Learning Upgrade LMS Overview for Teachers and Admins

In this guide you’ll find everything you need to get started with the new Learning Upgrade LMS as a teacher or admin.

Learning Upgrade LMS Classes

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You can learn all about the new LMS by joining one of our upcoming training sessions. In these sessions you’ll learn all about the new Learning Upgrade LMS functionality as a teacher or admin. We’ll cover new account creation, adding students, tracking progress, and more. Make sure to register even if you can’t join and we’ll send you a video recording link. Look forward to see you soon!

Learning Upgrade LMS Teacher Role Overview

Introduction

We’ve been hard at work over the past few months integrating key features requested by our teachers and admins for this new release, and we’re excited for everyone to see it. We’ve also refined our existing functionality to retain everything our users know and love, but with a more modern and feature rich tool set. You can login now to experience the Learning Upgrade LMS, or continue reading for a quick overview of all that is new.

Classes

The first thing you’ll notice when logging in to the new lms as a teacher is the redesigned main menu. At the top, we’ve simplified things with a simple Classes tab and Reports tab. The classes tab is the first thing you will see upon logging in.

We’ve brought your classes front and center to help you quickly access what matters most. You can quickly create or edit classes, and view the number of active students in each group.

LMS Classes ScreenShot

Students

The biggest updates to the Learning Upgrade LMS can be found on the Students page. Everything you used to do in the Students and Courses tab can now be done here on one page. 

Multi-Select Actions:

We’ve added the ability to select multiple (or all) students, and apply global actions like assigning courses, removing courses, printing report cards, and printing student login information. Just select a few students to get started, and click the grey ‘Perform Action’ button to view available actions.

LMS Classes Details ScreenShot

Individual Student Actions:

All of the actions available in the ‘Perform Action’ menu are also available for individual students using the ‘⋮ ‘ button in each student row. Right next to the ‘⋮ ‘ action menu, you’ll find buttons to edit a student’s profile, open the student monitor report, or view the student activity log. You can also toggle your student to be ‘active’ or ‘inactive’ on your license to clear space.

LMS Student Details ScreenShot

Adding Students to Your Class

Click ‘+Add Student’

To get started, click the blue ‘+Add Student’ button in the menu above your class list.

Add New Students

Select to ‘Add an Existing Student to Class’ or ‘+Add a New Student’ and follow the instructions below.

Add New Students

Add Existing Student to Class:

To add an existing student to your class, set your filters, select your students using check boxes, and then click the ‘add student(s)’ button.

Add Existing Student

+Add a New Student: Invite, Upload, Create Individual

If you select the ‘+Add a New Student’ option, you’ll be prompted to Invite Students, Upload Student Information, or Create  New Student Account

Add New Student

Invite Students:

If you would like to have students self enroll into Learning Upgrade and create their own accounts, you can invite your students with a class guide. First click the ‘Generate Code’ button, and then click the ‘Download Class Guide’ link.

Invite Students

Upload Student Information:

If you would like to upload students from a spreadsheet, you can download our template and then upload the file. After uploading the file, we will display your uploaded student accounts. You can add courses, select students, and edit fields using the pencil button. Click the ‘Submit’ button when you’re ready to upload students,

Upload Student Info
Upload Student Info

Once you’ve successfully uploaded your students, you can select them on the class/students page and use the ‘Show/Print Class Password’ in the ‘Perform Action Menu’.

LMS Classes Details ScreenShot

Create a New Student Account:

If you would like to create a new student manually, you can click the ‘Create a New Student Account’ and fill out all fields in the form. After submitting the form, you will receive a sign-in sheet for the student.

Add Individual Student

Student Details

For a detailed look at student accounts, you can view a student details screen by clicking on their name in your class. In Student Details, you can edit student account information, assign lessons, unlock a course, and view progress data in one spot.

Student Details

To assign lessons or ‘unlock’ a course, click on the pencil button next to a course in Student Details. You  will see a lesson menu pop up that will allow you to move your student ahead to any lesson.

Edit Course

Reports

Once your students have access to a Learning Upgrade account and begin completing lessons, it’s time to track and monitor their progress using the Reports Tab. 

