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All students are rostered through Clever and are up to date in MobyMax for the school year. Simply have your students sign in and click on a K-8 subject of your choice. The subjects that contain a placement test are Math, Language, Foundational Reading, Fact Fluency, and Vocabulary.
Your students will start with a placement test automatically (unless you select the student to start with the NWEA Maps data) . Once completed, the placement test report will show you the exact grade level of each student and their learning gaps.
In the section to the right, you can find a two-minute video explaining how to analyze student placement tests.
Link NWEA Maps to Moby Max for Placement Tests
Link NWEA Maps to Moby Max for Placement Tests
To change MobyMax placement test options to using the NWEA Maps test data, there is a process you must follow. Here are the steps you must follow to link your students to their NWEA scores and to restart their progress. Understand that restarting the students wipes the placement test and data in Moby.
Check to see if you have this set up
Sign into MobyMax
Click Settings
Click the Default Settings for All Students at the top
Click Modules
It should show that your Initial Placement test is set to NWEA MAP
If it done for Math and Language, you are good to go!
Steps To Set Up MAP For The Initial Placement test
First step - set Initial Placement Test options
Sign into MobyMax
Click Settings
Click the Individual Student Settings at the top
Checkmark all students
Click Update Settings
Click Modules
Click on Math or Language (under ELA)
In the Initial Placement Test box, click Start students with NWEA Map Growth test results, then click the circle before "Start students with NWEA MAP Growth test results."
Under the For students without NWEA MAP Growth test results, click Start with placement test and select a grade level.
Click Save.
Second step - making the classroom teacher the principal teacher for the students. This is important because so many classes are set up with co-teachers in Tyler, they are all jumbled together. You must hit save after EACH RECORD.
The teacher must make sure they are listed as the principal teacher for each student. To do that,
Sign into MobyMax
Click Roster
Select Manage Roster
Click Share Students
Click Shared Teachers tab
Each student will be listed, the principal teacher is in the middle column. If you are not the principal teacher click the student name and then select your name on the following screen. Click Save. Use the gray arrows at the top to move through all your students, clicking Save after each change.
Third step - restart students (only necessary if it isn’t the beginning of the year.
If this is not the beginning of the year, you must bulk restart your students to use the MAPS scores -
Sign into MobyMax
Click Roster
Click Manage Roster
Click the Blue link that says Bulk restart students
Click the content area you wish to have restarted and click Continue
In the Initial Quick Placement box, click Start students with NWEA Map Growth test results, then click the circle before "Start students with NWEA MAP Growth test results."
Underneath that, click Yes in the dropdown box for Automatically assign lessons, click Continue
Click the top box to select all students where you are the principal teacher, click Continue
Click Reset Now
It will ask you if you want to do another subject. This will only work on the adaptive test areas that line up with NWEA Maps (Math, Language).
If a student does not have a MAP score in either Language or math, they will still have to start with a placement test. Currently, MAP only exports ELA test data in grades 2-12. Math data is shared K-12. Dr. Kipp is working with NWEA to find out why they haven’t included the K-1 ELA data in the export.
If you do not see your students showing up with MAP scores on the placement page (click the Curriculum tab, Math or Language, Results tab (top), and then Placement test (left side)), then all the student needs to do is log into MobyMax and click either the Math or Reading subject module. That is the trigger to bring in the MAP scores.
MobyMax has three components to the program:
MobyMax has three components to the program:
Differentiated Learning - this section is the most widely used by teachers. It contains all the content areas and their sub-contents (ie - Mathematics contains math, fact fluency, and numbers. ELA contains Language Arts (3 programs) Reading (4 programs), Writing (2 programs), Early Reading (5 programs), and Phonics (3 programs). Mathematics, Language and Reading Foundations are adaptive programs so the first time a student accesses them they are given an adaptive test to level them and then are prescribed work to remediate deficiencies. Teachers can also assign work to go along with what is being taught in the classroom.
Quick Checker - This section is made up of 5 assessment programs Quick Assessments and Quick Skills are perfect for exit tickets and allow the teacher to choose what questions are included in the test. Quick Fluency is an assessment for alphabet fluency. Quick Placement and Quick Benchmark are longer tests. Quick Placement is a test that determines grade levels and diagnoses learning gaps in Language, Foundational Reading and Reading Level. This is not a quick test, but has either a 45" or 90" version. Quick Benchmarker measures the mastery of all Language, Foundational Reading, Reading Skills Literature, or Reading Skills Informational standards within a grade level. this test may take about 10-15 minutes.. To find the results from a Quick Benchmarker test, open the Quick Checker section. Select subject, Click the Results tab, then the Students tab. To remediate, click the box to the left of the skill for the skill you wish to remediate and click the Remediate Standards button at the top of the skills column.
Interactive Classroom - This is a GREAT way to teach mini lessons. It is a great way to assign small amounts of content for classroom stations. The teacher can select one skill or more and then add a couple assessment questions, then assign it to students. You can assign it to one student, a group of students, or the entire class.
Video Training Library
Video Training Library
Types of MobyMax Assessments
Types of MobyMax Assessments
Placement Tests
Placement Tests
Placement Tests are only found in three content areas in MobyMax - Mathematics, Foundational Reading, and English. They are summative and setup adaptive instruction in MobyMax. They affect progress monitoring and take a bit of time for the students to do. They are automatic in that when a student clicks those subjects, they will be taken to the test automatically. They can also be assigned. If there is no Placement test available for a specific content area, there will be no Placement tab showing.
How to assign a placement test.
How to view the results from a Placement Test.
MobyMax Tests
MobyMax Tests
MobyMax Tests are customizable grade level, standard, and skill tests. They are non-adaptive tests that teachers can tailor to particular grade levels, standards, or skills.
They are available for the Math and Language content areas. If a content area doesn't have a MM Test available, then there will be no "Test" tab showing. You can also have the students start from their NWEA Map test results by following the instructions above.
How to view the results from a MM Test.
Quick Benchmark Tests
Quick Benchmark Tests
Quick Benchmarks are assessments that are meant to be taken infrequently and they take longer. They are summative and determine how much the student has learned over an entire course. Think of them as an end-of-unit test
How to view the results of a Quick Benchmark test.
Quick Tests
Quick Tests
Quick Skill tests are formative assessments that are meant to be given more frequently and throughout a unit to see how students are doing throughout a course. These tests are also customizable.
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