Guide to Packet Numbering

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Last Updated: January 2025

Intended Audience: Schools Ops & CAT teams

Context: The article below details how to enter Packet Numbers, along with best practices. 

 

1. Assign a unique (within the curriculum) packet number

  • Note: if a packet was recalled and re-entered, you can re-use the same packet number
  • If the packet number is not unique, you will receive a warning message about duplicates:not unique.png

2. Format must be X.X, up to 7 total characters including the period.

3. The following are best practices:

    • Packet numbers should closely follow numbering conventions used in pacing calendars.
    • Exit tickets/classwork packets should start with the unit number, then the period, then the lesson number.
      • For example, Unit 2 Lesson 7 would have the number 2.7
    • All assessments should start with the number “0” before the period (assuming no curriculum materials would use this number), and an appropriate abbreviation for the assessment.
      • Two reasons for this:
      • Assessments, which are likely to be viewed by the most people, will filter to the top of the packet list
      • This enables us to easily tell which packets are assessments (versus exit tickets), for example when filtering a long packet list.

Packet Examples

Suggested Packet Names*

Suggested Packet Numbers

PP Quiz Week 14

Quiz: Linear Relationships

0.PP14

ELA.05.IAMS.N01.21-22.NJ

Interim Assessment 1

0.IA1

ELA.05.IAMS.N01.21-22.NJ Scratch Paper

IA1 Scratch Paper

0.IA1s

Week 29 SGI Info Quiz

SGI Info Quiz: [passage name]

0.SGI29

Math Unit Assessment 4/8/20

Unit Assessment: Systems of Equations

0.U5 or 5.XX

(e.g. if assessment is considered more like an exit ticket, use unit & lesson number)

Unit 5, Lesson 1: Area of a Triangle

Intro: Finding Area of a Triangle

5.1

The Tyger [if a multi-day lesson]

The Tyger, Day 2

X.XX [Unit & Lesson Number]

*See Packet Naming Guidelines

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