 Hi, CSAH teachers, thanks for joining in today. This webinar is all about assessments that reach all learners. We are honored that you are taking time out of your busy schedules to tune in. I'm Angela, I lead the community team here at CSAH. I was a kindergarten teacher for 15 years. Love those little buggers. And now I lead the community team because I wanna help you get going with CSAH as well and give you fresh ideas to try in your classroom. Of course, you can connect with me on Twitter, at Mrs. Gaggy. Maybe you're in your PJs already, I'm not sure. It would be a cozy time to do that. But does completing individual assessments make you feel like this? I think this was an actual photograph of me a few days ago in my own classroom. Or maybe like this, right? So we know that this is a really busy, busy time of year for most teachers in most classrooms. I feel like every day is. But we are gonna change your perspective today, dealing all related to assessments. So we're gonna talk a little bit about formative assessments. We're gonna talk about maybe some summative assessments that you do in your classroom that CSAH could play a role in as well. But we're gonna go through lots of classroom examples. We're going to actually try things out here as a student today. And we're gonna take time at the end for your question. So if you don't have a second device in your possession at this time, see if you can grab one and have it close by. We're not gonna jump in as a student yet, but we will have that opportunity because we like to give you a chance to play around here. So you are ready to try it in your classroom when you leave. As a reminder, any time if you're live, you can type in questions. We're gonna focus the majority of our time at the end to answering your questions. So starting off, why I love CSAH for assessment. Now, when I started using CSAH, that wasn't the first thing in my mind of like, oh my goodness, I'm gonna use this as an assessment tool. But what I realized is so much of the content that my students were adding to CSAH were amazing formative assessments for me. I was allowed and able to hear all of my students' voice. It was providing them with choice and ownership. That thinking was visible. It was super powerful yet very simple. And as a teacher, it saved me lots of instructional time. And specifically regarding assessments, they are organized, documented, easy to show growth. And I wanna pause there for a moment because what I also like because we are, we have this portfolio feature is that students can easily go back and see their growth over time as well. So if you're adding work to specific folders, they could go in the writing folder, for example, and say, oh, wow, my writing looked like this four months ago, wow, I have grown a lot. And of course, builds strong communication with families as well. So those are my personal why I loves related to assessment specifically, but I'm gonna jump into some classroom examples now. Let's just get going, right? Now I wanna just, I wanna take a moment before we go into the classroom examples to state that we probably have teachers that are watching this webinar that teach various grade levels. And I have examples throughout various grade levels, but I hope what you're going to do in this session is really see some examples and then think about your own classroom and think about those assessments that are coming up, right? Like you might have a little piece of paper right now and just for 10 seconds, write down some of those upcoming assessments that you know you are going to complete with either all of your students in your class or maybe a small group of students. Maybe these are assessments that are required but I would encourage you just quickly right now jot down some of those assessments because I want you to have those in your brain because when I show you some examples here, I want you to be able to easily say, oh, this is not the exact same thing that I need to do but I can see how I can use this to support what I need to do in my own classroom. So that's what I hope for you and let's just jump right in. So as I talked about, one of the things I really love is the choice and ownership that using CISA provides your students specifically when you're asking them in an assessment related task, even a formative assessment related task to do something sometimes very specific. So in this example, just by using the photo tool alone, you could do things like a quick math check with photos. So in this example here, I had to do, I had done a patterning assessment with my students and I wanted them, I basically gave them the introduction of, hey, I need to know that you can create a pattern. Go choose materials in our classroom. I don't care what materials you use, choose what you want to create a pattern, right? So they have choice right there. They have ownership because not only are they choosing how the materials they're going to use, but in this example, it was pretty open-ended. I said that they had, in these examples, they had to use at least two colors, okay? And what I love is that it also enabled students to go as far as they could. So typically pre-CISA, maybe this is something that you're experienced with in your classroom, typically this assessment might take place on a piece of paper, right? And it was very structured, but this is a simple way to give some more choice and ownership for your students. Another example, just using photo with drawing layer on top of it. So on the left here, you see this example from a high school chemistry teacher, Jenny, who shared this with me. She's using this kind of as an exit ticket type situation where students are sharing their takeaways from what they were exploring that day. And on the right, you