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Spelling challenges guide
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The Challenge option was the old way in which teachers could create a challenge for their students. This had been updated and replaced with the Custom word list, click here to find out how you can create a challenge for your students using the Custom Word list.
How to create a spelling challenge
These instructions explain how to create a spelling challenge for a class or group of students.
Click ‘Set Work’
Click ‘CREATE & VIEW’ in the ‘Challenges’ box
Click on the green ‘Create a challenge’ box at the top
Tick ‘Spelling’ and click on ‘Next’.
You will now be able to choose the student/class/classes you would like to include in the challenge. By default, your current class will be selected
To view all of the classes in the school, go to the student filters in the top left corner and untick ‘Only my students’. Tick the classes you would like to include.
If you would like to select individual students from a class, click the blue arrow next to the class name. Tick the names of those you would like to include.
If you want to deselect a class, click ‘Clear All’ in the bottom left corner. To select all classes displayed, click on ‘Add All’.
Once you have selected the classes or students, click ‘Next’
Select the skills you would like the students to work on.
If you do not want to assign skills to the students, click ‘Next’ and skip to Step 10.
If you do not select any skills, they will work on skills assigned by Sumdog. In this case, the questions will be based on their diagnostic test score
If you would like to assign skills to your students, first click ‘Deselect all’ (on the bottom left of the page).
Tick the boxes next to each student’s name. These will be the students you are assigning the selected skills to.
Once you have selected the students, click ‘Set Skills’
Select the skill you would like the selected students to work on.
To filter skills, you can use the Grade/Year level and Topics filters located in the top left corner of the page.
If you would like to know more details about the skill or see some sample questions, click on the arrow located to the right of each skill. Click on the ‘?’ to see some sample questions.
Tick the skills you would like students to work on and click ‘Next’.
We recommend that you select 1 or 2 skills at most. This is because of the progression system, whereby students will need to get 80% accuracy in each step before they can move onto the next step or skill.
On this page you will see that your chosen skills have been assigned to the relevant students.
If you would like to assign skills to the other students, repeat Step 7 to 9.
Once you are happy, click ‘Next’
Set up the challenge.
Name – give your challenge a title. Your students will be able to see this title on their accounts, and it will help them identify the activity in their Tasks list.
Message for students – You can personalize a good luck message for the class.
Activity starts and Activity ends – this is the period during which the competition will be available for your students.
Correct answer target – Set a target for the number of questions you want your students to get correct. They will earn bonus coins for answering this number of questions correctly.
Click ‘Create’ to create the challenge
How to edit a spelling challenge
These instructions will explain how to edit a spelling challenge that you have already created.
Click ‘Set Work’
Click ‘CREATE & VIEW’ in the ‘Challenges’ box
Click ‘edit’ next to the challenge you would like to edit
Click ‘Next’. This will scroll through the set up pages. Keep clicking until you find the page including details you would like to edit.
You can add or remove a student from the activity on the ‘Choose students’ page. Either tick or untick a student to remove or include them in the activity and click ‘Next’.
You can edit the skills your students will be working on, on the ‘Challenge skills’ page.
Click on ‘Set skills to either add skills or remove a skill. To add a skill, tick the skill you would like to include. To remove a previously selected skill, click on the X next to the skills.
Click ‘Save’ to save your changes