Guide to Applying Standards in Courses, Units, Lessons, and Activities

This can be done while creating a new course, or opening up an existing course and clicking Edit.

Find the Standards section on the right side.

Click the text that says Click to Select Standards.

In the resulting popup, click on the left side to select standards from the list available for your school.

Expand the relevant standards.

Select the standards you will address in the course.

If you want to remove one you've chosen, simply select the minus sign on the right side, or unselect it on the left side.

You can hide the categories by checking that box at the top right in order to allow for a standards-only view.

Click Save to load all selected standards into your course.

Click Complete when finished.

In the course view, you'll see the Standards set name, along with the number of standards chosen.

Click on the name to see the list of standards you have chosen for the course.

This can be done while creating a new unit, or opening up an existing unit and clicking Edit.

Find the Standards section on the right side of the form.

Click the text that says Click to Select Standards.

Choose from Course Standards that you loaded earlier, on the left side.

Review and adjust the selected standards as needed.

Click Save to confirm the standards for the unit.

Click Complete when finished.

In the unit view, you'll see on the right side the Standards set name along with the number of standards chosen.

Click on the name to see the list of standards you have chosen for the unit.

This can be done while creating a new unit, or opening up an existing unit and clicking Edit.

Scroll down; toward the bottom, you will see the Standards listed.

You can choose to write Learning Objectives right under the standards, or scroll down to the bank of already created Learning Objectives that are under No Standard attached.

If you choose to write Learning Objectives under the standards, just select +Add and a text box will appear for you to add the Learning Objective.

If you choose to use the bank of Learning Objectives already created, click Select and all of the standards chosen for the unit will appear. Select the appropriate standard(s) for that Learning Objective.

When finished, click Complete at the top.

This can be done while creating a new lesson, or opening up an existing lesson and clicking Edit.

Once a Learning Objective has been created, you will see a target next to it.

To attach a standard, click on the target. The list of standards chosen for the unit will appear.

Select the appropriate standard(s) to match the learning objective and make sure to Save.

These learning objectives are now considered Lesson Objectives because they have been assigned to a lesson.

Click Complete at the top when finished.

Hover over the blue target to see the standards code.

Click on the blue target to see the standard information.

This can be done while creating a new activity, or opening up an existing one, clicking on the three dots and selecting Edit info.

Scroll down to find Learning objectives on the right.

Click Select to choose which learning objectives you want to link to the activity.

Select Save.

You will be able to see a target that says Objective. The number you selected will show there and it will match the number under the Learning Objectives at the lesson level.

At every level, you will be able to review the standards chosen. At the course and unit level, you will have an extra option to view standards alignment. The image below is an example at the course level:

Hover over each circle to see what it means:

Click on any of the circles to see which standard is connected and where in your course.

Clicking on any of the checkmarks allows you to see exactly which unit, lesson, or activity that standard is linked to.