Q: Monitoring Forms Attention Level & Overall Score

When you or a colleague fills out a monitoring form, an overall score and attention level are calculated based on the responses. These are based only on the questions that were actually answered in the form. The attention level helps identify any students who may be struggling and need extra assistance. Note: Monitoring Form Results will update the student's Latest Score and Attention level on the Students page. Assessments will update the same fields for the student so if you see an issue with the attention level for a student, it could be either from an assessment or a monitoring form. You can change this field on the Students page if you want to set it to something else. CAREFUL : The overall score and attention level are automatically calculated when the form is completed, but they are NOT UPDATED AUTOMATICALLY if you change responses on the form. This allows you to change the overall score or attention level to whatever you feel best represents your students actual situation.

Q: What are Progress Reports?

Progress Reports are a great way to communicate with parents, colleagues, or admin about how a student is doing. You can have the comments for the 4 language domains on the report automatically populated based on assessment results or complete them yourself. You can also easily duplicate previously created reports from the Progress Reports page or copy comments from a previous report on the Create Progress Report form page. INSTRUCTIONS: Create Reports Filter the Table to Show the Reports You want to Download Click the Download Reports Button in the Reports Toggle at the bottom of the page.

Question 1

How do I filter or search a table when I have created a lot of records?

Accepted Answer

You can use the Search bar above the table on the page to search for records by typing.

Or you can click on the Table Filters dropdown in the sidebar to filter only the records you want to view.

Question 2

How do I manage schools on my account?

Accepted Answer

You need at least one school for your account. Schools help teachers who have to manage ELLs across multiple school buildings to keep things organized. (If you are an independent teacher, you can create your own school and call it whatever you want.)

To view all your schools, just go to schools in the menu or click the link below.View All Schools ->

To add a school, just click the Add a School button on the schools page or the link in the menu.Add a School Now ->

To delete a school, just click the Add a School button on the schools page or the link in the menu.Add a School Now ->

To Edit a School Name or Delete a School:

Click on the row for that school in the Schools table.
A little black popup will appear with the options to Edit or Delete.
Be careful deleting a school since there is no way to get it back. Students and other data are not removed when deleting a school.

Question 3

How do I edit a student in the ELL Management Portal?

Accepted Answer

On the Students page, double click on any field in the table to edit it.

Or you can click on any row in the Students table and an edit button will appear. Click on the Edit button to edit that student's details.

Question 4

Do you accept purchase orders?

Accepted Answer

Hi customer.first_name,

Purchase orders are accepted. Here is the process:

Follow the link below, choose a membership option, and fill out the quick form to get started.
You can also request a W-9 if needed.
After you fill out the form, I'll send you a quote that you can provide your school.
Once your school approves the quote, they will give you a purchase order which you can send me by hitting reply to this email and attaching the purchase order.
After receiving the purchase order, I will set up the account for you and send you an invoice that you can pass along to the accounting department.
The invoice needs to be paid within 30 days.

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Question 5

Are Kid-Inspired Classroom resources copyrighted? What is the legal use agreement?

Accepted Answer

The Kid-Inspired ESL Curriculum License Agreement

Teachers can use the curriculum as long as they maintain an active subscription to the membership and are only using it with students they personally teach live and in-person whether it's online or offline. If the curriculum is being used on a freelance platform, like Outschool, for example, please leave a link to the Kid-Inspired website as a reference.

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The following items are NOT allowed under the Kid-Inspired Classroom License Agreement.

Users may not:

Re-package the curriculum in any way
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If you have any questions or need any clarification, please contact support at support@kid-inspired.com

Question 6

What is the Lock to All Students filter?

Accepted Answer

The Lock to All Students filter lets you show students without other groups. Since students can be in more than 1 group, the same records can show up in the table more than once for each group that is displayed and the student is part of. To lock to all students simply:

Set the "Lock to All Students" filter to "Yes".
If you want to filter by groups again, set the "Lock to All Students" filter to nothing or hit the Clear Filters button.

Heads up: When a student is in more than 1 group, their records will show up more than one time in the same table if you have all your groups showing, once for each group that they are in.

Question 7

How do I score or grade the Kid-Inspired ESL Placement Assessment?

Accepted Answer

There have been a number of teachers who have asked about how to score the Kid-Inspired ESL Placement Assessment.

If you're a member of the Kid-Inspired ESL Curriculum Membership, there is a mini-course on how to use the assessment. There are also instructions included with the assessment itself. Here are a couple of thoughts though that may be helpful:

There is a little ruler of numbers at the top of each section of the assessment tracking sheet. These little rulers correspond to the questions in that section.

Kid-Inspired ESL Assessment Ruler

https://malcolm-en-gb.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/instances/VJjCVlXBck/resources/rzMPxE64kp/ESL-Assessment-Ruler.png (Kid-Inspired ESL Assessment Ruler)

You take the number from here that the student received and write it at the bottom in the Score area.

ESL Assessment Final Scoring Box

https://malcolm-en-gb.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/instances/VJjCVlXBck/resources/YyOtvfPTUc/ESL-Assessment-Grading-Box.png (ESL Assessment Final Scoring Box)

Once you have numbers for each area in this score box, you average them together for an overall level (add up listening/speaking, reading, writing, grammar and divide by 4).

If you're a member...

If you're not a member...

You can get a free copy here.
You can join the Kid-Inspired ESL Curriculum Membership here.
You can join the Kid-Inspired Interactive Online ESL Curriculum Membership here.

Question 8

Monitoring Forms Attention Level & Overall Score

Accepted Answer

When you or a colleague fills out a monitoring form, an overall score and attention level are calculated based on the responses. These are based only on the questions that were actually answered in the form. The attention level helps identify any students who may be struggling and need extra assistance.

Note: Monitoring Form Results will update the student's Latest Score and Attention level on the Students page. Assessments will update the same fields for the student so if you see an issue with the attention level for a student, it could be either from an assessment or a monitoring form. You can change this field on the Students page if you want to set it to something else.

CAREFUL: The overall score and attention level are automatically calculated when the form is completed, but they are NOT UPDATED AUTOMATICALLY if you change responses on the form. This allows you to change the overall score or attention level to whatever you feel best represents your students actual situation.

Question 9

What are Monitoring Forms?

Accepted Answer

Monitoring Forms are commonly required by most schools in the United States for ELLs who are either in the ELL program or have exited it. Very often Former ELLs need to have monitoring forms completed about them by their content teachers for a period of up to 2 years after they have exited the program.

The Monitoring Forms included with the Kid-Inspired ELL Management Portal are there to help simplify this process for ELL teachers. For ELL teachers who need this functionality, you can invite colleagues, assign them to groups, and then schedule monitoring forms to be sent to those colleagues. Those colleagues can log into the platform and fill out the forms for the students in the group you assigned them. You can view all of the results as well as print reports.

Kid-Inspired Classroom is not responsible for state compliance though so be sure to know and understand the laws in your area in order to make sure you are complying by them.

Question 10

What are Progress Reports?

Accepted Answer

Progress Reports are a great way to communicate with parents, colleagues, or admin about how a student is doing.

You can have the comments for the 4 language domains on the report automatically populated based on assessment results or complete them yourself.

You can also easily duplicate previously created reports from the Progress Reports page or copy comments from a previous report on the Create Progress Report form page.

INSTRUCTIONS:

Create Reports
Filter the Table to Show the Reports You want to Download
Click the Download Reports Button in the Reports Toggle at the bottom of the page.