see a very, maybe familiar baseline assessment check with students regarding letter names or letter sounds. However, layered in this, because you're using CISA, a student is reflecting and they're also noting, oh, I'm not so sure about this one. I'm gonna circle this one so I can come back and continue to work on it or explore further. Another example I want to share here is just using the photo tool with drawing and labeling on the top. Again, I think the ability to add extra layers on top of your students having the ability to do this gives insight into what your students are thinking. You really have locks there thinking and shares that with you quite crisply. So here you can see, again, students are given choice in terms of how they are showing what they know about, in this case, fractions. You see a variety of ways that they're building it, how are they annotating it. And again, by looking at these various examples, you as a teacher have a great idea of where to go next. So I wanna play this example as well because this is photo, drawing, and recording voice. And again, in this example, what the teacher was trying to do was get a sense of what the students knew about rounding numbers, okay? So again, student choice, they are choosing their materials. In this case, they chose to do a photo in CISA. They had the opportunity to use any of CISA's tools. It could have been a note. They could have drawn something. They could have, I don't know, done a video, right? And they're explaining. So I'm gonna click on this example so you can hear it. And here we go. I have 13 levels and I'm gonna show you how to round a number. I like to think of it as a mountain and five is here, zero is here. And the number is below five, round to zero. And the number is above five, round to 10. And with my number 13, I would just add a 10 to everyone. And then, since 13 is closer to 10 and 20, I would say the rounding to 10 is 10. All right, so again, when we start adding voice, we have as a teacher the ability to even hear more and hear more in the sense that it's clear what your next step could be or where you might need to revisit with this student. I love this example from Amy Taylor. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to share this in this webinar. So this literally just came out, I think, on Monday when I was looking on Twitter, I saw this example. Now, Amy teaches sixth grade science and she just said I'm blown away with the way these chemical reaction assessments on CESA turned out. Their creativity and excitement during this lesson has me wondering why I ever use paper and pencil assessments. This one used sat motion animation app and was uploaded to CESA. So I'm gonna play this example because again, I think it lends into all the things that we're talking about today regarding assessment. So I don't know why that link didn't let me go there. Here we go, keeping you in suspense. This is the observing and invisible gas experiment. We put the base with soda in the rocket base and the vinegar in the rocket and then we put the rocket on the base. It causes chemical reaction and the rocket shoots up in the air and lands. But how does all this happen? Well, the two reactants, baking soda and vinegar in the base and the rocket, when they combine endothermic, a cold reaction that produces three products. Now, if you mind, this is having carbon dioxide. Now let's focus on the carbon dioxide. The rocket fills out the carbon dioxide causing it to shoot off its base. So that makes anyone... Wow, right? Pretty much speechless when I saw that. I loved that example for so many reasons. But as a teacher, when I was viewing that example, I was also checking off all of the pieces of content and information that they truly learned and could not only learn but teach others about it, which is a much higher level of thinking and application of course. So Amy, thanks so much for your willingness to share that example. I think it's just a great example of what students can do when they're given that opportunity to create and share with various tools. So you might be thinking, Angela, this just sounds wonderful, but I have very specific assessments that I need to do with students to the point that we have to use the exact number and they have to respond. So one of my teacher friends, Cindy Vance, who is a kindergarten teacher, you also might be wondering, how do I do this if I only have shared devices? Well, Cindy has shared devices and I think a great solution is to set up a station. So this is a very, it's a scripted exercise in the sense that they have to show specific numbers but they have the choice of what materials they're going to use. So in this example, this is set up as a counting station. The students can go over there and add the correct number of objects to the tub. Student uses C set to take a photo and then the teacher has that evidence of that student performance just simply in this photo. Again, when you think back to that list of assessments that I asked you to kind of jot down quickly, maybe you're starting to think, oh, that makes sense for this one or this is one that I have to do in my class. This is an example from my class from a few years ago and this was an assessment that we actually do district wide and we have to use specific numbers and the materials and everything are all standardized. So typically this would be a one-on-one assessment that students would come back to me and be given a set of numbers and need to put them in order. But we brought in CSA here not only to in this very structured, structured task give them back a little bit of that ownership in the sense that they're going to get to explain it on their own. So in this example, the student has had to put the numbers in order, take