Welcome to Moogie on the Net! First and foremost, Moogie on the Net is not meant to instruct students or to present them with new material, but rather, to help them learn the process of solving problems. Parents and Teachers teach; Moogie on the Net is just a powerful tool to help!

Unlike most math tutoring or test-preparation software, Moogie on the Net is much more than a computerized, electronic flash card. There are no canned or stale questions because the numbers always change! This is Moogie’s core reason for being.

Questions are stored as templates. For example:

Sally has [A] apples. She ate [B] of them. How many are left?

Each time the question is used, random numbers are selected for each of the variables. Each variable has certain restrictions applied to it so the question makes sense, of course.

Here, [B] must be less than [A], and Moogie does this like a pro.

Sally has 10 apples. She ate 5 of them. How many are left?

The answer choices are also randomly generated - but with a twist! The first answer shown here is the correct one. To try to foresee common mistakes students make with numbers, this question might be written to make sure the second and third choices are offered as distracters!

Answer: [A] - [B] Distracter 1: [A] + [B] Distracter 2: [A] / [B]

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While the proliferation of computers and increasingly widespread use of the internet have brought forth significant changes to the educational industry, teachers - the human element - will always be the essential part of the educational process. That's why, with "Moogie on the Net," we don't attempt to replace teachers or instruct students. Teachers teach; "Moogie on the Net" is merely an effective tool for teachers to use with their students. Instead of giving a student access to Moogie and saying, "Go have fun and learn things," we keep track of his/her work and provide the tools necessary for teachers to do the same. Because of this, there is no one right way to use Moogie on the Net. This guide will explain the details of everything which you can do; but it is up to you to decide what parts can be best used by you and you students.

How Moogie Works – The Basics

Without any interaction from you, the teacher, students will do Workouts in the General Arena. Here, Moogie on the Net leads students through all the Learning Objectives for the desired grade level. For each student, each individual question has its own score. After a student has attempted each question in a strand, the questions are sorted by their scores before a Workout begins. For each Workout thereafter, the questions with the lowest scores are seen first. (Time is valuable! Why waste it working where students don't need to?)

When a student answers a question correctly, that’s great, and he/she moves on to the next one. When a question is missed, the student has two or three different options: Retry the same question with different numbers, Skip that question for now, or (if available for that particular question) Try easier question(s) which may lead them to understanding the one they missed. (See the section My Personal Preferences for additional options)

Moogie recommends the Strand students should work in based on their scores, but they are always free to work wherever they choose (or you instruct). The 4^th and 6^th Grade databases contain 8 Strands each, while the 8^th and 10^th Grade databases contain 5 Strands each. Please note that until all the questions in the database are tried by a student, Moogie will always recommend working the areas not yet seen by the student.

Three Portals

When you first log on to Moogie on the Net (www.MoogieOnTheNet.com or simply www.MoogieMath.com), you will see four main links: Students, Teachers, Parents, and Explore. The fourth one is for people who are just learning about Moogie. The other three are the entryways, or portals, for Students, Teachers, and Parents. When a user wishes to log on, he/she must first select the proper portal. The Teacher portal is for teachers, and it is also for parents who have purchased a Moogie on the Net subscription for their children. Throughout this guide, and in fact our entire website, parents who have purchased a subscription for their children are also considered “Teachers.” The Parents portal is for parents of all students and lets them see a layman’s view of how their children are doing without any Teacher Tools. This is explained in detail later.

What You Will See

After clicking on the Teachers portal and logging in, you will be taken to the Teacher Home Page. This page allows you to select which of the four Grade Levels (4, 6, 8, and 10) you wish to work with. Each Grade Level has its own database of questions, and you may only work with one Grade Level at a time.

When you first log in, you will see an overview of all your classes. By clicking on a class name, you are taken to a Class Summary. Then by clicking on a student’s name, you are taken to the Student Work Details which shows both the student’s scores and what was accomplished each time he/she logged in. All three levels also show the students’ Trends which are based on their history with the questions.

You can quickly see which Learning Objectives your students are doing the best in, and which areas need the most help, by going to your Hot Spots page. Another tool is Moogie’s Red Flags. Red Flags are raised when a student misses the same question three or more times in a row.

Our Communicator feature lets you send messages to, and receive messages from, your students and other teachers at your school who are using Moogie on the Net. Anywhere you see a bullhorn, you can click on it to instantly send a message to the student(s) it appears for.

You can look at the questions your students are working with by using our Question Inspector. We also offer our Lesson Plans Bulletin Board where teachers can share how they’ve used Moogie with their students.

There is a Main Menu near the top of the page to allow you quick access to the different tools and features of Moogie on the Net. While most menu items are explained in this Teachers Guide (some don’t need explanation), please also take the time to explore all the features on your own.

What You Can Do

You can select precisely where you want your students to work using Moogie Educational Plans (MEPs). MEPs can also be used to hide types of questions you feel your students are not yet ready to see. Whether done because of time constraints or merely to keep aligned with classroom instruction, Moogie on the Net is flexible and works where it's needed.

Moogie on the Net lets you create Online Assessments. Pre-tests, post-tests, and everything in between are now available, and its all online. This means no photocopies, no messy papers to grade, the results are instantly available, and you'll never run out of questions because the numbers always change! Teachers can use pre-made Assessments (such as actual previously-given state assessments) or create their own by selecting questions from our database.

Moogie on the Net offers a personalized way follow-up on Assessments with AWWS Workouts to Actively Work the Weak Spots. An AWWS Workout consists of all the questions in our database which cover the same Learning Objective(s) as the questions the student missed on the Assessment. These are automatically generated based on each student’s individual need.

You can also help a student Stomp the Red Flags. This is not done from the Teacher Home Page, but rather by sitting with the student while he/she is logged in. When you do this, only the questions with Red Flags are shown, and students are given the option of re-doing questions even when they answer them correctly. This helps to reinforce how to solve the problem.

Chapter 2 - Account Set-Up/Management

Moogie Coordinator

Parents who purchased a subscription for their children for home use can skip forward to the section, Student Accounts.

The person who initiated the purchase of your subscription to Moogie on the Net for your school is referred to as your Moogie Coordinator. This could be a principal, a technology coordinator, or a teacher. The Moogie Coordinator is our contact for your school should we need to contact you for any reason. This person is also the one who will contact us if there is an issue which needs resolved.

If you are the Moogie Coordinator for your school, it means you have a special Teacher Account. Your Login User ID starts with the letter A, and it was assigned to you along with your password when you used our online sign-up wizard. In addition to being able to use Moogie on the Net with your students, you are also the “Teacher in Charge” of other teachers at your school who wish to use Moogie with students. If you are the only teacher who will be using Moogie on the Net with students, you can skip forward to the section Student Accounts.

New: In the past, if you were the only teacher using Moogie on the Net at a school, you would have to wear two hats: One for playing the part of Coordinator (and create a Teacher account for yourself) and the other as the Teacher (and create the accounts for your students). Now, Coordinators are able to have their own classrooms and students without creating a separate Teacher account for themselves.

As a Moogie Coordinator, you will have the ability to manage the accounts of all the teachers and students at your school. While you don’t have access to the data of other teachers’ and their students, you will be able to do the following:

· Create, Maintain, and Delete other Teacher Accounts as needed. This is explained in detail in the next section.

· Delete Student Accounts as needed (even those belonging to other teachers at your school) to make them available for other students. You can do this by selecting Coordinator | Clear Our Student Accounts from your main menu.

Teacher Accounts

Before other teachers can use Moogie on the Net with students, the Moogie Coordinator must create their accounts for them. Creating these Teacher Accounts is very easy. On the Teacher Home Page, you can either select Coordinators | Our Teachers from the main menu, or simply click on the link in the upper right hand corner of the coach in the red hat. (Clicking on the coach will first take you to a screen explaining your role as a Coordinator in greater detail – you will then need to click on the link to “Manage your teacher accounts.”)

Regardless of which method you use, you will arrive at a screen listing “Other Teachers At Your School.” Of course, if you are just starting out, none will be listed yet. To create an account for another teacher at your school, simply click the “Add a teacher” button. The next screen will ask for the teacher’s first and last name, and then you just click on “Save Changes.” You will then be taken back to the list of Other Teachers At Your School. You may repeat this process for as many teacher accounts as you need; teacher accounts are free.

While viewing the Other Teachers At Your School, you will see their names, Login User IDs (they will all begin with the letter T), and the number of students each has. Give each teacher his/her ID. The teacher’s password will be identical to the ID, but the teacher will be prompted to change it the first time he/she logs in.

If you click on a teacher’s name, you can then modify that teacher’s Account. You can edit the name, reset the teacher’s password (useful if he/she has forgotten it), or delete the teacher’s account. Please note that if you delete a teacher’s account, all the accounts of his/her students will also be deleted (that is, they will be cleared and made available for other students).

Teachers create the accounts for their own students. If a teacher creates five student accounts, this means he/she takes ownership of five of the accounts purchased by your school. Please note that although teachers do not have access to other teacher’s students, all the teachers at the same school can share information. They can:

· Share MEPs

· Share Assessments

· Send messages to one another with the Communicator

· Transfer their students to another teacher

The first three are explained in detail in their corresponding chapters. To transfer your students to another teacher, select Tools | Transfer My Student(s) from the main menu and follow the directions. Please note that once you transfer any students to another teacher’s class, you can’t get them back unless that teacher transfers them back to you.

Student Accounts

Regardless if you are a parent who purchased Moogie on the Net for home use, a Moogie Coordinator, or just a regular teacher, you all are teachers. And this means you all have students – and that is, after all, why we’re all here.

When you signed up to use Moogie on the Net, you purchased a subscription for a certain number of student accounts. Just as you have your own account (complete with a Login User ID and Password), each student must have his/her own account, complete with a Login User ID and Password. Each student must have his/her own account because we keep a detailed record of his/her work.

Throughout this Teacher’s Guide and our website, we often refer to “Adding a Student.” What we really mean by this is “Assigning a student to an un-used student account which was purchased through your subscription.” Likewise, when we say “Deleting a Student,’ we really mean “Clearing a student’s account of all data so it can be re-used by another student.”

Example: If you will have 10 students in the fall semester and 10 different students in the spring semester, you do not need to purchase a subscription for 20 student accounts. You only need 10 accounts. At the start of the spring semester, you can delete (or clear) the 10 accounts and re-use them for the students in the spring..

Insider’s Tip: We know that class sizes change throughout the year. If your class size increases during the length of your subscription, don’t panic thinking you need to purchase additional student accounts – you may not have to. Although we do not go out of our way to publicize this, we allow for a slight over-run of the number of student accounts used. You may be able to add your new student(s) without having to spend extra money. Just try it. The worst thing that can happen is that you’re told you aren’t allowed.

Before your students can use the Accounts you purchased in your subscription, teachers at schools must first do one thing: set up their classrooms!

Adding/Managing Classrooms

Note for parents who have purchased a subscription for their children at home: classrooms are automatically created for your children based on the grade level(s) they are working in. You can skip ahead to the next section: Adding/Managing Students.

To help keep students organized, and to make reporting easier, you keep your students in virtual "classrooms." You must first create your classrooms before you can add any students to them.

There is no limit to the number of classrooms you may have, and you can use any configuration that works best for you. However it is strongly recommended that you limit the size of classes to approximately 15 students. Please do not lump all your students into one giant, generic classroom - you'll find tracking their progress much easier if you follow this guideline. The only limitation is that all students in a class must be working with the same grade level in Moogie on the Net.

Note: Technically, a “class” is a group of students, while a “classroom” is the container which holds the class. While we always try to use the proper term, occasionally we found the wording just didn’t sound right. In this Teacher’s Guide and our entire website, either term can be safely used in place of the other.

To view your classes, select Start | My Classrooms from the main menu

This will bring up your list of Classes. Of course, if you are just starting out, none will be listed yet.

To Add a Class: Click on “Add a Class.” On the next screen, select the Grade Level the students in this class will be working in. Then enter a name for the class, and click on Save this Class. It’s that easy.

Reminder: All students in the same Class work in the same Grade Level. You must have a separate Class for each Grade Level your students will be working in

Once you have added one or more classes, they will be shown in your Class List. You will then be able to:

By clicking on the name of a class, a page will come up allowing you to:

· Edit the Class Name

· Change the Class Grade Level

· Delete the Class

Caution: Changing a Class’s Grade Level will permanently erase all students’ work in the previous Grade Level. This cannot be undone! You will rarely, if ever, need to use this feature.

Caution: Be very careful deleting a class. The class will be deleted and the accounts of all students in the class will be cleared. This action cannot be undone.

Once you have created a classroom, you can add students to it…

Adding/Managing Students

If you are working with your Class List, there are “Add a student” and “Student Roster” buttons you can use to quickly access your list of students. If you are at the Teacher Home Page, use the main menu:

To view your list of students, select Start | My Student Roster

From the Teacher Home Page, there is also a link near the bottom to access your Student Roster.

This will bring up a page showing a list of all your students. Of course, if you are just starting out, none will be listed yet.

