Moby Max Training
USING MOBY MAX WITH YOUR STUDENTS
WHAT WILL WE DO TODAY?
1. Log in to Moby Max and watch intro video.
2. Today's Meet
3. Login as a teacher to view data
4. Review the features of each icon
5. Adjust curriculum settings for your class.
6. Add & Hide features
7. Create an assignment
8. Create an assessment
9. Moby Max Communication: Parent Letters & Login Cards
10. Questions? Revisit Today's Meet
11. Evaluation Survey
WHAT IS MOBY MAX?
Moby Max is a purchased and adaptive curriculum for all students. While it does not align with student MAP scores, Moby is aligned with Common Core Standards. Students are provided an individualized learning plan based upon their performance on skill pretest in each subject. This allows Moby to support student skill gaps as well as to accelerate students that are progressing at a more rapid pace. Moby provides teachers a power tool to differentiate instruction to the needs of each student while in the classroom and at home.
Getting Started in MobyMax
WHAT CAN MOBY MAX DO FOR YOU?
- Print student login cards
- Provide parents with a login to monitor student progress through the parent letter
- Behavior vibes are a motivator for behavior and encourage progress for students
- Flexible lessons based on skill gaps or current grade-level skills
- Flexible student groups
- Data tracking for RTI, Data Teams and IEP's.
- Advanced reporting targets areas where reteaching may be necessary
- Drill-Down data allows teachers to see exactly what students missed (question, time spent on question, etc.)
- Messenger allows teachers and students to securely communicate about assignments
- Short Answers-exemplars provided, free-response questions, pre-loaded corrections for teachers to drag & drop
- Print Achievement Certificates for students that are reaching goals in Moby Max
GETTING TO KNOW THE MOBY ICONS
FAST FACT FLUENCY
Fact Fluency's adaptive instruction enables students to develop math fact fluency quickly. From students who are acquiring facts rapidly to those who are struggling to catch up.
NUMBER SENSE
The goal of Number Sense is to teach every student how to easily add and subtract large numbers without using a pencil! It offers six modules manipulatives, introducing new concepts and tracking progress.
MATH THAT WORKS
Moby Math finds and fixes missing math skills that are essential for math comprehension.
EARLY READING TRIO
Three modules that work together to reinforce early reading skills: words, stories, writing.
READING STORIES
Moby Reading pairs literature and informational texts with similar topics to encourage deep reading and facilitate learning. Each grade has three levels with ten lessons at each level. Each lesson has at least one literature text and two informational texts. The reading level adjusts if comprehension questions become too difficult.
READING SKILLS LITERATURE & INFORMATIONAL
Literature skills teach the specific skills of reading, breaking reading standards into small lessons and targeted practice problems. All lessons begin with an animated Teach Me lesson. All problems have instant feedback and parts of the problems have a read-aloud icon. Short answer questions are excellent practice for state testing. Moby automated grading makes the grading process easier for teachers.
VOCABULARY
The Vocabulary Builder supports students as they learn new words. The adaptive pretest ensures students only practice with unknown words. Students review words and build to mastery. Teachers can easily see student progress over time. Teachers also have the ability to create custom word lists.
LANGUAGE
Language lessons focus on comprehensive language skills essential for writing success. Grammar lessons follow the same Teach Me Lesson pattern. Moby focuses on the topics where students struggle in the placement test.
WRITING WORKSHOP & ASSIGNMENT
Writing Workshop provides short lessons to students with simple steps to walk through various types of writing. Each lesson includes direct instruction, modeling and hands-on practice. The Writing Assignment module is a submission-grading-revision module for any type of writing. There is also a Short Answer module across all subject areas. Both modules use the same easy-to-use markup and grading for teachers to save time and provide quality feedback to students. Teachers can create their own rubrics or use those pre-loaded in Moby.
TIME
Time button will not only show you how much time students have spent on each activity at school & at home but will also alert you to where students need your help. Under the alerts tab, you can see where students missed problems and offer real-time intervention.
ROSTER
This management hub allows you to customize your Moby settings. Teachers are able to control login settings, curriculum settings, share students with other teachers and create groups.
MOTIVATORS IN MOBY MAX
Moby Max offers multiple ways to communicate with and motivate students. Behavior vibes allow teachers to send motivators to students. Badges and and certificates are a great way for students to "earn" their way to achievement. Contests can be created schoolwide or within grade-levels in Moby to encourage at-home practice time. Students also earn game time the more problems they answer correctly.
ACHIEVING GOALS WITH MOBY MAX
PLACEMENT TEST
- Students take a placement test in each subject.
- This allows Moby to target students on the skills they need to master and not focus time on those skills they have already mastered.
- Overall Grade Level Placement: Lessons are automatically assigned from missing standards.
- Lessons are sequenced to address missing skills and build to grade level mastery
LESSONS
- Moby Max will auto-assign lessons for students from the placement test
- Teachers are able to create custom assignments built around specific skills or standards
COMPLETED LESSONS
- Teachers are able to see every attempt a student makes at a lesson
- Click on the score to drill down to more data
- Teachers are able to see what students answered (right/wrong)
- Time on task
- Click on the questions students answered incorrectly to see the exact question and time spent on that questions
PROGRESS MONITORING
- Progress monitoring reports log grade level performance on each day a student works
- Detailed History - Every sign in, Moby measures proficiency on each standard student worked on during that session
CLASS DATA
- Roster tab
- Proficiency Data
- Click on the % link to drill down and see who still needs to work on a skill
ASSESSMENT
- Choose the subject
- Assessment tab
- Teachers have the option to re-assign the Placement test
- Build Custom Assessments
- Choose the student or students
- Assign new test
- Select to test by - Grade Level/Standards/Skills/Previous Test
- Select the Standards or Skills on which to test
- Preview questions
- **Grade level assessments impact progress monitoring
DAILY GOALS
- Overview of Moby's goals for students
SNAPSHOT
- Available for each subject
- Provides the teacher a quick overview of what students are working on each day
FACT MASTER
- Builds fluency proficiency in basic facts
- Great thing to encourage our students to practice fast facts
NUMBER SENSE
- Students work with virtual manipulatives and an abacus before moving on to more advanced concepts
- Students learn to add and subtract mentally up to six digits
TEST PREP
- Assists with review for state testing
- Select grade level
- Students are given two questions per skill.
- If students answer correctly, they progress to the next skill.
- If students are not successful, they receive skill instruction before moving forward.
READING STORIES
- Organizes text thematically by fiction & non-fiction
- Texts are grouped by grade level
- Texts are paired with Common Core comprehension questions
- If students pass the comprehension questions, they move on. If students are not successful, Moby adjusts their level to a more comfortable setting.
- Teachers are also able to adjust reading level
READING SKILLS
- Targeted lessons and practice
- Based on short texts
- Short answer questions are also available
WRITING WORKSHOP & WRITING ASSIGNMENTS
- Prepared writing assignments
- Teacher created
- Pre-loaded feedback
- Teacher comments
- Send back to students for revision
MobyMax Advanced Tutorial