00:01: Welcome to elevate, standards alignment, professional Edition onboarding video
00:05: series. This is a three-part series and you are viewing.
00:08: Video number two. The next few slides will cover topics that will be
00:12: addressed in the video series.
00:17: Elevate, standards alignment, professional Edition, gives you access to all
00:21: data and functionality, that can be accessed through the ab connect API
00:25: the data and functionalities that are available include standards
00:30: with Associated metadata, including the ab.
00:32: Good standard relationships standard change events standard
00:36: search and Alignment, taxonomy search and Alignment alignment recommendations
00:41: and content search.
00:45: Additionally, you can access multiple alignment Solutions and applications through
00:49: the ab connect user. Interface features include interactive
00:54: tagging and recommendation applications.
00:56: Workflow project management system for alignments configurable
01:00: reporting and GAP analysis, system for assets and alignments and
01:04: Alignment change management reports.
01:09: In this video, we will focus on the available options for alignment in Elevate
01:13: standards alignment. We will help you understand how all of the elements work
01:17: together to provide you with a flexible system for Content alignment from
01:22: the options. You can select those that make the most sense for your use case or
01:26: cases.
01:29: The Elevate standards alignment, professional Edition offers power and flexibility
01:33: to align and maintain the alignments of learning objects of any form,
01:37: such as instructional content, lesson plans, assessments learning
01:42: objectives and intermediaries users can elect to pull the rich standards
01:46: data metadata and relationships from the API and apply them
01:50: to their own alignment processes or by storing records of the learning
01:54: objects within our alignment system predictions, can be generated and
01:58: alignments automated. Additionally, predictions can be reviewed and
02:02: managed through user interfaces to provide efficient workflows.
02:08: Before we get into the details, about the various alignment methods, let's
02:12: take a look at some additional functionality within our application.
02:19: Elevate standards alignment is powered by the academic benchmarks, repository
02:23: of Standards. When you log into academic benchmarks calm as
02:27: an administrator, you will have access to several administrative tools
02:31: as well as alignment tools and Reporting System.
02:36: There is a menu of items on the dashboard and a similar menu across the
02:40: top of the page, we will be explaining the functionality of each of these within
02:44: the context of related workflows.
02:48: Let's begin with assets as they are called in this application and in the API.
02:53: These are records of learning objects or content.
02:55: You want to align the content can be anything from an assessment question to
03:00: a video to a lesson. It can even be a taxonomy node.
03:04: These are set up and described by configurable asset type.
03:07: Definitions each account can have one or more asset types, appropriate
03:11: to your use case. At a minimum your record should include a unique identifier,
03:16: a title, and one or more subjects. You'll most likely want to include
03:20: grades on your asset as well. Other options, you'll want to consider may
03:24: be a URL link to the item. A unit number, a course name or
03:28: an asset creation date. Please visit our community articles on assets
03:32: to see the available options. Once you have your asset types to find the
03:36: records can be pushed into the system through the API imported through a file
03:41: or manually entered. Then you can begin aligning your content either
03:45: through the API or by using our ui's.
03:51: Clicking on standards brings you to a map where you can click to view the standards
03:55: available in AB connect, it can be helpful in understanding the structure
03:59: of the standards or confirming the API call.
04:02: You are making is generating the expected data.
04:04: Clicking on standards in the top navigation will take you to the standards
04:09: license management options as described in video 1.
04:14: You can review our supported subjects and sets of Standards including
04:18: the metadata relationships for each in this community article.
04:24: The reporting system under the reports tab allows you to generate CSV
04:29: Excel or HTML files of your asset and Alignment data.
04:35: It is important to understand that regardless of the method of asset record, creation
04:39: and Alignment process selected. The data is all housed within a
04:43: single data store and can be included in reports.
04:48: See the link under the support tab to create a support ticket under
04:52: support. You can also connect to the instructor Community where you can find
04:56: additional detailed articles about Elevate standards alignment.
05:02: Under alignment, you will find links to different uis that can be used for alignment.
05:06: We will walk through those now and cover projects a bit later as part
05:10: of this walkthrough
05:14: Elevate standards alignment. Professional Edition comes with several tool options
05:18: that provide flexibility to meet your needs.
05:20: Let's first, look at the alignment app note that you will need to log in.
05:24: Again, once you click into the alignment app, the alignment app is built on
05:28: the ab connect API. Which means all of the functionality you
05:33: see within the app can be replicated within any integrated system.
05:36: Additionally, with the use of a b globally unique identifiers,
05:40: or guides within the URL, this UI can easily be linked to
05:44: from your tools, such as your content management system, to tie your content
05:49: directly to the alignment process.
05:55: The Alignment App provides the ability to align bidirectionally
06:01: starting either with Learning Objects and predicting related standards;
06:06: or beginning with standards and recommending relevant Learning Objects.
