Odyssey



Raquel Ford, Implementation Manager, NYC - email: rford@compasslearning.com or cell: 805-368-9723 Esther LeeFoon, Implementation Manager, NYC - email: eleefoon@compasslearning.com or cell: 646-512-3484 Vivian Robertson, Implementation Manager, NYC - email: vrobertson@compasslearning.com or cell: 203-969-5046
 * Welcome to the CompassLearning Odyssey page where you will find resources specific for this program. **Please feel free to contact one of us with with any questions, clarifications, and/or concerns:


 * Odyssey version 2012 includes enhancements to the Odyssey Manager and numerous curriculum updates. **


 * Check out what's new: **


 * Here are the Odyssey 2012 system requirements: **

Dear Odyssey User,

**You will be re****ceivi****ng an auto****matic update to Odyssey through our 2012 release** **on June 3, 2012**. Designed to empower teachers, engage students and ensure success, this release includes:
 * A comprehensive **grad****ebook** to more effectively track and manage online and off-line activity grades, including grade weighting.
 * More than 400 **new interactive activities** and quizzes designed to meet the personal learning needs of today’s students.
 * More flexibility for teachers to design and manage **courses** and better organize assignments.
 * Pre-built Odyssey courses designed by CompassLearning curriculum experts to quickly implement extended year, summer school, or **credit recovery** programs.
 * Expanded options for **professional development**, including video tutorials and online sessions.

With no downtime to this update, you can see the changes made with the update immediately. You can contact your Customer Advocate or the support team at any time if you have questions. You can also [|register] to view this complimentary recorded webcast for an overview of the updates.

Customer Support Team CompassLearning 800.678.1412 <span class="remove-absolute" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">[|http://support.compasslearning.com]

<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">What's New in Odyssey 2012: Overview of Product Enhancements <span style="color: #414042; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Live Complimentary Webcast: May 17, 2012, 2:00 p.m. ET

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">As part of our commitment to continuous improvement of CompassLearning Odyssey, we invite to join us for a complimentary webcast which will highlight the new features being released on June 3, 2012. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">Hear from your team at CompassLearning about:
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">A comprehensive **gradebook** to more effectively track and manage online and off-line activity grades, including grade weighting.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">More than 450 **new interactive activities** and quizzes designed to meet the personal learning needs of today’s students.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">More flexibility for teachers to design and manage **courses** and better organize assignments.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">Pre-built Odyssey courses designed by CompassLearning curriculum experts to quickly implement extended year, summer school, or **credit recovery** programs.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">Expanded options for **professional development,** including video tutorials and online sessions.


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">[|Register today]. **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;"> There will be a Q&A session where you can ask questions and hear from other CompassLearning customers throughout the country.

<span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Webcast Details <span class="remove-absolute" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">**Date:** May 17, 2012 <span class="remove-absolute" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">**Time:** 2:00 p.m. ET <span class="remove-absolute" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">**Duration:** 1 hour <span class="remove-absolute" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">**Speakers:** <span class="remove-absolute" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">Jeff Olen, Product Manager, CompassLearning <span class="remove-absolute" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">Kelly Brizendine, Curriculum Director, CompassLearning <span class="remove-absolute" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">Lisa Wycoff, Virtual Learning Manager, CompassLearning

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//<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">Unable to make the live broadcast? // //<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;"> **No problem.** //<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">[|Register now] and automatically be emailed a copy of the recorded presentation.

<span style="color: #00a0ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">**Who is CompassLearning?** At Compass Learning, we believe in the power of personalized learning to empower teachers, keep students engaged, and ultimately ensure results that meet—or exceed—state and federal standards. Take a moment to learn more about how CompassLearning empowers teachers to be the inspiring, creative, engaging teacher they know their students deserve.

