Administrators and Teachers can use the Portfolio report to review oral recordings and written responses from students' activities in Imagine Español. There are 11 activity types that save work to the Portfolio, categorized into 2 main types—Recording and Writing. For example, the Fluidez lectora activities generate audio recordings that allow you to review and evaluate students' Oral Reading Fluency as they read aloud. Respondiendo a la lectura activities save students' written responses to help you assess students' vocabulary and reading comprehension skills.
As part of the review process, you can assign Booster Bits to reward students for their work. You can choose to grade and review the submissions student-by-student or activity-by-activity.
The Portfolio report uses tabs to clearly distinguish between the new submissions awaiting review and the submissions you've already evaluated.
To review student Portfolios and award Booster Bits:
- Log in to Imagine Español.
- If you are assigned to more than 1 group, choose the group you want to view.
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In the Portfolio section in the bottom right side of the page, if you have new entries awaiting your review, the number displays with a yellow highlight. Click the arrow to go to the Portfolio page.
Notes
- An artifact is considered new until you award Booster Bits for it or mark it as reviewed.
- Underneath the New Artifacts link, the total number of submissions for This week (starting Sunday), This year (starting at the beginning of the school year), and Lifetime (portfolio entries from the current school year and the previous school year) will be available.
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The Portfolio report opens on the Needs review tab, which displays all unevaluated submissions for the selected group. A submission is considered new and will continue to appear on this tab until you award Booster Bits.
As desired, make alternate selections in the drop-down menus for Group, Activity, and/or Time; click Apply to activate your new selections for Group and Activity.The default selections in the drop-down menus are:
- Group - the group or class whose data you are currently viewing
- Activity - Overview (all activity types combined)
- Time - Last 7 Days
Note
In the Activity menu, any activity types without submissions will be grayed out.
Tip
If you get the "no work" message, try changing the Time filter to School Year to see the most artifacts, especially if you need to catch up on your grading.
- In the left-hand column, the report defaults to display All students in the class you are viewing. However, if you prefer to review artifacts on a student-by-student basis, click on a student's name to access a list of that student's work. This can be especially useful in parent-teacher conferences.
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On the Needs review tab, all Unscored submissions display. There is a row for each of the 11 activities that generate Portfolio entries, provided you have at least one student submission for that activity. You can award Booster Bits after you review each response.
The columns in the table of the Needs review tab are defined below. You can click on the arrows in the column headers in the program to change their sort order.Column Definition Activity The name of the activity and its corresponding thumbnail. Skill details A summary of the activity and/or a description of the skills students must demonstrate. Type Writing or Recording. Last submission The most recent date that a student submitted work of this activity type. To grade The number of submissions awaiting your review. Action needed The Grade button in this column will take you to the submission(s). You must evaluate the response and then award Booster Bits in order for the submission to move to the Reviewed tab of the report. - If desired, click the arrows or use the Expand all/Collapse all links to change how much detail displays. Expanding allows you to see the number and name of each dataset for that activity type.
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Click Grade to begin reviewing portfolio artifacts.
The individual datasets open, which are specific instances of that activity type (¡Vamos A Leer! in this example). The title of each dataset displays along with the number of student submissions for each one (in a blue circle to the right of its title). Student work displays underneath the header.
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Review the artifacts according to type, Recording or Writing. Click on the corresponding line below to learn more about each type.
Reviewing Recording SubmissionsThere are several different recording activities that generate Portfolio entries. Click the Play button to listen to the audio.
- Some activities, such as Fluidez Lectora, only have one audio file per student, per dataset:
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For any activities with multiple recordings, click View Submissions to open the list of files. They open in ascending order but you can change that if desired.
Tips
- To adjust the playback speed or download the audio clip, click the more options menu.
- When applicable, you can view a reading passage's grade level and Lexile measure underneath the title of the activity.
- To adjust the playback speed or download the audio clip, click the more options menu.
Reviewing Writing SubmissionsSubmissions in the student's Portfolio show the writing prompt the student was given and the student's written response.
- In some activities, students are asked to use a word correctly in a sentence.
Vocabulario de Lectura Introduccion example: - In some activities, students are asked to respond to a comprehension question about a book or article they read.
- In some activities, students are asked to practice punctuation and spelling by writing sentences that they hear.
Dictados Practica example:
- Some activities, such as Fluidez Lectora, only have one audio file per student, per dataset:
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Based on the your evaluation of the student's work and effort, click 0, 20, 60, or 100 to begin awarding silver Booster Bits. Select 0 to acknowledge review of student work without awarding Booster Bits.
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Then click Confirm in the pop-up window.
You'll receive a confirmation message at the top of the page.
Note
You can skip having to confirm each selection separately by checking the Don't show this confirmation for the rest of this session box, which will appear the first time you assign Booster Bits and the first time you mark an item as reviewed without assigning Booster Bits. This will save time if you are reviewing several portfolio submissions in one sitting. You won't be asked to confirm each type of action again until you close or reload your tab.
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Recommendations
- To ensure the audio recordings are high quality, encourage students to speak slowly and enunciate. Provide a quiet place for recordings. Some students may feel more comfortable recording in a private corner of the room rather than at their desk. You can even make an inexpensive "recording studio" with easy-to-find materials.
- You can award Booster Bits to student assignments based on effort, improvement, growth, accuracy, and/or how well the student followed instructions. For audio recordings, consider factors like speed, missed words, pronunciation, and expression. For writing samples, consider punctuation, spelling, and grammar errors, if the student answered the question in full, and the extent to which the student used their own words.
- Evaluated student work is now visible in the Reviewed tab of the Portfolio report. Use the arrows and the Expand all/Collapse all links to change the level of detail that is displayed, and the View button to access student work.
- Students are notified of teacher-awarded Booster Bits the next time they log in and see the Booster Bit reward screen during a student session.