BetaCabinet Features
BetaCabinet has all the features you've come to expect of an LMS: the ability to post documents and various tryes of assignments, online submission of assignments, online grading, a gradebook, a calendar, and more. What sets ClassCabient apart is all the extras. Powerful features that give teachers the ability to customize their class the way they want and which make typically time-consuming tasks almost automatic. Links to functions and information just where you need them. Features that gives students and parents the information they need to always know how they are doing in the class, and more.
The list below highlights some of the features teachers are bound to love. Features that only another teacher would know that a teacher desperately needs to do their job. Though the list may seem long, it doesn't reveal the attention to detail in how each feature works, making BetaCabinet at once one of the most powerful learnign management systems, as well as the easiet to use
And what's more! Because the developer of BetaCabinet is an active teacher (that's me!), I am always udating, improving, and adding new features!
Assignments
- Create custom tabs and learning units so BetaCabinet can automatically orgnize your materials and assignments for you.
- Create "Blueprints" for the different types of assignments you plan to create.
- One-click assignment creation by clicking or dropping files on the blueprint name on the class calendar on the date you want the assignment to be created.
- Multiple assignment options for students to:
- Type their responses directly into ClassCabinet (with optional shared template to get students started)
- Upload files or pictures
- Submit Links
- Complete online Assignments with instruction and in-line questions
- takes quizzes and tests, with built in security features (block copy/paste, lock-on-leave, and block access to othe class pages)
- Contribute to discussion boards
- complete projects comprised of a pre-desigated number of sub-assignments of desired types and due dates.
- Automatically generate follow-up assignments, including bonus assignments (e.g., automatically create a notes-guide assignment when uploading teacher notes, or automatically create correctison when creating a quiz or test.
- Specify late penalties to be automatically deducted how you want them, with the possibility for two possible due dates (a due date, and a very late due date - which I use to specify a harsher penalty for turning in work after the unit is over).
- Assignment dates are automatically set according to pre-set preferences, while automatically avoiding non-class days such as weekends and holidays.
- Use the same dates for each class period/section, OR, use different dates for each, OR let ClassCabinet automatically adjust dates for each class period/section to match your block schedule.
- Specify each assignment as Classwork or Homework
- Discussion board can be enabled or disabled for every assignment
- Assignments links are automatically organized and posted in the following locations for preditable, easy access for teachers and students:
- The teacher's and student's calendar
- The teacher's and students grades page
- The applicable units page (orgnized by category and subcategory)
- Specify whether or not the "turned-in-time" for an assignment should be calculated by when the submit button was clicked, or by when the assignment was last edited by the student (can save students from being penalized if they just forget to click submit).
- Update assignment settings for any assignment, and for any student
Accommodations
- Case Workers, Admin, Support, and Trusted Adults can be designated for every student
- Student accommodations are managed securely in a centralized location
- Teaches can easily see all accommodations for students in their classes
- Accommodations such as extra time are calcualted for each assignment and due dates and exam times are automatically adjusted
- Translation, text-to-speech, and speech-to-text are built into every assignment and document posted
- Teachers can pre-translate documents for printing and disseminating to students.
- Teachers and Support can automatically share notes about student progress in their classes
- Students can specify their own pronouns and preferred name, and control who gets to see each.
Teacher Planning Calendar
- Click or drop files on the calendar for automatic assignment creations
- Drag/drop assigned dates and due dates on the calendar.
- Shift selected calendar items any number of days (positive or negative) to adjust your schedule to accommodate things like snow days, or to simply adjust the schedule to accommodate your classroom's needs.
- School calendar dates automatically appear on the teacher's planning calendar
- Easily post daily topics and activity descriptions on every day of the calendar; drag and drop to easily make adjustments on the calendar.
- Upload a CSV file with dates, topic descriptions.
Group Assignments
- Easily turn any assignment into a group assignment
- Groups can be be created:
- Manually
- Automatically accordign to teacher desires (randomly or according to any grade, and can be homogeneous or heterogenesous)
- By students as they form their own groups.