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Impact Teacher Academy Online expands our professional-learning environment to include regularly scheduled, live, interactive learning opportunities via the internet. The power of knowledge and instructional expertise is now at your fingertips, as close to you as your computer! Ask your CompassLearning IM/Coach on how to RSVP for one of these informative sessions.
 * Introducing Impact Teacher Academy Online **

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">This flyer details ITA Online, an enhanced version of the former Always-On Video and Webinar Series:

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">Here are instructions on how to RSVP and Attend the on-line sessions: <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">

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<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">**Ongoing Enhancements:**

<span style="color: #00aaff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Odyssey 2011.4 Release Highlights <span style="color: #00a0ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-Narrow by Grade feature on the My Students page <span style="color: #00a0ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-New Middle School Science Activities and Odyssey Tasks <span style="color: #00a0ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-New K-8 Math Odyssey Tasks <span style="color: #00a0ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-New and updated correlations

On Sunday, 3/4/12,<span style="color: #00aaff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> Odyssey 2011.4 was released with zero downtime. See additional details below: <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Odyssey 2011.3 Release Highlights <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-New Math activities & Odyssey Writer activities <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-State Simulation Assessments answer keys available as teacher worksheets <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-87 additional curriculum enhancements <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-Over 100 bug fixes

On Friday, 12/16/11, <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**Odyssey 2011.3** was released. Service was not interrupted and our customers saw the enhancements by 9:00AM CST. Please take some time to review the attached document which outlines the release enhancements. It is brief, but brings up many great enhancements to the Odyssey System.

<span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'arial black',gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">**Take a look at the new activities in ELA and Math (listed by grade, activity number, and activity title):** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">2011 New ELA Activities:

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">2011 New Math Activities:

**Odyssey's Activities Correlate to Common Core and NYS Standards!** **Here are pdf files that list Odyssey activities that correlate to each standard by grade and subject:**

Here is a good set of resources that were included in the Edutopia 12/8/11 publication. Similar resources can found on the wiki home page under "New Common Core Standards":

Introduction to the Common Core State Standards Common Core Standards for ELA and Math Application of Common Core Standards for English Language Learners (ELLs) Application to Students with Disabilities

<span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Impact','sans-serif';">Common Core Standards (Grade Level Progressions) Click on this link for an interactive ** map **of the states that have adopted common core. []

<span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Impact','sans-serif';">FAQs []

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Returning Odyssey Teachers:** <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Here's a "quick start" guide that you can print and begin using before we see you during the week of Sept. 12th - 16th.**

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">IMPORTANT INFORMATION - We will be launching Odyssey Version 2011 (v2011) in August. With this launch, we wanted you be aware of the following: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Currently, saved Reports in Odyssey customer accounts will NOT carry over with v2011. If your schools are in the habit of saving reports for later use, please know that you will need to re-generate these reports after the upgrade if you want to have them in saved format. This doesn't mean that the information will be lost. The reports can still be populated. It will just need to happen from the beginning, not from the saved file.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">** C ompassLearning Impact Teacher Virtual Learning Library:** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">includes a list of short videos which provide 24/7 access to detailed directions on how to complete tasks on the Odyssey Management System.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">** See your Odyssey Implementation Manager for your log-in credentials: ** <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">the url to access the videos is: [|www.compasslearning.com/impact]



<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Reporting Student Progress and Achievement:** Odyssey offers reports to monitor overall student performance within the program. Below you will find the "Reporting Student Progress and Achievement Booklet". You can save it to your desktop for easy access at any time. Also, when logged-in to Odyssey, select "help" located in the upper right hand side of your screen. This will direct you to our new help line "Get Satisfaction" where you can find questions/answers that address your reporting needs.
 * Reporting Student Progress and Achievement Booklet**


 * Odyssey Reports for Progress Monitoring & Odyssey Reporting Features**

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**AT HOME USE and Informing Parents:** Teachers, use one of these parent letters to introduce parents to Odyssey and provide them with their student and parent log-in credentials:

PDF version: Email template:

<span style="color: #00a0ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Odyssey Version 2011 (v2011) launched on Monday, 8/8/11!**

<span style="color: #00a0ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Check out this short video for a snapshot:** []

<span style="color: #00a0ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Here's additional information about what's new:**









<span style="color: #00b050; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**CompassLearning® Odyssey User’s Guide:** This manual provides the information you need to configure and use CompassLearning Odyssey®, detailed instructions for using Odyssey Manager, and assessment tools.

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**2. To reply to a post:** i. Click on the title of the subject ii. In the Reply text box add your response iii. Click Post