Tech Updates

A Class of One
When teachers and administrators set up classes in BAIP, they typically model classes after actual brick and mortar classrooms. These kinds of BAIP classes typically have the same name, the same students, and the same begin and end dates as the real life classes they're copying. This isn't the only way to use BAIP classes!

What if, for example, you would like to to get a single student practice on an indicator you're covering with your class as a whole (this indicator might be from the same grade, and earlier grade, or even a later grade)? Are you forced to assign every one of your students tutorials on these additional indicators just so one of your students can take them? Luckily, no.

BAIP classes allow you to assign tutorials so only a single student or a subset of your students can see them. Simply add a new BAIP class, name it whatever you want, set it to start and end for as long as you want your student or subset of students working on the additional indicator, and finally add the student(s) to this new class structure. It doesn't matter if any of the students are already in other BAIP classes (yours or another teacher's) because BAIP allows students to be attached to many classes at the same time.

Now you can assign this new class tutorials and only the single student or subset of students in this BAIP class will see the assignments. And when this class expires, all the tutorial assignments associated with the class disappear from the affected students' accounts. You can let these students see the additional information for the whole year, or, if you set the class for a day, a week, etc., you can have the information appear for only a brief period of time.

When you set up BAIP classes to model entire real life classrooms and then also set up additional BAIP classes to provide targeted work for subsets of your students, you maximize the instructional power of BAIP!

Thanks!
Thanks for using BAIP and helping us make BAIP better.  Please feel free to contact me with your questions and comments. Have a fantastic day!

Dan Spurgin
BAIP Technical Assistance
spurgin@ku.edu
785-864-1039