1. QuickStart Guide for Account Setup
- The guide above provides an overview of ManageBac+ account setup and maintenance for the Diploma Core (CAS, EE, ToK, Plans) and Pro (Classes, Units, Assessment, eCoursework)
- The steps should be completed by an Administrator user, generally your IB Diploma Coordinator and/or Tech Director
- Following on below is a feature overview of ManageBac+ for the IB Diploma and Career-related Programmes, to make sure you get the most out of ManageBac+!
2. Feature Overview: Managing the IB Diploma
ManageBac+ is the trusted choice of 4 in 5 IB Diploma students since 2007.
- The only learning platform supporting the full IB Continuum and designed with the new Standards & Practices in mind
- Bring your IB Diploma Core (CAS, EE & ToK) online and build stunning Student Portfolios
- Internal Assessment management with seamless IB eCoursework integration
- Support Online Learning with Pamoja Lesson Suite, AssessPrep, and Revision Guides
Our flagship service for the IB Diploma provides an all-in-one solution ManageBac+ provides a mission control for your Diploma Core (CAS, EE & ToK) and streamlines all aspects of IB DP coordination from course planning to IBIS exam registration, through to IA management and seamless eCoursework submission.
DP Core
Instantly see where your students stand with the Diploma Core (CAS, EE, ToK).
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Track Progress
- Effectively track CAS progress with the CAS guide requirements
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Add Activities
- Easily add experiences and request Coordinator & CAS Advisor approval
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Submit to the IB
- Export CAS experiences portfolios as a consolidated PDF and submit online directly to the IB for moderation (for schools in IBAP and IBAEM)
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Post Reflections
- Students can reflect meaningfully through journals, websites, photos and files, which are linked back to the 7 CAS learning outcomes
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Extended Essay
- View and approve proposals, record interview notes, set deadlines & to-dos and submit files with our TurnItIn integration
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Theory of Knowledge
- Set ToK paper deadlines with built-in prescribed titles, collaborate on the ToK presentation and organise presentation evaluation comments & video recordings
An all-in-one solution for managing your Career-Related Programme (CP). ManageBac+ provides a mission control for your Career-related Programme Core (RP, PPS, SL, LD) and streamlines all aspects of IB CP coordination from course planning to IBIS exam registration, through to IA management and seamless eCoursework submission.
CP Core
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Track Progress
- Effectively track progress towards learning outcomes
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Collect Evidence
- Students can create and export portfolios comprised of journal entries, websites, photos, and files, as a consolidated PDF
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Post Reflections
- Students can reflect meaningfully through journal entries, linked to learning outcomes
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Add Service Learning Experiences
- Easily add experiences and request Service Learning Coordinator or Advisor approval
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Organise the Reflective Project
- View and approve proposals, record interview notes, set deadlines & to-dos and submit files with Turnitin integration
IBIS & eCoursework
End-to-end support from exam registration to final coursework submission.
IBIS Exam Registration
- Streamline exam registration with direct IBIS integration for anticipated, course and full Diploma candidates
- Create personalised exam calendars with proctors, room locations and times
- Bulk create PDF plan worksheets with one click
eCoursework Submission
- Easily organise and submit portfolio coursework from ManageBac+
- Drag and drop files directly from ManageBac+ into IBIS
- No more downloading and re-uploading – file transfer happens seamlessly in the background
Direct Submission of CAS Samples
- Send CAS records directly to the IB, including your authorisation letter and programme outline
- Submit records for your three selected students and optionally include a fourth exemplar
- Available for IBAP and IBAEM only
Pamoja Lesson Suite provides teachers with a range of tailor-made resources to use in their classroom, including course content broken down into lessons, student assessment and monitoring tools. A solution to save teachers time on course preparation while developing skills in online learning methodologies.
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Pamoja Lesson Suite
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Curriculum-aligned content built for online learning, originally designed for Pamoja Online Courses – now available for your school
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Turnkey Curriculum
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Comprehensive and integrated with curriculum, aligned to key syllabus topics and encompassing a complete collection of units, lessons and stream & resources including internal assessments (formative, summative and project-based), videos, readings and more
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Flexible & Customisable
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Deliver the Pamoja lessons in one click, or adapt & customise the Units, Lessons and Stream to suit your teaching & learning needs with full support for HL and SL differentiation
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Global ResourceBank
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Seamlessly add Pamoja Lesson Suite Units, Lessons and Resources into your ManageBac+ classes, either all at once at the start of each course or one by one as you go. With the Global ResourceBank, resources are being continuously updated to maintain alignment with changes to the IB Curriculum
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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:
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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
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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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Teaching & Learning to support Staff communication, Teaching & Advisory relationships (e.g. CAS, EE Advisor or Subject Teachers) and School Office for Administrative contacts
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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
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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
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Live Invigilation
- Deliver assessments within a live, synchronous online lesson
- Ability to monitor the students visually during remote testing using online meeting platforms
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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 DP Curriculum, ManageBac+ provides broad curriculum support, customisable assessment & reporting and an easy to use interface across web and mobile platforms.
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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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Diploma Unit Planners
Optimised for the IB Diploma, the unit planner allows you to collaboratively organise and plan your curriculum with resources.
Centralise Curriculum Planning
- Organise coverage of topics and eliminate paperwork
- Select from built-in course criteria, subjects, aims, and syllabus content
- Find opportunities to integrate the DP Core into the classroom by building stronger links to CAS and ToK
- Add in any additional local or international academic standards
CP Unit Planners
Based on the design of the IB Diploma programme templates, the CP and DP unit planners allow you to collaboratively organise and plan your CP Core and IB DP subjects with resources
Centralise Curriculum Planning
- Organise coverage of topics and eliminate paperwork
- Select from built-in course criteria, subjects, aims, and syllabus content
- Find opportunities to integrate the CP Core into the classroom by building stronger links to SL, RP and PPS.
- Add in any additional local or international academic standards
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
Our unique database design & architecture means that:
- 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 within mixed HL & SL classes allowing units and assignments 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.
- Transition years are managed seamlessly, e.g. DP1 will teach a new subject guide, while DP2 remains on the old curriculum
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. HL or SL). 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.
Assessment & Reporting
Tailored for the unique needs of IB DP schools, our systems provide built-in IB DP Curriculum support and country-specific assessment requirements, all wrapped into a sleek, mobile-ready and easy to use interface.
Internal Assessment
Built-in Internal Assessment forms and worksheets for Groups 1, 2 and 4 provide a workflow for recording orals, assigning works from the Prescribed Books list and managing practicals & labs in the Sciences. Easily export to the IA, Cover Sheet and PSOW forms.
Gradebook
Submit individual task and term assessments by points and anecdotal feedback with customised category weightings and grade boundaries. Create term rubrics for all or specific subjects, and automatically convert to local grades. Administrators can track in real-time the progress of term grade submissions by subject or student.
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 CAS and core requirements.
School-to-Home
Provide students & families with a consistent, modern and intuitive user experience from initial inquiry to enrolment and school life & beyond.
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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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