Benefits for Teachers

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Instant Details—instant grading and assessment reports at individual and group level.

Differential Instruction/Provide Remediation—Address weak areas by tailoring review/test sessions to individuals, specific groups or the whole class.

Mix Questions—Combine questions from multiple subjects from our database of 50,000 field tested questions and add your own personal questions and vocabulary. All subjects and all levels are available to every teacher.

Share Assignments—Share your assignments with other teachers in your team. Save your assignments for use in future years.

Printable Full List of Castle Advantages (pdf)



CLASSES
Feature Benefit
  Set up and monitor your classes
Create class Define and add students to the class
Monitor short answer session usage View summary of student usage or drill down to view detail
Class/Student cumulative report Assessment reports show strengths and weaknesses of students and entire classes


ASSIGNMENTS (GENERAL)
Feature Benefit
  Create Assignments for your student
Assign to students Assign to individual students or entire classes
Assign to self View the assignment as a student, for full-class review
Quick Assign Quickly assign to entire classes
Folders Organize your assignments into folders
Share assignments Teachers can share their assignments with other teachers
Public Assignments Teachers can publish an assignment as "public" making it available to any teacher in the school/district
Lock Assignments Control when your students can access an assignment
Quiz Mode Assignments can work like quizzes, with no feedback until the teacher has had a chance to review the results


SHORT ANSWER ASSIGNMENTS
Feature Benefit
  Create Short Answer assignments and monitor results
Create assignment Quickly create short answer assignments that are targeted to the needs of the students
Add questions Random selection of questions based on your criteria or browse the entire database and select individual questions
Import from other assignments Useful for reassigning an assignment to students or reusing questions from other assignments
Import from Personal Content Sets Include your own questions in assignments
Print assignment Print assignments for your records or to use as a paper exam
Answer history See student results for questions that were previously assigned
Randomized assignments Scramble the order of the questions for each student, for computer lab usage
Monitor assignment results Reports show results broken down by question, unit, section, theme, level, attribute
Vocabulary Worksheets Create printable worksheets with vocabulary related to the assignment
Multiple Choice Style Specify numeric (1,2,3,4) or letter (A,B,C,D) choices


FLASH CARD ASSIGNMENTS
Feature Benefit
  Create vocabulary flash card assignments
Create assignment Select from Castle Learning Online's extensive database of vocabulary terms
Print vocabulary worksheet Print a worksheet for your students with the terms and definitions
Import from other assignments Useful for reusing vocabulary from other assignments
Import from Personal Content Sets Include your own vocabulary in Flash Card assignments
Print assignment Print assignments for your records or to use as a paper exam
Monitor status Teachers can see which students have viewed the entire flash card set


CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE ASSIGNMENTS
Feature Benefit
  Create Constructed Response assignments and monitor results
Create assignment Quickly create constructed response assignments by selecting from a variety of questions
Add questions Browse the entire database and select individual questions
Import from other assignments Useful for reassigning an assignment to students or reusing questions from other assignments
Print assignment Print assignments for your records or to use as a paper exam
Randomized assignments Scramble the order of the questions for each student, for computer lab usage
Monitor and score assignment View and provide a score for each answer


DBQ ASSIGNMENTS
Feature Benefit
  Create DBQ assignments and monitor results
Create assignment Quickly create DBQ assignments by selecting from a variety of DBQs
Print assignment Print assignments for your records or to use as a paper exam
Monitor and score assignments View and provide a score for each answer


REPORTS
Feature Benefit
  Real-time reports
Assessment reports Real-time generation of assessment reports to monitor individual and class progress
Course usage reports Monitor student activity

PERSONAL CONTENT SETS
Feature Benefit
  Your own questions and vocabulary
Use your own questions Maintain your own database of questions that can be used in your Short Answer assignments
Use your own vocabulary term Maintain your own database of vocabulary terms and definitions that can be used in your Flash Card assignments
Advanced Editor Edit your personal content with an advanced editor that provides word processing-like capabilities. Even use your own graphics!


MISCELLANEOUS
Feature Benefit
State Learning Standards Correlations to state standards (for selected states)
Printer-friendly reports Various reports can be displayed for easier printing
Profile Change password or specify an email address
Documents Various Castle Learning Online documentation in PDF format
Newsletter Sign up for the Castle Learning Online Newsletter, for alerts on new features and “how-to” tips
Student Home Page View Castle Learning Online as a student, without the need for a separate Student Accoun
Custom Courses Teachers who teach courses not directly supported by Castle Learning Online can use their own questions or questions in the Castle Learning Online database for custom courses, such as Art, Health, Music, etc.