1. QuickStart Guide for Account Setup
- The guide above provides an overview of ManageBac account setup and maintenance for the Middle Years core (SA, Personal & Community Projects) along with Class Management (Units, Resources, Assessment)
- The steps should be completed by an Administrator user, generally your IB Middle Years Coordinator and/or Tech Director
- Following on below is a feature overview of ManageBac for the IB Middle Years Programmes, to make sure you get the most out of ManageBac!
2. Feature Overview: Managing the IB Middle Years with ManageBac
Designed for the modern IB Middle Years Programme.
- The only learning platform supporting the full IB Continuum and designed with the new Standards & Practices in mind
- Collaboratively plan in real-time with integrated Student Portfolios, Assessment and Reporting for stand-alone subjects and interdisciplinary units
- Streamline assessment and reporting with built-in MYP criteria and grade boundaries
- Manage the Personal and Community Projects from initial proposal to assessment
Managing MYP
Instantly see where your students stand within the MYP (SA, CP, PP).
Service as Action
- Track Progress
- Effectively Service as Action progress using built-in MYP learning outcomes for service
- Add Activities
- Plan Service activities and request Coordinator approval
- Record and Reflect
- Upload evidence and reflections in the form of photos, videos, journal entries, and more
- Feedback and Review
- Communicate via the Message Board and request Supervisor reviews for each activity
Personal & Community Project
- Track Progress
- Track and approve student proposals with built-in Global Contexts
- Built-in Criterion
- Complete the assessment using built-in criterion and export directly to PDF
- Track Ongoing Project Reflections
- Track ongoing project reflections. Students can reflect meaningful through journals, websites, photos, and files
Portfolio
Students gradually build a digital portfolio over time as they submit coursework into their classes for individual assessments.
- Track Progress
- Track the progression of a student’s learner profile attributes and ATLs through their learning goals and submitted work
- Centralise Coursework
- All submitted work is automatically grouped into subjects with learning goals
- Export Locally
- Portfolios can be exported as PDFs or synced to our partners when taking the next step in your students’ learning journey
Remote Learning
Bring your curriculum to life with a unified remote learning platform on ManageBac with built-in Zoom, AssessPrep, and KeyChat integrations.
Design
Three pillars supported by PD & best practices:
- Teaching & Learning
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Seamless Online Lesson delivery with Zoom and Presentation Mode
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Communication
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Whole-school communication with KeyChat
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Engagement
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Engagement analytics and automated reminders with weekly digests
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KeyChat
- Centralise Whole-School Communication
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Designed to support school communication with Remote Learning. Channel membership is provisioned and managed automatically based on Class & Year group memberships as well as Teacher & Advisor relationships
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Improve Collaboration for Remote Learning
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KeyChat connects your learning community to support staff communication, school administration, and teaching & advisory relationships (e.g. homeroom teachers with specialist teachers, SA Advisors or CP & PP Supervisors)
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Provide Social & Emotional Support
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Allow students to express themselves to their classmates and advisors by sharing how they are feeling via text or through the use of emojis
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Enhance School-to-Home Communication
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Streamline Parent communications to provide a Unified Family Experience
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AssessPrep
- Online Exams
- Securely manage remote examinations
- Provides accurate and easy-to read answers which allows for faster grading
- Choose your exam delivery method and take advantage of powerful analytics
- Criteria or Points-Based Assessment
- Live Invigilation
- Deliver assessments within a live, synchronous online lesson
- Ability to monitor the students visually during remote testing using online meeting platforms
- Flipped Classroom
- Assign assessments for students to complete asynchronously
Online Lesson & Presentation Mode
Schedule your virtual lesson using your video conferencing tool or take advantage of our built-in Zoom integration. Start the lesson with one click from your calendar or your unit’s Stream.
Online Events & Meetings
The same Zoom integration that is allowing for Online Lessons to be created and linked to Zoom is now enabled for Calendar > Events. Add a new Event to the Calendar using the Add Event button to see the updated Event interface with Create Zoom Meeting button. Events differentiated for different students will show and allow only linked students to join the Zoom call.
Curriculum
Tailored for the unique needs of schools running the IB MYP Curriculum, ManageBac provides broad curriculum support, customisable assessment & reporting and an easy to use interface across web and mobile platforms.
- Collaborative Curriculum Planning
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Collaboratively create, edit and share unit planners across year levels in real-time
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Ready-to-Go
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Built-in with transdisciplinary themes, key concepts, ATL skills and more
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See the Big Picture
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Browse whole-school curriculum and analytics to track coverage of concepts and skills
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Resources
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Embed notes, files, photos, videos and websites with our drag & drop Stream & Resources
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MYP Unit Planners
The MYP unit planner allows you to collaboratively organise and plan your curriculum with resources.
Academic Standards & Curriculum Updates
We have added over 607 sets of academic & accreditation standards and benchmarks for our schools comprising the world’s largest indexed collection of over 1.5 million fully-licensed academic standards.
