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Edgenuity UpSmart

Quick Preview Guide: MATH

Contents

Logging In ......................................................................................................................... 2

The Learning Map ..................................................................................................................... 2

Launch the Available Topic ........................................................................................................ 2

Preview the Skills in this Topic ................................................................................................... 3

Complete the Topic Screener ..................................................................................................... 4

Watch the Topic Intro Video ...................................................................................................... 5

Begin the Bronze Level .............................................................................................................. 5

QUESTION 1 .......................................................................................................................... 5

Ask for Another Hint ............................................................................................................... 6

Ask for More Hints ................................................................................................................. 7

Answer Incorrectly Again ........................................................................................................ 8

Watch the Show Me Video ........................................................................................................ 9

Answer Additional Questions....................................................................................................10

QUESTION 2 .........................................................................................................................10

QUESTION 3 .........................................................................................................................10

QUESTION 4 .........................................................................................................................11

QUESTION 5 .........................................................................................................................11

QUESTION 6 .........................................................................................................................11

NOTE: UpSmart is designed to pause students and alert a teacher if their current work

indicates they are at risk of failing a level. If the system detects you are not responding to

instruction, you may find your account paused. Should this happen, it will be unblocked

overnight and you can continue working the next day. If you would like to avoid being

blocked, you can follow the suggested responses outlined in this guide—or simply

mimic a student who struggles at first (to view the feedback and re-teaching that

UpSmart provides) and then improves and levels up.

Edgenuity UpSmart : Quick Preview Guide : MATH

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Logging In

To log into UpSmart, go to learn.edgenuity.com/student and enter the UpSmart Preview

username and password provided to you via email.

Log in at https://learn.edgenuity.com/student

The Learning Map

You will land on the UpSmart Learning

Map. If a unit is locked, it tells the student

that the teacher has not yet made that

unit available. In the UpSmart Preview,

only one unit is available.

Click that unit now.

Click the open unit to begin.

Launch the Available Topic

Each circle on the Learning Map represents

a topic in the unit. The lines that connect the

circles show the prerequisite relationships

among the topics.

Notice that the only open topic in this unit is

Ratios. This topic is a prerequisite for the

rest of the unit. Only one topic is available in

the UpSmart preview. More topics will be

available soon!

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Click Ratios to begin the topic:

Preview the Skills in this Topic

Each topic has three levels: Bronze,

Silver, and Gold. The levels build upon

one another to increase the cognitive

demand of the topic: first focusing on

concrete models, then verbal scenarios,

and finally on applying ratio understanding

when one quantity changes.

Before students begin this topic, UpSmart

will provide a short screener to place each

student in an appropriate level.

Select a confidence level and start the

screener.

Click the center “face” and then begin the assessment:


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Complete the Topic Screener

Answer two questions in a row incorrectly. That will be enough to tell the system that you should

start in Bronze. Keep in mind that the learning path is completely adaptive—so we don’t need

too many questions to place the student. We’re just finding a good starting point, and then the

level will continue to adapt from there.

To be placed into the Bronze level, answer both of the first two questions incorrectly.

Check the first checkbox (and only the first checkbox) for the first two questions in this screener.

The system has now placed you into the Bronze level.

Click the green Continue button to launch the Topic Intro video:


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Watch the Topic Intro Video

The introductory video will allow you to

rewind and replay the parts you have

watched, but it will not let you fast-forward

until you have watched the entire video

once.

Students who place into Silver or Gold

have the option to watch the video or not

watch the video. These students can fast-

forward if they choose.

Close the video player to begin the Bronze level.

Begin the Bronze Level

QUESTION 1

Notice that this item is a little easier

than the ones you saw in the

screener. The system knows you

are a student with very limited

understanding, so it starts you off

with the easiest item in the skill.

Imagine that you are not sure how

to begin, and ask for a hint.

Click the purple light bulb icon to trigger a hint:


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The first hint is always going to explain what the task is asking you to do. Sometimes that’s all a

student needs to get started.

Ask for Another Hint

If that first hint doesn’t help you, you can also ask for another hint.

Click the Add Hint button to trigger another hint:


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Ask for More Hints

The next hint is helping you connect back to key information in the topic introduction video,

reminding you about the importance of order in ratios. Feel free to take additional hints if you

wish—each task has anywhere between three and five hints—but the more hints you ask for,

the more questions it will take to place you out of the level and earn the bronze badge.

When students show that they don’t know something, the

system will provide more instruction, practice, and support.

In order to make that happen, the number of hints students

request impacts their proficiency profile. This is reflected in

the progress bar that appears at the bottom of the screen.

If a student answers correctly with no hints, the progress

bar will increase significantly. If a student answers correctly

after requesting many hints, the progress bar will only increase a small amount.

Answer the question incorrectly, making the common error of reversing the order of the

quantities in the ratio.

Select the first answer choice, which is incorrect, then click Check.


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Answer Incorrectly Again

The system has learned that you are definitely struggling with this skill. Even with hints, you

were not able to get this question right. So you will now receive feedback based on the answer

choice you selected. If you had made a different mistake, you would have gotten different

feedback—the feedback is based on the student’s specific error.

Let’s say the feedback isn’t enough, though, to help you self-correct. This time, make another

error.

Click Try Again to close the feedback. Then choose the third answer choice, which is incorrect, and click Check.


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Watch the Show Me Video

The Show Me video models how to answer this question, but it also provides an approach, or

strategy, that students can use to answer similar questions in the future.

The next question will be very similar to the question students just saw, and will allow them to

apply the same approaches and strategies modeled in the Show Me video. This gives the

program an opportunity to see whether the modeling that was provided was effective.

Close the video player and click Next.

If you answer too many questions incorrectly while logged in as a student, the system will block

you from continuing so that a teacher can be alerted to help you. UpSmart preview accounts will

be “unblocked” every night—so if you are blocked, you can continue the next day.

However, to avoid being blocked in this level and still maximize the amount of content you can

preview, you can answer the questions according to the guidelines below.


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Answer Additional Questions

QUESTION 2

Answer this question correctly on the second try. The first answer choice (2:5) is correct.

Notice how your progress bar increases when you answer a question correctly. Also notice that students

receive an Answer Explanation that confirms the correct answer for the student. It allows the student to see a

strategy that they may not have used, but that could be used on future tasks.

QUESTION 3

Answer this question incorrectly

twice. Do not choose the first

answer choice, 8/6, which is

correct.

Notice that the first incorrect answer

triggers written feedback, and the

second incorrect answer triggers a

Show Me video that models expert

thinking.


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QUESTION 4

Answer this question correctly on the second try.

The last answer choice, 2 to 9, is correct.

Notice that this question is very similar to the previous

question. This will let the system check to make sure the

instruction provided in the Show Me video was effective.

QUESTION 5

Answer this question correctly

on the first try. The correct

answers are the first and last

choices as illustrated here.

Notice that the progress meter

increases much more when you get

this item correct than it has

previously. This is because you

answered a hard item correctly on

the first try, without any hints.

QUESTION 6

Answer this question correctly

on the first try. The correct

answers are the second and last

choices as illustrated here.


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If you have followed the guide recommendations, you will just have earned the bronze badge for

this topic. If not, keep answering questions correctly until you do.

To explore the higher levels of the topic (Silver and Gold), click Continue and then Go for Silver.

To safely avoid getting blocked, don’t answer two questions in a row incorrectly. If you do get

blocked, don’t worry. You will automatically be unblocked overnight and can log in and continue

the level in your UpSmart Preview account the next day.

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