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District-Registered Accounts (SIS Teacher): Student Access Website Help

District-Registered Accounts (SIS Teacher):Student Access Website Help

This page is for help for teachers whose districts set up their accounts. If your question concerning district-administered accounts is not answered here, please contact FOSSweb Support.

Help Topics

FOSSweb Help Videos & PDFs

Digital Content (Videos, Multimedia, eBooks, and Weblinks)

Online Assessment Help (FOSSmap)

Self-Registered Teacher Accounts: New User

Self-Registered Teacher Accounts: Existing User

District-Registered Accounts (SIS Teacher)

Administrators

Students and Parents
New User Registration

How Do I Change My Password?

Where can I find my access code?

What is the difference between Basic and Premium Access?
How do I add or remove a student from my class?

To add or remove teachers, classes, or students the district SIS administrator must export and provide a new set of files from their SIS to the School Specialty Administrator. At this time, SIS Admins do not have the direct ability to upload their own files. Districts must develop their own policy and process for when and how often they update their SIS files. If you do not know who your district administrator is, you can contact the School Specialty Administrator using our Support Form.

My modules and/or classes are missing. What happened?

If your district is transitioning from self-registration to rostered teacher/student accounts, it may be that your district is in the middle of updating the records. Please contact the responsible parties in your district to determine if there are problems with the upload of information. If you aren't sure who to contact, please use the Contact Us form to find out if your district is in this process.

Why can't my students access the Science Resources eBooks?

If the link to the FOSS Science Resources ebook is grayed out on your students' accounts, it is because a Premium Access Code has not been applied to your class. This may be because either your district has not purchased Premium Access, or because your district admin has not correctly applied the access to your account. To find out more, contact your FOSSweb district administrator. If you do not know who your district administrator is, you can contact the School Specialty Administrator using our Support Form.

How do I assign content to my students?

The "Assign Content" option allows you to show or hide select pieces of FOSS content to the entire class (Common Class Login) or to individual students (Individual Student Accounts). Click "Assign Content" and select the module or course for which you would like to show or hide content. Content is always shown by default, indicated by a green student icon next to the word "ALL."

Common Class Login: To toggle selected content off from the class view, click the green student icon next to the word "ALL." The icon will turn red and "ALL" will change to the number "0." This means that this content will not display on the class page for students. To toggle the content back on for the class, click the red icon again and it will turn green.

Individual Student Accounts: To hide content from all students or to assign content to one or more individual students, click the green icon next to the selected piece of content. In the Assign Students pop-up window, select the student(s) to whom you wish to assign content and click "Save." The student icon will turn orange and display the number of students who have access to that content. Click the icon again to see the list of students with access.

If the class has multiple modules associated with it, select which module you are teaching by clicking on the cover image of the module. From the resulting module page, you will see the links to content in two different formats: basic links in black or gray that cannot be assigned and assignable links with an associated green, yellow, or red assignment icons.

For a quick overview, please view the Walk-through Video: How to Assign Content or download the Quickstart PDF.

Video: Assigning Content
PDF: How to Assign Content
What options are there for students interacting with the Science Resources eBooks?

Science Resources eBooks contain many interactive features. Students can:

  • listen to audio of the book
  • watch short videos
  • engage with short interactive activities
  • and (with Individual Student Accounts) highlight text and take notes
eBooks are available in English and Spanish. For more information, see the Interactive Student eBook tutorial video.

Where do I get help for problems with digital content?

There are a few steps to take to start troubleshooting digital content.

  1. Check the technical requirements. Are you using the recommended browsers?
  2. Make sure your browser is up-to-date. If not, try updating it and testing the content again.
  3. Change your browser. If you are having trouble on one browser, try the same content on another browser. Typically, the Chrome browser is the most reliable.
  4. Verify that your IT group has whitelisted the appropriate sites so that no content from FOSSweb is blocked.
If you continue to have problems, contact us using our FOSSweb Support form. Please include in your description of the problem, the name of the activity that you are having trouble with, the browser and operating system you are using, and the nature of the problem.

Where do I find out about options for students with disabilities?

FOSS and Delta Education/School Specialty are committed to providing students and teachers with content that is accessible for all. As such, we have NIMAS files for all FOSS Science Resources student books available on the NIMAC (National Instructional Materials Accessibility Center). NIMAS source files can be used to create accessible specialized formats (i.e., braille, audio, digital, large-print, etc.) of print instructional materials. The full set of files includes XML content files, a package file, images, and a PDF file of the title page (or whichever page contains ISBN and copyright information).

In addition, FOSSweb a variety of components that help address accessibility standards, including the following:

  • Audio books for FOSS Science Resources
  • FOSS Science Resources interactive eBooks, which include audio syncing and the ability to zoom in or out on text and images
  • FOSS Science Resources PDF-based eBooks also include the ability to zoom in or out on text and images
  • Closed-captioning for most of the content videos and teacher preparation videos; transcripts may also be available
  • Audio for the FOSSmap online assessment items (to come in September 2018)
  • Many teacher/student resources such as the Interactive Whiteboard (IWBs) slides/teaching slides and online activities can be projected to the class with the ability to zoom in or out on text and images

What Spanish resources are available on FOSSweb?

The following resources are available in Spanish for Next Generation edition modules:

  • student notebook masters
  • teacher masters
  • assessment masters
  • Focus Questions
  • vocabulary (list and definitions)
  • Science Resources eBook (Your school/district would have had to purchase hard copies specifically in Spanish, but you have access to eBooks on FOSSweb. Student access to the eBooks requires premium content, available from Delta Education.)
  • posters and student cards
  • equipment photo cards
  • Interactive whiteboard resources
To access the above resources in Spanish, you'll need to have a FOSSweb account and have activated the module with an access code.

Other editions also have Spanish resources, but a subset of what is available for Next Generation editions.

How do I use Google Classroom with FOSSweb?

We developed a new FAQ document (4/2020) with support for distance learning using Google Classroom and FOSSweb.

FOSS and Google Classroom FAQ