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New Users: Distance Learning and ASSISTments

GOAL: Viewers will be able to follow the 4 steps of

ASSISTments to support distance learning

Agenda:

1) Overview of the 4 steps of ASSISTments 2) Demo of ASSISTments 3) Distance Learning Ideas

Goals & Agenda

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Overview of ASSISTments

➔ A free web-based tool that allows you to assign practice problems in math ➔ Typically used to assign homework ➔ Requires Google Classroom ➔ Offers a library of content including curricula like Illustrative Math and Open Up Resources, state test practice and skill-building problem sets ➔ Designed to be used as an enhancement to your core curriculum

What is ASSISTments?

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Who Uses ASSISTments?

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How ASSISTments Works

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Content Variety in ASSISTments

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OER For Example: Text Books For Example: Skill Builders

Additional content includes:

• Released state test questions
• Practice problems organized by common core standard

And of course, you can always build your own!

Step 1: Create assignments

Creating assignments is quick and easy

Create an assignment

1) Start at www.assistments.org and click “Explore Content”. 2) Find the curriculum you want to explore. 3) Click on “Assign to Google Classroom”

Step 2: Assist students through immediate feedback

Students get feedback as they work through assignments

What the student sees in Google Classroom

1) The assignment appearing in Classwork and Stream 2) Link taking students to ASSISTments 3) The Student view in ASSISTments 4) As students work through the problems they get feedback

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What the student sees in ASSISTments

1) Their status as they work 2) The question 3) Their current score on the problem

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Students receive immediate feedback

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Step 3: Assess class performance

Students and teachers can view the outcome of assignments to gain useful information

Accessing the Assignment Report

1) The assignment report shows you how each student did on the assignment 2) Click on The ASSISTments link

• n your Google Classroom

page to view 3) Note it will not have any student data until students enroll in the google classroom class and complete the assignment

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The Assignment Report

For each assigned problem, columns show:

• The class score
• Common wrong answers
• The correct answer
• Student answer feedback

Rows show students details:

• Individual student score
• Individual problem

information

• Total time taken
• Details Report

Student 1 Student 2 Student 3 Student 4 Question 1a Question 1b Question 2a Question 2b Question 3

Symbols in the report give you details on how each student did:

1) Correct on first attempt, no hint used. Full credit. 2) Correct on 2nd or 3rd try OR hints used. Received partial credit. 3) Correct after 3rd try OR all hints used. No partial credit. 4) Answer shown. No partial credit.

Step 4: Analyze answers together

Make sense of answers together

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❏ Share data with students. ❏ Celebrate successes! ❏ Find common wrong answers. ❏ Review low scoring problems. ❏ Group students to figure out how to get a common wrong answer to a problem that scored low in ASSISTments.

Distance Learning Ideas

Ideas for Distance Learning

Ideas for analyzing answers asynchronously

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Take a screenshot of the anonymized report, send it out and have students write a notice and wonder about it.

Ideas for analyzing answers asynchronously

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Choose a problem with a common wrong answer. Have students write about how to get that answer, why it is wrong, and how to remedy the error.

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Send comments or email individual students in an assignment via the Student Work tab.

Ideas for analyzing answers asynchronously

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Make a screencastify video of you reviewing an anonymized report, post it on Google Classroom and have students respond in the comment section.

You can use Screencastify to make free videos in Chrome. Just download the Add-On into your browser using this link to the Google app store.

Ideas for analyzing answers asynchronously

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Meet with your class and share the Assignment Report on a Zoom call!

• Ask students what they notice

and wonder about the report

• Review and discuss the problems

where students struggled the most.

• Discuss common wrong answers
• Show and discuss open response

answers from students

Ideas for analyzing answers asynchronously

Help your students get started

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➔ Let students know you’re there to help and monitor their progress! ➔ Set expectations and communicate scoring guidelines with your classes (and their parents) ➔ Know it will take few assignments before you and your students are comfortable ➔ Be proactive in reaching out to students who are not doing the work (“gaming”,

• r taking too much or too

little time).

We are regularly updating the Distance Learning Help Center

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...and have additional resources available on our website

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Connect with

• ther users for

support

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JOIN TODAY!

Still have questions?

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Visit our website: www.assistments.org Email us: contact@assistments.org