 ITT is charged with developing the curriculum component of the FCPS Instructional Management System, NCS' ABACUSxp. ABACUSxp provides online curriculum and assessments, tracking of student mastery, and resources aligned to the FCPS curriculum.
InteGradePro is a gradebook, which allows teachers to record student's scores, missing assignments, and calculate grades. It provides multiple built-in reports that allow teachers to analyze student performance.
 FCPS 24-7 Learning is an online resource that allows FCPS to extend learning beyond the traditional school day and beyond school facilities. In December, Blackboard, Inc. was awarded a multi-year contract to continue supporting Fairfax County Public School’s FCPS 24-7 Learning online learning capability.
Thousands of teachers are currently using FCPS 24-7 Learning to provide access to homework and classroom assignments, class calendars, access to links that provide valuable enrichment activities, and much more for more than 50,000 students and their parents.
 School Based Technology Specialists Training
ITT provides training and technical support for School Based Technology Specialists. Training materials developed by ITT support central initiatives and are provided to School Based Technology Specialists for turn around training in their assigned schools. Technical support is provided in coordination with other central offices.
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CLASSxp is a program, which automates the process of taking class attendance.
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 NCS ABACUSxp is an instructional management system that allows FCPS to manage curriculum, student assessment, instructional resources, and student performance results. This software helps align FCPS’ curriculum to state standards, automatically generates tests, analyzes test items, and accurately uses rubric scores.
 Funds provided to the Virginia Department of Education through the No Child Left Behind Act were awarded in the form of eight regional consortium grants. ITT represents FCPS as a member of the North Technology Education Integration Region Consortium and manages all aspects of the grant for FCPS. The primary goal of the grant is to provide high quality professional development for classroom technology integration. ITT works with consortium member schools as well as internal organizations to create and implement data driven staff development opportunities. The grant will provide the North TIER Consortium with up to 1 million in funding per year for five years.
Academy Technology Courses
The Office of Instructional Technology Services/ISD (OITS) sponsors many courses in the FCPS Academy catalog that are intended to help teachers effectively use of the available technology in the classroom. Since technology and its application in the classroom change rapidly, it is necessary to revise these courses on a regular basis.
OITS continues to create a continuum of courses that helps teachers integrate technology into their instruction. OITS hires experienced trainers to create the course agendas, write and adapt course materials and help establish procedures for qualifying instructors. A partial list of the courses can be found at http://www.fcps.edu/dis/OITS/techtraining/. These courses are offered as both advertised and non-advertised courses.
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