Reading Course and Assignment Settings
The Reading course A series of lessons within a curriculum. Courses are default or customized courseware that is delivered via licensing to a district or school and that contains content defined by the SuccessMaker product and the Math or Reading subject. and assignment
A lesson or set of lessons that a student is expected to complete. Once a default or customized course is assigned to students or groups, they are referred to as assignments. settings display when:
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Viewing course details.
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Making a copy of a course to create your own custom course.
Depending on the status and type of course or assignment, you can modify one or more of the settings.
Fields | Defaults | Descriptions |
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Session length |
20 minutes |
Sets the length of time from 5-180 minutes that a student is allowed to work in a course for each session. When the session ends, the Progress Report displays and the student must sign in again. |
Idle time |
5 minutes |
Sets the elapsed time limit for student inactivity. The Idle time can be from 2 to 6 minutes. One minute prior to the idle time elapsing, a warning indicator appears. When the idle time elapses the student is signed out. |
Show/limit progress report |
3 times per session |
Sets the number of times from 0-10 that a student can view the Progress Report within a session. When set to 0, the Progress Report is deactivated. When the setting is deactivated or the student has reached the limit, the Progress Report icon is unavailable. |
DEFAULT TRANSLATION LANGUAGE | None | Enables the ability to translate instructions in the language selected for all students or groups in the assignment that have been set to default. |
Initial Placement (IP) |
On |
Activates or deactivates IP
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Display LO information |
On |
Controls the display of the LO |
Help icon active |
On |
Controls the access to Help for the student. |
Exit course button |
On |
If the SHIFT+DOWN ARROW keys have already been designated as shortcut keys for another program, that shortcut must be removed from the other program before SHIFT+DOWN ARROWwill end the session. |
Spanish glossary |
Off |
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Grammar strand |
Off |
This setting can be turned On at any time, but once it is turned On, it cannot be turned Off. |
READ TO ME (GRADES 3+) |
Off |
This setting will only impact students that are in Grade 3 or higher and that Grades K, 1, and 2 will have this setting ON by default.
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share at district level? |
Off |
Enables or disables sharing of the course at the district level. By turning this option on you enable the Admin to share the course with other organizations in the same district. |
Fluency |
On |
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Fluency recording time |
5 minutes |
Sets the total time a student is allowed to record each reading of the fluency activities. Fluency activities include retelling of a passage, and oral reading of words, phrases, or a passage. The recording time can be from 1-10 minutes. When the maximum time is reached, the recording is stopped. |
Manually set course level |
Off |
When set to On, overrides the demographic grade level and enables you to manually set the Course Level control. |
Course level |
NA |
Adjusts the course level. If Manually set course level setting is On, adjusts the Course Level by clicking and dragging it with the mouse pointer. The value changes in increments of 0.25, up to maximum limit of 8.75. The Initial Placement setting affects the Course Level setting. You can either set the course level manually or rely on IP. |
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