Completing a Field Experience Binder

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Viewing a Field Experience Binder

To open a Field Experience Binder, locate it in your pending tasks. You can find your pending tasks by clicking on the “flag” icon in the top right of the screen. Note that the icon will be red if you have unread pending tasks, as shown to the right.

If the binder doesn’t show up there, you may need to click View All Tasks to locate it.

The header area showing a flag icon, a user silhouette icon, and the greeting text HI, BOB.

Pending Tasks Flag

  • Title & Instructions: title and pertinent instructions are located on the Field Experience Binder cover page.
  • Binder Tabs: each sub-tab represents a different section of the binder.
  • Assessment: instructor and site supervisor(s) assessments of your work.
  • Feedback: your instructor may leave feedback about your work.
  • Due Date(s): binder, tab, or attachment due dates provided by your instructor.
  • Placement Information (not shown): relevant placement information and site location details are also provided as you scroll down the page.

The page showing tabs for Student Teaching 1, Lesson Plans, Dispositions Self‑Assessment, Cooperating Teacher Evaluation, Assessment, Standards, and Feedback. The Student Teaching 1 tab displays field experience name, description with bullet points, start date, and due dates for lesson plans, dispositions self‑assessment, and cooperating teacher evaluation.

Completing a Field Experience Binder

  1. Click on the sub-tab to the right of the Field Experience Binder cover page. (Tab title will vary.)

The Lesson Plans section showing instructions on the left and the Attachments subsection on the right with a file upload field, Select button, Add Reflection option, Standards link showing not submitted, and an Additional Attachments area with another Select button.

The First Sub-Tab 

  1. Field Experience Binders require you to fill in defined submission fields known as Artifacts. Click on Select underneath Attachment(s).
  • All fields with an asterisk (*) must be filled in before the system will let you add your artifact.
  • If you are required to attach additional documentation to your artifact, click on the Select files button to search for a file(s) on your computer, or drag and drop in the indicated area. To remove the file, click X button next to that file.

The attached documents section showing a Select File(s) button above a drag‑and‑drop upload area.

Attach Additional Documents

  1. Once you have completed your artifact, click on Add. Your attachment will be listed underneath Attachment(s) as shown.

The Attachments section showing a file upload area with a listed file titled Lesson Plan, Week 1, an Add Reflection link, and a Standards link showing not submitted.

  1. Continue in a similar fashion until you have attached all required artifacts for each sub-tab of the Field Experience Binder.

Note(s):

  • If you have previously created an artifact, it can be selected when attaching an artifact. Existing artifacts of the same type are located in the attachment sub-tab as shown. If you need to make revisions to a previously submitted artifact before attaching it to your current binder, please refer to the quick guide titled Making a Copy of an Existing Artifact

The Select Existing tab showing a table with a single item titled Lesson Plan, Week 1 and its creation date listed.

Selecting a Pre-Existing Artifact

  • If you are required to attach additional standards, click on the Standard(s) link for any artifact.

The Standards section showing a standards tree with buttons for add and delete, links for Select All, Expand All, and Collapse All, and the NCTM Standards for Middle Level Mathematics Teachers set expanded to display Standard 16 with three listed indicators.

Attaching Standards 

  • If you are required to complete reflections of your experience, click on the reflection form link for any artifact.

Adding/Removing an Attachment

The below video shows how to add/remove an attachment within a FE binder:

Submitting a Field Experience Binder

Depending on how your binder has been set up, you may have one due date for the whole binder, due dates for tabs or due dates for individual assignments.

Option 1: Submitting the Binder

  1. To open a Field Experience Binder, click on Home, then click on its title under the Pending Tasks section located in the center of your screen.
  2. Attachments can be edited prior to submission by clicking on the attachment title.
  3. From any binder tab, you can:
    • Save: save your work and return at a later time.
    • Submit: Submit the binder tabs for review. This will lock the binder so that you can no longer make edits. If you need to open your binder back up for editing, please refer to the section below titled Recalling a Submission or to the quick guide titled Recalling a Submitted Field Experience Binder
    • Close: exit the binder without saving any changes.

Option 2: Submitting a Tab

  1. To open a Field Experience Binder, click on Home, then click on its title under the Pending Tasks section located in the center of your screen.
  2. Attachments can be edited prior to submission by clicking on the attachment title.
  3. From any binder tab, you can:
    1. Save: save your work and return at a later time.
    2. Submit: submit one or more binder tabs for review, by checking the box next to the binder title and clicking Submit again. This will lock the submitted tab so that you can no longer make edits. If you need to open your tab back up for editing, please refer to the section below titled Recalling a Submission or to the quick guide titled Recalling a Submitted Field Experience Binder
    3. Close: exit the course binder without saving any changes.

The submission selection section showing three checkboxes under Student Teaching 1 with Lesson Plans selected, and Dispositions Self‑Assessment and Cooperating Teacher Evaluation unselected.

Option 3: Submitting an Assignment

  1. To open a Field Experience Binder, click on Home, then click on its title under the Pending Tasks section located in the center of your screen.
  2. Attachments can be edited prior to submission by clicking on the attachment title.
  3. From any binder tab, you can:
    1. Save: save your work and return at a later time.
    2. Submit: submit one or more assignments for review, by checking the box(es) next to the assignment title(s) and clicking Submit again. This will lock the submitted assignment so that you can no longer make edits. If you need to open your assignment back up for editing, please refer to the section below titled Recalling a Submission or to the quick guide titled Recalling a Submitted Field Experience Binder
    3. Close: exit the course binder without saving any changes.

The submission selection section for Student Teaching 2 showing Lesson Plans with three weekly lesson plan items listed, only the first item selectable, and the Dispositions Self‑Assessment area showing mid and post evaluations marked incomplete.

Recalling a Submission

  1. Log in to your server and click on the Field Experience tab.
  2. Place a checkmark next to the Field Experience Binder, then click Recall button.
  3. Choose which submission you want to recall by checking the appropriate box. Only submitted assignments will be available for recall.
  4. Click Recall.

Note(s): If you are unable to recall your field experience binder, you will need to contact an administrator for help in reopening your field experience binder for editing.

The recall submission section showing three checkboxes under Student Teaching 1 for Lesson Plans, Dispositions Self‑Assessment marked not submitted, and Cooperating Teacher Evaluation marked not submitted, with Recall and Cancel buttons at the bottom.

The below video shows how to Submit and Recall the FE Binder:

Reviewing Assessor Feedback

  1. Log in to your server and click on the Field Experience tab.
  2. Click on the Field Experience Binder you want to view.
  3. From the Assessment tab, you can view the scored assessment and your instructor's comments (if any).

The Assessment section showing two field experience form rows with each row listing the form title Early Childhood Teacher Candidate Dispositions Assessment: Final, the role column showing cooperating teacher and faculty, and the committee member column showing the assigned reviewers.

Assessment Tab

The Elementary Science Lesson Plan Rubric section showing Section III with a rubric row for Development, Learning, and Motivation. The rating options for Unacceptable, Acceptable, and Target appear, with the Target option selected and the score column displaying 3 with feedback text.

The section showing highlighted text in the document with an open comment box displaying the remark Consider revising this sentence and the commenter name below it.

Assessment Tool(s)

Click on the Assessment sub-tab to view your assessment(s).

Note(s): Your Performance Rating for each Criterion and comments from your instructor may appear in the Score column.

File Upload Comments

If you attached files to your assignment, your instructor may have left comments within the file. To review their comments:

  1. Click on the sub-tab containing your file.
  2. Click on the attachment title.
  3. Click on View next to your file to view any comments.
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