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Automatic Grading
Complete administrative tasks with a click of the
mouse! Automatic grading and recordkeeping conveniently record
student's assignments and scores and preview upcoming assignments.
Approximately 85% of student work is graded automatically by the
computer, giving you more hands-on time with your student. Teachers
love the easy-to-use report features that print detailed grade
reports and at-a-glance report cards.
Built-in Global Calendar
Never be caught off guard by holidays, events, or
field trips with the time-saving built-in calendar. This feature
allows you to assign or remove school days, exclude date ranges, and
add or remove events like field trips and holidays. Organize your
calendar with daily or monthly views to help you plan future events
and assignments.
Custom Curriculum
Want to add your own ideas or lesson plans to the SOS
curriculum? Now you can! With custom curriculum, parents can
modify existing subjects by combining, adding, or removing units and
assignments. Parents also can choose to build their own curriculum
program from scratch using any available SOS materials. This
flexible feature allows SOS to be used as a core curriculum or as a
supplemental material.
Build learning
programs that address learning gaps or offer remedial or review work
Add enrichment to
challenge advanced students
Create compressed work
tracks for students who enroll mid-year
Make mini-units of study
Advanced Lesson Planning
Put away those bulky lesson planners! Advanced lesson
planning allows parents to create lesson plans in a sleek and
convenient format. With this feature, parents have the flexibility
either to plan lessons in accordance with a school calendar or
tailor-make assignments for a class, group, or individual student.
Parents also can use the tools to create or change semester or
year-long schedules in a matter of minutes!
Tailor-make each student's school day by adding,
removing, or resequencing assignments
Preview assignments or
review student work
Adjust the pace for
individual subjects at your student's level
View all student
assignments and grading tasks on one page
Bible Translation Options
Give your student more learning options with two SOS
Scripture translations. Choose to have Bible verses shown from
either the King James Version or the New American Standard Bibleฎ.
Individual Weekday
Scheduling
With this flexible feature, you can easily assign courses to select days
of the week. For example, you can assign your child math only on Mondays and
Tuesdays or schedule history just on Fridays.
Text-to-Speech
With the user-friendly "Text-to-Speech" feature,
students can focus or review specific passages. All they have to do
is highlight the passages they want to hear, and the curriculum
reads it to them. This feature is perfect for audio learners,
students who have difficulty reading on the computer, or students
who need help pronouncing complex words. Students also can choose
from multiple voices.
Multimedia & Learning Activities
Keep students on the edge of their seats! Amazing
multimedia and captivating learning games help students grasp
difficult concepts and provide extra practice. Learning games also give students challenging
and fun ways to remember facts.
Videos
Spark student's interests with eye-catching animation
and colorful graphics! Filled with thousands of videos, this dynamic
curriculum offers students front row seats to some of history's
greatest moments, such as a space shuttle launch or Martin Luther
King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. These amazing educational tools
cannot be found in traditional textbooks!
Vocabulary
Games
Improve your child's
vocabulary with SOS! Discover electronic flashcards and an arcade of six
dynamic, interactive vocabulary games (Moon Match, Vocabulocity,
Spelling Bee, Full Speed, Word Hike, and Balancing Act) that
build comprehension through hands-on challenges.
Automatic Curriculum
Updates
Don't worry about
downloading content updates! Course revision updates automatically
download via AOP's server, saving you time and giving your child
up-to-date courses. (SOS users without an internet connection may
request a CD containing revisions. The CD must be installed by the SOS
user to receive updates).
Instant Audio
Feedback
Give your child
immediate feedback and positive reinforcement with SOS! This
user-friendly feature gives instant audio feedback on answers to
questions.
Personal Journal
Encourage journaling
and improve writing skills at the same time! The SOS journal has a new
look to engage students in their writing.
Resource Center
Find resources right at your fingertips! A calculator
has been included for student and teacher convenience, and an
interactive periodic table highlights the elements. Each element is
hyperlinked to its own page to provide students with more
information.
Message Center
Communication is easy with an internal messaging
system! The message center allows parents to attach messages to
lessons for their students to view in their personal mailboxes.
Parents are notified immediately of student messages and can access,
sort, and print messages in one convenient place. (Messages are
between student and parent only).
Historical Timelines
This helpful feature puts history into perspective.
Students simply click on any linked date in the curriculum to find
out where the topic stands in history. Students can see the context
of their studies and how the events of the past fit together.
Book Reports
Enriching book reports in grades 3-8 feature different genres,
annotated book lists, and links to additional resources.
Thought-provoking questions provide guidelines for students to
reflect, evaluate, and write about books of their choice.
Printing Options
Take learning from the screen to the page in seconds!
Flexible printing options allow students and parents to print entire
assignments, lessons, vocabulary lists, problems, and records. Use
this advantage for student work or review lessons.
Assignment Screens
Take the guesswork out of schoolwork with assignment
screens. Student screens show daily assignments, curriculum
overviews, due dates, subject reviews, and grades. Teacher's screens
allow them to edit, add, remove, or reorder assignments, as well as
change assignment due dates.
Zero Out Option
Want to zero out an
entire SOS unit? Easily give a zero grade to any unit with this handy
grading feature.
Practice Lessons
This feature allows students to look at the
Switched-On Schoolhouse program and see how it works before starting
the curriculum. Students are taught step by step how the different
features and activities are used in the lessons. They also learn to
take quizzes and tests and are introduced to different problem
types. Both new and experienced users benefit from this feature.
Student Mode
Students can view presentations, answer lesson
questions in or out of sequence, and record their own notes and
questions on an electronic notepad with this unique feature!
Students also can personalize their homepage with customizable themes. |
