DreamBox Math: Lesson Highlights for Educators

DreamBox Lesson Highlights is available to customers with the Advanced subscription package.

Lesson Highlights provides teachers the ability to watch a video of students' progress through a lesson from their dashboard. Each highlight video captures the clicks a student makes and how DreamBox responds inside the lesson. This helps teachers:

DB-Icons_010192022_Constantly learning.Orange.png Recognize mistakes students may be making. DB-Icons_010192022_Workshop Model.png Identify ways to support students’ thinking. DB-Icons_010192022_FUN-ctional -Screen Time.Green.png Discover student learning to celebrate.
 
 

Accessing Lesson Highlights 

When and Where are Lesson Highlights Visible?  

Lesson Highlights update in near real-time. After a student has completed a lesson, the Lesson Highlight video will be accessible from the dashboard.

Teachers can access Lesson Highlights from three places on their Home Page.

To access the Home Page:

  • Teachers: Log in to your Insight Dashboard. Your dashboard will default to the Home Page. If you have already logged in, click the Home icon.

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  • Administrators: Log in to your Insight Dashboard and open a teacher’s Home Page using View Mode. Click here for directions. 

 

Student Usage Table 

The Watch button for the most recently completed lesson is available in the Last Activity Completed column of the Student Usage table.

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Lesson Highlights Section 

Teachers can see the ten most recent highlight videos in the Lesson Highlights section, just under the Student Usage table.

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Lesson Highlights Window 

To open a new window and view the last 30 days of lesson highlight videos, click View All Highlights in the highlight video tile carousel.

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Inside the Lesson Highlights window, click the column names to sort the video list by student name, date, standard domain, or lesson status. When you have found the highlight video you want to view, click the Watch button.

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Support Icons_Tip Box_50px.png Note: If a student completes the same lesson more than once, you will see multiple highlight videos in the window. If a student starts and stops a lesson multiple times before they finish but only completes the lesson once, you will only see one highlight video in the window.

 

Exploring a Lesson Highlight Video

Understanding the Video Layout

Each video will default to show the very beginning of the lesson in the Student View and expand Problem 1 in the Navigation Pane.

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Playing and Navigating the Video 

Lesson Highlight videos show the clicks students make while playing a lesson. The highlight videos will be shorter than the time it took the student to complete a lesson. Our goal is to focus on the movements the student makes and the answers they provide to show how the student is thinking through the problem.

There are multiple ways to select which portion of the video you want to see first, move forward or backward in the lesson, and control how quickly or slowly the video plays.

Navigation Pane

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Video Controls

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Sending Feedback 

Your feedback helps us improve DreamBox Math. To send feedback about Lesson Highlights, click the Send Feedback link at the top of the video window, complete the form, and click Submit Feedback.  

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Choosing Which Highlights to View 

Choosing which video highlight to watch may seem overwhelming at first.  Many students may complete multiple lessons each week and have multiple highlight videos for the same lesson. We’ve identified a few ways to approach Lesson Highlights to help narrow down the videos you want to review each week.  
 

DB-Icons_010192022_Be adaptive.color.png Use the lesson icons in the Student Usage table to identify and watch highlight videos of lessons identified as Completed Without Understanding or May Need Attention.
DB-Icons_010192022_Class.png You may be tracking the growth of specific students to document their progress for IEPs, etc. Open these students’ Home pages to explore their highlight videos.
DB-Icons_010192022_Math.green.png Focus on the students in the May Need Attention section of Alerts and Achievements.
  • Click the arrow to expand May Need Attention and click view student activity next to the student you want to learn more about.  
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  • After the Activity Feed opens, identify which lessons you want to review in Lesson Highlights. Click Close in the top right corner of the report screen. 
  • When the student’s Home page opens, select the lesson highlight you want to view.

 

Lesson Highlights FAQs 

Q: How do I make a highlight video larger?

A: You can make the highlight video larger by following the steps below.

  • Closing the highlight video and the Lesson Highlights window (if open).
  • Enlarging the browser screen.
    • PC: Select and hold the CTRL key and then select the  “+” key until you are satisfied with the size.
    • Mac: Select and hold the Command key and then select the “+” key until you are satisfied with the size.
  • Opening the highlight video you want to view again.

 

Q: I can’t close a highlight video because I can’t see the Close button on the highlights window.

A: Try shrinking your screen using keyboard shortcuts:

  • PC: Select and hold the CTRL key and then select the “” key until you can see the Close button.
  • Mac: Select and hold the Command key, then select the “” key until you see the Close button.

 

Q: What happens if a student pauses a lesson and comes back? What does the Lesson Highlight video show?

A: If a student pauses a lesson multiple times before finishing it, you will see one highlight video that compiles multiple days' activity into one view. The different days will be split into sections on the Navigation Pane so you can see the progression of students' play no matter how many attempts it takes them.

 

Q: Why isn’t a Lesson Highlight available for a lesson I know the student played?

A: There are two reasons why you may not see a Lesson Highlight video for a completed lesson:

  1. The lesson was just completed, and the highlight video has yet to appear on your dashboard. Refresh your screen and it should appear.
  2. The student completed the lesson over 30 days ago. Lesson Highlights are only available for 30 days.

 

Q: Can I send some of these videos to my students’ parents?

A: We are excited that you find highlight videos valuable enough to share with parents. Currently, the educator dashboard does not support downloading and sharing these videos.

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