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We hope you’ll find our ACT prep resources intuitive and user-friendly. Anything to make standardized tests slightly less painful...
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- 00:04
All right, well if you want to use Shmoop’s ACT Prep tool, you’re gonna need to get
- 00:08
to it first. [Woman at a cross roads]
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You’ll want to begin from this homepage.
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It’s the one for schools.shmoop.com…not the one for plain ol’ shmoop.com.
- 00:14
See the difference?
Full Transcript
- 00:16
Okay…so on this page, there are two buttons you’ll grow to know and love. [Shmoop schools homepage]
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First is the Shmoop logo, which will always deliver you straight back here to the homepage.
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This other one…the login button…will log you in…then turn into your user name. [Person types username]
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Click that puppy, and you’ll be whisked away to your profile, i.e.
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“Dashboard.”
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Now we’re cookin’ with gas.
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Click on “ACT,” then scroll down and click on “ACT Exam Prep.” [Mouse clicks on exam prep link]
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Here you’re looking at the Dashboard for ACT Prep specifically.
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When a student logs on for the first time, they’ll be prompted to take a diagnostic
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exam.
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This exam will help them determine their strengths and…their not-so-strengths. [Student clicking through diagnostic exam]
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They’ll be provided with answer explanations, links to drills, topic review, videos, you
- 00:57
name it.
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They can spend as much or as little time as they want…or as much or as little time as
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you tell them to…on topic review…
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…brushing up on areas that have given them trouble.
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Keep in mind, that once you create a classroom on your students join you'll be able to view
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all of this great data, progress or er, lack of progress in the gradebook feature.
- 01:16
Student's can also get to the diagnostic by clicking on practice exams and selecting
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diagnostic - Protip; all practice exams and diagnostics are broken into the sections of the test
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for digestion purposes.
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We try to recreate the best test-taking experience as much as possible, so they know exactly
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what to expect. [Student completing online test]
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That includes a timer on the right-hand side, so they can get a sense of how much time they’ll [Arrow points to timer]
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have to answer everything.
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If you’re not a fan of the timer, you – and you alone – have the option to disable it…but
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we think it helps students a ton when it comes to time management.
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When they’re done taking their test, they click “done” …and are rewarded immediately
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with helpful feedback. [Page giving feedback of test results]
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The multiple choice questions will be auto-graded, so they’ll be able to see their score…
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…but more importantly, as soon as the student has completed their to-do list review topic and drills
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will automatically pop up on the progress tab corresponding to whatever
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questions they got wrong.
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You will get the full scoop, of course. [Woman sits down at a desk]
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By going to your Classroom, you can check out projected and raw scores, raw score versus
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time, an answer breakdown, skill breakdown…whatever is necessary to fulfill your wildest data
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analyzing needs and desires. [Person checking score data]
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And because every question is tied to a particular skill, making it easy to see at a glance where
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your students are faltering…
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…you’ll be faced with a much easier task targeting instruction time.
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Now, when looking through our topic review and answer explanations, you might notice
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that our materials are infused with quite a bit of humor, pop culture references, and [Humor references highlighted]
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so on.
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Okay, moving on.
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Under “Skills Tested,” there are links leading to reviews on whatever area a student
- 02:49
might be struggling in.
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In “Review Topics,” you can go specifically to the topic you want to study. [Mouse clicks review topics button]
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And if you want to test certain skills, there are drills that will target directly to those
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skills directly.
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Assign the ones you feel would be the most helpful.
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And with ACT drills, every single one has a video explanation.
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Great for all those visual learners out there.
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All right, time to check out another cool feature.
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From the homepage, you can click here to access Math Shack… [Mouse clicks Math Shack feature]
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…where you’ll find limitless problems your students can work on to improve their
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mastery of every math topic under the sun.
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Here you’ll see the Math Shack bucket list. [Bucket list in Math Shack page]
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As students master individual topics, they disappear from the bucket list…
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…and hopefully, by the time test day rolls around, they’ll have…emptied their bucket.
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Let’s check out an example.
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Say we click on Area of a Composed Shape.
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This bar here will move forward or backward to indicate progress…or regression.
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There’s an algorithm in place that analyzes how questions are answered, how many hints [Math shack question examples]
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are given, etc...
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…and the product actually changes based on those factors.
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You can check out the legend at the bottom of each page to see how many questions there
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are in a given topic.
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To master a topic, your students will need to get 90% or higher without help.
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And, of course, they’ll earn some valuable Shmoints in the process, too. [Person earning shmoints reward]
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If we head back to the dashboard and click on the skills tab…
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…we can see the complete list of skills tied to each question your students have attempted.
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We can see if they’ve progressed or regressed...with links to review guides.
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And all this stuff is student-led. [Web page stamped and labelled student-led]
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In other words, they can see their progress and be proactive about smoothing out their
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rough edges…
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…but in the meantime, you’re able to monitor them and target instruction time based on
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their results.
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If your appetite for all things Shmoop has been whetted and you’re hungry for more…[Man waiting at a table for more food]
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…check out links to other helpful vids in the section below this video.
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Or just poke around on the site and do some exploring.
- 04:29
Just please leave everything where you found it. [Person picks up image of Einstein from shmoop web page]
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