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Due to popular demand, we have published the CP+ training notes to our website. 

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Welcome to Curriculum Planner+, Vision 2, by King Lance Rizzo!  King thought it would be cool to call it “Vision” instead of “Version” 2, so we’d all wonder. Anyway, CP+ provides three major services for teachers in Wylie: Scope and Sequence.  Based on and correlated with the TEKS, the scope and sequence of the WISD curriculum is easy to access and use as the foundation of lesson plans and activities. Lesson planner.  It provides a place to make your plans and even add attachments.  It will also export your lesson plans to Outlook, with the option of sending them to Excel and/or Word. Activity Bank.  Whether brand new or a veteran teacher, CP+ offers an amazing list of TEK-correlated activities for your dining pleasure.   I. OPENING CP+   From your desktop.  On your desktop, there will be a red or green CP+ icon.  Double-click it to open.  This icon is a shortcut link to the CP+ website. Figure 1.  CP+ Shortcut Icon on Desktop   From Internet Explorer: Outside WISD:  http://inlinea.wylieisd.net/cpplus Inside WISD: http://inlinea/cpplus

NOTES ABOUT CP+ Web Site: There is no www. The “Outside” URL will work in both inside and outside the WISD network. You will have to log in, just like you were at work. Introduction | Creating Your Schedule | Top II. THE LOOK Pictures. First of all, it’s pretty cool, don’t you think?  You’ll notice some really nice pictures that are randomly placed there for your edification (secret:  if you move your mouse onto them, a little caption will be displayed).  Also, what DOES “edification” mean?  My preacher always says that.  Example of CP+ Picture   CP+ is generally made up of two windows: the Explorer Bar on the left and the larger, Right Pane on the right.  See Figure 2 below.

Personalized.  You may notice that this CP+ is much more personalized.  Not only does it say “My CP+” and “Joel’s CP+” which could make you feel pretty touchy feely and you might suddenly hug strangers and sing The More We Get Together while holding hands around a campfire.  But it also will display specific courses that you enter into your schedule.  No more clicking through the district tree of courses to find yours, unless you want to.  If you do want to, you can still do that by clicking WISD Curriculum.

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Step 1: Courses | Step 2: Schedule Types | Step 3: Build Schedule

Setting Up Your Schedule

Setting up your schedule is so much easier with Vision 2.  Check out Figure 2.  There is a wizard which will guide you through the steps of setting up your schedule, or you can click the “jelly tabs” at the top to move at your own pace.

NOTE

Should you ever need to redo your schedule, you will have to reset your lesson planner and click Setup Schedule.

Figure 2.  Schedule Wizard 

• In the Explorer Bar, click Setup Schedule.
• In the Right Pane the 3-Step Setup will appear, with each of the steps delineated, and well as the jelly tabs at the top.  Since Lance went to all the trouble of writing the directions, and also providing us the jelly button, we’ll use that.  Select

1. STEP ONE: Select Your  These are the specific disciplines you teach.
   1. Click the plus sign to the left of the Course Tree to open the list of courses. 
   2. Open your grade level taught, or special course.
   3. The courses are colored blue.  Click the correct one and it will appear in the Course Name field on the right.
   4. When the course name is visible, click the grey jelly button labeled add.

    

5. Continue and follow steps c-d to select all the courses necessary for your schedule.
6. When finished, click next.

Step 1: Courses | Step 2: Schedule Types | Step 3: Build Schedule
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2. STEP TWO:  Select Your Day .
   Most will simply put something like “Regular Day,” while people at the High School will most likely type in two types: an “A Day” and “B Day.”
   1. Find the Enter Day Type field and fill accordingly.
   2. Select add.
   3. You will see the day type below.  Click Remove to erase and start over.
   4. When you’re done, click next.

Step 1: Courses | Step 2: Schedule Types | Step 3: Build Schedule
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1. STEP THREE:  Build Your .
   1. Select Day Type field.  Click the drop-down button (if needed) to select the appropriate day type.  In most cases, only the high school teachers will need to use this.
   2. Schedule for Day Type area:  Whatever is here, be it “Regular Day,” “A-Day,” “B-Day,” or other—that is what your subsequent selections will go under.
   3. PRE-K TO 4^TH GRADE TEACHERS.  Due to the great amount of flexibility needed for scheduling, a template is not provided for these teachers.
      1. Select the Start and End times by clicking the drop-down buttons.  The choices are in 5-minute increments: if they’re off by a couple of minutes, just chill with it.
      2. Click the drop-down and make your selections under Select Course.
      3. AFTER EACH COURSE, CLICK add.  You will see your choices listed below.
      4. Delete your choices by clicking Remove.

4. GRADE 5-12 TEACHERS.   Okay, we’ll pretend you have more structure, so you guys have a template available.  You can manually put in the times as the Pre-K to 4 teachers, or you can use the template for your school.
   1. Click the blue, jelly use template button.
   2. A new window will appear: the CP+ Template. There is a School Template field with a drop-down button.  Click the drop-down and select the appropriate choice.
   3. The bell schedule (provided by your principal) is displayed. Just click the drop-down buttons and select your times and courses.

4. When you are finished, click save. 
5. The template window will disappear and you will return to the normal CP+ interface. 
6. Your schedule (as well as the ability to Remove any part of it) is displayed. The courses you’ve chosen are visible in the Explorer Bar to the left. Homey, you’re through.