DDtrac User Guide is continuously expanding the number of pages it has to explain how to use the DDtrac software. This documentation is written our developers and by the user community — including you!
Learn by doing! - look things up on this site and then try them out! Often the hardest thing to do is to Start.
Other ways to learn
- Complete the tutorials (e.g. Getting Started).
- Read the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs).
- Read the News & Tips Blog to get information on new features and DDtrac best practices. Or better yet, subscribe to the RSS feed for the blog and get updates automatically!
- If all of the above isn't working, and your attempts to Get Help have failed, please contact us with any questions!
Remember: DDtrac becomes more and more valuable the more data you add to it - so get started taking data right away!
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Getting Started
The DDtrac Software is student centered. This means to do anything in the program you need to have students, sites and users set-up first. To use DDtrac you need to follow the following steps:
- If you purchased a multi-site licence (e.g. for more than one school) your DDtrac administrator will need to define the sites where student data will be collected (See Manage Sites).
- Note: Even if you purchase a single student license or a single school license your DDtrac administrator will still need to go to Manage Sites to define the Locations for your site. These locations are the places where student behavior episodes occur (e.g. classroom, playground) and can be tailored for and site (school, home , clinic).
- Next your DDtrac administrator can add either users or students (See Manage Users and Manage Students. To do this they input the first name, last name and site where the user/student is located. The site administrator can assign users to students or students to users on the same page where they define input the user/student data.
- To take data for a student you need to define what the data is being taken for. Any user with "Edit" permission for a student can create the Instructional Goals, Social Goals, Behavior Goals or Add Behaviors-Triggers tracked for that student.
- Defining Instructional Goals: Try the Quick Start Goal Creator to create new goals FAST. Then go back in later and add detail to the goals using the Edit Existing Goals.
- Once goals and objectives are defined any user with "Edit" or "Data Entry" permission for a student can log in and take data for that student (See Data Entry).
- Parents that have been granted "Read" permission for their child can also log in and see the data that has been taken, read the comments and reply to comments made by the teacher/therapist online.
If you need more help:
- Don't Panic!
- Please contact us with any questions!
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