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TIP: Groups make enrolling students in courses quick and easy, and progress monitoring and reporting is

more focused.

Student Management

Course Management

Enroll Students in Courses

Manage students to update existing student accounts and/or update student options as needed.

Ensure students have Odysseyware accounts.

If your district / school is responsible for adding students, search for accounts from the
Students page.
If you are responsible for adding student accounts individually, you can use the
Create Student or Import
Students
feature on the Students page to create accounts.
SET UP TASKS

Welcome, Educators!
This checklist will guide you through essential set up tasks to ensure you and your
students are ready to use Imagine Odysseyware this school year and beyond.

Create a group(s) and add students to the group(s).

First, log into
Imagine Odysseyware using your educator credentials to make sure your login credentials
work and you can access the Imagine Odysseyware platform.
*Contact your administrator if you need
assistance.

Locate courses available for your school from the
Courses page.
Need Help Center? Check out
Student Users
Select course(s) you will facilitate and click the
icon to explore content.
Access Course Overview

Preview course activities

Manage course content and/or create courses as needed.

Need Help Center? Check out
Courses
Ensure students are enrolled in course(s).

If you are responsible for enrolling students in courses yourself, use Add Enrollmemt feature on
Gradebook
page.

If your district / school is creating course enrollments, use
Course Enrollment page to search for your
students and check enrollments.
TIP: Apply your group filter to Course Enrollment to narrow data view.
Manage individual course enrollments to meet specific student needs and accommodations.

Need Help Center? Check out
Course Enrollment
and
Gradebook
Establish a basic beginning reporting routine and determine how often you will perform progress and mastery
checks and which pages and/or group-based and individual reports to use.

TIP: Use the
Guide Me in-product tutorial to walk through the Dashboard for additional support.
TIP: Individual student reports are accessible by the student and can be used to self-monitor.

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View the
Dashboard report at least weekly to analyze data for active student enrollments
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Imagine Odysseyware Checklist

PROGRESS MONITORING, GRADING, & DATA

Homepage and Gradebook

View
Homepage daily and throughout the day to identify students who need attention using the Activity Stream
including New Messages, Actions, and Assignment Alerts.

Utilize the
Gradebook to take actions on individual student assignments throughout the course enrollment(s).
Reports

View
Activity Reports to closely monitor engagement, progress, achievement, and growth (if available) and
inform instructional decisions.

Group-based reports help educators monitor and manage multiple students at one time and provide data to

identify individual students for further analysis.

Set and communicate weekly expectations.

BEST PRACTICES

Establish implementation model, usage goals, and classroom routines.

Consider implementing student goal-setting and self-monitoring protocols. If desired, use
Imagine
Odysseyware's Student Goal Sheet
to help students take ownership of learning.
Conference with students and develop action plans for assisting those struggling.

What type of conferencing schedule will you put in place?

How will you provide support for students inside and outside of the classroom?

Will you require notes or other support resources?

Celebrate student success!

Need Help Center? Check out
Reports
Visit the
Imagine Odysseyware Help Center for more information, guidance, and resources.
Need Help Center? Check out
Understanding the Home Page
and
Actions on Students within the Gradebook
TIP: It may be helpful to reference the
Imagine Odysseyware Data Best Practices for Educators document
and locate strategies within the data and recommendations charts.