K-5 Integration Question

[jbrailer]

I am in the process of designing a blueprint for grades 4 and 5 and I'd like to know the best way to integrate teacher access. My goal is to allow students to access one main page to get to all their subjects and allowing teachers to maintain the content on pages they are responsible for as opposed to an entire course. I was thinking I could just add all the teachers as instructors and let them control their pages as needed, but I want to know if there's a better way to do it.

[KristinL]

Hi @jbrailer -

Since March 2020, I've seen this inquiry a number of times. 🙂

You mentioned that multiple teachers would access this course, and because of that, I wonder if the "single course" or "one-stop-shop" is the best solution in this case. I can see a branched approach working well because while all the teachers may be observers in ALL courses, they'd only receive notifications (grading, messages, etc) on items they create or assign. This helps also clarify in students' to-do lists which teacher assigned an activity or who sends an announcement.

To start, you could create a homeroom course, just like you described above. Think of it as a minimalistic, super-simple, launchpad! 🚀 All students and their observers would be enrolled, and on the home page, you could have buttons that then lead to the other courses. Classroom community announcements, general announcements, and activities could be stored here. Permission slips, lunch orders etc, could be collected here too.

Along the same lines, the Roadmap looks exciting for K-5 institutions with the addition of the new dashboard. I wish I had more details, but I'm definitely going to watch for announcements!

If you want to bounce some ideas around, let me know! I love creative course design. ⭐