| Today, we’re incredibly excited to announce ScootPad 3.0! We’ve re-imagined ScootPad with your feedback in mind while getting much closer to realizing our original vision for the product. Our team has worked extremely hard on lots of great new features that will help you engage students and accelerate learning like never before. While change is hard, we greatly appreciate your patience as you adopt the new features which are guaranteed to make it much easier to use ScootPad while saving you a ton of valuable time.
Below, find the list of new features and improvements that are currently available. Also, please find a list of issues and improvements releasing in the coming days. New Design & Usability Improvements:
1) Every page has been redesigned to be easier to use
2) Improved navigation making it quick and easy to access all features 3) Mobile ready with Free apps on all major mobile devices (iPads, Androids etc.) 4) Easy to get Help, browse online articles or report issues with screenshots 5) One-Click Student Sign In page (students don’t need to remember their userids) Adaptive Learning Paths & Practice
6) Easier to adopt standard learning paths or create your own custom learning paths
7) Copy learning paths and easily switch paths for students 8) New color coded honeycombs to review standards in the learning path 9) Improved student view of the learning path and color coded concept proficiency 10) Easy to customize your classroom proficiency goal and mastery settings Assignments & Homework
11) Ability to copy existing assignments and easily reassign to students
12) View assignments by Student – easy to review all assignments for a student 13) Improved search for concepts by grade level and using keywords 14) Improved placement tests which are now easier to assign and track 15) Easily access assignments across all subjects Assessments & Intervention Tools
16) 20+ new and unique technology-based interactive assessment question formats
17) Brand new intervention tool to automate 3-tiers of intervention & monitoring 18) Ability to copy existing assessments and easily assign them to students Introducing Scootorials!
19) Interactive step-by-step instruction to help students understand a concept easily
20) Suggested Scootorials on students’ dashboard by our recommendation engine 21) Scootorials help students as they practice enabling independent learning 22) Students are tested immediately after each Scootorial to assess their knowledge eBooks Library
23) eBooks library now easy for students to browse and read any book in any level
24) One-click reading log assignment from the eBooks library 25) Configure your own reading responses and easily review and grade student responses 26) New reading reports to track reading by book, by student and by rubric Behavior Tracking
27) New behavior dashboard with one-click recording of positive and negative behaviors
28) Behavior data and reports are much easier to review by student, by behavior or by timeframe Collaboration & Engagement
29) New classroom leaderboards in Math and ELA. Leaderboards across Spelling, eBooks, Behavior, Coins and Badges coming soon.
30) Improved rewards module where you can now assign appropriate reward icons 31) New Coin reports to show you a complete log of coins earned by students 32) New Student Wall where students can send positive shoutouts to their friends 33) Improved security for adding a friend and a lot more fun/engaging Shoutouts Insights & Reports
34) Enhanced reports dashboard with new “Student Proficiency Trend” charts
35) Easy to use Proficiency By Standard and Proficiency By Student reports 36) New Learning Activity and improved Learning Trend Reports 37) REINVENTED Mastery-Based Report Card – a newer way to measure progress 38) Improved reports with easy to read charts across Spelling, Writing, eBooks and Behavior Student Learning Experience
39) New dashboard for students to easily find and launch tasks
40) One-click practice launch with much smoother and better practice experience 41) Improved Read-Aloud with human-voice where possible across Math and ELA 42) Recommended Scootorials available to watch right from the dashboard 43) Expanded student reports to make it easy for students to own their learning Parents & At-Home Learning Zone
44) Introducing the At-Home Learning Zone for parents (get all learning features typically available to teachers)
45) Review students’ progress in a classroom while managing additional learning at-home 46) Monthly student license subscription (now $6.99/month) is back on popular demand 47) Parent Wall to collaborate with the teacher 24×7 (coming soon) Administrator Features
48) Bulk upload students and manage enrollment, classrooms, teacher accounts etc.
49) Site Wide Assessments (coming soon) 50) Site Wide Learning Paths (coming soon) Known Issues & Upcoming Improvements:
➜ Unable to Sign In using IE 8 browser – Resolved. ScootPad works best with IE 9+.
➜ Unable to launch practices in certain circumstances – Resolved. ➜ Can’t find past student assignment data (adaptive practices) (ETA: 23rd Sep) ➜ Students can’t complete assessments assigned prior to 22nd (ETA: 23rd Sep) ➜ Practice Results Report – new and improved report (ETA: 26th Sep) ➜ Ability to assign concept improvement from reports (ETA: 26th Sep) ➜ Ability to save and share Spelling Lists (ETA: 26th Sep) ➜ Intervention Dashboard & Monitoring Tools (ETA: 3rd Oct) ➜ Mastery-Based Report Cards (ETA: 3rd Oct) ➜ Improved ScratchPad for Math during practice (ETA: 3rd Oct)
We hope you enjoy ScootPad 3.0. Should you have any questions, issues to report or need some help, please click Help from your account and contact us! To learn more about the new features in-depth, we invite you to join our Free weekly live webinars by visiting https://www.ScootPad.com/training.
Thanks for all of your great feedback, your support and for making ScootPad a part of your learning solution.
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| Cheers, ScootPad Team |