06:13: With the use of learning object Collections and standards collections that are visible across
06:17: all users. One can quickly navigate to their task at hand.
06:22: Setting up collections is described more in our documentation.
06:29: The alignment app is powered by the crosswalk relationship and the user can
06:33: control which crosswalk relationships Drive the predictions. Currently
06:37: we have built out our curated crosswalks in English Language Arts, Mathematics,
06:41: Science, and Social Studies.
06:45: This app also has a useful search feature that can assist in manual alignments
06:49: to all subjects.
06:54: Please see the documentation in the community for information on
06:58: additional features.
07:02: Back to the main dashboard, we will now provide an overview of projects.
07:06: It is through projects that you will be able to access additional alignment.
07:10: Methods, the projects tab allows you to define a set of alignments based
07:14: on criteria for standards and assets, you can use projects to assign
07:18: work to a liners enable review of the alignments and to
07:22: manage a workflow using our asset status.
07:24: It's helpful to note that the project set up here can also be used in
07:28: our reporting system to identify the set of data to report against.
07:36: Aligning by concept taxonomy and the ab connect confidence
07:40: algorithm. Entering the alignment tool through projects gives
07:44: you access to more alignment, interfaces, depending on the setup of your project
07:48: using a line by intermediary with the concept taxonomy
07:53: selected provides access to the machine learning prediction engine as part
07:57: of the standards maintenance process, our subject matter experts tag
08:01: most standards in a b connect with Concepts, from our concept.
08:04: Taxonomy, the concepts are used to break down the individual elements of
08:09: a standard the concepts are arranged in a series of key ideas.
08:12: So that they describe the standard
08:16: When you tag your content to standards or directly to the concept, taxonomy,
08:20: the algorithm begins to recommend standards based on those tags.
08:25: As you tag more standards and Concepts, the algorithm refines, its results
08:29: as it learns, what your content is about.
08:36: You can create the relationships between assets and standards or concepts and
08:41: review, the machine learning powered predictions, using rui, or using
08:45: your API integration.
08:47: To have a b connect predicts, the most accurate standards for your content, you'll
08:52: want to follow the best practices outlined in our community, documentation.
09:00: Depending on the type of content, you have the subjects to which you want to align
09:04: and which authorities you are focused on. You might find that one of our other
09:09: approaches to alignment better meets your needs.
09:14: In addition to the concepts, tagged to standards Elevate, standards alignment,
09:19: tags, all core 4 standards with our topic taxonomy.
09:22: The topic taxonomy is designed similar to a table of contents.
09:26: It sits above and is broader than the standards.
09:29: The topic taxonomy can be used as a broad intermediary.
09:32: If that is most applicable to your alignment needs by tagging your content
09:36: with the topic or topics, you can then receive predicted standards based on the
09:40: standards that are also tagged to these topics.
09:43: This type of alignment can be done via the API or using the
09:47: option to align by intermediary topic.
09:49: Taxonomy scenarios in, which you might align by topic include
09:54: content, more appropriate to Broad standard relationships, or use
09:58: cases primarily for Content discovery.
10:03: Aligning directly to standards Elevate, standards alignment, professional
10:07: Edition. Also provides ways to align directly to a standard or set
10:11: of Standards based on the user's knowledge of their content and the standards
10:15: to, which they are. Aligning our API provides robust search functionality,
10:20: which the search standards feature in the alignment app, utilizes,
10:27: Through an option in projects, you can also view the full standards tree and
10:31: manually select appropriate standards.
10:36: Finally, in our standards navigation area, there is a toggle to
10:40: alignment mode. That further enables manual alignments.
10:46: Aligning through search or manual navigation.
10:48: Directly to standard supports use cases where the subjects are Beyond
10:52: those supported by our intermediaries, or for custom documents or learning
10:57: objectives. These methods are documented further in our
11:01: community.
11:06: Empowered with the many options, shared with you, consider what will work best
11:10: for you? Do you want to integrate the API into your own UI
11:14: so that you can manage workflows there? Or do you want to use one of the alignment
11:18: applications to get started? This decision, May likely depend
11:22: on the expertise and workload of your technical team.
11:25: Some other items to consider when making this determination are development
11:29: resources, desired workflow training of Staff Asset
11:34: Management, use of predictions and use of ab taxonomies
11:39: If you are unsure or if you have other questions about what was shown here, we
11:43: have a team of experts that can help guide your decisions.
11:46: We also have a team of experienced subject matter, experts who you
11:50: can engage to do all or part of your alignment work.
11:56: Thank you, for viewing video number two of elevate, standards alignment, professional
12:01: edition onboarding. If you haven't already reached out to our partner
12:05: success teams, please schedule a call with us, to walk through any questions you
12:09: still have and to help us understand how you intend to use Elevate,
12:13: standards, alignment, professional Edition,