Playbook Manager

In Playbook Manager, you can

List study resources students can use in your course
Set up playbooks for as many exams as you want in your course
Preview and edit your playbook details
See analytics on who is using playbook and when

Tips!

We only recommend using multiple playbooks if there are at least two weeks between the most recent exam and the next playbook release.
Read research about the playbook: Chen, Chavez, Ong, & Gunderson. (2017). Strategic Resource Use for Learning: A Self-Administered Intervention That Guides Self-Reflection on Effective Resource Use Enhances Academic Performance. Psychol Sci, 2017. Jun 28(6): 774-785. doi: 10.1177/0956797617696456.

Migrating a playbook from past terms

ECoach lets you copy (migrate) playbooks from previous terms.

Choose the term from which to migrate your playbooks.
The list of playbooks from the term you chose will appear. Choose the playbooks(s) you want to bring into your new coach.
Migrated playbooks will NOT include any of the dates. You'll have to go back to set exam dates, publish dates, and expiration dates.

Adding study resources

This list will include the study resources students can use to study for exams in this course. See the examples below.

Resource name: This is the name of the resource as it appears to the student (as shown below).
Value: This is the name that gets stored in a database. It should exactly match the "Response Value" name in MTS if you plan to tailor on which resources students say they use.
Set resource as active: Use this feature if you want to turn certain resources on or off for various exams (e.g., if you don't offer a certain resource until Exam 2).

Adding a playbook

Assignment type: Choose a type (exam, quiz, or assessment) based on what you call assessments in your course. For ease and clarity, we default to "exam" in the Authoring Guide.
Exam name: Give your exam a name (i.e., "Exam 1").
Source: Choose the source associated with your course.
Associated exam: Choose the assignment(s) (e.g., "Exam 1") from your gradebook for each playbook.
- Note: If you add your exam to the gradebook in multiple parts ("Exam 1 - Scantron" and "Exam 1 - Written") or if you have multiple versions of the exam in your gradebook ("Exam 1A" and "Exam1B"), include both associated exams.
- Note: The Exam Playbook Reflection will be available to students when each associated exam has scores present in the ECoach gradebook.

Planning Playbook (before the exam)

Choose a Publish date and Publish time. You can set whatever dates you want. At U-M, we open Playbooks 10 days before an exam and allow students to earn extra credit up until 3 days before an exam.
Enter your Exam date and Exam time. At the exam date and time, students will no longer have access to the planning playbook.
Connect to MTS characteristics: If you want to tailor on the questions asked in the planning playbook, you'll need to create and publish characteristics in MTS first that you can then connect here for each item. See "Tailoring on questions from Exam Playbook" below.

Reflection Playbook (after the exam)

Playbook expiration date: Choose the date and time when students will no longer have access to the playbook reflection.
Connect to MTS characteristics: If you want to tailor on the questions asked in the reflection playbook, you'll need to create and publish characteristics in MTS first that you can then connect here for each item. See "Tailoring on questions from Exam Playbook" below.
Set Destination after Playbook: Choose where in ECoach you want students to land when they finish your playbook.

Caution:

You'll need to set up assignments in your gradebook for Exam Playbook to work properly.

Using exam reflections

The playbook reflection helps students reflect on how the exam went. Students will first see a histogram of the exam grades in the course. Then they're asked 3 questions about how they feel about their exam score, how they feel about their studying for the exam, and how they feel about a predicted final score (which assumes they get similar scores for the remaining assignments).

The reflection playbook opens automatically when the ECoach gradebook has grades for the Associated Exam.
Make sure your playbook's expiration date gives students time to do the reflection. (You could expire it at the end of the term, for example.)
To prompt students to complete it, you can resend the link to the playbook (e.g., in an email or a to-do item), and students will then see a "Reflect" button when they visit the link.

Tailoring on questions from playbook

If you want to tailor on the questions asked in playbook, you'll need to set up characteristics in MTS first that you can then connect in Playbook Manager for each item. See the image below.

Create and publish characteristics in your MTS dictionary for any of the items below you might want to tailor on.
Use Sync Now on the Communications Manager page to sync MTS and ECoach.
In the Playbook Manager, choose the pencil icon next to the playbook you want to edit.
Use the pull-down menus under each ECoach characteristic to find the MTS characteristic you want to connect it to.
See more details on these characteristics and how to set them up in both ECoach and MTS.

Planning Playbook tailoring options

Reflection Playbook tailoring options

Tailoring on Resources Used in Playbook

For example, you can tailor to a student who said they were going to use Practice Exams to prepare, but ultimately did not use them.

The MTS logic you'd write would be: 'PracticeExam' in EP1Resources and not isEmpty(EP1Resources_Used) and 'PracticeExam' not in EP1Resources_Used where

PracticeExam is the MTS Value of the study resource that you set up for Practice Exams in the ECoach Playbook Manager.
EP1Resources is the MTS characteristic you connected to 'Resources planned' when you set up this playbook in ECoach.
EP1Resources_Used is the MTS characteristic you connected to 'Resource used' when you set up this playbook in ECoach.

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