Teacher Development platform
Parent and Student Apps
Parent and Student Apps Empower has developed some parent and student apps for phones and tablets. Below are the links! Parent app for phones (iPhone) Parent app for phones (Android) Student app for tablet (iPad) Student app for phone (iPhone) ...
CBE Planning (planning tab)
CBE Planning (planning tab) The CBE (competency-based education) Planning tab is the latest feature in Empower to help teachers focus on learners' growth. Let's go deeper on each of the above concepts. Instructional Progression Tab Unit Planning The ...
Progress Periods
Progress periods in Empower are slightly different than what you may be used to compared to a traditional SIS reporting period. In Empower, a progress period is ONLY a period of time where Empower searches for any overall scores that have changed ...
Marzano True Score Estimator - how does it work?
The Marzano True Score Estimator looks at a body of evidence for a student against one proficiency scale and puts three models on that body of evidence, and determines which one is the model of best fit. Let's look at an example. In this case, ...
Teacher Dashboard (LF Dashboard)
The Teacher Dashboard (aka the LF Dashboard) is a tool for teachers to see key information about an individual class, or all classes at once. There are many tiles on the dashboard, as you will see below. All tiles are dynamic, and can get to the ...
Learner-Created Activities workflow
When learners create their own activities to submit to teachers in order to add to their own body of evidence for a proficiency scale (or scales), there is a workflow necessary to understand what is happening and how it happens. First, students will ...
Turn In Work For Activity Step
Click on the "Evidence Required" button to enable it for the activity step. Student can see if step requires the evidence submission. The evidence will be automatically attached with the work if student has selected the step while they were creating ...
What if schools in my district want different scales than other schools?
What if schools in my district want different scales than other schools? This is a common request, and there are pros and cons to this approach to be aware of. Technically, this can be done. However, consider these questions. 1. What happens when a ...
Learning Profile
The Learning Profile The Learning Profile is a one-stop overview of a student's profile, where they can add their own ideas in addition to academic performance. It starts with Course Pacing and an Academic Profile. Course Pacing is the same ...
Notepad
On the student homepage, there is a Notepad option to take notes for a class. When students open the Notepad for the first time, they will see a message that asks them to select a class. Once they select a class, they will be prompted to add a note ...
Learning Manager
The Learning Manager The Learning Manager tool is based on the premise that learning is done sequentially, either in a playlist or in a gradebook (a set of standards). This tool helps a teacher quickly identify where learners are in their learning, ...
What do the quiz options mean for "show result"?
When designing a quiz in Empower, there is an option for "show result". What do these options mean? Finished Statement The option "finished statement" will give the student a statement "Thank you for taking the quiz!". Once the quiz has been reviewed ...
Scoring Inbox
The Scoring Inbox The scoring inbox is the easiest and most efficient way to score work that is submitted via Empower (that is, not quick evidence). When we click on the inbox, we get something similar to the below screen: As you might imagine, the ...
Admin Dashboard
The Admin Dashboard The admin dashboard gives building leaders a quick snapshot of how their learners and teachers are doing across content areas and grade levels. Each of the sections on the dashboard is dynamic and updated in real-time. We will ...
My Workspace
My Workspace My Workspaces is designed as an organizational tool for teachers to put all the activities and playlists they want to (or might want to) use all into one place, so they don't have to continually use the search function. The My Workspace ...
Gradebook Filter
The Gradebook Filter The Gradebook Filter is used on the evidence side of the grade book. It was designed for a couple of reasons: 1) to help teachers view only the activities they want to see (as the evidence side of the grade book can become very ...
Using the Equation Editor
Getting Ready for a New School Year
This article discusses items that schools should be conscious of to ensure Empower is set up and ready for the coming school year. Last Year's Scores All scores in Empower are what we like to call "evergreen", meaning they do not get erased year to ...
Quiz Scoring Logic
How Quizzes are Scored in Empower There are 7 question types in Empower. Objective question types will be scored automatically by Empower Subjective question types will need a teacher to score them. Multiple Choice (single answer) (objective) ...
Correcting Critical Concepts Spreadsheets for Upload
The sheets that are given to purchasers of the Critical Concepts require finessing before they are able to be uploaded to Empower. Below is that process. Combine all tabs onto a single tab (exclude header) Insert a column left of G G is now H, G is ...
