Learning
Time is one of a teacher’s most valuable resources, and often our scarcest. Between planning meaningful lessons, supporting student growth, and managing administrative tasks, it’s easy for educators to feel stretched thin. That’s why it helps to use tools in ways that reduce the workload rather than add to it. Sometimes, a few small shifts in how you use ManageBac+ can make a big impact.
Here are four practical tips to maximize time, stay aligned with the IB, and maintain focus where it belongs–on the students.
Collaborative Unit Planning with Pre-Loaded IB Templates
Whether you are planning on your own or with a group, searching through several different guides to make sure the IB principles and practices are authentically incorporated into each unit plan can feel time-consuming and scattered since it often requires searching through several different guides to copy and paste Aims, Objectives, ATLs, and Learner Profile Attributes.
With ManageBac+, built-in unit templates are pre-populated with IB language tailored for each course, allowing teachers to address all IB guiding principles in one streamlined document. To make planning even more accessible, you can also share units with colleagues, edit them together in real time, and even copy them across schools if you’re working in a district. If you ever get stuck for ideas, the free AI Writing Assistant is right there to help you brainstorm fresh ideas, while you, of course, stay the expert in the room.
Want to learn more? Check out this Unit Plans Quick Start Guide
Student Agency with Project Milestones Creation
Long term projects like the Extended Essay, TOK, Personal Project and Independent Inquiry feel more manageable when they are chunked into smaller tasks, giving students at every age a roadmap to success. With ManageBac+ coordinators and advisors can create deadlines for students that break these larger tasks into smaller, more approachable bits using the built in ‘to-dos’ feature for deadlines. Students can then add ‘personal to-dos’ in the same space, empowering learners to add tasks, goals, and deadlines for themselves to aid in student-led agency and organization. This allows students to explore their independence and hone their organizational skills with supportive stop gaps and required check-ins as they work with teachers to achieve important deadlines and complete rigorous inquiry.
Want to learn more? Check out this IB Deadlines Help Guide.
Using Notifications to Streamline Student Submissions for Core, Service as Action/Personal Project, and Service Learning
Organizing student work for the Core components can be time-consuming and cumbersome. With ManageBac+, there’s no need to build your own system or repeatedly search through work you’ve already reviewed. ManageBac+ automatically notifies you when a student makes updates you’ll need to review, or when discussions are posted in your pertinent classes and groups. These notifications keep you organized and up to date, so you can provide timely, consistent support to every student, ensuring you never miss an update.
Want to learn more? Check out this Notifications Preferences Help Guide.
Streamline Internal Assessments Across All IB DP Subject Groups
Managebac + now has unique Internal Assessment capabilities in all six subject groups! Use internal assessment tools to organize the different components unique to your course. Record orals, collaborate on student research, organize collaborative projects, leave student feedback, and grade with built-in IB criteria–all in one place. Required IB forms are then pre-populated and organized in student Portolios and eCourseWork, ready to be submitted to the IBO!
Want to learn more? Check out these Internal Assessment Help Guides.
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