Click ‘Set Work’

Click ‘CREATE & VIEW’ in the ‘Challenges’ box

Click the green ‘Create a challenge’ box at the top

Tick ‘Math’ and click on ‘Next’

You will now be able to choose the children you would like to include in the challenge.

You can select multiple children to be included in the same challenge. Don’t worry about the question level, you can set that appropriately in the next steps.

Once you have selected the children who will participate in the challenge, click ‘Next’

Select the skills you would like the children to work on.

By default, these skills will be chosen by Sumdog. This means that the child will be answering questions at an appropriate level for skills based on their diagnostic test score.

If you do not want to assign skills to your children, click ‘Next’ and skip to Step 9.

If you want to assign skills to your children follow these instructions: Tick the child/children child you wish to set custom skills for, and click ‘Set Skills’. The children you select will practice the same skills in the competition.

If you would like different children to work on different skills, select one child and follow steps 7 and 8. You will then repeat this for the other children

Select the skills you would like your children to work on.
We normally recommend selecting at most two skills for each competition. Your child will need to complete each skill before they can move onto the next one.

Tick the skill you would like to include. If you would like to explore more details about what this skill includes, or what types of questions it might involve, click on the blue arrow next to the skill.  Click on the ? next to a step in the particular skill to see a sample of the questions included.

You can also set the Grade/Level and Topic filter on the left in order to filter through skill levels.Click the blue arrow to drop down through the filter options, and tick next to the filter option you wish to include.

Once you have selected the skills you would like your child to work on, click ‘Next’

You will now see that the selected skill has been assigned to your child.

To assign different skills to another child just tick their name and repeat the process outlined in steps 6 and 7 above.

Click ‘Next’ to move to the next step when ready

Set up the challenge.

Name – give your challenge a title. Your children will be able to see this title on their accounts, and it will help them identify the activity in their Tasks list.

Message for children– You can personalize a good luck message for the class.

Activity starts and Activity ends – this is the period during which the challenge will be available for your children.

Correct answer target – Set a target for the number of questions you want your children to get correct. They will earn bonus coins for answering this number of questions correctly.

Click ‘Create’ to create the challenge

Click ‘Set Work’

Click ‘CREATE & VIEW’ in the ‘Challenge’ box

Click ‘view’ next to the challenge you would like to view the results for

Click ‘Show results’

A pie chart will be displayed detailing how many children have:

• Started
• Completed
• Not started

Scroll down to view the leaderboards. Below the leaderboard, you will be able to view each individual child’s score, including:

• Questions attempted
• Questions correct
• Accuracy
• Score

Click ‘Done’ to return to your dashboard

Click ‘Task’

Select the challenge from the tasks list

On their dashboard, they can see their current score.

They can also see when the challenge will end

Click ‘Start’

Select a Sumdog game to play.

The questions asked in the game will be based on the skills you had selected