Learn ASSISTments Videos
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Welcome to our ASSISTments Tutorials. These are designed to help you learn about ASSISTments step by step, starting with making a teacher account and then going on to bigger and better things. I suggest working through them in order because little feature are explained along the way. These features are listed along with each video to help you find help.
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Making A Teacher Account
For written instructions on how to make a teacher account go here
Setting Up a Class
Making A Student Account
for written directions on how to make a student account go here
4 Different Types of Feedback
Introduction to the WIKI
Student experience working on ASSISTments
Finding Content that is already built
Explanation of Folders
Tour of WPI Certified Content
Explanation of Skill Building Sets
Item Report and Skill Building Report
Includes using the Data Driven button from an item report
Includes both static and skill building set reports
Building Problem Sets and ASSISTments
Building ASSISTments and a Problem Set Overview
Building an ASSISTment with Scaffolding
This video comes in two parts.
Building an ASSISTment with Hints
Using the Quick Build
Adding An Image To An ASSISTment
Go here for some text to help as well.
If you use a PC you may want to download Easycapture. Then save your image as a jpg On a mac use the camera by holding down Command and Shift and hitting 4 Grab your selection and it will be on your desktop.
Open Response Questions and Peer Review
Sending Messages to your Students
Organizing your work in Folders
You can use folders to organize and share your work.
Using "Offline Mode"
Teacher Setup Tutorial
Student Tutorial
Commonly Asked Questions
Send your questions to ch@wpi.edu and I will either answer your question with a new video or I will point you to the video that contains your answer. Sincerely, Cristina Heffernan
How to Delete Student Progress
- Regi's Question
- Can I delete students progress?
How students see their results and practice
- John's Questions
- Can you control how students cycle back to look through completed assignments.
How to differentiate Assignments
- Sally's Questions
- Can I give different assignments to students on the high end as well as the low end?
Working with Problem Sets
- Sabrina's Questions
- Can I combinesomeof my new problem sets?
- Can I label my new problem sets?
- What are sections?
- What are sequences?
Editing Skill Building Sets
- Rebecca's Questions
- How can I change the number of problems students can do before "testing out"
For written instructions on how to edit Skill Building Sets go here
Algebra or Fill in?
- Michelle's Question
- My students can answer +6 to some questions, and sometimes it will only except it as a 6 without the sign. Why is th
Managing classes and assignments
- Mary's Question
- If I have multiple sections of the same class
- Do they have to have the same assignments?
- If they have the same assignment, can I set different due dates?
"Does ASSISTments work for Language Arts?"
- Video shows how you find out content written for Language Arts. Video also shows how you build your own questions for Langauge Arts.
