FocalPoint Term and Icon Glossary

This article introduces users to FocalPoint terms and their corresponding icons when applicable.

NOTE: Visible terms or icons depend on your FocalPoint customizations.

Setup

Term Definition
Provisioning Ability given to District Users to add teachers, school admins, learners, sites, and sections to a tenant. 
Section Rostered courses within a site which District Admins can set up manually. It can also be done with a Student Information System integration or completing an Order Tenant Form (Excel spreadsheet). 
Site School or Schools within a tenant. 
Tenant FocalPoint term referencing how partners are set up in the platform. Tenants reference clients which can represent school districts or individual schools. A tenant is not a user. Most schools using LLS will be under the Lincoln Academy Tenant. 

Navigation: Main Menu

Term Icon Definition
Administration Area where administrators can create and provision district users and communities. 
Backpack

Area where students can see earned badges and credentials.

Help Access the Lincoln Learning Solutions Help Center and support chat. 
Learning Area where users can access the Learning Tree platform and permissioned users can see Assessment Center and design courses. 
Meetings Area where users can create and access live meetings with district users. 
Messages Area where students and teachers can message community members and admins can message district or school users. 
Performance Area where users can view drillable and customizable data dashboards based on their given permissions and see a list of users to which the educator has access (LT Learners). 
Resources Area where students can find supplemental content; district users can add, edit, save, and share content, tests, and questions. Admins can search Learning Tree Activities for Lincoln Learning Object Repository. 

Navigation: Tool Bar

Term Icon Definition
Logout Click to logout of FocalPoint.
My Profile Found under your My Profile picture. Area for user information with the ability to upload profile picture, reset password, and provide general information regarding the user. 
Notifications

Students - alerted of teacher feedback, additions/edits to the community, announcements, etc.

Teachers - alerted to student submissions, messages on assignments, direct messages, etc. 

Notifications preferences are able to be customized in My Profile.

Settings Users can change settings to customize the look of their view in Learning Tree. 

Navigation: Community Tabs

Term Icon Definition
Announcements

Students – view teacher announcements.

Teachers – create and save announcements for students. 
Course Usage Dashboard Area where students can see how they have used their course by duration or visits for month, year, week, and day. 
Documents

Students – access materials teachers have placed in this area.

Teachers – create folders and upload supplemental learning opportunities for students. 
Goals Area where students can set goals and plans to work towards achieving them. 
Home Community homepage and a place for educators to edit their course details. 
Learning

Students - access their course content.

Teachers - add, remove, and edit their course content. 

Meetings Area where community members can access live meetings educators have created. 
Members

View users who have access to the community.

Progress

Students – view course progress across all lessons.

Teachers – view course progress for all students across all lessons. They can choose data fields to view desired data. 
Report Card

Students – see their gradable activities and keep track of their grades.

Teachers – see all gradable activities per student and access graded activities. They can also view Overall Performance, Overall Percentage, Overall Total, and Overall completion. 
Settings Area where Teachers can customize students’ tabs by toggling the options on or off. 

Navigation: Other Terms and Icons

Term Icon Definition
 More Options  Produce more options. 
 Topic    Equivalent to a Lincoln Learning Solutions unit level. 
 Unit    Equivalent to an LLS topic level. 

Functionality: Terms

NOTE: These terms, without corresponding icons, will be found throughout Learning Tree.

Term Definition
Child Objective Units within a course. 
Data Dashboard Customizable, filterable, and drillable visual representations of data sets. 
Learning Objective Course or courses added to a community. 
Learning Tree Activity Lincoln Learning Object Repository housing all of the learning objects. 
Objective

Content Activities with a unit.

Quintile

The Outcome Level found in some reports referring to which 5th of the percentage quintile a student's scores fall into. It is ideal to see students in the fifth or fourth quintile for passing scores. Below are the quintile parentages and levels explained:

  • From 80 to 100% is the fifth quintile (also called the top quintile).
  • From 60 to 80% is the fourth quintile.
  • From 40 to 60% is the third quintile.
  • From 20 to 40% is the second quintile.
  • From 0 – 20% is the first quintile.
Token Unique alphanumeric identifier assigned to users, communities, tests, etc. For example, a parent will need their student’s token to access the parent portal, and a student may need a token to access a custom assessment or community. Not all assessments or communities will need a token for access.  

Functionality: General

Term Icon(s) Definition
Delete Delete the item. 
Download file Download the shared file. 
Edit Click to make a change. 
Export

     

Export the customized page view to a PDF or Excel Spreadsheet.  
Impersonate

   

View the course as the student.

