Campus Instruction & Learning

Audience: Teachers

The purpose of this lesson is to:

● Instruct teachers how to use Campus Instruction module

In this lesson, you will learn to:

● Use the Message Center
● Setup Campus Instruction Account Settings
● View/Print Roster
● Create Seating Charts
● Take Attendance for each section you teach
● Create Student Groups
● Setup and use the Gradebook
● Use the Planner

Reference ICU/Campus Community

Campus Community
● News - ICU Free Recorded Webinars
● Forums
● Knowledge Base - General Information
For more detailed training on the Campus Community, please
refer to course TE 1116 Campus Community - How to Navigate

Campus Instruction Overview

Basic navigation - Campus 101

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● Campus Toolbar
● Notifications
● Message Center
● Grades Message
● Missing Assignments
● Class Message
● User Menu
● Account Settings
● Logoff
● Sandbox vs. Production (colors)
o Production is a GREEN banner
o Sandbox is a ORANGE banner
● Index/Search/Help
● Locate Version

Campus Instruction vs. Campus Tools

● App Switcher

Campus Tools>Student Information>General Overview

● Available tabs depend on user security
● Common tabs:
● Summary
● Schedule
● Ability to see student’s entire schedule
● Attendance
● View/Print student’s attendance events
● Grades
● View grades in all classes
● Print a student’s report card
● Searching students in Campus Tools
● Behavior Referral

Control Center

Control Center
● Campus Instruction default page
● Overview of Sections
● Ability to take attendance and score assignments

Attendance

Campus Instruction>Attendance>Attendance List

● Click on any period to mark attendance
● Course and Section displays at top of the list
● If you teach multiple sections in same period, each appears in
its own section as you scroll down the list
● If the office has already recorded attendance for a student,
you can view, but cannot change attendance code
● Clicking Save will place a checkmark by the period and
reduce the number in the orange box by Attendance module
in Index
● Office can immediately see the attendance after you click
Save

Campus Instruction>Attendance>Seating Chart

● Same options as with list, just shows your seating chart setup

Roster

Campus Instruction>Roster
● View Incoming, Active and Dropped students
● View basic student info
● View student flags (Health, IEP, PLP, Contact)
● View contact information
● Generate roster report

Seating Charts

Campus Instruction>Seating Charts

● Create a seating chart for each section you teach
● If two sections meet during same period, there will be an
option in the sections area that contains both classes as one
selection
● Each section can have multiple charts, if desired (e.g., lab
chart)
● Can also use seating charts to take attendance

Student Groups
Campus Instruction>Student Groups
● Create student groups (add/remove students)
● Use to sort students into smaller learning groups within a
section
● Use with gradebook, to assign assignments to only the
students in a specific group

Grade Book Overview (Added Campus Learning Fields)

Grade Book Overview

● Navigating the grade book
● Section/Term/Task
● Different types of scores (colors/flags)

Campus Instruction>Grade Book

● Filtering Options

Define Scoring Setup in Gradebook

Step 1: Grade Calc Options

● Determines how Gradebook calculates In Progress
grades
● If not set, In Progress grades will not calculate
● Discuss calculation options for grading tasks vs.
standards
● Both standards and grading tasks can be
calculated in same grade book

Step 2: Categories
● Collect assignments that count towards a particular
Grading Task or Standard
● At least one category is required in order to create an
assignment
● Discuss Sequence, Weight, Exclude and Drop
Lowest Score options

Step 3: Creating Assignments (Additional Campus Learning

Fields)
● Three ways to add from Grade Book
1. Add button
2. Assignment List
3. Keyboard command (ALT+N)
● Copying an Individual Assignment
● Assignments can also be added from Planner and
 Assignment Overview

Campus Learning
Campus Learning is the Infinite Campus LMS that connects
teachers to new, powerful tools for digital learning. Campus
Learning is a premium option for Campus Instruction
● Planner
● Quick Assessments
● Google Drive
● Naiku Assessments
● Student Submission
● Discussions

Scoring Assignments
● Score in Grade Book

NOTE: The view of the Grade Book is based on the Section,

Term and Task or Section Group you’ve selected in the Campus
toolbar

Scoring Student Submissions

Posting Grades through the Grade Book

● Copies grades entered in the Grade Book to the students’
Grades tab.
● Automatic posting = Click the Post button and moves the In
Progress grade to the Posted column
● Manual posting = teacher analyzes data and then chooses the
grade in the posted column to determine the student’s
performance
● The Posted grade is the grade that posts to the student’s
Transcripts.
● Posting Grades w/ Standards

Posting Grades by Task or Student

● Use to post grades for an entire task or standard rather than
entering scores for a specific assignment. (e.g. Social Skills,
Pass/Fail classes, Standards Based grading with no
assignments)

Planner (Campus Learning)

