Teachers using Bright Islands CoCo can access instant overviews of student progress that show how well they are progressing through the various levels of the program, and which areas might need to be targeted for remediation. Class teachers can just as quickly and bring up an overview for a group of students, or even the whole class or school. With Bright Islands, the reporting process isn’t just more comprehensive – with the depth of data generated from student results being unprecedented and comparable – it’s done entirely automatically.
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Easy Steps for Generating Reports
The unique, instant reporting approach used in Bright Islands CoCo means teachers can constantly monitor their students’ progress. Because reports in Bright Islands CoCo are instantly updated as student results are entered into the program, students as well as teachers are constantly across their progress in their reading comprehension journey while it’s going on, and not only at the end of term or another break in instruction.
You may follow the same simple steps provided in the examples below to generate any class and school reports you need.
IDENTIFY & INSTRUCT Student Summary Report
You can download IDENTIFY or INSTRUCT: Student Summary Report by following the step-by-step instructions below.
Figure 1: IDENTIFY: Student Summary Report
- Navigate to IDENTIFY & INSTRUCT located on the left-hand side of the menu and click on Class Reports.
- Select IDENTIFY and choose IDENTIFY: Student Summary Report (or INSTRUCT: Student Summary report) and click the View Report button.
- You may also generate the Student Summary Report for whole-class by clicking on the Print Multiple Reports (green button) option located at the top right-hand side of the page.
- In the Report Filters section select the Classroom, Student, Reading Level and Type of Test you want (refer to Figure 1). Then click on Submit.
- You may download the report by clicking on the PDF (red button) or CSV (green button) option located at the top right-hand side of the page.
IDENTIFY Class Reports
You can download IDENTIFY Class Reports by following the step-by-step instructions below.
Figure 2: IDENTIFY: Class Test Performance Report
- Navigate to IDENTIFY & INSTRUCT located on the left-hand side of the menu and click on Class Reports.
- Select IDENTIFY and choose IDENTIFY: Class Test Performance Report (or any report) and click the View Report button.
- In the Report Filters section select the Classroom, Reading Level and Type of Test you want (refer to Figure 2). Then click on Submit.
- You may download the report by clicking on the PDF (red button) or CSV (green button) option located at the top right-hand side of the page.
INSTRUCT Class Reports
You can download any INSTRUCT Class Report by following the step-by-step instructions below.
Figure 3: INSTRUCT: Class Reading Strategy Individual Performance Report
- Navigate to IDENTIFY & INSTRUCT located on the left-hand side of the menu and click on Class Reports.
- Select INSTRUCT and choose INSTRUCT: Class Reading Strategy Individual Performance Report (or any report) and click the View Report button.
- In the Report Filters section select the Classroom, Reading Level and Lesson Type you want (refer to Figure 3). Then click on Submit.
- You may download the report by clicking on the PDF (red button) or CSV (green button) option located at the top right-hand side of the page.
Types of Instant Reports Available
Bright Islands has easy-to-read reports that pinpoint students' abilities and areas of need. Reports can help student focus, allow school leaders to better allocate time and resources, and allow teachers to deliver more effective whole-class, small-group and individual instruction.
School Reports
School reports are designed for school administrators, principals, deputy principals, heads of curriculum and directors of studies to analyse overall school reading comprehension performance. These reports can be accessed only by Teacher accounts with School Administrator access rights.
→ View IDENTIFY School Reports
→ View INSTRUCT School Reports
Class Reports
Class reports give teachers a wealth of information that they can use to monitor and drive student growth. Teachers can quickly identify which students require intervention, the key areas to target for each student and the best way to group students for instruction.
Individual Student Reports
Student reports detail which skills students have mastered, and which skills should be prioritised for instruction next, thereby promoting reading success for all students.
→ View IDENTIFY Individual Student Reports
→ View INSTRUCT Individual Student Reports
Best Practices and Reporting Tips
Reporting has always been able to make a difference in instruction. Here you will find some of the best practices and tips to efficiently generate Bright Islands reports.
Drag and Drop Reporting
Bright Islands allows teachers to prioritise their favourite reports using drag and drop. Easily get insights early and often, allowing you to prepare lessons and activities that target your students' actual needs. Quickly convert data into useful and actionable information. Just click on any report, then drag it to your preferred location and drop it to save the changes.
Compatibility Advisory
Please note that Drag and Drop Reporting is not compatible with the Internet Explorer web browser. The Microsoft Edge web browser has limited support and is not recommended.
