The App for Families
A Closer Look at the App:
The Home Dashboard
The top page of the Home Dashboard displays the total number questions answered in the last assessment as well as the grade levels of those questions. Correct and incorrect answers at each grade level are displayed as a ratio.
Click the top page of the home dashboard, and the dashboards for each domain, reading, writing, and math, open out to a horizontal scrollable carousel.
Scroll down to view the dashboards for additional students.
The Content Dashboards
Each content dashboard shows the growth standards for each student based on the most recent assessment. Growth standards are areas where a student does not have mastery. Growth standards might be on, at, or above a student’s actual grade level. Students results are graphed over time to see growth, decline, or a plateau in student performance.
Click on each past assessment date to see past Growth Standards.
This math content dashboard shows two standards where the student lacks mastery yet based on their most recent assessment: (1) Word problems involving multiplication and division and (2) Representing fractions on a number line. The graph illustrates the student’s assessment history.
This reading content dashboard shows two standards where the student lacks mastery based on their most recent assessment: (1) Spelling patterns that must be learned and (2) Synthesizing different information from two texts on the same topic.
This writing content dashboard shows two standards where the student lacks mastery based on the most recent assessment: (1) Using basic transition words and (2) Illustrating character reactions in a variety of ways.
The Challenge Dashboard Carousel
The Daily Challenge dashboard contains three scrollable carousels for math, reading, and writing. Each tile in the carousel is a clickable activity the learning path created based on assessment results. Click each tile to see the challenge for that day. Click the star when it is completed.
Scrolling down will reveal the learning path carousels for other students on the account.
Although called “Daily Challenges” please do them at a pace that works for your family. But, we would recommend one challenge a day, to build a positive habit of doing just a little bit of learning work with your students everyday
The Example Challenges
Click each blue tile in the Daily Challenge carousel to reveal each challenge. Challenges are short standards aligned activities that should take no more than 10 minutes, likely less. Challenges include tips on how to help your student think through the challenge. Tips will help parents break down ideas to their student’s level of understanding and focus their student’s thinking towards mastering each standard, just like a teacher.
This challenge supports the CCSS 3rd grade standard W.3.1.C Use linking words and phrases (e,g., because, therefore, since, for example) to connect opinion and reasons.
This challenge supports the CCSS 4th Grade Math Standard for Measurement and Data 4.MD.B.4 Recognize angles as geometric shapes that are formed wherever two rays share a common endpoint, and understand concepts of angle measurement.
This challenge supports the 4th grade CCSS Reading Informational Text Standard RI.4.1 Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
The Assessment Dashboard
The 20-30 minute assessment is adaptive, meaning it gets easier or harder based on correct or incorrect responses. The number of questions a student completes in 20-30 minutes will vary, and students will be prompted to reassess when their learning path is completed.
The assessment for younger students will be 20 minutes, while the assessment for older students will be 20 minutes.
Families of very young students can and should do the assessments somewhat together.
This second grade Informational Reading question is aligned to the standard: Explain how specific images contribute to and clarify a text.
This 6th grade math assessment question is about understanding ratios and proportions using content specific vocabulary to describe the relationship between two qualities.