Progress Monitoring Groups for Curriculum

Enable Progress Monitoring Groups for the Curriculum

1. Select Administration > Configuration, and then click the Curricula tab.
2. On the Curricula panel on the Configuration page, locate the Progress Monitoring Groups curriculum you want to enable.
   
   • If Enabled displays next to the curriculum, proceed to the next step.
   • If Not Enabled displays next to the curriculum, click Enable Now and then click OK.

Define Progress Monitoring Groups Settings

1. Click the Settings link next to the Progress Monitoring Groups curriculum.
2. Select the default parameters for progress monitoring.

   Progress Monitoring Settings Field Descriptions

   • Default Duration: This is the default duration for progress monitoring. The default can be changed for individual students.
   • Default Probe Frequency: This is the default for how often a probe will be administered, for example, weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly. The default can be changed for individual students.
   • Default Alert When? This determines how many weeks the student must fall below the goal line before a "progress monitoring alert" will be placed on the student. Students with a progress monitoring alert are highlighted for the user. Also, you can produce a report that lists only students that have a progress monitoring alert.
   • Other Settings:
     • Always Chart Full Assessment Periods: If enabled, the progress monitoring chart will always show the full school year, so that progress will be shown in the context of the school year. By default, this option is off.
     • Allow CBM Rubric Overrides: This determines whether end users can override the cutoffs and goal lines established in the assessment definition. By default, this option is off.
3. Click OK.

Define Assessment Periods

Next, you must establish the assessment periods for progress monitoring. Assessment periods are spans of dates at the end of which the school district wishes to establish target cutoff scores for progress monitoring. By default, the assessment periods initially correspond exactly to the marking periods you have set up. But if your assessment periods do not correspond exactly to the marking periods, you can modify the assessment periods as follows.

Note that when you enter the assessment definitions for progress monitoring, you will be allowed to enter cutoff scores for each assessment period.

1. On the Curricula panel on the Configuration page, locate the Progress Monitoring Groups curriculum you want to enable.
2. Click the Periods link next to the Progress Monitoring Groups curriculum.
3. On the Progress Monitoring Periods page, select the default parameters for progress monitoring periods.
   • Initially, the progress monitoring periods correspond exactly to the marking periods in use by the school district. However, you can use this screen to reconfigure the progress monitoring periods to span several marking periods or to begin and end on specific dates.

Create Assessment Definitions

Create an assessment definition for each Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM) probe you will be using, differentiated by grade level.

Assign Security

For users to be able to use progress monitoring groups, they must be assigned appropriate security privileges.

In the appropriate security groups, grant privileges to view and/or administer progress monitoring groups at the classroom level, location-wide or system-wide.

Set Up the Intervention Resources

If you would like to establish a library of interventions for easy selection in progress monitoring groups, then set up a resource type in the resource library named Interventions and then populate it with the interventions you want to make available.

Create an Ad-Hoc Report

You can optionally configure one or more ad-hoc list reports that list students who have intervention alerts. 

1. Select Administration > Configuration, and then click the Curricula tab.
2. On the Curricula panel on the Configuration page, locate the Progress Monitoring Groups curriculum you want to report on, and then click the Reports link.
3. Select the type of report you wish to create.
   
   • Alert reports are used to list students who have fallen below the progress monitoring goal line for a configured length of time.
   • Listing reports simply list students undergoing progress monitoring. These reports can be generated for classroom level progress monitoring or location-wide progress monitoring.

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