Getting Started in Arch using Classes and Calendars

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Arch helps teachers personally organize work around their classes using the Classes tool, one of ten tools in Arch. The Calendar tool helps to organize and streamline access to the classes and their assignments. In these two Arch Tools, teachers (and their students) focus on and accomplish their day-to-day work.

Put another way, Arch Classes provide the Learning Management System (LMS) features in the Arch Data, Instructional, and Learning Management System (let’s just call it Arch).

The other Arch Tools facilitate day-to-day work in Classes. For example, teachers can:

Tool	Class Benefits
Comprehend	Analyze 3rd Party assessments for planning Class assignments to improve instruction and learning.
Standards	Align Standards elements (i.e., content, skills, DoK, learning targets, big ideas, essential questions) for planned Class assignments.
Concepts	Align and use Concept elements and web and file resources in planned Class assignments.
Plan Books	Create and use sharable media rich Planbooks, Units and Plans to assign in Classes complete with student coursework.
Strategies	Document RTI, lesson frameworks, instructional and learning Strategies, and professional development-based skills in planned Class assignments
Assessments	Assess student learning from assigned coursework from Classes using rubrics, checklists, real-time checks, tests, and interim Assessments
Portfolios	Create and evaluate student Portfolio-based reflections on work samples embedded from completed coursework assigned in Classes
Forms	Embed Form links within assigned coursework to gather authentic artifacts for student peer reflections across Classes and districts
Files	Add ArchDocs and files to use in assigned plans, Class home pages, concepts, rubrics, test items, portfolios, forms, and other ArchDocs