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Okay...so you've found the schools.shmoop homepage, but you've gotten a little tired of staring blankly at those login boxes, and would rather be inside, you know...shmooping stuff. We hear your cry.
Transcript
- 00:03
It’s not always an easy task to nail down your students’ trouble spots… [Hammer hitting a nail smashes the wall]
- 00:07
…but Shmoop’s RTI tools make it a snap to pinpoint individual strengths and weaknesses… [Teacher holding a sci fi gun that says RTI]
- 00:12
…and help you target instruction in your classroom. [Targeting system showing students strengths and weaknesses]
- 00:15
First off, in “Let’s Conquer ELA”…to get their brains all geared up for the test,
- 00:19
students can hone their skills by taking diagnostics… [Student using the Shmoop website]
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- 00:21
…which are attached to each standard.
- 00:23
Once a student has taken a diagnostic, you can see their current progress, and the suggested [Arrow points to the current progress bar]
- 00:29
practice material here, in orange.
- 00:31
If you click “See more,” you can observe at a glance the areas they might need to brush
- 00:35
up on.
- 00:36
Students can click on the blue “Watch Video” button to see a video walkthrough that provides
- 00:40
help on a given skill…
- 00:41
…or they can click on the “Practice Now” button to be bombarded with practice
- 00:45
problem opportunities.
- 00:47
Students will have the option to be given hints in the practice problems.
- 00:49
However, they’ll need to get a certain number of questions correct all by their lonesome [Student going through the questions]
- 00:54
in order to achieve mastery…
- 00:55
…so it won’t help them to go too hint-crazy. [Student looks disappointed]
- 00:58
To master a concept, they’ll need to get three easy questions right in a row, then
- 01:02
three medium questions right in a row, and finally three hard questions right in a row. [Arrow points to the different question difficulties]
- 01:06
Any misstep, and they’ll be bounced back to the beginning of that difficulty level.
- 01:10
So that’s the program. [Teacher holding a smoking gun]
- 01:12
Now…how do you see and use all of the user data on the back end?
- 01:15
Well, let’s head on over to your Classroom.
- 01:16
You can either home in on the status of individual students, or see how your class [Teacher using the class page]
- 01:21
is doing on the whole.
- 01:22
Let’s start by clicking “Individual Students”…ah, there we go.
- 01:25
We can check out this student’s progress mastery and current progress
- 01:28
…filter to show their progress over certain time periods, or by standard…
- 01:32
…download a CSV…
- 01:33
…or see completed diagnostics.
- 01:35
You can see at a glance what grade level they’re
- 01:36
performing at on each concept, so you know where you’ll need to work to bring them
- 01:40
up to speed.
- 01:41
By checking out the class averages, you’ll get a bigger picture vision of where your [Website shows the all the class students progress]
- 01:43
class is struggling, so you can efficiently serve your entire student population.
- 01:47
Any questions, complaints, backhanded compliments?
- 01:49
Hit us up at support@shmoop.com. [Targeting system aims at the blackboard and an explosion goes off]
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