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Sample Implementation Goals using the ASR Framework

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The catalog allows you to discover and add content that you love. You can discover the thousands of cross-curriculum texts of different depth of knowledge levels with many aligned with common core standards. You can search in our Catalog in three distinct ways: Featured Content Page, filters, or instant search.

Switch between subjects

Teachers on the Prime plan, with access to multiple subjects, can switch subject by going to the main menu and selecting the subject they want to access.
Note: Teachers on the free plan will only have access to content in the subject they signed up with.
Browsing the Featured Content Page

Once you enter our Catalog, you will see our Featured Content Page. On this page, you will see top curated content grouped by genres and themes. Click on any of these tiles to add them to your Workspace.

Filters

All of our content is organized by multiple categories that appear on the top of the Catalog or through the main menu, so finding what you need is simple.

Select the subject you want to filter by going to the main menu

Click on the Genres tab to search by the type of content

Click on the Themes tab to search by main topics

Results will appear 30 text at a time

Text will be grouped based on the subject selected. For example, the screenshot below has ELA and "Heroes & Helpers" selected. These text are grouped by books, poetry, and short story.

Lexile level

Teachers can filter text by Lexile levels by going to the Filter & Actions button. If you click on "show all Lexiles," it will show more Lexile levels that you can filter by.

Once you select a Lexile level, you can further filter texts with our other filter types such as grade level, assignment type, and by state standards.

Grade Level

The grade level filter in our catalog filters text by the most common grade level they are assigned to. You can access this filter by going to the Filter & Actions button. If you click on "show all grades," it will show more grade levels that you can filter by.

Assignment Type

The assignment type filter in our catalog filters assignments by the assignment type that they are categorized as, like article, biographies, video, etc. You can access this filter by going to the Filter & Actions button. If you click on "show all assignment types," it will show more assignment types that you can filter by.

Search the Catalog

If you have a particular title or author, you can use our search button to instantly see if our Catalog has what you're looking for!

Popular articles

Our catalog includes New and Popular articles that are updated weekly. Our content team will add new articles each week. These articles are easily accessed by the catalogs landing page.

Adding a text to folders and assigning text to classes

Our Catalog has thousands of texts and pre-created assignments that you can use easily with your classes. We have canonical ELA texts, current events, high-interest articles, and free textbook materials across Social Studies and the Sciences. To add these texts or pre-created assignments, follow these simple steps:

STEP 1: Select "Content"

You will see our Featured Content page with curated categories (Current Events, High-Interest Articles, Classical Short Stories, etc)

STEP 2: Filter the rest of our content by categories or search for specific text

STEP 3: Select the tile

You can preview the text or assign the text along with the featured assignment.

Assign the text (this will add the text to your "everything" folder in your workspace too)

Quickly save text by clicking the bookmark button

Click and drag text to folders

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Easy student access with supports for all learners and collaboration with peers

Actively Learn is easy for students to access at home, whether on a smartphone, laptop, or printed copy. They can access scaffolding notes and media, an embedded dictionary, translation into over 100 languages, plus in-line peer discussion and shared peer responses.

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As schools and districts deal with coronavirus, Actively Learn shares how to use its digital curriculum platform to help teachers and students with remote learning.

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Posters: includes Think Like a Scientist

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Nancy Movall – Professional Services Manager
nancy.movall@mheducation.com

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In Actively Learn, teachers have a few different ways to print out their assignments and student work.
Important: Copyrighted text will not have a print option
What you can print: Summa…

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5 Best Practices to Ensure Student and Teacher Engagement Online

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New Product Features

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Check out the new features and improvements we’ve made based on teacher feedback. To see a more complete history of our product updates, please visit this page.
January 2024 We have updated ou…

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Check out the video below to see how easy it is to get started with Actively Learn! It covers, how to join a class, answering a question, and adding a note!

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Information about student performance is generated when they interact with text and assignments are graded. Assignment data gives you a great overview how your class, or individual students, are doing for that assignment.

For each assignment, you can see information about how your students are engaging with texts.

STEP 1: Select a class from the main menu, then select an assignment

STEP 2: Within the assignment, select the "Assignment Data" icon

The data includes:

How much time students have spent reading the assignment

How many notes they have taken in the text

How your class is doing on each question

Where & what your students are discussing in the text (based off replies to shared notes) in the discussion panel

What words your students are defining in the text

What words your students are translating in the text

How many times your students are using the text to speech in the text

Export Grades

If you need to export your grades to a spreadsheet, just select the export icon in your assignment reports.

Student overview export includes:

Name

Reading time

Notes

Vocabulary lookups

Translation lookups

Text to Speech

Questions answered

Question grades export include:

Name

Grade for each question

Average grade for each student

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Gradebook

The gradebook shows you all grades you have given to students, per assignment. In addition, the gradebook can be downloaded as a CSV file for use with Microsoft Excel or another grading system.

Activity

The activity report shows you quantitatively how your students are interacting with all of the texts you've assigned.