To Add a Student: Click on “Add a student.” On the next screen, simply enter the student’s first and last name, and then select which Class he/she is in. When you click on “Add this student,” you will see a confirmation that the student has been added and what his/her login ID and password are. You may continue adding students on this page in this fashion. When you have no additional students to add, click on the “Student Roster” button.

By default, each student’s password is the same as his/her first name, minus any spaces or punctuation marks.

Once you have added one or more students, they will be shown on your Student Roster. You will also see their Login User IDs and the classroom each is in. At the bottom you will see number of un-used student accounts which are available for additional students.

By clicking on a student’s name, a page will come up allowing you to:

· Edit the student’s name

· Change which Class the student is in

· Reset the student’s Password (to his/her first name, no spaces or punctuation)

· Delete the student (clear his/her account for another student)

Caution: If you delete a student, it means the record of all his/her work will be permanently deleted. This is obvious; however, if you change a student’s class to one of a different Grade Level, all his/her work will also be deleted and he/she will start out just like a new student.

Once you have entered your students, it’s time to get busy. Give your students their Login User IDs so they can log in to Moogie on the Net and begin Working Out. Once they start, you’ll see how they’re doing, all starting from the Teacher Home Page!

Passwords

Important note: To make it easier for our younger students, passwords in Moogie on the Net are not case-sensitive. If your password is CAT, it’s OK to enter cat, cAT, Cat, CaT and so forth.

Moogie Coordinators & Parents who purchase a subscription for their children for home use: When you subscribe to Moogie on the Net, we generate a User Log-In ID and initial password for you. We email this information to you using the email address that you subscribed with. The first time you sign on to Moogie on the Net, you must change this initial password before you are allowed full access to Moogie on the Net.

If you forget your password, we are unable to “look it up” to find out what it is, but we can reset it for you. If this should happen, click on the “Forgot your password” link on the Moogie on the Net Log-In page. A new password will be generated and emailed to the email address that was used when you subscribed to Moogie on the Net. When you then sign on to Moogie on the Net and use the newly generated password, you will need to change it yet again so that no one, not even us, will know what it is.

Teacher Accounts: When the Moogie Coordinator creates a teacher account, the teacher’s User Log-In ID is generated by the system and starts with the letter T. The initial password for the teacher is the same as his/her User Log-In ID. The first time the teacher signs on to Moogie on the Net, he/she will be required to change the initial password.

If a teacher forgets his/her password, the Moogie Coordinator may reset it back to the initial password (the Log-In ID), but when the teacher then signs on to Moogie on the Net, he/she will once again be required to change his/her password. To reset a teacher’s password, select Coordinators | Our Teachers from the main menu, click on the teacher’s name, and then click on the button to “Reset Password.”

Student Accounts: When a teacher (or a parent who purchased a subscription for their children for home use – remember, they are considered teachers too!) creates a student account, the student’s User Log-In ID is generated by the system, and the initial password is the student’s first name, with all spaces and punctuation marks removed. The first time the student signs on to Moogie on the Net, he/she will be required to change this initial password.

Password Examples: Student First Name Password

Mary Beth marybeth

D’Andrea dandrea

Paul-David pauldavid

If a student forgets his/her password, the teacher may reset it back to the initial password (his/her first name). When the student then signs on to Moogie on the Net, he/she will be required to change his/her password once again. To reset a student’s password, select Start | My Student Roster from the main menu, click on the student’s name, and then click on the button to “Reset Password.”

Strong Passwords: Choosing a strong password is an important part of protecting your access to Moogie on the Net. Tips for picking a strong password include:

· Join together multiple words, e.g. pencil+computer, you&them, green*speaker, etc.

· Use an acronym of a quotation. For example: "Choosing Strong Passwords Is A Good Thing" becomes "CSPIAGT"

· "Dictionary words" should be avoided, as the most common form of password cracking involves trying common word combinations.

· Your password should not contain your User ID or contain your first or last name.

· Avoid names of people or places, or information about you that may be well known or easy to find such as your address, birthday, or hobbies.

· Avoid common keyboard sequences, such as "qwerty89" or "abc123."

Keeping your Password Secure

· Passwords should be a minimum of 6 characters.

· All passwords should contain a mix of alpha and numeric characters (at least 1 letter and 1 number).

· Never reveal your password to anyone for any reason.

· Substitute special characters for letters (such as using $ instead of an s, or @ instead of an a).

· Change your password every six months.

· Memorize your passwords instead of writing them down.

· Whenever a computer or program gives you the option to save your password for you, do not select this option. Having the computer or program save your password for you is almost the same as sharing your password with anyone who has access to that computer or program.

Chapter 3 - Teacher Home Page

Main Screen

When you first log in, you are taken to the first level of the Teacher Home Page (as shown in Figure 1). This lists all your classes in the current Grade Level along with data for how the students in each class are doing in each strand and overall. Throughout Moogie on the Net, any number shown with a decimal is an average; any number how as an integer (no decimal) is an exact number. Please note all averages include only where students have worked, not where they haven’t yet tried.

All work done by students - regardless if it’s part of an MEP, an Assessment, an AWWS Workout, Stomping Red Flags, or just working in their General Arena – is included in the data shown on all three levels of the Teacher Home Page: this page, the Class Summary pages, and the Student Detail pages. To view work done specifically in an Assessment or MEP, go to that Tool on the main menu.

In figure 1, a number identifies each item you will see on the Teacher Home Page. The numbers inside smooth shapes indicate information/data displayed. The numbers inside the jagged starburst-type shapes indicate links. The item for each number is described below.

Figure 1 – Teacher Home Page

1-1: This is the main menu. Everything that you can do can be accessed here. After logging in as a teacher, you will see it on almost every page.

1-2: Your name is displayed here, just in case you forget who you are.

1-3: This is the Grade Level you are currently working with. You will see this on every page which is specific to a Grade Level (for example, you will not see it on the Communicator page).

1-4: The tabs at the top let you select which Grade Level you wish to work with. You may only work with students in one Grade Level at a time. If all your students are in the same Grade Level, this will automatically be selected for you.

1-5: If you are a Moogie Coordinator, this is a link to important pages for you. If you are not a Moogie Coordinator, this is a link to send an email to your Coordinator should you have any questions or problems. Parents who purchased a subscription for their children do not have this link.

1-6: This shows the Trend for all the students in the current Grade Level. The Trend is based on students’ histories with the questions. If a student misses a question but retries it, and then answers it correctly before moving on, this shows a favorable Trend.

1-7: This shows the total number of questions answered correctly and total number attempted by all the students in the current Grade Level.

1-8: This shows the average Score for all the students in the current Grade Level. A Score of [18] is equal to 66% correct. Everywhere throughout Moogie on the Net, Scores are always shown in [brackets].

1-9: This shows the average Exposure all the students in the current Grade Level have had to the questions in our database. A student’s Score does not have much meaning when his/her Exposure to all the questions is low. An Exposure of 100% means all the questions in our database have been seen and attempted.

1-10: All the strands in the current Grade Level are shown here. At the far right is a summary for all the Strands combined.

1-11: This is a link to view your students’ Red Flags. A Red Flag is raised when a student misses a question three or more times in a row. If there are new Red Flags which have been raised since you last viewed them, this flag will appear to wave. Your students’ Red Flags may also be accessed through the main menu under Tools.

1-12: This is a link to view your students’ Hot Spots. Hot Spots are a listing of your students’ best (and not so-best) Learning Objectives based in their Scores. Your students’ Hot Spots may also be accessed through the main menu under Tools.

1-13: Each Class in the current Grade Level is listed at the left. You can see each Class’s work data (see #1-15 through #1-19 below) for each Strand. In this example, the two Classes visible are “Amphibians” and “Birds.” Clicking on one of these links will take you to a Class Summary which lists each student in the Class along with their individual work data.

1-14: Everywhere you see the icon of a bullhorn, it means you can instantly send a message to students without going through the Communicator. In the example shown here, clicking this bullhorn would let you instantly send a message to all the students in the Class “Birds.” Clicking on the bullhorn near the top of the screen (not numbered in Figure 1) allows you to instantly send a message to all your students in the current Grade Level.

1-15: The average number questions answered correctly / number attempted in this Strand

1-16: The average percentage answered correctly in this Strand.

1-17: The average Score in this Strand. This is not shown if you have selected “Beginner” as your Comfort Level with Moogie.

1-18: The average Exposure students have had to the entire database of questions in this Strand.

1-19: The average Trend in this Strand.

1-20: This is a link to your Online Assessments. Online Assessments may also be accessed through the main menu under Tools.

1-21: This is a link to where you manage your MEPs (Moogie Educational Plans). The MEP Manager may also be accessed through the main menu under Tools.

1-22: This is a link to the Question Inspector, which lets you inspect the questions your students in the current Grade Level are working with. If a student sends you a Snapshot of a question with a possible error, a purple flag will appear here. The Question Inspector may also be accessed through the main menu under Tools.

1-23: This is the Color Guide to Scores. The coloring of Scores can be turned off/on through the main menu under Start | My Preferences. Please note some teachers have reported that 18.2 or 18.3 (instead of the flat 18) is a better cut-off between the “Needs Work” and “Good” labels.

1-24: This is a link to your Communicator. This lets you read messages from, and send messages to, your students and other teachers at your school who are also using Moogie on the Net. If you have new, unread messages, the caption under the icon will be highlighted in yellow, and the lightning bolts will flash. Your Communicator may also be accessed through the main menu under Tools.

1-25: This is a link to your Student Roster. This may also be accessed through the main menu under Start.

1-26: This is a link to our Lesson Plans Bulletin Board. This is a public forum for teachers to share how they get the most out of Moogie on the Net. We ask all teachers to submit one idea each year, because when we all work together and help each other out, there’s nothing we can’t accomplish! The Bulletin Board may also be accessed through the main menu under Effectiveness.

1-27: Just to be complete, this is a link to log out. This may also be accessed through the main menu under Start. (Yes, that’s a little counter-intuitive, but that’s how Microsoft does it too.)

Class Summary

When you click on the name of a Class on the first level of the Teacher Home Page, you are taken to the second level which gives a Summary of the Class you clicked on.

The Class Summary is similar to the Main Screen, except instead of showing data for all Classes in the current Grade Level, the data shown is for the individual students in the selected Class. Figure 2 shows an example. With the Class Summary, you can see how each student is doing in each strand and overall.

You can click on a student’s name to see his/her individual Work Details.

You can click on the bullhorn under a student’s name to send a message to the student.

You can click on the bullhorn near the top of the page to send a message to all the students in the Class.

To return to the main screen, click the “Home Page” button. You can also return to the main screen by selecting Start | Home Page from the main menu.

Figure 2 – Class Summary

2-1: The Class Summary page lets you switch from one Class to another without having to go back to the main screen.

2-2: Click on a student’s name to see his/her Work Details. Click on the bullhorn under a student’s name to send a message to him/her.

2-3: To return to the main screen, click the “Home Page” button.

Student Work Details

When you click on a student’s name in a Class Summary, you are taken to the third level of the Home Page which shows that Student’s Work Details, shown in Figure 3. A summary of the data is shown at the top. The left side of the screen shows the student’s current Scores for the various Learning Objectives. The right side of the screen shows the record of when the student worked and what was accomplished each session. At the bottom are filters you can use to zero in on more specific information. The items which are special to this page are numbered as before and described below.

Figure 3 – Student Work Details

3-1: You can select to view another Student’s Work Details without having to go back to the Class Summary.

3-2: The Current Scores table shows the number of questions answered correctly and the number tried, the average score, and the trend for each Learning Objective (subject to the filters used, see #3-4, #3-5, and #3-#6).

3-3: The Sessions table shows a log of each time a student has logged in and done work. The log records the date and time, how many minutes were spent working, and how many questions were answered correctly out of the number attempted. Time spent online yet not spent working (for example, time spent in the Prize Room) is not included in the times shown.

3-4: You can sort the list of Learning Objectives shown by Strand Name (then Learning Objective), Learning Objective Name, number questions tried, number questions correct, percentage correct, Score, or Trend. Click the checkbox next to “Descending” to list from highest to lowest. By default, only the Learning Objectives which have been tried by the student are listed. To see all Learning Objectives, un-check the box next to “Hide [0]’s.” This filter affects only the Current Scores table.

3-5: This list-box lets you select to view data for only a certain Strand. Using this filter affects both the Current Scores table and the Sessions table.

3-6: You can select to view every session a student has had with Moogie on the Net (any time this century), or select to view sessions only within the past 1-10 weeks. This filter affects only the Sessions table.

3-7: The Color Key on this page is the same as it is everywhere else in Moogie on the Net for Scores. There are additional colors used for the Sessions table. The color Goldenrod is used to indicate times that the student used Moogie outside of school, that is, on a weekend - or before 8 AM or after 3 PM your time. We can’t really know where the student was during his/her session, and we do not take into account things such as Christmas break, summer vacation, snow days, or county fair days. The shades of blue are used to indicate sessions which lasted longer than 30 minutes. Time spent online yet not spent working (for example, time spent in the Prize Room) is not included in the times shown.

