Adding Books to Classes
To enable certain features and content, you'll need to add books to your classes the first time you set up your Courses each year. Please follow the below guide.
When you login to Big Ideas Math for the first time, you may receive a prompt to “Add a Book”. If you receive this message, please follow the on-screen prompts to add a book to the class.
If you do not receive this alert, follow the steps below.
Step 1: Go to “Class Management” from the Big Ideas Dashboard.
Step 2: Course rosters are automatically rostered through Schoology. Once the students go into their Schoology Courses, they will have access to the materials. If your classes do not populate in the Active tab, select the “Upcoming” tab.
Step 3: If you need to add an additional book or your class does not have a book click the drop down in the book where a book is normally listed.
Step 4: A drop down box will appear and you can then select the book(s) that are needed for that class. After you have selected you book(s), then select "Save Changes".
Step 5: Repeat for your additional classes.
Note: You can check which classes have books added by toggling the "Hide Classes without books" option:
ACCESSING BIG IDEAS CONTENT
When in a Mathematics Course, click on Big Ideas Math from the left side bar.
A new window will open and you will be logged in directly to your account.
*Please note that the browser experience will open this in a new tab. Pop-up blockers could stop the window from opening the new tab. Please see your school tech support if you need assistance with changing these privacy settings.
ADDING BIG IDEAS MATH CONTENT TO A COURSE
Big Ideas Math content links can be added to Schoology using Materials.
ADDING MATERIALS
When in a Mathematics Course, select Add Materials, to create a new resource link for your students. Select the Big Ideas Math: Modeling Real Life from the right-hand side of the drop-down menu.
You can select which Big Idea Resource you would like to add to the Module. Big Ideas Dashboard and Dynamic Student Edition are items that may only need to be added once to a Module. Resources, Video Library, Assignments and DAP will contain chapter specific resources.
Once you have the resource selected you will click Add in the Big Ideas Math window. The Item will be highlighted and once an item is selected the add button will be selectable. Click the Yes button to add this to your Schoology Course.
Items will need to be published in Schoology for users to see them in your Schoology Course.
ADDING AN ASSIGNMENT
The Big Ideas Math integration will allow you to create assignments directly from Schoology providing the ability to report scores back to your Grade Book. Navigate to the Add Materials section of the Schoology course. Click Big Ideas Math: Modeling Real Life from the left side bar to open Big Ideas Math.
Select Assignments or DAP from the Big Ideas Math Resources.
Once the assignment section is open you can FILTER the content by Type, Program, Book, Chapter or Lesson. Click the check box for the name of the assignment you wish to assign to your class. Click the Assign button at the top of the screen.
By default, the name of the assignment will appear as listed in Big Ideas Math you can change the Assignment Title. Select the individual students or All Students you wish the assignment to go to. You can also modify date and time the assessment is available for the users to complete as well as modifying other Submission Options, Tools, Question options, and the message to the user. Once your assignment setup is complete, click the Assign button and then click Yes to publish the assessment to Schoology.
Navigate to the Gear icon to the right of the assignment and click Edit to open the External Tool editor.
Select a Category for the Assignment, if a category is not added the item will not be scored with Schoology. Click Save Changes.
Creating
AN ASSIGNMENT TO MULTIPLE CLASSES
Within Schoology you can now create an assignment for multiple classrooms at the same time. If you are unfamiliar with how to make an assignment in Schoology please see the Adding an Assignment section. Click the Add Class button, then check the boxes to the classes you wish to add the assignment to. Click All Students or individual students you need by class.
Once the classes have been selected you can navigate between the different classes to manage the users and settings. Settings which can be applied to all classes are Date and Time, Submissions Options, Tools, and Questions Options. Click the Assign button to add the link to the assignment in Schoology and then click Yes to publish the assignment to Schoology.
Navigate to the Gear icon and Click Edit to open the External Tool editor. Select a Category for the Assignment, if a category is not added the item will not be scored with Schoology. Click Save Changes.
SENDING SCORES TO SCHOOLOGY
Once a user has completed an assessment you can send the scores directly to Schoology through the Big Ideas Math interface. This feature can be used when the classroom assignment has not been completed by all users. Scores will be updated in Schoology within the Gradebook under that particular assignment. To do this, Navigate to the Performance report for the Assignment you wish to push to Schoology. Click the three dots in the upper right corner of the report. Click Send Scores to your LMS. Once they have synced, they will be visible in Schoology.
If you are syncing grades to PowerSchool (Grades 7-12), please do not forget to click on the Sync button in the Schoology Gradebook to then sync your scores to PowerTeacher Pro.