Distance Learning Tools
​Read Naturally Live includes flexible distance learning tools meant to help teachers coordinate remote students' work. These features allow students to continue making progress in a variety of educational settings.
The Waiting List
A Waiting List page in the Staff Member Module displays students who need a teacher's help to continue working on their stories. From the Waiting List:
- Teachers can open the Story Details report for a student's current story.
- Teachers can see which students have saved the necessary recordings for a hot timing of the current story.
- Teachers can click a Login button to open a Read Live session for any waiting student.
Once a Read Live session is open, a teacher can either use internet conferencing tools to conduct a live timing with the student, or conduct a hot timing using a student's saved recordings.
Student Recordings
Read Live's recording features allow students to save readings during the Pass step of each story. Recordings can be made for both stories and word lists. The recordings can later be used by teachers to score hot timings, whether or not the student is present.
- The Pass/Recording step opens after the Pass/More Practice step for any student whose browser supports Read Live's recording features.
Note: iPads currently do not support student recordings in Read Live. See the System Requirements in the Read Live application. - Students can review each recording. They can replace the recording as many times as they like before clicking Next to move on.
- In the Phonics series, students who have saved a story recording can also leave one for that story's word list.
The Pass/Word List Recording step opens after a student has saved a story recording on Pass/Recording and clicked Next. - From the Waiting List page in the Staff Member Module, a teacher can see which students have left the necessary recordings for their current stories.
- New options are available on the Pass/Hot Timing and Pass/Word List steps when a student has saved a recording. In place of the Start Timing button, these pages offer two options when a recording is present:
- Choosing Score Recording begins a timing and plays the student's story recording. The teacher conducts the hot timing as usual, including clicking the last word the student read at the end of the reading; entering the number of errors; and choosing an Expression score.
- Choosing Conduct Live Timing starts a regular hot timing without playing the recording. This option is always available, even when students have recorded the story.
Important Note
Student recordings are not saved after the relevant hot timing steps have been completed for a story. Access to the recordings is limited to the teacher who conducts pass activities for each story. See the Read Live Privacy and Security Policy for more information.
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Using Login As to work with remote students
Teachers can use the Login As feature, available on the Staff Module's Student Activity page, to open a session as a specific student. This feature supports a variety of distance learning scenarios. For example, teachers can use Login As to grade recordings of student hot timings.
The Story Details report for any student's current story is also available on the Student Activity page, allowing teachers to review a student's recent performance before conducting Pass steps using Login As.
Using the Login As Feature:
To log in as a specific student, use the Login As feature in the Staff Member Module.
- Go to the Read Live home page, and log into the Read Live Staff Module using your own Account ID, User ID, and password.
- From the navigation menu, select Student Activity.
- Find the student for whom you need to log in.
Note that you can see a student's current step in her or his story and see the Story Details report with information about the student's performance. See Reviewing the Story Details Report for the Student's Current Story below. - In the row with the student's name, click the Login button for the student you want to help.
Note that if the student involved is currently logged into Read Live, the Login button is red. If you open a Login As session while a student is logged in, a warning dialog will ask you to confirm that you want to log the student out. It is important to communicate with students in order to prevent confusion during this process. - The application will open a new browser tab in which you are logged in as the selected student.
After logging in as a student, a teacher can use screen sharing software to conduct Pass activities over the internet. A student recording, either saved in Read Live or sent to the teacher by some other means, can also be graded as a remote hot timing.
Reviewing the Story Details Report for the Student's Current Story:
Before clicking the Login button to open a Login As session, a teacher can quickly review the student's performance on the current story.
- On the Student Activity page, click the > control to the left of a student's name to open the Applications level for the student. Then click the > control to the left of Read Naturally Live to see available reports in that application.
- Click the Story Details button for the student.
The Story Details report opens. The Last Login Date in the story data section displays the last time the student worked on the current story. - Review the student's progress as needed.
- Click the Back button to return to the Student Activity page.
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Using the Student Activity Page's Waiting Column to Help Distance Learning Students
The Student Activity page in the Staff Member Module lets staff members quickly identify students who need a teacher's help. The Waiting column on this page displays icons for students currently waiting for a teacher to continue working on their stories or exercises.
Students who can appear on the Student Activity page:
- Teachers, School Coordinators, and Account Administrators can see students for whom they are the Lead Teacher or students without a Lead Teacher.
- Read Live Assistants can see students on Teams to which they have been added on the Waiting List page.
See the Team feature for more information on giving access to Read Live Assistants.
