When a student logs in to Studies Weekly Online, they will see their Student Dashboard. This article gives students an overview of how to navigate it. Including changing their Avatar in the Profile Menu.
Student accounts are quickly identified by the purple navigation bar at the top of the page.
If you need assistance with logging in, visit the How to Log In to Your Online Account article.
On the Classrooms page, students will see the classrooms they are assigned to. The Active tab shows the classrooms that have work available. The Inactive tab shows classrooms that no longer have work available.
Each classroom has its own card with icons to open their assigned Publications, To Do (Customized Content), and Notes.
Adding Classrooms
If a student’s teacher provided a code to join a classroom, click the Add Classroom button in the top right corner. Once a student types in the code and clicks Add Classroom, the classroom will appear on the Classrooms page.
In the upper right corner, students will see their total number of coins, any notifications, and the Profile Menu. These features are accessible no matter where a student is within the the Student Dashboard.
Students should click the Notification Bell when they see a number attached to it. Here they can view and click to open any retakes their teacher has assigned, read comments from their teacher, view graded submissions, or see when their teacher has awarded them coins.
To mark the notification as read, students will click each envelope to open it or select MARK ALL AS READ. Open envelopes can also be clicked to mark the notification as unread.
The Profile Menu is where students can update their Avatar, access Explorers and Study Buddies to spend their coins (if enabled by the teacher), view Account Settings, and Sign Out.
Within the Account Settings of the Profile Menu, students can change their user Avatar by selecting the Change Avatar button.
Students can choose to leave the default Avatar (which is their initials) and select a new background color or choose from a Studies Weekly Online character.
Once a selection has been made, click Save in the bottom right corner.
Additional information about Study Buddies and Explorers can be found in the Student Section of the Help Center.
If a student is already assigned to one or more classrooms, they can click directly on a publication to begin or select the View All publications link.
In the Publications tab, click a publication to view its Table of Contents. The Table of Contents shows all of the Studies Weekly created content students have been assigned by their teacher. Teachers choose which publications are visible for students as well as what content is visible within the publications. Visit the How to Navigate the Table of Contents article to learn more.
Vocabulary Note
Typically, key vocabulary terms identified as essential for concept development and are explicitly defined in Studies Weekly publications are bolded. Additional key vocabulary terms are identified as language for learning and are defined in the introduction of each week’s instructional plan.
In the To Do tab of each classroom card, or the side navigation bar students will see the Customized Content tasks a teacher has assigned to them. Available tasks are those that the student has not completed yet. Completed tasks have been completed, but not graded. Graded tasks have been completed and graded.
If the Customized Content due date has expired, students can still complete the work and there will be a Past Due label attached to it
Students should check the To Do tab regularly. To learn how to find retakes a teacher has assigned, view the How Students Access Retakes article.
Student Notes will show all of the highlights and notes a student has made within assigned publications. Notes can be accessed in the class cards on the Classes page.
To learn about creating highlights and notes, visit the How to Use the Highlighting Tool article.
If a teacher has enabled accessibility features for a student, the icon will be visible in the upper right corner of their screen.
To learn more about the accessibility features see the How to Use Accessibility Features in Studies Weekly Online article.