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Welcome- Getting Started.

• Make a student account in ASSISTment School. • Enroll in Mrs. Heffernan’s August 19th class.• Start doing the assignments from the top down.

• GET AT LEAST HALF THE QUESTIONS WRONG!.

• When you do get them wrong take a look at the tutoring. Learn what it is like for the kids who get the questions wrong.

The Jetson’s school must have had ASSISTments

• Teachers could efficiently give benchmark assessments so students received feedback instantly while teachers collect data they can use to help plan lessons.

• Parents receive notes directly related to student performance on individual problems.

• Students do all their homework online so they do not have to wait until the next day to “go over” the work and get help.

• Students get automatic reassessment on skills they showed mastery in.

What we will cover today

Issues we can cover today

The Basics

Our Content.

Examples of Use

• Skill Builders

• ARRS

• Benchmarks

• MCAS Help

• Book Work

Student 1• Student 1 made a calculation error.

Student 1 Corrections

Student 2

• Student 2 had no idea how to do the problem.

Student 2 Corrections

Student 3• Student 3 demonstrated no

understanding of how to solve the problem.

Student 3 Corrections

What is left on the Agenda

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Review ARRS

• Assign Mastery Learning Problem Sets to a separate class.

• Toggle Settings to ARRS and decide on your settings.

• Set due dates for the Mastery Learning Problem Sets to release.

• Explain things to the students and look at the reports together to make sure everyone is going OK.

What is left on the Agenda

Parent Notification

• Turn it on and add a sample e-mail.

• This is permanent so be sure to add the e-mail to a sample student.

• There are two ways to send messages.

–From your message center

–From an item report

What is left on the Agenda

Essay Critique

•You did an essay question this AM.

•Let’s see how a teacher deals with those essays.

What is left on the Agenda

Explore the Builder

• Lets Build a problem Together.

• On the wiki I have added a homework from CMP.

• Watch what I do as a CMP builder. You can do the same thing for your book.

• Add Tutoring.

• Put it in a problem set and assign it.

• In the problem set you can have Test Mode or Tutoring.

Join our Community

What is next Give it a try!• Develop a simple routine

• Work with a partner teacher so you can plan and trouble shoot together.

• I can come down on your first or second day to help out in the lab.

• Join our ASSISTments Google group so you are not alone in this exciting endeavor.

• Get the students involved in the data let them tell you what it tells the class to do next.

Teacher WIKI

Destination for information on ASSISTments

Development Team

Former Graduate and Undergraduate Students

WPI and Faculty and Staff

Current Students