mathxl for school connected mathematics 3 lorie reilly: product manager, mathxl for school

MathXL for SchoolConnected Mathematics 3

Lorie Reilly: Product Manager, MathXL for School

CMP3 in MathXL for School

The role of MathXL for School in CMP3:

Supplemental skills practice and remediation

MXLS is not intended to replace the ACE homework or the

assessments in CMP3.

Two releases per year with new enhancements

• June (June 28, 2013)

• December (December 27, 2013)

Check the homepage of the site for more informationabout each release. ---

MathXL for Schoolwww.mathxlforschool.com

Grades 6-12

www.mathxl.com

Higher ed

CMP3 customers should be using MathXL for School, not MathXL. These are two different products.

Registration & authentication

1. Handled by SMS

2. Database of usernames is shared by SMS/RUMBA, so username must be unique across both systems

3. Your customers MUST use a different username for DASH and MXLS

IMPORTANT!!!

Registration requires an access codeThere’s a special access code for CMP3 users in NYC. All other customers use regular MathXL for School access codes.

New York City: Same code for all students

New York City: Same code for all teachers

Getting set up: Self registration and enrollment

Teacher registers with teacher access code

(username and password)

Teacher creates course

(course ID)

Student registers with:

•Student access code

•Email address

•School name & zip code

Teacher gives to students:

•Course ID

•MathXL for School student access code

•Username & password (optional)

Student logs in to mxls.com with username and password

and enrolls in teacher’s course with course ID

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Getting set up: Browser Check IT folks at the school will need to run the browser check to make sure the computer is ready for MXLS. If students are using the program at home, they will also need to run the browser check there.

Hands on: Let’s do teacher registration

1. Go to www.mathxlforschool.com

2. Click “Register.”

3. Do you have a Pearson Education account? Be sure to

say “No.”

4. Enter your access code.

5. Country, School zip code

6. “Other” for school name

7. Security Question

Hands on: Let’s create CMP3 course

Creating your CMP3 course

Name of CMP3 course in the pick list

Creating your CMP3 course: Settings available


Step 4 of course creation allows you to customize the table of contents of your course.

CMP3: Table of ContentsHow the table of contents looks in MathXL for School:

•All three grades in one course

•First chapter in each grade is prerequisite content for that grade

Grade 6

Grade 7

Grade 8

Pre-req content

No more than 350 students in one course, or gradebook performance will start to be impacted.

CMP3: Table of Contents

Prerequisite content for each grade:

Organized in one readiness chapter per grade by unit. The readiness chapter is the first chapter in each grade.

Example: Prerequisite content in grade 6

CMP3: Three grades in one courseAll three grades were included in one course so that instructors can select exercises from all three grades (including prerequisite material) when creating assignments for any grade.

CMP3: Customizing the TOC

When creating a course, all content for all three grades is selected by default.

Teachers can hide content when creating their course by deselecting what they don’t want.

Hidden content can be reinstated at any time.

CMP3: Hiding Content from the TOC

When you hide content, it is removed from:

•Sample tests and HW assignments (important part of CMP3 course)

•Study Plan

•Online testbank

CMP3: Common Core Standards

If teachers align their course to standards, they will then be able to view the course content by the table of contents or by standards.

Teachers can toggle between TOC and standards view.

Creating your CMP3 course

Select the standards from this drop down menu in order to align the course with the Common Core standards.

CMP3: Common Core Standards

Common Core State Standards

If selected when creating the course, these will be visible when:

•Editing course coverage

•Creating assignments

•Exporting student results by standard

•Viewing “Performance by Standard” in the gradebook

•Viewing item analysis for an assignment


Click “Save” to complete your course creation.

Course creation is complete

Record the Course ID. Students will need this to enroll in your course. Click the Course ID for a First-day-of-Class flyer

Hands on: Let’s do student registration

1. Go to www.mathxlforschool.com

2. Click “Register.”

3. Do you have a Pearson Education account? No.

4. Access code

5. Country, School zip code

6. “Other” for school name

7. Security Question

Hands on: Student Course Enrollment

1. Log in at www.mathxlforschool.com with your student credentials.

2. Enter Course ID for your CMP3 course.

3. Click “Enroll.”

CMP3 in MathXL for School comes loadedwith sample assignments for all three grades! (*sample = supplied by Pearson)

CMP3: Sample Assignments

Sample Assignments: Recommended Workflow

1. Copy sample assignments for a portion of the course (with auto-assign

due dates, if desired)

2. Organize the assignments in the order they should be presented to the

student (adjust due dates if necessary)

3. Personalize the HW assignments for each unit (This means associating

each practice assignment with its corresponding assessment.)

4. Check/adjust order and due dates for personalized assignments if

necessary.

5. Assign a small batch of assignments so that they are available to

studentsThe following slides walk through these steps.


Finding the sample assignments: The sample assignments are not visible in the “show all” view of the

HW/Test Mgr. Teachers must click “Homework” or “Quizzes & Tests” to see them

To see sample homework, click Homework, then select a unit to see practice

assignments available for that unit.

Select a unit here

Note: These assignments are not available to students unless the teacher copies and assigns them using the Actions drop down menu or the batch process shown in these slides.


To see sample assessments, click Quizzes and Tests. You will see all quizzes and

tests listed for the course.

Note: Once teachers create their own assignments, they will be listed at the top of the window here.

The sample assignments will then be listed BELOW the teacher-created assignments.

Note: Unlike homework, sample quizzes and tests are available to students by default. Teachers can click “Set Availability” to change this.

“Available” is different from “Assigned.” “Available” means that the assignments are available to the student with default settings, no due dates, and results will not be factored into the student's overall score. A teacher needs to copy and assign the assessment in order to set preferences, due dates, customize the student experience, and include results in a student’s overall score.

