Set up learning standards

Before you can use learning standards tools to measure student proficiency in a subject area, you need to create a library of learning standards that is available across your district. The standards are created in the District view, Assessment tab, Learning Standards side-tab.

Teachers can access these standards when using district-created reporting standards to align to their assignments, or when they create their own reporting standards in the gradebook.

Teachers can align each assignment with reporting standards, and enter scores for each standard.

To set up learning standards:

1. Give staff the appropriate security role privileges.

   Examples: Give an administrator the privilege to create a library of learning standards in the District view. These standards will be available throughout your district. Give all teachers the privilege to align standards with assignments in their gradebook Online version of a paper book where teachers enter and track assignments, assignment grades, and term grades. If you are searching for this term, consider a more targeted search string like "Entering Grades." in the Staff view. For example, a teacher aligns a science learning standard to a science assignment in their gradebook.

1. The following table lists the user roles security privileges associated with learning standards. Review your user roles to ensure the settings are appropriate for the default user roles used in your district and any customized roles you've created from Aspen's default roles:

   These default roles....	Have these privileges...	Description	Where to access
   Privilege given to: System administrator: all access to table and privilege Global Read-Only (No Health, No Special Ed.): R access to table Instructor: R access to table	System table: Learning Standard Other privilege: Set course alignments in Staff view	Allows user to create, read, update, delete, have global access to, and mass update learning standards.   Allows user to set course alignments in Staff view.	District view: Admin > Security > Roles > Details > Assessment Category > Learning Standard System Table > C, R, U, D, G, M columns   Set course alignments in Staff view in Other column.

See Define Details for User Security Roles.

An administrator creates a library of learning standards in the District view that will be available to all schools in your district. You may also import learning standards from your state's curriculum framework.

After you have imported or created learning standards:

• Administrators align learning standards with reporting standards (rubrics) in the District view. Then, assign each course a rubric and a transcript definition with standards-based grading columns. Teachers can enter scores for each reporting standard associated with their courses in their gradebooks, and Aspen can provide true standards-based Trend and traditional averages to use on standards-based report cards.
• Staff can create their own reporting standards and align them to the learning standards created in the District view. They can use the Trend and traditional averages that Aspen calculates to determine student progress, and better inform them of which lessons are working, and which are not.