koobits problemsums – user manual (teacher account)

Teacher Account

KooBits® ProblemSums™

User Manual

2015

KooBits ProblemSums – User Manual (Teacher Account) 2015

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Table of Content

Program Description ............................................................................................................................... 2

Learning Objectives ................................................................................................................................ 2

Best Practices .......................................................................................................................................... 3

Homework............................................................................................................................................... 4

Assign Homework .......................................................................................................................... 5

Edit Saved Worksheets ................................................................................................................. 10

Personalized Homework ............................................................................................................... 11

Cross-Level Homework Assignment ............................................................................................ 12

Create Groups ............................................................................................................................... 13

View Report & Analytics ...................................................................................................................... 14

View Homework Report ............................................................................................................... 15

Homework Alert for Parents ......................................................................................................... 18

View Student Skill Mastery .......................................................................................................... 19

Monthly School Report ................................................................................................................. 21

Individual Student Report ............................................................................................................. 22

Student Games and Activities ............................................................................................................... 23

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Program Description KooBits ProblemSums is a personalized online mathematics learning portal for primary

students. It features a comprehensive collection of challenging Maths Word Problems and

learning materials that will enhance pupils’ problem-solving skills and adapt to each child’s

strength and weakness.

The program aims to enable all students to acquire mathematics concepts and skills for

everyday use and continuous learning in mathematics, develop thinking and reasoning skills

through an engaging mathematical approach to problem solving, and build confidence and

generate greater interest in mathematics among students.

This math portal is one of the latest digital platforms designed by a Singapore based

education-technology company - KooBits.

The program specifications are as follows:

To promote a platform where pupils can do revision and extension of learning

To provide problem sums questions for each level (Primary 1 to Primary 6) covering

most of the topics in MOE syllabus for Mathematics.

To provide practices, tests, exams for the questions.

To provide variation to a particular skill/concept to each question.

To allow teachers to select questions and assign worksheets from the portal.

To provide analysis for the teachers on the pupils’ scores attained.

Learning Objectives The objectives of the program are to:

a) develop creative and critical thinking skills

b) cultivate higher-order mathematical thinking and problem-solving skills

c) instil interest and enhance confidence in learning mathematics

d) encourage life-long self-directed learning in mathematics

e) provide a useful Home-Based-Learning tool that covers Mathematics problem solving

using model

f) raise the teachers’ mastery of both content and pedagogy in teaching mathematical

problem solving heuristics.

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Best Practices Bite-sized Assignments

1) Assign a standardized homework

Bite-sized homework (with less than 5 questions per worksheet) works better with

students. Assign bite-sized homework and reward them points by achieving 100%, it

is one of the most effective ways to build student-teacher dynamics.

2) Assign a personalized homework

Each student may make different mistakes at different questions, thus compiling these

mistakes and personalize revision homework can be a hassle. To make the task

simpler, you can use KooBits’ Personalized Homework function to automatically

compile a student’s recent mistakes and create a new revision homework.

Appoint a KooBits Class Monitor

1) Appoint a student leader that can help assign quick homework on behalf of

the teacher

Students will get points by completing teacher-assigned homework. However,

teachers are busy and may not have a lot of time to create and assign homework. Why

not get a student leader to help you with that? Teacher can request a KooBits Class

Monitor account and give it to a student leader. The student can use it to assign quick

homework based on the curriculum for the class to practice.

2) Encourage the student leader to monitor the usage of the classmates

Make use the Champion Class leader board to let students monitor each other’s usage

and participation on a daily basis. If someone from the class forgot to submit

homework or failed to complete daily challenges, the rest of the classmates can help

to remind him or her.

3) Recognize the student leader’s effort

To reward the KooBits Class Monitor, we provide certificates to these student leaders

to recognize their efforts.


