Overview of the SAS Portal Home Page
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The SAS Portal Home Page
- SAS Logo: The SAS logo, located in the upper-left hand corner of the page, will take you to the Home Page. Whenever you are in a different section of SAS and want to navigate back to the Home Page, just click on the SAS logo in the upper-left corner.
- SAS Featured Content: The Pennsylvania Teacher of the Year Program recognizes excellence in teaching by honoring K-12 teachers in public education who have made outstanding academic contributions to Pennsylvania's school-aged children.
- SAS Portal Site Updates: The SAS Portal Site Updates is a RSS feed that is located in the lower left of the homepage. The RSS feed provides notification of any changes to the SAS, the standards, current trainings, committee work requests, upcoming events, etc. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. Users can subscribe to the RSS feed that will automatically send an email notification as new information is posted on the SAS Portal. The Subscribe to RSS link, which is located to the bottom left below the SAS Portal Site Updates, allows users to subscribe.
- Site Registration: Registering for a SAS Account provides educators with access to a specialized group of Teacher Tools within the portal.
- Teachscape: The Pennsylvania Department of Education in partnership with Teachscape is offering online professional development related to Charlotte Danielson’s Framework for Teaching. In order to access the system to take this online training and to receive Act 48 credit, you must have a verified PPID in your SAS user profile.
- Student Learning Objectives: The Pennsylvania Department of Education has partnered with Research In Action (RIA) to provide the process, materials, and training for the creation and management of student learning objectives. From the RIA Homeroom site, you will be able to register and get access to the resources and tools for Student Learning Objectives.
- Upcoming Training and Events: This link provides access to a calendar of trainings and special events (e.g., the SAS Institute) provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Education.
- Site Statistics: Underneath the rotating image, informational items are displayed. The first bar indicates the number of registered users currently logged in to SAS. The second bar provides many more statistics.
- Teacher Tools: The Teacher Tools link is located in the upper-right corner of the page. It provides access to specialized tools that include My ePortfolio, My Website, My Communities, Curriculum Mapping, Professional Development (PD) Center and Publish Your Best. Each of these specific tools will be reviewed later in the training.
- Help: The SAS Portal Help Desk link (life preserver) is located in the upper-right corner of the page.
- FAQs: Frequently asked questions for each of the elements.
- Training Materials: Access to materials and information for the various SAS trainings.
- Contact Us: Contact the Help Desk via email or phone if a problem is encountered, to provide a suggestion for improvement or to report bad links.
- Footer Menu: The Footer Menu is the black area that runs along the bottom of the page:
- About SAS: Information contained at this site include PreK-3 information, and related SAS materials, resources and templates
- Contact Us: Contact the Help Desk via email or phone if a problem is encountered, to provide a suggestion for improvement or to report bad links.
- FAQs: Frequently asked questions for each of the elements.