How do I introduce students to Classworks?

Provide students with clear expectations, dedicated time, and modeling or support. Read on for examples!

Materials Required

Understand how your students are logging into Classworks

Single Sign On credentials and devices

• Appropriate devices or single sign-on credentials

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Usernames and Passwords

• Student Roster report listing all students (with their username and password) for each class that will use Classworks
• Login card for each student - available with the roster report

Student Orientation Video

Why Classworks?

Communicate the purpose behind why the school is having them work in Classworks. Sample explanations are included below for communicating with different groups of students.

Elementary Students

This year, you will get to use Classworks to practice your math and reading skills using fun games and activities on your computer (insert technology of choice). Classworks helps you learn while having fun with technology! And, if you don't understand what you're learning the first time, Classworks will give you different lessons to help you practice until you get it! (Grades 1 - 5)

Classworks starts you off with a mini-lesson that introduces or reviews a skill with you. Read your mini-lesson carefully! It will help you to do well in your activities. When you finish, Classworks will give you a short quiz. This helps me to know whether or not you understand what the lesson taught you. I expect you to put forth your best effort and have fun!

Middle/High School Students

This year, we will use Classworks to help you be successful and feel good about your performance in math and language arts. What's Classworks? It's an online math and language arts program with lessons, games, and activities to help you gain a deeper understanding of what you are learning in class.

You can work at your own pace so that you are successful in mastering skills that you personally need more practice on. Even better, Classworks allows us to work together to check on your progress every step of the way. If you're having a hard time with a concept, we can address it immediately. Classworks practice includes games and other activities that offer a review of specific skills, practice, and then a short quiz at the end. You can see your progress immediately. I'm excited to work with you using Classworks to help you achieve success!

Topics and Tasks to Model for your Students

Teach your students how to:

• Access Classworks from a school device
• Log in to their specific student dashboard
• Navigate the cards on their Student Dashboard
• Log out of Classworks
• Reading/Math Choose, complete, and exit an assessment and/or an assignment
  • Begin a Screening Assessment, or review assessment results
  • Find and understand My Progress results
  • Complete an assignment from their Learning Path (ILP)
    • Review the Monthly Scores earned on their Learning Path
  • Find and understand My Mastery Check results
  • My Teacher Assigned - monitor and complete work assigned by their teacher

Resources and options for modeling each of these tasks are included in separate sections below.

Access Classworks

Have your students double-click on the Classworks icon on their device or navigate to where your district/school posted the URL.

Login

Single-Sign-On: Direct students to the Classworks database and have them click "Sign on with Google" or "Sign on with Microsoft" and then enter their credentials if prompted.

Usernames and Passwords: Distribute the Login Cards with the username and password that you retrieved from the Student Roster Report. To log in to Classworks, they must enter:

Username

• This was assigned by a school administrator
• Limited to 20 alphanumeric characters

Password

• This was assigned by a school administrator
• Case sensitive
• Minimum of 6 alphanumeric characters

Student Dashboard

Once students have signed in, their student dashboard will display

• Five options are displayed: Reading, Math, Science, My Wellness, and My SMART Tracker
  • These are the cards where students will spend most of their time.
  • They complete the Assessments, Progress Monitoring, or Mastery Measurement Probes and work on their Learning Paths and Teacher-Assigned Tasks
• The "Call to Action" star may appear and guide students to where they should begin
• Select their first and last initials in the top right corner to log out

Reading and Mathematics

My Screener

• Clicking "English" will take the student to a screen where they view their previous results and can take the current Universal Screener
• Some students may also see "Espanol" if a staff member has enabled the Spanish language version of the Universal Screener

My Progress Check

• Students with an active Progress Monitoring session click "View" to review their recent performance and complete their weekly CBM probe

My Learning Path

• Students click the "play" button to start working on the Learning Path

Resources listed along the left side of the screen are available to assist students as they work their Learning Path:

• Help and Support - how to use the instruction and tools
• Wittly by Classworks^TM - Classworks AI-powered learning assistant
• Dictionary Tool - check what a word means
• Note Keeper Tool - take notes to help you with the skill
• Calculator Tool - a quick four-function calculator
• Number Line Tool - a positive and negative number line
• Hundreds Grid Tool - see how numbers work in sequence

My Monthly Scores

• Students review their monthly performance from the table on this screen
• Clicking on a bar next to a specific month lets the student review their performance during that month

My Teacher Assigned

• Students click "View" to access assignments or assessments that have been assigned by a teacher

Logout

• Demonstrate how to log out of Classworks (by clicking Log Out located in the drop-down next to their name in the top-right corner of the window).
• Have them log out of Classworks.
• If a student is logged into Classworks but is NOT in an activity, the student will be logged out automatically after 30 minutes of inactivity.
• If a student is in an activity, Classworks will NOT log them out. Time-on-task will continue to accumulate. Therefore, it is very important that a student exits correctly at the end of each session.

My SMART Tracker

• SMART Tracker allows students to create and manage their current goals

Science

• Clicking Science will guide students to teacher-assigned work in this content area

Enabling/Disabling Student Resources

• Students' resources are managed from the Student Detail Screen
• Click on a student's name and then select "Student Settings"
• Learn more about Audio Support and Accessibility Features for the Universal Screener
• Learn more about Wittly by Classworks^TM Learning Assistant