Project Illuminate

AVLA math department teachers & tutors

By Cindy Jung
March 26, 2019
 Today’s Objective:
• Teachers will be able to confidently use Illuminate when
assessing students for math
• Teachers & tutors will improve their teaching by asking guiding
questions that encourage deeper understanding of the topic

Teacher Leader Standard:

Domain 3 Promotes Professional Learning for Continuous Improvement
Pre-Survey:
 Hook:

• What percentage of our students PASS

their math quizzes the FIRST time???
 Hook Answer:

• What percentage of our

students PASS their math
quizzes the FIRST time???

• WE DON’T KNOW
BECAUSE WE HAVE
NO DATA
 Illuminate
captures and
organizes the
data for us!

Algebra 1
Data
Illuminate – Quick Capture
• 3 Math Courses with Quizzes for each credit
(Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2)
• 15-20 Questions per quiz
(Combination of multiple choice, fill in the blank,
drag & drop, etc)
• Teachers can allow access to different tools
(example: basic calculator, scientific calculator,
desmos, etc)
 The plan:
Our curriculum team and school leaders
plan to have 100% execution of
Illuminate by June/July 2019
 What are your thoughts?

Teachers: How does using Illuminate for

online assessments BENEFIT our teachers?

Tutors: How does using Illuminate for online

assessments BENEFIT our students?

(2-3 bullet point responses)

 Find your PAIR!

Teachers share first, then tutors

Listen to one another & discuss  60 seconds!

 Illuminate – Benefits to our students

• Aligned to the standards on student packets

• Become better at taking exams on the computer (preparation
for CAASPP)
• Access to tools such as scientific calculator/desmos for
advanced problems
• More multiple choice problems, less free response
 Illuminate – Benefits to our teachers

• Quizzes are graded instantly by Illuminate

• Immediate data can be used for individual instruction
• Overall data can be used to understand what credits or
standards students are struggling with
• Data will be given to curriculum team, which will allow them to
adjust curriculum
 The Long Run
Use Illuminate
when assessing • Data is
students for captured
math

Analyze data •Understand the strengths &

and reflect on weaknesses of our teaching/our
curriculum
the WHY

Make changes
to instruction •Improve student
based on the learning!

data
Index Card – for Questions
 Break Out: 15 minutes
Tutors (Objective): Teachers (Objective):
Pop Quiz! Become familiar with the
You will pretend to be a technology aspect of
student & take an actual Illuminate
Illuminate exam
Front of the room
Back of the room Will be led by me
Form groups of 2
Find a place to sit together
1 envelope per group

Read & follow directions!

You may start!
 My Experience
• Assigned 10 quizzes on Illuminate so far
8 caseload students
2 HQT students
• Very comfortable assigning a quiz & retrieving results
• Still in the process of understanding how similar/different the
questions are to the paper assessment
• Still learning!
 Log In & Bookmark the page
Link  Learn4life.Illuminateed.com

Your username
is your
avlearning.org
email

Try temp pw:

Illuminate!
Watch my screen first.
Later I will give you time to do it yourself!
Illuminate Resource Folder
• Teacher Access:
 Logging in
 Assigning a quiz
 Retrieving Results

• Student Access:
 Logging in & taking the test!
Assigning a Quiz (YOU TRY)

Start From Home Page

Assign Algebra 2 Credit 1

Find the name of an HQT student

Enable Basic Calculator

Save!
 Retrieving Results YOU TRY

Find the results for one of my students:

Arturo Cueto Briana Barba

Maya Rocha
 Tutoring Team (Share Out)

While taking the actual Illuminate

quizzes, what did you discover?
 Culminating Activity

Teachers: Assign a quiz to one of your

students

Tutors: Log in as the student and navigate

the quiz online

Follow directions in numerical order

DO NOT SUBMIT IT!!
20 minutes
 Call to ACTION

Use Illuminate 1 time before

Spring Break (April 15)

We will have a follow up Math Dept Meeting at the end of

April to discuss your experience
 Post-Survey

Your feedback is important!

Survey sent to you via email.

Please take a few minutes to complete it.

https://goo.gl/forms/PsYFYC1zDWJnWWXo2