Assign Readings with a Class Link
Learn how to set up a class link, assign a passage or a collection to students and groups, and track who has turned in each reading, with accuracy and WCPM against the class average.
Assignments are in private alpha. Every teacher can set up a class link today. Assigning readings is turned on workspace by workspace: if you see a Private alpha note on the Assignments page, click Ask to join.
Live sessions collect readings while the whole class is in the room. Assignments are for everything else: a passage to read at home, a weekly fluency check students do when they are ready, or a set of benchmark passages a small group works through over a week. You give the class one link, students read on their own device, and the recordings land in each student's history like any other assessment.
How it fits together
- One class link per workspace, such as
readingfluency.app/c/room-12. Students sign in on it without an account, by picking their name or typing their student ID. - Assignments are a passage or a collection, given to groups, individual students, or both, with an optional start date and due date.
- Students only see what is still to do. After turning in a reading they can see their score and a short note for that one reading, if you switch that on. They never see earlier results.
- You see the tracker: who has started, who has turned in, and each reading's accuracy and WCPM once AI analysis has scored it.
Open Assignments
Choose Assignments in the sidebar. The first time, the page offers to set up your class link, and lists no assignments yet.
Set up your class link
- On the Assignments page, click Set up class link.
- Under Link name, pick something short your students can type or you can write on the board, such as
room-12. It is 3 to 40 lowercase letters, numbers, or dashes. - Choose How students sign in:
- Pick their name: students tap their name from your class list. Names show as first name and last initial, like Maya R., the same as live sessions. Fastest for younger readers.
- Type their student ID: students type the ID from your roster, and the class list is never shown on the link. The page warns you if any student has no ID or shares one with someone else, since they cannot sign in until that is fixed on the Students page.
- Click Create class link.
The What students can see panel spells out the privacy rules: their own first name, the readings still to do, the passage while they read, and the score for the reading they just turned in if you allow it. Never earlier results, never recordings, never other students' readings.
Once the link exists, Share with your class gives you the link to paste into your class page or LMS, or to write on the board.
A few things to know:
- Students stay signed in on their own device until they tap Sign out, so they do not need to sign in again for every reading.
- Changing the link name stops the old link working and signs everyone out. So does switching the link off with Class link is on.
- Only a workspace owner or admin can change the class link.
Assign a passage
- Click New assignment.
- Under What to read, keep One passage selected and click Pick a passage. Search by title and choose one.
- Under Settings, choose:
- Start: Right away, or a date and time. Students cannot begin before it. A date you pick starts at 8:00 AM unless you change the time.
- Due: no due date, or a date and time (11:59 PM by default). Readings turned in after it are still accepted and marked late.
- Reading mode: Whole passage, where the student stops at the end, or Time-limited: 30, 60, or 90 seconds, or a custom limit from 10 seconds to 10 minutes. 60 seconds is the classic one-minute fluency probe.
- Allow redo: lets students listen back and re-record before turning in.
- AI auto-analysis: scores each reading as soon as it is turned in.
- Show students their score and a short note: what the student sees on the "Turned in!" screen. Turning this on also turns on AI auto-analysis, since the score comes from it.
- Under Assign to, pick groups, individual students, or click Whole class.
- Check the credit estimate at the bottom, then click Assign to (the button shows how many students).
Start and due times are in your time zone, and students see them the same way, such as "Fri, Mar 8, 3:00 PM".
Credits
Assignments use credits the same way as any other recording: 1 credit for each reading turned in, plus 2 for AI analysis. Nothing is charged when you assign, only when a student turns a reading in. The estimate under the form shows the most it can cost if everyone turns in every reading, next to the credits you have available.
Assign a collection
A collection assigns several passages at once, which suits a benchmark set or a week of practice.
- Click New assignment and switch What to read to Collection.
- Click Pick a collection. The passages in it are listed in order.
- Leave Read in order on if each passage should open only after the one before it is turned in. Turn it off to let students start with any passage.
- Pick who reads it. When you pick a group, Keep in step with the group is on by default: students added to the group before the due date get the assignment too, and students taken out stop seeing work they have not turned in.
- Click Assign to.
What students see
Students open your class link on their own device.
If they sign in by name, they tap their name and then Continue as their name.
If they sign in by student ID, they type it and tap Go. When every ID on your roster is a number, the page shows a big number pad for tablets; otherwise students use the keyboard, and letters and numbers both work.
My readings lists what they have to do, with each due date. Readings that have not opened yet, such as the next passage in a collection read in order, show under Coming up.
They tap Start reading, check their microphone, and read the passage in the same reading screen used for live sessions, in the mode you chose.
When they finish and turn it in, they see Turned in! If you switched on Show students their score and a short note, their accuracy and a short note appear once the analysis is ready, usually within a minute. If there is more to read, Up next takes them straight to it.
Track who has turned in
Back on Assignments, each active assignment shows its dates, who it was assigned to, and how many students have turned it in.
Click View students for the student list. For a single passage, each row shows the student's accuracy and WCPM as soon as AI analysis has scored the reading, with a marker for the class average on that reading. Students who have not started or are still reading show that instead. View report opens the full assessment report, where you can listen to the recording and review the marks.
For a collection, each student has one dot per passage. A filled dot is turned in. Hover over a dot, or tap it on a tablet, to see that reading's score next to the class average, with a link to its report.
Every turned-in reading is a normal assessment, so it also shows up in the student's history, on the Dashboard, and in Reports.
Change or close an assignment
Click Edit assignment on an active assignment to:
- move the due date, or the start date until it opens
- change Allow redo, AI auto-analysis, and Show students their score
- change the reading mode, until a student starts
- add more students or groups
What students read, and the order of a collection, stay as assigned. To assign something else, close the assignment and make a new one. Readings already turned in are never changed.
Close assignment ends it for everyone: students stop seeing it, and anything already turned in stays. To take an assignment back from one student, click Withdraw on their row in the assignment's student list, or next to it under Assigned readings on that student's page. They stop seeing it, and anything already turned in stays in their history.
Next tutorial
Once readings are coming in, look for patterns across the class: Analyze reading fluency reports.
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