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Now with more options, our online private, hands-on workshops are tailored to meet the needs of any customer who wants to become an Edline LCMS, design or GradeQuick power-user. In just 2 hours, you and up to 14 people from your district or school will be trained by one of our experts to realize all the benefits of the industry’s leading K-12 communications solution.

Design Training

Basic Web Design

Great For Webmasters
Level Basic
Prerequisite Learn about basic design capabilities with Blackboard Engage's Site Designer
Goals Learn about basic design capabilities with Edline’s Site Designer.
Course Description Edline’s Site Designer provides simple yet powerful tools to craft the layout and design of your website. This workshop will demonstrate the basic functionality of creating and rearranging boxes, main navigation menus and overall page properties.
Topics Covered
  • Tour of Site Designer panel
  • Modifying Page Properties
  • Modifying Column Properties
  • Adding/Editing Home Page Boxes
  • Adding Slideshows to Home Page
  • Footer Management
  • Creating Main Navigation
  • Edline Education Center
Price $300

Advanced Web Design

Great For Webmasters
Level Advanced
Prerequisite Basic Web Design
Goals Learn more, in-depth capabilities of Edline’s Site Designer tool.
Course Description Once Webmasters have mastered the basics of Edline design, this course will do a deeper dive into the Site Designer tool. Edline’s Site Designer provides simple yet powerful tools to craft the layout and design of your website. This workshop delves more deeply into these capabilities for those users who have taken a beginning course on Edline design and are competent in adding content to their sites.
Topics Covered
  • Developing default designs for pages/subpages
  • Clickable buttons
  • Widgets
  • Background Images
  • Placeholders
  • Building menu navigation
Price $500

Best Practices

Intro to Edline Workshop

Great For Webmasters
Level Basic
Prerequisite None
Goals Learn the basic functionality to get an Edline site up and running.
Course Description Launch feet first into Edline with this workshop in which attendees will learn best practices for mapping out content and adding news, events, pages and files during this online working session.
Topics Covered
  • Public Overview of Edline
  • Navigating the Site
  • Edit Profile
  • Group Information Modification
  • Groups and Slideshows
  • Mobile vs. Browser View
  • Edline Education Center
  • Add and edit:
    • News Items
    • Calendar Events
    • Links
    • Content
    • Folders
Price $300

Engaging Your Community

Great For Webmasters
Level Intermediate
Prerequisite Intro to Edline Basic
Goals Apply Web 2.0 tools to engage your community.
Course Description This workshop is for users who have moved beyond the basics of Edline. It will review user types, and how to manage accounts. We’ll incorporate Blogs, Discussions, videos and staff info to encourage community involvement and parental engagement.
Topics Covered
  • Embedding images and videos
  • Staff Directory Management
  • Managing User Accounts
  • Group Management
  • Printing Activation codes
  • File Lockers
  • Designing School Login screen
  • Edline Education Center
  • Add and edit:
    • Blogs
    • Discussions
Price $300

Owning Your Web Presence

Great For Webmasters
Level Advanced
Prerequisite Intro to Edline Basic and Engaging Your Community
Goals Gain a better understanding of visibility settings, policies, school-level permissions and email communications.
Course Description This workshop serves as a deeper dive into Edline for those who have mastered the basic and intermediate functionality. It will focus on data upload management, visibility and setting school policies.
Topics Covered
  • Understanding Upload History (Error Messages, etc.)
  • Managing Classes (visibility, class membership)
  • Deleting Students/Classes Not in Previous Upload
  • School Policy Management
  • Workflow Permissions (approval process)
  • Email Communications
  • Edline Education Center
Price $500

5 Steps to a Successful Classroom Site

Great For Classroom Teachers
Level Basic
Prerequisite None
Goals Teachers will be able to navigate their class site and add/edit basic content.
Course Description A 5-step guide to creating a successful classroom site. In order not to overwhelm teachers when they are first introduced to their Edline classpages, this workshop will focus on five essential areas: news, calendar, home page, links and content.
Topics Covered
  • High Level Overview of Edline
  • What do Parents/Students See?
  • Activating Account (Teacher accounts should be activated before session begins)
  • Home Page: Change class name, picture, description
  • Edline Education Center
  • Email Communications
  • Edline Education Center
  • Add and edit:
    • News Items
    • Calendar Events
    • Links
    • Content
    • Pages
Price $300

Engaging 21st Century Learners

Great For Classroom Teachers
Level Advanced
Prerequisite 5 Steps to Creating a Successful Classroom Website
Goals Teachers will create and manage advanced content features and incorporate Web 2.0 tools.
Course Description Once teachers have mastered the basics of Edline, they’ll want to incorporate Web 2.0 tools into their classroom site. This workshop will focus on advanced webpage and calendar features, blogs and discussions, as well as review best practices for attracting the ‘digital native’ students.
Topics Covered
  • Parent/Student Features
  • Advanced Webpage Features:
    • Embedding Images/Video
    • Hyperlinks
    • Image Cropping
    • Webpage Commenting
  • Advanced Calendar Features
  • Using the File Locker
  • Communication (email)
  • Blogs/Discussions
  • Slideshows
  • Content Visibility
  • Edit Profile
Price $500

GradeQuick Training

GQWeb Basic

Great For District/School Admins, Classroom Teacher
Level Basic
Prerequisite None
Goals Utilize basic GradeQuick Web tools to enter data and post reports.
Course Description This workshop will help new and current users learn and practice using the simple yet powerful tools for entering scores, calculating grades and keeping students and parents informed of class progress by printing and/or posting reports.
Topics Covered
  • Overview
  • Account Activation
  • Student/class data
  • Attendance
  • Scores
  • Grade Weighting
  • Posting Reports to Edline
  • End of Marking Period
  • Edline Education Center
Price $300

GQWeb Advanced

Great For District/School Admins, Gradebook Managers, Classroom Teachers
Level Intermediate
Prerequisite GQWeb Basic
Goals Utilize advanced GradeQuick Web tools to enter data.
Course Description Once teachers have mastered the basics of adding data to Edline gradebooks, this workshop will help examine additional features such as customization of gradebook settings, adjustments to grade calculations, creating and using the Quick Notes Library, working with seating charts and more.
Topics Covered
  • Multiple GradeScales
  • Student Data Fields
  • Attendance codes
  • Score Footnotes
  • Grade Weighting
  • Symbols
  • Seating Chart
  • Dropping Low Scores
  • Global Changes
  • Student Memos
  • Standards/Skills
  • Reports
  • Edline Education Center
Price $500

SiteReporter

Great For Webmasters
Level Basic
Prerequisite GQWeb Basic
Goals Learn the basic functionality of SiteReporter tools.
Course Description This workshop will demonstrate how to set up SiteReporter; generate report cards/progress reports, honor rolls, eligibility lists, attendance and run queries based on almost any set of criteria.
Topics Covered
  • Installation
  • Customizing the Template Gradebook
  • Preparing Teacher Gradebooks
  • Navigating SiteReporter
  • Using QuickLists/Queries for Data-mining
  • Using Student/Class Reports
Price $500

StandardsBuilder

Great For Classroom Teachers
Level Basic
Prerequisite GQWeb Basic
Goals Learn the basic functionality of StandardsBuilder tools.
Course Description This workshop will demonstrate how to set up StandardsBuilder; create and modify standards and skills for uploading to GradeQuick gradebooks.
Topics Covered
  • Overview
  • Configuring Import Options
  • Building and Maintaining Courses
  • Building and Updating Standards and Skills
  • Using Standards Reports
  • Building Lesson Plans
  • Sending Standards to GradeQuick
Price $500

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