Managing Child Standards

What does this page include?

You’ll learn how to create, edit and manage Child Standards.  This includes bulk imports, creating individual standards, and managing details including Bank association.

Who is this information for?  

District and possibly School level administrative staff. 

What’s important to know?

 Parent Standards must be created before their underlying Child Standards.  Standards can be available in more than one Bank at a time.  

What’s changed?

Standards are now available in two different views; hierarchical and list.  In the hierarchy view Child Standards are nested within their Parent Standards which are in turn nested within their Content Area.  In the list views either Parent or Child standards are listed independent of their relationship to each other.

How to create new Child Standards one at a time

From the Admin Console page, select Standards.

Select a Standard Bank to continue by clicking on the name of the desired bank.

Select a View

In either Hierarchy View or Child Standard list view, select New Child Standard from top right.

In details window that opens enter Title, select Parent Standard, select level(s), select Calculation type, optionally set weight, optionally enter text for each mastery level descriptor.  The Aligned To code is optional, and is simply a place to store a short code that will appear in certain reports that you can use to reference external systems - it does not appear to teachers or students.  Note that as you begin to type a title, potential duplicates will display to the right.  This feature only lists possible duplicates, it does not prevent you from creating a duplicate Child Standard.  Select Save.

How to Create New Child Standards imported in bulk

From the Admin Console page, select Standards.

Select a Standard Bank by clicking on the name of the desired bank.

From either Hierarchy View or List View, select More Options menu ︙in top right.  Select Import Child Standards.

In the details window that opens, select Download Template and open the file and/or select Bank and click Next.  At this point you can choose to upload from the template or simply type data  directly into the import tool.

If using the Template -

Open downloaded template file and complete with Child Standard information:

• title - title of Child Standard
• parent_standard - values in this column must be from the pre-populated list on template, can re-use items, you must create a Parent Standard before you can create a Child Standard within it 
• calculation_type - values in this column must be from pre-populated list on template, can re-use items
• instruction_levels - values in this column must be from pre-populated list on template, can re-use items
• align_code - optional text (A-Z, 0-9, periods, hyphens, and underscores) up to 20 characters.
• mastery_description_1, _2, _3, _4 - optional text for mastery level descriptors

Click here for more information on Instruction Levels.

Delete from template example rows that are not needed.

Save file

Back in import window, in Bulk Add Child Standards window, select to Upload Data from File.  Select template file.

Import will attempt to map fields from file.  Scroll down to see more.  Select to Review.

In Review you will have the opportunity to repair problems.  Make any corrections directly on screen.

Select Complete and Child Standards will be created and imported.

If not using template -

Type directly into import tool.  Select Continue, Review, and Complete as above

How to Edit Child Standards

In Admin Console, Standards section, select desired Bank.

In standards view, select Hierarchy view or Child Standards list view.

Bulk Actions Editing

Select desired Child Standards by checking off one or more boxes.  In hierarchy view you can select all of the underlying Child Standards at once by checking off a Parent Standard or a Content Area.

Open Bulk Action menu and select desired action

Editing Individual Child Standards

In Hierarchy view or Child Standards list view, select More Options menu ⋯ for a specific Child Standard and select Edit.

In details window that opens, make desired changes to selected Child Standard.

Managing Details on Individual Child Standards

In either view, click on title of desired Child Standard.  The detail view for the individual Child Standard is opened.

Edit elements of the standard by clicking Edit in the top right.  Delete the standard or view its revision history by selecting the More Options menu︙in the top right.

Add or remove a Child Standard from a Bank by selecting Manage Related.

For more details on editable elements of Parent Standards please see here.