Strategies

A strategy is a custom tag that district users and curriculum owners can create for teachers and other curriculum-based users to apply to lessons and preps. For example, a teacher might tag a lesson with a strategy to indicate that they applied certain accommodations, instructional strategies, or technology.

Beacon organizes strategies into color-coded categories to better assist users in finding and applying certain types of strategies or to quickly identify lessons by the strategies with which they are tagged. For example, a “Technology” category might include strategies such as “online course,” “app game,” or “electronic whiteboard.”

List of educational strategies with options for editing and adding new categories.

#	Field	Description
1	New Category	Opens a window where you can enter a title and select a color to apply to a new category.
2	Edit Category	Opens a window where you can edit the title and color of an existing category. You can also delete the category from this window if necessary.
3	Expand / Collapse Category	Shows or hides the strategies listed under the category. Expanding and collapsing categories helps you easily locate certain strategies when you have a long list of strategies in each category.
4	Edit Strategy	Opens a window where you can edit the title of an existing strategy. You can also delete the strategy from this window if necessary.
5	Activate / Deactivate Strategy	Activates or deactivates the strategy. When the toggle is blue, the strategy is active. Teachers can add the strategy to their lessons and preps. When the toggle is gray the strategy is inactive and cannot be used.
6	New Strategy	Opens a window where you can enter a title to create a new strategy.