For educators leveraging the power of game-based learning, understanding student progress is crucial. Legends of Learning’s premium platform offers robust student performance data, empowering teachers to monitor and assess learning effectively. This guide will walk you through accessing and interpreting student data within Legend Of Learning, both in real-time and for completed assignments, ensuring you can optimize your teaching strategies and student outcomes. For schools and districts interested in unlocking these powerful features, premium licenses are available here.
Once you’ve assigned engaging activities to your students on Legend of Learning, tracking their progress and performance is straightforward. Whether you need to see how students are doing right now as they play, or review results after an assignment concludes, Legend of Learning provides the insights you need.
Real-Time Student Results | Student Results for Completed Assignments
Real-Time Student Results: Monitoring Live Progress
To keep a pulse on student learning during a live session, navigate to the Active Assignments section on your Legends of Learning home screen. Clicking on the assignment name will transport you to the Student Data page, your hub for real-time insights into student progress and performance.
Image alt text: Accessing the Student Data page for active Legends of Learning assignments from the home screen.
The Activities Bar: A Quick Assignment Overview
At the top of the Student Data page, the Activities bar presents a snapshot of the games and activities within your assignment. Each game is represented by a tile. Clicking on a game tile expands to reveal more detailed information about that specific activity, allowing you to focus on particular areas of the assignment.
Image alt text: Activities bar on the Legends of Learning Student Data page, displaying game tiles for quick assignment overview.
Image alt text: Expanded game tile in Legends of Learning Activities bar, showing details of the selected learning activity.
The Student Table: Individual Student Progress at a Glance
Below the Activities bar, the Student Table offers a comprehensive view of each student’s journey through the assignment. This table dynamically updates in real-time, showing progress and performance data for every student who has started the assigned activities.
Image alt text: Student Table in Legends of Learning, displaying individual student progress and performance data in real-time.
For each student, you’ll see their chosen avatar and name, providing immediate visual recognition.
Image alt text: Student avatar and name displayed for each student in the Legends of Learning Student Table.
Next to the avatar, a status indicator provides real-time information about student activity:
Image alt text: Student status indicator icons in Legends of Learning, showing real-time student activity within the assignment.
- Green Triangle: Student is actively engaged in the assignment, playing the games.
- Red Octagon: Student is present in the assignment but not actively playing. They may have switched browser tabs or are idle.
- Grey Circle: Student status is unknown, likely indicating they have signed out of the assignment.
The Student Data Table also visualizes activity progress. A purple progress bar beneath each activity illustrates how far each student has advanced within that specific game or task. Hovering over an activity provides a pop-up overview of student stats for that activity, including playtime and completion status.
Image alt text: Student activity progress bars and activity overview pop-up in the Legends of Learning Student Table.
Further to the right in the Student Table, you’ll find the Start Date and total Playtime for each student’s engagement with the assignment. The Progress Wheel offers a visual representation of overall assignment completion percentage. Crucially, note that the Progress Wheel reflects completion, not performance grade.
Image alt text: Progress Wheel in Legends of Learning Student Table indicating assignment completion percentage, not performance grade.
Student Management Buttons: Skip, Restart, and Performance
For each student, three action buttons are available, offering control over their assignment experience:
- Skip: Allows you to advance a student to the next activity. This can be used multiple times to move students forward as needed. Skipped activities are reflected in the activity completion stats when you hover over the activity icon.
- Restart: Forces a student to restart the entire assignment, clearing all their data and returning them to the beginning.
- Performance: Provides a detailed performance report for the individual student. This report breaks down their performance on each question and provides grades for assessments and Quiz Games within the assignment.
Question Results and Overall Class Performance
To analyze class-wide performance, click the Question Results button located at the top right of the Student Table.
Image alt text: Location of the Question Results button in the Legends of Learning Student Table for class-wide performance analysis.
The Question Results Report provides an overview of class performance, including the overall assignment grade, the percentage of students who answered each question correctly, and grades for individual assessments and Quiz Games.
Image alt text: Example of a Question Results Report in Legends of Learning, displaying overall class performance and question-level data.
Expand each question using the arrow to the left to view a detailed breakdown of student responses.
Image alt text: Expand arrow in Legends of Learning Question Results Report, enabling detailed student response breakdown per question.
Filter the report by student groups or search for individual students to refine your analysis.
Managing Live Assignments: Pause, End, Edit, and More
The top of the Student Data page also houses several management buttons for live assignments:
- Pause: Freezes student screens, temporarily halting assignment access. Ideal for regaining class attention.
Image alt text: Pause button in Legends of Learning Student Data page, used to temporarily freeze student screens during live assignments.
- End: Completely stops the assignment for all students. The assignment can be restarted later if needed.
Image alt text: End button in Legends of Learning Student Data page, used to stop an active assignment for all students.
- Edit Assignment: Allows you to modify assignment details like the name, dates, and assigned student groups. Found in the top right corner.
Image alt text: Edit Assignment option in Legends of Learning Student Data page, allowing modification of assignment details.
- Student Instructions: Provides student login directions. Also located in the top right corner.
Image alt text: Student Instructions option in Legends of Learning Student Data page, providing student login guidance.
Clicking Student Instructions opens a pop-up with login options. Choose the desired method for student access.
Image alt text: Student Instructions pop-up in Legends of Learning, showcasing available login methods for students.
Download login instructions for students or parents using the ‘Download Instructions’ button, generating a downloadable file with login information.
Image alt text: Download Instructions button in Legends of Learning Student Instructions pop-up, for downloading student login information.
- More Menu: Offers additional actions.
Image alt text: More menu dropdown in Legends of Learning Student Data page, providing additional assignment management options.
The More menu includes options to:
- Send Link to Google Classroom: Directly assign the activity in Google Classroom.
- Send Scores to Google Classroom: Push current student scores to Google Classroom.
- Download Scores CSV: Download student scores and question results as a .csv file.
- Preview as a Student: Experience the assignment from a student’s perspective. Learn more about previewing assignments as a student here.
Completed Assignments: Reviewing Past Performance
To access student performance data for assignments that have already been completed, navigate to the My Assignments tab.
Image alt text: My Assignments tab in Legends of Learning, the gateway to reviewing data for completed assignments.
On the Assignments page, locate the desired assignment. Search by assignment name or filter by COMPLETED status for easy identification.
Image alt text: Assignments page in Legends of Learning, with search and filter functionality to find completed assignments.
Click the Performance icon associated with the completed assignment.
Image alt text: Performance icon for completed Legends of Learning assignments, used to access the Student Data page.
Clicking the Performance icon will direct you to the familiar Student Data page. Here, student performance data for the completed assignment is presented in the same format as for live assignments, as detailed in the Real-Time Student Results section above.
By mastering these tools within Legend of Learning, educators can gain valuable insights into student progress and performance, enabling data-driven instruction and maximizing the impact of game-based learning in the classroom.
