ThinkCentral - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

ThinkCentralUpcoming FeaturesHoughton Mifflin Harcourt is pleased to introducethe following features coming to ThinkCentral inMay 2012.What’s new?• Assessment Optionso New features inThinkCentral will giveteachers more formatting,scoring, and viewingoptions when administeringHMH tests online.• Reportingo Additional report types willbe added to give teachersand administrators evenmore views into studentand district performance.• Teacher Transferso A new feature inThinkCentral will giveadministrators the ability tomove teachers from oneschool to another withinthe district.• Administrator Detailso Contacting your district orschool administrator will bemade easier with theaddition of a ViewAdministrators Button,allowing teachers to see allthe administratorsassociated with theirorganization inThinkCentral.• Filtered Viewso Additional filters will makefinding and assigningresources easier than ever.Page 1

Assessment OptionsNew features in ThinkCentral willgive teachers even moreoptions for administeringassessments online.Restricted ViewsThis new feature allows teachersto restrict the student view afterthey take an online test. Ifrestricted, students will no longerbe able to see the questionsand answers for previouslycompleted assessments.Question SelectionsTeachers will now be able toselect specific questions toinclude on HMH publishedassessments without using the fullCustomized Test option.Score AdjustmentsThis new feature will giveteachers the ability torecalculate student scores byselecting individual questions tobe removed from totalassessment score.Page 2

ReportingThe new reporting features inThinkCentral have beenenhanced with the followingfeatures and additions:Student Progress ReportThis new report will offerteachers and administrators achance to communicate withparents using the same reportsthey are already accessing. ThisPDF version of the individualstudent report will allow users toenter a comment directly intothe report before saving orprinting.Comparison ReportsThese new reports will allowteachers and administrators tocompare a subset of data fromthe regular report they’ve justrun and see how a chosentarget is performing comparedto others.Printing UpdatesThe reporting features inThinkCentral will now offer anoption to export/save or print aPDF version of the existingreports.Page 3

Teacher TransfersThis new feature will allow DistrictAdministrators to move ateacher from one school toanother within the districtwithout needing to create anew user in ThinkCentral.This new function will also movecopies of most teacherassignments for re-use in theirnew school.Administrator DetailsA new View Administratorsbutton within the teacher’sAccount Information page willallow teachers to quickly findtheir ThinkCentral district-level orschool-level administrators.Filtered ViewsNew filters on the ViewResources, Add Class, UpdateMy Products, and ViewAvailable Products will makefinding and assigning resourceseasier than ever.The student My Library view hasalso been redesigned to displaystudent resources by subject.Page 4