Jump to:

• Sending Tests to Students
• When your student opens the link
• Their Upcoming Assignments
• 🔈 Teach Me
• The Test
• How can I let them jump ahead, or practice out of order?

1. Sending Tests to Students

After you have set up Wordlists, Students, Groups, and assigned tests, you can distribute the following to your students:

• Your teacher link. You can obtain this from the Assign Tests page from the side bar.
• Their individual student code. You can obtain this from the Students page from the side bar. Make each student learns only their own code!

2. When your student opens the link

The link you send to your students will look like this:

https://spellingtestbuddy.com/test?studentCode=123456

When your student taps on it, they will be taken to a page like this:

They enter their student code and tap Next.

3. Their Upcoming Assignments

If you have the “Let Students Jump Ahead” option enabled (which is the default unless you’ve changed it), the student will see the “Upcoming Assignments” page.

The Upcoming Assignments page will contain the practice, games, and tests that the student can work on, organized by Word List, and sorted by the soonest due first.

• Only Word List rows that were assigned as Test or Practice to a student will show up as a row on Upcoming Assignments. Meaning, if a student was not assigned a practice or test for a given word list, it will not appear.
• “🔈 Teach me” appears when a Practice is assigned. Note that, for Week 6’s word list, practice was not assigned and so “Teach me” does not appear. This button will take the student to the Teach Me page for this word list, where they can hear the word, hear and see the spelling of the word, and hear the sentence.

If the “Let Students Jump Ahead” option is disabled, the student will be taken immediately to the first option in the list and won’t get to choose what they work on next.

4. 🔈 Teach Me

🔈 Teach Me is a place for students to learn how to spell each word in their word list.

Students will be given a list of all of their words. They can play through them one at a time to hear the word twice, see how its spelled, and listen to the word in a sentence.

Watch how it works:

5. The test

If you have the “Let Students Jump Ahead” option enabled (which is the default unless you’ve changed it), the student will see the “Upcoming Assignments” page. From there, they can choose to take a Practice Mode test that you’ve assigned (if any), or to Take Test to take the Test Mode test that you’ve assigned (if any).

If you don’t have the “Let Students Jump Ahead” option enabled, students will be immediately taken into the next due Practice Mode test or Test Mode test that you’ve assigned.

The test looks like this:

Your student will play each word in the list. They can play the word as many times as they need to. They can also play a sentence that uses the word, to hear it in context. They will then spell the word into the “Spell here” box.

Once they’ve done this for all the words on the list, they tap Submit your answers. They are taken to a grading page to see how well they did, that looks like this:

(In this case, the student got 100% correct, and they are rewarded with confetti!)

Their results are saved for you to review in the Reports page.

If this test was in Practice Mode, they can take it again by tapping Practice again.

How can I let them jump ahead, or practice out of order?

Within Assignments, there is a switch named Let Students Jump Ahead. It looks like this:

With this switch, when your student signs in, they will be taken to a page that shows all upcoming tests, like this:

• They can tap on any of the tests to be taken to them.
• If the test they want to choose is in Test Mode, and they’ve already completed it, they will not be able to take it again (as you can see by the disabled “Take Test” button in the second entry).

This is a great feature if you want to provide more flexibility for your students to practice and test on what they want to next. It’s useful for older students who don’t need to be guided through the material in order, or to provide additional practice on upcoming material even for younger students.