Legends of Learning provides educators with powerful tools to monitor and assess student progress within its engaging, game-based learning platform. Understanding how to effectively utilize these features is key to maximizing the educational impact of Legends of Learning in your classroom. This guide will walk you through how to track student performance, both in real-time and for completed assignments, ensuring you have the insights needed to support your students’ learning journey with Legends of Learning.
Student Results (Real-Time) | Student Results for Completed Assignments
Viewing Student Results (Real-Time)
Monitoring student progress in real-time with Legends of Learning allows for dynamic adjustments to your teaching approach and immediate intervention when needed. To access this feature for a live assignment, navigate to the Active Assignments section on your Legends of Learning home screen. Click on the specific assignment name to access the student data page, where you can observe student progress and performance as it unfolds.
Access the student data page for real-time performance monitoring in Legends of Learning by clicking on the assignment name in the Active Assignments section.
Understanding the Activities Bar
Once on the Student Data page, the Activities bar presents a snapshot of all activities within the assigned playlist. Each game is represented by a tile. Clicking on a game tile expands to reveal more detailed information about that specific activity, providing a quick overview of its content and learning objectives within Legends of Learning.
Explore the Activities bar in Legends of Learning to get a quick overview of assigned games and access detailed information by clicking on each game tile.
View expanded details of a game activity in Legends of Learning by clicking on its tile in the Activities bar to understand its learning objectives and content.
Interpreting the Student Table
Below the Activities bar, the Student Table is where you’ll find comprehensive progress and performance data for each student engaged in the Legends of Learning assignment. This table offers a real-time view of individual student activity and understanding.
The Student Table in Legends of Learning provides a detailed overview of each student’s real-time progress and performance within the assigned activities.
Each student is represented by their avatar and name, accompanied by a status indicator providing immediate insight into their current engagement with the Legends of Learning assignment.
Student avatars and names in the Legends of Learning Student Table allow for quick identification and individual performance tracking.
The status indicator utilizes a simple color-coded system:
Legends of Learning status indicators use color-coded icons to represent student activity levels during assignments.
- Green Triangle: Student is actively playing the Legends of Learning assignment.
- Red Octagon: Student is not actively engaged, possibly in another browser tab or idle within the assignment.
- Grey Circle: Student status is unknown, likely signed out of the Legends of Learning assignment.
The Student Data Table displays each activity within the assignment and the student’s progress in each. A purple progress bar under each activity visually represents how far a student has advanced. Hovering over an activity reveals a pop-up with detailed stats, including playtime and completion status for each activity in the Legends of Learning assignment.
Purple progress bars in Legends of Learning’s Student Table visually represent student advancement within each activity, with detailed stats available on hover.
Additionally, the Student Table shows the Start date and total Playtime for each student’s engagement with the Legends of Learning assignment. The Progress Wheel indicates the overall completion percentage of the entire assignment. It’s important to note that the Progress Wheel reflects completion, not performance grade within Legends of Learning.
Legends of Learning’s Student Table includes a Progress Wheel, Start Date, and Playtime to provide a holistic view of student engagement and assignment completion.
Utilizing Student Management Buttons
For each student in the table, three key buttons offer immediate management capabilities:
- Skip: Advances a student to the next activity in the Legends of Learning assignment. Useful for pacing or if a student needs to move past a particular activity.
- Restart: Resets a student’s progress in the assignment, clearing all data and returning them to the beginning. Use this to allow a student to redo the entire Legends of Learning assignment.
- Performance: Generates a detailed report of individual student performance on each question and provides grades for assessments and Quiz Games within the Legends of Learning assignment.
Analyzing Question Results
For a class-wide performance overview, the Question Results button at the top right of the Student Table is invaluable. Clicking this provides an overall assignment grade and the percentage of the class that answered each question correctly. It also includes grades for each assessment or Quiz Game within the Legends of Learning assignment.
Access the Question Results feature in Legends of Learning by clicking the button at the top right of the Student Table for class-wide performance insights.
The Question Results Report provides a breakdown of student responses for every question. Expand each question to see detailed student response data, allowing for targeted review and instruction based on class performance in Legends of Learning.
Legends of Learning’s Question Results Report offers a detailed breakdown of class performance, question by question, for targeted instruction.
This report can be filtered by student groups or individual students, making it easy to analyze specific learning cohorts within your classroom using Legends of Learning.
Filter and search options in Legends of Learning’s Question Results Report allow for focused analysis of group or individual student performance.
Utilizing Assignment Management Buttons
At the top of the Student Data page, several buttons provide overarching assignment management:
- Pause: Freezes student screens, temporarily suspending assignment access. Ideal for regaining class attention during a Legends of Learning session.
Use the Pause button in Legends of Learning to temporarily freeze student screens and regain class attention during assignments.
- End: Terminates the assignment for all students. The assignment can be restarted if needed, allowing for flexible management of Legends of Learning activities.
The End button in Legends of Learning allows teachers to stop an assignment for all students, with the option to restart if necessary.
- Edit Assignment: Opens assignment settings to change the name, dates, and assigned groups. Useful for adjusting assignment parameters in Legends of Learning.
Edit Assignment option in Legends of Learning provides flexibility to modify assignment details such as name, dates, and student groups.
Accessing Student Instructions
Also located at the top right is the Student Instructions option. Clicking this generates a pop-up with directions for students to log in and access the Legends of Learning assignment.
The Student Instructions option in Legends of Learning provides login directions for students to access their assignments.
Choose the preferred login method, and you can download student login instructions as a file using the ‘Download Instructions’ button. This downloaded file simplifies the process of sharing login details with students and parents for Legends of Learning.
Downloadable Student Instructions in Legends of Learning streamline the process of sharing login details for student access to assignments.
Utilize the Download Instructions button in Legends of Learning to get a file containing student login information for easy distribution.
Exploring More Actions
The More menu offers additional actions for managing your Legends of Learning assignments:
The More menu in Legends of Learning provides additional actions for assignment management and integration.
- Send Link to Google Classroom: Directly assign the Legends of Learning activity to students through Google Classroom.
- Send Scores to Google Classroom: Share current student scores from Legends of Learning to Google Classroom.
- Download Scores CSV: Download student scores and question results as a .csv file for offline record-keeping and analysis of Legends of Learning performance data.
- Preview as a Student: Experience the Legends of Learning assignment from a student’s perspective to better understand the learning experience.
Viewing Student Results for Completed Assignments
Accessing performance data for completed Legends of Learning assignments is straightforward. Begin by navigating to the My Assignments tab on your Legends of Learning dashboard.
Navigate to the My Assignments tab in Legends of Learning to access data for completed assignments.
On the Assignments page, locate the assignment for which you need data. You can search by assignment name or filter assignments by COMPLETED status to quickly find past Legends of Learning activities.
Utilize search and filter options on the Legends of Learning Assignments page to easily locate completed assignments for data review.
Once you’ve found the assignment, click the Performance icon associated with it. This action redirects you to the Student Data page, where performance data for the completed Legends of Learning assignment is displayed.
Click the Performance icon in Legends of Learning to access the Student Data page for a completed assignment.
For completed assignments, the Student Data page displays student performance data in the same format as for live assignments, detailed in the Viewing Student Results (Real-Time) section above. This consistent presentation ensures you can easily analyze student progress and outcomes for both ongoing and completed Legends of Learning activities.
By leveraging these comprehensive performance tracking features within Legends of Learning, educators can gain valuable insights into student learning, tailor instruction effectively, and foster a more engaging and impactful educational experience.
