Go to Admin Dashboard > Maintain Benchmarks (Standards Editing Tool). Add your standards in five tiers: Subject, Strand, Grade, Standard and Benchmark. You must fill in all five tiers, or users will not see your standards.
For system admins who maintain a customised set of curriculum standards and benchmarks. Users can then align their units to these standards, as they do with other sets of standards in your system.
| I want to | Go to |
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| Understand the five tiers | How standards are structured |
| Add standards tier by tier | Add or edit standards |
| Copy standards from a document | Copy from other digital sources |
| Mark Power or Essential standards | Flag standards |
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How standards are structured
Atlas uses five tiers: Subject, Strand, Grade, Standard and Benchmark. The fifth tier (Benchmarks) always holds the items users select for alignment in their unit planners.
You must fill in all five tiers, or your standards will not be visible to users.
You can rename the five tiers to match your school's terminology by contacting Atlas Support. The tab names below are examples and may be different on your site.
Add or edit standards
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Tier 1 (Subject): in the first tab on the left (here, Subjects & Strands), add or edit tier 1. Some schools call this Content Area, Subject-Matter or Subject Area.
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Tier 2 (Strand): in the same tab, select the expand icon to view, add or edit tier 2. Some schools call this Topics.
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Tier 3 (Grade): in the middle tab (here, Grades), add or edit tier 3. Some schools call this Levels or Years. Enter the grade levels or bands that match your standards: some are written for single grades, others are banded (for example, 6-8). Users select this when they look for standards to align to.
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Tier 4 (Standard): in the first tab on the right (here, Standards and Benchmarks), select the subject and grade from the menus, then enter the standard. If you skip this, your standards may be listed under the wrong grade. Some schools call this Goals, Strategies, Subtopics, Outcomes or Contents.
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Tier 5 (Benchmark): in the Standards and Benchmarks tab, select the arrow to expand tier 4, then add or edit tier 5. Some schools call this Indicators, Knowledge/Skills, Standards, Objectives, Assessment or Criteria/Aims.
Select View Standards at the right of the page to view your new standards.
Grades and Strands without a star (*) in the menus have no standards or benchmarks yet. A star is added once all five tiers are complete.
Your benchmarks are now available for alignment in the Unit Planner.
Copy from other digital sources
Open the application with the content you want to copy, and the Standards Editing Tool in Atlas.
Place the windows side by side so you can see both.
Copy the content using either method below.
Copy and paste
Highlight the content and press Ctrl + C.
Place your cursor in the text box in the Standards Editing Tool and press Ctrl + V.
Drag and drop
In the source document, highlight the content you want to copy.
Hold down the left mouse button on the highlighted content and drag it to the right category in the Standards Editing Tool.
Flag Power or Essential standards
Flagged standards show an icon next to them. The example below uses flags for Power Standards, but you can use flags to label standards in any way you like.
The flag can be any small image. Choose from our selection of flags, or send us a custom image to upload.
Contact us to build the flag in your Atlas.
Go to Admin Dashboard > Maintain Benchmarks (Standards Editing Tool).
In the third tab to the right (here, Standards and Benchmarks), find the benchmark (tier 5 item).
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Select the flag icon or the Flag button. With one flag set up, the flag icon appears before each benchmark. With several flags, the Flag button appears at the end of each benchmark.