Assigning Activities Based on Dashboard Data
Our adaptive programs automatically present each student with the most appropriate activities and at the right level of difficulty based on their demonstrated skills. Our Educator Center empowers teachers to also Assign Skills for students to work on within the programs. Additionally, our Usage and Progress dashboards can provide insights into student usage and progress to help inform your instruction and even offer you action items and recommended classroom activities (outside of their program usage) for each student, or groups of students who need additional support on the same standards and skills.
If you are interested in assigning homework, our recommendation is to encourage your students to use the programs for X number of minutes per day at home (whatever you think is the right amount for their age and ability). This extra usage at home not only counts towards each student’s weekly usage goal on your Usage Dashboard (where you will see At Home use tracked separately), it will help them develop more skills that will show up on the Progress Dashboard. This at-home work can be regular program usage or specific skills that you have assigned.
Usage Dashboard
When you click on the Educator Center’s Dashboards menu and then click Usage from the drop-down, you can scroll down the dashboard page and click on any student name. A new Student Stats window will open offering you a range of student data that includes:
- Usage this week (in minutes) and whether the student is on track to meet the weekly goal
- Weekly and Monthly usage that includes At School, After School, and At Home usage
- Action items highlighting skills where the student needs additional support
- Recommended activities to target gaps in the student’s understanding
- Take Action: click the View More link for offline activities, including printables, that target areas of need for each student, along with teacher tips
Progress Dashboard
Click Dashboards and then Progress from the drop-down and you’ll see a chart with all your students and the number of skills that they are currently In Progress with, along with those that the student Needs Support with.
Click any of the orange dots for links to the skills the student needs extra help with. Click any of those links and you'll open a new window showing you all the state standards associated with the skill and a game from My Reading Academy or My Math Academy that teaches the skill. At the bottom of that window, click the blue button labeled Making Data Actionable with Recommended Activities. (This is not available for every skill at this time.)
A new Recommended Activity window will open displaying various offline classroom activities for you. These include printables targeting the areas of need for each student. Additionally, the window provides teacher Success Strategies and English Learner Support. The example below shows how you could assign two students to work on Completing counting sequences for numerals 1-5 in a partner activity to support that skill.