Teachers may choose to monitor student completion of the assigned comprehension questions at the end of Articles within Publications. Article questions are designed to help students learn how to identify evidence from the reading to support a claim.*
Student responses are automatically graded by Studies Weekly Online and they receive immediate feedback. Students have unlimited chances to select the correct response, but they are incentivized with coins to correctly answer each question in as few attempts as possible.**
Studies Weekly Online reports reflect this and provide teachers with student progress toward completion of the weekly article questions in multiple places.
The Gradebook provides a quick view of assigned items and the students assigned to the classroom. Use the dropdown boxes in the Gradebook to navigate to the publication, week, and item of your choice to view completion.
For each student record a teacher will see one of the following for article questions:
Not Started: The student has not started the item.
In Progress: The student has begun the item but has not completed it.
Completed: The student completed the article questions. Scores are not shown for article questions since they must get the questions correct before moving on.
Number of submissions: This will show the total number of attempts on an item. When you click a number you will see the date and time of each submission. When you click a submission you will see the student’s answer.
To learn about the additional symbols and more features in the Gradebook, visit the How to Navigate the Grade Section article.
Statistics can be found inside the Snapshot Report and in Table of Contents of publications. Statistics allow teachers to quickly check student completion of article questions.
The Snapshot Report is found under Reports and will show your student's statistics on comprehension questions. You must first select a Publication, Week, and Content:
When a question is selected, teachers will see a graph of the answers students chose. Below the graph, teachers will see the individual attempts by each student.
Statistics are also found after selecting a week in the Table of Contents. This will show you a Class Overview for the Article.
Selecting a question within the Article, will show statistics for that question exactly as in the Snapshot Report.
The Table of Contents are found after opening a publication and selecting a week. To view completion of Article questions select the Grade tab. This action will show colored chips indicating the totals of the number of students in the class (All), the total Graded, Not Turned In, and Ungraded. These colored chips correlate with the list of enrolled students directly below. This allows teachers to quickly see who has not completed the comprehension questions for the selected Article.
To learn more about navigating the Grade tab visit the How to Grade Student Submissions from the Table of Contents article.
Note
*Answers to comprehension questions are found within the articles and students are encouraged to go back to the Article to find the answer with every incorrect response. To learn more about what happens when students answer article comprehension questions incorrectly, visit the Article/Explore More Comprehension Question Delay article.
**To learn more about how students earn coins for article questions visit the How to Earn Coins article.