What accommodations are available in Progress Learning?
Progress Learning offers many ways to accommodate the many needs of your students.
Text to Speech
You can enable Text to Speech accommodations in two places.
- In your teacher dashboard, click on School Center, then select Student Settings.
- You will then select one of your classes from the drop down menu.
- You can then toggle on or off the Text to Speech setting for individual students for the core subject that you teach.
Text To Speech is a global setting, but can be overridden within an assignment. Premium ACT/SAT Text To Speech settings are managed under ACT/SAT Settings.
- You have the ability to turn off Text to Speech for Readable Passages. By toggling the Readable Passages/Shared Stimulus button to the Off position, students will not have the passages read aloud.
- Teachers are able to over-ride the platform settings when creating individual assignments in the Assignment Builder for individual students or all students at once, within the Classes tab.
Depth of Knowledge (DOK)
- When creating assessments in the Assessment Builder, you can add items based specifically on their Depth of Knowledge.
- You can create an Assessment for the majority of your students, then duplicate and edit the settings and items to accommodate the learning needs of specific students.
Font Sizes
- Larger font sizes are available for students. You can customize the font size when you Author Your Own Questions. Students may alter the font size when working on their own by using the Accessibility Toolbar.
Video Transcription
- All videos include transcripts.
Multiple Attempts and Minimum Score Requirements
- Assignments can be set to allow for multiple attempts or can require a minimum score.
Spanish Translation
To enable Spanish Translation you will:
- Navigate to the School Center then select Student Settings.
- You will then select one of your classes from the drop down menu at the top.
- Select the Language Setting tab.
- You can then set the language to Toggle: English Default , Toggle: Spanish Default , or English Only for individual students for the subject that you teach.
- If you select Toggle: English Default the student will see the practice in English and can choose to change it to Spanish. If you select Toggle: Spanish Default the student will see the practice in Spanish and can choose to change it to English. This will allow students to select whether they want to view their questions in English or Spanish prior to beginning their practice. If you select English Only all practice will appear in English.
- Students select "Spanish" or "English" prior to beginning their 10 questions in the "Practice" portion of their Study Plan
- For K-5 students, you can select to disable/enable their dashboard in Spanish Only. Enabling Dashboard in Spanish will provide Skills Practice in Spanish as well.
If students are watching a video in Spanish, the transcription will also be in Spanish.
Printable Materials
- Our Instructional Resources offer printable materials in the way of Bell Ringers and Worksheets.
Eliminate an Answer Choice
Eliminate One Answer Choice is available for students on single-answer multiple choice question assessments, generated tests, and practice questions.This setting can be enabled for individual students or a whole class within the Assignment Builder. If you need help on how to create an assignment, click here. If you need help on how to create an assessment, click here.
- From the teacher dashboard select Assignment Bank.
- Select the edit icon for the Assignment you'd like to change the settings for (you can also assign this accommodation when creating a new Assignment when you get to the "settings" screen).
- Go the the Classes tab.
- Expand the class and tick the box next to the students' names to assign the accommodation. You can assign this accommodation to the entire class by sliding the toggle at the top to "Eliminate 1 Answer Choice." Click Save & Continue.
Student View: Here when the student logs into the assignment where eliminate one answer choice was enabled, they will be able to view that one answer has been removed or masked from their choices to select. They will not be able to select the masked answer choice as an answer choice as it has been auto-identified as incorrect.
Calculator
Teachers can select one of three types of calculators to include with an assessment, all powered by Desmos:
- Four Function
- Scientific
- Graphing (can do all of the functions of a Scientific calculator)
- Where to find the Calculator global settings: Teachers can select Calculator setting for each class by navigating to Student Settings in the School Center and selecting the Study Plan Calculator Settings Tab. With this tool, teachers are able to select a specific calculator that students will have access to while working in their Study Plan.
The "Default" calculator is determined based on the subject in your state and which calculator it allows.
- How to assign a calculator when creating an Assessment: When creating an Assessment, navigate to the Student Experience tab. You will slide the toggle to "Allow Calculator" in the list of settings. Then use the dropdown menu to select which type.
- Override the calculator on previously built assessments in the Assessment Bank:
Go to the Assessment Bank.
- Click the icon either under the column Settings or Edit on the assessment.
- Navigate to the Assessment Settings tab. Make changes, then click the Save and Assign button.
- Override the calculator on previously built assessments in the Assignment Bank:
If you are assigning an assessment from the Assignment Bank, you will have the opportunity to override the calculator settings that were appointed when the assessment was created.
- Click on the name of the assignment or the edit icon in the edit column.
- Navigate to the classes tab and select the drop down next to the class. Select at least one student from that class, then choose from the Assignment Calculator Settings drop down.
- Select the Save & Continue button.
- Where can students find the calculator?
From the student homepage, click Begin to start the assessment or Continue to keep working on an assessment that you started.
On the right side, students have an accessibility toolbar. Select the Calculators icon to open it.
