Home Base Update
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An Integrated Suite of Technology Tools
Information
Student
Information
and Learner
Profile
Information
Instruction
Instructional
Design, Practice
& Resources
Assessment
Data Analysis
and Reporting
Instructional Tools & Resources
Educator Effectiveness:
Evaluation and Professional
Development
Effectiveness
PowerSchool
Schoolnet
OpenClass
Truenorthlogic
Student
Information
Instruction
and
Assessment
Collaboration
Evaluation and PD
a student
information
system to
replace NC
WISE
a new standards-aligned tool for
instruction (e.g. lesson plans, unit plans),
assessment, and data analysis
an online
evaluation system
and new
professional
development
system
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Opt In Status
• A total of 114 of 115 LEAs have opted in
to use the instructional tools within Home
Base (99%)
• A total of 54 of 128 charter schools have
opted in (43%)
Key Updates
• For 2014-15 there is no charge for the
use of all components of Home Base.
• Note– if you have not opted in, but would
like to use the optional components of
Home Base for 2014-15, please opt in at
http://forms.ncpublicschools.gov/homebase/home-base-opt-in
Schoolnet
• Classrooms, Assessment and Data & Reporting
functionality
• Recently upgraded to new release (16.0)
– Increased speed in the use of features like searching
for items, rubrics, passages, and instructional
materials
– Ability to hide test content until start of test
– New options for generating answer sheets
– Improvements to ScanIt
– And more…
– Full release notes available in Schoolnet (click “Help”
and “Release Notes” under “Additional Guides”)
System Requirements
• Also new with 16.0
– At the bottom of every page in Schoolnet you
can find the system requirements.
• You can also find overall Home Base
technical requirements on the Home Base
website.
Schoolnet: Classrooms Functionality
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Resources
Schoolnet: Assessment Functionality
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Item Types in Schoolnet
Assessment Items
Present
Over 35,000 items in
English Language
Arts (ELA), Math,
Science, and Social
Studies
Future
Additional items,
including multiple item
types (approximately
60,000 total items
will be available for
teacher and district
use in the 2014-15
school year)
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Schoolnet: School and
District Data
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Historical data
• Historical data has been loaded into Schoolnet:
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Dibels (2012-13 and fall 2013-14)
TRC (2012-13 and Fall 2013-14)
EOC (2012-13)
EOG (2012-13)
CTE (2012-13)
ACT Benchmark (2012-13)
ACT Plan (2012-13)
The ACT (2012-13)
• This will allow educators to see, analyze and run
reports on classroom, district and state-level test
data all within one application.
Schoolnet I & II Training
• Next Round – Late September/Early
October
• More information coming soon
• Look for updates http://www.ncpublicschools.org/profdev/ca
lendar/
• More webinars also coming for 2014-15!
OpenClass
Collaboration and Course Management Tools
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OpenClass
• Offers teachers an online vehicle for
organizing course materials and sharing with
students
• Offers flexible space for delivering multimedia assignments to students, and
receiving uploaded student work
• Enables creation of collaborative documents
• Offers space for “threaded” online
conversations (student-student and teacherstudent)
PowerSchool Integration
• Your Home Base OpenClass campus will
be integrated with PowerSchool, which
will allow single-sign on access
• This integration will also allow roster to
push over from PowerSchool into
OpenClass so you do not have to add
courses, students or teachers
To Access OpenClass
• If your district is not already set up, please
contact the Home Base Support Center to
help facilitate setting up / activating your
OpenClass campus.
• The Support Center staff will work to set
up your district so that you can access
and use OpenClass
Training on OpenClass
• Trainings have been rolling out in waves,
with 70+ districts/charter schools already
trained.
• All opt-in LEAs that have not already been
trained will receive training on OpenClass.
• More information on those trainings will be
shared soon.
Professional Development (PD)
State & Local Functionality
Truenorthlogic
Professional
Development (STATE)
Truenorthlogic
Professional
Development (LOCAL)
• Enables all districts and charters to utilize existing
PD resources in a more sophisticated software
platform that connects Educator Evaluation to PD
• Better tracking and reporting of State-offered PD
• Enables Opt-In districts and charters to utilize
expanded functionality to manage both State and
local-PD content, tracking, reporting, etc.
• Better tracking of State-offered and Local PD
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Home Base Website and Updates
•Home Base website is
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/homebase/
•To sign up for Home Base Biweekly Newsletter, please selfsubscribe at http://goo.gl/appdp
•We will continue to email the biweekly updates, but you can
also find them archived on the Home Base website at
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/homebase/updates/biweekly/?
year=2014