BIS ManageBac Parents Guide

ManageBac Parent Guide 2016

What is ManageBac? ManageBac is the leading online learning platform for IB world schools. ManageBac enables efficient curriculum planning, assessment and reporting while eliminating paperwork and enhancing communication to parents and students.

How is ManageBac useful for parents?

ManageBac allows you to track your child’s academic progress.

Support ManageBac has built in help features on each screen. If you have any issues accessing or working with ManageBac, contact ictstaff@bonn-is.de.

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Contents Getting Started with ManageBac (all users) 3

Your Account/Setting Your Password

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Logging In

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Changing Your Email and Password

Secondary School 5

Navigating ManageBac

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Viewing your Child's Academic Calendar Via the Calendar Tab

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Viewing Your Child’s Program Via the Academics Tab

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Viewing Academic Progress/Reports Via the Academics Tab

Primary School 10

Navigating ManageBac

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Viewing Your Child’s Program Via the Academics Tab

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Viewing Tasks, Your Child’s Portfolio and their Reports

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Getting Started Accessing Your Account ManageBac will send you a welcome e-mail to the BIS ManageBac platform. In the welcome e-mail, set your password and sign-in by clicking the link “click to set password.�

Setting your Password You will notice that we have already setup your account, you simply need to set your password and you are ready to go. To set your password, type your password into the two boxes given.

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Logging in After receiving your welcome email and setting your password, you can login to your ManageBac account at the BIS address: https://bonnis.managebac.com On the login screen, you will see the following fields:

Log in with your e-mail address and the password you have set.

Changing Your Email and Password Once you have logged in successfully, you can easily update your e-mail address and password by clicking on your name in the upper right hand corner.

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Navigating ManageBac (Secondary) The Tabs ManageBac is easily navigated using the tabs at the top of the screen.

The Select Child tab (top left) will allow you to select which child you wish to view if you have more than one child at the school. If you only have one child at BIS, then that student’s name will appear. Once you have selected a child, you will see an overview of their recent and upcoming activities.

The Calendar tab lets you see your child's academic and activity dates in calendar form.

The Profile tab has your personal and contact information, a place to upload a photo and which indicates in which groups you are a member.

The Academics tab details your child's academic progress in each class and lets you view future academic plans.

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Viewing your Child's Calendar Via the Calendar Tab Click on the Calendar tab to view your child’s calendar. The Calendar will show you which summative assignments are due on which dates for your child in calendar form. You can switch between a month or a week view depending on how much detail you wish to see.

You can also go to previous months to see past assignments and activities.

Assignments On the Calendar each box represents a student’s summative assignment with the color designating the type of assignment. On the right of your screen you can see what each color symbolizes: task, an exhibit, lab work, project, etc..

In addition, you can hover over the ‘i’ icon in each box for further information regarding that assignment. If there are files uploaded along with this assignment you may click the file to open it. This is an excellent way to stay up-to-date on your child’s work.

Please note that the calendar is not used to record homework in the Secondary School.

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Viewing Your Child’s Academic Program To see an overview of your child’s current unit, click on the Academics tab

Next, click on expand to view unit and task details for each subject.

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Viewing Academic Progress Via the Academics Tab Select the Academics tab to view your child’s academic progress. At the top of the page is your child's profile information. Scroll down to see a list of your child's classes. To see progress in a specific class, click on the class. You will be able to see past assignments and grades. There is a tab to toggle between term, semester or year to see current or past academic progress.

Classes A list of your child's classes is located under the profile along with their class and support teachers.

To expand a class, click on the dropdown arrow on the right. This will show you tasks for that class, due dates, the assessment criteria, student’s achievement level for that assignment along with the rubric.

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Each subject area has four criteria, which are used to measure student learning. Students receive a number from one to eight indicating how well they met each assessed criterion.

Summative assessments are typically a culminating task used to evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional unit, and form the basis of criterion levels awarded.

At the bottom of the page, you will see IB MYP Progress for middle year students as well as information on Service and Action and Activities.

For Diploma Programme students you will see CAS activities, the Extended Essay and ToK.

Viewing Reports

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Navigating ManageBac (Primary) The Tabs ManageBac is easily navigated using the tabs at the top of the screen.

The Select Child tab (top left) will allow you to select which child you wish to view if you have more than one child at the school. If you only have one child at BIS, then that student’s name will appear. Once you have selected a child, you will see an overview of their recent and upcoming activities.

The Calendar tab lets you see your child's academic and event dates in calendar form.

You can switch between month and week view depending on how much detail you wish to see.

The Profile tab has your personal and contact information, a place to upload a photo and which indicates in which groups you are a member.

The Academics tab details your child's academic program, with an overview of the programme of inquiry and the units they are studying in each subject, and their electronic portfolio.

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Viewing your Child's Academic Program via the Academics Tab Select the Academics tab to view your child’s academic program. From the Overview screen you will see you child’s profile details. There is a tab to toggle between term, semester or year to see current or past academic progress.

A list of your child's classes is located under the profile along with their class and support teachers on the right hand side. For primary, the children all work in their homeroom class for all subjects except German, in which students are grouped into either German Language and Literature, if they speak German as a mother tongue, or by the phase of German language acquisition that they are in.

For details of what they are learning in each class, click on the Expand tab. This will show you the Programme of Inquiry and the stand-alone units for your child’s class.

The first section shows either the full Programme of Inquiry, or just the units with an emphasis on a Single Subject. The second shows the Stand Alone Units – which are the units that students study outside of the Programme of Inquiry.

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Viewing Tasks

By clicking on the Tasks tab you will find detailed information about assigned tasks. In the future, we will communicate information about specific learning activities in this section. For assessment activities, this may involve comments about your child’s performance.

Your Child’s Portfolio Underneath the list of Contacts on the right at the bottom of the page is the Portfolio button. Scroll down and click on Portfolio.

We will continue to use the physical portfolio for many pieces of work. However the electronic portfolio provides ongoing samples of work and allows teachers, parents and students to add comments, goals and additional files. We encourage parents to upload examples of home learning, and take part in a shared conversation about learning goals and what is happening at school. This will complement the portfolio conferences in Spring.

Viewing Reports

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