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: How do I download Progress Reports?

INSTRUCTIONS for Downloading ELL Student Progress Reports: Create Student Progress Reports Filter the Table to Show the Progress Reports You want to Download Click the Download Progress Reports Button in the Reports Toggle at the bottom of the page. **Note: **The Download Reports button will only download records that are showing in the table. If records are on the second page, they will not be included. You can choose All in the Show # entries above the table to download all at once or download the results page by page.

Question 1

How do I delete a group?

Accepted Answer

On the Groups page, select the Mark for Deletion in the Delete field for a group you want deleted. These records are then deleted on a schedule, about every hour or so. Deleting groups and deleting students are a little different than most other records which get deleted immediately.

Question 2

How does the numbering on the lesson pages work? (i.e. Unit 1 #1, Unit 1 #1.1, etc)

Accepted Answer

If you've started using the curriculum, then you've probably noticed the numbers at the top of the pages within lessons.

The numbering system may seem a little odd at first.

Let me explain the logic behind the system and why it can be a little odd at times:

**Here were the criteria I wanted to meet: **

Each page, organizer and worksheet had its own number in case you were assigning a single page to students and needed to refer to it.
Subsidiary pages would be numbered in relation to their primary page. (Primary page like a vocabulary page for instance = Unit 1 #1; Subsidiary pages like vocabulary worksheets related to the primary page = Unit 1 #1.1, 1.2, 1.3, etc.)

**Here were some of the challenges that came up: **

Over the course of creating materials for the curriculum, some of which were created only for the site (we don't use them at our school) a couple of things happened from time to time:

Sometimes, subsidiary pages could relate to more than one primary page and when I chose to put them in one lesson as opposed to another, the numbering was sometimes off.
Sometimes, I chose to leave out a page from a lesson because I didn't feel like it was up to standard or was one too many pages for that lesson or still needed work. This has created gaps at times in the numbering.

The primary reason for the system is to give you a way to refer to a specific page, so you can safely ignore it if it does not benefit you.

Question 3

Free Kid-Inspired Student Portal Account Terms of Service

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Free Kid-Inspired Student Portal Account Terms of Service

These Terms of Service are in addition to the regular Kid-Inspired Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy.

For a limited time, members of the Kid-Inspired Interactive Online ESL Curriculum Membership can create a free account on the Kid-Inspired Student Portal.

This Free Account Comes with the Following Conditions:

The free account will remain active only as long as an active membership to the Interactive ESL Curriculum Membership is maintained.
If the active membership to the Interactive ESL Curriculum Membership is canceled, the free Kid-Inspired Student Portal account will also subsuquently be canceled.

If you have any questions or need any help, please contact support by emailing support@Kid-inspired.com or by visiting the support portal.

Question 4

Do you accept purchase orders?

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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

Can a student be in more than 1 group?

Accepted Answer

You can put a student in as many groups as you want. The platform is designed to keep things flexible for you. This way you can see data results and get reports across a variety of characteristics you choose.

Generally though, you don't need to group students by any of the data you add on a student's profile—i.e. grade level, background flags, etc.—since you will be able to sort students by these fields at any time.

Question 6

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 7

How do standards and scoring work with the assessments?

Accepted Answer

Here is the formula used in the portal to get a score for a language domain on an assessment:

(Number Correct / Standard ) * 100 = Score

The standard gives us a little more flexibility in what we expect students should accomplish on an assessment.

How do standards work and why do we have it set up this way?

Most teachers grade assessments with the following formula: Number Correct / Total Number of Questions. This means that the standard they are expecting students to meet is 100%, to get all of the answers correct. If there are 10 questions on the assessment, I am expecting students to get all 10 correct.

But what if a student gets 8 correct and has shown a good grasp of the content? Did they meet your expectations still? If so, then we can consider setting the standard at 8. Any students who score 8 out of 10 will then get a score of 100%. Students who get 9 or 10 out of 10 will get 110% or 120% accordingly.

It's a little like grading on a bell curve only we are not setting the standard based on the strongest and weakest students results on an assessment, but instead on a goal we would like to see students achieve that shows they have sufficiently grasped the content.

There are a lot of benefits to setting it up this way.

This lets us use a variety of assessment types and map them in the same way on a chart.

This strategy allows us to have assessments where there is no upper limit on the number they can achieve. For example, if our assessment is to see how many sentences a student can say in a minute, or how many words a student can read in a minute. We only need a goal or standard in this situation to get a score and then we will see that same range of ability. This also works for assessments where there is a specific number of questions to be answered, but students do not necessarily need to answer all of the questions correctly in order to show that they have grasped the content well. This is particularly helpful when it comes to something like writing paragraphs or essays. When you're grading student writing with a rubric, there is usually a total number of possible points, but that represents exceptional work. We don't need all of our students to achieve that level of writing to prove competency.

**The data we receive can be more helpful. **

We get to see a spread of data around the goal we have set. We can see which students have exceeded the goal and probably need some more challenging work, which students have met the goal, and which students are still in need of extra practice in that area. If most students are under the standard, we know that is likely an issue with how we have taught the material, whereas if most students have met the standard, we know that certain students may need to use a different kind of strategy to reach the standards.

The ultimate goal of assessments is...

to get actionable data on how students are doing in each area so that we can make better decisions about what will be most helpful for them.

If students are consistenly scoring well above 100%, then we know that the content may be too easy and we may want to step it up a notch.
If we notice students are consistenly scoring below 80% in an area such as reading while doing well in other areas, we know that we should focus extra time on reading and less time on other areas.

For WIDA scoring...

...the suggested standard is 4.5 since that is usually what is required for students to exit the ELL program. Then formula for an assessment then would be, for example, listening 3.3/4.5=73%. This means the student is 73% of the way to the goal for listening of exiting the ELL program.

Basically, when you see a percentage score for an assessment, it means that they are that far along to the goal!

Question 8

How do I add assessment results?

Accepted Answer

You can add assessment results by clicking on the Add Assessment Results button on the Assessments page.

There are a number of options available for adding assessment results. The goal is to be able to map all assessment results together on the same graph regardless of assessment type.

(Don't worry. You can of course also graph only results for a specific type as well by sorting by assessment type.)

Input basic assessment data.
Choose an assessment type: Kid-Inspired, WIDA, or Other.
Choose whether to use suggested standards or set your own standards. A score is created by dividing the score the student got in each language domain by the standard for that language domain on the assessment. For WIDA, for instance, the suggested standard is 4.5 since that is what is usually required for students to test out of LEP services. The standards for Kid-Inspired assessments differ for each assessment and those standards are added automatically if you select Use Suggested Standards.
You can change any of these details later on the assessments page.
The assessment results can be added to certain forms automatically as well at a later date.
**Tip: **After adding results, you'll get a button that allows you to load the form again with all of the options you previously selected already selected for you. This helps speed up the process of adding assessment results.

Add Assessment Results Now ->

Question 9

How do I download Progress Reports?

Accepted Answer

INSTRUCTIONS for Downloading ELL Student Progress Reports:

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

**Note: **The Download Reports button will only download records that are showing in the table. If records are on the second page, they will not be included. You can choose All in the Show # entries above the table to download all at once or download the results page by page.

Question 10

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.

Not Allowed Under the License Agreement

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

Users may not:

Re-package the curriculum in any way
Build a Self-Paced, Resellable Program Out Of the Resources
Resell the Curriculum
Share the Curriculum with Others They Are Not Personally Teaching
Use Resources, Images, Text, or Logos from Kid-Inspired Classroom in Promotional Materials.

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