Atlas has optional features that Faria turns on for your school, such as the Standards Editing Tool, Single Sign-On, public sites, checklists and LTI. To turn one on, a school leader or admin sends us a request through Submit a request or contacts your Atlas Account Manager.
For Atlas admins and school leaders. Find out what each optional feature does and how to ask for it.
| I want to | Go to |
|---|---|
| Keep our own set of standards | Standards Editing Tool |
| Let all users see all lessons | Lessons viewable by all users |
| Sign in with Google, Clever or LDAP | Single Sign-On |
| Get regular usage reports | Monthly Special Reports |
| Share curriculum with parents or the community | Atlas Public Site |
| Split standards in the unit planner | Multiple standards categories |
| Attach OneDrive files | Google Drive and OneDrive attachments |
| Add a checklist to the unit planner | Checklists or Complex Checklist |
| Show the course description on the unit calendar | Course description in Unit Calendar view |
| Show Atlas inside our LMS | LTI integration |
| Track standards by proficiency level | Assessment proficiency indicators |
| Send approved curriculum to teachers | Adopted Curriculum |
| Pull curriculum data into other platforms | Atlas API |
Standards Editing Tool
System Admins can use the Standards Editing Tool to maintain a customised set of curriculum standards and benchmarks. Users then select these standards when aligning their units, in the same way as other sets of standards in your system.
To check if it is on, go to Admin > Admin Dashboard. If there is no button in the middle between Admin Help and Atlas Services, submit a request to turn it on.
Read more in Admin: Standards Editing Tool.
Lessons viewable by all users
By default, lessons are private to the person who created them. Others can only see them if they have editing privileges for the same course, or special editing privileges.
We can turn on a setting that makes all lessons viewable by all users. A member of your school leadership team should submit a request.
This also turns on copying for lessons. All users can copy any lesson they can view into their own courses.
Read more about lesson privileges in My Courses > Unit Lesson List.
Single Sign-On
If your school uses a Single Sign-On service (for example Google, Clever or LDAP), users can sign in to Atlas with the same school credentials they use for those accounts. Submit a request to start setting up Single Sign-On for your school.
Read more in Atlas Login Procedures.
Monthly Special Reports
The Special Reports service includes 5 reports each month, for an annual fee. These typically include:
- User logins
- Date courses were last updated
- Date units were last updated
- Empty categories (Content, Skills and so on) by course
- Recent course assignment updates made by administrators
If you need a report that is not on this list, tell us what you are looking for and we will try to set it up for you. To sign up, contact your Atlas Account Manager or submit a request.
Atlas Public Site
An Atlas Public Site is a website that mirrors your internal Atlas system. It makes parts of your curriculum available to people outside your school team, with or without a password. It can contain almost any combination of curriculum elements and updates automatically when users change their curriculum in Atlas.
Use it to share part of your curriculum with parents, board members and the community, while keeping other parts private. To find out more about building one, contact your Atlas Account Manager or submit a request.
Read more in Atlas Public Sites.
Multiple standards categories
An Atlas unit planner template can have more than one Standards/Benchmarks category. For example, you can separate standards by subject, grade or strand. Submit a request to set this up.
Each standard can only appear in one of these categories.
Google Drive and OneDrive attachments
By default, Atlas lets you attach Google Drive files. You can also turn on OneDrive attachments. Submit a request to turn it on.
Read more in My Courses > Unit Planner > Attachments.
Checklists in the unit planner template
Checklists are optional. We create them for you to capture lists or elements your school has already identified in your curriculum. Send us your list through Submit a request and we will build it.
Course description in Unit Calendar view
You can show the Course Description in the Unit Calendar view. Submit a request to turn it on.
LTI integration
Atlas can be added as a tool to any LTI-compatible Learning Management System (LMS). Your school can then embed and view the Atlas unit calendar in the LMS, with links to the unit planners and lesson planners for the relevant classes. Submit a request to start an LTI integration.
Read more in Admin: Atlas LTI (Learning Tool Interoperability).
Complex Checklist
Your school may have sets of curriculum elements that relate to activities. You can capture these with a Complex Checklist, for example to identify activities that align with a particular academic initiative. Submit a request to turn it on.
Read more in My Courses > Complex Checklists.
Assessment proficiency indicators
Curriculum Developers can mark proficiency levels to track standards. Reports from this data help answer questions such as:
- Which standards did I introduce, practise or master this year?
- Which standards have only been introduced in the first quarter?
- Which standards have been taught on or before this date, and at what proficiency level?
- When did I first practise this standard?
Submit a request to turn it on. Read more in My Courses > Unit Planner > Proficiency Levels.
Adopted Curriculum
Adopted Curriculum lets users receive pre-approved curriculum, written by selected Curriculum Developers at your school or district, directly in their own copy of the map. It does not overwrite their work.
To discuss whether it suits your process, contact your Atlas Account Manager or submit a request.
Read more in Adopted Curriculum (AC).
Atlas API
Atlas offers a read-only API for pulling curriculum data into other platforms. It is documented at api.onatlas.com/docs. To get an API key, submit a request. API keys expire and can be renewed on request.