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Sections Overview
Using Sections is optional for use of EdReady for Educate Texas, but may be helpful if your ISD wants additional ways to label and group students. We have already provided and populated Schools and Programs that are participating, but, depending on your local implementation, it may be helpful to identify the student's teacher and/or class period. You will also want to use Sections if members of your staff should not see all the students in a school and/or program: you'll need Sections to further identify the student(s) that a user has permission to see.
Before students or teachers can be associated with their math and/or English section, an EdReady Administrator needs to create the master list of sections for users in your ISD.
You can use whatever naming convention is appropriate for your ISD, but we recommend the following:
- If your students will self-identify their class section(s), we suggest naming these so that they are descriptive. Remember that your students will see all sections across the ISD so you should include the school name/ abbreviation. A common format is: “School - Semester - Teacher - Class”, ex: “AHS - Fall 23 - Jones- 2nd Period”
Creating Sections
1. Login to EdReady
2. Click the Manage Account button from your EdReady dashboard to access the administrative pages in EdReady.
3. You will land on the Groups tab: click the View icon () for your ISD
4. Click on the Categories tab to see all available categories, then click the Edit icon () for the category you'd like to edit: Section: Math or Section: English
5. You will initially be taken to the General Information tab for this Category. Enable the Allow Student Edits and Visible On Register settings and click the Save button.
Important: We have disabled and recommend you keep the 'Required On Register' setting OFF. This will ensure that students can select a section but will not be forced to if they are not studying that subject.
5. Click on the Values tab
6. Click on the Create value button to add a category value:
7. A pop-up window will appear: enter the name of one section and click the Save button
IMPORTANT: category values may not contain many special characters - commas, slashes, and colons are not accepted. Dashes, underscores, and spaces are all fine.
8. After saving, you will see an on-screen confirmation message and your section will be listed in the table:
Editing Sections
Once sections have been created, their label can be either edited and they can be deleted if they are no longer needed.
Navigate to your ISD's Category Values list for the Category you want to edit (steps #1-6 above)
To edit a Value:
1. Click the Edit icon () for the item you want to update
2. A pop-up window will appear: edit the Name for this category Value and click the Save button.
3. Click the Cancel button to close the pop-up window.
To delete a Value:
1. Click the Delete icon () for the item you want to delete
2. A pop-up window will appear: click Confirm to complete the deletion