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Guest Post-Tara Runaas with IXL and its use in your classroom

Many teachers are using IXL in their classrooms, however, what are you doing with the results of what your students are doing?  Did you know that there is a way to drill down and see what your students level is within each domain? Did you know that you can look on your account to see what your students are working on at the moment?  Do you know what the Smartscore really is? Do you know that you can ability group your students and assign certain skills? If this intrigues you, please reach out to me as I’m very willing to share this information with you.  Below is an outline of a meeting I held at the elementary level. I would love to come visit and show you what this program can really do!


Continuous Diagnostic
  • What is it?
  • What does it do?
  • How do the students get there?
  • Choose ELA/Math or both
  • What to do with the information when you have it.

Real-time Analytics
  • Shows who is logged in
  • Shows if they are actively learning
  • Shows what skills they are in
  • Groups kids by what they are getting wrong

Smartscore
  • What is it?
  • What isn’t it?
  • Setting a goal.
  • Make it motivating.

Finding and assigning skills
  • Standards Alignment
  • Skill Plans
  • Gade and Topic view
  • Hover over star
  • Making classes (roster, class, assign)

Recommendations

  • Shows different skills and where the students are at in that skill.
  • Can help the teacher hone in on a specific skill.
  • Easy to assign.

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