- Option for groups to turn in one result so you only have to grade once for the whole group (but you can still adjust the individual grade for individuals if desired)
- Option to have students work in groups, but then each turn in their own work
Grading
- Choose from multiple grade scheme options, and designate the number of excused missing assignments, late assignments, and more for each grade category.
- Customze your grade scheme with different types of assignment, and control how they are organized on custom tabs.
- Easy online grader
- Build custom rubrics
- Informative statistics for every assignment, and for every question on a quiz or test
- Powerful curve generator
- Integrated AI Grader known as 'Mark'
- Choose a unique rubric for each assignment or for each
- Specify the number of attempts
- Give additonal grading guidance
- Select feedback options for written feedback and annotation of students answers/li>
- In the moment grade override and reset when the Mark gives an unfair grade or makes mistakes
- Points from bonus assignments are automatically applied to the master assignment
- Automatic excusal or awarding of a perfect score on bonus assignments for students who meet the set requirement on the master assignment.
- Set the required number of discussion board posts for an assignments, and them have those posts automatically pre-graded before adjusting the grade as needed.
- Various grade fill options to speed up the grading process
- Gradebook view for all students and all assignments for a grading period
- Gradebook view for an individual student with easy access to assignment setting and grading options (great for working side by side with students)
- What if-grade calculator to see how potential assignment results or changes could affect student grades./
- Photo-grade roster showing each students photo and a grade summary on a single page
- Indicator marks for the number of assignments that need grading, have comments, or need to be synced to an outside system.
Families
- Parents and Guardians sign in on their own account
- Parents and Guardians automatically view all their student's classes (if enabled):
- See everything their child sees
- Cannot submit assignments
- Cannot comment on assignments
- Cannot make discussion board posts
- Sibling relationships inferred from shared parents.
- Parents and Guardians can be emailed or texted from the gradebook (see Communication)
- Parents and Guardians can customize automated communication for each of their student's classes
Communication
- Teachers can:
- Send Emails and Texts, and post messages to desired students right from the gradebook
- Send emails to individual students, to their families (all CC'd on a single email), and even choose to include advisors, clounselors, and other adults assigned to the student all with a single click.
- Select students matching virtually any grade criterion to send buld emails
- Option to include a grade summary at the bottom of emails sent to individual students, or to their families.
- Personalization options for bulk emails so students and families see their own names and information.
- Automated and customizable class progress updates to students, parents, and support staff.
Student Pages and Tools
- Students see their current grade, number of missing assignments, and number of assignments due today and tomorrow on every page
- All assignments are posted on the calendar, unit tab page, and gradebook, with links directly to each assignment
- Student view of the class calendar shows the followign for each day:
- Whole school events
- Daiy Topic and Description
- What is Due each day
- Classwork for each day
- Homework for each day
- Which assignments are complete or missing
- Master calendar on the ClassCabinet home page shows due dates for all of a student's classes.
- Student view of the gradebook has the following features:
- can be sorted as they desired, and filtered to show missign assignments, upcoming assignments and more
- allows student to enter "What If" grades for all posted assignments so they can see the potential effect of upcoming grades
- access to teacher comments on all assignments, with the ability to also message the teacher about each assignment
Online Quizzes
- Straightforward and powerful online quiz builder with powerful options for points and scoring
- Statistical analysis of each assessment, and each question within an assessment.
- Teachers can unsubmit, delete, or add additional attempts to a single student for any online quiz
- Teachers can alter mis-keyed questions on an assessment and to have all completed assessments be automatically regraded according to the corrected answer.
- Teachers can throw out an assessment question, mark it as bonus, or to award points to all students before, during, or after the assessment
- Student tools while taking assessments:
- cross-out and uncross any option
- flag questions for later review
- hide questions they no longer want to see
- write comments about each question and option
- underline text within each question or option
Administration
- Easily manage faculty and staff roles
- Easily add students, manage their accommodations, and family relationships
- Manage the school calendar (events automatically show on all teacher and student calendar views)
- Manage grading periods
- Create bell schedules
- Create grade schemes
- Create letter grade-break options
- Create new classes by click or .csv file upload
- Manage student and staff photos
- Create and manage classes:
- Manage teacher assignments
- Manage teaching assistant assignemnts
- Manage observer assignemnts
- Manage student enrollment
