Scootpad Notes:  
Setup:
•	Click on Create New Classroom
•	Click Students on the top banner
•	Click on Create a New Student Account
•	You can change the username and password for each student.  We try to use the usernames and passwords that Pearson gave them.
Sample/Practice Student Account:
•	To create a practice or sample student, follow the same steps to add a new student to your class account.  
•	This is a very helpful feature.  This allows you to log in as the practice student to preview lessons or to use the Active board to do a mini lesson of one or two of the questions with the whole class before they work the assignment on their own.
Customize:
•	Click on the Customize tab on the top banner after you have logged in.
•	This tab allows you to make changes to your overall account.
•	You can change the number of questions students get on each assignment.  I have set mine to 10 since sometimes the 20 questions will take too long to complete.
•	It will default to allow one retry, award coins, and use voice or read aloud.
•	It will default to immediate feedback as well.
•	You can also limit student access settings on this tab.  Click on each one (avatar, friends/shoutouts, games, classwall).  
•	To disable, just click on each picture and check disable if available and then click save.  If you check the classroom setting, it will apply for everyone.
•	To limit the time for access, you can set the time for 8 A.M. to 6 hours and then save.  This will lock the avatars during the majority of school.  When you click on this setting, you are setting the lock time to start at 8:00 and to last for up to 6 hours.  
Learning Paths:
•	Click on Placement tests and units to begin.
•	Click on Generate Placement test and then save.
•	This feature will allow you to use the program no matter how comfortable you feel with it.  If you never personally assign an assignment, Scootpad will always have skills available for them to work on based on how well they completed the placement tests.  The students will always have Math Practice or Reading Practice generate practice on their dashboard.
Assignments (Directions the same for both Reading and Math):
•	Click on Assignments tab at the top of the page.
•	Click on Add Assignments.
•	Give it a name that will appear on the students’ dashboard. ( I use something like RL4.2 Monday classwork.)
•	Click on the start date and due date.
•	Click on # of practices.  (One per day is enough.)
•	Assign to all of your students or anyone you would like.
•	Click on Self-Paced (This is determined from their placement test and covers random standards.) or click on Custom (This is the most popular since you can assign specific standards that correlate to the Benchmark tests.)
•	Then click save and it will appear on their dashboard.
Assessments (tests):
•	They only get one chance on the tests.  They do not get the “Oops, try again” help that the assignments give them.  
•	To assign an assessment, follow the same format as assigning an assignment.
•	Give it a specific name that the students will see on their dashboard.  Give it a start and due date.  Click on the students who will receive the test and then select the concepts.  
•	It will automatically give 4 questions per selected concept.  If you pick one concept, you get 4 questions.  If you pick 5 concepts, you get 20 questions.
•	Click on save and it appears on their dashboard.
Reports:
•	Proficiency by concept-This allows you to see each standard and how well overall your class has mastered the concept.  On the right, you can see how well each student has the highlighted skill mastered.  If a child needs to work on the skill, you can click on the name or names and then scroll to the bottom to Assign Concept Improvement to Each Child.  This will assign more practice to that child.
•	Proficiency by student-This is the same as the Proficiency by concept tab except that the columns are basically reversed.
•	Progress Reports- You can print these off for the parents to see how each child is progressing overall.
•	Practice Results- This allows you to see individual results per child on each assignment.  These can be printed or viewed online for review with the students.  This will also let you see how long it took them to complete the assignment.
•	Learning Paths-This is only used if you let the child move at his/her own pace on the standards Scootpad assigns for them based on their first Placement test.
•	Activity Report-This lets you see what each child has completed for a specific timeframe.  This is helpful if you assign something for homework and you want to check to see if they have completed it.  Enter in the date for the homework and hit refresh.  It will tell the practice name, date, how long they worked on it and the accuracy of the assignment.  You can click on the magnifying lens to see their answers.
Helpful Hints We Learned Along the Way:
•	Create a practice student and preview the assignments.
•	It is very helpful to do a question or two together on your Active board together just as you would introduce a Pearson lesson.  Then they can work on their own.
•	Scootpad is VERY picky on their answers.  If a word is misspelled, a comma is out of place, a space is inserted, a symbol is in the wrong place, Scootpad counts the whole answer incorrect.   This is actually a very good thing because it teaches the students to slow down and check their work before they click.
•	We require them to use paper and show all of their work with the math.  Then they write their score on the top and turn it in.  This will go in signed papers for the parents to see the type of work that we are working on in class.  They have access to this online, but the paper is a good visual.  It is also a great way to see why they are missing the problems.
•	Limit or disable the games, classwall, shoutouts, etc.  I tell them that this is not a game, but something that I am using for grades so they don’t need to play.
•	Our younger grades use the rewards tab to let them earn no homework passes, candy, etc.  We don’t in the upper grades because we already had a reward system similar to this in place with our IXL Math program.
•	Email me with any questions:  elena.lee@hsv-k12.org