The Online Course is where students will spend the majority of their time. It contains adaptive diagnostics, engaging online lessons, and practice sets. Educators can use the Study Plan tool to manually organize the course or set it to adapt to individual students.
Online Course Overview
The Online Course is comprised of three learning experiences: diagnostics, lessons, and practice sets.
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Diagnostics
The adaptive diagnostics are used to quickly assess student performance. Each diagnostic aligns to the same standards, skills, and reporting categories as the online lessons and practice sets. They are primarily used to create an adaptive study plan, but they can also be included in manually created plans as a benchmark assessment. -
Lessons
Lessons are the backbone of the Online Course. Each lesson targets a specific skill with a variety of interaction types and short (<30 second) videos. A typical lesson consists of several parts:-
Engaging micro-videos
Each screen in a lesson opens with a 10- to 30-second video that is conversational in tone and uses Socratic dialogue to encourage students to complete an interaction on the screen. The videos are short so that students are constantly engaging with the platform. -
Interactions
Because lessons are designed in a formative framework, they make use of a variety of tech-enabled interactions to keep students thinking. Interactions range from multiple-choice to hotspots to extended text. -
Reactive feedback
When a student interacts with the platform, they receive feedback, usually in the form of a micro-video. These videos acknowledge if the student made a correct or incorrect choice and provide tailored feedback. -
Scaffolding
A lesson starts simple and works toward test-level rigor as it progresses. This allows students to ease into the topic and build mastery over several interactions and videos before ending on level.
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Engaging micro-videos
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Practice Sets
Each lesson is accompanied by one or more practice sets. The practice sets are designed to be test-level rigor, and are used to assess how much the student learned from their lesson. They also provide students the chance to immediately practice what they learned.
Best Practices
- If you decide to manually sequence the Online Course, be sure to include a variety of lessons and practice sets.
- Each interaction is accompanied by on-screen instructions, so teachers can assist students even if everyone is on a unique plan.
Summary
The Online Course combines diagnostics, lessons, and practice sets to build skills through adaptive or manually organized study plans. Lessons use short videos, interactive activities, and tailored feedback, while practice sets provide test-level application of newly learned skills.
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