in a photo of it and let's just take it, listen. I, the little ones, go in the front. The medium ones go in the middle and the biggest ones go in the middle. Right, so I don't know if you heard this but there was also a little commotion in the background. You probably heard me working with another small group of students but that's just another thing to point out as well. When I talked about at the beginning this ability to almost clone yourself and save that instructional time because students are able to, in this example, pretty much do this independently, I was able to continue working with other students instead of spending maybe 30 minutes pulling a student back one-on-one to do this particular assessment. And of course as a teacher, you need to make a judgment call in terms of what works best in this scenario. Do I need to be sitting physically with the student to pick up on other behaviors and cues that they might be using? You have to kind of think through that as you're approaching what works best to bring this layer in. So I've given you some classroom examples and now you're going to get to experience CSOT as a student. Now I know a lot of you are all over the gamut in terms of your experience level. So you might be a pro, you might be brand new, you may have used it a little bit but for today, we're actually all going to play around as a student. So you can really take this time to explore. So get ready, here we go. Make sure you have CSOT on your device and we are going to be using of course the CSOT class app. And if you tap on that and you are already signed in as a teacher, I'm going to show you right now how you sign out because we are going to be a student today. So in the upper left, go ahead and tap your profile icon. Then you'll tap the gear icon and sign out. So then we are all starting at the same point within CSOT. Again, you can also go to app.csot.me on a web browser to join as well, to participate as a student. So I'm going to pause just for a moment so everybody gets in the spot. So again, tap on a student and in a moment you're going to be scanning a text, a QR code to get into our class as a student. You'll see this QR reader pop up and I just want to let you know after you scan the QR code for our class today, you're actually going to choose the journal that matches the first letter of your first name. So go ahead and scan this class code right now. I will give you a moment to get that, to get signed in as a student. All right, if you're having any issues with that, you can type in the questions but I'm going to keep moving here again. Choose the first letter of your first name. That's the portfolio you're going to use today. And we're going to explore first with photo. We talked a lot about even the power of taking a photo of work to support an assessment that you are doing. So what we're going to do is actually find an object somewhere in your surroundings with a right angle. So what you're going to do is actually tap the green add button, take a photo of a right angle in your environment and then you can use the drawing tools to draw on that photo to show the right angle or further explain your thinking. And then go ahead and tap the green check and add that to Seesaw. So I'm going to give you a moment to play around and do that. Are we doing? Let's check in with our class live. I am going to jump into the Seesaw class that you are joining right now. Yay, we have some posts there, awesome. If you are watching the recording, keep in mind you can participate and scan that QR code as well. It will work for you. It'll just be amazing. So as you notice, I've got some things to approve here. Nice, wonderful. These wonderful right angles that we're seeing. I love it, great poster, right? Look at this, right? So just with these photos, I am getting a great sense of what you know about right angles, very good. I'm going to approve all of those right now. And if you don't have yours in yet, oh, nice, nice, see? Everybody's participating, love it. Of course, we're also sharing portfolios today. So you might see yours pop up with, someone else might be in yours as well. Looking great, so that was pretty easy, right? So in your Seesaw class, and you just experienced as a student, you can tap that green add button and go right to all those creative tools. And starting even with the photo, super simple, right? So what I want to do next is actually introduce you to your friends, your new friend activities. And a lot of you probably are already using Seesaw activities, but I want to give a little bit of a layer of assessment context here. And if you're not yet familiar with activities, teachers can share activities with students in their Seesaw class. Students then respond using Seesaw's creative tools and the teacher approves those student responses before they go anywhere. Now, how do activities help with assessment you might be thinking? Well, I've used activities, but what do you mean they can support my assessment? So number one, it's a really easy way to differentiate for your students. So maybe you don't need to do a quick assessment check with every one of your students. You can send an activity to certain students. You can also see all of those responses in one place. So here on the left is just a little screenshot of what it looks like. When you look in an activity, you can actually see all of the student responses right there. You can also see who hasn't completed it yet. So if you're thinking like, oh my gosh, I got to check site words with 24 kids right now, you'll know who you need to work with or have do the activity. And also you can tag activities with skills and folders, which we will go into that as well. So we're gonna try it. So if we go into that activity tab in the