3-8: To return to the Class Summary, click this button. To return directly to the Home Page main screen, use the main menu and select Start | My Home Page.

Chapter 4 - Moogie Educational Plans (MEPs)

Overview

Moogie’s Educational Plans (MEPs) allow you to focus your students’ efforts where you think is best. There are two kinds of MEPs you can create. The kind that is most commonly used allows you to Target Objectives. When you Target Objectives, you select precisely which Learning Objectives you want your students to work on.

The second kind of MEP lets you Hide Question Types you feel your students are not quite ready to tackle. Question Types aren’t specific Learning Objectives and, in fact, are found sporadically across several Learning Objectives. An example of a Question Type is long division. Hiding Question Types is only available in the elementary Grade Levels.

When you go to your MEP Manager, you will see a page similar to the one in Figure 4.

Figure 4 – MEP Manager

4-1: This will be the only link you see until you design an MEP of your own. To design an MEP, click here. This example is working with 4^th Grade students.

4-2: The MEPs you have designed are listed here. Clicking the name of an MEP allows you to monitor student progress with Targeted Objectives (see the section MEP Summary, below). It also lets you edit the MEP, that is, to change the objectives it targets (or the questions it hides), the students who are to use it, and/or its name.

4-3: For informational purposes (and this comes in handy if you have several MEPs) the function of each MEP and how many students are using it is shown here.

4-4: If you wish to delete an MEP, you may do so here. All students using that MEP will be released from it and permitted to work in the General Arena.

Before you can use an MEP with students, there are two steps to follow: 1) Design the MEP (select the Objectives to Target or the Types to Hide) and 2) Select which students will use it.

Designing an MEP

To design a new MEP, click where it says <<Design a New 4th Grade MEP>> (your current Grade Level will be inserted here). You will see a screen similar to the one shown in figure 5:

Figure 5 – Design a New MEP

5-1: The first step in designing an MEP is to select the tab for the kind of MEP this will be. If you select Hide Question Types, the list of Learning Objectives shown here will be replaced by a list of Question Types you can select to have hidden from students and items marked by #5-2 and #5-3 will disappear.

5-2: Choose which Strand the Targeted Objectives will be taken from. You may also choose “Any/All Strands” but it’s better if you choose one single Strand.

5-3: To make selecting the Learning Objectives a bit quicker, there are buttons to “Select All” and “Clear All.”

5-4: The Learning Objectives in the Strand chosen with #5-2 are listed here. Select the ones you want this MEP to target. (If you’re designing an MEP to Hide Question Types, the type(s) you can hide will be shown here; select the ones you want to hide in a similar fashion. Grade 4 allows you to hide Double-Digits Multiplication & Long Division. Grade 6 allows you to hide Complementary/Supplementary Angles, Factors/Multiples & Primes/Composites)

5-5: If there is another teacher at your school who is also using Moogie on the Net, and he/she has designed an MEP you would like to use, this option is for you. All the MEPs designed by fellow teachers at your school (which are of the same kind as you chose with item #5-1) are listed here.

5-6: Once you have selected an MEP to copy with #5-5, click this button. Your MEP will not yet be created, but the Learning Objectives to Target (or the Question Types to Hide) will automatically be selected for you. You can change the selections if you like. You will still have to Save the MEP as your own and assign which of your students are to use it.

5-7: Think of name for this MEP. If this is an MEP which Targets Learning Objectives, students will see this name.

5-8: Once you’ve made your selections and entered a name for this MEP, click here to Save it.

5-9: Click here to throw away anything you’ve done here and return to your list of MEPs.

After you click to save your MEP, you will be taken to an MEP Summary screen which shows you students’ progress with it. But since you haven’t yet added any students to the MEP, Moogie will insist that you assign which students are to use your new MEP. Click on the link to “Go Add Students” when you see it.

Adding Students to an MEP

Adding students to an MEP is pretty straightforward. If you’ve just designed a new MEP and followed the link to go add students, or if you later decide to add additional students to use an MEP, you will see a screen similar to Figure 6. In this example, Peter Brady is already using this MEP, but if this is a brand new MEP that you’ve just designed, then obviously no students will be using it yet.

Figure 6 – Add Students to an MEP

6-1: If it makes it easier for you, you can select to list only the students in a certain class.

6-2: Select the students who should use the MEP.

6-3: Students who are already using the MEP (such as Peter Brady) cannot be selected again.

6-4: Students who are using a different MEP (such as Jan and Cindy) can be added to this one. They will be removed from the other MEPs they are currently using.

6-5: To make your changes take effect, click “Save Settings.” To throw away your changes, click “Cancel”

Students who are added to an MEP which Targets Objectives are no longer permitted to work in the General Arena. Instead, they will be told they must work on the “Plan” that you have designed for them. When you are finished with this page, you will be taken back to the MEP Summary.

MEP Summary

The MEP Summary is displayed when you click on the name of an MEP from the first page in the MEP Manager (see the first section in this chapter, Overview). It is also brought up immediately after you design a new MEP (see the section, Designing an MEP, above). If you have not yet added any students to the MEP, you will be offered a link to do so.

Because there are two kinds of MEPs, some distinctions need to be made here.

MEPs with Targeted Objectives

The scores and data you see on all three levels of the Teacher Home Page include work done anywhere in Moogie on the Net, including work done with MEPs. The Teacher Home Page does not, however, let you see exclusively the work done with just an MEP. The MEP Summary; however, does allow this. An MEP Summary is similar to a regular Class Summary, although instead of listing the students in a Class, it lists all the students using the MEP. A sample MEP Summary is shown in Figure 7.

Figure 7 – MEP Summary

7-1: In addition to the statistics found on a regular Summary page, the MEP Summary includes (ironically) a summary including the MEP name, the number of Learning Objectives targeted, and the number of students using it.

7-2: Instead of showing Scores and other data by Strand, the MEP Summary simply shows the total and percentage of questions answered correctly, the average Score for questions in this MEP, the Exposure to all the questions in this MEP, and the overall Trend in this MEP for each student. Note in this example, our students haven’t yet done any work in this MEP.

7-3: Your students’ Hot Spots lists the highest and lowest ranking Learning Objectives that are in the MEP.

7-4: Clicking on a student’s name will take you to his/her Work Details just as it does from the regular Class Summary. This page, however, will list only details relating to the MEP. In addition, Scores for all the Learning Objectives in the MEP are always shown. (See Teacher Home Page, Student Work Details for more information)

7-5: Click “Remove” to remove a student from this MEP. The student will then be permitted to work in the General Arena again.

7-6: Click here to add more students to this MEP (see Adding Students to an MEP, above).

7-7: Click here to edit the Learning Objectives this MEP covers or to edit its name (uses the same screen as Designing an MEP, above).

7-8: Click here to return to the MEP Manager’s list of all your MEPs.

MEPs with Hidden Question Types

MEPs with Hidden Questions is a different creature. Because the questions which are hidden from the students are located in different Strands and Learning Objectives, and there really aren’t any specific Learning Objectives to monitor, there is no MEP Summary. Students using this type of MEP are not even made aware of it, and they continue to work in the General Arena. This means you can view their progress just as you regularly do from the Teacher Home Page, Class Summary, and Student Work Details as discussed in the chapter Teacher Home Page.

The MEP Summary page for an MEP with Hidden Question Types merely lists the students using that MEP and provides buttons for you to remove each student from the MEP if you wish. Again, since students with this kind of MEP never know it, they won’t know if they are removed from it either.

Important note: Unless a student’s Exposure to all the questions is 100% before being added to this kind of MEP (which doesn’t really make sense), his/her Exposure will never reach 100% since the questions being hidden means he/she will never be exposed to them.

Chapter 5 - Online Assessments

Overview

Moogie on the Net's Online Assessments tool offers a way for teachers to measure and record their students' abilities in ways never before possible. In addition, Moogie follows up on their weak spots in an almost magical way with the revolutionary AWWS Workouts!

When you go to your Online Assessments, you will see a page similar to Figure 8. In this example, five Assessments already exist, but when you go there for the first time, it will be quite empty until you create an Assessment.

Figure 8 – My Online Assessments

8-1: Throughout your Assessment pages, you will find this special Quick Help! menu to answer common questions.

8-2: If you use a lot of Assessments with your students, this screen can get cluttered. You can move old Assessments to the Archive. These tabs let you choose to view either your current Assessment s or your archived ones.

8-3: To create a new Assessment, click here.

8-4: If an Assessment hasn’t yet been Opened for students (that is, if no students have seen it yet), you can delete it by clicking the button in this column.

8-5: All your current Assessments are listed here. To do anything with an Assessment, click on its name.

8-6: The status of each Assessment the date the current Status became effective is listed in these columns.

8-7: This Assessment has been Opened. Once students can start taking an Assessment, the “Delete” button is removed, and the percentage of students who have completed taking it and the average percentage correct are shown in the last two columns.

Once an Assessment has been opened, it is rather difficult to delete it - especially if students have worked on it. There is a very important reason for this design: As long as a student continues to use Moogie on the Net, it is only fair that the record of his/her work be available to see. If you delete the Assessment, the records of how students did on each question did will still be available (on the Teacher Home Page), but the records of doing the actual Assessment will be lost.

Without deleting Assessments, the main screen will start to become quite cluttered after about the 8th Assessment. The solution is to Archive the Assessment when you are done using it. Archiving Assessments offers a way of keeping it available for students to see how they did in the past without cluttering your screen. When Archived, it also remains available to you to review and for basing future Assessments on, should you desire.

Creating an Assessment

Before you can give your students an Assessment, you must first create it. To create a new Assessment, click where it says <<Create a New 4^th Grade Assessment>> (it will say your current Grade Level). You will then see a screen similar to Figure 9.

Figure 9 – Create a New Assessment

This page is just the starting point for a new Assessment.

9-1: Which questions will this Assessment contain? You have four options concerning where to start with which questions to use. Remember that regardless of your choice here, you will be able to review the questions used before students take it. You can remove questions if you want. You can also use our Question Browser to view all the questions in our database and select ones you want to add to your Assessment

9-A: “Selected entirely by me,” starts with a clean slate of no questions. You will select all the questions using our Question Browser,

9-B: “Based on an Assessment I have used in the past,” will copy the questions used in one of your previous Assessments to this one. This is useful for doing the same Assessment for different classes which meet and cycle through on a regular basis with a new group of students (such as every semester). It is also ideal for pre-tests and post-tests because after a pre-test, you can close the Assessment so students can't use it any more, do the work that you will be measuring, and then open a new Assessment (based on the pre-test) for the post-test.

9-C: “Based on a commonly given Assessment,” lets you start with a set of questions we have assembled for you based on previously-given state assessments (such as the Ohio 4th Grade Proficiency Test) or other common assessments we feel may be needed by teachers.

9-D: “Based on a fellow teacher’s Assessment,” is available only where more than one teacher is using Moogie on the Net with students.

9-2: Which students will take this Assessment? You can quickly include students from one class or from all your classes in the grade level. This is purely optional because regardless of your selection here, you will be able to change which students are included in the Assessment later. It is just offered as a convenience to our users.

9-3: What will this Assessment be called? You can name your Assessment anything you like, 27 characters or less, as long as each Assessment in a grade level has its own unique name.

9-4: When you are happy with your choices, click “Create this Assessment.” You will then be taken to a page for the Assessment Details. To throw away your selections and return to your list of Assessments, click on “Cancel.”

Note for item 9-C: State assessments which contain open-ended questions present Moogie a challenge since we can offer only a multiple-choice format. In cases where a state's assessment includes a short-answer or open-ended-question, we do our best to capture the essence of the question by offering extended responses as the answer choices. Also Note: Commonly-given Assessments are added on a continuous basis as time permits based on the needs of our users. As we are just starting out with this feature, our initial offerings will be limited. At first, not all grade levels will be able to use this feature. You can really help us by telling us what you think is needed here the most.

Life Cycle of an Assessment

Before you can use an Assessment, you must understand its Life Cycle. Each Assessment has one of four different Status Levels to indicate where it is in its Life Cycle.

Incomplete: You are still designing the Assessment and selecting the questions which will be used. An Incomplete Assessment is represented by a traffic light with the red lamp lit. It cannot yet be made available to students. An Assessment must contain at least five questions and include at least one student before it changes to Ready status.

Ready: You have selected at least 5 questions for the Assessment and at least one student to take it. A Ready Assessment is represented by a traffic light with the yellow lamp lit. When an Assessment is Ready, it means you can Open it for students to use. With Ready status, students are not yet aware that the Assessment exists. Use this time to double-check and refine the questions used in the Assessment because once it is Opened, the questions which are used become locked and cannot be changed. If the number of questions or students falls below the requirements to make an Assessment Ready, it will fall back to Incomplete. When you are satisfied with the questions it contains, you may Open the Assessment.

Open: An Open Assessment is represented by a traffic light with the green lamp lit. When an Assessment is Open, it means that the students you have selected can see and take it. Students are not required, though, by the software to take it. When you Open an Assessment, students are told only that there is an "Assignment you've never tried," so if it mandatory that they take it for your class, you should tell them that they need to do it.

