1 Acuity Instructional Resources for Students School Year

2 What Are Acuity Instructional Resources?  Online guided tutorials with three components  A series of screens that introduce and explain a skill  Interactive guided practice questions  A mini-assessment (6 questions) to evaluate progress on the skill  Optional audio component for some skills  Use Acuity Instructional Resources to supplement classroom instruction or to provide targeted remediation or review  Assign Instructional Resources to students directly from Acuity reports in areas of need, or from the main menu  Preview any Instructional Resource before assigning it to students

3 Preview Instructional Resources  Click INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES on the left- hand navigation menu  Click PREVIEW  Search for Skills by Skill Group or Standards  Select the following:  Subject  Grade  Content/Strand/Band  Performance Indicator  Click SEARCH 1 2 3

4 Preview Instructional Resources  Click the Preview link under Set 1 or Set 2  Acuity will assign Set 1 to students first

5 Assign Instructional Resources  Currently, you can assign Instructional Resources to students  Directly from an Assessment Report  By skill/standard  By student  Starting in Spring 2009, Acuity will be able to automatically assign Instructional Resources to students in skill areas of need based on their assessment performance

6 Assign IRs from an Assessment Report  Click REPORTS on the left-hand navigation menu  Click ASSESSMENT REPORTS, then choose the desired report (Student or Class)  Select Subject, Assessment Type, and other information (as relevant) from the drop-down menus  Click GET REPORT  Click the Assign link next to the area of instruction

7 Assign IRs from an Assessment Report  Use the drop-down menu to select the skill  Click SHOW CURRENT ASSIGNMENTS

8 Assign IRs from an Assessment Report  Check off the students you want to assign Instructional Resources (note “tiers”)  Click ASSIGN THESE STUDENTS

9 Assign IRs by Skill/Standard  Click INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES on the left- hand navigation menu  Click ASSIGN BY SKILL/STANDARD  Search for skills by Standard or Skill Group  Click SEARCH

10 Assign IRs by Skill/Standard  Click the corresponding checkboxes of students that you wish to assign the Instructional Resource  Click ASSIGN THESE STUDENTS

11 Assign IRs by Student  Click INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES on the left- hand navigation menu  Click ASSIGN BY STUDENT  Select your Search Criteria:  Class  Student  Choose whether to select skills by Skill Group or Standards  Click SEARCH

12 Assign IRs by Student  Click the corresponding checkboxes of resources you wish to assign to the student  Click ASSIGN THESE RESOURCES

13 IRs: The Student Experience  Students can log into Acuity using their own usernames & passwords  Educators can view/print student login information:  Click MANAGEMENT  Click CLASSES  Click VIEW ROSTER  Students click STUDY to complete Instructional Resources

14 View Quiz Results from an IR  Click INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES on the left- hand navigation menu  Click STATUS BY STUDENT or STATUS BY SKILL GROUP  Enter search criteria to find relevant Instructional Resources reports  Click SEARCH

15 View Quiz Results from an IR  Click the score link in the Last Score column to view detailed results from the quiz  Click the Result link next to each problem number to view the actual question

16 Navigation/Demo  Log into Acuity:  Periodic Assessment Web site: PeriodicAssessments PeriodicAssessments  Click “Acuity”  User Names are DOE Outlook addresses (e.g., emullins5)  Passwords are 6-digit file numbers  Preview an Instructional Resource  Assign an Instructional Resource to a Student  Student experience completing an Instructional Resource  View student results from an Instructional Resource quiz

17 Educator Support If you have any questions, please contact the NYC Acuity Helpdesk at: 866-NYC-6550 OR reference the Additional Help section of Acuity

18 Feedback Please provide us with feedback on today’s session! We hope you will join us for another Acuity webinar soon: