Amplify CKLA 3rd Edition comes equipped with a powerful toolkit built into the Teacher dashboard.
These facilitation tools can be used to administer assessments.
Pause
Pause allows you to gather student attention.
Keep an activity paused for as long (or as short) as you want. When you're ready for students to continue, press the Pause button again to resume the activity.
With Pause activated, students can see their current screen but cannot interact with the activity at all.
Pacing
Pacing allows you to lead students through part of an activity one screen or one section at a time.
To activate, click the Pace icon. Then select the screen (or screens) you'd like to gather your students on. They'll automatically go to that location in the activity, with navigation outside of that range temporarily disabled.
Once activated, you'll see clear indicators for what screens your students may access. You can edit or extend that range, or even disable pacing, with a single click.
Hide screen
Are you running out of time in class? Or do you want to refine an activity to better suit your students’ needs? You can hide screens from students by clicking the three-dot menu on the screen’s thumbnail and clicking Hide screen. This allows for non-sequential teacher pacing.
Notice that the screens automatically renumber themselves when one is hidden.
Changed your mind? Simply click Unhide and students will be able to access the screen again.
Anonymize
When taking assessments, we want students to feel comfortable sharing their ideas with the teacher and the class. To support this, teachers can turn on Anonymize mode by clicking the Anonymize icon.
Students’ names are swapped out and replaced with anonymous ones. You can also shuffle students through different anonymized names by clicking the three-dot menu next to their names and clicking Shuffle name!
Hide students
Are multiple logins from a single student showing up? Or maybe an inappropriate name or comment? Press the three-dot menu and select Hide Student to hide a student — the student's name and responses — from the class.
Don’t worry — hidden students are still able to complete the activity!
Students can be unhidden by clicking the Unhide Student button.