· After an Assessment has been opened, the questions it contains can no longer be changed. Students who have not worked on the Assessment can easily be removed from it; however, students who have worked on it (and the record of their work) should not be deleted unless something has gone terribly, terribly wrong. As long as a student continues to use Moogie on the Net, it is only fair that the record of his/her work be available to see. Refer to Deleting Assessments and/or Students for more information.

· Open Assessments cannot be deleted. If you remove all the students from an Open Assessment (or if you delete students from your classroom or recycle their accounts) , it will automatically become Closed.

· To delete an Assessment which has been opened, you must first Close it, remove all students who are included in it, and then go to the Status page to access a "Delete" button. Refer to Deleting Assessments and/or Students for more information.

· An Assessment cannot be Closed if any students are currently "In Progress" of working on it.

· When you are through assessing your students, you may Close it. Use care when Closing an Assessment, though, because once Closed, an Assessment cannot be re-opened. (You'll have to create a new Assessment and base it on the Assessment that is closed.)

Closed: A Closed Assessment is represented by a traffic light with all lamps extinguished. When as Assessment has been Closed, it is no longer made available to students to use. Students are permitted, however, to continue doing AWWS workouts based on how they did on the Assessment. Closed Assessments cannot be re-opened.

· Once Closed, the Assessment's Status page will contain two buttons. One for Archiving the Assessment and one for deleting it. Closed Assessments cannot be deleted as long as there is a record of a student working on it, so the Delete button might be disabled. Archiving an Assessment offers a way of keeping it available for students to see what they did in the past without cluttering your screen. When Archived, it also remains available to you to review and for basing future Assessments on.

Assessment Details

When you are viewing the list of all your Assessments and click on an Assessment’s name, you are taken to the Assessments Details page. You are also taken to this page immediately after creating a new Assessment. This screen is where you will spend most of your time with Assessments, because almost everything you do with an Assessment is done from this page.

There are three tabs along the left side of the screen. Each lets you control a specific part of your Assessment. The appearance of this page will vary depending on which tab is clicked and the Status of the Assessment.

STATUS: This tab tells you where your Assessment currently is in its life-cycle. This tab also holds the optional settings for your Assessment.

QUESTIONS: This tab is where you can select and review the questions in your Assessment. Once your students begin using your Assessment, you can use this tab to see how they, as a whole, score on each question!

STUDENTS: This tab is where you manage the students who take your Assessment. And of course, this is also where you go to see how the students score on the Assessment.

Assessment Details – The Status Tab

The Status tab shows you a summary about your Assessment including its Status. In Figure 10, “Leggy’s Fraction Fun” contains 29 questions, can be taken by four students, and currently has the Status of Open. The top half of the page, next to the giant traffic light, always gives the Status of the Assessment along with special instructions or tips which apply to its Status.

Figure 10 – My Assessment Details, Status Tab

The Status tab also offers you the following options for your Assessment:

· Offer “Skip Question” button: lets student click on a button to skip a question if they choose. The question is counted wrong, and they cannot go back to it later. You will be able to see which questions are skipped by your students.

· Allow re-takes: Lets students retake the Assessment voluntarily as many times as they wish until their percentage correct is greater than or equal to the Stars Level (as long as it is still Open). You will be able to see how many times they take it and exactly how they did each time.

· Level for ”Stars:” This is the percentage which must be answered correctly before the student will see Stars next to this Assessment. This is also the point at which all re-takes and AWWS Workouts are stopped. The default is 85, but you may change this; just be sure to click the “Save ‘Stars’ Level” button. Moogie will remember the level you entered last and will use that value as the default for all new Assessments created afterward.

· Rename Assessment: If you wish to rename this Assessment, you may do so here. Be sure to click the “Save New Name” button. Names can have a maximum of 27 characters, and all Assessments in the same Grade Level must have a unique name.

Assessment Details – The Questions Tab

When you click on the Questions tab, you will see a screen similar to Figure 11. This is an example where the Assessment is still being designed by the teacher.

Figure 11 - My Assessment Details, Questions Tab (Still Designing)

Right now, only one question has been added to this Assessment.

Each line represents one question in the Assessment. The first column is the question number as students will see it. The next column is the question’s ID number. Please note there currently is no option for choosing the order the questions are shown to students. Moogie's questions are logically sequenced; they are grouped by strand and start with the easier questions for all of the various topics.

The Question Text column shows you only the text of the question. All graphics and formatting are removed. In places where there is a displayed variable (i.e., a number that changes each time) you will see "[?]." At the end of each question's text, the Strand and Learning Objective of the question is shown [in brackets.]

To view the question in it's full form with graphics and real numbers like the students will see it, click the magnifying glass icon. This will take you into the Question Browser/Inspector and automatically bring up the question for you to see. From there, you can also choose to view the next or previous question(s) in the Assessment without coming back to this screen. Clicking the "Review Assessment Questions" button has the same effect as clicking on the magnifying glass for Question #1. By using this feature (using the Inspector/Browser and viewing only the questions which are in your Assessment) you can inspect each question in your Assessment in its full form without having to select the Strand and Learning Objective and then search for each particular question.

To browse the entire Moogie on the Net database for questions to add to your Assessment, click "Browse Database/Add Questions" to bring up the Moogie Question Browser/Inspector. Please note that the only questions you will see are those which are for your current Grade Level. The Help file for using the Question Browser/Inspector is contained in the Browser/Inspector itself, and you will see it as soon as you go there. The Question Browser is shown in Figure 12.

Figure 12 – Browse Database for Questions

12-1: To begin browsing, select a Strand of questions.

12-2: Next select a Learning Objective. The first question in the database which matches this Strand and Learning Objective will replace the help file (not shown here).

12-3: Instead of selecting a Strand and Learning Objective, you can enter a question’s ID number and click the “Go” button to jump right to it. The Strand and Learning Objective will automatically be selected for you.

12-4: To move through the different questions which match the selected Strand and Learning Objective, click the “Previous” and “Next” buttons. The total number of questions which match the selected Strand and Learning Objective is shown here.

12-5: This button will change the numbers to give you a better feel for how it might appear for students. Feel free to use it a lot!

12-6: To add this question to your Assessment, click here. Note: If the current question has already been selected to be in the Assessment, this button will allow you to “Remove this Question.”

12-7: To add all the questions in this Strand and Learning Objective to your Assessment, click here.

12-8: This shows you how many questions are currently in your Assessment.

12-9: This is the ID number of the question currently displayed.

12-10: Questions are either Level 1 (Knowledge & Skills) or Level 2 (Understanding & Problem Solving). Please note not all Learning Objectives have questions with both Levels. For example, the Learning Objective “Problem Solving” contains only Level 2 questions.

12-11: With Moogie, the numbers always change! This is an estimate of the total possible variations there can be with the current question. Remember that sometimes, especially where graphics are concerned, there are variables “behind the scenes” essential to the question that you do not see. Also, there are a few questions which have no other variations - essentially the ones concerning definitions and not numbers.

12-12: This is the correct answer for the question as you currently see it. You will need to scroll down to see the answer choices.

12-13: We would like to be able to offer a detailed explanation to students having trouble with particular questions. If you would like to contribute such an explanation for this question, please click this link and email it to us!

12-14: If something has gone awry and there is an error with this question, please click here to send us a snapshot of what you see. We take a lot of pride in our website, and the thought of any errors makes us cringe!

12-15: Due to constraints of screen sizes, it is necessary to scroll this window to see the entire question and the answer choices. Please note that right clicking and selecting to view the image will boot you off the website and you will have to log back on. (We apologize; this can’t be prevented.)

12-16: To return to the Questions tab of your Assessment Details, click here.

Note: If, on the Assessment Details – Questions tab, you select “Review Assessment Questions” instead of “Browse Database/Add Questions” you will still come to this page; however, it will be simplified. There will be no controls to select a Strand or Learning Objective, there will be no option to jump to a question ID number, and there will be no ability to add a question to the Assessment. You will be able to only move forward or backward through the list of questions that have already been added. If the Assessment has not yet been opened, you will also have the option of removing a question from the Assessment.

You are free to add or remove questions as much as you would like as long as the status of the Assessment is Incomplete or Ready,

Once you have finished designing your Assessment and are ready to have students take it, you can Open it for them. (This is done on the Status tab.)

Figure 13 - My Assessment Details, Questions Tab (Assessment Opened)

Once an Assessment has been Opened, the "Remove" button changes to a progress bar that shows what percentage of students answered the question correctly. You will know at a glance which questions your students, as a whole, had the most difficulty with! Please note that each time a student retakes an Assessment (if you have allowed that) each time is counted as another student. For example, let's say you have 10 students take your Assessment and five of them answer question #3 correctly (5/10=50%). If one student re-takes the Assessment and answers #3 correct, the average shown for that question will be 6/11=55%.

Assessment Details – The Students Tab

When you click on the Students tab, you will see a screen similar to the one in Figure 14. Here, four students have been added to this Assessment, and the students haven’t seen this Assessment yet. Because they haven’t yet seen it, the status for each student is “Not Tried” and there aren’t any Scores or data to view.

If you haven’t yet added any students to the Assessment, you will not see this page; instead, you will be shown a link to go add students.

Figure 14 - My Assessment Details, Students Tab (Before Assessment is Opened)

13-1: To remove a student from this Assessment, click the corresponding “Remove” button.

13-2: Students who are included in this Assessment are grouped by their Class.

13-3: Like everywhere throughout Moogie on the Net, a bullhorn is a link to instantly send a message. Clicking on this bullhorn will let the teacher send a message to Babs Bunny.

13-4: To add more students to this Assessment, click here. You will see a screen similar to Figure 15.

Adding students to your Assessment is very easy. All your students in the current Grade Level will be listed. Simply place a check next to the student(s) you wish to include in the Assessment.

Students may be included in an Assessment at any time until the Assessment is Closed. This means you can add additional students even after some students have already taken it.

Figure 15 - Selecting Students for Assessment

Once the Assessment has been opened and students have started taking it, this page will look more like the one in Figure 16.

Figure 16 - My Assessment Details, Students Tab (Assessment Opened)

14-1: The Status, Date, Result, and (Percentage) Correct columns are pretty self-explanatory. Averages are also given for each Class. The Results column shows the percentage correct rather than the Moogie [Score] because it's much more common and typical of what teachers want to see at a glance.

14-2: If the student has done any work at all with the Assessment, his/her status will indicate this. It will also be a link you can click to take a closer look at how the student did on each question. There are three Status levels that a student can have, and this affects what you can do and see with your Assessment.

1. Not Tried: The student hasn't started the Assessment. Remember that when you Open an Assessment, students are told only that there is an "Assignment you've never tried," so if it mandatory that they take it for your class, you should tell them that they need to do it. As long as a student has not started to take your Assessment, it's OK to remove him/her from it.

2. In Progress: The student has started the Assessment but hasn't yet finished it. The date shown is when they started. Once students start an Assessment, they are required to finish it before they can do anything else with Moogie on the Net. However, nothing can prevent their closing the browser windows or temporary internet connection problems. If students leave Moogie on the Net in the middle of an Assessment, they a required to pick up where they left off as soon as they log back in (although the numbers will be different!). While In Progress, a student cannot be removed from an Assessment. Also note that no Assessment can be Closed if any student is In Progress taking it.

3. Finished: The student has completed your Assessment. At this point, you should not delete the student (and the record of his/her work) from the Assessment unless something has gone terribly, terribly wrong. As long as a student continues to use Moogie on the Net, it is only fair that the record of his/her work be available to see. Refer to Deleting Assessments and/or Students for more information.

14-3: You can easily Remove a student from an Assessment if he/she has not yet started it. After the student has started, you can Delete his/her Assessment work, but Moogie will pressure you not to.

14-4: You can see the AWWS follow-up work done by each student after each time the Assessment is taken. In this example, it appears Dylan got 70% right the first time he took the Assessment. He then did AWWS work. When he then took the Assessment again, he got 100%.

14-5: If you’ve allowed re-takes, you are shown the results each time he/she takes it.

14-6: To add more students to this Assessment, click here. Remember that unlike questions, more students can be added to an Assessment at any time - even after it has been Opened and seen by other students.

Assessment Details – Each Student’s Work

When viewing the Students tab of your Assessment Details, clicking on a student’s Status will bring up a page similar to the one shown in Figure 17. It is similar to looking at a student’s paper which was handed in and graded, but you’ll see it’s a little more sophisticated than that!

Figure 17 – Student’s Work on Assessment

This page looks very much like the screen on the Questions tab that you used when you created the Assessment. The Question #, ID#, Question Text, and View columns are exactly the same. The 5th column, however, now shows how the student answered on the Assessment.

16-1: This was Betty’s first try at this Assessment.

16-2: Betty has finished this Assessment (she’s not still In Progress).

16-3: Betty got 7/10 correct.

16-4: Betty spent 11 minutes doing this Assessment her first time.

16-5: Click here to see the previous student’s work.