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Homework

Choose Questions by Topic

Assign Quick Homework

Edit Saved Worksheet

Personalized Revision Homework

Cross-level Homework

Homework Timeline

Create Groups

Print Worksheet


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Assign Homework

1) Browse Topics

Select “Level” from dropdown menu, all topics under the level will be displayed.

Click “Show” button to expand sub-topics and skills of a particular topic

2) Select Skills and Questions

Click “Add Qn” button to select the number of questions you’d like to pick from this

particular skill

Questions will be randomly selected at first

Click “Sample” button to preview the question


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3) Preview Sample Question

At the question preview mode, click “Next question” button to view a parallel

question.

Important: Sample question displayed is NOT the actual question assigned to the

student. It represents the type of questions in this skill. Parallel questions will be

randomly selected to generate the worksheet. To choose a particular question from a

skill, teacher has the option to do so at the Worksheet Preview stage (shown below).

4) Create and Preview Worksheet

Click “Create” button to generate and preview the worksheet


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5) Change Questions, Save and Assign

The pop-up window will show the worksheet preview. At this point, you can click on

the “Change Question” button to change to parallel questions within the same skill.

The questions displayed here will be the final set of questions to be assigned to pupils.

Click “Save as worksheet” to save this worksheet for future use, especially if you do

not want to assign the worksheet right away.

You can also click “Assign” to directly assign this digital homework to students. You

will see the following message, and click “Ok”.

Note: Clicking “Assign” will automatically save your worksheet, meaning you do not

need to click the “Save as worksheet” separately.


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6) Choose Class/Group and Advanced Settings

Your worksheet has been created, now you can select classes or groups that you want

to assign this homework to.

Under the “Class and Group”, all available classes and groups under this particular

primary level are displayed here. Click the checkbox to select the class or group. You

can make multiple selections if you want to assign the homework to more than one

class.

Set a Start Date

By default, when you assign homework, it’ll be instantly available to your students. If

you want this particular assignment to be accessible at a later date, you can do so by

choosing a particular date from “Start Date”.

Close after deadline

By default, your students can still attempt the homework after the deadline. By

checking the box “Close after deadline”, the homework will be locked after the

submission deadline. This is useful if your assignment is more for assessment purpose.

Attach Learning Notes

You can attach up to 3 files (Doc, PPT or PDF) per worksheet.

Finally, click the button to assign your homework.


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7) View Your Homework Assignment

Click on the “Homework” button at the top of

the page, you will be directed to the Homework Timeline view (shown above).

You can click on the Homework icon (marked by a school icon)

to open the homework and check on your students’ submission.


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Edit Saved Worksheets 1) View Saved Worksheets

To view, edit, print and delete existing, saved worksheets, click “Homework” button

from navigation at the top of the page. Click “Manage Worksheet”.

2) Edit Worksheet

A list of saved worksheets will be displayed. You can re-use these worksheets by

editing, re-assigning or printing these worksheets.


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Personalized Homework Click the “Dashboard” button on the left panel.

Assign Personalized Homework

When students attempt your homework, they may make mistakes. In fact, different students

may make different mistakes at different questions. In order to create a personalized revision

homework based on each student’s unique mistakes, we created this function called

“Personalized Homework”.

Click on the “Personalized Homework” button.

Select the class/group, and click “Assign”.

Each student will receive an individual revision homework based on his or her own mistakes. A

personalized homework icon (shown below) will appear on the timeline.


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Cross-Level Homework Assignment At beginning of the year, teachers may want to assign a lower level homework (from past

year questions), because students may not have learnt the new syllabus yet. In this session,

we will show you how to assign cross-level homework (for example, assign Primary 4

questions to Primary 5 students).

We will use the following example to illustrate how to assign Primary 4 questions to Primary

5 students.

Choose Primary 4 level, and select questions from the P4 topics. Create the worksheet.

(see previous topic on “Assign Homework”.

At the “Level” dropdown list, select “Primary 5”. You’ll see the classes change to

Primary 5 class at the “Class and Group” session.

