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- I'll be showing end-to-end demo
of the new Reading Progress in Teams.
Reading Progress is a new free tool
designed to improve student reading fluency
through practice and educator insights.
So, I'm here in my class Team
and I'm gonna go click on Assignments right here.
And then we'll go down to the bottom, click Create
and choose Assignment.
We'll give our assignment a title
and some instructions.
And now, the key part to make this
a Reading Progress assignment.
Go here and click Attach
and when this drops down,
go and choose Reading Progress right here.
This opens up the Reading Progress page.
The first thing you wanna do is add a reading passage
that you want your students to practice.
Right here, I can upload a Word document or a PDF,
and also note very soon,
we're going to be adding the ability
to choose Word documents and other files
from a Team's channel
or existing files you might have in a different Team.
And we're gonna add the ability
to attach a OneNote class notebook page.
Not quite ready yet,
but coming in the next couple of weeks.
The other one is browsing a sample library.
This is rolling out very shortly as well.
So, if I click Browse Sample Library,
we've licensed a set of content from ReadWorks right here
and a lot of different passages that you can try out
across different grade levels.
This can allow teachers in your district
to really quickly try out and see how this works
without having to find your own content.
We'll close this though
and I'm just gonna upload a Word document
to keep this simple.
There's my Word document
and it immediately converts it onto this page.
And now, I can go and edit this if I want.
So, let's say I chose a PDF or a Word document
and I wanted to tweak it a little bit,
I can click Edit.
And right here, we have some simple editing options.
You know, I can delete different things and change things.
And I hit the check when I'm done.
If I wanted to choose a different passage,
maybe I didn't want this one,
I just click here to go back.
But on the right hand side are the most important parts.
These are the settings for your Reading Progress passage.
The first one is reading level.
Now you can enter whatever data you want here.
Maybe you use A through Z or you could use one through 10,
you don't have to use a reading level at all.
In this case, I'm gonna set it to the level J.
You choose your genre.
In this case, I'm gonna choose non-fiction.
Number of attempts, you have unlimited here
and I can choose up to 10 attempts.
Maybe I want to say,
I only want them to try four different attempts,
but in this case, I'm gonna leave it at unlimited.
Then there's pronunciation sensitivity.
I like to call this the picky dial.
How picky did you want the software to be?
If you're going to use auto-detect
to listen to the students read,
you can set how sensitive it's going to be.
For example, I might have younger readers
then I could choose less sensitive,
or maybe I have more experienced readers,
then I can set it to more sensitive.
In this case, I'll leave it at default.
Lastly, require video.
By the fault requiring video is on,
but if I don't want the students to have video
and just record audio instead, I can turn that off.
In our example, I will leave requiring video on.
Just a note for iOS or Android devices,
we don't currently support recording video.
We do audio only, but in the next month or so,
we're gonna be updating our apps
so they support recording video as well.
So, whether it's iPad or iOS or Android tablets.
So, stay tuned for that in near future.
Lastly, we have this capability
that was educator-requested, the student view.
If I'm an educator
and I wanna see exactly how this is gonna look and operate
before I make this assignment,
I wanna see what it looks like on the student side.
I just click this button right here.
Hey, now I can see the microphone pulsing.
I have four tries left.
I click this to start.
I'm not gonna go through and actually read the passage,
but you can try that out.
I'm gonna switch over
and show what it looks like
for an actual student to be reading.
And if you wanna exit the student view,
just click right here, exit.
Okay, let's finish up our assignment.
In the upper right, click Next.
The passage is attached.
I could give some points if I wanted,
I could add a rubric.
I'm going to assign this to my entire class right here.
But with Teams,
I could individually assign this if I wanted to.
But in this case, we'll do the whole class.
Let's go up and click Assign.
Okay, the assignment has been made.
Now, we'll switch over to the student
and show what it looks like to read this out loud.
Now, we're showing the student side
and I'm gonna go down here
and here is that assignment, Geography, open that up
and you're going to see a special little icon
next to Geography.
I will click this.
Now, the first time that this runs on the student's side,
they will have to click Allow
so they can allow permissions to the camera,
the microphone and the speakers.
So, when I click Allow,
that will turn on the camera
and it'll test the audio and video.
Now, we have Zoey here
and she's gonna start reading this passage.
One other thing, we have Immersive Reader technology,
so Zoey can change the way the page looks
so it's more comfortable for her to read.
