Hosting on Different LMS Platforms

Catalog Availability

Standard Courses
Honors Courses
Independent Study Courses
Adaptive Credit Recovery Courses
CTE Courses

Training

Full platform and curriculum training available for program administrators and teachers, limited to native Buzz functionality.

Training will not encompass local platform customizations or integrations.

Support

Curriculum Support Only

Accelerate will support any course curriculum-related issues, but lacks the administrative access to subscription domains that would be necessary to provide broader platform and end user support.

Course Delivery Model

Derivative Course Copy

Course Configuration Required

None

Course Updates

New courses are released annually, typically in early June.

Any in-year course updates needed (i.e., minor edits, fixes, etc.) in course lesson pages are made centrally in Accelerate’s CMS and published immediately out to customers using the learning object in question.

Any in-year updates needed within the LMS (i.e., an edit or fix to an assessment or dropbox activity) are made in our top level master and then pushed out immediately to customer’s using the Buzz derivative course chaining feature. All customers will inherit changes made in the course masters provided  they have created derivative course copies in their local domains. Static course copies do not inherit any LMS updates fom our course masters.

Getting Started Resources

Every course includes a Resources folder containing course and platform orientation resources for students. How-to videos demonstrate the way students navigate the platform, how students submit assignments, how students work with fillable PDF files, how students communicate with their teachers, etc. All of the Getting Started videos are Buzz-specific.

Assessments

Built natively in Buzz.

Speechstream

Enabled on all lesson pages and content published out from the Accelerate CMS.

Programs would need their own Speechstream account to enable use within assessments.

Grading Tools

There are rubrics for most written assignments.

Auto-scored items have built in answer key and feedback is automatically provided to student based on their answer choice; there are suggested answers/solutions for short answer/essay questions on each assessment.

Teachers can create custom feedback templates.

Catalog Availability

Standard Courses, with the exception of:

First Aid
Nutrition
Personal Fitness
Health Careers
Intro to Nursing
JavaScript

Honors Courses
Independent Study Courses
Adaptive Credit Recovery Courses
CTE Courses

Training

Program administrator and teacher training will focus on delivering Accelerate curriculum on Canvas. Training will emphasize curriculum design and pedagogy, course navigation in Canvas, and the use of native Canvas tools to support course delivery (i.e., using the course gradebook in Canvas, communicating with students in Canvas, providing feedback to students in Canvas, moderating course discussions in Canvas, etc.).

Training will not cover broader topics related to configuring and administering a program on the Canvas platform.

Support

Curriculum Support Only

Accelerate will support any course curriculum-related issues, but lacks the administrative access to school’s Canvas instance that would be necessary to provide broader platform and end user support.

Course Delivery Model

Full common cartridge

Course Configuration Required

LTI external tool configuration

Course Updates

New courses are released annually, and will typically be available on Canvas in early July.

Any in-year course updates needed (i.e., minor edits, fixes, etc.) in course lesson pages are made centrally in Accelerate’s CMS and published immediately out to customers using the learning object in question, regardless of which LMS that learning object is being delivered on.

Any needed LMS updates are made in Accelerate’s Canvas master and then recorded on an update log which is summarized and disseminated to customers each week. Once a customer has loaded a common cartridge on their Canvas, Accelerate is no longer able to directly apply fixes to that course on the customer’s platform.

Getting Started Resources

A limited Getting Started resource is available for Canvas. The orientaton materials provide a basic overview of course navigation and how to complete course activities in Canvas. There are no Canvas-specific videos connected to this resource.

Assessments

Built natively in Canvas using the Classic Quizzes tool.

Accelerate has not migrated to the New Quizzes tool because some existing functionality is not yet supported in New Quizzes (most notably, exportability of quiz items).

Grading Tools

There are rubrics for most written assignments.

Auto-scored items have built in answer key and feedback is automatically provided to student based on their answer choice; there are suggested answers/solutions for short answer/essay questions on each assessment.

Speechstream

Enabled on all lesson pages and content published out from the Accelerate CMS.