Now click “Assign” button to assign this homework (with Primary 4 questions) to

Primary 5 students.


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Create Groups Teachers, who are granted with Administrator status, can create groups for the school. Here

are the steps:

Click the “Admin” link on the left panel.

Click the “Create Group” button.

Click “Create New Group” or choose an existing group to edit.

Browse the level, class and students from left side, click “Add” button to add to the group.

Click button to finish. Now the group will appear alongside with classes, and

all teachers from the school can assign worksheets to the group.


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View Report & Analytics

View Homework Report

Homework Alert for Parents

View Student Skill Mastery

Monthly School Report

Individual Student Report


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View Homework Report After students submitted their homework, you can view their answers and workings.

Click on the “Homework” button at the top of

the page, you will be directed to the Homework Timeline view (shown above).

You can click on the Homework icon (marked by a school icon)

to open the homework and check on your students’ submission.

A summary of submission status will be displayed (shown below)


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Click the pie chart icon, students individual submission will be displayed (shown below).

Click the “Details” button to open an individual student’s submission. It will show the

student’s answer and workings.


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Teacher can also view the homework report using the question-based view mode.

Click “Report – Questions” tab, the following summary will be displayed.

Green colour indicate the number of students who answered a particular question correctly.

Red colour indicates the number of students who got it wrong. Click the question number to

reveal the details. Teachers can follow up using the Personalized Homework function to let

students revise their mistakes.


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Homework Alert for Parents Parents can opt in to register for teacher homework alert. So whenever teacher assigns a new

homework, the parent will receive an automatic email alert, which contains information such

as submission deadline, and how to access the homework etc.

Parent Registration for Teacher Homework Alert

Login to the child’s account. Click on the “Parent Register” button on the left panel.

Fill up the details, and click “Save” to complete registration.

A sample of Homework Alert Email is shown below.


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View Student Skill Mastery When student attempt questions from various kinds of activities in KooBits (homework,

challenge or self-practice), proficiency index of each skill is automatically calculated. The

skills are colour-coded based on the following rules:

To view the skill proficiency of a particular student, teacher can follow the steps below:

1) Click the “School Report” button

2) Select the class by clicking on the pie chart


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3) Select the student

4) Click the details

Gold colour indicates the skills that are mastered. Blue colour indicates the skills that have

not been completed.


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Monthly School Report Apart from real-time student homework report and proficiency report, we also deliver

monthly usage report starting from the 2nd

month of the subscription period.

The report summarizes school-level usage and data. Samples screenshots are shown below:


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Individual Student Report Teacher can print out individual student report, which summarizes each student’s usage, proficiency,

participation and achievements. It’s a perfect tool for meet-the-parent session.


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Student Games and Activities At KooBits, we design a suite of engaging games and challenges to motivate children. Here is

the summary of games and activities that students can do on their own.

Daily Challenge is an exciting race challenge. It provides a set of personalized activities for

each student to do on a daily basis. It starts from 6am and end at 10pm every day. The student

who finishes these challenges with the highest scores and in the fastest time will win.

Apart from doing Daily Challenges, students can also challenge each other under Peer

Challenge. Both Daily Challenge and Peer Challenge will give students challenge points

which they use to rank on leader boards.

Leader Boards

Hero of the Day

Hero of the Day tracks students’ daily challenge points and rank them on the leader board.

Every day, the Heroes’ names will be recorded in the Hall of Fame.


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BFF (Best Friends Forever)

Best Friends Forever encourages collaborative learning. It allows students to form groups and

challenge with other groups.

Champion Class

Champion Class groups children by class and it ranks the best performing class of the month.

Top Brain

Top Brain rewards students who are diligent, the ones with the highest accumulative points.

Boys Vs Girls

Boys Vs Girls (BVG) is a competition between boys team and girls team.

Wizard School

Wizard school is an inter-school competition. Top students from each school will see their

names on the KooBits Wizard map in real-time.

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