11/17/22 Updates
Happy almost Thanksgiving! We're always working to refine the LiFT experience for you. Here is a summary of changes
released this week that you will want to understand and communicate to your learners and
colleagues.
Assign Skills to Classes (without tagging to evidence)
In some cases it is helpful to assign skills directly to students in your class rather than taking the time to tag those skills to a specific assignment. Assigning a skill directly, using the blue Assign Skills button in your Project page, populates your Portfolio tab with those skills. This can be a useful way to set up your portfolio-based gradebook before launching projects. Once projects are launched, any evidence can be pulled into these directly assigned portfolios, even if the evidence was not tagged. If your school uses nested skills (we call them parent and child skills), assigning the parent skill directly provides a simple way to see all of the evidence in the child skills in one place.
Click on the blue Assign Skills button in the upper right corner of your Classes > Projects tab and then select skills from your framework in the center panel. After selecting one or more skills, click on the blue Continue button and you can choose the students who will be assigned the selected skills.
Special Note: We can help you build portfolio grading policies for parent skills that average the portfolio ratings of each child skill, or that average the weighted ratings of each piece of evidence tagged to any of the child skills. If you're interested in exploring this, just reach out to your LiFT Support Team.
What does that Skill label mean?
Sometimes the labels on skills in your framework are coded and its hard to remember what the code means. HSH.3.b.2 is what again? Your learners may be even more confused. No worries! Now when you or your students click on a skill to see the rubric descriptors, the full definition of the skill is displayed in the panel too.
This detail is displayed whenever a teacher or student clicks on a skill in Classes > Projects or Combined Portfolio.
Approved Status on Portfolio Display
The check icon that shows that a skill has been approved now appears smaller and in the upper right corner of the skill/learner cell to better see the rating and numeric equivalent.
Remember, if you don't want to see numerics, there is a Show/Hide Numeric checkbox in the upper right of your screen.
Three New Facilitator Tools:
CSV Data Export
You can now export a csv file that contains details of all student evidence and ratings assigned this term. You will find the export link at the bottom of your facilitator navigation panel.Custom Accounts for Clever Schools
Facilitators at schools that access LiFT through Clever are now able to create custom teacher and student accounts and add them to custom LiFT classes or classes shared by Clever.Alternative Rubric Labels in Portfolios Now Possible
Many schools already use a portfolio grading policy that automatically calculates a suggested portfolio grade based on the rubrics embedded in each skill. If you want to use these rubric labels for rating assignments, but want to use a different label (or no label) in your portfolio gradebook, we can provide alternate text. If you want to learn more about Suggested Grade policies and this alternative text feature, please reach out.
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