EasyCBM

Transcript EasyCBM

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Reasons to use EasyCBM All teachers who have students under RTI are required to do Progress Monitoring Easy CBM will track the progress monitoring for you.

Those of you that have referred or plan on referring students to RTI , you are required to provide interventions, this is a free program that will allow you to assess and progress monitor all your students.

This progress monitoring system provides assessments for students in grade K 5 in the areas of Reading and Math. This program allows you to print out progress/monitoring reports that are required to document progress monitoring.

Depending on the grade level, you have the option of downloading the assessments and then recording the scores into the program or the students can take the assessment on-line and get instant feedback. The result is an Individual Student Report. These reports are formatted for easy printing so you can use to document interventions. Interventions can be entered that show up directly on the graphs, which is helpful when implementing a Response to Intervention (RTI) model.

Go to the website:

www.easycbm.com

The familarize you with EasyCBM, a Demo site is available for you to practice before actually working with your live site. Just click the button below to login as a demo user and interact on an account with pre-filled data. You're free to add and delete students, create and assign CBMs, check out the data entry pages, view the reporting section, or anything else you'd like to do in this fully functional and unrestricted environment. A fresh demo account is created each time someone visits and wiped clean nightly.

In the Demo site, there is a Training section ( 4 sections for Groups and 4 section for Individuals) where you can learn more on administrating the assessment probes.

To register for 1 st time – click “REGISTER NOW”

If you are already registered:

Login in the “Teachers” section - Enter your Username and Password.

If you forgot – Click here

If registering for the 1 st YOUR ACCOUNT”. time, fill out all required information and click on “REGISTER A Confirmation will be sent to your e-mail.

Record your Username (make your username the same as your e-mail) A Password will be generate by EasyCBM and e-mailed to you

When you get the Password in your e-mail. Use it to enter your site and go to Account. There you can then change their password for your own (use the same password as for your e-mail to make it easier

to remember)

Once you are in the Account section, change your password by typing in the old password and then typing in your new password.

You are now ready to enroll your RTI students into EasyCBM

Your homepage will look like this. Step 1: Select the “STUDENTS” tab or click on STUDENTS

Step 2: Here is where you can add a group (such as an RTI group or you can just leave it blank). If you want to create a group, just click on “ADD GROUP” and type in the group name.

An example is if you have two groups in you class such as Group RTI 1 and Group RTI 2. You can create these 2 groups and have different students in those groups.

Step 3: This is where you add your students that you are in RTI and require Progress Monitoring. Step 4: To add a student, click on “ADD STUDENT” and a pop-up box will appear.

Step 5: Type in the student’s ID#, First and Last name, and grade. Click on “OK” to enroll student.

Repeat Step 5 for each additional student.

If you added a group, checking the box in front of the student’s name will add him/her to the group.

You can also uploading your Class Roster

This feature currently only supports

Excel files

saved in

CSV (Comma Separated Values

) format, and organized as shown below. If you already have an Excel file of your class list, open it. Otherwise, create a new spreadsheet in Excel and copy/paste your roster from its current format. Organize the columns in the exact order shown here: Choose "Save As..." from the File menu, give the file a name, and select "CSV (Comma Delimited)" as the file Format. Then save the file to a location you'll remember.

Next, browse for the .csv file you just saved: And finally, click the following button:

PREVIEW ROSTER

Verify that the following class list is correct. If anything is wrong, go back to the previous step and try again. If the list is correct click the follow button:

IMPORT CLASS LIST Your roster will now appear on the STUDENTS list.

You have finished enrolling your selected students into EasyCBM. Next step is Measures

In the Measures page you can see the areas that the student can be assessed in.

Step 1: Select the student’s grade level Depending on the student’s grade level, some assessments can be taken on-line while others the teacher has to download the assessment, assess the student, and then enter the scores manually so that the EasyCBM program can track the progress.

When finished – select the REPORTS tab

You can assign assessments to be taken on-line for your enrolled students.

Select which test to take and click on “Take Online”.

If you have groups, select which group. Select type of feedback you want the student to see.

Example shown here is for online assessments In Math.

In the REPORTS page you can see the Progress Monitoring report for the enrolled student(s). Step 1: Select the beginning date and then Step 2: Select the ending date.

Don’t forget to click on save when finished selecting

Step 1: Select “INDIVIDUALS” . All progress monitoring reports will be on individuals not groups.

The last step:

Select one student at a time whose Progress Monitoring report you want to see or print.

Repeat until you have printed all students you want a Progress Monitoring report on.

You can view each assessment that was given by clicking on “View”.

This the Progress Monitoring report that can be generated with EasyCBM. The example shown is a PM report on Word Reading Fluency showing 9 dates where Word Reading Fluency assessments were given every 2 weeks. The progress is plotted on the line graph showing the assessment dates, scores, goal line and the percentile lines.