The data has several columns, and they are all sortable - just click on any column header and you will see the blue triangle showing you how it is being sorted. Be sure to select the date range you want to view Activity for.

Data available:

Reading/Learning times

Total number of questions student has responded to

Number of revisions

Current grade/Total Points

Number of Vocabulary lookups

Amount of notes they've taken, and how many of those they have shared with the class

Total number of words written

How many times they have viewed their peers' responses after submitting a response

Number of Translation lookups

Number of Text-To-Speech requests

Number of Independent Texts read from the Student Library

Total Reading/Learning time spent in Independent Texts in the Student Library

Standards

In the gradebook standards tab, teachers can see how students are performing (and demonstrating proficiency) by standard.

The Class data standards tab will show:

1. Proficiency by Standard (skill)

2. Proficiency by DoK Level

3. Proficiency by Content (subject area)

For Standard & Content reports the list is sorted by level of proficiency. Note that to the right of the bar, you'll see an arrow indicating a trend if students have been doing better or worse in the last month.

Recommendations

In the class data tab, teachers can view the recommendations for their class to promote deeper learning. This report suggests tips on:

How students can spend more time on assignments

Having students write more

Asking students to look up more words

Encouraging students to make more annotations

This report also shows average reading pace of your students, average words per responses, how many students looked up a word, how many students created an annotation, and most frequently looked up words.

Vocabulary

For this report, you can see who has looked up which words, and how many times they have been looked up across all assignments.

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After students make annotations and respond to questions on Actively Learn, they can place their answers, highlights, and notes from Actively Learn in a Google Doc. Those annotations and responses can be used when writing essays, reports, or projects. Using this add-on requires the Prime plan or higher.

When teachers sign into the add-on, it will retrieve notes, highlights, and answers from Student Mode.

FYI: Google does not currently support add-ons on iPads.

Installing the Google Doc add-on

STEP 1: Click here to view the the add-on in the Chrome Web Store

STEP 2: Click "Free"

STEP 3: A pop up will appear requesting permission. Select "Allow"

STEP 4: An Actively Learn note will appear with information on how to open the app

How to use the Google Doc Add-on

STEP 1: Choose the Google Doc you would like to work on

STEP 2: Select the "Add-ons" tab in the Google Doc then select "Actively Learn" and "Open Sidebar"

STEP 3: An Actively Learn bar will appear on the right hand side of the Google Doc. Select "Sign in with Actively Learn"

STEP 4: You can then select the text you would like to import

STEP 5: After selecting the text, two tabs will appear. One with questions and answers, another with highlights and notes.

STEP 6: When inserting your answers, highlights, and notes make sure that your cursor in the Google Doc is where you would like to insert your text.

Your text will be added

Highlights and notes will display the color and category

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Professional Learning for Instructional Practice

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Professional Learning for Instructional Practice

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https://help.activelylearn.com/hc/en-us/sections/4403318846355-Professional-Learning-Videos

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Make Interactive Texts, Webpages, and Videos with Actively Learn

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Make Interactive Texts, Webpages, and Videos with Actively Learn

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Make Interactive Texts, Webpages, and Videos with Actively Learn

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Establishing Productive Group Work- The First 20 Days

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The DoK Levels added to questions will be reflected in reports. Teachers can easily track and show growth of students understanding in an individual assignment from start to end.

What do individual DoK Levels help you assess?

Level 1: Recall - Focus here is on specific facts, information, details, and procedures e.g specific definitions, details, applies simple steps.

Level 2: Skills and Concepts - Processing of conceptual knowledge, comparing and contrasting, extracting main points, interpreting facts etc. More content knowledge required here than Level 1. Actions require more than one step.

Level 3: Strategic Thinking - Focus is on reasoning based on deep knowledge: which include understanding and rationalizing thoughts, manifesting them into achievable steps. E.g Drawing conclusions from Examples, citing evidence to support a logical argument, concept based explanations.

Level 4: Extended Thinking - Focus is on applying complex reasoning, experimental design, and planning over an extended period of time. It requires extended investigation (research) and time to process information and problem solving. Students are required to make multiple connections, relate ideas to specific content area(s), and select an approach from among many as a solution.

Download the PDF Depth of Knowledge Question Stems.

To learn more about the DoK framework, you can refer to Brenda Matthews' presentation:
Brenda Mathew's DoK framework
Add Depth of Knowledge Levels:

STEP 1: Select "Options" then "Add DoK"

STEP 2: Select the DoK Level you want

View a student's proficiency by DoK Level in your Student Reports [Team Plan]

This will give you real-time metrics on how your students are engaging with texts and how they are performing by DoK Levels.

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The DoK Levels added to questions will be reflected in reports. Teachers can easily track and show growth of students understanding in an individual assignment from start to end. What do individual DoK Levels help you assess? Level 1: Recall - Focus here is on specific facts, information, details, and procedures e.g specific definitions, details, applies simple steps.