On the Activity Analysis report, teachers can see students' responses to each prompt in an activity and see a clear analysis of the writing skills that they demonstrated as they completed an activity.
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How do I find the Activity Analysis?
Navigate to the Activity Analysis report in the View Reports tab.
How do I read the landing page of the Activity Analysis?
The landing page of the Activity Analysis report displays all of the activities in the activity packs that you have assigned to the students in your classes.
To see only the activities in the activity packs assigned to the students in a specific class, please select the class from the dropdown menu in the upper left corner of the Activity Analysis.
To the right of each activity's name, in the Completion field, you can see how many students have completed the activity out of all of the students who are assigned the activity, and in the Avg. Score field, you can see the average score for students who have completed the activity.
Then, you can click the name of an activity or the arrow to the far right of the name of the activity to see more details about students' performance for that activity.
How do I read the Student reports table?
Clicking on the name of any activity brings you to the Student reports table of the Activity Analysis report for the activity, which shows the following information.
The Score column shows each student's score for the activity.
The Time spent column shows how much time a student spent on the activity.
The Questions column shows the number of prompts to which a student responded when completing the activity.
The Avg. score on Quill column shows the average score for all of the activities that a student has completed.
Then, you can click a student's name in the Student reports table to see the student's Student reports for the activity.
How do I read a student's Student reports?
Clicking on a student's name in the Student reports table will bring you to the student's Student reports for the activity.
In the upper left corner of the student's Student reports for an activity, you will see the time the student spent on the activity and the student's percentage score for the activity.
In the upper right corner of the student's Student reports for the activity, you will see two dropdown menus.
If multiple students have completed the activity, you may select another student's name from the leftmost dropdown menu to see that student's Student reports for the activity.
If the student whose Student reports you are viewing has replayed the activity, you may select any one of the student's replays from the rightmost dropdown menu to see the data from that replay in the student's Student reports. Please note that a student's Student reports will default to showing the data for the replay with the highest percentage score, but you may select another replay to see the data for that replay.
In the student's Student reports, for each prompt in the activity, you will see the information below.
In the Directions field, you will see the directions that the student saw.
In the Prompt field, you will see the prompt that the student saw.
In the Score field, you will see the score that the student received.
In the Target Skill field, you will see the relevant writing skill for the prompt.
In the 1st submission/2nd submission/etc. field, you will see the responses that the student submitted for the prompt.
In the Feedback field, you will see the feedback that the student received for each response that they submitted.
Below the Feedback field, you will see the relevant writing skill for each piece of feedback that the student received.
When a student submits an incorrect response, you will see the feedback that the student received and the relevant writing skill that they used incorrectly highlighted in yellow beneath the feedback that they received.
When the student submits a correct response that correctly uses the target skill, you will see the relevant writing skill highlighted in green beneath the correct response.
How do I read the Questions reports table?
The Questions reports shows the average score for each prompt in an activity for a class.
Each row in the Questions reports table will be highlighted a different color, and the color reflects the proficiency score range within which the average score for the prompt falls.
Green means that the class frequently demonstrated the target skill of that prompt and had an average score of 83-100% for that prompt.
Yellow means that the class sometimes demonstrated the target skill of that prompt and had an average score of 32-82% for that prompt.
Red means that the class rarely demonstrated the target skill of that prompt and had an average score of 0-31% for that prompt.
How do I use the Activity Analysis to inform my writing instruction?
The Activity Analysis report allows you to examine a student's performance for an activity more deeply and shows exactly how a student responded to each prompt in an activity. For each prompt, you will see every response that a student submitted, the feedback that Quill provided for each response, and whether or not the student correctly used the target writing skill of a prompt.
For this reason, the Activity Analysis report can illuminate from where a particular struggle may stem, whether it be from the target writing skill itself, a struggle with a different writing skill, or a struggle with interpreting the feedback that Quill provides.
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