Category

Feature

Benefit

Courses

Wide variety of courses

Access to all courses

Students can access Math, Science Social Studies, and Language Arts courses

Assignments

Activities assigned by teachers

Short Answer assignments

Teacher-created short answer sessions

Flash Card assignments

Teacher-created Flash Cards

Constructed Response assignments

Teacher-created constructed response sessions

DBQ assignments

Teacher-created DBQ (document-based questions) sessions

Incomplete Assignment Alert

Students are alerted whenever they have incomplete assignments

Short Answer Review

Multiple choice and fill-in questions

Access assigned sessions

Teachers can assign sessions to individual students or entire classes

Self-generated sessions

Students can create an unlimited number of sessions on their own

Retries

Students can make two attempts at answering a question

Feedback

Immediate feedback is given to the students as they answer questions in the form of hints, reasons, and related vocabulary

Reference Tables

Available for selected Math and Science courses

Multitple Choice Style

Specify numeric (1,2,3,4) or letter (A,B,C,D) choices

Font Selection

Specify font and font size

Vocabulary

Activities focusing on vocabulary

Vocabulary Activity

Look up a vocabulary term from Castle Learning Online's extensive vocabulary database

Flash Card assignments

Teacher-created vocabulary flash cards

Unit Flash Cards

Students can view vocabulary flash cads related to an entire unit

Session Flash Cards

Students can view vocabulary flash cards related to a specific short answer session

Constructed Response

Questions requiring one or more sentences

Access assigned constructed response questions

Teachers can assign constructed response assignments to individual students or entire classes

Self-selected unit-oriented questions

Students can select from a wide variety of questions in each unit on their own

“Save” and “Save as Final”

Students can work on an answer and update it later on before making it their “final” answer

Feedback

Feedback includes use of keywords and what a "good" response should contain. For assignments, teachers can score each question and provide comments.

DBQs

Document-based sets of questions requiring one or more sentences, with essays

Access assigned DBQs

Teachers can assign DBQ assignments to individual students or entire classes

“Save” and “Save as Final”

Students can work on an answer and update it later on before making it their “final” answer

Feedback

Feedback includes what a "good" response should contain. Teachers can score each question and provide comments.

Essays

Essay questions

Guided Essays (Social Studies)

Helps students organize an essay

Critical Essays (English)

Provides essay questions that students can work on off-line

Math Skills

Math practice

Variety of computer-generated questions.

An unlimited supply of skill-oriented math questions

Grammar Lessons

Grammar tutorials

Mini-lessons with option to create a session

Brief tutorials on major elements of grammar

Miscellaneous

Profile

Change password or specify an email address (useful for forgotten IDs when at home)

Study Tip of the Day

Useful tips, from Professor Bill himself!

Category

Feature

Benefit

Classes

Set up and monitor your classes

Create class

Define a class, specifying courses to be accessed by students, and add students to the class

Monitor short answer session usage

View summary of student usage or drill down to view details

Class/Student cumulative reports

Assessment reports show strengths and weaknesses of students and entire classes

Assignments (general)

Create Assignments for your students

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

Short Answer and Constructed Response assignments can work like quizzes, with no feedback until the teacher has had a chance to review the results.

Short Answer Assignments

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

Multitple Choice Style

Specify numeric (1,2,3,4) or letter (A,B,C,D) choices

Flash Card Assignments

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

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 assignments

View and provide a score for each answer

DBQ Assignments

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

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

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 terms

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

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 Account.

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.

Category

Feature

Benefit

Maintenance

Maintain accounts and options

Account maintenance

Add/edit accounts. For large number of changes, contact Tech Support for instructions on providing user lists for automatic account creation

Preferences

Control capabilities within your school

Reports

See how Castle Learning Online is being used in your school

Account Summary

Number of accounts, subscriptions, expiration date

Session Summary

Sessions created

Class Summary

Classes created

Class Details

Usage reports per class

Assignments Summary

Assignments

Student Usage

Student usage

Questions Summary

Question usage

Miscellaneous

Profile

Change password or specify an email address

Documents

Various documents, in PDF format, are available to provide you with details about how to use Castle Learning Online

Newsletter

Sign up for the Castle Learning Online Newsletter, which alerts you to new features and “how-to” tips

Student and Teacher Home Pages

View Castle Learning Online the way your students and teachers do, without the need for separate accounts

District Account

Administer multiple schools from one administrator account.

Benchmarks

Designate any assignment to be a "benchmark" assignment that can be assigned to students in the school/district and view detailed assessment reports