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About TEAMS

TEAMS (The Education Assets Management

System) is a cloud-based offering for sharing

Instructional Resources (IRs) across multiple school

districts.

As a teaching tool, it supports instructional best

practice and is used to locate lesson plans,

supplemental material, assignments, and tests

accumulated by collaborative efforts of school

districts that meet state-defined standards.

As a learning tool, it provides insights to identify

gaps in individual student performance and align

resources most likely to improve understanding.

Core Applications

TEAMS is hosted in the Amazon Cloud at www.teams-hub.com and is accessed 24x7 from a variety of devices including

computer and tablets.

At it’s core TEAMS consists of a set of core applications:

The Assets Hub aligns instructional resources, tests, and other curriculum content created through

collaborative effort to local, state and national standards.

The Report Hub provides immediate access to reports and analyses designed to streamline planning and

measuring student, teacher and school performance over time.

The Search Hub provides instant access to a wealth of quality content through a fully integrated, super-

fast and user friendly search engine

Assets Hub

Instructional resources (IRs) can be created using a collaborative

effort by assigning specific components to school districts best

equipped to deliver quality content based upon their track

record.

Curriculum specialists and teachers create and upload their

schools content, align them to standards and organize them into

libraries that so they can be found by others and shared with

other school districts.

School districts may subscribe to and share libraries with other

members of TEAMS to create a trusted network of resources.

Workflows embedded in the application support the authoring,

review, and approval of instructional content items so users can

trust the content they are using.

Reports Hub

With the Report Hub, users all components needed to gain immediate

access to reports and analyses designed to streamline planning and

measuring student, teacher and school performance over time.

Once logged in, each user will view their personalized dashboard and

browse reports that have been made available based on their role.

Reports developed to make it easy for Parents and Teachers to quickly

get answers such as:

• How are my children doing?

• Are my children improving?

• Is my child meeting expectations?

• What resources could I be using at home to improve their results?

Interactive reporting features designed to make navigating reports

easy such as

• View Top Rated, Last Accessed, and Favorite Reports.

• Filters by school, grade level, school year, demographics, and

even for individual students where permitted.

• Export and share results.

• Graphical and tabular data views for each report.

• Drill-through discovery

Search Hub

Find all approved content quickly and

seamlessly from a single user friendly search

engine.

Filter results by keyword, grade level, subject

area, and standard.

Tag and organize search results into

personal or shared resource groups.

Create electronic pacing guides and narrow

results by month, and week.

Add-on Applications

Your school district may grant you access to

other applications that are part of TEAMS.

All applications are integrated into TEAMS

using single-sign on (SSO) and can be

accessed from TEAMS or directly.

Custom applications developed and

managed by your district can also be

integrated with TEAMS using an API.

Available Applications:

• Teacher Evaluations for managing staff

evaluations

• Referrals to enter minor incidents as they happen

• Gradebook to log formative assessments

• Scheduler to help plan lessons and other events

• K12 Trends Data Warehouse to monitor and

report on student performance

• P20 Trends Data Warehouse to link P-12 with

post secondary and workforce data for preparing

the 21st century workforce.

General

Features

TEAMS unifies access to

education applications for

Students, Parents, Teachers and

Administrators

Speed

TEAMS offers an iterative approach for

implementation to allow changing business

requirements to be taken into account,

allowing the system to be provided quickly

for a specific K-12 business area, while not

restricting future extensions.

The system design supports rapid

prototyping, so that a new business

requirement can be quickly explored

together with business users.

Flexibility and Scalability

TEAMS has a modular system design that

enables phased implementations to be split

into a series of separate (smaller) projects to

compensate for the different priorities held

by different business areas.

Simplifies the overall implementation by

avoiding the need to run very large projects

or purchase monolithic applications.

Expandability

As the district’s data requirements mature,

grow, and undergo changes, potential new

sources of data and need for additional

applications will undoubtedly be identified.

TEAMS is able to incorporate new data

sources and applications quickly without the

need for complex and time-consuming

redesign.

User-Oriented

TEAMS adapts to our customers’

requirements through an improvement

lifecycle based on industry trends and user

feedback.

When new features and functionality are

added they are immediately available to all

customers in the hosting environment.

Accessibility

TEAMS may be accessed anywhere 24x7 from a

wide range of devices including iPads, iPhones,

iPods, PCs Macs, Android Devices, Windows

Phone and even Microsoft Surface.

The design is optimized for touch screen (next

generation) devices and includes easy to use

controls making the system intuitive and

responsive for frequent daily use.

Applications share the same TEAMS account

information through Sigle-Sign-On.

Asset Hub

Features

Link instructional resources to

curriculum and subscribe to

instructional content networks

Administer Common Core Standards

Helps schools make sure that all students are

meeting the standards by associating

instructional content with CCSS.

As a teacher, this means that you can quickly

find instructional content that is related to a

specific standard, benchmark, grade level

and/or indicator.

