Starting
and Editing Assignments
(Skip this lesson and the corresponding
exercise if you are using Manage IT!)
Start
Assignment
“Start Assignment” is accessed under the File Menu when a student
has logged into Incredible Tutor™. This feature allows students to
select a new Assignment from a list of all available Assignments. The Assignments
can be customized or chosen from the list of default Assignments available from
within Incredible Tutor™. A sample menu in the TAKS Grade 05 Math Title
follows:
Edit
Assignment
This feature allows teachers to create custom Assignments using any of
the material available within each title. This is useful if you want
to match a students’ work in Incredible Tutor™ with your
lesson plans or if students need to focus on specific areas of weakness.
If
Auto-Mastery is not turned on in the Preferences, the number
of questions in custom Assignments for Math will depend
upon the Preference Set selected. Using the Tutor Preference,
each scheduled item in the right-hand window will generate
3 questions. The Test Preference will generate 1 question
per scheduled item.
You may also add more questions of any type by inserting multiple lines
of that item in the window on the right. For example, you could give
a test covering only Target 1.6 - Factors with 10 questions by creating
a custom Assignment. Simply insert the scheduled item 10 times (1 question
for each item) and select the Test Preference before saving your Assignment.
Since Math is algorithm-based, 10 Factor questions will be generated
that resemble each other, but use different variables.
The list of available items will be different in other titles. For example,
the available items in the Reading and Writing titles will be a list
of Passages.
Note: If Auto
Mastery is turned on in the Preferences, the number of questions
will vary depending on how long it takes the particular student
to master that item. You can adjust the settings for mastery
with the following Scoring Preferences:
Auto
Mastery at Question=1 Target/Benchmark=2
Mastery Based On, Mastery Percentage
Minimum Number of Questions Required to Infer Question Mastery
Minimum Number of Questions Required to Infer Target/Benchmark Mastery
