 Hello, I'd like to welcome you to today's webinar on Ed Ready. Ed Ready is an online math program that has been built to help students study for the NISA test. Right now it's just for the 11th grade NISA, but we're working on getting a 7th and 8th grade one created that also is aligned with our Nebraska NISA test. So what is Ed Ready? Here is what their little byline is. It lets you assess your readiness for college math, see study options, and get a personalized study path to fill in knowledge gaps. That's what Ed Ready was originally created for. We have taken it, though, and we have aligned it to our NISA test. And you can also use it for ACT prep and for the Compass prep. And I will show you that when we get farther into it. Ed Ready is a product that is powered by NROC. NROC is an organization that puts really, really quality online courses together. And so the course that the NISA prep test has been created from was an NROC developmental math course. If you want to learn more about NROC, you can go to this website down here. Also know that everything in NROC, you might have heard of Hippocampus, which is more on the high school level. A lot of it is collegiate. It is available to all of Nebraska teachers through the ESUCC pays for a membership that allows it to be free to Nebraska teachers. So this Ed Ready product that I'm going to show you is free for you to use with your students. I'm going to start with just a little short video that kind of talks about Ed Ready. And it really focuses on that college and career readiness as it was developed for that purpose to see where kids are based on their readiness for college math. So we'll watch this quick. So many possibilities. And for many of us, there are challenges that we have to overcome. Math can be a challenge that really gets in the way of our goals. Did you know that nearly half of recent high school graduates are considered not ready for college math? Students are often placed on a different track, spending time and money taking classes that don't earn credit. Of those who start college unprepared, only 20% will successfully graduate with a degree. And far too many students end up wasting precious time and money while their dreams of earning a degree fade away. But that doesn't have to be your story. If you're making a decision about your future, the first step is edready.org. It's free. It helps you personally and it can be used by anyone. With Ed Ready, you can clearly see your options and gain the skills that make sense for you. Here's how it works. First, select a goal to tell Ed Ready where you want to go. Next, take a short self-assessment to find out what you may already know. Your results are presented as an Ed Ready score. Showing what you should study and what you may be able to skip, your Ed Ready score shows where you are right now in math. You can see how far this places you from the goal you chose, shown as a target score. With a clear idea of where you are and where you want to go, Ed Ready builds a study path to help you get there. Follow your study path to reveal free online resources for each topic. You choose which resources support how you learn best. When you think you've mastered a concept, check your knowledge and watch your Ed Ready score improve. If you put in the time and use the resources provided, you can be ready for any goal you choose. Ed Ready gives you what you need to know to get you where you want to go. So, what do you want to be ready for? I think that Ed Ready is an amazing product, and the teachers that I have showed it to agree. Last year, Ed Ready was in a pilot stage in the state of Nebraska, and we had a few different schools use it throughout the state, and it is ready to go this year. I'll tell you how to go about doing that towards the end, but I would encourage all math teachers to take a look at it, and I think that you will find that it would be a great addition to what you're already doing in your math classrooms. Towards the end of the webinar, I'll also talk about a few ways that teachers are using it, so it might give you some ideas. Actually, we'll come back to this. We'll go out to the actual site and take a look at what it looks like. Now, the really, really important thing is that we go to the Nebraska Domain site. If you just go to edready.org, you won't get access to the NISA test, because it's not created there, it's created within our domain. So if you look up here, this esucc.edready.org, that's what you have to go to in order to get access to the Nebraska stuff, and I have that in some information later. Two things, I can show you what it looks like as a teacher and as a student, and I think I'm going to start at the student level, so we can kind of see. It's really great because students enroll themselves once the teacher decides what courses they want the students in, if it's the NISA or the ACT or the Compass, then they give the students a key code, which has been created, and then the students can log in themselves, basically. So I'm going to pull up my student account, and I will show you that since I already have an account created, I'm going to go to the regular edready site, but I do not want you to go here at all. But this is what a student would first do on the ESUCC site. They would go here and they would want to get started, and then they would have to sign up for an account so that they would use their school email account. They would choose a password. It could be something that they're familiar with. And the reason you enter your zip code, it is prepared and was made for college readiness. So it will report to the students, the colleges within so many miles of their