So, we're gonna quickly show what that looks like
and then Zoey will start reading.
- Let's go.
The study of earth's landforms
is called physical geography.
People need water to drink.
They also need it for washing.
Through history,
people have settled near fresh water.
- [Instructor] Now, Zoey's done with her reading.
She can click the little play button on her video
to watch and listen to herself read.
- The study of earth's landforms
is called physical geography.
- [Instructor] She can also click the Start Over button
if she wants to give it another try.
But in this case, she's all done.
She's gonna click I'm Finished
and it'll upload the video.
Now, the video is uploaded
and attached to this Reading Progress assignment.
And now, just like a normal Teams assignment,
I'll go on the upper right and click Turn In.
Now, we'll switch back to the educator view
and show how the review student work portion works.
I'm signed back in as the educator
and I switched over to assignments
and here are all the ones that I've made.
I'm gonna open this one.
And now, I'm going to review this student's work right here
and I click on the student.
Now we're in the teacher review experience.
This is the normal speed grader on the right hand side,
but we've replaced everything else
with our Reading Progress experience.
You can see the passage here and it's marked.
You can see correct words per minute
and here is the accuracy rate,
the number of attempts,
the levels and the number of words.
By default, we've turned on auto-detect
and that is the speech process
that listens for things like mispronunciations,
omissions, insertions, repetitions and self-corrections,
which are tallied up to the top here.
A really important note,
you don't have to use auto-detect.
I can turn this off.
Many educators think they have to use auto-detect,
you don't.
Also note that auto-detect is marked as preview right now.
We hope to be improving this in the future
and we've rolled it out for many different languages.
I'm gonna be showing it in English American language
and we have a full list of the languages that we support
at the link in the description of this video
and on the screen.
So, you can turn auto-detect off
and manually mark things,
but we're gonna demonstrate with auto-detect on first,
and then I'll show this with auto-detect off.
Now, I'm here with auto-detect mode on
and you can also change the pronunciation sensitivity
that we talked about, AKA, that picky dial.
I can change this per student
and in this case, I'll leave it as medium, the default,
but I can make it less sensitive
or more sensitive really easily.
I'll start by playing the video of the student reading.
- The study of earth's landforms
is called physical geography.
- [Instructor] Now you can see it marked physical
as a mispronunciation
and it auto-detected that the student
said that word incorrectly.
I'll hit play again.
- Landforms can be mountains and valleys.
They can also be glaciers or rivers.
- [Instructor] I'll hit pause
and I'm going to jump down
to a different section right here.
It looks like the word region was mispronounced.
So, what I can do is click on this
and I can choose Jump to Word
right here at the bottom of the menu.
Let's watch what happens.
- Region are often-
- [Instructor] I can jump to the word
and see the video and hear it.
Maybe there's another word like right here
that was actually correct.
I can click here and choose Correct
and it will unflag it.
We also detect omissions.
In this case, it looked like she skipped a few words
right here.
I'll click on Borders and then choose Jump to Word.
- Borders.
Fresh water source.
- [Instructor] It looked like she skipped those three words.
That was automatically flagged by our auto-detect feature.
We also detect both repetitions and self-corrections.
Right here, it looked like she repeated a word.
Let's jump to the word and check it out.
- Feature,
features of.
- [Instructor] Yap, she repeated that word.
We also have self-corrections,
many times a student will mispronounce the word,
but then catch themselves and pronounce it correctly.
This is something that many educators have requested.
I'll go to combination here and jump to word.
- Then combination of factors that people use to-
- So, it catches those self-corrections as well.
Another nice thing is that I can make the video full screen.
So, I'll click here to go full screen
and now hit play.
- Sources also influence where people settle.
People need water.
- [Instructor] If I click this button
to go back to normal screen right here,
now I'm back in the same smaller video.
But at full screen, you can get a close-up.
You can watch the mouth movements
or whatever else might be helpful
in identifying what's happening.
As I mentioned earlier,
I can also change the pronunciation sensitivity.
I can change it to make it lower.
Maybe I have early readers
or maybe I have a student with a severe speech impediment,
I could also put it higher and it'll be more picky.
This is that picky dial.
So, I'm gonna put it to high
and it actually marks a few more words incorrect.
I'll set it back to medium.
As I mentioned before,
you can turn off auto-detect.
