I can see on the administrator
guide that they can add to the list. I take it they can also set up
additional groups, if we end up using this for the whole school.
Teachers can add their own groups, rename any existing groups and
archive any empty groups.
Teachers can then add their own students. If a teacher/TA tries to add a user that already exists they will get a message to confirm this, allowing them to choose to select the existing student so they are not duplicated in error.
The administrator can see the total number of currently active students on their ‘My Dashboard’ under ‘Total students’.
Will Students be duplicated if placed in different Groups?
What about Support for Learning
staff? If we are working with children from different classes, do we need to
set up our own groups and will those children be counted twice?
As support staff are likely to only be supporting a few from each
class they may wish to have their own groups for their students. The students
however may be in more than one group, for example their class group and also
their support group.
To avoid double counting of student numbers, when adding a student the program will prompt if a student with the same details already exists. It is important to select the existing student if this option is presented. Otherwise the student will be duplicated causing confusion for the pupil with different login details.
As
administrator you will be able to oversee all of this and any duplicated students
should be visible in the Groups & Users section and the ‘Manage Students’
list.
Can Students work on different focuses set by different Teachers?
Can the children work on two
different focuses e.g. HFW with Support for Learning, spelling patterns in
class?
Yes. The program will automatically
have the Supershark course on as default but the set work section allows
teachers to select work from anywhere within the program, or from any own word
list/courses they have created themselves. There is no limit to the number of
work a teacher can set or the pupil can have. The pupils set work section
allows them to see all their set work and who has set it. For more abled
students you may wish to allow ‘Free Play’. This allows access to the whole
program, though you can turn courses off so they can only access one course at
a time, for example HFW or the Wordshark course.