View and Edit a Content Standard Publication

You can view existing content standard publications. You can also edit the categories or tree levels specified for a publication, if necessary.

To view and edit a content standard publication:

  1. From the Master Admin menu in the banner, select Manage Standards Repository Publications. The Manage Content Standards Repository with ITS page appears.

  1. From the Publication drop-down list, which displays the publications used by the item bank, select the publication. The content standards and SOCKs constituting the publication are displayed in the Standards and SOCKS tabs respectively. Table 10 describes the columns constituting the content standards and SOCKs columns.

    • The content standards are organized by domain or category, level, publication key, name, description, and grade.

    • Except for the lvl and Action columns, you can click the column headers to sort the data in the selected column in ascending order. An arrow is displayed in the header for the column that has been sorted.

  1. To view child entities, do one of the following:

    • To view the child entities of a content standard or SOCK, click Expand buton beside it.

    • To view content standards or SOCKs for all the levels, click Expand All. To collapse the hierarchy and view only the Level 1 content standards or SOCKs, click Collapse All.

  1. Optional: To search for specific content standards or SOCKs, do the following:

    1. From the Filter drop-down list, select the content standard or SOCKs attribute that you wish to search by.

    2. Next, in the adjacent text box, enter the search term. The content standards or SOCKs are automatically filtered to display the records that match the search criteria. If only a child entity matches the search criteria, the parent entity is displayed but is grayed out.

      • To continue to display the content standards or SOCKS that did not match the search criteria on the page, uncheck Hide Unmatched Nodes. The unmatched content standards or SOCKS are grayed out.

      • To clear the search, click x.

  1. Optional: To export the publication to an Excel file, click Export to Excel.

  2. Optional: To view the banks that are associated with the publication, click Show Banks using this Publication. A List of banks associated with publication window appears, displaying the item bank list.

  1. Optional: To edit the categories or tree levels used by the publication, do the following:

    1. Click Edit Publication Categories (Tree Levels), which is displayed when the Standards tab is selected. An Update csr Category(irs) with publication window appears, displaying the categories specified for the publication.

    2. To edit a category name, enter the new name in the Name field and click Save. A message appears, asking you to verify that you wish to make the update. If you click OK, a confirmation message is displayed once the name is successfully updated.

    3. To add a new category, click Add a category. Enter the name for the category in the new row that appears and click Save. A message appears, asking you to verify that you wish to make the updates. If you click OK, a confirmation message is displayed once the category is successfully added.

    4. To delete a category, click the Delete button for the required category. A message appears, asking you to verify that you wish to delete the category. Click OK and then click Save. Yet another message appears, asking you to verify that you wish to delete the category. If you click OK, a confirmation message is displayed once the category is successfully deleted.

Note: You can only delete categories that are not currently in use. If a category is being used by a publication, that is, if a content standard exists for a category, then the Delete button is disabled for that category.

Table 10 describes the content standard publication columns.

Table 10: Content Standard Column Description

Column Name

Description

Name*

This is the content standards/benchmark name or SOCKs name as applicable. For example, Listening, Reading, and K.II.E.1.

Lvl*

This is a positive non-zero integer that indicates the level or position of the content standard or SOCKs in the hierarchy. For example, 1 indicates content standard level 1, 2 indicates content standard level 2, and so on.

PubKey*

This is a pipe-delimited key value that is unique to the content standard or SOCKs. All content standard and SOCKs levels must have an identifiable parent key. An example of PubKeys at different levels:

  • Level 1 – ELA III

  • Level 2 – ELA III|B

  • Level 3 – ELA III|B|2

  • Level 4 – ELA III|B|2|2

ShortName

An abbreviated description of the content standard that may include the name, grade, and level. For example, G1.L for Grade 1 Listening Level 1 content standard.

This column is only available for content standards.

Description

This is the text of the standard or SOCKs as published by the client.

Grade*

This is the grade for which the content standard is applicable. It can be a single grade or a comma-delimited list of grades.

This column is only available for content standards.

*Required field