16-6: Usually, you click here to see the next student’s work, but since Betty tried this Assessment twice, this arrow will let you see Betty’s work the second time she took it.

16-7: She answered #1 correctly.

16-8: She got stumped and skipped #2.

16-9: She missed #3.

16-10: This is when she finished the Assessment.

16-11: She has done her AWWS workout for this Assessment twice. During those two workouts, she answered 34/39 correctly.

16-12: To return to the Student tab of your Assessment Details (the list of all the students in the Assessment) click here.

AWWS Workouts

When Moogie was created, it was great because the numbers always change. Moogie then went online and offered Moogie Educational Plans (MEPs), and we thought "Wow! This is really cool!" And now that we offer online Assessments, we are over the top with excitement - but we think you'll find the AWWS Assessment follow-up Workouts to be absolutely the most wonderful and useful feature ever!

AWWS Workouts never need to be designed or activated by the teacher. They are created automatically (if needed) for each student after completing an Assessment.

AWWS stands for Actively Working the Weak Spots. Now, instead of giving a student an Assessment and then saying, "OK, here's how you did. Now go back and work wherever," an AWWS follows up on a student's weak spots based on how he/she did on the Assessment. It's personalized for each student to meet his/her unique needs!

If too many questions are missed while taking an Assessment, then afterward, there will be an AWWS for the student (and many times, lots of "Awww"s from the student). If the student meets the Level for "Stars" that you have set for an Assessment, then no AWWS will be offered to the student.

Figure 18 shows a student’s screen, and he has taken two Assessments. On the first, he scored only 70% correct, so an AWWS Workout is available for him. He needs only to click on the AWWS graphic to start the AWWS Workout. On the second Assessment, he scored 95%, so he received Stars, and no AWWS Workout is needed.

Figure 18 – Assessments, What a Student Sees

An AWWS is created specifically to cover the Learning Objectives missed on an Assessment. When the student chooses to do an AWWS, his/her work on the Assessment is examined. The Learning Objective of each question which was missed or skipped is put into a list. The AWWS Workout is then made up of all the questions in our database which cover any of the Learning Objectives in this list.

AWWS Workouts may be stopped and started as often as the student needs, just like a regular Workout. The number of questions in a student's AWWS will vary widely depending on the number of different Learning Objectives contained in the original Assignment and how well he/she did on the Assignment. Students are told how many question are in their AWWS each time they start one; if it is a large number, you may want to make sure they realize that they can do a little at a time - they don't have to all be done in one session like an actual “Assignment.”

Usually your Assessments will contain the more difficult questions, and that's OK. Just like a regular Workout, the questions are sorted by the student's scores for them. The questions which the student has never seen will be shown first. The questions, as a general rule, tend to become more difficult as one progresses through a topic or Learning Objective. Ideally, this will culminate with the student understanding what went wrong on an Assessment.

After doing a specific AWWS for the first time (and having seen all the questions) the questions are merely sorted by score. Questions with the higher scores are seen last, and the ones the student has had the most trouble with are shown first - just like a regular Workout.

Also like a regular Workout, once a question's score reaches [20] it is never shown to the student again. (Why waste time where the student is doing so well?). Because of this, it is possible for a student to do a specific AWWS enough times and so well that when they try to do it again, they will be told they've done so well that there are no questions left in the AWWS for them to work on. If this happens, it's definitely time for them to re-take the Assessment (if you've allowed that). Otherwise, they can go back and work out in their General Arena or on their "Plan" (MEP),

Just as with the Assessments themselves, all work done in AWWS Workouts is added to the General Arena (for the student) and is included in the data found on the Teacher Home Page, Class Summary, and Student Details.

Deleting Assessments and/or Students

Keep in mind that we strongly believe that as long as a student continues to use Moogie on the Net, it is only fair that the record of his/her work is available to be seen. Nevertheless, situations occur where information must be deleted.

To Delete or Remove a Student from an Assessment

If the student has not started working on the Assessment, go to the Students tab and click on the "Remove" button found on the same line as the student. This is quick ad easy.

If the student is "In Progress" of taking the Assessment, he/she cannot be removed from it. As a last resort, you can totally erase the student's account; that is, delete the student from your Class Roster. This will mean all the student's work will be deleted!

If the student has finished the Assessment, go to the Students tab and click on the "Delete" button found on the same line as the student. We strongly discourage teachers from doing this!

To Delete an Assessment

If the Assessment has never been Opened, go to the Main Screen/List of Assessments, make sure the "Current Assessments" tab is selected, and click on the "Delete" button found on the same line as the Assessment. This is quick and easy.

If the Assessment is Open, it cannot be deleted until it is Closed. To Close an Assessment, go to the Assessment's Status tab and select "Close this Assessment." Note that Assessments cannot be Closed if any included student is still "In Progress" of taking it.

If the Assessment is Closed, all students must be removed from the Assessment (see above) before it can be deleted. We strongly encourage teachers to simply Archive the Assessment so students can look back at their work. It will also remain available for you to review and use to base future Assessments on. Do this by going to the Assessment's Status tab and clicking the "Send to Archives" button. If you simply must delete the Assessment, delete all the students from it, then go to the Assessment's Status tab and click the "Delete Assessment" button, but we strongly discourage teachers from doing this!

Chapter 6 - Other Teacher Tools/Features

Hot Spots

Viewing all your students’ Scores on the teacher Home Page, Class Summary, and Student Work Details is nice, but it doesn’t really point out where a teacher can make the best use of limited resources – namely, his/her time when working with classes! Your Hot Spots can show you where your students, as a whole, are doing the best and, perhaps more importantly, where they need the most help. You can go to your Hot Spots by either selecting Tools | My Hot Spots, or by clicking on the Hot Spots link in the upper left-hand corner of the table on the Teacher Home Page. Your Hot Spots page will look similar to Figure 19.

Figure 19 – Hot Spots

Hot Spots are ranked by looking at Scores of all the questions attempted by your students in each Learning Objective along with the number of times the questions have been attempted and the number of students who’ve worked attempted them. In this example, there are very few students for this teacher; most teachers will have a lot more. Some of the options you may wish to use are located at the right and include:

19-1: How many objectives should be listed? The Top-5 and Bottom–5? Top 10’s? Please note there is a middle range where the Learning Objectives will not be listed as being either “Looks Good” or “Needs Help.” In addition, only Learning Objectives which have been attempted by students are included here. The next four options will filter down your Hot Spots to help you really nail down the true trouble areas.

19-2: You can view the Hot Spots for a single Class.

19-3: You can view the Hot Spots for a single Strand.

19-4: You can select to include Learning Objectives only if they have been tried a certain number of students. This can help you get a better feel for the group of students as a whole.

19-5: You can select to include Learning Objectives only if they have been attempted a certain number of times. Again, this can help you get a better feel for the group of students as a whole.

Red Flags

Red Flags are another Tool we offer to help you find (and hopefully eliminate) your students’ trouble spots. Unlike Hot Spots, which help identify the weak areas for your students as a whole, Red Flags are really designed more for finding the rough areas for individual students.

A Red Flag is raised for a question when a student misses it three or more times in a row. Keep in mind that just because a student missed a particular question 3 times in a row doesn't mean he/she saw that question 3 times in a row. It doesn't matter how many other questions are seen between each time the original question is seen; Moogie on the Net remembers!

Figure 20 – Red Flags Listed by Student

20-1: You can view the students with Red Flags in a single Class or in the entire Grade Level.

20-2: Clicking this link will show a list of all the questions with Red Flags and the students who “own” each one. See Figure 21 below.

20-3: Click on a link in this column to see which questions have Red Flags for a particular student. You will also be shown how many times in a row they have missed each question. See Figure 21 below.

20-4: When a student misses the same question for the 3rd time in a row, a message is shown telling him/her to seek help from the teacher or a friend. If the Consecutive Misses goes above 3, it indicates a student who possibly may be doing lots of guessing and is certainly not following directions and getting the help which is needed. These are shaded dark gray.

20-5: You can create an Assessment for these students which contains the questions which have the Red Flags shown here. Ideally, when you see the Red Flags, you will create an Assessment which addresses them. Then, after working with the students on the questions, you can Open the Assessment for them and see how they do.

20-6: Click here to return to the Teacher Home Page.

Figure 21 - Red Flags Listed by Question

21-1: When the questions with Red Flags are listed, they appear just as they do in the Question Browser used for creating Assessments. To view a question with any graphics and actual values for the variables, click on the image of the magnifying glass.

21-2: This column lists the Strand, Learning Objective, and text of the question.

21-3: If listing the Red Flags for an entire Class or Grade Level, the third column will show how many students have a Red Flag for each particular question along with their names.

21-4: If listing the Red Flags for an individual student, the third column will show how many times in a row the student missed each question.

You can work with a student on his/her Red Flags. While the student is logged on (and presumably, you are right beside him/her) have him/her click on "Stomp Red Flags." You will need to enter your Red Flag Password. (By default, it is simply the word RED unless you change it on the "My Preferences" page.) Only the questions which have Red Flags will be shown. Students can re-try missed questions with different numbers (as usual), but they can also re-do questions they answer correctly to help reinforce the concept of the Learning Objective. See the chapter Student Features, Stomping Red Flags for more information.

Regardless of how many times in a row a student misses a question, answering it correctly one time immediately removes the Red Flag. But don’t worry, Moogie will still know the question’s Score and remember the student has struggled with it.

Communicator

The Teacher Communicator allows you to send messages to, and receive messages from, your students. If there are other teachers at your school who also use Moogie on the Net, you can send and receive messages from them too. The important thing to remember is that if you go a period without logging on to the Teacher Home Page, your messages from students will have a way of piling up. The Communicator does not use email; all messages are stored in and delivered only by accessing our website. To start the Communicator, click on the link in the lower left corner of the Teacher Home Page (if you have any new messages, it will have flashing lightning bolts and tell you) or select Tools | My Communicator from the main menu. A sample of the Communicator page is shown in Figure 22.

Figure 22 – Teacher Communicator

The left side and middle of the Communicator screen is used for sending messages. The right side of the screen is used for reading the messages which have been sent to you.

22-1: This is where you type the message to be sent.

22-2: To send the message to a fellow teacher at your school who also uses Moogie on the Net, select his/her name here. To select more than one fellow teacher, hold down the CTRL or Shift key while clicking the mouse.

22-3: To send the message to a student, select his/her name here. To select more than one student, hold down the CTRL or Shift key while clicking the mouse. You can select to list students from only one class at the top of the list.

22-4: To select all the names in one of the lists, click the appropriate button here. If the first name is already selected, clicking a “Select All” button will un-select all the names in the list.

22-5: To send your message, click here. Students will receive your message the next time the go to their Home Page. Fellow teachers will see your message the next time they go to their Communicator page (just like you do).

22-6: This is the list of people who have sent you messages. To view a person’s message, click on his/her name. If the message is one you have not marked as being “Read,” there will be asterisks in front of the person’s name.

22-7: This window shows the message to you which was sent by the person whose name is selected above. The date and time that the message was sent is also shown, so be sure you have the proper Time Zone selected for you and your students in your Personal Preferences (discussed later in this chapter).

22-8: To reply to this message (without having to find the sender’s name in the lists at the left), click here (see Figure 23, below).

22-9: You can mark a message as being “Read” so it won’t be considered a “New Message” any more. You can also select to permanently delete the message. Please note that Moogie will fuss if you have more than ten messages sitting here, so don’t be afraid to delete messages once you read them.

22-10: Click here when you are done using the Communicator.

All throughout the Teacher Module of Moogie on the Net, you have seen small bullhorn icons next to student names and next to page summaries. These let you instantly send a message to the student(s) the bullhorn is next to. When you click on a bullhorn, or if you click the “Reply” button above, you will see a simple window like the one shown in Figure 23.

Figure 23 - Instantly send a message

The name(s) or a description of the group who will receive your message is shown at the top. Simply type in your message and click “Send Message!”

Question Inspector

The Question Inspector page is same as the Question Browser page used to add questions to your Assessments, only it has been simplified. The Inspector allows you to peruse the questions your students are working with.

The Inspector also allows you to examine the questions with the hope that you might submit an explanation of how to solve a question which we then can offer to students who are having trouble with it. We know you are busy, but if we all do a little, Moogie on the Net will be something we can all be proud of!

A third role of the Inspector is to report an error with a question in our database. If a student thinks there is an error with a question, he/she can send you a snap shot of it. When this happens, you will see a purple flag flashing next to the link to the Inspector. When you then go to the Inspector, you can look at the snapshot. The numbers will be exactly the same as the student saw them. Please inspect the question to verify there is indeed an error. If the question is indeed faulty, please click on the button to report it. This will send the snapshot of the question (along with any additional information you add) to us. We don't expect this feature to be used very often, but in the past, reporting an error required the teacher to write down a lot of information about the question for us to resolve it. This was neither easy nor convenient - especially during class time! So now, if a little bug does pop up, letting us know about it will be a lot easier! We thank you in advance! (See Chapter 10 – Miscellaneous, Reporting Errors for more information.)