Campus Instruction>Planner
● Planner>Curriculum View
● View/Add assignments
● Copy multiple assignments between sections/years
● Planner>Schedule View
● View/Print students (includes any absences for that day)

Reports

Campus Instruction>Reports

Reports (Attendance)

Reports (Roster)

Guided Work Time

Review Questions

1. What can you point out about Campus Tools vs. Campus
Instruction? (differences – what you use each for)
2. Name one resource you can use for reference for Campus
Instruction.
3. List three steps you need to complete to set up your grade
book for use.
4. What can you point out about the Planner tool?
5. Predict the outcome if an assignment is added prior to creating
categories.
6. How does the Grade book know how to calculate the grades
that you enter?
7. How would you elaborate on the reason for creating Student
Groups?
8. How could you verify a student’s attendance for a particular
date?
9. Can you add an assignment through the Planner?
 10. Can students submit assignments through the Google Drive?
11. What areas are apart of Campus Learning?

Campus Glossary
Control Center The Control Center allows teachers to view current tasks at a
glance. Current day attendance and assignments to be score are
sorted by period

Post Student Grades Using the Post Grades tool, you have the option of posting grades
by task or by student. When using this tool, you are posting grades
for the entire task or standard, rather than entering scores for a
specific assignment
Quick Assessment The Quick Assessment tool allows teachers to create simple
assessments attached to assignments. Questions are multiple
choice (including True/False) and are scored automatically based
on the number of points possible. Students take Quick
Assessments through Campus Student
Discussions The Discussions tool allows teachers to create and manage
discussions for your classes. Students can respond to a thread
created by the teacher, create their own threads, and comment on
each other's responses, depending on discussion setup

Planner The Campus Instruction Planner lets teachers quickly organize

their day. Teachers can plan out a day, week, a month or full term.
From the Planner teachers can easily create, modify and add units,
lesson plans and assignments to their classroom schedule

Google Drive Integration Integrating Campus with Google Drive allows teachers to interact
with Google Drive through their assignments

Student Submission Teachers have the option of allowing students to submit

assignments using the student Portal and Campus Student,
whether through text responses or by using file attachments
Infinite Campus Training

Roll Out Plan

1. Attendance
2. Roster
a. complete with how to access student information (to student
information)

*pay attention to contact information...if there is an email

address it may be students.

b.
Flags would be important information, such as custodial alerts
c.
Health is allergies, medical issues
d.
IEP will not be used this year
e.
PLP personal learning plan
f.
How to print the page with all of student information (fire drill
clipboard and field trip)
i. Report options, choose the information that you would like
to include and print.
3. Behavior??
1. Yellow slips will continue, but everything will be
documented on IC
2. Teachers would need to clarify (in
comments/description) if it was a yellow slip or if it is
a major and then admin will flag them as
appropriate once they receive them
3. Teacher enters BOTH perpetrator and victim,
witness, etc.
4. Teachers do not click the box “A behavior response
was required” (found on the event and participant
details page) - this will be done by admin if
necessary
 a. Exception to this is SPED - if a restraint for
example is needed, the SPED teacher would
check that box
4. Seating Charts
5. Student Spreadsheets/Labels (reports roster tab)
● your login is your normal computer login
● training materials found in message center (bell)
● account settings (person)
○ ability to change which students you view and to show their
pictures
● student information (roster)
○ parent contact info
○ ability to print the roster with parent contact info (like what we
put on the fire drill clipboards)
● student spreadsheets (like a grade sheet) and labels
○ found under Reports Roster
○ labels on here are not going to be that efficient - inability to edit,
wasted labels
● student groups
○ would be used to create groups within a classroom (cannot go
across classes)
■ for example, could be used to document and keep track
of your guided reading groups
● attendance
○ mark as present, absent, or tardy (default is present)
○ if office knows in advance it will be greyed out and you cannot
access it
○ you can put a note, for example if you received an email about
why and office will enter it on their end (parents will be able to
see whatever you type if they check the portal so be sure to be
PC)
○ we will only have to take morning attendance… wahoo!
● questions/help
○ whenever you are on a page/tab and you need help, click the
question mark and it will direct you to help for that page
● message center
○ choose message type (email, portal, or both)
○ campus fields (F in a box)
■ allows you to have the message fill in student names and
other demographics (after you choose who it is sent to)
○ this seems more cumbersome than class dojo for our level,
unless we are generating a letter to all students (I don’t think we
will be using the missing grade option - which is awesome, btw)
● behavior
○ switch from instruction to tools
■ behavior tab, then behavior referral (will list current
referrals)
● click on new
● do not list student in title, title would be something
like “playground incident”
● use student details in details section
● context (this is the when/where info)
● add event/participant
○ this is where you code what happened
(bullying, bus, cellphone, etc.)
○ behavior response?
○ participants when you submit it you choose
which admin to send it to
○ it goes to them and then they process it and
should get back to you