Enabling and editing My Literacy activities

My Literacy works in conjunction with Essential Assessment's Online Assessments. My Literacy is dependent on a student's pre-assessment results and is compiled of 20 questions. Once a pre-assessment has been completed, Essential Assessment automatically creates a differentiated and personalised online curriculum for each student based on the content descriptors misunderstood throughout an assessment.

My Literacy 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 Literacy

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

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

Enabling My Literacy without completing the pre-assessment

My Literacy 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 + 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.

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

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

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, 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 Literacy activities in ascending order.

Reviewing My Literacy activities

Individual students

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

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

Under the MY LITERACY banner, the data will reflect how the student is progressing through the four proficiencies: Comprehension, Text Structures, Language Features and Language Conventions. For a My Literacy writing activity, the four proficiencies are Pre-writing, Structuring Texts, Using Language, and Editing and Revising.

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 Literacy under the sub-strand 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.

Editing My Literacy activities

My Literacy 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 Literacy under the sub-strand 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 Literacy 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 want them to skip 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 Literacy activities

Under My Literacy, switch the Student Reset toggle to IS ON to allow students access to reset their own My Literacy 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 Literacy under the sub-strand title. Hover over the box for the activity you would like to reset. Click CLEAR to clear the current result. Click UNLOCK to enable so the student can reaccess their currently submitted activity.

Ways to use My Literacy

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 Literacy Growth Achievement

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

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

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