Managing Your MobyMaxWays to Enhance Your Classroom ExperiencePresented by: Ashley Miller

Overview of Workshop

Pre-test

Objectives

What is MobyMax and what can it do for me?

Essential Question

Utilizing Features: Essential and Fun

Post-Assessment, Ticket Out, & Workshop Evaluation

Objectives

To be able to successfully obtain and print student progress reports within MobyMax.

To compile and present data to school administrators from MobyMax that demonstrates student growth.

To be able to describe features of MobyMax and apply them in your own professional practice.

MobyMax and its Benefits

What is MobyMax?

Is a digital learning environment that provides practice in math and language skills.

Follows Common Core standards

What are the benefits of MobyMax?

Provides placement tests to ensure that students are starting skills where they need to be.

Helps teachers and students identify missing skills.

Progress monitors to assist in making each students’ experience effective by customizing to their needs.

Collects data to show how engaged, motivated, and successful each student is in his/her learning (i.e., how much time or progress a student(s) has made during a lesson).

Essential Question

How can we utilize MobyMax to improve and customize student learning?

Some Essentials

Things you may want to know

Printing Reports

Why should I print Monthly reports?Monthly Reports allow you to see:

Overall statistics Grade Level How fast they’re learning (Learning velocity) How long they spend on MobyMax- time per day and week How focused are they Assessments, lessons, and problems completed

Last Sessions and Topics Completed

Charts on Monthly Grade Level increases Overall Grade Progress Standards Passed Each Month Weekly Average of Skills completed

Printing Reports

How to Print Monthly Reports1. Sign In to your MobyMax.

2. Choose a subject area that you want the report from.

3. Click the “Print” icon at the top right.

4. Select “Print dashboard for selected students” and click the “Next” button.

5. Select the student(s) for whom you would like to print dashboard reports, and then click the “Print” button. You can also make a PDF or export the

document.

Printing Reports

Printing Reports

Why should I print Progress Monitoring reports?

Progress Monitoring Reports allow you to see:

The growth of how well a student is doing in a specific subject.

Summary provides information on: Progress by Grade Level Continual Progress Beginning and Ending Grade Level at the point Increase or Decrease in their learning Standards passed

Progress Reports show: All standards Missing Standards Beginning and ending proficiency

Printing Reports

How to Print Progress Monitoring Reports

1. Sign In to your MobyMax.

2. Choose a subject area that you want the report from.

3. Click the “Progress” tab.

4. Check the box directly below the “Print” button to select all students or only the ones you want.

5. Click the “Print” button.

6. Select “All standards and score” or “Missing standards.”

7. Click “Print” or you can also make a PDF or Export the document.

Printing Reports

How to Assign Students to Groups

1. Sign in.

2. Select the “Roster” button.

3. On the right hand side of the student list choose “Create or edit group.”

4. A window prompts you to “Enter name of the group.”

5. Choose the students that you want to assign to the group.

6. Check the box next to the student(s) you want to assign to that group.

7. If you want to create another group go to the bottom right of the Groups window.

How to Assign Students to Groups

How to Assign Students Work

1. Choose the subject.

2. Select the “Lessons” tab you want the student(s) to complete.

3. Select the student’s name that you want to assign lessons for.

4. Select the “Assign Lessons” tab.

5. Choose the “Grade Level” you want the students to complete.

6. Check the boxes next to the lesson(s) you want to assign to the student(s).

7. Once you have selected he lessons you want to assign, choose “Assign” under the “Assign Lessons” tab.

8. A window prompts you to select the “Lesson Sequence.” Once you have chosen, click “Continue.”

Manually Assigning Facts- Fact Fluency Settings

1. Select Fact Fluency.

2. On the right hand side of the student list choose the student and “Settings.”

3. Under the student’s name it says “Update settings for: Fact Fluency. Then “Assign Facts” and “Fact Session Settings.”

4. Choose “Manually assign or unassignfacts.”

5. Check the box(es) for the facts you want the student to work on.

6. Save your selections.

Some Cool Features

Things you could use to engage or motivate students

The Wall

It’s like a discussion board for the entire class:

Post messages

Create assignments

Poll students

Schedule events

Students can comment and download materials.

The Wall

Student Response System

A quick and easy way to assess student performance, in real time.

Write your own questions or choose from the MobyMax curriculum library.

Students answer right then.

Answers will be tallied into a chart for the teachers to see immediate student needs.

Student Response System

Behavior Vibes

Bad Vibes Unpreparedness

Disrespect

No Homework

Off Task

Talking Out Loud

These are personal comments you can make to students whether good or bad.

Good Vibes Teamwork

Helping Others

Participation

Hard Work

On Task

Persistence

Working from Home

Contests

Contests

A way to motivate students to help build their skills throughout the year.

Can see which students complete the most correct problems in a given amount of time.

Provide struggling learners a fair shot in the competition by weighting students differently.

You are free to create the contests however you wish.

Contests

This is a contest I created that the first Top 5 students to reach their goals in both Math and Reading will get to have lunch with me.

You can print off certificates of a Gold Ribbon that says they are a MobyMax winner.

Recap

What we learned today…

What Did We Talk About?

Benefits of MobyMax

Printing Monthly and Progress Monitoring Reports

Assigning lessons to students

Assigning students to groups

The Wall

Student Response System

Behavior Vibes

Contests

YouTube

Have questions or want to know more?

MobyMax has its own YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/user/MobyLearning

Find tutorials and ideas for using MobyMax in your classroom.

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