Getting Started with Odyssey Assessment Test Builder
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Getting Started with Odyssey Assessment Test Builder
What Do You Know About Odyssey?Which of these statements are true?
1. Odyssey activities are interactive, self-paced, challenging, and engaging activities and apply confirmed research about how students think and learn.
2. Student activities promote exploration, individual and cooperative learning, problem solving, reflection, with real-world connections.
3. Students can monitor their own progress.4. Odyssey is available for use at home.5. Students have many opportunities to apply writing skills across the
curriculum.6. Odyssey curriculum is research-based and aligned with national
and local standards.7. The Odyssey Manager delivers individual learning paths based on student
assessment scores.8. Student data is immediately available to administrators, teachers and
students through a wide variety of reports.
District >Name< Goals for Odyssey Implementation
Add your local goals here Ask an administrator of the district lead to discuss
these briefly, if possible
What will you learn today?
Participants will develop a working understanding of how creating and monitoring Odyssey assessments and learning paths can support their teaching and student learning.
Understand how to log-in to Odyssey Create a class on Odyssey Familiarize participants with Dashboard Identify the basic features of Odyssey Test Builder Understand the student experience on Odyssey using
assessments Develop a working understanding of progress monitoring
Agenda
Morning Session:• Introduction• Basic Navigation• Creating a Class• Assignment Archive • Test Builder • Previewing
Afternoon Session:• The Student
Experience• Progress Monitoring• Wrapping Things Up• Session Evaluation
Outcome of Session• Participants will have class(es) set up by the
end of the session.
• Participants will have assigned the assignment from the Assignment archive.
• Participants will have created at least one Odyssey aligned assessment with a learning path that supports upcoming teaching and the implementation goals.
What is your personal learning goal?
List a goal you have for today’s session.
• Basic Navigation of Odyssey
• Creating a Class
• Assigning Curriculum
• The Student Experience
• Progress Monitoring
• Wrapping Up
Today’s Session
What Do You Know About Odyssey?Which of these statements are true?
1. Odyssey activities are interactive, self-paced, challenging, and engaging activities and apply confirmed research about how students think and learn.
2. Student activities promote exploration, individual and cooperative learning, problem solving, reflection, with real-world connections.
3. Students can monitor their own progress.4. Odyssey is available for use at home.5. Students have many opportunities to apply writing skills across the
curriculum.6. Odyssey curriculum is research-based and aligned with national
and local standards.7. The Odyssey Manager delivers individual learning paths based on student
assessment scores.8. Student data is immediately available to administrators, teachers and
students through a wide variety of reports.
Requirements We Address…State Standards Alignment
Comprehensive Assessment
Research-Based Pedagogy
Depth and Breadth
Spiraling Curriculum
Scaffolded Support
The CompassLearning Difference
Brain-Based Research / Engagement Interactive Conversational InterfaceHigher Level Thinking Skills
Critical Mistakes FrameworkSingle Manager Architecture21st Century Skill focus
Automated Prescriptive Paths Unlimited Users
Engaging K-12 Content
Reading Comprehension Biology
English 1 Government Physics
Educator Development Model
Single-Management System
State standards aligned
Easy to use Formative assessments
Customizable assessments
Automaticonline
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Progressmonitoring
Classroom management
and differentiated
instruction
Student, parent, teacher,
and administrator
reports
Aggregate and disaggregate
data
Let’s Log In!
Teacher Interface / Dashboard
At a Glance - Assessment• Snapshot views of how students are doing based on an
objective
• Pie slice represents score ranges by color
• Fly out shows average student scores from LP and time on task
Concept Mapping for Teacher Interface
Teacher Interface
Content Resources
Standards-Aligned Instruction
CREATING A CLASS
Each one; Teach one Activity
Working with a partner, create a class.Demonstrate this process for your partner.Be sure you are discussing the features and capabilities.Answer any questions your “student” may have.Switch roles and repeat.
ASSIGNMENT ARCHIVE
PREVIEWING CURRICULUM
www.compasslearning.com
TEST BUILDER
Assessments Test Builder
THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE
Think, Write, Share
1. Log in as a Student
2. Click on the Odyssey Community link on the student launch pad.
3. Reply to the thread in the topic Summarize it!
4. Read at least two entries made by your peers.
PROGRESS MONITORING
Assessment Results by Objective
Standards mastery documentation
Progress monitoring Time-on-task reporting Disaggregated and
aggregated student information
District, school, teacher, and individual student reporting
Progress Monitoring
• How many times has each student in my class logged in?
• How much total time have they spent during a given period?
• How are my students progressing on a given assignment?
• What progress are they making on the assignment?
WRAPPING THINGS UP!
What?
What did I learn?
What did I share with other participants?
What is the greatest benefit in using this software?
What is the greatest challenge?
So What?
What does this mean for my instructional practice?
What could this mean for my students?
Now What?
What is my immediate plan for using the software in my classroom?
When will I begin to use it?
Moving forward…
I will use Odyssey and have my students
use Odyssey.
I will monitor student assignments, progress, and completed work.
I will contact my district representative for additional support.
Objectives Review
Participants will develop a working understanding of how creating and monitoring Odyssey assessments and learning paths can support their teaching and student learning.
Understand how to log-in to Odyssey Create a class on Odyssey Familiarize participants with Dashboard Identify the basic features of Odyssey Test Builder Understand the student experience on Odyssey using
assessments Develop a working understanding of progress monitoring
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Follow up Session will be: Differentiating Instructional Learning Paths for
Students