Setting Deadlines for the Entire Class:

As soon as you make active the section with which you wish to work, you will be taken to the "Certification Deadlines" screen where you may establish dates for each of your chapter certification tests. The textbook adopted for your active section automatically appears (allowing you to select different textbooks for different sections if you wish). As illustrated below, there is a button (the pop-up button next to the label "Tests start in") for initializing the calendars to begin with the month of your first desired testing. Once the months have been properly established, to set a deadline for a given chapter you merely click on the chapter desired (it will become hilighted):

 


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After selecting the desired chapter, click on the date within the calendar to set the deadline for that chapter to that date, as illustrated below:

 


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Deadlines imply 12-midnight (Eastern Time Zone) of the date selected, and the servers will not accept any chapter certification scores after that time on the server. It is important to remind students that servers get really busy in the hours just before a given deadline, and thus service may become unreliable because of high traffic choking bandwidths. Forewarn students to TEST EARLY!! Of course, we all know you'll hear complaints that the server wouldn't take their submission at 11:45 pm, but we can all try!

If you reset a lot of deadlines, change your mind, and want to revert back to the original deadlines previously posted for your section, there is a button for reloading existing deadlines called "Get My Set from DB":

 


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Likewise, if you want to "open" your deadlines to a date well beyond the ending date of your course, thereby effectively eliminating deadlines altogether, you can do this by clicking a single button called "Set Open Deadlines":

 


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Finally, when you are satisfied with all the deadline settings for this section, you must register these settings with the server. To do this, merely click on the "Save Deadlines for Group" button as illustrated below:

 


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Setting Individualized Deadlines for a Single Student:

If you have a student who, for whatever reason, needs a deadline extension, you may use your Control Application to override the class deadlines for any given individual. But to do this, you must first register with the Control Application the student's datbase record ID. This is done by the following procedures (the same procedures apply for any/all services that may be individualized). First, use the navigation button called "Get Scores" at the top of the screen to navigate to the screen where you will normally ask for student test scores:

 


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After you arrive at the Scores screen, use the "Get Scores for Section (your active section)" button to obtain a list of all students currently enrolled in the section you currently have activated:

 


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The "Data Manipulation" button at the upper right of the data field will allow you to alphabetize your listing if you desire, which is a good idea for your next task. You need to find the individual student for whom you wish to set special certification deadlines, then select the that student by clicking on his/her line of data in the data field. Your click will hilight this line. Now click on the button labeled "Get Student ID" as illustrated:

 


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This will bring you a dialog box telling you that you can now set Personal Deadlines, Personal Testing Parameters, or send a Personal Message to the selected student:

 


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Now that you have identified the individual student by his/her database record ID, you may return to the Certification Deadlines screen by using the navigation button at the top:

 


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You should now see the individual student's ID number in the lower box beside the button labeled "Send Deadlines to:". Clicking this button, of course, sends the deadlines showing for each chapter to the specific individual's record in the database to override the class deadlines:

 


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