Question 1

Assigning Curriculum to Students (Standalone Single School Admin & Teacher)

Accepted Answer

From your student roster, you can assign curriculum to individual or multiple students. To do this, select the checkboxes next to the names of your students you'd like to have a certain curriculum.

Now, from the drop-down menu at the top, select the curriculum you'd like to assign or remove from those students. In this example, we're going to assign the students Super Citizenship. Now, select Assign to finalize this.

Now, you'll see the selected students have the Super Citizenship curriculum assigned to them!

Question 2

Custom Coding Curriculum (Coding: Grades K-12th) (Standalone Single School Administrator & Teacher)

Accepted Answer

Yeti Academy allows you to create your own custom coding curriculum for your students. This is a great way to ensure proficiency in code mechanisms for your students, even outside of the yeti algorithms.

As a school administrator, you can create this curriculum for your students to type whatever material you deem necessary or fit.

First, you'll want to head to the Curriculum tab from your Dashboard.

Now, the first option you will see is the Code category. Open it with the drop down arrow. Here, you'll select the blue + Custom Coding Curriculum button.

Here, you'll fill in the details about your curriculum:

Title: The title will be what the students (and your teachers) will see the curriculum as.
Details: This is a short description of your curriculum.
Sequential Lessons: This will ensure that your students are doing the lessons in order.
Grade Level: This is where you will determine which grade(s) this curriculum will be assigned to. (Note: For kindergarten, you'll want to enter 0.)
Type: This is where you will determine if only your classes will be able to access this curriculum, or your entire school.

Question 3

School Portal (Standalone Single School Administrator)

Accepted Answer

As the administrator of your school, you are able to customize the Yeti Academy webpage for your school's portal. By customizing your webpage, your students and teachers can be assured that they're using the correct web page to log into the program. Also, should you want your teachers and students to use the use our Single Sign On or Self-Registration capabilities, you will need to activate these features from within this portal.

When you go to your school's Yeti Academy domain, you will see your school's name but will not have any of the customizable bells or whistles:

Even if you aren't using Single Sign On, you may want to make it look and feel like it is one of your school's online resources! You can get creative and customize it with your school's logo or colors.

To do this, select your Settings tab from your Dashboard.

Then, select your School Portal tab.

From here, you’ll see that you can upload a photo from your computer, change the address, and your school's name. Administrators tend to use their school's logo here. (Note: Your organization's name will appear on your portal publicly, but the address you include wil

Question 4

Typing Benchmarks (Standalone Single School Administrator)

Accepted Answer

Because Yeti Academy is a program tailored to each students’ individual needs, you may find it helpful to edit the benchmarks given to your students in their typing curriculums. This will ensure that they are meeting your pedagogical needs for their grade level and to ensure they are learning to type both swiftly and accurately!

What are Target Settings?

Target settings are Accuracy and Words Per Minute (WPM) requirements each student must meet to pass a lesson. Yeti Academy has applied appropriate grade-level default target settings for each grade level but you may change them to match anything that your district deems appropriate for your students. Since accuracy is more important than speed, we award students "Bolt Badges" for reaching a certain WPM benchmark. This ensures that they are graded solely on what they can type correctly, because let's be honest - keyboard smashing isn't the best way to learn to type.

What are the programs' default settings?

Yeti Academy requires that students must earn at least 1 star to advance to the next lesson (Standard Proficiency). The default settings for our program vary per grade level, considering we have students of all ages coming to the keyboard.

How do I adjust the benchmarks?

To adjust your benchmark settings, select your Settings tab from your dashboard.

Now, select your **Typing Benchmar

Question 5

Sports PR Agency (Digital Citizenship: Grades 6th-9th) (General)

Accepted Answer

Let’s face it, every student in every school needs to learn about digital citizenship. Unfortunately, in spite of its importance, the mere mention can bring about eye-rolling and sighs from even the most conscientious middle school students. Yeti Academy wants to change that with our Sports PR Agency module!

“Working” in Sports PR Agency, students manage athletes and help them to understand the impact and etiquette surrounding digital influence. As an agent for their athletes, students create original artifacts and explore topics like: public relations, digital influence, internet safety, internet privacy, cyber ethics, social media communication and identity, cyberbullying, online drama, media literacy, evaluating sources, health and balance surrounding digital use, and computer threats.

Sports PR Agency defeats the “Why do we have to know this?” question by spotlighting real-world topics like job applications, resumes, e-portfolios, elevator pitches, trip planning and budgeting, etc. Student collaboration, project-based learning, student engagement, and buy-in are evident as students find purpose and relevance in the course as it addresses real-world writing topics like emails, business letters, memos, etc.

While addressing Common Core standards in areas like: Speaking, Listening, and Writing, Sports PR Agency emphasizes STEM and can be effectively used for elective courses and Career and Technical Education (CTE). Each lesson plan also describes the Interna

Question 6

Adding Students (Standalone Single School Administrator)

Accepted Answer

As a standalone single school administrator, you are responsible for loading your classrooms, staff, and students into Yeti Academy. The most efficient and error-proof way to get your school's data set up is to load them in this order: Classrooms, then teachers, then students.

Students can be added in the following ways:

In bulk with a CSV file
Through Google Classroom
By a single student upload
By student self-registration (in which students create their own usernames and passwords as they enroll into your classroom).

CSV

There are three methods of uploading your students via a CSV. While all will result in the same outcome of your students being uploaded, sample CSV templates and details on the exact data required can be found wherever you find the opportunity to upload the students.

(* Note: the program accepts letters and numbers, and the special characters _(underscore), -(dash), and @(at).)

Method 1:

First, go to your Settings tab.

Now, choose the Upload tab.

Then, select Add Your Students.

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