zip code. Just kind of a more of a college awareness thing. So I would sign up and I send this, and then they receive an email that they have to click on to verify. It's that easy. Now, once they're in, I'm going to go back to the ESUCC site, and I am here under my student account. Let me log out so you can see from the very beginning what a student... So they would get here under the ESUCC website, and they would log in, and since they've created their account, it's just their email and their password, and then they log in. So at this point, they would enter a goal key, and we'll learn more about goal keys later on, but it's very, very simple. The goal key that I entered for this practice test to show you was just NNNC underscore practice, I believe. And so then it appears here, and you can enter several goals. They can be working on the NISA one. They can be working on the ACT prep one all at the same time. And your goals would just show up here. So this is my goal, and let's see. Actually, I went here yesterday, and I already took the assessment. I just had five-question assessment so that I could show you what a study path looks like. As you've seen in the video, this was the score I got. So I am sitting at a 25, and I believe that this one is set that I would like to be at a 90%. That's my target. You can set that at whatever you'd like. I believe the NISA one is set at 100 across the board, just because they need to try and master everything in order to do well on that NISA. And so I obviously need to do some work to get to my 90. So I'm going to go to my study path, and it shows here under whole numbers, I wasn't ready. And the recommended study time for me to master this would be about three hours. And here these are the topics under the whole number that I need to study, place value, rounding, comparing, adding whole numbers, subtracting, estimation. So I have a lot of work to do. And so we're just going to click on this one. And so you can see what the students then would go through. Takes just a minute to get it loaded. All right. Every topic they have, they can go through a warm-up. There's a presentation. There's examples that are worked so they can watch them. They can practice and then they can continue to review. So a little bit of the presentation, I already did the warm-up. How much money would you rather make in a month? This amount? Or this amount? Of the two amounts. Of course you'd rather make this amount. But why? Well, all numbers are made up of one or more digits. What I like about these, it's very visual. They really connect it to real-life examples, just like this one, making money, how much you want to make. And so I like that aspect of it. It's not Sally and Johnny are going in a rowboat. How many miles will it take? Whatever. It's very, very practical real-life experiences. I'm going to stop him and then I'm going to show you some of the work examples here. Three in 4,356. Now, whatever I think about place value, and the more you do practice problems on this, it'll become a little bit of second nature. But whenever I see a problem like this, I like to expand out what 4,300. Okay, I'm going to talk over him again too. A lot of the content that they have pulled in to make these study paths come from Khan Academy, the NROC, maybe CK12. There's a listing. If I see that pop up, I will show it again. So they pull in content from a lot of different places. And if you notice here, they have the opportunity to watch him work three different problems. And so I'm going to stop that. And then I can go ahead and practice and see if I did better. It says match the value on the left with the numbers on the right. So five in the thousands place. I would pull this over. And then it creates that. Eight in the hundreds. Three in the millions. Two in the 10,000s. And seven in the 100,000s. All right, and you see I have six problems here. I would submit that. I would go on. I'm correct. Let me show you one. If I get it incorrect. So find the digit and the place value for each of these in the billions. We'll go two. We'll do a seven. I'm not even reading, so zero and a one. All right, and I submit it. It says incorrect. Keep in mind the position. So it kind of teaches you as you go. I can then retry and figure it out. Or they'll give me another chance to retry and then I'll go on and I'll see in the long run that I haven't mastered the concept if that's the case. And I would go back and review some more. All right, so I'm going to go back to my study path. So that's what it looks like on a student's end. Now a couple things in the NISA course. It's been broken into three parts. Otherwise, the initial assessment was just so huge. And so they'll take an initial assessment. It will decide what their study path needs to be based on that initial score. And then they can work through that. Now the initial assessments say they don't get through it in the time period that you initially set up for them. It's okay. Everything is saved. You never have to push save. You can come back and get right back into your assessment where you were. Same thing with your study path. And the other thing about your study path is maybe I've been working on whole numbers and I'm just frustrated. Next day I can come and work on, I don't know, estimation maybe. So I can choose here which study path or where in my study path I want to work. So everything is saved automatically. It comes right back to them. Lots of great feedback as you saw. And then even better feedback and reports from the teachers and we'll get to that just shortly. When I get through my study paths, I can come back and redo the assessment. Or I can do