How can I see groups of students who need support on the same skills and standards?

The Progress Dashboards offers a number of ways to identify individuals and groups of students who need additional support for specific skills and standards. This article will cover a popular Dashboard feature that helps teachers target groups of students who need support on the same standards and skills and offer lessons to effectively and efficiently address those needs in the classroom. 

1. Log in to your Educator Center account with your email address and password (or using ClassLink or Clever).
   
   
   
   
2. Click the Dashboards menu at the top of the page, and select Progress from the drop-down.
   
   
   
   
3. The default view for all Dashboards is to show data for This Week (you'll see that tab highlighted blue). In the chart on that page, you can get a quick snapshot of students who need support (all the orange circles). Click on the Overall tab. 
   
   
   
   
4. Now you'll see a much more robust dataset. But before you scroll down, make sure you have the dashboard set up to show you just what you want. The Overall and Skills by Standards tabs should be highlighted. Click the drop-down that says Select a Standard Set and choose the standards your organization uses (Common Core, Florida's B.E.S.T, TEKS, etc). 
   
   
   
   
5. After you set your Standards, you will see a new drop-down that lets you Select a Grade (if you want to).
   
   
   
   
6. Now scroll down to see the data. As on the This Week view, you'll see a quick (but much more detailed) snapshot of student progress, with colored circles representing the status of each student on each standard. 
   
   Click on any of the standards domains (Counting & Cardinality, Geometry, Measurement & Data, etc.) to see the standards within the domain and find the one you are interested in. You can use the Search box below the Skills by Standards tab if you know the Code of the Standard you are looking for. Or you might want to look through the chart for standards that show a lot of orange circles indicating students need support.
   
   
   
   
7. In our demo account, there were a lot of Needs Support orange circles for CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.A.3, so we clicked the blue Group Support button for that Common Core standard.
   
   
   
   
8. You will now see a large pop-up window for the standard you selected. At the top of the window, your students are grouped by their progress status. The second category, with the orange circles, is Needs Support, and we have 6 students in that category who could benefit from some additional classroom practice. There will be a long list of Recommended Activities to develop skills for this standard just below the Students Status section. Click on any of these to view all the details. We'll click on Count up to 10 objects ...
   
   
   
   
9. In most cases, you will see an MMA game that targets this skill, and you can click to see and hear it. You will also see a Group Activity we've selected for these students (or click the One-on-One Activity tab if you want to work with an individual student). Look over the activity, and if it sounds like something you'd like to do, click the Download link to download PDFs for the activity. 
   
   
   
   
10. There are typically one or two related activities (separate PDFs), plus some supplemental materials that will download in one compressed zip file. Double-click to open the compressed folder file, and then click into the folder to see the PDF files.
    
    
11. You may also want to click on the English Language Supports and Success Skills drop-downs to see how you can enhance the lessons even more.