As new standards are implemented, they are

automatically made available in the Assets Hub

so teachers and curriculum specialists can

begin linking their instructional resources..

Administer Custom Standards

TEAMS supports the diversity of how each

state and school district chooses to manage

their curriculum by allowing our customers

to define their own standards, benchmarks

and indicators.

The system is flexible in that it allows

customers to maintain multiple standards at

the same time to accommodate the variety

of local, state and national standards that

have been established.

Browse Instructional Resources

Resources are maintained in libraries that are

authored by you, your school district and

shared libraries your district has subscribed to

in their resource network.

From the browser, users can upload, edit,

download, copy, approve, share and delete

instructional resources.

Import and Export resources as Zip files.

Easy to use filters and search functionality

makes finding and organizing resources

consistent regardless of their type.

Storage and Classification of Resources

The Asset Hub supports the classification and

online storage of a wide range of instructional

resources.

Each resource may be linked to pre-defined sets of

categories, subjects, grade levels, standards,

thinking levels, applications, courses, tests, and

libraries.

Meta-data helps users find resources using the

browser when manage resources and when using

the Search Hub.

Users can store resources in their private library or

publish them to any number of district libraries.

Review and Approve Instructional Content

Workflows allow content submissions to be

approved by content library owners where

necessary before committing the resource

to the repository.

They allow customers to subscribe to shared

libraries and approve subscription requests

from other customers on the network.

Instructional Resource Networks

Resource networks brings instructional resources

together similar to how social networks allow

individuals to share information with their peers.

With TEAMS, customers can find other customers

who are sharing resources and request that they

share resources.

Networks are point-to-point connections with

resources being shared only between those two

points.

Districts may opt to share their content with the

global TEAMS user community. Content sharing

between networks respects content copyrights to

prevent illegal use of content.

Resource Activity Feeds

Resources that users add are automatically

added to your activity feed.

When users choose to watch for changes for

a selected resources, changes such as edits,

comments, approvals and even deletions are

reported in their activity feed.

Reports Hub

Gain immediate access to

reports and analyses to

streamline planning and

measure performance over time

Finding Reports

View a catalogue of reports available and

dynamically narrow the list by selecting a

category.

Reports shown are controlled using role

based access.

Enter keywords or select a category to

quickly find reports

Filter the list of reports to show your

favorites!!

Viewing Reports

Each report can be viewed in Graphical

View or Tabular View easily be selecting

from the available display tabs.

Reports are rendered using HTML5 and can

be viewed on any web browser (including

mobile devices).

Print and download options are available

for both Graphs and Tables; Tables may be

downloaded to Excel or CSV format for

further analysis.

Report Types

Tabular Views are rendered consistently

regardless of report and allow for user

interactions such as dynamic grouping,

sorting, filtering, and filtering.

Graphical Views may vary by report and

may include:

• Bar Charts

• Column Charts

• Area Charts

• Line Charts

• Pie Charts

• Donut Charts

Custom Reports

Print View reports may be developed using

Telerik Report Designer if more complex

reports are required.

Supports pixel perfect rendering and paging

of reports.

Supports the export format of your choice:

PDF, Excel 97-2010, Word, PowerPoint, RTF,

CSV, MHTML, and all image and graphic

formats supported by GDI+ (JPEG, PNG, GIF,

BMP, TIFF, etc.)

Dynamic Filtering

Users can customize their experience by

setting the context filter for any report.

The list of filters available may vary based

on the users role. For example: A parent

will not see demographic filters.

Once applied, each report will use the filter

to automatically adjust the data displayed

in the reports.

Employees see all the filters

displayed here.

Parents see filters only for School

Level, School Name, Subject,

Course, Timeframe, and Student

(list restricted to just their

children!)

Students see filters only for

School Level, School Name,

Subject, Course, Timeframe.

Linking to Instructional Resources

Link parameters may be added for report

columns to allow discovery of

recommended instructional resources

For example; A parent that notices that their

child is not performing well in Math when

viewing their progress report can click on the

chart or table to view instructional resources

related to that subject and grade level.

Instructional resources are displayed via the

Search Hub.

Dashboards

Users access their Dashboard from the My

Dashboard page.

Each dashboard view may be tailored to the

users role.

Users with multiple roles may select from a list

of dashboard views relevant to them.

Data displayed in the dashboard can be

filtered using the context filter.

The My Dashboard page also displays links to

your favorite reports for quick access.

Dynamic Security

Access to the information that may identify

a student is controlled by they system to

comply with FERPA.

• Students can only see their own records

• Parents can see their children's records

• Teachers can see records of students

taking their course

• School Administrators can see records of

students in their school

More

Information?

Our Service Desk is standing by

to help you!

Website

Additional information about TEAMS can be

found at http://www.teams-hub.com/

Here you can find detailed information on:

- Features

- Benefits

- Support

- Community

- Company

Thank You Thank you for choosing TEAMS!

Find out more by visiting www.teams-hub.com