assessments after each unit or each little deal of study and as I complete them, then I'll know I've mastered it. Otherwise I can go back and take that whole five question assessment to see if I've raised my score or I've got to my mastery targeted score. Alright, that's a little bit on the student one. Pretty simple. I'm going to close that one and come back to the teacher one now. I'm going to log in. Now you're going to see more here than you would see. You would only see the school that you're associated with. But I have a lot more schools, so you'll probably see way more than you would on your end. Now, for a teacher, you could go to the ESU Ed Ready site like I just was at here and do a get started. That's not the ESU CC one and create an account. I would prefer you not to. I would prefer that you just let me know if you want an account and all I need to know is your email address you want that account associated with and I will set it up for you. That way I can assign you goals and permissions and those kind of things that you wouldn't get if you set up your own account. It's just easier on my end. If you set up your own, you have permissions to go in and give you what you need, your goals and those things. Then I have to go back to the Ed Ready and rock help desk for them to do it. Just on my behalf, I would ask that you contact me and my contact information will be at the end and I will set that account up for you. I just need to know an email and then need to know what assessments you want to access to. If it's the NISA prep one, if it's the ACT or if it's the Compass one. I'm going to go into the Nebraska one here. Actually, I'm not. I'm going to go and look here at what reports would look like. You can see here, they're working on that sixth, seventh, eighth grade prep one. We've got a pilot going on and so hopefully that will be available for everyone really soon. I'm trying to see if I can find one where we're not going to see student names. Here's an example. Here's a Nebraska presentation example. This is probably actually educators that have gone in and done a practice test. We'll go with that one and look at the reports for it. On the initial page of reports, you can see how many students have taken the diagnostic test or the initial assessment and how many have worked and improved. At this point, 34 have improved their score. The median diagnostic score was 58. The most recent median was a 66 score. You can see a little bit. For the most part, the red is those that were not ready. Yellow needs improvement and the yellow needs improvement. The red is the first one that was measured. It gives a little overall information. What I like is if I click here on student data, let's hope these are teachers. These are all teachers. This is good. You can see here that in this class, these are the students. The gray is their initial assessment. The purple is their most recent updated assessment score. Obviously, this one, Amanda, hasn't been in at all. Here we see some growth and improvement from Amy. You can see here, she has spent two hours and 49 minutes in her study path. Here we have the most growth from Angie Becker. What a student. She got that much growth and she didn't even study. That's what this will show you. Basically showing the growth and the amount of time that they've been in it. Now, I'm going to drill down one more step. I'm going to go to Unit Detail. This is where the reports get exciting, I think. I've got to let it finish loading. I should have my students over here. I'm not sure why. Let me refresh my page, maybe. There it comes. There. In this NNC practice test, there was just two units. There's obviously a lot more if you were under the NISA or the other ones. We can see here that Billy Bob, most recent scores of 47, yellow, he needs review. If I click on this, it's going to tell me that this student has not yet studied any of the resources in there or here. So Billy Bob needs to get to work, obviously. And let's see. Here's someone who the student hasn't studied there yet. Maybe no one studied on this one. Oh, here she is. So this is length and this is the last thing she studied was Unit 6 measurement. What that was, I can click on it here and it will take me right out to that study path so I can see what was being taught. So as a teacher, if I see that a student has been working on something and not making much progress, this will take me right to how it's being taught and what's being covered in that part of the review. And so then I can decide whether I need to supplement that or do something to help that student. Also, we know that Unit 1 is whole numbers, Unit 2 is measurement, so it kind of gives you an overview of what they've been studying. And the green is they've mastered or the green with the star means that they should be able to master it with very little or not a lot of time and they're very on the verge of having it mastered there. Alright, so then I can drill down one more time to topic detail. And so in that Unit 1 I'm not sure why those people's names are not loading on my first page. Could be I'm not patient enough, but here we are. The second page seems to load. So in Unit 1 on whole numbers here or I could flip to Unit 2 on measurement, we can see it's broken down even more. So the first topic is place value. And I can see here that Beth has mastered it. If I click on it, those are all the resources that she has studied. She didn't study any in that one, so she didn't need to spend any time there. She's been working here on adding whole numbers and she hasn't mastered it yet though. And I could view the resource and go right out to it if I wanted to see