After clicking into any of the tabs from the class card, you can navigate between tabs by using the menu at the top of the page. The tabs for student accounts function the same as the teachers’ but have a different presentation.

Class Settings

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Rosters

Class rosters are viewable through the class settings page. If you are a member of one of our NLabs school districts, then your students will be rostered for you but the Gooru team. If you are an independent teacher, then you will need to manually add students to your classes.

Student Settings

Teachers have access to a variety of student settings. They can adjust the level and destination of their students. They can also impersonate their student’s accounts and alter the active status.

Level is the student's starting point. It might be set using data from benchmarks or diagnostics.

It can be a grade level, partial grade level, or domain. In some cases, when diagnostics are used, this column will be hidden in your Student Settings.

A student's destination tells you what they are working towards. Most of the time, this is grade-level proficiency, so the destination will be equal to the grade-level of the class. However, a student's destination can be extended to offer them more content.

All students that are current members of your class should have their active status set to "YES". If a student leaves your class, school, or district, you can toggle to "NO". This removes the student from your reports.

Add Students

Teacher-Directed Approach

Before adding a student to your class, make sure they have a student account on Gooru.

To add a student that has an existing Gooru account:

1. Click on the wheel icon to access Class Settings.

2. Under Student Settings, click “Add Students”.

3. Type in the student’s school email address and then click the magnifying glass to search.

4. Click on the student’s name and then the blue “Add” button. This will add the student to your roster.

5. Set the student’s level and destination, and then click the blue “Apply Settings” button. Note that “level” is the student’s starting point. In many cases, this is just an approximation that will be narrowed down through system-introduced diagnostics.

If you get a “no student found” result, it is likely that the student does not yet have an account associated with your school. Please email your IT department or support@gooru.org with the student’s name and email address.

One-Page Resource: Adding Students to Your Class (Teacher-Directed Approach ) – Gooru

Student-Directed Approach

There are a couple different ways to add students to your class. Whichever method you choose, once the student is enrolled, you will need to set their Level and Destination before they can begin to study. If there are diagnostics associated with your course, these will be used to set the student’s starting level after they log in.

1. Identify your class code. This can be found in multiple locations, including on your homepage and in Class Settings.

2. Provide the code to your students. When they log into their Gooru accounts, direct students to enter your class code and click “Join Classroom.”

Add Co-Teachers

Note: A co-teacher must have a Teacher account on Gooru. Co-teachers can perform class management tasks, post activities, and view progress reports.

Click the wheel icon to access your Class Settings.

The course’s teachers are listed in the Class Settings box. To add a co-teacher, click the + sign next to Add.

Type in the email address of the co-teacher. This must be the email address they used to create their Gooru account.

Then, click the + symbol. The co-teacher’s name will appear in gray. Click Done.

You can add multiple co-teachers to a course.

One-Page Resource: Adding a Co-Teacher – Gooru

Navigator in Your Classroom

Learning Journey

Class View and Monitoring

The Learning Journey shows your course’s content broken down by units and lessons.

You can click on a unit to expand it. By doing this, you will be able to see how much time students have spent on a given lesson in Navigator.

In the example above, students have spent 1 hour and 32 minutes so far in Lesson 1. You can also click on any lesson’s name to preview it.

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One-Page Resource: Understanding Students' Learning Journeys – Gooru

Student View and Monitoring

To monitor the progress of individual students, hover over the avatars shown on the left side of the screen. This will expand to show your students’ names.

Click on any student’s name to view their progress.

Performance Overview

Tour

The Performance Overview shows the monthly progress and performance of each student.

The Class Progress Report, Student Progress Reports, Data by Milestone, and Diagnostic Report pages are accessible from the Performance Overview page. Additionally, Opportunities for Growth (areas where students are struggling) and Class Activities are shown on the right-hand side.

Performance Overview Performance Overview and Reports

Class Progress Report

The Class Progress card directs you to the Class Progress Report page. This page showcases the comprehensive progress of each student over the last day, the last week, the last month, since the beginning of the course, or during a custom date range.

Data includes competencies gained (mastered), competencies in progress, time spent, and average score.

You can click on a student’s name to see which lessons have been mastered and which are in progress.

