I am in the Interactive Animations and Games ('24-'25) units. I have found that the students can go through the lessons with the completed “green” and not have done them. Any insights?
Correct. Hoping AI can improve this eventually. In the meantime, I grade them according to rubric for their assessment and challenge levels. If they don’t to the early skills/bubbles then it’s unlikely they do well on those.
Yup! I check the assessment bubble. If they did well on that then I don’t check previous. If they didn’t, I check Practice. Usually, they did not do a Practice. Sometimes I then go back and check the others steps, especially if they’re way off on the Practice. I then follow up with those students. It take most students one or two reminders and it then usually clears up. But, yeah, at the beginning there are usually a bunch of knuckleheads…
The bubble color indicators don’t serve the same purpose as we see them in the Fundamentals lessons. Middle schoolers quickly figure out that they don’t have to do much to make the bubble turn green. Every teacher finds their own stride in scoring. I always tended to work like @GordonBrune describes. I’m interested to see if the AI starts to make a difference in this as we all start integrating it in our regular lessons.
I have students screen capture certain lessons and post them to a goolge doc - this keeps them from just jumping through and allows me to quickly check progress. I also create mandatory freeplay requirements to show mastery.