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

prescription

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