class that you are currently in as a student, tap that activities tab and then you are going to in a moment see a very similar activity that we just talked about. Okay, so I'm gonna talk through this a second because we're not actually going to do this activity. But when I created that activity that we just did as a student, if I share this as an activity, it's also adding a layer of support for my students. It's adding a picture queue. It's adding these icons that they can follow. It's adding voice instructions. So think of your friends in your class that maybe you do a mini lesson or you introduce an assessment task that they're going to participate in and then off they go and they're like, what am I supposed to do, right? Or we have learners all over the board in terms of their needs. So I think one aspect of using the activities is really to support all students as well. So this is just that same activity we did in the same exercise we just did in the form of an activity. So when I go into our class right now and I go into the activities tab, you're not gonna see anything there because I have another activity that I'm gonna have you do. And this is just a quick, quick one. I am going to, if you've never done activities or shared them before, I'm gonna show you this flow as a teacher. I'm signed into the same class as a teacher right now. I'm gonna tap the green add button, choose create or share activity. And I have already created this activity, lowercase letter identification assessment. I am going to share this with you. You are all in assessments for all learners. If I wanted to, I could tap right here and I could edit the students and only share it with certain students. I could choose folders that I want it to go into. Maybe I wanna keep this private. So only I see this as a teacher. That's available in C-cell plus and C-cell for schools which we'll talk about later. Maybe I wanna tag specific skills with that activity before I send it out. We'll talk about that more later as well. So back to students, I'm gonna share this with all of you today. So go ahead and share that activity. I'm gonna go back into our class but I want you to find this and actually do this activity. Try out playing the instructions as a student as well. Now another pro tip, if you're not yet familiar, if you as a teacher want to model this in front of your students, you can tap the green add button. You can model this as a sample student in front of your students. What I love about up here as well is if students have looked at those instructions and then they're like, oh, I need them back again. They can always tap up here to view the instructions again and if they wanna have all those picture cues, they can also listen to the audio instructions for this as well. So I'm gonna have you go ahead and do this activity right now. I'll give you a moment to complete that and then we will continue on. All right, I know maybe that all of you are done or participating in this activity but I wanna just let you know that I'm gonna tap here on the bottom to review, okay? So what I love about this is because I share this as an activity, if I tap this gray bar right here at the top, this is going to take me to, like I said, that view where I can see all of my student responses in one spot and I'm like, ooh, I've gotta catch up with students C and D and E or whatever. I'm gonna go ahead and approve all of these. Of course, you are going to, you would of course as a teacher, listen to all of these, right? So this is an example of, of course, not a really creative student ownership example. However, there are also some assessments that we need to do, right? In our classrooms that if you can add a layer of CSAH to give a little bit of that ownership back, boy, let's try to do that when we can. All right, we are gonna explore CSAH plus right now and if you're not familiar with CSAH plus, we're gonna talk about some of these features right now. So we of course have free CSAH which is free, free forever. You could also use CSAH plus, which is a subscription for a teacher, which is 120 dollars per year per teacher. And there are additional tools for assessment which we're gonna talk about. CSAH plus, if you use CSAH for schools is also included in CSAH for schools. So these features that I'm gonna talk about now, it are also included there. Okay, so first thing, private folder, which we peeked at just for a moment briefly. You can use this if you are using one of our paid options of CSAH. This is a folder only for teachers. No one else can see this content. So if you're doing an assessment and you don't want it to be going home that family see it, you can put it in this private teacher only folder. Students still submit it to CSAH with their name and you can put it in the private folder. You can take it in and out of that folder at any moment as well. Also we have private notes. So private notes are really handy in the sense that you're getting student work submitted and you want to type a little note or you wanna voice report a little note. And these are just for you in the sense that you're trying, I need to work with Ali on the spelling or I'm gonna regroup when we're gonna do a mini lesson or redirect on a specific strategy. So I'm speaking for myself. My system used to be lots of post-it notes. So this might be more organized flow for you. And then the third component of CSAH Plus that we're gonna talk about today is our skills feature. So skills allows teachers to get real-time insight into how students are progressing. So you're able to create skills and when students are submitting their pieces to CSAH, you can tag them with specific skills or as I just described, before you share an activity, you can tag it with a specific skill as