Teachers can batch copy and assign sample assignments rather than copying each one

individually. On the HW/Test Mgr page, click Create Assignment, then select “Copy and

Assign Sample Assignments.”


The first step of the batch process asks teachers if they would like MathXL to auto-assign

due dates to all of the assignments.

Yes distributes assignment due dates evenly across the timeframe specified by the teacher in this order:

Chapter 1: All HW

Chapter 1: All tests

Chapter 2: All HW

Chapter 2: All tests

ETC….

These dates can be adjusted afterwards.

No allows the teacher to manually assign due dates to the copied assignments—either individually or on a batch “change due dates” page.


On Step 2, sample assignments are listed by unit--homework is listed first then tests

for each unit. Teachers can use check boxes to select sample assignments to copy.


If the teacher selected Yes for auto-assigning due dates, Step 3 will ask them to specify a

date range and days of the week for assignments to be due.


The last step shows all assignments that have been selected with any auto-assigned due

dates. Teachers can assign them, change their names or due dates if desired, then click

“Copy” at the bottom of the screen to finish.

Note that when due dates are automatically assigned, the

assignment due dates are evenly spaced in this default order:

HW and then assessments in the first chapter, HW and then

assessments in the second chapter, and so on. Teachers can

change due dates on this screen to change this default

distribution. They can change the assignment order later on

the Reorder Assignments page. (The order of these

assignments in the student list is independent of due dates.)

If teachers don’t adjust

due dates here, they can

adjust them individually

or in a batch mode on

the Change Dates &

Assign Status page

later on.

Once sample assignments are copied, they appear in the top portion of the HW & Test Mgr page.

Note that assignments are listed in the HW/Test

Mgr and for students in this default order: HW

and then assessments in the first chapter, HW

and then assessments in the second chapter,

and so on.

HW in first

chapter

Tests in first

chapter

HW in second

chapter

Tests in second

chapter


CMP3: Reordering Assignments

Teachers can now change the order of how assignments will appear in the student’s

assignment list using the Reorder Assignments page. (Note that changing the due dates

does not change the list order.)

CMP3: Reordering Assignments

On the Reorder Assignments page, teachers can easily drag and drop assignments into the

order they’d like them listed for the students.

In this screenshot, the

assignments in unit 6-1

have been reordered so

they appear in the order

that students should work

through them rather than

by assignment type.

TIP 1: If the teacher assigns

due dates according to the

order in which she would

like the assignments

completed, she can then

come to this screen and

click on “End Date” to

reorder them automatically

by due date.

TIP 2: The teacher should be sure

to reorder personalized

assignment pairs so that the test

is first and the practice is second.

For example, the Unit 6-1

Readiness Assessment should

come before the Unit 6-1

Readiness Additional Practice.

A teacher can link a Readiness Assessment to a Readiness Additional Practice so that

the exercises in the Practice set are determined by the student’s performance on the

corresponding assessment for that unit. [Review assessments and practice sets can

also be linked in the same way.]

Start by selecting “Edit” from the Actions drop down menu for the practice assignment.

CMP3: Making Personalized Assignments

On Step 1 of the assignment editing wizard, check “Yes” to omit questions from objectives that are mastered by the student on the corresponding assessment.

Select the Unit 6-1 Readiness Assessment, then click Save or Save & Assign.

This pick list will show sample tests that the teacher has already copied.


After clicking Save on the previous screen, the teacher will see a dialog box about

question selection. Be sure to click “No” on this screen. (Clicking “Yes” will reduce

the number of exercises in the practice assignment.)

If the teacher clicks “Yes” by mistake, they can delete the assignment and re-copy the sample assignment to start over.


Check and adjust the order and due dates of the assignments.



Assign the first set of assignments to students.



Student View: After both assignments are made available to students, they will see

that the practice assignment has a prerequisite (indicated by the green flag).

CMP3: Personalized Assignments

Student View: Once the student has taken the test, the practice assignment is available (green

flag is gone).

CMP3: Personalized Assignments

Students can access the assignment directly from their test summary page. Exercises

available in the practice are determined by the test results.

Exercises are suppressed in the Practice if topics are “mastered” on the test. Note that the

definition of “mastery” can be modified by the teacher in the Study Plan Manager.

This student has some exercises suppressed in their Practice assignment because of their test performance.

Note that the suppressed questions have a green checkmark indicating that the student has already received credit for them based on their test performance. Those questions are not clickable from this page. If the student needs to access them, they can go the Results page and click the “Review” link for this assignment.

The default setting for mastery is “100%” for tests and quizzes. Instructors can

change this to any value. This setting will determine how many exercises associated

with a given topic a student must answer correctly on an assessment in order for

MathXL to suppress exercises from that topic in their personalized practice.

In this instance, the teacher has changed the mastery setting to

80% for tests and quizzes instead of 100%. This means that the

student must get 80% of the questions associated with an objective

correct before those exercises are eliminated from their Additional

Practice assignment.

CMP3: Mastery Settings

If You Need Help….

Product Web Site: www.mathxlforschool.com

Question Mark Icon

Teacher Bridge Page

Click on “Help” in upper nav bar of program

Teacher Bridge Page

Email your questions to:

• Amanda Abramovich (Exec. Product Mgr. MXLS)

• Lorie Reilly (Product Mgr. MXLS)

• Jackie Flynn (Marketing Mgr. MXLS)

Remember, when talking to teachers about CMP3 in MathXL for School, be sure to tell them about:

• The name of the course in the pick-list

• The structure of the course (ability to hide content if desired)

• Common Core Standards available

• Pearson-created assignments—over 300!—where to find them,

how to assign and organize them

• How to create personalized assignments using the Pearson-

created assignments

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