Locating Student Data in Class Reports
If teachers are having trouble locating a particular student's data in the Bright Islands CoCo Class Reports, but can view their individual student reports, this could be because the teacher's class report Advanced Filter date does not match with the student’s Reading Level created date. (For example, Ian Hall's data will not be shown in the 2022 class report because his reading level was created on 14/10/2021. In this case, to see his data the teacher would need to change the class report Advanced Filter date to fit with Ian Hall's Reading Level created date.)
Figure 5: Reading Level List
Teachers can view each classroom student's reading level and their Reading Level Created Date (refer to Figure 5) by following the step-by-step instructions below.
- Navigate to IDENTIFY & INSTRUCT located on the left-hand side of the menu and click on Student Reading Levels.
- In the Report Filters section select the Classroom (the student's classroom missing in the report) and set Current Reading Level as All. Then click on Submit.
- You will be able to see all the students’ reading levels and their reading level created date in the selected classroom. Click on the Created date to sort the dates by ascending or descending order.
After identifying the earliest student reading level created date, you will be able to access all the student report data by changing the Advanced Report Filters Reading Level Created Start and End date.
Please follow the step-by-step instructions in the example below.
Figure 6: IDENTIFY: Class Test Performance Report
- Navigate to IDENTIFY & INSTRUCT → Class Reports located on the left-hand side of the menu, choose IDENTIFY: Class Test Performance Report (or any report) and click the View Report button.
- In the Report Filters section select the Classroom, set Reading Level as All, Test Type as Overall and in the Advanced Filters select Assessment created Start date (earliest student reading level created date) and End date as today's date. Then click on Submit (refer to Figure 6).
- You will be able to view all the student test data.
- You may download the report by clicking on the PDF (red button) or CSV (green button) option located at the top right-hand side of the page.
Archive or Delete Reading Level
Bright Islands CoCo is designed for students to generally stay on the same level for the entire year (before retesting the next year).
If the classroom teacher believes the initial reading level is too easy or too difficult for a student after reviewing their pretest results, they may manually reassign them to another level. It is important students redo the IDENTIFY tests (on levelled reading passages) and that you archive the previous reading levels for future reference, deleting the previous reading level that was not started to avoid confusion, so that only appropriate data is generated.
Classroom teachers can archive the previous reading levels from the student profile page. To archive the previous reading level, click on the Actions drop-down menu and select the Archive Reading Level option. For more information, click here.
Planning Form
Teachers can use the Student Summary Report to review a student’s overall strengths and weaknesses, and then use the Planning Form to document what action will be taken – remediation or further instruction – to help that student achieve mastery. They can then go on to record their progress following these steps.
On the student's profile page, teachers can enter their classroom students' progress notes and action plan for the selected assessment by clicking on the Actions Button and selecting the Edit IDENTIFY Planning Form link.
Benefits of Reporting History
Once a report is generated, it will be stored on your Report History page. This feature can be accessed by navigating to Group Reports and selecting Report History. The History of recently generated reports will be displayed on the page so you can locate the recently generated report. This feature will help you to save time as you do not have to fill in the report filters again as, with a click of the link, it will generate the report immediately in the future.
Instant Student Report with Active Classroom
With the help of the Active Classroom feature, on a single page, teachers will be able to view what a student has completed. Teachers can easily monitor their students’ progress on every student device at the same time or generate summary reports that show individual strengths and weaknesses in the twelve reading strategies – all with a single click. To learn more, click here.
Please follow the step-by-step instructions in the example below.
Figure 7: Active Classroom
- Navigate to Active Classroom located on the left-hand side of the menu and select the Classroom. Then click on Submit.
- Click on the student’s name and choose the IDENTIFY or INSTRUCT to view that student's progress (refer to Figure 7).
- At the same time, you could monitor your student's real time progress by enabling the Active Screen button. Click this button to turn the Active Screen feature ON or OFF. The images will indicate what is on each student's device screen at that time, allowing you to observe their activities – whether they are accessing the online learning program with compliant or non-compliant devices, or whether they are offline.
- Furthermore, if you would like to view an in-depth analysis of the student's data you could click on the View Benchmark Summary Report button (or any Student Summary report according to your selection) to view the student's data.
Integrate Reporting with Student Unique Identifier
To provide a simplified and efficient digital experience, schools can download Bright Islands student data with a Student Unique Identifier, readily integrating it with their reporting system. Schools provide Bright Islands Education with their students' enrolment data for the yearly rollover to quickly connect with Bright Islands without having to go through several spreadsheets.
If your school has not provided Student Unique Identifiers during the rollover or setup process, you may email our Client Support Specialist or submit a support ticket by clicking here. We will take the hassle away by updating the Student Unique Identifier details for your students.
If you don’t have a teacher account with Bright Islands and are interested in learning more about the program, then sign up for a 30-day free trial or view our different subscription plans to see how it can be an integral part of your students’ reading success.
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