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Thompson School District BloomBoard – Teacher
User’s Guide 2014-‐2015
September 2, 2014 Created with support from
2 Table of Contents Welcome to Bloomboard ..................................................................................................................... 3
Signing In ........................................................................................................................................................ 3 Navigating the Site – Home Page ..................................................................................................................... 4
E-‐Portfolio: Aggregated Evidence and Ratings, Artifacts, & Activities ................................................... 5 Accessing E-‐Portfolio ....................................................................................................................................... 5 Artifacts .......................................................................................................................................................... 6 Activities ......................................................................................................................................................... 6 Observation Statuses ...................................................................................................................................... 7 Accessing Previous Years Information ............................................................................................................. 7
Evaluation Cycle Support ..................................................................................................................... 8 Self Assessment .............................................................................................................................................. 8 Review of Annual Goals and Performance Plan ............................................................................................. 10 Setting Goals ................................................................................................................................................. 10 Archiving Goals ............................................................................................................................................. 11 Submitting Required Artifacts and Associated Documents ............................................................................ 12
3 Welcome to Bloomboard Signing In
1. Go to http://apps.bloomboard.com. BloomBoard is supported on Firefox, Safari, and Chrome.
2. Enter your school email address. 3. Enter your password. Your initial password was emailed to you with the subject Welcome to
BloomBoard when your account was created. If you did not receive this e-‐mail please contact April McFall or Kristina Smith.
4. Click the “Sign In” button 5. If this is your first time signing in, you will be prompted to accept the terms of service, enter a new
password, and choose whether to allow BloomBoard to contact you. After you have done so, you are asked to sign in using your new password.
6. Click Take me to my dashboard.
Forgot your password? Click here and we’ll send you an email that allows you to reset it.
4 Navigating the Site – Home Page The home page opens after logging in. The home page allows you to navigate to the site’s main sections, and offers access to areas and features that are appropriate for the teacher role. Take a quick home page tour by reviewing the screenshot and accompanying highlights below.
Main Navigation Settings
Visit My Portfolio
Current Observations
Goal Summaries Create New
Goals
5 E-‐Portfolio: Aggregated Evidence and Ratings, Artifacts, & Activities Accessing E-‐Portfolio Click any of the options below to open your E-‐Portfolio and view a list of your current meetings and observations.
Click Observations & Meetings on the main navigation bar from anywhere within the system to open the E-‐Portfolio.
Click See All Observations & Meetings from the Current Observations pane on the home page to open the E-‐Portfolio to the Activities tab.
Click View My Portfolio from the home page to open the E-‐Portfolio to the Aggregated Evidence and Ratings tab.
Click a specific observation or meeting in the Current Observations pane to navigate directly to the selected observation in the E-‐Portfolio. The observation or meeting expands automatically to display its activities.
Aggregated Evidence and Ratings (AE&R) A learner's AE&R screen displays all ratings from different rating activities and allows you to add your own summative or trending ratings to summarize a learner's performance to date. Live data displays from all rating activities in AE&R and changes when their respective rating activities are updated. Any trending ratings you apply in AE&R remain static until you change them. If you wish to preserve your AE&R ratings at a certain point, you can take a Snapshot of the ratings to capture those AE&R ratings.
Verify that your Rubric is correct and displays the correct grade band (elem or sec) and
content area (ELA, Math, ELA/Math, Other)
6 Artifacts The E-‐Portfolio acts as a repository for artifacts across all observations. Artifacts uploaded to the E-‐Portfolio can be added to any activity. In turn, artifacts uploaded within an activity are housed and listed in the E-‐Portfolio. Please note that any artifact uploaded here can only be seen by the learner. It must be added to an activity to be seen by the observer. Activities Click an activity link to open the observation or meeting. When you click a specific observation or meeting in Current Observations, the observation or meeting opens already expanded in your E-‐Portfolio.
Upload link
Wait for the dialog box to disappear. Even though it says 100% uploaded, the document is not ready until the
box closes on its own.
E-Portfolio – Observations Collapsed
Click a listing to expand the observation.
7 Observation Statuses
Available to Schedule
Scheduled – not started
Scheduled -‐ started
Scheduled – no updates in 7 days
Scheduled – no updates in 14 days Past last scheduled date
Completed – observer has marked this observation as complete
Locked and waiting for leaner’s signature
Completed and locked
Accessing Previous Years Information At the bottom of the Activities tab, click Show observations and meetings from previous years. A panel of archived observations and meetings opens underneath the current panel.
