Student Claims More Time on Task

Do you have a student who claims that their i-Ready minutes are higher than what you are seeing on your teacher dashboard?

If so, you may want to read the following. Those youngsters are sly!

On nearly any web page, students can right click the page and select “Inspect” (or “Inspect element” depending on browser). This will open a coding window (developer tools) on the right side of the screen. By selecting the appropriate location in the code, the student can change the font, color, size, and text as well as placement of buttons, etc.

Please note—these changes are temporary and only appear on the screen where the editing is being done and do NOT change the actual web page. They cannot be “pushed” out to other students’ screens. The only way for this to appear on a student’s screen is for the edit to happen on the computer they are currently using. If the screen is refreshed or the student moves to another page, the change disappears. 

— from i-Ready Technical FAQs & Troubleshooting Guide (pp. 5-6) on i-Ready Central.

In order for the teacher to gather the correct time on task, simply refresh the student’s browser or go to the Reports.