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Add Students and Roster Groups in ReadingFluency.app

Learn how to add students, import a roster, review before import, set each student's grade, create roster groups, archive or delete in bulk, set dated WCPM and accuracy goals, and view individual student progress.

Students are the records that connect reading assessments to progress history. Add students before your first classroom round so each result can be assigned immediately.

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Add Students and Organize Them with Roster Groups

Add or import students

Adding one student and importing a class share one dialog.

  1. Go to Students from the sidebar.
  2. Click Add Student.
  3. Stay on Add one, enter the student's name, and optionally add roster number, student ID, and tags.
  4. Click Add Student.

To bring in a whole roster:

  1. Click the arrow next to Add Student and choose Import students, or open Add Student and switch to Import many.
  2. Drop a CSV, TSV, or Excel file, or paste a roster from your clipboard.
  3. Review the rows. Students already on the roster start unchecked and are marked Already on roster.
  4. Edit names, roster numbers, IDs, or tags if needed, then click Import.

Expected columns: Name, Roster #, Student ID, and Tags. Name is required. Manage Students is for exporting the current roster, not for importing.

Set each student's grade

A grade is optional. Set it when you want a student's profile to compare them with grade-level oral reading fluency norms, which cover Grades 1–6. Reports and the assessment report still use each passage's grade, not the student's.

  1. Open Add Student, or click Edit on a student's profile.
  2. Click the Grade · optional row to open it.
  3. Choose the grade. If the student already has a grade tag, such as "Grade 3", you can click Use "Grade 3" from tags instead.
  4. Keep Move up one grade each August checked so the grade follows the student into the next school year. Readings from earlier years keep the grade the student had then.
  5. Click Add Student or save your changes.

To set grades for many students at once:

  1. On Students, select the students.
  2. Click Set grade on the bulk bar.
  3. Choose one grade for all of them, or Use each student's grade tag. Clear grade removes the grade.

Archive, restore, delete, and assign groups in bulk

Select student cards to open a bulk action bar at the bottom of the page.

  1. Check two or more students.
  2. Use Add to Groups, Archive, or Delete on the bar.
  3. Archived students leave the active roster, the dashboard, and the host-session picker, but their assessment history stays. Open the Archived tab at the end of the group strip to restore them.

The same Archive, Restore, and Delete actions are on each student card menu and on the student detail page.

Use roster groups

Roster groups let you group students for intervention, progress monitoring, classroom sections, service groups, or reporting. A student can belong to multiple groups.

  1. Go to Students.
  2. Click New Group.
  3. Enter a Group name, such as "Tier 3 Intensive".
  4. Click Create.
  5. Select the group chip to filter the roster.
  6. Open a student card menu and choose Add to Groups to manage membership, or select several students and use Add to Groups on the bulk bar.

To give the group goals, use Edit group (see the next section). You can also create a group and its goals together with New group with goals on the Reports Goals & norms tab.

You can also change one student's groups from their profile. The Groups row under the student's name shows a chip for each group. Click the × on a chip to take the student out of that group, or click Add to group to search for a group, add it, or create a new group from the name you type.

Set goals for a roster group

Goals are dated checkpoints: a WCPM target and an accuracy target for a date, such as 100 WCPM by January 29. They show on the Reports chart, in the Reports Goals & norms tab, and on the profile of every student in the group.

  1. Select a roster group.
  2. Click the Edit group button beside the group title. The Edit roster group dialog shows the Group name at the top and Goal checkpoints below it.
  3. Choose how to build the checkpoints:
    • Create Goals with ROI: enter a start date and an end date, the start WCPM and start accuracy, the weekly ROI for each, and a Checkpoint count. The app spaces the checkpoints evenly from the start date to the end date.
    • Customize Goals: click Add goal checkpoint for each date and enter its WCPM and accuracy. The ROI between each pair of checkpoints shows as a pill.
  4. Check the Goal preview chart.
  5. Click Save.

ROI (rate of improvement) is the growth per week between two checkpoints, such as +0.9 WCPM per week. To set WCPM goals only, leave the accuracy fields blank.

View an individual student's progress

  1. Open Students or the Dashboard roster.
  2. Click a student card.
  3. Review the student's tiles (Total readings, Avg WCPM, Avg Accuracy), the Performance Trend chart, the assessment history, and notes.
  4. Use the buttons at the top: Assign to (it shows the student's first name), Edit, and the ⋮ menu, which has Export progress (PDF, image, or CSV), Add to Groups, Archive Student, and Delete.

To compare a student with their grade norms or their group's goals, and to read their rate of improvement, see Track a student's progress against goals and grade norms.

Next tutorial

After students and passages are ready, run your first assessment: Run a 1:1 reading assessment.