1. Open the "Library" and Search & install "Facts and Fracts."
2. Choose "Install"
3. "Allow and Continue"
4. Choose your State, District and School. Note: If you do not find your school, do not proceed. Email support@edtechgames.com.
   
5. Launch "Facts and Fracts" from the "Teacher's Page" you added it to to view your reports. SSO will automatically log you in.
6. Students MUST go to your "Teacher Page" that you installed it to and launch the app from there.
7. NOTE! This process installs it to your "Teacher's Page," and students will LAUNCH It from your Teacher's Page. However, often both teacher and students are unfamiliar with this "Teacher's Page," so be sure to "Share Page" so that your students will have access to it. (See image below)
   
   
   



Sharing your Teacher Page:

1. You must have at least 1 "Course" created. Select the desired Course.
   
2. Open the App Center. Under "Categories, select "Mathematics." Scroll down to "Facts and Fracts" and select it.
   
   
   
3. Install the Facts and Fracts LTI 1.3 App
   
   
   
4. The first installation screen will pre-populate your information.
   
   
   
5. Select your State, District and School, then press Submit.
   
   
6. This will launch the Onboarding process. If you have duplicate classes, the program will try to help you only select 1 copy of each class. This is important because it helps you avoid unnecessary copies of the same class of students. For instance, may teachers have a Math Class, a Science Class, a Homeroom, etc. And you typically don't want all those identical classes of students.
   
   
7. IMPORTANT!! DO NOT SKIP THIS STEP: When Onboarding completes, Launch "Facts and Fracts." This step is vital because THIS is the step that actually imports your students.
   
   
8. SSO will automatically log you in.
   

1. Install the ClassLink App, "Facts and Fracts."
2. Launch Facts and Fracts from your ClassLink Launchpad.
   
   


3. SSO will automatically log you in.

1. Your school report will quickly show you what Usage, Placement and Progress look like at your school. In the table it will give you detailed information about each class and what the level of mastery is for each individual standard. Each class can be drilled into for even more information. Note that this example shows TEKS standards. The report will show the correct standards for your state.

1. Your class report quickly shows you where each student placed and has progressed to. The table below shows their exact status with each standard.

1. The student report gives detailed information about the student's usage, placement, progress, time spent, time remaining and how much of a grade's fraction conent they typically master per hour. This student had a very long way to go and is a very helpful example of what a student's progress might be like as they master all of foundational fractions.

1. Your class report quickly shows a clear summary of where each student is with the particular operation you are looking at:

Link to Randomized Study Research Results Whitepaper.

We currently cover the Common Core and TEKS fraction standards for 3rd grade and have started rolling out content for 4th grade. 5th-grade will follow shortly after.

For now we have been rather stunned by our initial research results. Nearly all of the students we have assessed so far have shown a tremendous need to review these foundational fractions concepts. As a result, we are very eager to help students truly master these foundational concepts so that they will be prepared as soon as our additional curiculum becomes available?

Examples of 3rd-Grade Standards Questions .

Examples of 4th-Grade Standards Questions .

Hardware

WebGL using Chrome ver 72+
(The slowest chromebook we've found, the Lenovo N22, runs it adequately)
Hardware Acceleration for WebGL must be enabled (it would be very rare for this to be turned off).

iOS: Any iOS 11 device.
That would include iPad 5+ (2014), iPad Air 1+ (2013), iPad Mini 2+ (2013).
(A7+ devices that support apple's "metal" graphics and have a 64-bit cpu)

Android (Samsung Galaxy Tab S3+)

 

URL Whitelisting:

*.edtechgames.com

edtechgames.s3.amazonaws.com

texttospeech.googleapis.com

NOTE: If you have any massively-restricted students, you may also need to whitelist:

    uo60u7qc7h.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com

Naturally, that will depend on how much they currently have to learn. In our research so far students seem to follow a rough bell curve from 1 to 20 hours. So the fastest finishers can (and should) test out in their first session or two, while the deeply struggling students can possibly require 20 hours.

In practice, we've found that schools get the best results if they schedule usage rather intensely, like 30-minutes a day for 2 weeks. Then slower students can keep going for another week or two if they're not finished. Often schools want to squeeze it in here and there, which can take months. But it's difficult to maintain focus for that long. But if you can lock it into a schedule, even once or twice a week, you'll still be just fine. You have have to maintain the scheduling--even for the students that take longer.

We recommend starting 4th grades and higher immediately. Our research shows that they are all usually lacking significant fluency and confidence with our most basic fractions concepts. Starting them early will give even your struggling students to master these pre-requisite skills before you start trying to teach them new concepts.

They can play at home just like they play at school. If they use a login link at school on a laptop or desktop using Chrome? They do it the exact same way at home. If they want to use a mobile device at home, see next.

On an iOS device, students need to download the Facts & Fracts App from the App Store.

From an Android device, students should download the Facts & Fracts App from the Play Store. Note that Android devices CAN play directly from Chrome logging in manually or using an SSO site like ClassLink, Clever or Schoology. However, on an Android device, performance will be much better if they can use the App.

If they are not using an SSO option like ClassLink, Clever or Schoology, they will need to get their District ID. They can "Lookup" their district id here: https://login.edtechgames.com/login

If they use an SSO option like ClassLink, Clever or Schoology, they will still need to download the iOS or Andoid App for their device. But they will ALSO need to download their SSO App and launch the Facts and Fracts icon from INSIDE that SSO App so that it can log them in.

In other words, they need our App AND their SSO App. And they will launch OUR App from inside their SSO App. Kind of confusing, but that's how they get the authentication into our app if they use an SSO program.

iOS: ClassLink — Android: ClassLink

iOS: Clever — Android: Clever does not HAVE an Android App, so they will have to just play on Chrome on their mobile device for now.

iOS: Schoology — Android Schoology

We're not currently aware of any bugs in the game. If you find one please use the in-game bug reporter to send us as much information about it as you can. Thank you!

If your device is detected to be using Swiftshader, that usually means that your Chrome browser has been set to disable hardware acceleration. It's incredibly rare for this to be disabled these days, but it's possible. Sometimes the student has been given permission to easily change these settings directly, but you may need to work with your IT to get hardware acceleration re-enabled.

In some cases, if you can't quickly re-enable hardware acceleration, you can work around it by switching to using the Edge browser instead of Chrome. Hopefully it's not ALSO disabled there.

To CHECK these settings, COPY/PASTE THIS link into a Chrome tab on the device to check (you can't just click it): chrome://gpu

On a Chromebook, these instructions seem to be current: https://support.panopto.com/s/article/Turn-off-Hardware-Acceleration-for-the-Chromebooks

On a desktop or laptop these instructions appear to be current:

1. From the upper-right corner of your Chrome browser, click the three dots icon.

2. Select Settings, then System.

3. Enable Use hardware acceleration when available.