Empower: Navigating Through

Save this PDF to your Google Drive for future reference.

Empower: Target Browser

Here's a PDF illustrating the Target Browser from our Empower PBE online software.  The Target Browser is the one section of Empower, I believe, that you will be using more than any other piece on Empower in our (SAD1) first year of practicing it.  This is where you can find your curriculum - all of the standards and learning targets associated with your content area.  This tutorial should be very helpful when trying to familiarize yourself with it.

BTW, this document you see above is from my Google Drive.  You can, also, embed your Google Drive documents on to your Moodle course, Google Site, or blog easily like you see above.  Ask me, I'll show you.

Search For a Student on Empower

Let's say you just want to find a student and view their progress alone.  There are two ways to go about this.

You can search the Student Roster in the class group:

Or you can look through the Progress Reports in the Empower menu, shown below; locate Student Snapshot:

The New Empower 2.0

If you haven't seen it already, Empower's (formerly Educate) site has had an overhaul on its layout and design.  Very new; and very different.  However, much more user friendly and much simpler to navigate through.  It's designed to allow the user to have most everything they need without having to look to hard for it.  I think the one feature that many will appreciate is you have immediate view and access to your classes and class data right on the homepage when you login to your account.

Before, the homepage was the messaging service (which, you can still access in the top right-hand menu) and you had to look around for you class data.

I have embedded below a string of tweets I posted yesterday during workshop loaded full of helpful tips and demos of the new Empower site design.  Be sure to peruse through these posts to help you learn how to navigate and use Empower.

You can access our SAD1 Empower Site by going to:

sad1.educatek12.com

If you have any questions, please contact me.