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Although students work mostly independently in Read Live, there are times when a proficient reader is required to support the student. The pass activities will always require a proficient reader to listen to the students and check answers to open-ended questions. Parents can be enabled to conduct the pass activities, or teachers can use remote access and screen sharing tools to pass students remotely.
Any proficient reader can support a student during the pass activities. You can add parents as Read Live Assistants and enable them to conduct timings and pass students. This is a great solution in many situations.
If you are comfortable with letting parents guide their students, you can set the parents up to be Read Live Assistants. Depending on your role within Read Live, you may not have the ability to create new staff members. If that is the case, ask your Account Administrator or School Coordinator to create the Read Live Assistant[s] for you.
Read Live Assistants can conduct timings and choose remedial actions, but they cannot actually log in to see which other students are enrolled.
Ideally, for security purposes, you would separately enroll each parent and give each person an individualized user ID and password. However, some teachers find that this approach involves too much administration, and they prefer to create a single user ID and password that is shared among all participating parents.
IMPORTANT: Do not share your own user ID and password with parents.
Note: The email should include the Read Live login page URL (readlive.readnaturally.com), your Read Live account number, and the user ID and password for the login the parent should use (the "helper" account). You may also need to tell parents the student’s user ID and password. Do your best to explain the program and responsibilities of the Read Live Assistant role. The email template also includes links to a few resources that can help parents understand the program and what their role is:
With this information, when the student gets to the Cold Timing or Pass/Hot Timing step, the parent can click the Conduct Cold Timing or Conduct Pass Activities link and then enter the User ID parent and the password to conduct the timings.
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To complete the Pass step, teachers will be required to not only view the student’s screen but also to control it to initiate the pass timing, enter errors and expression scores, as well as evaluate the student’s quiz, retell, or word list scores. You can choose to allow parents to accomplish these tasks if they’ve been entered as Read Live Assistants in the program.
Alternatively, you can manage these tasks using a program that allows you to control a student’s screen. Some versions of computer operating systems have built-in remote desktop access or control sharing, like Mac or Windows. For more detailed information about commonly used programs to share and control screens for Pass activities, see the support article, "Screen Sharing and Remote Access Tools."
Using a remote computer access program, paired with a simple method of communication with students, will allow you to complete the necessary pass activities in Read Live and keep students engaged and making progress in Read Live.
There are times when it is not possible for the teacher to access the student’s screen remotely. For example, if a student is using an iPad, remote access apps will not allow you take control over the Read Naturally Live app. Or you may prefer the simplicity of sharing your own screen with the student to conduct pass activities.
Note: The Waiting List page allows users with a role of account administrator, school coordinator, teacher, or assistant to see which students are currently waiting for cold and hot timing activities. It allows these users to review the student's Current Story Details report and to Login As the student to conduct Cold Timing or Pass steps.
Learn more about using the Waiting List to help distance learning students
If the student is ready for their hot timing but the teacher or parent is unavailable, another option is to have the student record themselves reading the passage, then send the recording to the teacher for later evaluation and scoring. Students can either read from the passage in Read Naturally Live on the Pass/More Practice screen, or read from a copy of the passage that the teacher has printed or downloaded and shared with the student.
An audio recording feature is available for student Story and Word List hot timings within Read Naturally Live. Students are now able to record themselves reading, and teachers can evaluate and score the recordings using audio features displayed on Read Naturally Live hot timing steps.
Learn more about recording student audio for hot timings
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