Personal Preferences

If you’ve been reading this Teacher’s Guide straight through from the beginning, then you now have a pretty good idea what it offers, and your Personal Preferences will have more meaning for you. Even so, the very first time a teacher logs on and goes to the Teacher Home Page, he/she is given a link to go to the Personal Preferences Page because there are a few bits of information Moogie absolutely must know before you get started working with students,. This page is shown in Figure 24.

Figure 24 – Personal Preferences

Friendly Name: How should Moogie refer to you when “talking” to students? How do your students address you? Don’t enter just your first name unless that is what they call you.

Time Zone: This is used so we know when students log in, so can show you on their Details page. It is also used so we know at what time messages are sent. During the summer months, we always use Daylight Savings Time even though some areas do not.

Comfort Level: Seeing a lot of data on the Teacher Home Page can be intimidating at first, so we offer two “Comfort Levels” with Moogie on the Net. The Beginners get more guided help when creating Assessments and MEPs. Experts see student Scores on all three levels of the Teacher Home Page.

Red Flag Password: Used at a student’s computer, when he/she is logged on, after he/she has clicked on Stomp Red Flags. For more information, see the section Red Flags, above. The idea goes like this:

· Students, while doing Workouts or Assessments, have Red Flags raised for questions they really have trouble with.

· You can see their Red Flags from the Teacher Home Page and want to do something about them. You can even have an Assessment automatically created which includes the questions with Red Flags.

· You go over to the student while he/she is logged on.

· The student clicks on “Stomp Red Flags.”

· The student will then start a special Workout where the student sees only the questions with Red Flags. Since you are right there (after all, you entered your Red Flag password) you can help him/her with the questions with Red Flags, and hopefully, stomp them out!

This is also a special Workout because a student can re-do questions – even when they are answered correctly – not just if they are missed!

Answering a question correctly one time immediately removes the Red Flag. But don’t worry, Moogie will still know the question’s Score and remember the student has struggled with it.

You can give out your Red Flag password to student helpers if you like. It’s not really a secure password, and no sensitive data can be accessed with it. Please note that the default Red Flag password (the word RED) is available in documentation online – such as in this Teacher’s Guide – so if you plan to use it as designed, you may want to change yours.

Require Red Flags to be Stomped: When a student misses a question for the third (or more) time in a row, a Red Flag is raised and a message appears telling them they should seek help from a teacher or a friend. However, if this is set to NO, they are given the opportunity to re-try the question. The student can repeat this over and over until a correct answer for the question is guessed. Selecting YES here will stop the student from re-trying the question over and over; if a question is missed and has a Red Flag, the student is forced to move along to the next question. This does not affect Assessments in any way; only the various workouts. Also, this does not affect a student Stomping Red Flags because it is assumed you or a helper is working with the student. This setting does not prevent students from seeing questions with Red Flags; it only prevents them from re-trying them when missed.

Penalize Guessing: This setting only has meaning if “Require Red Flags to be Stomped” is set to NO. Under normal circumstances, when a student misses a question, he/she still receives half of the Credits that would have been received for a correct answer. This can cause issues with students repeatedly guessing at answers just to collect Credits (this is a drawback to offering students billions of different questions). If you set this to YES, they will receive no credits the third and fourth time they miss a particular question. When they miss the same question for the fifth (or more) time, they will be penalized the number of Credits they would have received for a correct answer. Students are never told of the possibility of penalties or that you have any say in the matter; you can disclose this fact at your discretion.

Lesson Plans Bulletin Board

The link for the Lesson Plans Bulletin Board is near the bottom center of the Teacher Home Page. It can also be found under Effectiveness on the main menu. The Lesson Plans Bulletin Board is a public forum for teachers to share how they’ve used Moogie on the Net with their students.

This forum is not moderated, so if there are any problems, please let us know right away.

Once a teacher has submitted a Lesson Plan, other teachers may make comments about it (provided they have submitted a Lesson Plan of their own). Become a real part of the Moogie Community – please submit a Lesson Plan of your own today!

Chapter 7 - Student Home Page

Student Overview

So what exactly is it that students do with Moogie on the Net? Primarily, they do Workouts. A Workout consists of working through one math question after another for as long as the student wishes. There is no finish line; students just keep plugging away.

There are three main areas where students can work.

1. The first area, the General Arena, covers all the questions in the entire database for the student’s Grade Level. Moogie remembers the student’s Score for each question. Once the student has seen all the questions, Moogie shows the student the questions with the lowest scores first. This focuses the student’s efforts on the areas that need the most work.

2. Working in the second area, The “Plan,” is similar to working out in the General Arena; however, instead of seeing questions from the entire database, students are shown questions which cover only the Learning Objectives selected by their teacher (see Chapter 4 – Moogie Educational Plans).

3. The third area, Assignments, is where students complete Online Assessments given by their teacher and then do follow-up AWWS Workouts (see Chapter 5 – Online Assessments).

While doing any type of Workout (in the General Arena, with an MEP, or doing an AWWS), students answer questions. If a student answers a question correctly, that’s great – he/she is shown a message indicating the answer was correct, and then it’s on to the next question. However, if the student misses the question, he/she will be presented with the following options:

· Try one or two similar (easier) questions that may help lead the student to understanding the question which was missed. This option is not available for all questions.

· Re-try the question with different numbers (the reason Moogie exists!).

· Skip the question entirely for the time being. This will be the only option if the question now has a Red Flag and the teacher has required that students Stomp their Red Flags (see the section Personal Preferences in Chapter 6).

When doing an Assignment, students are not shown if their answers are correct after answering each one, so they aren’t given these options.

Students receive Credits for the work they do. Correct answers receive more Credits than incorrect answers. There is a penalty for repeated incorrect answers (for suspected mindless guessing) unless the teacher changes this setting in his/her Personal Preferences.

In addition to doing their work, students also have links at the bottom of their screens to visit their:

· Communicator

· Track Record

· Prize Room

· Millennium Club

· Stomp Red Flags

· Network Rankings.

These links and the three main work area are all described in this Chapter.

General Arena

When students first log in, they are taken to the Student Home Page. A sample is shown in Figure 25.

Figure 25 – Student Home Page, General Arena

25-1: Students are greeted and given broad instructions concerning which tab they should work under: General Arena, The “Plan,” or Assignments. Without any intervention from the teacher (which we strongly discourage), students will always work in the General Arena. (While it is perfectly fine to have students work in the General Arena, we feel Teachers should stay up-to-date on what their students are doing and the progress they are making.)

25-2: The three tabs students can work under are General Arena, The “Plan,” or Assignments. The tab for The “Plan” is only visible if the teacher has created an MEP with Targeted Objectives for the student. The tab for Assignments is only visible if the teacher has created an Assessment for the student. This section of the Teacher’s Guide discusses the General Arena. The tabs for “The Plan” and Assignments are discussed in their own sections (below).

25-3: This shows how many Credits the student currently has. Under normal circumstances, students receive 10 Credits when they answer a question correctly and 5 Credits when they answer it incorrectly (see Other Teacher Tools/Features, Personal Preferences for more information). Questions in the Algebra Strand tend to be worth a little more.

25-4: Here, students are given more specific instructions regarding which tab they have selected to work in.

25-5: The General Arena shows all the Strands available for the student. There are eight Strands for Grades 4 & 6, and five Strands for Grades 8 & 10. The number correct, number tried, average Score, and Exposure is shown for each Strand and for Overall. The data shown here includes all work done everywhere with Moogie on the Net. It doesn’t matter if work is done in the General Arena, with an MEP, doing Assignments, in AWWS Workouts, or while Stomping Red Flags – all the data is collected and shown here in the General Arena. (This is similar to how all data is shown on the Teacher Home Pages.)

25-6: Students are free to do a Workout in any Strand that they choose (or you instruct). They are also shown where they should work solely based on their Scores. When they click on the name of a Strand, they will begin a Workout in that Strand. When a student starts a Workout, all the questions in the Strand are sorted from lowest Score to highest. Students are first shown questions they haven’t yet tried; they are then given the questions starting with the ones with the lowest Scores. There is no real End to a Workout – the class period will most likely end before a student answers all the questions in a Strand.

25-7: The average Score for each Strand is also shown. Questions which haven’t yet been tried are not included in this average. Clicking on a Score takes the student to a list of all the Learning Objectives, and their individual Scores, in the Strand (see Viewing Scores by Objective, below).

The Exposure to a Strand shows the percentage of total available questions in that Strand which have been attempted by the student. Scores have much more meaning as the Exposure approaches 100%.

Working the “Plan”

If you have designed an MEP for a student that Targets Objectives, he/she is not permitted to do a Workout in the General Arena. Instead, the student must work under the tab which says The “Plan.” All the work students do while in MEP is added to all the other work done with Moogie on the Net and is shown in the General Arena. Students with a “Plan,” can still look at the general Arena to see their Scores.

When working with a “Plan,” the student has only one option where to work. The number correct, number attempted, average Score and Exposure to all the questions in the MEP are shown. Clicking on the average Score will bring up the student’s Scores for each Learning Objective in the MEP. Clicking on the name of the MEP will begin the Workout. A sample screen with a “Plan” is shown in Figure 26.

Figure 26 - Student Home Page, with an MEP that Targets Objectives

Viewing Scores by Objective

Clicking on an average Score for a Strand in the General Arena, or clicking on the average Score for a “Plan,” will bring up a list of all the Learning Objectives and their respective Scores which were used to determine the average. Learning Objectives which haven’t yet been attempted are not included in determining the average and therefore not listed here. A sample is shown in Figure 27.

Figure 27 – A Student’s Scores by Objective

27-1: This is automatically selected for the student based on which link was clicked to arrive at this page. Students can then select to view their Scores in another Strand or in all Strands. If the student has an MEP, the name of the MEP will also be listed here to give the option of seeing the Scores for those Learning Objectives only. As always, any Learning Objectives which haven’t yet been attempted are not shown.

27-2: Students can select to view Scores for only Level 1 or Level 2 questions. Level 1 is Knowledge & Skills, and Level 2 is Understanding & Problem Solving. Not all objectives have both levels.

27-3: Students can click here to return to their Home Page.

Assignments

The Assessments a teacher creates are shown to students as “Assignments” (this sounds less scary and intimidating). Students cannot be forced or required to do an Assignment; they are only given the option to do them. If it mandatory that they take it for your class, you should tell them that they need to do it. A sample student with Assignments is shown in Figure 28.

Figure 28 - Student Home Page, with Assignments

28-1: At the top, the student is told what work can be done. In this example, the student has three things which he/she can do:

1. One new Assignment (#28-2)

2. One Assignment can be re-done (#28-3)

3. An AWWS Workout based on how the student did on the Assignment “Fraction Fun” (#28-4)

28-2: There is one Assignment the student hasn’t yet done called “Sample Quiz.” The student clicks here to start this Assignment.

28-3: The student has already done one Assignment, “Fraction Fun.” It was completed on 12/23/05, and the student answered 12 out of 29 correctly. The default Level for Stars is 85% and this obviously was not achieved, so the student can re-do the Assignment (note it is underlined, meaning it is a link). The student will click on “Fraction Fun” to re-do it.

28-4: Because the Level for Stars was not met, the student has the opportunity to do an AWWS Workout (see next section). Clicking the word “AWWS” will start the AWWS Workout. If the student answered what was needed to reached the Level for Stars (by default, 85%), the word AWWS in this column would instead be a picture of stars. In the sample here, the student will ideally click on AWWS to Actively Work on her Weak Spots before re-doing the Assignment

Once students begin an Assignment, they are required to finish it before they can do anything else with Moogie on the Net. However, nothing can prevent their closing the browser windows or experiencing temporary internet connection problems. If students leave Moogie on the Net in the middle of an Assignment, they are required to pick up where they left off as soon as they log back in (although the numbers will be different!).

While completing an Assignment, students will notice a few things are different than doing a regular Workout. Each time they select an answer, they will be asked to confirm their choice. Also, they will not be shown if their answers are right or wrong until the very end, where they will be shown a summary of how they did.

AWWS Workouts

We think you’ll find Moogie’s AWWS Assessment follow-up Workouts to be absolutely the most wonderful and useful feature ever! AWWS Workouts never need to be designed or activated by the teacher. They are created automatically (if needed) for each student after completing an Assessment.

Doing an AWWS is identical to doing a regular Workout - except, well, it's an AWWS! AWWS Workouts may be stopped and started as often as the student needs, just like a regular Workout. The number of questions in a student's AWWS will vary widely depending on the number of different Learning Objectives contained in the original Assignment and how well he/she did on the Assignment. Students are told how many question are in their AWWS each time they start one; if it is a large number, you may want to make sure they realize that they can do a little at a time - they don't have to all be done in one session like an actual Assignment.

Chapter 8 – Other Student Features

Stomping Red Flags

A link at the bottom of the student Home Page allows students to “Stomp Red Flags.” A Red Flag is raised for any question which has been missed three or more times in a row by a student. Clicking on this link allows a student to work on only the questions which have a Red Flag.