Invalid Activity Activity will not function as intended. 
Launch Activity Open and complete the activity. 
No file chosen   Click to select a file to upload. 
Notes Make notes on an assessment or activity which are only visible to the note taker. 
Post

 

Send a composed message. 
Print This page can be printed. 
Refresh Refresh screen to check for updates or return to the default view. 
Review Later Students and teachers can mark assessment questions to return to and review later. The question will show up in a different color to differentiate it from already answered questions. 
Save Save additions, changes, or content to other formats. 
Test Accommodations Found in Provisioning, admins can apply test accommodations to students. Applying these accommodations is applicable only to districts who have purchased AssessCloud through FocalPoint. 

Functionality: Landing Pages

Term Icon Definition
Archived Communities Communities which have been deleted. 
Bookmark (Student) Click the bookmark to add content to the student’s community homepage. 
Bookmark (Teacher) Click to bring the community to the top of the communities homepage for all users. 
Community   Customizable area where users can teach, learn, observe, and monitor progress; where the course lives. 
Marketplace Communities Gives any student the ability to self-enroll in a community using a token given by the teacher. This is an option that can be turned on when creating and/or editing a community. 
Select Root Goal

Students – Add customized or pre-loaded learning objectives when given a teacher token. Select this icon to view a chosen learning objective.

Teachers – Add customized or pre-loaded learning objectives. Select this icon to view a chosen learning objective. 
Student Course Snapshot Snapshot of student’s Course Progress (outer ring) and Course Grade (inner ring). 
Time Scale

Filter view to Today, This Week, This Month, or All.

To-Do List   List of course items scheduled by the teacher. 
Unarchive Restore a previously archived community. 

Functionality: Student Learning Tab

Term Icon Definition
Activity Details Students can view the details of their graded activity, including the test summary, test analytics, and any notes students took in the test. 
Launch New Window Launch activity in a new window. 
Locked Students do not have access to this activity. 
Recommend This designates the next recommended activity per the student’s personalized learning pathway. 

Functionality: Teacher Learning Tab

Term Icon Definition
Activate   Toggle on to all students the ability to begin an activity. This can be done in bulk or on a single item. 
Add  

Add an activity, root goal, objective, etc.

Design Activity Flow Design a custom learning pathway. 
More information... Shows additional information regarding the activity, like aligned standards and the number of points. 
Preview View the content as a student would see it. 
Print Bubblesheet Print a bubble sheet created for each student for this assessment. 
Publish   Toggle on to give students access to view the activity. This can be done in bulk or on a single item. 
Require   Toggle on to make an activity’s completion by a student required. 
Schedule Brings up a calendar to schedule the chosen assignment’s due date. Places the item on the students’ and teacher’s to-do list. 
Search Use a search bar to filter content, objectives, tests, questions, etc. 
Search Activity Search for a Lincoln Learning Solutions Learning Object. 
Toggle

Students – Use to identify they have read/viewed the content.

Teachers – Use to publish, activate and/or require activities. Can also be used to require students to verify they have read/viewed an activity for completion. 

Functionality: Members

Term Icon Definition
Goal Settings Subscribe the student to one or more learning objectives/root goals in the community or archive a learning objective/root goals for the student. 
Report Card & Activity View student’s report card and graded activities. See the time spent in the course, export a PDF of the information, and see a Track Time on Tasks report. 
View Goals

 View student’s goals and plan to achieve them.

View Profile View the About Me information, Credentials, and Notification Preferences. 

Functionality: Assessments & Grading

Term Icon Definition
Accessibility Found in the Assessment Help Toolbar, open to adjust the assessment's color scheme and font size and enable the Zoom feature.
Block Ruler Found in the Assessment Help Toolbar, click to populate a ruler for measurement questions.
Details Open a student’s completed assessment. 
Excuse/Include Excuse the student from this gradable activity. Include a previously excused student in this gradable activity. 
Highlight Found in the Assessment Help Toolbar, click to enable the ability to highlight text.
Instructions Provides instructions on how to complete the assessment. 
Progress See all students' progress in the assessment. View who has completed it and their performance band as well as who is in progress or hasn’t started. 
Protractor Found in the Assessment Help Toolbar, click to populate a protractor for geometry questions.
Reopen Allows students to revisit a submitted assessment to edit answers or finish completing the assessment. 
Reset Allows the student to take the assessment again; however, the first test score is lost. 
Speed Grader See items needing grading. 
Test Analytics See customizable test performance for individual student. 
What if analysis? Allows students to estimate a grade based on a projected score. 
Zoom Found within Accessibility in the Assessment Help Toolbar or within the toolbar itself, click to enlarge the text. Click again to minimize the text to the default size.

Functionality: Reporting

Term Icon Definition
Adhoc Report   Create customized, adaptable reports on an as-needed basis. 
Field Chooser Use to create customized adhoc reports. Select fields, drag and drop fields into rows and columns, and filter fields. Similar to building PivotTables. 
Track Time on Tasks Produce an Excel Spreadsheet featuring what activities the student spent time in and how much time by date. 

 

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