Managing Student Contributions

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It can sometimes be difficult to manage student contributions after collecting student work or receiving student work. Here are some tips to help faciliate the flow when looking at student work.

  • From the 'Display' tab in the Classroom Manager you can sort functions and sort Actors displayed in the World. Primary and Secondary sorting allows you to choose criteria to sort Actors and Functions within the Classroom Management Display Window. Not all criteria will apply to the function data in the Classroom Management Display. For example, if you have not collected any student data, sorting by collection does not apply. You can then show student work in the World or Graph by group, by count-off number very easily. Remember, by default students' Actors appear in the World, but the graphs are hidden until you decide to show them.
  • If the characters in the World are too much with your class, you can opt to 'Hide World' in the View menu under World. This will hide the World Art and the students will be represented by a colored dot. Some teachers feel this alternate representation is easier to manage. That decision is up to you. For an example of this, think of the default document with the Fish in the World. Selecting 'Hide World', would hide the fish tank, and the fish would now be only represented by a colored dot on a white background.
  • From the 'View' menu in MathWorlds, select World, and then 'Cluster visible Actors'. This will bunch all the visible actors together near the World Ruler. If you show only a particular group, say group 5, and their Actors are off the screen in MathWorlds, selecting 'Cluster visible Actors' will line them up above the World Ruler.
  • Each window in SimCalc MathWorlds has two arrows in the upper right corner of each window. One arrow will minimize the window, (it will become a little tabbed box above the toolbar) and the other arrow will maximize the window so that particular window will now take up the whole screen. This is the same as the minimize and maximize arrows in Microsoft Word for instance.

--Sdalton 10:12, 11 December 2007 (EST)Sara Dalton

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