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Woot Math, Google Classroom, and/or Clever Student Rosters and Assignments

Woot Math supports setting up your classes and student rosters in one of three ways:

  1. Woot Math rosters
  2. Google Classroom rosters
  3. Clever rosters

Which roster system should I use?

The choice of which rostering system to use is up to your district, your school, or you, depending on your situation. Woot Math can support all three (even at the same time, although see below for concerns around that). If you are unsure which to use, please check with your tech coordinator in your building.

How do I know which rostering system(s) I’m using?

From the teacher dashboard, click on the More drop-down menu, and then select Manage Classes and Rosters. The names and which rostering system you are using is displayed for each class. You can also go to the assignments page, where all of your classes are listed. You can click each class name to see which assignments you have assigned to which class.

Why aren’t my student assignments showing up?

When teachers or students have issues with assignments not showing up, and they are using more than one rostering system, it often causes confusion, since it is easy to use the wrong one (either for teachers or students).

If you have connected more than one rostering system, and your student assignments are not showing up, this is because either your students are logging into Woot Math with the wrong student account, or you have assigned your students’ work to the wrong account. In either case, you should choose a roster system, and always use that one. You should also make sure your students know to use the same rostering system.

Are student accounts different for each rostering system?

Yes! This is the cause of the problem. If a Woot Math roster is used, then Woot Math is the owner of the student account, and all associated data (login information, student work, etc). If a Google Classroom roster is used, then Google Classroom is the owner of the student account, and all associated data. If Clever is used, then Clever is the owner of the student account, and all associated data.

Can I transfer student data from one rostering system to another?

Unfortunately, Woot Math does not support transferring student data from one rostering system to another.

What should I do if I have student data in one rostering system, but want to change to another one?

You have two choices in this case.

  1. You can switch to a new rostering system, but unfortunately all of your student data will be lost, since we cannot transfer it to the new rostering system. Any work students have completed will remain in the old rostering system (so you always have access to the data), but the new rostering system doesn’t know about the previous work.
  2. You can remain in the old rostering system for this school year, and switch to the new rostering system during the next school year.

Need more information?

Here is additional information about Google Classroom and Clever. You can learn more about missing assignments here.

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What do the various mastery levels – red, yellow, green – imply?

Woot Math uses a knowledge model of each student to help them be successful as they work on their Woot Math Adaptive Learning assignments. The knowledge model knows what each student has mastered, and where they are lacking. To review student data, start from the Analytics tab of the teacher dashboard. A screenshot of this report is included below.

This report indicates two things using fraction pieces (because, we love fractions!) First, completion towards the assignment is shown as the amount of the fraction circle that is filled in. Second, the level of mastery (red, yellow, and green) are indicated for each assignment. You can click on a student’s name (shown on the left in the above image) to get a detailed reporting of the student’s progress, which includes the assignments and levels played, time spent, problems solved, and stars earned.

What do stars indicate?

As students complete levels within a given assignment, they are awarded stars. Students can earn between 0 and 3 stars for each level. If a student is struggling and earning 0 or 1 stars, the adaptive engine might provide the student with extra content, review content, supplemental content, and additional types of supports. For a student that is doing great and earning 2 or even 3 stars, the adaptive engine might determine that the student has mastered the content and that they are ready for additional material. Stars earned on an assignment influence the level of mastery reported, but it is not a 1:1 correlation.

What do the levels of mastery indicate?

The levels of mastery indicate how your students are doing on a given assignment. Because mastery is based on past history of the assignment as well as current achievement, you can loosely think of it as a moving average.  (It is more complicated than that, since it involves Bayesian analysis and Machine Learning. If you’d like to learn more, please visit our research page for additional information.)

What are best practices based on my students’ mastery levels?

In general, if your students are at a green level, no action is required. It means that they are exactly where they should be, learning the material and doing great. For students that indicate a mastery level of yellow or red, it is recommended to take a closer look at their reports.

By clicking on the student’s name, you’ll see a detailed timeline of the student’s progress. Each level that the student has completed is shown, and includes the time that they spent in the level, the problems that they solved, if they got correct or incorrect answers, and even if they watched the videos or not. A sample of this timeline is shown below.

The videos displayed during the lesson are shown in blue, and if the student skipped a video, it is indicated with a red arrow at the top of the report. Problems answered correctly are indicated by the green circles, and incorrect problems are indicated with red circles.

Reviewing these problems, perhaps even with the student, can help address gaps in understanding, so your student can continue on making progress through the assignment.

If a student is consistently showing a red level of mastery, you might want to consider assigning the student earlier content in the sequence. Woot Math’s adaptive engine will not send a student back to an earlier assignment without input from their teacher. For additional details on best practices, refer to the implementation guidelines for grades 3-5 and 6-8.

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What happens when I end an assignment?