So in this case, I'm gonna turn it off.
Maybe I just want to watch the video
and listen and mark things.
So now, I'll hit play.
- The study of earth's landforms
is called physical geography. - There's a mispronunciation
and let's say I go through
and I mark up these different mispronunciations
and other aspects.
And as I'm listening,
I can mark all those different things specifically,
so I can go on manually and mark up this
just like I might use with paper and pencil.
Now, it's just digital.
And as you can see, as I mark the different words,
the accuracy rate updates automatically.
The last thing I'll show in manual mode
is the ability to insert or delete words on the passage.
Let's say right here,
she said people also need to drink water
and this is when I was listening.
If you click on a word here,
you'll see this Edit Text.
I click that and I can say insert left or right.
So, I wanna insert right of the word people.
Click that,
now I type in the word she said.
So, I'll type in also and then hit the check to okay it.
This adds the insertion right here.
So now, you can mark it exactly how you want to
and you can also do something like remove a word.
So, I click here,
I can go and I can just say remove this word.
So, this allows an educator
to easily manually mark up the text.
You can use this in manual mode,
but you can also use it in auto-detect mode.
I can add feedback right here,
just like I would in a normal Teams assignment.
So, let's say, I say, great job.
I can add other details for things
that I might want her to work on
and then I can just return it like I would
in a normal assignment right here
and I can drop down the speed grader
and navigate to the next student.
So, everything fits right into the same flow
that you normally use assignments.
The last piece I'll show is our insights and analytics.
So, all of this data is captured
and put into our insights tool,
which I'll show next.
One way to get to insights
is you'll notice in the upper right,
there's a little link to insights.
This will drill you into the insights
directly for this student right here.
But what I'll do is I'll show the broader insights
and how you can look at students as well as the class.
Now, I've closed the assignment
and we're gonna speed ahead
and I have a bunch of different reading passages
that I've already assigned,
students have submitted
and I've given feedback on.
We're gonna go into the insights tool
and look at these dashboards now.
What's nice is insights right here
is now pre-installed for every class Team.
You used to have to add it manually,
so insights is pre-installed and ready to go.
So, we'll click right here.
Now, we're in the insights area for my class Team.
It has all sorts of insights and data
about what's happening in my class,
including assignments and student activity.
At the bottom here,
you're gonna see Reading Progress has shown up
and this will happen automatically
if you've made Reading Progress assignments.
In the near future, we will also be adding spotlights.
Spotlights are already in Teams for things like assignments,
but what you'll see
is there'll be Reading Progress spotlights
that serve as different patterns
and interesting things happening
around reading in your classroom.
Now, let's go click here on Reading Progress to drill in.
Here's the main Reading Progress dashboard,
and I'll go full screen.
These are our first dashboards,
but expect these to improve over time.
We have average words per minute
and I can hover over a different assignment
and see what is happening,
all the way from here to here to here.
Next, I have average accuracy rate.
I can hover over to get more detail,
so mispronunciations, omissions and insertions,
and this is across the whole class I'm seeing right now
and I can hover.
If I go to students, I can drop this down.
Maybe I wanna go down to Alex Wilber.
Now, the data is redrawn just for Alex
and I can see different types
of average words per minute for Alex,
as well as his accuracy rate.
I can also drill down to see this month
versus the last 30 days, 60 days or 90 days.
Let's go back to all students.
If you've added reading levels,
I can drop this down
and now I can filter by those reading levels
that we added when we first created the assignment.
So, if I wanna look at all the J passages,
there were four passages signed with the J reading level,
and I can also drill down by students
just like we did before.
So, here is Arden and the J passages that he has read.
I can also go and choose the K
or just say no reading level if I didn't enter any.
Let's go back to all students.
The last area is the word cloud.
So, if I scroll down here,
I can see the challenging words
and we have the size of the word here
represents how many people had challenges with it.
So, if I look at physical,
it looks like there were mispronunciations
nine different times.
There are some other words like strawberries and Olympics
that people are having challenges as well.
I can also filter on a specific student,
so I'll go here and filter on Arden.
Now, the word cloud redraws for Arden
and you can see he was having problems
with the word Olympics.
So, this is really handy to see
who's having problems across a class
or looking at specific students like we are here with Arden.
So, that is your full tour of Reading Progress in Teams.
We hope you try it out and we look forward to your feedback.
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