Google API Search Limits
Empower uses Google's search engine to allow users to search for resources such as YouTube videos to include in instruction. Google has imposed limits on the number of searches a given site can perform without incurring any additional charges. ...
Assessment Profile
The Assessment Profile tool in Empower offers a central location to house student assessment data from external, standardized assessments. Populating the Assessment Profile To populate the Assessment Profile, admin users will use the Assessment Data ...
My Graduation (My Learning) Tab for Students
The My Graduation (aka My Learning) tab on the student home page offers students a chance to see their present and past progress through sets of courses and pathways. This tool creates complete transparency for all stakeholders regarding where the ...
Final Scores
Different from Progress Reporting, this section is about final scores for permanent record reporting whether that means uploading them to an SIS, send to a state permanent record Students' summative standards scores, organized by course, are ...
LTI & Common Cartridge
LTI LTI is an acronym for Learning Technology Interoperability. LTI connectivity gives Empower the opportunity to simplify searching and connecting content from a third-party application which is also LTI compatible. It can also simplify the login ...
Pace
Pace In a competency-based system, answering the question "How is my student doing?" can be difficult. Activity scores, overall standards scores, goals, and progress can make the answer fairly complex for many students and parents. In order to ...
Admin User Tools and Protocols (OEC)
This article is focused on the role and tools of admin users for an Empower site, especially what we call the "Organization's Empower Contact" (OEC). This article is not necessarily for an "admin" as in a principal. For that, look to our Leadership ...
Standards: Target Browser Creation & Management
No matter what they are called, Standards, Competencies, Learning Targets, or Proficiency Scales, they are clearly the building blocks of Competency-based Systems and Empower. Once standards are entered into Empower, schools always have the ability ...
Leadership: Accountability in Teaching & Learning
IMPORTANT! The School Principal is the single most important stakeholder in the successful implementation of Empower. Highly Reliable Schools have one thing in common: real time, understandable, comprehensive data systems that provide an early ...
User Data: Groups, Classes, SIS Connections, Load, Check & Distribute User Accounts
In most cases it is possible for Empower to communicate with your SIS (Student Information System) so that Empower can pull user data at regular intervals. This prevents districts from needing to do double entry as student populations fluxuate. ...
Scoring
Standards-Based Scoring Empower is a standards-based grading software. That means all evidence scores given in Empower will be aligned to standards (aka targets, competencies). For example, in a traditional model we might say to a student, "This ...
Personalized Learning Plans: PLPs and IEPs
The Personalized Learning Plan tool is a powerful way to adjust expectations for students. Users can select and deselect standards that students are responsible for adjust the level of proficiency expected on a given standard create template plans ...
The Resource Editor
With the Resource Editor, admin users can search and change some features in Empower including much of the text that appears in the interface. This is a fairly powerful tool. Unless you feel confident in what you're doing, be careful.
Privacy Policy
Empower Learning ("Empower Learning, LLC") values your privacy. In this Privacy Policy, we describe how we collect, use, and disclose information that we obtain about users of our Learning Management System “Empower.” It also describes the choices ...
Report Viewer Reports
Assessment Analysis by Question This report shows individual responses by learners on individual assessments (the “quiz” feature in Empower). It can show any assessment (quiz) between a range of dates, but only one assessment at a time. It does not ...
Hosting
Empower can be hosted locally or in the cloud. Details for setting up both options are below. Local Hosting Minimum server requirements District with fewer than 500 students Hardware Requirement: CPU - Intel® Xeon® E3-1230 v6 , 4 Cores (HT) x 3.5 GHz ...
Students & Guardians
Students & Guardians The Student and Guardian Portal are largely identical in Empower. This ensures that parents and students have the same visibility. Additionally, students are typically the ones best positioned to help their parents navigate. Here ...
Empower Site Set Up Process (Annotated)
The Site Setup ProcessBecause each district is a little different with different data, scales and needs, each site build is more complex than simply signing in to the software. There are four parts to consider when setting up your Empower site. They ...
Instruction: Playlists, Activities, Quizzes, Grouping, Collaborating
Instruction A unit, a pathway, a module. A playlist by any other name would still be a set of organized learning experiences in Empower. Playlist can help organize your instruction for your own purposes, for delivery to students and they get pretty ...
Courses
What are Course Playlists? A course playlist is a set of targets (aka standards, competencies) that are expected to be mastered during a given reporting period. For example, "Algebra 2 - 1st Semester" may cover 6 learning targets. Empower ...
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