Personalizing Assignments
Often times teachers may want to adjust an assignment to better suit the needs of their students. Kiddom is built with a personalizing feature that allows teachers and administrators to create customized versions of assignments before assigning them to students.
To create a personalized version of an assignment, open the activity and click the Personalize button in the top right corner. This will open a prompt asking for a name for the new version. Administrators and Editors will also be prompted to identify whether the assignment should be kept in their personal library or shared throughout the school. This is a great way to create a common assessment for all teachers to use!
Once the new version is created, there are many options for customizing the assignments: any of the text and questions can be edited or deleted; new questions can be added; video and audio for read aloud students can be added; points and standards can be adjusted; and how the assignment is evaluated in the grade book can be changed.
To edit any of the text, click on the text box and add, delete, or change any of the information.
Adjusting question types and adding student tools
Questions can be changed in many different ways. Question text can be edited just as any of the other text is edited. Personalization also allows question types to be changed. To change the type of question, click on the Question Type box between the question and answer box. This will not change the question text, but will change the answer box below to match the new question type.
Tools available within Kiddom can also be added to questions by toggling the Show Work button. There are many different tools available for students, including drawing, uploading photos or videos, and recording audio responses. For lower grade math course, there are Math Manipulatives, such as number lines, fraction tools, and linking cubes.
Adding new materials
To add new questions or other materials, find the location in the assignment to add that and click the large gray plus on the lefthand side. A dropdown menu will appear with options for materials to add. When a selection is made, a template for the material will appear below the plus that can be edited, similar to above.
Other personalization settings
Point Values
Point values for a question can be adjusted. To change the point value of a question, click on the Point Value button below the question and increase or decrease the value.
Standards and Skills
The standards associated with an assignment can be added or removed for the overall assignment and for individual questions. This allows teachers to add skills assessed in the grading reports.
To change the overall skills of the assignment, click on the blue plus icon in the Skills box under the section titled Building Toward, and then add or remove skills. This will pop up a searchable list of skills associated with the curriculum that can be added by clicking an Add button or removed by chicking a Check Mark button.
Individual questions can be directly tagged to skills by clicking the Align to Skill button between the question and answer. This is most powerful on summative assessments when trying to identify skill mastery of students.
Assignment Settings
The assignment settings button allows teachers to change whether an assignment is graded as a formative or a summative task and what type of assignment (participation, homework, quiz, etc.). The point value box automatically updates to the point values of the questions in the activity.
Assigning Personalized Versions to Students
Once editing is complete, teachers can preview the new version by clicking on the Preview button in the top right corner.
If satisfied with the results, click the Done button in the top right corner. This will automatically finalize the version and open a pop up asking to assign to one or more classes immediately. Editors and Administrators will also have the option to Publish the assignment so that it is shared with all teachers in the school.
Related Articles
- Curriculum management: https://support.kiddom.co/article/178-teachers-what-is-curriculum-management
- Types of questions in Kiddom: https://support.kiddom.co/article/179-what-question-types-are-available-in-kiddom
- Student tools: https://support.kiddom.co/article/182-what-are-student-tools
- Student math tools: https://support.kiddom.co/article/195-what-are-student-math-tools