To review waiting students:
- Teachers, School Coordinators, and Account Administrators can select Student Activity from the navigation menu.
Read Live Assistants can choose the Waiting List link on their home page.
The Student Activity page opens:
Note: In the list, the Waiting column next to students' names displays the icons of any applications in which each student is waiting. If a student is not waiting for a teacher, the column is empty.
To use the Student Activity page to conduct timings for a student:
- From the navigation menu, select Student Activity.
- Find the student for whom you need to conduct a timing.
Note that you can see a student's current step in her or his story and see the Story Details report with information about the student's performance. See Reviewing the Story Details Report for the Student's Current Story below. - In the row with the student's name, click the Login button for the student for whom you need to conduct a timing.
Note that if the student involved is currently logged into Read Live, the Login button is red. If you open a Login As session while a student is logged in, a warning dialog will ask you to confirm that you want to log the student out. It is important to communicate with students in order to prevent confusion during this process. - The application will open a new browser tab in which you are logged in as the selected student.
- After logging in as a student, use screen sharing software to conduct Pass activities over the internet. A student recording, either saved in Read Live or sent to the teacher by some other means, can also be graded as a remote hot timing.
Reviewing the Story Details Report on the Student Activity page:
Before clicking the Login button to open a session, a teacher can quickly review the student's performance on the current story.
- On the Student Activity page, click the > control to the left of a student's name to open the Applications level for the student. Then click the > control to the left of Read Naturally Live to see available reports in that application.
- Click the Story Details button for the student.
The Story Details report opens. The Last Login Date in the story data section displays the last time the student worked on the current story. - Review the student's progress as needed.
- Click the Back button to return to the Student Activity page.
To use the Waiting List to conduct timings for a student:
- Review the Current Step column to see where each student is waiting in his or her current story or exercise.
To appear on the Waiting List, students must be on either the Cold Timing or Pass steps of a story, waiting for a teacher to help them advance. - If necessary, click the Details button for each student to open the Story Details report for that student's current story.
The report displays the student's previous activity in the story. - Review the Recording column to see whether the student has saved recordings for this story.
If the student has saved the necessary recordings, you can use the Login As feature to conduct a hot timing for any student without the student needing to be logged in. - To conduct a timing for the student, click the Login button under the Login As column.
Note that if the student involved is currently logged into Read Live, the Login button is red. If you open a Login As session while a student is logged in, a warning dialog will ask you to confirm that you want to log the student out. It is important to communicate with students in order to prevent confusion during this process.
A new tab opens with the Read Live Student Module. In the new tab, the student is already logged in. - Conduct a live timing with the student over the internet
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Conduct a timing based on saved student recordings. See Student Recordings While Waiting for a Teacher for more information.
Note
- The Refresh List button on the Student Activity or Waiting List pages can prompt you when students have begun waiting for a teacher, when they add a recording, or when another staff member has helped them move on in their current story. When the button glows, clicking it causes the list of students to be updated.
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The Team Feature: Allowing Team Members to Work With a Lead Teacher's Students
The Team feature lets any Lead Teacher share access to students with a Team of other Teachers and Read Live Assistants. Each Lead Teacher's students can be seen by team members who belong to that teacher's Team.
Note that Account Administrators can see all students in an account, and School Coordinators can see all students in their schools. These users do not need to belong to a Team to see students, so they cannot be added to a Team.
Teachers and Read Live Assistants can belong to multiple Teams.
Managing Teams:
To build your own Team:
- Choose the Team tile, or select Team from the navigation menu.
The Team page opens, displaying all Teachers and Read Live Assistants in the account who can act as members of your Team.
Note: You will only see staff members on the Team page if they can work with your students. Staff Members can only see students at their schools. - Select the checkbox to the left of each Teacher or Read Live Assistant you need on your Team.
The application adds or removes members of the Team as you make changes. - Select the Done Editing Team button when you are finished.
Any student for whom you are the Lead Teacher can now be seen on the Waiting List by your Team's members.
To manage another staff member's Team:
As a School Coordinator or Account Administrator, you can edit the Teams of other staff members.
- Choose the Staff Member Administration tile, or choose Staff Member Administration from the navigation menu.
- In the Teams column, select the Team button for the staff member whose Team you need to manage.
The Team page opens, displaying all of the Teachers and Read Live Assistants in the account who can work with that staff member. - Select the checkbox to the left of each staff member you need on the staff member's Team.
To remove members from the Team, deselect checkboxes. - Select the Done Editing Team button when you are finished.
