There's no switch that applies a standards set to every teacher at once. Standards are chosen per planbook, by the teacher who owns it.
That's deliberate — a school rarely teaches to one set. Your elementary staff, your maths department and your specialists often need different frameworks.
So consistency comes from telling teachers what to select, and then checking.
Tell teachers exactly what to turn on
At the start of the year, send staff the specific sets to enable — by name, not "our state standards". Point them at Choose your standards set; it's a four-click job.
If your district uses a framework that isn't built in, decide centrally how to handle it rather than letting thirty teachers each type their own version:
- One person creates a custom set and shares it with the group. When creating standards there's an option to share with your school or district group — that's what it's for.
- Everyone else enables Custom and picks up the shared set, rather than retyping it.
This matters more than it sounds. Thirty hand-typed versions of the same framework produce thirty sets of codes that don't match, and reporting across the group becomes meaningless.
You can also ask us to add a standards set — send a link to the official document.
Checking coverage
From the administrator dashboard, open Teachers and click Standards next to any teacher.
You'll see which standards they've covered so far, in the same form as standards reporting.
This is per teacher rather than aggregated across the group, so it suits spot-checking and one-to-one conversations rather than a district-wide report.
Be realistic about what tagging costs
Tagging every lesson is real work for teachers, and a mandate to do it without a use for the data tends to produce tagging that's technically complete and practically meaningless.
If you're asking for it, be clear what it's for — evidence for an accreditation visit, checking pacing, a conversation in an evaluation — and check it, so the effort visibly matters.