Getting Started with Odyssey Assessment Test Builder
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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.
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District >Name< Goals for Odyssey Implementation Add your
local goals here Ask an administrator of the district lead to
discuss these briefly, if possible
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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
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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
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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.
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What is your personal learning goal?
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Basic Navigation of OdysseyCreating a ClassAssigning
CurriculumThe Student ExperienceProgress Monitoring Wrapping Up
Todays Session
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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.
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Requirements We Address State Standards Alignment Comprehensive
Assessment Research-Based Pedagogy Depth and Breadth Spiraling
Curriculum Scaffolded Support
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The CompassLearning Difference Brain-Based Research /
Engagement Interactive Conversational Interface Higher Level
Thinking Skills Critical Mistakes Framework Single Manager
Architecture 21 st Century Skill focus Automated Prescriptive Paths
Unlimited Users
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Engaging K-12 Content Reading Comprehension Biology English
1GovernmentPhysics
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Educator Development Model
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Single-Management System State standards aligned Easy to use
Formative assessments Customizable assessments Automatic online
prescription Progress monitoring Classroom management and
differentiated instruction Student, parent, teacher, and
administrator reports Aggregate and disaggregate data
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Lets Log In!
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Teacher Interface / Dashboard
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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
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Concept Mapping for Teacher Interface Teacher Interface
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Content Resources
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Standards-Aligned Instruction
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CREATING A CLASS
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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.
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ASSIGNMENT ARCHIVE
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PREVIEWING CURRICULUM
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www.compasslearning.com
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TEST BUILDER
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Assessments Test Builder
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THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE
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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.
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PROGRESS MONITORING
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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
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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?
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WRAPPING THINGS UP!
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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?
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So What? What does this mean for my instructional practice?
What could this mean for my students?
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Now What? What is my immediate plan for using the software in
my classroom? When will I begin to use it?
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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.
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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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Insert Contact Information Follow up Session will be:
Differentiating Instructional Learning Paths for Students