It is sometimes necessary to stop an assignment mid-stream and assign it later in the school year. In this case, what happens to the student data?

The answer is, it depends.

Adaptive Learning

For Adaptive Learning assignments, you can start and re-start assignments as much as you want, and students can pickup from where they left off. No problem!

Because Adaptive Learning units are a progression of content that is driven by our proprietary adaptive engine, Woot Math knows where the students are at any given time, and it will automatically allow them to resume when you re-assign an Adaptive Learning unit.

Imagine your students have started working on an assignment you gave to them (Ordering & Absolute Value, for example). Then, you decide you want to move on to a new topic, and end that assignment. Once you end it, it will be removed from their active assignments (any open assignments you’ve sent them will still be on their dashboard). Later in the year, when you want to circle back to Ordering & Absolute Value, just make the assignment again. Your students will then see it as an active assignment, and when they click into it, they’ll pick up exactly where they left off!

Formative Assessments (Quizzes, Homework/Classwork, Exit Tickets, etc)

The formative assessments that you assign your students are only active as long as the assignment is active, because these formative assessments are generally short-lived assignments that students do in-class. Once you end an assignment, the report is available and you can view the results. However, it isn’t possible to resume a formative assessment assignment. Note that you can always re-assign it. In that case, the students will start at the beginning again.

If you have any questions, please let us know, we are always happy to help!

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How do I create a formative assessment or poll?

Create Content Dialog

How do I create a formative assessment or poll?

You can create quizzes, homework, warmups, exit tickets, polls, and more with Woot Math's formative assessment platform. All for free.

Getting Started

To get started, you’ll just need a Woot Math account. (Sign up for free  if you don’t yet have one, otherwise, login to the teacher dashboard to get started.) Click on the Content tab, and then click Create Content to get started making your own formative assessments.
Content Tab

What Are You Making Today?

The first thing you are asked to specify is the type of content you want to create. Currently, Woot Math supports:

  • Warmup
  • Classwork/Homework
  • Quiz
  • Exit Ticket
Create Content Dialog
After you select your type, add in a title, description and specify the standards related to the formative assessment. An example follows:
Sample title information

Adding Tasks

The next step is to add one or more questions. You can created your own questions by using the Add a Task button, or you can import a task from either other formative assessments you’ve created, or from the shared gallery others have created, by pressing the Import a Task button.

There are currently ten types of tasks that you can add to your formative assessments. They are shown below:

The various task types are defined in the Woot Math user guide under Create Content. 

Sharing Your Content

After you have created your content, you can optionally share it with other teachers by pressing Public, share with the community.

Dialog to Share Content Publicly
Get started creating your own today!

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How to preview an assignment?

There are a couple of ways to preview an assignment before you assign it to your students. For any of the formative assessment assignments (warmups, exit tickets, quizes, homework, etc), you can simply hover over the assignment to get the options for that assignment. To preview a formative assessment assignment, simply press the Preview, as shown here:

The Preview mode will allow you to play the assignment just like a student. The preview includes full access to the student scratchpad, correct/incorrect answer reporting, and much more.

To make a formative assessment assignment, simply pick either Teacher-Led or Self-Paced to send the assignment to your students.

For any of the Adaptive Learning assignments, you can play an assignment by assigning it to yourself (learn how to make yourself an account here). Note that because it is adaptive in nature, your experience will not be exactly the same as your students’.

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Do you comply with the GDPR (The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation)?

Woot Math is run by a small startup in the United States. We are in the business of offering educational software and services to residents of the U.S. and not the EU. We comply with GDPR by the fact that we do not currently “offer services” in the EU in the sense that the GDPR defines “offering services” (Recital 23).

While we are proactive about data privacy, and especially student data privacy, we do not market our products in the EU and we do not support purchases in EU currency. As a small business, we cannot currently justify the costs of understanding and complying with the 173 recitals of the GDPR, and informing all of our U.S. customers about data policy changes, that would be required if we were to offer services in the EU.

We hope to offer this type of service in the future, but for now, we unfortunately cannot do so. Please contact us if you have any questions or concerns about this.

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How do I customize the student scratchpad (or disable tools)?

You can customize all of the tools on the student scratchpad. To do so, edit the question you’d like to customize, and then press the Scratchpad Settings button as shown. Note that this should be repeated per-question, there currently is not a global setting for the scratchpad tools.

In the Scratchpad Settings, you can upload images, text, drawings, tables, and more for your students. You can also turn on or off any of the tools that are on the scratchpad. Click at the bottom of the scratchpad (CLICK HERE) to enable or disable the student tools.

By default, all of the tools are enabled for the student. To turn any of them off, simply click on them to gray them out. For example, if you wanted to disable the calculator, you could simply click on the Calculator button.

Now when you press DONE, the calculator is removed for this task.

Note that because the scratchpad is specific for each question, you’ll want to repeat this process for each question that you’d like to change the tools available.