Click ‘Set Work’

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

Click on the green ‘Create a competition’ box at the top

Tick ‘Math’ and click on ‘Next’

Select which children you would like to include. Tick the children you want to add to the competition.

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.

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 the 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 competition.

Name – give your competition 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 to your children – You can personalize a good luck message for your family.

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

Leaderboard size – this will be the size of the leaderboard visible on the children’s accounts. On your parent account, you will be able to see the leaderboard for all the children.

Click ‘Create’ to create the competition. You will now be shown a summary of your competition, click ‘Done’ to return to your dashboard

Click ‘Set Work’

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

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

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

• Started
• Completed
• Not started

Scroll down to view the leaderboards. 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 competition from the tasks list.

In this example, the Competition activity is titled ‘Class Competition week 2’

On their dashboard, they can see their current score.

They can also see when the competition will end and they can scroll down to view the leaderboard.

Click ‘Start’

Select a Sumdog game to play.

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