One-Page Resource: Class Progress Report – Gooru

Competency Progress Report

The Competency Progress Report shows class-level progress on your course’s competencies or learning standards. The report’s main page shows a class Skyline. Each block in the graph is one competency. All competencies that your students have studied so far appear in light blue. Competencies that no students have yet attempted appear in gray. As your students encounter more content and move through their Learning Journeys, more of the graph will turn blue.

Clicking into any block in the Skyline will zoom in to the graph. If the block is blue, you will be able to view the scores of the students who have studied that competency.

Along the right side of the page, you can search for a specific competency by keyword or competency code. From there, you can see lesson scores for all students that have worked on that competency so far.

Data by Milestone

The Data by Milestone report shows each student’s progress by Milestone. In courses that cover multiple grades, like math and ELA, Milestones are usually grade levels. By clicking on a Milestone on the left side of the page, you can see the most challenging competency each student has mastered in the Milestone, the total number of competencies they have mastered in the Milestone, and their average score on assessments.

By clicking on “Class Journey Report” at the bottom of the menu on the left side of the page, you can see course-level data, including the most challenging competency each student has mastered across the course, total number of competencies mastered, and overall average assessment score.

Diagnostic Report

The Diagnostic Report shows instructors how individual students perform on each domain’s diagnostic. The data is available by domain and includes the student name, result, starting point, and diagnostic responses.

Instructors can quickly check if a student’s diagnostic results indicate that they begin work at, above, or below grade level. They can also see the specific competency on which each student will begin in the given domain.

They may also view the specific answer choices that each student selected while taking the diagnostic.

Opportunities for Growth

The opportunities for growth card highlights areas in which students require additional support. Teachers have the ability to make suggestions from this card.

The system automatically offers suggested collections when struggle is demonstrated.

Suggested assessments are offered when students prove evidence of mastery.

Students have the agency to decline all suggestions made from the system.

All suggestions can be found under the orange compass icon.

Alternatively, suggestions can be made from other places in Gooru.

One page resource: Making Suggestions – Gooru

Student Locator

Student Locator ReportsStudent Locator Reports

Class Proficiency Report

The Class Proficiency report showcases the Proficiency Reports of all students in your class.

In each student’s Proficiency Chart, there are two important lines:

Skyline (white) – “Where is the student now?”

Initially set using each individual student’s benchmark scores or diagnostic data
Shows the highest (most challenging) standard a student has mastered in each domain
Moves upward, block by block, as the student masters assessments tagged to each standard (≥80%)
Travels with the student year-to-year

Hi-Line (green) – “What is the student aiming for?”

Student’s grade-level goal based (i.e., what content each student needs to master in order to show grade-level proficiency)

The overall goal is for the student’s Skyline (white) to meet or surpass the hi-line (green).

Domain Competency Report

The Domain Competency Report breaks class and individual data down by domain. These are the same domains listed across the bottom of each student’s Skyline.

Class Activities

Overview

Class Activities are additional collections, assessments, or offline activities that you can post for some or all of your students. Note that you can operate your Navigator class without using Class Activities. It simply creates the space for you to assign additional activities either for support or enrichment.

Class Activities Gooru Navigator Supplementing with Class Activities

Search and Assign

Starting Your Search:

Click on the Class Activities tab at the top of the page.

Select the type of activity you are interested in posting by clicking on its icon (see right).

From here, you have a few options for your search. However, Steps 1 and 2 (above) remain the same.

Searching within Your Scope and Sequence:

If you want to search for activities that come directly from your curriculum’s scope and sequence, select a grade using the dropdown menu. You can then click on a module and a standard.

Clicking on a module and standard will list all items available to use as a Class Activity. Click on an activity to preview it.

Searching from Gooru’s Catalog:

If you want to do a more general search for activities, type key terms into the search bar. In the example below, we searched for assessments containing the term “decimals”.

The standards associated with each assessment are listed to the right. You can click on any item to preview it.

You can filter your results by standard by clicking on the funnel icon and selecting the grade and standard (competency) in which you are interested.

Assigning a Class Activity:

To assign a class activity, click on the + icon to the right of its name.

Then, select a start and end date for the activity using the calendars. Click “Add Activity.”

