Your school may have optionally enabled standards alignment in your Atlas system. This means that from your Unit Planner in My Atlas > My Courses, you have access to all sets of standards approved by your school or authorized by your region. This structured category provides a convenient "Choose Standards" or "Choose Outcomes" button, allowing you to easily target multiple standards and benchmarks, and track your progress across units and lessons within the same course.
Align to Standards
From My Atlas > My Courses > select any unit:
Click Choose Standards button in any standard category. You may see different terminology for this category, depending on your school’s language. It might be called Standards, Benchmarks, Goals, etc. This category is easily identified by having the "Choose Standards" or "Choose Outcomes" button.
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- Click the first drop-down menu in the Browse Standards to select your subject, then the grade or level, then the strand or domain.
- Check off the desired benchmarks to teach in this unit.
- If enabled, flags are added to each benchmark and can be checked off as well to flag your benchmarks. For example, your school might have create a P flag to indicate the Primary Standards, and a I flag for the Interdisciplinary standards. Click here to learn more about creating flags for standards in your Atlas.
- If needed, you can Search all standards or a specific content area in your system by keyword.
- If needed, you can Filter Standards to show your progress in targeting and assessing standards in your course.
If you do not see a particular set of Standards available in your planner, contact your Leadership Team for support.
Filter Standards
- All Standards: This is the default selection, no filtering is applied.
- Standards Targeted in this Category: Show me all the standards that I have targeted in this category only. Applicable when the template has multiple standards categories.
- Standards Not Targeted in this Course: Show me all standards in the selected subject and grade that I have not yet targeted in any units in this course.
- Standards Targeted but Not Assessed in this Course: Show me all the standards that I have targeted in this course, to which I have not aligned an assessment yet.
- Standards Targeted in This Course by the End of This Unit: Show me all the standards that I have taught in this course through the end of this unit.
- Standards Assessed but Not Targeted in this Course: Show me standards that I have assessed that are not identified as intended targets for this course. These standards are aligned directly to an Assessment using the Additional Standards tab.
- Standards Targeted by Other Teachers who teach this same Course: Show me the standards that have been targeted by others teaching the same subject and grade/level course.
Flag Standards
This is an optional feature in Atlas, as an admin, click here to enable it. Curriculum Developers can flag standards as Priority, Supporting, etc., at the unit level. If your system admins created the flags in your Atlas, you'd notice the flag icons prefixing any standard in your units after clicking the "Choose Standards" button in any unit planner.
From My Atlas > My Courses > click on any unit:
- Click Choose Standards button in any standard category. You may see different terminology for this category, depending on your school’s language. It might be called Standards, Benchmarks, Goals, etc. This category is easily identified by having the "Choose Standards" or "Choose Outcomes" button.
- Click the first drop-down menu in the Browse Standards to select your subject, then the grade or level, then the strand or domain.
- Check off the desired benchmarks to teach in this unit.
- If enabled, flags are added to each benchmark and can be checked off as well to flag your benchmarks. For example, your school might have create a P flag to indicate the Primary Standards, and a I flag for the Interdisciplinary standards.
Flagged standards will show up like this in your unit planner:
Standards Tracking
Within Atlas, you have the ability to monitor the progress of your standards as you develop your curriculum. The platform offers in-line reporting functionality, which allows you to track your progress directly within the same course.
By clicking the Choose Standards button, you can specify the Subject, Grade, and Strand you desire. On the right side of the screen, you will notice an in-line report. When you mark a standard as targeted, the system will keep track of how many times that particular standard has been targeted within the course, across Units, Assessments, and Lessons.
FAQ
- What is the Difference Between a Standard, a Goal, and an Assessed Goal?
A Standard is an educational requirement or benchmark developed by your school, district, or state. When you select a Standard using the checkboxes, you identify it as a Goal for that unit. After you create an assessment to measure students' performance on that Standard and align the assessment to the selected Goal, it becomes an Assessed Goal.