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analytics a la shmoop- introducing shmoop analytics. when you

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buy a license from us you get access to our test prep, online courses ,response to

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intervention and teacher resources. but let's leave the content to the

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teachers and students. you want the data your administrator reports will display

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granular data by school classroom teacher and student. are their [shmoop dashboard pictured]

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district-wide or school-wide pain points or goals? you'll be able to zero in on

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any gaps in comprehension and reallocate the resources needed to get all your

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students on the same page. with shmoop analytics you can explore dozens of

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metrics including time students have spent on shmoop test prep exams taken

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and much much more. let's take a look at analytics in action. first how do you get

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there ?see that orange box in the upper right corner where your login name

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appears? click on the little down arrow next to it, and then go to your dashboard.

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on your dashboard scroll down a bit and you'll see the view analytics button on

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the left hand side. click on that sucker. here you'll have access to all the data

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and detailed reports that analytics has to offer. take a look at those menu items

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on the left hand side. let's go through those, starting with overall. here's where

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you can get a good sense of the overall picture of performance by a student

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school or district. by clicking on the choose a metric drop down and selecting

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a date range which defaults to your renewal period and has shortcut keys to

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run results for the last 7 days two weeks or 30 days, you can run detailed

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reports on such things as time spent on shmoop, number of active users, course

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activities completed and so on. each report is further broken down by program.

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as is shown by this handy-dandy pie chart and accompanying tables. in this [pie chart shown]

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report for example, we can see that students in this district have spent 92

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percent of their time working on test prep and 8 percent of their time on

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courses. below we can view specifically which test prep tools and which courses

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received the bulk of their focus. you can see the most used programs at a glance

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or click on show all to see everything. if you're an administrator,

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and want to drill down on data for each of your schools, you can click on the

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school's tab here- you'll see a breakdown by school showing number of students

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number of active teachers the student-teacher ratio the number of

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classrooms created and total hours spent on shmoop. each column is sortable so if

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you want to see which school is spending the most time on shmoop, simply click

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here and all the data will be automatically sorted for you. you can

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then click into any particular school and run reports for them specifically.

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all the same metrics from the drop-down menu we saw earlier. now let's hop on

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over to the teachers page here you can see the names of every teacher in a

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district, sort by school time spent on shmoop or last login. you can also invite

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new teachers by clicking on this orange button here. want to know more about an

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individual teacher? each teacher has their own profile. just click on their [teachers portion of dashboard pictured]

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name to get more of their deets- ie what classrooms they own what programs

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they're using etc. then you can even go a level deeper and dive straight into the

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classrooms they're managing from this view . so say you're in this classroom for

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college readiness test prep- notice that the a CT exam prep is currently selected.

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you can see all the Shmoips that have been earned for this type of prep, drills

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completed time spent on shmoop and more. click over to the AP English Lit tab and

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you can see all the same stuff for this product. let's take a look at what one

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particular student has been up to. we'll go with Aaron Burr. no relation. and see

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what he's been doing with his 31 hours spent on shmoop.

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we click on his name and now we can see his test prep profile. click on the view

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full report link and boom. you can see all the scores and times taken for every

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drill and exam within any supported product. you can also click on any of the

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other menu items on the left hand side to see detailed information on specific [side bar shown]

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things such as test prep, where these drop down arrows will help you figure

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out who's using what and how much. or you can click on one of the links to see

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everyone who's using the AC t-- product or SAT or PSAT or AP whatever. you can do

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the same for teaching guides courses, RTI whatever it is you want to see a clearer

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picture of. let's take a quick closer look at progress over time

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suppose you want to see how students have been doing overtime on ACT exam

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prep in your district. you'd simply click on progress over time then select any

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supported product you're interested in, in this case ACT exam prep and then

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enter the date range and run your report. progress over time collects data by

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month so here you can see how students who have spent more than one month using

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the product are progressing. in this example there are over 3,000 students

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who used the ACT exam prep for one month, and they scored an average of 22

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point three on the test. 261 of those students continued to use the product

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for a second month and they saw their average test score shoot up to 26 point

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eight. and for those two students who stuck it out through month three they

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saw their averages increase all the way to 30 point 7. it's easy to see which [month by month data pictured]

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schools and students are benefiting the most or least. just scroll down and click

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on the schools that show data in the month 1 month 2 and month 3 columns of

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the table. within each school you can see how students perform for months to month,

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and you can click on the other tabs skills overall or skills in a particular

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subject to get an even better idea of where they're getting the most out of

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shmoop. by tracking what percentage of questions students have answered in all

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as well as what percentage of those questions answered were correct. okay so

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example time. suppose you want to run a report to see how many of your students

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took test prep exams for the May AP tests. so from the overall page you

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select the test prep exams taken metric, then select the date range of April 1st

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through April 30th, then run a report there you go 887 exams taken that month

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with spikes on the 4th 14 18th and 25th. looking at the breakdown it appears that

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most users were focusing their efforts on AP world history with smarter

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balanced California and ap US government and politics coming in second and third

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respectively. so yeah that's analytics .pretty much

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everything links to everything else and there's always the opportunity to drill [shmoop university overall data shown]

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down still further so you can figure out where all those mysterious numbers are

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coming from. the upshot is that you'll be able to keep complete tabs on who's

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doing what how often how recently and how all the work put in is affecting

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individual results. happy clicking!

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