Download Your Teachers' Official PD Transcripts

When your teachers are needing license renewal, downloading a PDF copy of an Official PD Transcript is only a few clicks away!

Manager > School/Group > Teacher Name > Print PD Transcript...

 

 

This brings up a Print Dialog box. Now you have the option to Save As PDF for download to your computer, or print a hardcopy.

And here's what you get:

 

> View an example Official PD Transcript!

Thanks, Tammy, for calling, and Cindy for commenting—your feedback is a huge help!

Jay @ Greenbush.

Get Daily "Teacher Out, Sub In" Email Report

Now you can get delivered to your email box a daily report showing the teachers out for the day and the name of the substitute teacher. For example:

Each day, see who's out, what for, what time of day, the type of leave, who's filling in, and maybe even a special note from that cute sub clerk.

If the no additional charge, daily Substitutes Report email option added to your PDP Toolbox account tickles your fancy, just ask!

Thanks Julie U. for asking!

Jay @ Greenbush.

Evaluation Instrument Links to Your PDP Toolbox

Goals Browser

Have you noticed the new "Goals Browser" in your PDP Toolbox account? In addition to some layout improvements, there's a Cross Reference to McRel, KEEP, and Greenbush Evaluation Instruments.

Take a look: click on "Your Account" to go to your activities page. Then, in the "My Goals" box, located in the upper right corner of the page, you ought to find the Goals Browser. Click to open and find the consortium and your district and/or building goals. In the "Consortium" group, after each goal, find the text "Show Eval. Cross Ref.". Click "Show" to reveal the Evaluation Instrument options: McRel, KEEP, and Greenbush. Now click "Show McRel", for example, and this expands the cross reference between that particular Consortium goal and the McRel standards. Same goes for KEEP and Greenbush.

Evaluation Standards as Parent Goals

Here's a further option for your district: when you (and your teaching colleagues) are developing personal goals, your district Evaluation Instrument can be made available for selection as parent goals to your individual goals, in the same way you have been linking your personal goals to building and district goals. The idea here is to use your recent evaluation results to shape your current Professional Learning Plan by directly linking your PL goals to your focus areas in your Evaluation Instrument.

Jay @ Greenbush

Upload Multiple Files with Points Request

When you make a PDP Toolbox transcript points request, you can now upload multiple files along with your request.

In your PDP Toolbox activities page, open a new Transcript Points Request and scroll down to the "Artifacts" field located in the Post Activity Information box. Here, each time you add a file to your request, another file browse button ought to appear immediately below the last one. Keep adding files and the PDP Toolbox keeps adding an extra file upload option for you. :)

Thanks Madison M. and Nancy M. for your multiple file upload requests!

Jay @ Greenbush

Supervisor—Evidence/Reflection Overview Now Available

Supervisors now have the option to view their certified staff points activities, including evidence and reflection. Just ask, and once the role is added to your account, and after the next time you sign in, you should see the "Points Review" link among your other roles.

Administrative Roles Page

Click "Points Review" to load the Points Review page. (Brilliant.)

List of staff points activities including evidence and reflection.

You should see a list of approved points activities sorted by activity date. There may be more points activities than comfortably fit on the page. If so, click "Next >" in the yellow page navigation bar to view more activities. You can alternatively sort the list by staff, activity, or date requested if you like. (Click the column header.)

If, like Linda S., you think this will help, contact Ginger, the program coordinator, and ask her to add the "Points Review" role to your account.

Jay @ Greenbush.

Teaching License Term Not Set Alert

Krystal was the latest PDP Toolbox participant to report some people were not getting Group Activity requests in their PDP Toolbox Points list. Turns out they did not have their Teaching License Term set, so the points activity appeared to be outside the current period (0 in length). This was not the first time this happened and a quick database query showed there were many others that do not have their Teaching License Term set.

So, to help bring this to the attention of those who may not be aware of it, an alert was added to the PDP Toolbox Activities page in case the term is not set:

Notice the yellow box just below the "PDP Toolbox: Staff" header? In red is written, "Teaching licence Term not set!"

To remedy, go to "Your Preferences" and set the "Term" in the "Teaching License" box.

Jay @ Greenbush.

Manager—Printer Friendly Staff Transcript

In the Manager section, the staff transcript page now includes a "printer friendly" option. To use, click the "Printer Friendly" link in the upper right corner of the transcript page. A lean version of the page should load and open a print dialog box. When finished printing, click the "Return" link (where the Printer Friendly link was) to return the page to normal mode. Thanks, Dan D., for the trouble report and suggestion.

Jay @ Greenbush.