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 * __Automated Course loading__**:
 * 2013-14**: This year, students have been batch loaded by the MISD technology department. Now that classes are established, teachers/campuses will maintain the courses by adding new students, deleting students who move and moving students from course to course as schedules change.
 * 2014-15**: As TTM and TEA have improved TTM for Texas students, the process of adding students has evolved changing as recently as last week. Hopefully, the process at the state level will be in place earlier next year. Next summer we will revisit the best way to load students and maintain classes for next year and communicate that to you.


 * __Course Naming__**: The courses created during the batch upload are named using the course number and section number. Teachers can change the name of a course by editing the class in Think Through Math. Change it to anything you want – BUT you will want to keep your name in there. Period 1, Period 2, Period 3, etc. is not a good way to name the class since there could be a lot in the building. Something like Davis.7th grade.Per1 would work great J


 * __Unique Student codes__**: This year, Texas has worked with TTM to establish unique student codes. These codes will allow Texas to better monitor usage of TTM. The codes will only allow each student to be in the system one time. As a result, teachers who created classes and entered students prior to the batch load will have to choose one of the following options:
 * 1) Enter the unique student codes for each student in the teacher created classes. Codes can be obtained from campus registrar or from the student information in the classes that were bulk loaded/created for you. Then, you MUST delete the code from each student in the bulk uploaded course created for us by technology so that the code is only assigned one time in TTM. After deleting all the unique student codes you can deactivate the bulk uploaded course so you only see the courses you are using.
 * 2) Use the batch uploaded course since it has the unique student codes. Teachers can choose to either ignore or deactivate the teacher created class. TTM tells us that students without the correct unique student code will be deleted from the system at some point. Currently they do not have a timeline for deleting those students


 * __What if I have two batch uploaded classes associated for one class period?__** Some classes have two associated course numbers or sections. These classes have multiple batch uploaded courses since the auto created classes are done by course and section number. Teachers can edit one of the classes and choose to move those students so that they are all in one class in TTM. Teachers can then edit the class name to a name they prefer to use. Note: A benefit of combining them is the motivation pizza party. If they are separated, half your class is working towards one party and the other half is working towards another party.

mdavis@thinkthroughmath.com
 * __TTM Contact__**: Mary Davis is our TTM rep and is available for help.