Enabling and editing My Numeracy activities

My Numeracy works in conjunction with Essential Assessment's Online Assessments. My Numeracy is dependent on a student's pre-assessment results and is compiled of 20 questions.

My Numeracy is a formative assessment that you can use within the teaching phase to measure if students have caught what you taught. To help reduce cognitive load for students who have been allocated a large number of formative assessments, it is recommended that you only enable one activity at a time to align with the delivery of your teaching.

Enabling My Numeracy

Click on the class you would like to set My Numeracy activities for. Click My Numeracy and switch the My Numeracy toggle to IS ON.

Ensure that the assessment has also been switched on under Manage Class Assessments for students to access the My Numeracy activities.

Enabling My Numeracy activities without completing the pre-assessment

My Numeracy activities can be set prior to students completing the pre-assessment. Click Manage Class Assessments and then click the coloured circle with the + icon.

Click the sidewards arrow to expand the desired year level.

Click the + icon at the top to enable the activity for all students.

Click the + icon next to a student to enable the activity for the individual student.

If you don't want your students to see the pre-assessment until they have completed their activities, you can turn the assessment off by switching the toggle to IS OFF under Assessment Options. Please note that doing this will turn off any assessment that has been enabled in the class.

Other options

My Learning

Enabling My Learning will enable videos demonstrating the concepts covered for each proficiency to launch for students to view automatically. When enabled, the videos are launched in order to consolidate the concepts covered in each proficiency. When My Learning has not been enabled, the videos are still available for manual viewing by students.

Real-Time Feedback

Enable Real-Time Feedback to give each student feedback as they progress through their activities.

We would recommend that you turn Real-Time Feedback on for your students' first attempts. This will help your students understand how they are progressing through their activities. If you would like to unlock their first attempt so they can change their answers to increase their overall results, you will need to turn Real-Time Feedback off, as leaving this on will not allow them to change their answers.

Continuum Order

Enable Continuum Order to ensure your student completes their My Numeracy activities in ascending order.

Learning Library

Enable the Learning Library so students can view customised videos within their accounts. More information can be located here.

Reviewing My Numeracy activities

Individual students

As students complete and progress through their My Numeracy activities, their performance can be viewed and monitored.

Click into the student's class and click their name.

Under the MY NUMERACY banner, the data will reflect how the student is progressing through the four proficiencies: Understanding, Fluency, Problem Solving and Reasoning.

Hover over a completed activity and click the magnifying glass to review the student's answers. Click the magnifying glass next to an uncompleted activity to review the questions.

Whole class

Click into the class and click View Class Results.

Click My Numeracy under the sub-strand or topic title.

The data for completed activities will be presented as a percentage or a trophy. Hover over the box for each completed activity to view the understanding within each proficiency. Click the magnifying glass to view the results.

Editing My Numeracy activities

My Numeracy activities can be added or removed if you would like them to work on activities outside what has been automatically assigned.

Click View Class Results and click My Numeracy under the sub-strand or topic title. A green box will appear next to a student if they have understood a content descriptor. If you would still like the student to complete the My Numeracy activity, hover over the box and click the + icon.

A red box will appear next to a student if they have misunderstood a content descriptor. If you don't want them to complete the My Numeracy activity, hover over the box and click the - icon.

If you would like to edit the activities on a whole class level, click the + icon to assign the activities or the - icon to remove the activities under the content descriptors.

Resetting My Numeracy activities

Under My Numeracy, switch the Student Reset toggle to IS ON to allow students functionality to reset their own My Numeracy activities.

If you enable this function for students, you will be unable to see the data, as it will be cleared after each reset.

To reset the activities yourself, click View Class Results and click My Numeracy under the sub-strand or topic title. Hover over the box for the activity you would like to reset. Click CLEAR to clear the current result. Click UNLOCK to enable the student to reaccess their currently submitted activity.

Ways to use My Numeracy

Teacher-directed

It is encouraged that you select UNSET ALL and APPLY to remove all pre-allocated activities. You will still be able to see the data and assign activities, as shown in the previous sections of this guide, after the teaching has occurred. This gives you the ability to direct access to the formative assessment based on your students' needs. You're able to reselect and apply Personalised or Aligned at any point.

Personalised

Pre-assessment data will automatically allocate an individualised, personalised pathway of formative assessment so that there are activities ready for your students to access. Before students access these activities, all teaching should have occurred. It is recommended to unset the activities and provide them in alignment with the teaching that has occurred.

If the activities are allocated based on a General All assessment, you will need to take into account the cognitive load on students. Activities are automatically assigned for every misunderstood content descriptor for that strand and that student. We would recommend that you have this spaced across the academic year.

Aligned

You also have the option to allocate activities based on the recommended pathway of learning, which is aligned with the Zone of Proximal Development for that class. When the Aligned option is applied, this means that every student in the class will be allocated the activities that are highlighted yellow.

The yellow highlighted pathway is identified by the higher percentage of misunderstanding for that particular content descriptor/ content organiser. You will also need to take into account the cognitive load on students via this option.

My Numeracy Growth Achievement

My Numeracy Growth Achievement provides you with a simple overview of all your students' achievements for My Numeracy activities. Click My Numeracy and then My Numeracy Growth Achievement.

Click MY CLASS, ALL CLASSES or COHORT, depending on how you would like to view the data.

Click the trophy to download a certificate you can provide your student to celebrate their achievements.