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
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If the packet number is not unique, you will receive a warning message about duplicates:
2. Format must be X.X, up to 7 total characters including the period.
3. The following are best practices:
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- Packet numbers should closely follow numbering conventions used in pacing calendars.
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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
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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] |
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