The first thing you notice is a handy dashboard that lets you track your students progress over time. This dashboard with show progress over the last month, but you can zoom in using the slider bar above the graph.

Reports Dashboard

Below the dashboard, you’ll find a full progress summary, and customizable reports. We will have five reports live at the launch of our new LMS, with many more to come later. Each report has filters so that you can customize the data you wish to see.

  • The Student Monitor is a graphical representation of student progress. Use this report to see student activity in real time. Each cell represents a lesson and will be color coordinated to show gold (>95%), silver (>90%), bronze (>75%), or red (<75%).
  • The Student Progress Report is a table based report to view time on task data for student courses or overall student activity.
  • The Student Time Report is a session log for your class that will detail every session your students log on the app.
  • Student Pacing Report is guidance report to show you how much time on task your students will need each week to finish their Learning Upgrade courses.
  • The Student Class In vs Out is a way for teachers to view how much time their are logging in the class with Learning Upgrade vs out of class.
Report Options

Teacher Whiteboard

We’re currently working on the functionality to allow teachers to launch their Learning Upgrade Teacher Whiteboard course from the new LMS. In the meantime, teachers can use the student app to login to their whiteboard course. To get started, locate your teacher whiteboard course in an existing class.

Logging In With Existing Teacher Whiteboard

Once you’ve located your teacher whiteboard in a class, click on the ‘⋮ ‘ icon in that row to find the Print Password action.

Teacher Whiteboard

With your teacher whiteboard course username and password in hand, you can now launch the student app on your smartphone via the Apple App Store and Android Google Play Store, or open the web app using a browser. Just click the green login button and enter your credentials.

Creating a New Teacher Whiteboard

To create a new teacher whiteboard course in a class, you can follow the instructions above for ‘+Add a New Student: Invite, Upload, Create Individual‘. When you’re creating the account, choose “Teacher” when assigning a grade and “Teacher Upgrade” when assigning a course.

Teacher Whiteboard Add

Learning Upgrade LMS Admin Role Overview

Introduction to Roles

One of the major updates coming to the new Learning Upgrade LMS is the ability to assign roles. At launch we’ll have two roles, Teacher and Org Admin. I’ve covered the scope of the Teacher role above and will be giving an introduction to the Org Admin role below. Keep an eye out for new features being added to the Org Admin role, we have a lot of updates planned for Fall 2021.

teacher roles

Admin: Dashboard Tab

When you first login to your Org Admin role you’ll see a data visualization widget and widget with links to our most popular reports.

admin dashboard

Admin: Teachers Tab

In the Teachers tab, you’ll find a list of all teachers registered on your license. You can remove teachers by making them inactive, edit their account information, assign org admin access to other teachers, and login to their accounts from this tab.

Teachers Tab

Admin: Reports Tab

In the Reports tab, you’ll find links to our most popular reports under Student Reports. We will have five reports live at the launch of our new LMS, with many more to come later. Each report has filters so that you can customize the data you wish to see.

  • The Student Monitor is a graphical representation of student progress. Use this report to see student activity in real time. Each cell represents a lesson and will be color coordinated to show gold (>95%), silver (>90%), bronze (>75%), or red (<75%).
  • The Student Progress Report is a table based report to view time on task data for student courses or overall student activity.
  • The Student Time Report is a session log for your class that will detail every session your students log on the app.
  • Student Pacing Report is guidance report to show you how much time on task your students will need each week to finish their Learning Upgrade courses.
  • The Student Class In vs Out is a way for teachers to view how much time their are logging in the class with Learning Upgrade vs out of class.
admin reports

Admin: Coming Soon!

We have many exciting feature updates coming to the Org Admin role over the next few months. You’ll be able to monitor your license(s) from the Licenses tab, track multi-site deployments from the Organizations tab, monitor multiple schools using a license in the Schools tab, and monitor every student on your licenses from the Students tab.

Coming Soon

Now Available!

The new Learning Upgrade LMS is available now. This launch is accessible to all pilot and license holders with an active site license. We will be conducting a series of webinars to assist our current users with this transition.

Learning Upgrade LMS Classes