Add a topic to a curriculum map

Add topics to a curriculum map to fill out the content for the duration of the map. For example, your topics might be months, content units, or marking periods.

Topics can be nested within other topics. For example, you might create a topic called Unit 1 that lasts for 30 school days. Within Unit 1, you might create topics for chapters, each lasting 6 days. So, Chapter 1 might have a start day of 1 and a duration of 6 days. Chapter 2 would have a start day of 7 and a duration of 6 days, etc.

To add topics to a curriculum map:

  1. Log on to the District view.
  2. Click the Assessment tab.
  3. Click the Curriculum Maps side-tab.
  4. Select the curriculum map you have not added any topics to yet, and click Chart on the side-tab.
  5. Click Add Map Topic. The New Map Topic pop-up appears.

  1. Use the table to enter information into the fields at the top of the pop-up.

    2. Note: If this unit topic and all its content already exists in another document format, such as Microsoft Word or Excel, you can copy and paste text from that document to the appropriate elements and fields in Aspen IMS to save time.

  2. Field

    Description

    Title

    Type a name for topic.

    Start day

    Type the number of the school day that a teacher should begin to teach this map topic.

    For example, if a teacher should begin a topic on the first day of school, type 1. The next unit might start on day 21.

    Meeting days

    Type the number of days this topic should be covered.

    Note: This is the number of instruction days (days on which the course is scheduled).

    For example, if this curriculum map covers an entire school year, you might enter 180 for the duration of the course. If this topic covers a grade term, it might be 45.

    Header Structure Name

    The topic structure name you selected when you defined the details of the curriculum map appears.
  1. The remainder of the pop-up contains the fields or columns that were created when the document structure for this curriculum map was created.
  1. For each field, click My Resources to access your personal resources and any shared resources, including district resources, you want to add to a topic.

  1. Click, drag and drop any items from My Resources to the topic you want them to be available for.
  2. At the bottom of the pop-up, you can align this topic to standards.
  3. At the top of the page, do any of the following:
    • Click Save and Close to save the information for the topic.
    • Click Save to save the information you enter without closing the pop-up.
    • Click Revert to return to the information you had the last time the map topic was saved.
    • Click Print to print the map topic.