Student activation and placements

- [Narrator] Welcome to "MAP Accelerator Basics for Teachers." This series of videos will help you learn more about how to use MAP Accelerator with your students. As a reminder, MAP Accelerator is a personalized learning tool that empowers teachers and provides differentiated learning experiences for students. MAP Accelerator uses MAP growth scores and Khan Academy's personalized learning system to give each student a custom learning path while teachers receive real time data to inform instruction. In this video, we will work on getting your students activated and understanding their placements. This task should take about 10 to 15 minutes per class, depending on how many students you have. You'll need to set aside time with each of your classes to walk your students through their account set up. We will pick up where the previous video in this series left off, on the say hello to MAP Accelerator screen. As mentioned, when you logged in successfully, you should see a welcome screen like this one. We encourage you to download the welcome guide to help you get started with MAP Accelerator. After you download the welcome guide or click skip, you will land on your teacher dashboard. This page is the teacher dashboard and should be the first page you see each time you log into your MAP Accelerator account on Khan Academy. We have imported all of your district rostered MAP Accelerator classes and students into your account. You will be able to easily identify your MAP Accelerated classes by the MAP Accelerator logo, located above the class name. When you first set up your account, none of your students are activated unless they used MAP Accelerator last year. Let's get started activating them. Click on the class name to get started. On the left side of the screen, you will see all of the pages available to you for each one of your classes. The tabs under MAP Accelerator and admin are the tabs most frequently used by MAP Accelerator teachers. Currently we are on the students page. On this page, you will also see which students have or have not activated their accounts. In the third column labeled status, you can see students' activation status. They will display either a green dot for activated or a gray dot for unactivated. There are two methods for your students to activate their accounts, using Clever or class codes. We encourage using Clever to have your students activate. To get started activating student accounts with Clever, have students log into Clever with their school district username and password. If you or your students need further assistance logging into Clever, please visit Clever's support center or reach out to your district administrator for support. Once students are logged in, they should see the MAP Accelerator app under more apps. You may want to recommend that students hover over the MAP Accelerator app and select the heart to add the MAP Accelerator app to their favorites which provides easier access on their Clever homepage. Have students select the MAP Accelerator app and they will be brought directly to MAP Accelerator. Your students will have a choice to create a new Khan Academy account or use an existing one similar to the choices you were presented. If you prefer it to have your students join by class code. instead of using Clever follow these steps. Each one of your classes will have a unique class code. This is the code you want to share with students. From your student roster page, copy your class code in the top right and share it with students. We recommend sharing the code via email or school communication tool or showing this code on a board if you're in the classroom or in a presentation during a video call if you're teaching remotely so that all students can access it easily. Once you've shared the code with students, ask students to go to KhanAcademy.org/join. The page will look like this. It will ask them to join your class on Khan Academy by entering the class code you provided After students have typed in their code, they will click on the blue continue button. Once students click continue, it will show the student the name of the class your student is trying to join. This is a great time to have students confirm they are joining the right class by reviewing the class name. From here, students have two options to finish logging in. They can create a new account if they've never used Khan Academy before or they can log into an existing account. Regardless of which option they choose, make sure students are logging in using their school or district email address. Once students have logged in successfully, they will see this welcome screen with your class's name on it. From here, they will click onward. Students see their learner home, just like this one. The learner home is the homepage for all of the student's activity. Once students see this screen, they have successfully activated their accounts. The blue banner lets the student know that you as a teacher need to first confirm their placements before they get started on their personalized learning path. So let's take some time to confirm student placements now that the students have activated their accounts. We will now switch perspectives back to your teacher account. You can access the placement page by clicking on placement in the left navigation bar. This is where you will be able to see a full class view of all of your students. You will also see their placement range for each instructional area based on their MAP growth RIT scores. If the student's name is in blue like Joanne Hill, it means they have activated their account. If a student's name is blue and there's an exclamation icon next to their name, like Joanne Hill, it means that the student has activated their account, but you have not yet set their placement. If the student's name is gray and italicized like Jean Smith, it means that the student has not yet activated their account. As students activate their account, you will need to set their placements. At the top of the page, click on the blue button that says set my placements. You will see a popup that helps you provide every student with their suggested placements. You can review each student's placement individually or accept all suggested student placements at once. The placement suggestions are based on student MAP growth RIT scores. You can return to the placement tab at any time to edit a student's placements. If you see this screen, this means that these students haven't activated their MAP Accelerator accounts yet. In order for you to set their MAP Accelerator placements, you will need the student to activate their account. You have the option to skip placement for that student until they activate their account. Once you have reviewed and set all the placements for your students, you should see this screen. You can return to this screen to add, view, or adjust MAP Accelerator placement at any time. You can do this by clicking on each student's name. Let's click into Roy Kelly. After you click on a student's name, you will see their individual MAP Accelerator placements. You can review or adjust their placement on this screen by clicking on a specific placement range for each instructional area. You have now finished helping students activate their accounts and reviewing their placements for practice. View the next video to learn more about MAP Accelerators, MAP content, and how students meaningfully practice skills using Khan Academy's mastery learning system.