groups of standards. Examples include domains within a standards system, priority standards, and report card standards.

Learn more in Understanding and Configuring Lenses.

For intervention courses, interventionists may want to view grade-level standards alongside standards from the prior grade level. For example, you could add both Kindergarten Math CCSS and Grade 1 Math CCSS.

The standards would then display as separate columns in the Classroom Overview.

To provide teachers with a grade-level view and a convenient option for viewing prior-grade standards, add a secondary Standard Lens, as shown below.

The secondary lens will appear in the lens drop-down menu, allowing teachers to switch to the prior grade level’s standards.

By default, the Classroom Overview and Student Proficiency Wheel organize results using the domains of the selected standards system. Standard Lenses allow districts to customize that emphasis and make additional views available from a drop-down menu.

The next section is Assessments.

In this section, district leaders can:

Assessment trackers must be created before they can be added to a course.

Teachers can also self-assign assessments for data collection. However, adding assessments at the course level helps communicate shared data-collection expectations and supports consistent use across classrooms.

That consistency can support data aggregation, local norms, and analysis of grade-level trends.

The final section is Documents. This section can include family letters, progress reports, and other documents intended for sharing with families.

District leaders can edit preconfigured letters or create custom documents using the Handout Editor.

After a handout has been created, it can be added to a course from this section. Documents can also be reordered and organized into subfolders.

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