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Training Outline




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Print this out and use it to follow along and pace yourself while leading a training (based on a 2 hour training duration).

Getting Started (20 minutes)
Introduction to SameGoal5 minutes
  • Discussion: What is SameGoal?
  • Discussion: Why the district is moving to SameGoal
  • Discussion: Overview of training
  • Logging In10 minutes
  • Discussion: How does login work for the district?
  • Activity: Log into SameGoal
  • Screen Overview5 minutes
  • Discussion: Working with test data
  • Discussion: Left menu navigation
  • Activity: Check building permissions
  • Creating Documents (15 minutes)
    Search for Students4 minutes
  • Discussion: Navigating to a student's Documents tab
  • Activity: Search for your test student
  • Discussion: Tabs on a student's page
  • Create a Document4 minutes
  • Discussion: Create new dropdown
  • Discussion: Home Language Survey
  • Activity: Create a document for your test student
  • Discussion: When a document is created
  • Bulk Create Documents3 minutes
  • Discussion: Documents can be created in bulk
  • Demonstration: Bulk create Home Language Surveys
  • Authoring Documents4 minutes
  • Discussion: Tools to edit documents
  • Activity: Explore Autosave
  • Discussion: Attachments
  • Activity: Add an attachment
  • Completing Documents (15 minutes)
    Complete a Document5 minutes
  • Discussion: All required fields must be filled out
  • Activity: Complete a document
  • Discussion: When a document is completed
  • Discussion: Documents can be incompleted
  • Program Participation3 minutes
  • Discussion: Student will be under eligibility review for EB
  • Activity: View a student's Programs tab
  • Deadlines3 minutes
  • Discussion: See info by hovering over the program badge
  • Activity: View a student's Deadlines tab
  • Discussion: Deadlines calendar
  • Activity: View the Deadlines calendar
  • LPAC Initial Review4 minutes
  • Discussion: Potential English learners need an initial LPAC
  • Activity: Create an LPAC Initial Review
  • Discussion: Documents can be bulk created by deadlines
  • Demonstration: Use deadlines to bulk create documents
  • Holding Meetings (10 minutes)
    Meeting Mode3 minutes
  • Discussion: Meetings can be held in-person or remotely
  • Activity: Enter Meeting Mode
  • Discussion: Meeting Mode can also group documents together
  • Demonstration: Use Meeting Mode to group multiple documents
  • Identification and Placement3 minutes
  • Discussion: The LPAC Committee must make an identification decision and placement recommendation
  • Demonstration: Make placement decisions
  • Validations4 minutes
  • Discussion: Documents run validation checks in real-time
  • Activity: Explore validation checks
  • Discussion: Documents cannot be completed until all checks pass
  • Activity: Fill out remaining required fields using Validation Mode and mark your document complete
  • Discussion: Your student will be enrolled in the EB program under ESL
  • Demonstration: Review placement decisions for three test students
  • Parent Communication (10 minutes)
    Standard Letters2 minutes
  • Discussion: The TEA maintains standard letters
  • Activity: Create a Parental Notification Document
  • Translation3 minutes
  • Discussion: SameGoal has saved standard letter translations
  • Activity: Display a document translation
  • Discussion: Document translations can also be requested
  • Share With Parents3 minutes
  • Discussion: Documents can be shared with parents electronically
  • Activity: Share your document with a parent
  • Discussion: Parents can fill the document out with their consent decision, which will drive deadlines
  • Printing2 minutes
  • Discussion: You can also share a document with parents by giving them a hard copy
  • Activity: View a print preview
  • Collaboration (20 minutes)
    LPAC Annual Review3 minutes
  • Discussion: The school will need to conduct an LPAC annual review at the end of the year
  • Discussion: A new placement decision will need to be made based on the student's progress
  • Activity: Create an LPAC Annual Review
  • Share Documents5 minutes
  • Discussion: Documents can be shared with other users
  • Activity: Share a document with another user
  • Discussion: Permission levels
  • Discussion: When a document is shared with you
  • Collaborative Editing5 minutes
  • Discussion: Users can work in one document simultaneously
  • Activity: Work in a document with another collaborator
  • Bank Values3 minutes
  • Discussion: User bank values
  • Discussion: Banks support name and pronoun substitution
  • Activity: Create and use a user bank value
  • Discussion: District bank values
  • Signatures4 minutes
  • Discussion: SameGoal supports electronic signatures
  • Activity: Electronically sign a document
  • Discussion: You are able to save your signature and stamp it into documents
  • Activity: Store your signature
  • Reclassification (15 minutes)
    Pending Reclassification3 minutes
  • Discussion: If you suspect an EB student may be reclassified based on upcoming assessment results
  • Demonstration: Document that a student is Pending Reclassification
  • Amendments3 minutes
  • Discussion: A document can be amended after it's completed if a change needs to be made
  • Demonstration: Amend the LPAC Annual Review
  • Document History3 minutes
  • Discussion: Document History tracks past document events
  • Activity: View documents in the Document History panel
  • Discussion: Document History is helpful in several ways
  • Exiting Emergent Bilingual3 minutes
  • Discussion: Two years of required monitoring
  • Activity: Create the required notification documents
  • Discussion: Once the documents are completed, if the parents agree, the student will be enrolled in Reclassification Monitoring
  • Reclassification Monitoring3 minutes
  • Discussion: Monitoring after reclassification
  • Activity: Create a Monitoring After Reclassification document
  • Discussion: After completing the monitoring document
  • Additional Workflows (10 minutes)
    Decisions Regarding Assessments4 minutes
  • Discussion: Decisions Regarding Assessments can be used to determine which assessments and accommodations a student needs
  • Activity: Create an LPAC Decisions Regarding Assessments document
  • Instructional Accommodations3 minutes
  • Discussion: Accommodations can be logged directly in SameGoal
  • Activity: Create and fill out an EB Instructional Accommodations Log
  • LPAC Other3 minutes
  • Discussion: LPAC Other can be used to document a failure review
  • Activity: Create and fill out an LPAC Other
  • Wrap Up (5-30 minutes)
    Support5 minutes
  • Discussion: SameGoal has many online support resources
  • Activity: Access SameGoal's support resources
  • QuestionsVaries
  • Discussion: Ask questions
  • Explore Your EnvironmentVaries
  • Activity: If time, explore your environment


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