well, which I'm gonna demonstrate in just a moment. And of course, if you're thinking, Angela, I don't have that. You can try it out for free for 60 days. So you just tap on skills, get skills, follow these buttons to get started and there's no how we got you. You're signed up forever. We're gonna bill you. There's none of that happening. So truly at the end of 60 days, nothing, you know, we don't take things out of your class in terms of if you posted work. At that time, that's all still there. It just will turn off your ability to add, you know, edit your private notes or edit your private folder or add skills. So keep that in mind. My goodness. Look, I just jumped right to the end of the session, but we're actually gonna go in and demonstrate and play a little bit. So what I'm gonna do is go back in as a teacher right now. I'm gonna refresh. I love that so many of you are still playing along. Love it. I'm gonna go to the green add button and I'm actually going to go to create or share activity. So I have another activity coming your way. It's one that I created regarding coins, okay? So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go ahead and tap on the three dots on the bottom right of this activity and edit it because I forgot that I wanted to go here under more options and I wanted to, I don't wanna add any teacher notes even though I think those are very helpful. I'm gonna edit the skills. So I'm gonna call the, I'm gonna choose the skill coin identification that is going to be tagged with this activity. So when I share it with you, you're gonna see what happens and I can't wait for you to respond to this activity. So I have saved it. Now this activity, when you get it, let me just go back in an edit mode because I wanna show you something. You'll notice that I have this image attached but I forgot to add this image as a template. So I'm gonna do a little trick right here and screen grab this because I wanna have that template there for you to actually draw right on right now. Oh my goodness. Let's see if I can find the screenshot. That might take the rest of the session. There we go. Now it's gonna be kind of blurry and I may not look that great because I just did a weird screenshot there but yours would look more amazing of course. So when I share this to you, you are going to have it as a template. So you're actually just going to be able to draw right on it and let me know what you know about these coins and their values using the drawing tools and the mic. So I'm gonna share this to you in our class right now and I want you to go ahead and respond because I wanna show you some of the things on the teacher side that you can do when you have students submitting their work and responding how you can use skills to do some fanziness. So give it a go. These four responses here. So I'm gonna go ahead and review these responses and I'm gonna tap this one right here because I can then right away because I have tagged this with a skill I can go ahead and give this a rating right now. Looks like Penny, okay, okay. I'm just gonna, we'll do three stars on this one, right? I'm gonna go to approve. Now I can tap the arrow to the right and it's gonna, oh, student B hasn't responded yet, right? So I have a lot of students that haven't responded yet but I'm gonna go to this student. Ooh, wow. Not only do we have the names, we have the values. I'm gonna give five, four stars there. I'm gonna approve that. We're gonna go to the next one. All right, of course, we're just playing around. I'm not trying to be mean. I'm gonna give three stars here. Of course, you would have your own regret for how you are looking at these responses. I'm gonna give it two here just because I wanna show various ratings when we do a sort here in just a moment. All right, so we'll do another three. How about that? Now, I'm gonna get out of here for a second because I'm gonna go into the skills tab and you'll notice that when I go here, I am able to sort actually by students. So I could tap here on student and I could say, hey, I only wanna see student A's work related to various skills. And of course, I have this one skill in, right? For this example, I could also sort by subject or a specific skill, which we only have one in here right now. But you can see that there are color coded according to the color coding on the rating scale. The number one signifies how many posts in Seesaw are tagged with that specific skill. So this is great if you are pulling a small group and you're differentiating, you'd be like, oh, who do I need to work with coin identification, right? Checking the skills, you have all your information right here that you need, you're good to go. So that's just a quick demo of that aspect. I wanna go back to the journal right now because I also wanna show you, so you'll notice from the journal view, it's in response to this activity coin. So again, if I tapped here, I could get back to see all of my responses. I could also tap this, it looks like a little comment, with a T in it, that's the private teacher notes that are only visible to teachers, okay? So I could record a note, I could type a note, I can also, if I tap on this folder, I could also put it in this private teacher only folder. This is just giving a warning that, no one else is going to see this. So really, really choose how you're going to use that. You would never want to put all of the stream work in a private folder, but then you can just simply untag that folder as well when you are kind of going through some of your various assessments. So we are almost at the end of our time here. So I want to make sure that you know about our community and how to connect and share ideas, share questions. And of course, I wanna thank you for being here today as well.