Any student for whom this staff member is the Lead Teacher can now be seen on the Waiting List by the staff member's Team.
Teachers on the Team can now see students of the Lead Teacher on the Read Naturally Live page. They can also generate reports for those students.
Using the Waiting List to help students as a Read Live Assistant:
- Log into the Staff Member Module using your User ID and Password.
- Choose Waiting List from the Resources list.
The Waiting List page opens, showing students on teams to which you belong who are waiting for a teacher. - Find a student on the list whom you want to help.
Note: You can review a student's Current Step column to see where that student is in her or his current story. You can also click the Details button in the Current Story column to see the Story Details report with information about the student's performance in that story. - In the Login As column, click the Login button for the student you want to help.
Note: If the student involved is currently logged into Read Live, the Login button is red. If you open a Login As session while a student is logged in, a warning dialog will ask you to confirm that you want to log the student out. It is important to communicate with students in order to prevent confusion during this process, especially in distance learning situations. - The application will open a new browser tab in which you are logged in as the selected student. Use the student session to conduct timings with the student.
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Student Recordings as Hot Timings: Overview
Recordings of student story and word list readings can be used by teachers to conduct hot timings.
Saving a Student Recording:
- On the Pass/More Practice step, complete at least one practice reading.
Note that the student will need to perform this step at least once for each time he or she logs in before being allowed to save a recording. - Click Next.
If the student's browser supports recordings in Read Live, the Pass/Recording step opens. - Click Start Recording to begin a recorded timing.
- When the timed recording ends, either click Finished or click the last word read.
The page displays the number of words per minute the student read during the timing. This information can help the student decide whether another recording is necessary before the teacher reviews his or her performance. - Using the audio controls on the page, review the recording.
- If necessary, after seeing the score in words per minute and hearing the recording, click Start Recording again to record over the previous attempt.
- When satisfied with the latest recording, click Next to continue.
- If in a Phonics series, click Start Recording to begin recording a word list timing.
- Review the word list recording and replace it as necessary.
- Click Next to continue.
Notes on Student Recordings
- Only students whose browser supports recording in Read Live will be able to save recordings. See the Read Live application's System Requirements.
- After saving a story or word list recording and clicking Next, a student is not able to return to the recording page for another attempt at the same step.
Using the Waiting List to Manage Recordings:
The Waiting List in the Staff Member module displays all of the students at a user's school who are currently waiting for a teacher. It also indicates which students have saved recordings for their current stories, allowing hot timings to be conducted later by a teacher.
To quickly find students who have saved the necessary recordings for a story:
- Open the Waiting List.
- Scan for students with the word "Yes" in the Recording column. This column indicates that the student has saved all of the necessary recordings to perform a hot timing for their current story.
For students in the Sequenced or Idioms series, "Yes" appears when the student has saved a story timing.
Students in the Phonics series whose word list step is turned on must save both a story and a word list timing for "Yes" to be displayed. - Click the Login button for any student who has saved the necessary recordings to open a session as that student.
A Login As session opens in a new tab for that student. - Using the directions below, use the student's recording as a hot timing.
Using a Student Recording as a Hot Timing:
If a student has recorded a story or word list reading, you can use the Login As feature to grade that recording as a hot timing. If a student has saved a recording:
- Open a student session using the Login As feature.
- In the student session, click the Conduct Pass Activity button at the top of the page.
- Log in using your staff member credentials.
- On the appropriate hot timing step, click the Score Recording button and choose Score Recording.
The student's saved recording will begin playing along with the hot timing. - Listen to the student's reading, keeping track of errors, just as you would for a live timing.
You will need to click the student's last word, or the Finished button, when the recording ends, just as you would for a student reading to you live. - When the reading is over, use the Number of missed words control to record the error count.
- Choose the student's Expression score.
Notes on Hot Timings Using Recordings
- The Score Recording and Start Live Timing options are only available on the Pass/Hot Timing and Pass/Word List steps when a student has saved recordings for those steps. If no recordings are present, the pages will not include these options.
- It is always possible to conduct a live timing for a student when the student is available, even if the student has previously saved a recording. On the Pass/Hot Timing and Pass/Word List steps, the Score Recording button can be changed to select Start Live Timing. This option allows the teacher to conduct a live timing as usual.
- The last word the student clicks when saving a recorded story, and the resulting score, are not available when a teacher uses Score Recording on the hot timing page. The teacher still needs to listen to the recording for errors and confirm the score by clicking on the last word on Pass/Hot Timing.