what she's been studying. Then I could look at rounding numbers and I could go down and see how they're doing with that and see here Callie's having trouble. It does show that she's been working on it and so I just maybe want to monitor if she needs a little extra help. So I really like the reports and if I go back here to the summary report I can tell this whole data to myself. I can also download it for each individual or for an individual student and look at that. So I really like that ability. So if you have a student that says they've been working in it and you can take this information, download it, show it, spend no time in it, you haven't gained anything. Let's make a plan of action. It's that easy. It's really a teacher friendly product and a student friendly product. I'm going to pop out back to my PowerPoint here. Now I said I would tell a couple ways that it's being used. I know some schools use it like at the last 10 minutes of class they have students work in their ed ready. I know if you are a one to one school that maybe works better. If you're not maybe once a week you have the lab in or you take them to the lab that the kids work on their ed ready. Some schools where kids they get to that junior year before they take the NISA and they haven't had math that particular year for that semester or depends on if you're in block scheduling. So they use this as kind of a review and prep of those skills. It doesn't have to just be juniors. I've got schools that have some sophomores taking it. Some schools have those kids that need to take math but are not students that need the higher level math so they have developed developmental math or something like that and this is a great program to put in there. So there's a lot of different ways you can use it. It's so teacher friendly. You can use it when you need a sub. Just tell the sub it's ed ready day your kids know what to do they get in they log in and they work through their study paths and then you can come back and you can see how much time they spend working in their paths that day. Excellent, excellent course. If you're doing a blended learning classroom this fits in well. This can be your online component or piece and know that the NISA like it's in three parts but the ACT and the Compass it's just set up basically the same way in three parts but they take initial assessment they work through study paths and then they can check and see how well they've done to reach their target. Also if they want to they can take the college readiness that one is not one that we assign a goal key to. They can just go here I'm saying this to the regular edready.org site and sign up as a guest and take the college readiness if they want to see. But the college readiness is the same kind of questions that are built into the ACT and the Compass prep and the NISA so that's why we didn't put it in here. Now when I sign you up or create you an account I send out a document that has these next two slides on it it'll tell for teachers you go to this edready ESUCC edready site you log in it's always going to be the email you send me and I'll create some sort of a password for you and then when you log in the first time you get to change that and then it will have your goals here. So you see here here's just some sample goals here's that in and see practice when we were looking at and then what I've circled here is the goal key. This is what you give the students. So once they've created their account they go in and they want to enter a goal key they would enter this NNNC underscore practice or whatever your goal key is. I usually a lot of times will use your mascot Falcons ACT 2015 or something like that so it's not that difficult and all kids use the same one and then you'll see them in your reports. Now you won't see them in your reports so they've completed the assessment. So if they're only part way through the assessment it won't show until they've completed that assessment and a study path has been prepared for the students. Also if you have multiple teachers in your building wanting to use Ed Ready that's a wonderful thing. Each are going to want their own goal key because otherwise all the students will populate under that same goal. So you could have two teachers in the same building working on the NISA goal. They just have a different goal key that their kids put in that way they can see their data just for their students. There is a hierarchy that if you have like a math department chair that would like to review all students and not necessarily by teacher we can also set it up as a hierarchy that that person can then access all those reports and merge them together. So that's something that's actually new. Then on this document that I send there's also the student part directions. The students log into the ESUCC they create their account have them use an email and a familiar password I should probably add here then they have to verify through their email that that and activate that account then they just type in the goal key. I just going to end my email here or phone number. If you would like an ed ready account set up for you just let me know and I will do that immediately let me know what assessments you would like in that account and then if you would like me to come out and sit down with you and do a demonstration for your math department or your math teachers or just you think you're ready to go but you'd like little one-on-one help I'm happy to do that you just have to let me know and we'll set something up. I encourage everyone to take a look at ed ready and I think that there has such value in it and that you can use it somewhere in your program.