However, the whole concept of “Stomping Red Flags,” is based on the idea that the student will not be alone while doing this. Since the student had significant trouble with the questions when working independently (after all, they now have Red Flags), it only makes sense that he/she will need some assistance from either a teacher or a fellow student-helper to understand them and to Stomp the Red Flags. Therefore, before a student can begin Stomping Red Flags, he/she will be prompted for the teacher’s Red Flag Password.

By default, your Red Flag Password is simply the word RED (not case-sensitive), but you can change this on your Personal Preferences page (see Chapter 6 - Other Teacher Tools/Features

Answering a question correctly one time immediately removes the Red Flag . But don’t worry, Moogie will still know the question’s Score and remember the student has struggled with it.

but you can also change this on your Personal Preferences page (see Chapter 6 - Other Teacher Tools/Featuresthe student is forced to move along to the next question. This helps prevent random guessing just to receive Credits. This does not affect Assessments in any way; only the various workouts, and it does not prevent students from seeing questions with Red Flags; it only prevents them from re-trying them when missed.

Track Record

A student’s Track Record shows all the work done each week. An example is shown in Figure 29.

Figure 29 – A Student’s Track Record

29-1: For each week (beginning on Sundays), the Track Record shows how many times the student logged on and the total time spent doing work.

29-2: The total number questions answered correctly, the total attempted, and the resulting percentage is shown for each Learning Objective. As always, Learning Objectives not attempted are not shown.

29-3: The total number correct, number attempted, and resulting percentage is given for the week.

Not Shown: Students will typically have to scroll down to see all their work. The Over-All number of times the student logged on, total time spent working with Moogie, total number correct, number attempted, and resulting percentage since the student first started using Moogie on the Net is shown at the very bottom of the table.

Prize Room

Students use the Credits they receive to buy imaginary “Prizes” for their Prize Room. A sample is shown in Figure 30.

Figure 30 – A Student’s Prize Room

30-1: This is where students click to buy a prize. There are lots of different graphics available for them to choose from. The “cost” of each prize (in Credits) is based on the file size of the graphic.

30-2: This is the total Credits the student has which can be used to buy prizes.

30-3: After selecting a prize to buy, the student returns to this screen and “locks down” his/her prize somewhere on this screen.

Millennium Club

Students who have correctly answered 1,000 or more questions while maintaining an average of at least 70 % correct automatically become members of the Moogie Math Millennium Club. These members get access to a special screen that can be printed out and then signed by their teacher. A sample is shown in Figure 31.

Figure 31 – The Millennium Club

Network Rankings

Our Network Rankings is another way Moogie on the Net tries to keep students motivated. A student’s “Ranking” is not based on Scores; it is based on an index which is calculated using the time spent, number of questions attempted, and the number answered correctly. We feel this is a fair method to measure not just how well a student is doing, but to also measure the amount or work and effort being put in.

Only work done in the last 14 days is used to calculate a student’s Ranking; any work done more than 14 days ago is not looked at. This means the Rankings listed are shown in real-time and can change several times throughout each day.

Rankings can be shown for either the student’s Grade Level or for all Grade Levels combined. Due to privacy concerns, only a student’s Log-In ID is shown.

For National Rankings, a maximum of 15 students along with each student’s school and state will be listed. Students who go to your school are shaded a special color.

For “Rankings at Your School,” a maximum of 10 students will be listed along with the name of the Moogie Classroom each is in. There must be at least two students using Moogie on the Net at the same school (or at home, if purchased by a parent) before any Rankings can be shown here.

In both lists, only students in the top 50% of all the students with a Ranking above zero are listed. A sample screenshot is shown in Figure 32.

Figure 32 – Network Rankings

Bonuses

Students can see fireworks and receive a bonus during Workouts (not while doing Assignments).

Students working with the 4^th Grade questions, if they have answered at least 80% correct, receive a 250 Credit Bonus for every 20 questions they try without taking a break. Students in Grade 6 and 8 receive the Bonus for every 25 questions they do. Students working in Grade 10 receive this Bonus for every 30 questions attempted.

Any student who works an entire Strand (or an AWWS Workout that contains more than 30 questions) and answers at least 80% of the questions correctly sees the fireworks and receives a bonus of 2,000 Credits!

Bonuses are never given during an Assignment.

Communicator

Clicking on the Communicator link brings up a page the student can use to send you a message. Students are not able to send messages to one another. When you send a message to a student, they do not need to go to the Communicator to see it; it automatically pops up for them the next time they go to their Home Page. They must read and delete it before they can move on.

Chapter 9 – Parent/Guardian Home Page

Definition & Explanation

The Parent Home Page is not for parents who have purchased a subscription for their children at home. Everywhere throughout Moogie on the Net, parents who have purchased a subscription for their children at home are considered Teachers and have access to all the Teacher Tools. The Parent/Guardian Home Page is for the parents/guardians of students whose school has purchased a subscription to Moogie on the Net.

The Parent/Guardian Home Page (a.k.a. Module) allows the parents a way to monitor and take part in their child’s education. While giving them all the information about their child’s work, we’ve also tried to keep it simplified and on a layman’s level. Please note we know that families come in all shapes, sizes, and flavors. When we use the term “parent” please understand we mean all guardian/parental descriptors imaginable. Likewise, our use of the terms “child” and “children” means all forms of life-inexperienced individuals that the aforementioned “parent” is trying to raise and nurture.

After clicking on the Parents portal, a parent logs in using the student’s Log-In ID and password (it’s up to the student to tell the parent what his/her ID and password are). When the parent/guardian logs in, he/she will see a screen similar to the one shown in Figure 33. (Identifying information has been blurred here.)

Figure 33 – Parent/Guardian Home Page

33-1: The menu items take the parent to different pages that will help familiarize him/her with what Moogie on the Net is all about.

33-2: The parent is shown a Work Summary of how many questions the student has attempted and answered correctly for each strand, an MEP if one exists, and then overall. If any work has been done in a Strand (as is the case for every Strand in this example) then these lines are links to a page of Scores for each Learning Objective the student has worked on. This page is almost identical to the page that comes up when he/she clicks on a Score on his/her Home Page. (See Chapter 7 – Student Home Page, Viewing Scores by Objective for more details).

33-3: A list of all the Assessments you have given the student is shown here. Parents, like students, see the word “Assignment” instead of the word “Assessment.” “Incomplete” can mean the student has either not finished the Assignment or not even started it. Clicking on one of these links takes the parent to a page which looks like the one you see when you are viewing an individual student’s work on an Assessment. The parent can see each question’s text, how the student answered it, and how much AWWS follow-up work has been done. They can also view the questions in the Question Browser, just as you do. (See Chapter 5 – Online Assessments, Assessment Details – Each Student’s Work for more details.)

33-4: Parents can see at a glance how much work their child did the last time he/she logged on as well as how much work has been done in the past 7 days. Clicking the links here takes the parent to a page similar to what a student sees as his/her Track Record. (See Chapter 8 – Other Student Features, Track Record for more details.)

33-5: Parents can go view their child’s Prize Room. (See Chapter 8 – Other Student Features, Prize Room for more details.)

33-6: When a parent clicks on this link, he/she is given a synopsis of things the child should or could be doing with Moogie on the Net. A sample is shown in Figure 34. Note how questions that the parent may be thinking are answered.

Figure 34 - Where should [my child] be working?

Chapter 10 - Miscellaneous

Printing Reports

Moogie on the Net offered integrated Printer-Friendly screens for printing out student data. Unfortunately, it was not supported by many browsers. Rather than have parts of the website not fully functional for everyone, we decided to remove these pages until we implement a new printing/reporting engine that works for everyone.

In the interim, we can offer this work-around solution. To print the data in a table:

1. Use your mouse to highlight the data you want to print

2. Right-click and select Copy

3. Open a word processing program such as MS Word

4. Select Edit | Paste

It’s not an elegant solution, and we apologize for the inconvenience. Implementing the new printing/reporting engine is our project for Winter 2006!

Transferring Students

Should it become necessary to transfer your students to another teacher who is also using Moogie on the Net at your school, this is very easy to do. From the main menu, select Tools | Transfer My Student(s). A page will appear similar to the one shown in Figure 35.

Please note that once you transfer students, you cannot get them back unless the other teacher transfers them back to you!

Figure 35 – Transferring Students

35-1: First select which teacher’s class you want to transfer your student(s) to. When you have selected a class, the students you currently have in that same Grade Level will be shown for you.

35-2: Select the students you want to transfer. To select more than one student, hold down the CTRL or Shift key while clicking the mouse.

To transfer the selected students, click the “Transfer Selected Student(s)” button. A message will be sent to the receiving teacher that students have been transferred to him/her.

Please note that once you transfer students, you cannot get them back unless the other teacher transfers them back to you!

General Tips

· Please don't wait until one week before the “Big Test” to sign your child up for Moogie on the Net - learning takes time.

· Use Moogie on the Net a little each day - Make it part of your routine

· Don't worry about Scores until Exposures approach 100% (meaning most of the question have been seen)

· Impress on students the importance of asking for help.

· Anywhere you see a bullhorn, it means you can send a message to the student(s) on the page without going through the Teacher Communicator.

· If there is something on a webpage you don't understand, try holding the mouse over it for a "pop-up hint" or help in the Status bar at the bottom of your browser.

· AND OF COURSE... We always value your feedback. Drop us a note to tell us how we can make Moogie on the Net even better!

· Last but not least, have fun with Moogie!

Reporting Errors

At Moogie on the Net, we take a lot of pride in our work. Even though the mere thought of an error in this website makes us cringe, we realize that a website with the size and dynamics of Moogie's will occasionally have a bug pop up. That's why we rely on you, the user, to let us know of any problems.

We have recently added a new feature to make reporting an error with a question much easier than in the past. To report an error with a math question shown to students, we ask you to do the following:

1. If a student suggests a question has an error, have him/her click on "Look at the Question again."

2. Scroll to the bottom of the page. Have the student click on the picture of the camera and purple flag on the right.

3. This will send a snapshot of the question to you, the teacher.

4. The next time you log on, you will see a purple flag flashing next to the link to the Inspector. Click on it.

5. Please inspect the question to verify there is indeed an error.

6. If the question is faulty, click on the button to report it. This will send the snapshot of the question (along with any additional information you add) to us.

We don't expect this feature to be used very often, but in the past, reporting an error required the teacher to write down a lot of information about the question for us to resolve it. This was neither easy nor convenient - especially during class time! So now, if a little bug does pop up, letting us know about it will be a lot easier!

To avoid a teacher’s being inundated by students needlessly sending false error reports, students are not permitted to send a snapshot if:

1. They have already sent you one for another question, and you have yet to respond/dismiss it.

2. Another student has already sent you one for the same question, and you have yet to respond/dismiss it

In essence, only one per student and one per question can be waiting for you to inspect at any given time.

To report any other type of error with the website, please contact us and be as explicit as possible

We also welcome suggestions on how to make Moogie on the Net even better. Don't be shy - let us hear from you!

Renewing your Subscription

Renewing your subscription is very easy. Simply access your account through the main menu, follow the appropriate links, and use our renewal wizard. Here are some things to keep in mind:

1. If your subscription isn’t over yet and you need a few additional student accounts, go ahead and try to add the students before contacting us about purchasing more accounts. We know class sizes do not always remain constant during the year and allow schools to have a few more student accounts than their subscription is technically for. If you have tried adding students and are told you must purchase additional accounts, the cost per student will be at the same rate as it was for your current subscription, minus the duration of your subscription which has already passed. (That is, if 6 months into a year-long subscription, then there is a 50% reduction.)

2. When renewing your subscription, you must renew for at least the same number of student accounts which are currently in use. Any account which was used for a student, even if he/she hasn’t logged in for months, is still considered as “being used” until you delete/clear/recycle the account. A Moogie Coordinator can delete/clear/recycle any student account “owned” by his/her school. If you will be renewing for fewer student accounts, and your current accounts are still needed and being used by students, you will have to wait until those accounts can be deleted/cleared/recycled before you can renew.

3. If you renew your subscription before it ends, you will receive a 10% automatic discount!

If plan to let your subscription run out, teachers are able to continue to log in up to 30 days after your subscription ends to gather student data.

If you have any questions regarding your subscription, just let us know. We’ll be happy to answer your questions.

Glossary, Definitions & Technical Specifications

Assessment: See Online Assessments

Assessment Status: The stage of an Assessment in its life cycle. The four stages or Status Levels of an Assessment are: Incomplete (lacking questions and/or students), Ready (students can’t yet see it, its questions can still be changed), Open (students can see and take it, students can be added to it, no questions can be changed), and Closed (students are no longer permitted to take it).

Assignment: The word students see instead of “Assessment.”

AWWS Workout: Actively Working the Weak Spots. The follow-up workout created automatically for a student based on how he/she did on an Assessment. AWWS Workouts are not created if the student achieves the Level for Stars.