Frequently Used Terms

Assessment	A set of scored questions tagged to a particular competency; used to judge mastery and build the Skyline. Also called a “CFU” (check for understanding).
CFU	Check for understanding; same as “Assessment”.
Class Activities (CAs)	Collections and assessments that teachers can post to be completed over a specific period of time. Data populate in real-time.
Class Card	Viewable upon log-in, one per Gooru class. Shows class name, icons for tabs (Learning Journey, Class Activities, etc.), and wheel icon for Class Settings.
Classroom	Virtual space managed by teachers in which students work through content from a given competency framework.
Classroom Code	Unique code students can use to join a classroom.
Collection	A playlist of resources (videos, website, images, etc.) and sample questions tagged to a competency.
Competency	Learning standard; typically, a Navigator course includes one lesson per competency.
Course Map	View of all content available in an assigned course.
Destination	Found in Class Settings, to the right of each student’s name. Indicates the highest level of material the student has in their Learning Journey; typically set at grade-level, can be adjusted by the teacher.
Diagnostic	Small, adaptive assessments given at the domain-level in some subject areas; used to approximate student’s starting point.
FRQ	Free response question; teacher-graded question type available in some Learning Journeys and in Class Activities.
Gain	Occurs when a student masters (≥80%) a competency for the first time.
Gooru Catalog	All published content available in Gooru from any/all Gooru users; searchable by competency.
Go Live	Launches an assessment “live” during class. Student data populate in real-time; teachers can display identified or anonymized results.
Hi-line	Green goal line in each student’s Proficiency Chart. The goal is to build up the Skyline so it reaches the hi-line; typically aligns with a student’s grade level.
Learning Journey	A student's personalized path through a subject's competencies; self-navigated; includes assessments, collections, and activities. Mastery is accrued as the student progresses.
Library	A searchable bank of resources typically grouped by source.
Mastery	Score of ≥80% on an assessment tagged to a competency; shades in a block on the Proficiency Chart (builds Skyline).
Offline Activities (OAs)	Activities that can be worked on offline and then submitted online; include projects and enrichment activities.
Proficiency Chart	Chart showing student’s Skyline, hi-line, and mastered competencies. Each vertical column represents a domain. Within a domain, each competency is represented by a block. The goal is to close the gap between the Skyline and green hi-line.
Progress Report	Shows a range of student- and class-level data, including competency gains, time spent, and diagnostic status. Printable and downloadable over any date range.
Reinforced Mastery	Occurs when a student re-masters a competency they are already proficient in; useful in review activities, tracked on progress report.
Resource	A video, website, simulation, animation, interactive page, or uploaded file tagged to a competency; organized into collections.
Roster	List of students in your class; viewable in Class Settings by clicking wheel icon.
Scope and Sequence	Order and standards from your curriculum, filled with Gooru-crafted and open education resources. Searchable on your Class Activities tab.
Skyline	A thick white line on the Proficiency Chart that indicates a student’s current understanding in each domain; grows vertically as the student gains mastery.
Student Locator	Teacher tab where all data reports are housed.
Study Timer	Viewable on student pages; accrues time spent on collections and assessments as students work.
Suggestion	Automatically offered but can also be assigned by teacher. Suggested collections offered after signs of struggle; suggested assessments offered after evidence of mastery. Students have agency to decline; all suggestions are retrievable under orange compass icon.
Time Spent	Student’s active learning time in their Navigator course; includes time in assessments and on resources, does not include time browsing or navigating between pages.

Troubleshooting

Support Site

Whether you are just getting started on Gooru or are an experienced user who needs a little extra support, our Support Team is excited to help out however we can!

Where to find help:

Community support page: https://community.gooru.org/
Visit our YouTube page for how-to videos
Click on any "?" icon for in-product support

If you’re unable to find the support you need here, please feel free to email us at support@gooru.org. We will respond within 24 hours during the business week.

When you send us a message, it helps if you can include a link or screenshot to any Gooru page that you are using, and contact us using the email account that you’re registered with on Gooru. The more context we have, the easier it is for us to help you!

With the exception of a few holidays, a member of our support team will respond within one business day – usually in under 2 hours during our official business hours (9am-6pm PST) – to ensure that you have the solution you need in a timely manner.

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What is Navigator for Learners?

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What is Navigator for Instructors

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For Teachers:

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Class Activities

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Interpreting Learning Journey Data

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