E-Portfolio – Observation Expanded Click the heading to
collapse the observation.
Click a link to open the observation/activity
These boxes indicate who is required to submit information.
8 Evaluation Cycle Support Self Assessment
1. Click on Self Assessment under Current Observations on the home page. 2. Click on Self Assessment Ratings under the expanded observation.
3. Verify correct rubric: Grade band – Elem or Sec, Content – ELA, Math, ELA/Math, Other 4. Click double arrows to expand. 5. Click individual boxes to complete self assessment. Thoughtfully reflect on past performance and
identification of strengths, weaknesses and ability to meet state standards during current school year. Share with evaluator if desired.
6. The rating for each element will reflect the last column in which all professional practices are marked.
Click on Self Assessment under
Current Observations on the home page.
Click on Self Assessment Ratings under the expanded
observation.
Verify correct rubric
Click to expand
Click individual boxes to complete self assessment
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7. You can share your self assessment with your evaluator by selecting the share button at the bottom of the screen.
8. To view your Self-‐Assessment Rating Report, select Reports at the top of your Bloomboard screen. Then select Teacher Self Assessment Ratings. Select an observation from the list provided. Please note that the rating shown in this report is reflective of your self assessment and not of the ratings assigned by your evaluator.
The rating for each element will reflect the last column in which all professional practices are marked.
In this example, Learner 1 is
proficient due to the unchecked box in the accomplished column.
Click Share to share
Click Reports Click Self Assessment Ratings
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Write a goal that meets the following expectations: • Aligns to the School Unified Improvement
Plan • Aligns to areas of improvement identified
collaboratively using the Rubric for Evaluating Colorado’s Teachers and/or Measures of Student Learning
• Aligns with the district focuses of Empowering Educators, Personalized Systems, Quality Foundations and Beyond
Align goal to specific standards and elements as wells as indicate the previous years ratings on those standards and elements. Indicate specifics including action steps.
Indicate how progress will be measured including evidence/artifacts.
Discuss the attainability of this goal including support, resources, and PD you will utilize.
Include relevance.
Include estimated completion date.
Review of Annual Goals and Performance Plan Goals will be documented in Bloomboard using the Goals sticky notes. Teachers will then expound upon those using the Bloomboard SMART goals tool. Goal expectations are set at each unique site, but guidance is provided below regarding content and completion of the SMART goal tool within Bloomboard. Setting Goals
1. Click on Ready to plan your goals or SLOs? at the bottom of your home screen. This will take you to your Goal Planning screen.
2. Click on the Areas of Strength or Areas for Growth note cards to add general thoughts about your teaching.
3. Click Add Another Goal in the sticky note outline to open a blank goal in which you can create a new goal summary.
4. Click the new note and type a short goal summary. When you are finished, press Enter or click outside the note.
Click on the text to create and edit your goals.
Areas of Strength/Growth Notecards Notecards work best for broad ideas
Goals are intended to be more actionable and specific
Click on the outline to open a new blank goal.
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5. Click View Details at the bottom of a goal summary to open the Goal Details page. 6. To answer a detail question, click Add Answer, enter a response in the text box that displays, and
then click Save. 7. To align a goal with indicators, click the Align this goal...link to open the indicator table.
Archiving Goals Inactivating goals moves them to the archive and removes them from indicator panels, so they cannot be tagged to evidence. An archived goal can be reactivated. To archive a goal, the learner can:
1. Click a goal to open its details. 2. From the status menu in the upper right, click Make Inactive.
Click on View Details to open Goal Details page.
Click Add Answer and then enter your response.
Click Align this goal… to indicate standards and
elements that support your goal.
12 Submitting Required Artifacts and Associated Documents
1. Click on Artifacts for Review under Current Observations on the home page. 2. Click on Upload Artifacts under the expanded observation.
3. Upload documents from either your computer or your e-‐portfolio. Tag specific component from your document to standards and elements from the rubric.
Click on Artifacts for Review under
Current Observations on the home page.
Click on Upload Artifacts under the
expanded observation.
Click to upload from your computer.
Click to upload from your e-portfolio.
Tag components of your artifact to standards and
elements from the rubric.