Programme Standards & Practices
Built-in planner guidance and IB Evaluation support.
Streamline the IB Evaluation process by tagging evidence as you go! Link Portfolio items, Reflections and Tasks to specific practices to generate a rich bank of evidence centred around student learning experiences and outcomes.
To support schools in the transition to the new IB Standards and Practices, we are providing planner guidance direct from the IB, including how each section of the template aligns with the IB Standards and Practices. This embedded PD will keep the IB philosophy at the heart of teacher planning and collaboration at your school, driving a culture of continuous reflection and improvement.
For more information on the new IB Standards and Practices, read our blog.
Teaching & Learning
With a unique Curriculum-First approach & design, ManageBac supports effective implementation of the IB MYP Programme:
- When you create a class, you choose from authorised subjects, which allows teachers to collaboratively share curriculum, resources, tasks, and assignments effortlessly
- Differentiation is supported naturally in classes (e.g. Phases in Language B) by allowing units, resources and assessment tasks to be delivered separately
- When a curriculum review occurs, we do the heavy lifting to centrally update the assessment criteria, objectives, IA forms and syllabi, saving our schools countless hours each year
Classes
Staff can view events, tasks, deadlines, exams, and entire calendars by year group, individual class or activity group (i.e. Basketball Club). Students also have access to their own calendar, which is populated with their assignments and activities, and updated in real-time.
Tasks
Create summative and formative tasks linked to units, custom categories, and resources with support for differentiation (i.e. Phases in Second Languages). Support for task-specific clarification of assessment criteria. Allow for student uploads and plagiarism checking with our Turnitin integration. Supported file types Websites or Videos, GDocs, Files (PDF, PPT, DOC, TXT), Photos or Text Notes.
Messages
Communicate with year groups, teachers, and individual students to provide feedback, suggestions, and add clarity about tasks and assignments. Parents using ManageBac can also receive messages about their students performance alerting them to potential issues as they happen.
Calendar
As a teacher or administrator you can view assignment deadlines, exams, and entire class calendars by year, group (such as Basketball or Drama Club), or by individual class. Students also get a real-time view of their term as calendar items are synced as soon as they are added by their instructors.
Attendance
Teachers record class attendance based on the configured preferences (i.e. weekdays and rotation-based, categories, days off). Admins can manage attendance by student, class, or curriculum and set daily digests, send reminders to teachers, and absences to parents. Parents can also submit attendance excusals through ManageBac.
Assessment & Reporting
Tailored for the unique needs of MYP schools, our systems provide customisable gradebooks, built-in assessment and annotation tools, as well as integrations with Google Docs for coursework submission and TurnItIn for plagiarism prevention.
Gradebook
Submit individual task and term assessments by MYP assessment criteria, points, or comments. Create term rubrics for all or specific subjects, and automatically convert to local grades. Administrators can track the progress of term grade submissions by subject or student in real-time.
Google Docs
In less than 3 clicks, teachers can link, assign, and distribute a Google Doc template to their entire class. For students, this provides one-click access to their GDocs editor with the coursework template pre-loaded, and automatically saves the submitted GDoc to their portfolio with all marks and annotations preserved for future reference.
Turnitin
Our Turnitin integration allows student coursework to be automatically submitted through Turnitin prior to grading in order to improve student writing, empower original thinking, and prevent plagiarism. Access all Feedback Studio features directly from within ManageBac.
Annotations
Vantage Reader is a built-in tool for all marking and annotation of submitted coursework. Designed to be collaborative, multiple authors can comment and annotate individual assignments in parallel - Just like in Google Docs.
Report Cards
Report cards can include a customisable cover letter with signature, learner profile, ATL skills evaluation, overall progress including homeroom advisory comments and attendance, extra-curricular activities and final grade descriptions. Generate reports individually or in bulk as print-ready PDFs which can also be distributed to securely to parents and students online with optional email notifications.
ManageBac for Mobile
For Students, Parents, Teachers, and Coordinators
The new ManageBac mobile app supports all user types including students, parents, teachers, coordinators, and admins across all curriculum programmes with an improved experience on tablet & phone for all key functions: taking attendance, classroom management, messaging, managing SA and project requirements.
School-to-Home
Provide students & families with a consistent, modern and intuitive user experience from initial inquiry to enrolment and school life & beyond.
- Teaching & Learning
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Our core teaching and learning offering improves the classroom experience for teachers and students with curriculum planning, assessment and reporting and academic management
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Admissions & Enrolment
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OpenApply, our School Admissions Management System is integrated with ManageBac and supports your entire family throughout the admissions and enrolment process. Streamline family information updates, confirm re-enrolment, and complete the application process for siblings all in one place
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Communications
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Streamlined communications & notifications support the school-to-home experience as well as increase student and teacher engagement
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SchoolsBuddy
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Our Extra-Curricular and Activities Management System, is integrated with ManageBac and allows schools to easily book & manage activities and parent-teacher conferences alongside an advanced payments solution supporting student life beyond the classroom
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