This is the place to find click by click instructions to use the app. Please make sure you have read Beginning timely practice (read this first)

The document Beginning timely practice (what to do) will lead the teacher through the process of finding and firming learning foundations which may take between a few days to a term (the more the students know the longer it takes). Once this process is done the teacher moves on to teaching on firm learning foundations.

A summary for the assess-plan/resource-teach skills is shown below

Assess

1. Assess timely practice assignments
2. Assess pre assess assignments
3. Review Progress on Topic

Plan/resource

1. Plan teaching using Progress on Topic
2. Create a timely practice assignment
3. Sometimes create a pre assess assignment

Teach a timely practice lesson

Choice 2

Refresh your memory of the "click by click" skills on the following:-

Setting up

get a timely practice account

log in

add students to a class

• set up a new class
• add students from a spreadsheet
• add students to a class one by one (see add an extra student)

Adding topics and layers

A new class starts with no topics, topics can be added to a class, as and when the teacher is ready.

When a topic is added to a class, no layers are set. Setting of layers is done within Progress on Topic.

There are two ways to set layers pre assess and teach 

• if layers are set to "pre assess" they will be added to the next pre assess assignment (the app will fast track these layers if the student "already knows" the layer)
• if layers are set to "teach" they will be added to the next timely practice assignment (if space)

The layers can be set to the whole class or a single student.

See set layer to "pre assess" or "teach" for the whole class or a single student

Assignments

The teacher creating, the students doing and the teacher assessing personalised assignments is the way that the timely practice app interacts with the real world. There are 2 main types of assignment pre assess and timely practice. There are two types of timely practice assignment Classwork and Homework.

purpose of each type of assignment

• pre assess -  finding out in fine detail what students already know to enable more efficient teaching and learning to happen - this is one of the functions of assessment for learning.
• timely practice - has 2 functions
  • primary function - to ensure learning is retained and embedded but readily accessible within student memory, in a form which enables the student to use and apply what they have learned to answer questions. The timely practice app uses retrieval practice or spaced learning to do this. Within the process of embedding learning assessment for learning must necessarily occur and the teacher may use the colour of depth of blue of the students lozenge for a layer to judge the depth of learning and so decide when learning has been mastered - that is "firm enough" foundations for future learning.
  • secondary function - to enable "tutoring" via feedback between the teacher and the student when teaching has not yet become learning.

create assignment

The teacher will create the assignments to suit their lessons. There are two types of assignment

• create a pre assess assignment 
• create a timely practice assignment 

and 3 print profiles that any assignment can have 

• Low Stakes (regular) - this has a friendly font and includes spaces for student workings
• Low stakes (paper saving) - this has a friendly font but does not include spaces for student workings
• Formal Review (use rarely) - this looks like a test with a more formal font and marks written beside the answer line - as it says use rarely maximum 1 per half term.

download and print assignments

The downloading and printing out of an assignment is slightly different depending on whether the teacher wants to

• • download pdf assignments immediately after creating them (needs editing)
  • download pdf assignments later (needs editing)

assess assignments

The assessment of the two types of assignments are slightly different, since they fulfil different roles

• assess a pre assess assignment - broad brush stroke assessment encouraged:
  • ✔︎  - the student seems to "already know" this or
  • bin - best learned later
• assess a timely practice assignment - slightly finer detail assessment:
  • ✔︎ - independent and accurate,
  • ~  - not quite,

  • ★  - student has had or needs feedback or

  • bin - "best learned later"

Tracking progress

There are two ways to see student progress 

• Progress on Topic which shows in fine detail the progress of the whole class in just one topic. It allows the teacher to set layers to pre assess or teach.
• Student Progress Page which shows in fine detail the progress of just one student on every topic. It allows the teacher to view summary information about the student progress on any layer within any topic. It also allows the teacher to delete any layer (unless the layer is currently within an assignment). It is found by clicking on the student's name in Progress on Topic.