Bonuses: Students can see fireworks and receive a bonus during Workouts (not while doing Assignments). If their average correct is at over 80%, students receive 250 Credits if, without taking a break, every time they answer 20 questions (4^th Grade), 25 questions (6^th and 8^th Grade), or 30 questions (10^th Grade). A similar bonus of 2,000 Credits is also received if a student averages over 80% and completes and entire Strand (or AWWS or MEP Workout with at least 30 questions). Bonuses are never given during an Assignment.

Browser: See Question Browser

Class List: Your list of Classrooms.

Classroom: The container which holds your students. You must have at least one Classroom before you can have any students. You may create as many classrooms as you want.

Class: A Classroom with students; the group of students in a Classroom.

Class Summary: The 2^nd Level of the Teacher Home Page. From the Home Page, when you click on a Class name, you are taken to its Class Summary.

Closed: The last stage in the Life Cycle of an Assessment. Students are no longer permitted to work on the Assessment.

Color Guide: Found on most pages for Teachers, this Guide helps give you a better feel for how your students are doing based on their Scores.

Comfort Level: Your Comfort Level with Moogie on the Net is either “Beginner” or “Advanced.” Beginners are not shown students’ Scores on the Home Page so new users are not overwhelmed by lots of data on the screen. Beginners also get additional guidance when creating MEPs and Assessments.

Communicator: One of the Teacher Tools which lets you read messages from, and send messages to, your students and other teachers at your school.

Credits: Credits are used to buy Prizes for the Prize Room and are received for answering questions. Most questions are worth 10 credits for a correct answer; some more difficult ones (especially in Algebra) are worth 15. Incorrect answers usually receive 50% of what correct answers receive. If a question has been missed 3 or more times in a row, no Credits are received. If a question is missed 5 or more times in a row, and you have allowed Penalizing on your Personal Preferences page, then students are penalized the full number of Credits.

Exposure: The percentage of questions out of the entire database which a student has seen and attempted. Knowing a student has tried 100 different questions vs. the same question 100 times (although this is not really possible) makes a big difference in how much belief you put in a student's score. In fact, the statistical study done on Moogie’s scoring (available under Effectiveness on the main menu) indicates Scores have very little statistical meaning until their corresponding Exposure approaches 100%.

Filter: Used to reduce the data shown in a window. For example, if you are able to select to view the Learning Objectives which are in only one Strand, this is a filter.

General Arena: The main area of a student Home Page. The scores shown here include all the student’s work done everywhere with Moogie on the Net, whether with Workouts, MEPs, Assignments, or AWWS. The Scores are shown for each Strand. If the student has not been given an MEP with Targeted Objectives, then he/she may click on the name of any Strand to begin working out in it. Regardless of whether or not there is an MEP to do, the student may click on a Strand’s average Score to view the Learning Objectives and their Scores which went into calculating the average Score.

Grade Levels: Moogie on the Net has question databases for Grade 4, Grade 6, Grade 8, and Grade 10.

Hot Spots: One of the Teacher Tools which lists of the Learning Objectives that have the lowest and highest average Scores for your students. Hot Spots can be filtered by Class, Strand, number of students, and number of times the questions in a Learning Objective have been attempted by students.

Index: A student’s Index is a measurement of not just how well a student has done answering questions with Moogie on the Net; it also represents the amount of effort the student has put into his/her work. These indices are used only for Network Rankings and nowhere else.

Inspector: See Question Inspector

Incomplete: A status of an Online Assessment. Before an Online Assessment can be Opened and used by students, it must contain at least five questions and include (be assigned to) at least one student. If an Online Assessment does not meet these requirements, it is not Ready to be Opened and therefore considered to be Incomplete.

Learning Objective: In Moogie on the Net, each question addresses a specific Learning Objective. A Learning Objective is a written statement describing a measurable achievement to accomplish or be able to do to answer a question correctly. In some circles, Learning Objectives are sometimes called learning “outcomes,” but for consistency, this term is not used in Moogie on the Net.

Lesson Plans Bulletin Board: One of the Teacher Tools which allows Teachers to post the experiences they and their students have had with Moogie on the Net. The postings do not need to be actual formal lesson plans; this is simply a public forum to allow peers to share ideas. Teachers who have posted an item are allowed to respond/comment on the “Lesson Plans” left by others.

Levels: See Question Levels

Level for Stars: The percentage of questions which must be answered correctly on an Online Assessment for a student to see a picture of stars. If the Level for Stars is not met, students will instead see a link to their AWWS Workout for the Assessment. In addition, students are no longer permitted to re-take an Assessment (if you’ve allowed this) once the Level for Stars is met.

Life Cycle: Used in reference to an Online Assessment. Assessments are created, Opened for students to use, and then Closed. See Status for more information.

MEP: See Moogie Educational Plan

Millennium Club: Students who have answered one thousand or more questions, at least 70% correctly, automatically become members of the Moogie Math Millennium Club. This allows a student access to a special screen which shows a formal certificate that may be printed out and signed by the teacher.

Moogie Educational Plan: Also known as an MEP, this is the Teacher Tool that allows teachers to control exactly which Learning Objectives their students are working on or (less frequently) which Question Types are hidden from them. MEPs can be assigned to any number (or all) of your individual students. See Targeted Objectives for more information.

Moogie Coordinator: This is the person who is “in charge” of the Teachers using Moogie on the Net at a school. The Moogie Coordinator creates and (if necessary) maintains the accounts of his/her fellow teachers. The Coordinator also has the ability to clear out any student accounts (even those which are “owned” by other teachers) so they may be reused by other teachers for other students.

Network Rankings: This is a feature from the Student Home Page which lists as many as 15 of the students with the highest indices who are using Moogie on the Net anywhere in the world. To protect student privacy, only student Log-In IDs are displayed. Students can select to view a listing of just their Grade Level or for all grades/users combined. See Index for more information.

Open: A status of an Online Assessment. An Open Assessment can be seen and taken by students. You cannot change the questions on an Assessment once you Open it.

Online Assessments: This is our premier Teacher Tool. Online Assessments allow a teacher to measure students’ understanding of Learning Objectives at any time, including pre-test, post-test, and anywhere in between. Teachers have total control over precisely which questions an Online Assessment contains and which students can see and take it. After completing an Assessment, a student who does not correctly answer the Level for Stars is given the opportunity to do an AWWS Workout designed especially for him/her based on how he/she did on the Assessment. Teachers can also select whether or not to allow students to re-take an Assessment if they wish to do so.

Penalize Suspected Guessing: This setting is found on your Personal Preferences Page. If a student misses the same question for the 5th time (or more) in a row, he/she is penalized the number of Credits that would have been given for a correct answer. This applies only when students are doing general Workouts – not an Assessment. Students are never told of any penalties or that you have any say in the matter.

Prize Room: The Prize Room is where a student’s imaginary prizes are stored. The prizes are nothing more than graphics which students find appealing. Students buy their prizes with the Credits they earn for answering questions.

Purple Flag: A purple flag is raised for a teacher when a student sends him/her a snapshot of a question with a possible error. The Question Inspector tool allows the teacher to inspect the question to see if it really does contain an error which needs to be fixed by us. See Snapshot for more information.

Question Browser: The Question Browser allows you to look at all the questions in our database and to select ones you want to use in an Assessment.

Question Inspector: The Question Inspector is similar to the Question Browser but has less functionality. Instead of searching for questions to add to an Assessment, the Inspector allows you merely to see the questions in our database if you should choose to do so. If a student has sent you a snapshot of a question, you can also use the Inspector to verify that there is indeed an error with it.

Question Levels: All questions in Moogie on the Net are one of two levels. Level 1 is Knowledge & Skills, and Level 2 is Understanding & Problem Solving. Not all Learning Objectives have both levels.

Question Type: A general description of a skill needed to solve a question. An example is “Long Division.” A single question type can be found in different Learning Objectives, and teachers can create an MEP to Hide Question Types they feel their students are not yet ready to see. Question Types are not available in all Grade Levels.

Ranking: See Network Rankings

Ready: A Status of an Online Assessment. This means you have at least five questions selected for the Assessment and have included at least one student to take it. It is Ready to be Opened. Students aren’t able to see the Assessment until you Open it for them. You can still change the questions on an Assessment when it has the Status of Ready.

Red Flags: Red Flags are raised for a student for each question that he/she has missed three or more times in a row. Regardless of how many times a question is missed, a Red Flag is lowered immediately when the question is answered correctly. (Don’t worry - Moogie still remembers the student had trouble with the question.) See Stomping Red Flags for information regarding how to get rid of Red Flags.

Red Flag Password: A student needs you (or a student-helper) to enter your Red Flag Password before he/she is permitted to “Stomp Red Flags.” The default Red Flag Password is simply the word RED. This can be changed on your Personal Preferences Page. This password does not protect any sensitive data; it merely helps enforce the idea that students need someone to help them with their Red Flags.

Require Red Flags to be Stomped: This setting (found on your Personal Preferences Page) if set to YES does not permit students to retry a missed question with different numbers if a Red Flag has been raised for it. This does not stop students seeing questions with Red Flags; it only prevents them from doing repeated guessing. It helps reinforce the idea that students should get help when they need it. See Stomping Red Flags for more information.

Score: Each question is automatically given a score of [18] when the student begins. Each time the question is missed, its score goes down 2 points. If it is answered correctly, the score goes up 1 point. Scores are never allowed to drop below [12]. Once a question's score reaches [20], the student will never see that question again unless it is on an Assessment you assign. A score of [18] essentially means the question was answered incorrectly once and correctly twice (or a multiple of that), which is effectively equivalent to 66%. The questions which haven't yet been attempted are not reflected in averages for scores. Please note some teachers have reported that [18.2] or [18.3] (instead of the flat [18]) is a better cut-off between the “Needs Work” and “Good” labels. Scores are always shown in [brackets].

Session: Each time a student logs in to and uses Moogie on the Net.

Snapshot: If a student thinks there is an error with a question, he/she can send you a snapshot of it. With Moogie, the numbers always change, but a snapshot captures the question in the form that is exactly how the student saw it. A student sends a snapshot by scrolling to the bottom of the window where a missed question is shown; there is a link in the right-hand corner to start the process. When you are sent a snapshot, a purple flag will be raised for you and you can inspect the question to verify that it does indeed have an error. If it does, there is a link for you to send the snapshot to us. The cause for most of the “errors” reported by students is actually their misinterpretation and/or understanding of the question. To prevent teachers being inundated with snapshots, students are permitted to send one only if 1) they haven’t sent one for any other questions, and 2) no other student has sent one for the same question.

Status: Used when talking of Online Assessments. The Status of an Assessment indicates where it is in its Life Cycle: Incomplete, Ready, Open, or Closed. The term “Status” is also used to describe a student’s progress taking the Assessment and can be: Not Taken, In Progress, or Completed.

Stomping Red Flags: This option is found on the Student Home Page and requires the teacher’s Red Flag Password before it can be accessed. Stomping Red Flags is just like doing a regular Workout except the only questions which are seen are those which have Red Flags for the student. Ideally (since the teacher’s Red Flag Password is required to start) the teacher will be near the student to help him/her with these tougher questions. Unlike all other Workouts, while Stomping the Red Flags, a student is permitted to retry the questions with different numbers - even when the question is answered correctly! This helps to reinforce the concept being learned with the question. At the teacher’s discretion, a student-helper may be given the Red-Flag Password to help his/her fellow students stomp their Red Flags.

Strand: A Strand is a collection of questions with Learning Objectives related to a common topic such as Algebra or Geometry.

Student Account: Each student account you have is purchased with your subscription. Each time a teacher adds a student to his/her Student Roster, it really means one of the purchased student accounts is put into use for that student. Student Accounts may be recycled (that is, cleared and re-used) for different students as needed throughout your subscription period.

Student Roster: Your Student Roster is simply your list of students. To add, rename, or delete you students, go to your Student Roster.

Targeted Objectives: Part of an MEP, when a teacher selects precisely which Learning Objectives he/she wants his/her students to work on, these are known as Targeted Objectives.

Teacher Account: Each teacher should have his/her account. There is no cost for, or limit to the number of, Teacher Accounts that you have. Each teacher is responsible for setting up the accounts of his/her students.

Track Record: The Track Record is accessed from the Student Home Page. The Track Record shows the student how questions were answered in each Learning Objective on a weekly basis. It also shows the number of sessions the student has had and the total time spent working with Moogie on the Net.

Trend: The Trend for a class or a student is a generalization of how the student(s) on average leave each question. If a question is answered incorrectly and the student moves on, it leaves a downward trend. If, on the other hand, the student re-tries the question and answers it correctly, it leaves an upward trend.

Workout: Workouts are what Moogie on the Net is all about! A student can do a Workout in the General Arena (where he/she selects the Strand to work in), a Workout in an MEP (where the Targeted Objectives are selected by the teacher), or an AWWS Workout (where the Learning Objectives are determined by how the student did on its corresponding Assessment). Each time a Workout is started, all the questions are sorted for the student from lowest Score to highest. Questions not yet attempted by the student are shown first, followed by the ones with the lowest scores. There usually is no official “end” to a Workout unless the student works through all the questions. Typically, students run out of class time before getting to the end of a Workout, but there are always plenty of new, fresh questions waiting for them if they do.

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