Set-up

A one click set-up establishes the Curriculum Mapping with Google Workspace infrastructure in a Google Shared Drive. All faculty and staff are to be added as contributors to the shared drive, which allows them to contribute files, but not alter the organizational structure.

Teacher view

Teacher view in Google Drive provides an overview of functionality as well as access to a template gallery and quick links to the logged in user's unit planners.

Unit Planner Submission

For recently copied templates, the add-on detects that the document is not yet in the map and presents a form to collect data about the unit planner. All fields are mandatory to ensure a thorough data collection. By clicking "Add Planner to Map", the document is moved to the Shared Drive location. Teachers have the option to create a shortcut to the file in their own drive by toggling that option on.

Existing Unit Planners

Planners found to be part of the map display options for editing and/or attaching additional details about the unit planner. A dynamic header is added at the top of the document

Updates

Teachers can easily update the teacher of record, course, grade level, subject area and dates.

Resources

Each unit planner comes with a dedicated resource folder to store items such as assessments, lesson plans and other materials relevant to the unit.

Teachers may also make use of a digital photocopier to send copies of documents to the resource folder.

Technology Tools

Teachers can track which technology tools tools their students are engaging with during the unit. All selections are are added to a database so school leaders can easily see which investments are being leveraged by teachers in the classroom.

Standards

Teachers can attach any relevant standards being covered during a unit. These standards are added to the Google Doc as well as to a centralized Google Sheet containing all attached standards from all units.

Looker Studio

A number of customizable Looker Studio Dashboard visualizations can be added to explore your curriculum documents through filtering.

Timeline Views

Additional timeline views can be dynamically generated in Google Sheets and can display data based on a query.

Google Calendar

Unit planners can be added to individual or shared department calendars providing yet another timeline visualization. The events display as all day events and provide a link in the description to the unit planner itself.

Course Descriptions

Course Descriptions can easily be generated from a template in Google Sheets. By selecting a course and grade level, all units and standards covered in that unit are pulled into one Google Sheet.

Course Syllabi

Similar to submitting unit planners to the map, teachers can also submit course syllabi to a centralized folder on the Curriculum Shared Drive.

Admin Tools

The curriculum admin has access to tools to bulk import existing Google Docs into the map as well as a bulk rollover utility for advancing the dates by one year, avoiding weekend start and end dates.

Archiving and Deleting

Unit planners may be archived or scheduled for deletion by appending the string #archive or #delete to the file name. Each evening all unit planners are automatically re-listed in Google Sheet and any file name that contains #archive or #delete is moved to its respective folder.

Google Spaces

An optional Google Spaces integration can notify any member of the space when a new unit is added to the curriculum map.

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