Tassomai’s new Weekly Goal system

- Arriving week commencing Monday 6th March -

What’s happening

We’ve been working with schools and listening to feedback on our Daily Goal system, and we have a great new development coming which completes the work we began in the summer.

The main thing you need to know is that it does not make a substantial change to the app, but it should make it easier for you and your students to communicate on their homework tasks, and gives more detailed information - where needed - on not just whether students have done their homework, but how and when they’ve gone about it.

Watch a short video about Weekly Goals where Chris from our Customer Success Team will walk you through the Teacher Dashboard.

The important distinction

In the previous academic year, the requirement was to complete a daily goal entirely within each day or not have any of that work contribute to the tally of work done. This was felt to be unfair to many and disincentivised students.

In September, Tassomai adopted a new system of scoring daily goals in order to show all work done and provide a more equitable system of measuring pupil’s activity, so that even an incomplete day contributed to your overall daily goal tally.

By making that change, however, we made it harder for teachers or students to easily see whether work had been spread over time - ideal for the quality of learning - or done all at once.

Our updated system allows schools to implement Tassomai as they see fit, and have the tools necessary to support that implementation as required.

The new features

The Weekly Goal Display

First, we are introducing into the student dashboard a new Weekly Goal counter. Put simply, it consists of four pips representing the four daily goals asked of them each week. Starting each Monday, the Weekly Goal accumulates with every point scored and will be complete if the student manages to do the equivalent of four goals.

As in the current system, pupils can complete their entire week’s work at once if they choose to do 4x their Daily Goal on any given day, though they will find it far more efficient and beneficial to spread their work over several days. 

Tassomai’s systems of rewards, bonuses and discounts all encourage students to space their practice. However, it remains possible to achieve the required homework standard if circumstances prevent pupils from logging in on four separate days.

This Weekly Goal display makes it easy for any user to see at a glance whether the homework has been completed as requested.

The Daily Goals Display

Following requests from some teachers wanting to hold students to a specific standard of completing full daily goals on separate days, we have a new display in the teacher interface.

When you view a class’ homework page, you will now see not only a clear picture of the student’s weekly goal counter display for the past week, but also a display to show which days each student participated, and also when they completed a full daily goal from start to finish (as in the old system).

Likewise for data displays for students and parents, the “Daily Goals” counter will now show the number of discrete daily goals completed - as it used to do in the past.

Summary

The move towards Weekly Goals has been one that has been carried out in stages, with regular discussions with schools. We hope you agree that the culmination of these changes now see Tassomai fairly crediting students with all the work they do, make it possible for students to complete their homeworks, even if they missed a few days here or there, but still reward students for better practice.

With the new display for teachers to show each day’s daily goals, we hope also that we’ve given those who requested it the extra information they needed to monitor usage in more detail.

Please get in touch to let us know how you’re getting on - or if you need any help from our team.