How Do I Enter Evidences as Artifacts?
1. Set up your
password here: (If you have already
done this, skip to step #2 – directions for saving evidence to your computer.)
To access
your Teacher Compass account:
The
Customer Support link and toll-free number are below, should you need
assistance.
Email requests can be made at the following link: http://www.pearsoncommunity.com/formlibrary/tcompasssupport
Phone requests can be made at the following toll-free phone number:
888-862-4428
1. Then you need to collect your artifacts for evidences. These can be anything from
documents that you have typed such as your preconference interview, to pictures
of students working in groups, pictures of student work, etc. Teachers should add
artifacts as evidence to support the walk-through observations to the Teacher
Compass. Teachers should focus only on
providing evidence for those domains identified in the Growth Plan and/or major
discrepancies between the teacher’s self reflection and the lead evaluator’s
scores. The lead evaluator may also ask
you for specific evidence after one of the walk through observations.
2.
Here are directions for
saving evidence to your computer.
3. Then you are
ready to enter Teacher Compass:
1. Go to
this website: https://teachercompass.pearsoncmg.com
2. Username
is your school email and password is whatever you chose to use from step 1
above.
4. After
logging in, click the "Observation" tab at the top.
5. Click on
the observation in the list. (If you are adding evidences for your Summative
Rubric, click on the April 16 observation.)
6. Click
ONCE on that to highlight it.
7. Click the
UPLOAD button over to the right.
8. If a
security box pops up CLICK NO. This is very important. It won't work if you click YES.
9. Type in
the Artifact Title (just name your evidence)
10. Choose
the type of file: document, image, or video. If it is saved as .pdf or .doc it will be document. Images will be .jpg
most likely.
11. Click
Attach file.
12. Find the
file where ever you saved it. It is just like attaching something to an email.
(Documents will be in the folder named TIGER EVIDENCE DOCUMENTS and images will
be in My Pictures and then in TIGER IMAGE EVIDENCES if you followed the
directions from #2 in the first step above.)
13. Double
click the file.
14. If it
works, it will say “This file is attached!"
15. You have
to do this for each file. You can only upload one at a time.
16. If you
get a message that says it didn’t work, most likely you will have to go in and
change the file extension (.doc or .jpg, etc.) from
ALL CAPS to lowercase letters. TIGER
doesn’t like file extensions in all caps.
Click HERE for directions on how to do this. UPDATE: This issue seems to have been corrected by the TIGER tech
people.
17. After you upload the
file, you can type in the comment section. For example, you might want to
explain what it is that you have uploaded.
18. Then scroll down a bit and just click in
the circle to show which domain your evidence is for. You may click more than
one domain if the evidence fits more than one.
19. The FINAL
STEP would be to scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page after you
click in the domain circle and click the button that says UPLOAD. You will be taken to a page that will show
the list of evidences that you have uploaded.
20. From here
you may “Add new artifacts” or edit, view, and even delete an artifact.
21. After you
have added all the evidences you are going to add for the summative rubric
(sometime prior to the April 16 deadline), you may click the “Submit
Observation” button on your Teacher Compass page. Do not do this until you are
completely finished with the observation, interviews, and adding any paperwork
and/or evidences. Once you hit this
button, you will not be able to access the observation OR EVIDENCE again. This
step will send your evidences to the evaluator to apply to your summative
rubric.
TIGER is a living
document and process. The process could
be modified from year to year to better suit the needs of all parties
involved.
The steps above are
correct as of January 2012. Thank you for your understanding.
Updated January 18, 2012