THINKCENTRAL…………….Logging In as a teacher:

State-TX

District-Allen ISD

School-YOUR SCHOOL

Click on “remember my organization”

Enter username and password sent to you.

Classes and Students (chalkboard and apple):

Click on “classes students” – chalkboard icon

Add Class-Enter general info (title, grade level) , then save!

On same page-click on what you want students to have access to .( I have their e-book, Mega Math, and Itools so far.) Then save!

Click on Assign Students

Find students- click on grade level *this will filter the students.

Assign students to a class – click student name, click add, then click SAVE. (You can select more than one student using the control button & then click add) when you have added all students. You can also create groups of individual students for other purposes.

Then click DONE

Resources and Assessment (computer screen):

HSP Math Online Assessment is not functioning now. HSP knows about the problem. Therefore, you cannot currently assign tests. You can assign them, but test won’t appear.

My Favorites:

Daily Transparencies: Use document camera or access online and use as your math warm-up/spiral review. Students can work in a spiral and no copies need to be made.

Resource Books: All teacher resource books are the same as the ones you have hard copies for.

Interventions (Lifesaver) Click on grade level. See skills listed in groups of ten. The VAST MAJORITY of the skill lessons listed do not match the lessons that pop up. HSP knows about the problem and it is being reprogrammed.

Math Concept Readers do not appear to be working, in 3rd grade at least.

Math on Location Videos- doesn’t teach a math lesson, but very cool and shows math in our world.

Instructional Model- actually walks you (and the kids) through a lesson with practice and explanation. You must click to go through the lesson.

Professional Dev. Videos for Podcasting- for teacher s to brush up on teaching skills.

Harcourt Mega math: All the games!!! Over 100 per section with 6 sections.

ITOOLS-online manipulative for student or teacher use. Notice correlations to curriculum standards tab.

Planning tab- use for online planning of your lessons.

Assignments (paper with sparkling stars):

Add an assignment-type title, type instructions, select subject, then search.

Resources tab: Enter keyword, then click subject and grade. Then search. You can leave out keyword if you want more to pop up.

Choose an assignment. Check the box, then Click assign.

ASSIGN IS FOR STUDENTS. SCHEDULE IS FOR TEACHER TO ATTACH TO A SET OF LESSON PLANS THEY ARE WORKING ON IF THEY ARE USING THAT FEATURE.

Standards tab: Click on HSP TEKS. Subject MATH. Grade ALL. Use this tab for lesson plan template.

Readers tab- ????

Reports:

Use feature after students have taken an assessment. Not available for games, ITOOLs, interventions, etc. It is only for online assessment

THINKCENTRAL…………….Logging In as a student:

Library

Shows which items I have assigned to them as their teacher.

Things to Do

This is where the teacher has placed the assignments.

Students MUST check DONE, then SAVE to have it recorded.

My test scores

Will eventually have test data in it.