Catalog Availability

Standard Courses, with the exception of:

First Aid
Nutrition
Personal Fitness
Health Careers
Intro to Nursing
JavaScript

Honors Courses
Independent Study Courses
CTE Courses

Training

Program administrator and teacher training will focus on delivering Accelerate curriculum on Schoology. Training will emphasize curriculum design and pedagogy, course navigation in Schoology, and the use of native Schoology tools in overall course delivery (i.e., using the course gradebook in Schoology, communicating with students in Schoology, providing feedback to students in Schoology, moderating course discussions in Schoology, etc.).

Training will not cover broader topics related to configuring and administering a program on the Schooloy platform.

Support

Curriculum Support Only

Accelerate will support any course curriculum-related issues, but lacks the administrative access to school’s Schoology instance that would be necessary to provide broader platform and end user support.

Course Delivery Model

Shared via Schoology Group Resources

Course Configuration Required

Configure external tool (LTI)
Add Grading Categories and Category Weights
Assign Grading Category to Discussion items
Unpublish Teacher Resources

Course Updates

New courses are released annually, and will typically be available on Schoology in early July.

Any in-year course updates needed (i.e., minor edits, fixes, etc.) in course lesson pages are made centrally in Accelerate’s CMS and published immediately out to customers using the learning object in question, regardless of which LMS that learning object is being delivered on.

Any needed LMS updates are made in Accelerate’s Schoology course master and in  shared Group Resources. Updates are also recorded on an update log which is summarized and disseminated to customers each week. Once a customer has downloaded a course from our Group Resources folder, Accelerate is no longer able to directly apply fixes to that course on the customer’s platform.

Getting Started Resources

There is a limited Schoology-specific Getting Started lesson available in the course Resources folder.

Assessments

Built natively in Schoology using the legacy Test/Quiz tool.

Accelerate has not migrated to the newer Assessment tool because it lacks some current functionality, such as question feedback.

Grading Tools

There are rubrics for most written assignments.

Schoology does not support student feedback on auto scored assessment items and does not support suggested answers/solutions for teachers on essay questions within assessments.

Speechstream

Enabled on all lesson pages and content published out from the Accelerate CMS.

Catalog Availability

Standard Courses
Honors Courses
Independent Study Courses
CTE Courses

Training

Program administrator and teacher training will focus on delivering Accelerate curriculum via the Publish Anywhere integration. Training will emphasize curriculum design and pedagogy, course navigation via Publish Anywhere, and the student/teacher experience through this LTI course delivery method, with emphasis on how to complete and grade activities and assessments and how to configure item settings that are controlled through the LTI and not in the host LMS.

Training will not cover broader LMS-specific topics.

Support

Limited Technical and Curriculum Support

Accelerate will support any course curriculum-related issues as well as any technical issues arising from the LTI integration. Accelerate cannot provide broader platform and end user support related to customer’s host LMS.

Course Delivery Model

Thin common cartridge

Course Configuration Required

Minimally will need to configure LTI External Tool.

Additional setup steps may be required depending on the host LMS used and the degree to which the LMS accepts settings passed via the Common Cartridge.

Course Updates

New courses are released annually, and will typically be available via Publish Anywhere by early July.

Any in-year course updates needed (i.e., minor edits, fixes, etc.) in course lesson pages are made centrally in Accelerate’s CMS and published immediately out to customers using the learning object in question, regardless of which LMS that learning object is being delivered on.

Certain LMS updates made in Accelerate’s master will flow to customer’s LTI course, but updates to the overall course structure will remain as they were at the time the thin common cartridge was produced.

Getting Started Resources

There are no platform-agnostic orientation materials available in the course Resources folder.

Assessments

Assessments are configured as LTI activities.

Grading Tools

There are rubrics for most written assignments.

Auto-scored items have built in answer key and feedback is automatically provided to student based on their answer choice; there are suggested answers/solutions for short answer/essay questions on each assessment.

Teachers can create custom feedback templates.

Speechstream

Enabled on all lesson pages and content published out from the Accelerate CMS.