FAQ

How long does it take to onboard if we need your help?

Generally the onboarding process takes place over a 5 weeks

Week 1 – Project Kickoff work session
Week 2 – Project Plan is agreed on, resources are allocated
Week 3 – You prepare your roster of students, define your preferred Scope and Sequence, and if required your competency framework and content.
Week 4 – Single sign-on is set up, students are rostered, teachers are onboarded and training begins
Week 5 – Import of scope and sequence and if required, competency framework and content.
Week 6 – Launch

What training and support do you provide?

We offer easy to understand training for administrators and teachers and in-depth training and resources, such as a How To Guide and support articles are available at any time on our website.

How do I roster my school, how can they log in?

Districts can begin to use the Navigator products by single sign on and roster integration through GMail, Classlink, OneRoster, or Google Classroom (upcoming).

What are the general implementation steps?

Roster Your Students, Teachers, and Administrators – Currently, we offer onboarding users using single sign-on with IMS Global OneRoster, ClassLink, Gmail, and WS Federation. Google Classroom and Clever Integrations are also coming soon.
Locate Your Learner – We provide flexibility in your learners’ starting locations. Districts can use existing NWEA or other standardized test scores, create a quick diagnostic, allow for teacher input, or use an approximation based on grade level to provide the starting location for their users.
Create or Access District Data Lake (Optional and at additional Costs) – Gooru can integrate with an already established district or school data lake or create one for you. This allows the raw data from a variety of 3rd party tools and apps to be gathered and analyzed in one tool, Mission Control. School districts can opt into this feature at no additional cost.
Training Sessions- We recommend at least two training sessions per year to our districts. Our first training session will give teachers and administrators an overview and understanding of Navigator tools and how to use them. The second training happens two weeks later to address questions, concerns, and explore how to get the most out of Navigator. Please note that due to the current pandemic, all training sessions are remote and conducted over video chat.
Customize Navigator Learning Maps – Math Navigator has a built-in scope and sequence that allows for Navigated Learning, but districts can choose to align our framework to their curriculum needs and standards. Districts can provide Gooru with their custom scope and sequence or choose from a publicly available option.

What is a course editor? What are the big questions?

A course Editor is the Library tool that one can use to build a course on the Navigator. Big questions are more from a Creator’s perspective to define the broad coverage of a particular course in terms of what it addresses. They are not relevant from a learners perspective.

What determines if and what content will be recommended for a learner?

The system supports multi-tenancy, Teachers/Schools can decide if it wants to make its courses available only to its users or to the general public. Accordingly, it can be made into a featured course.

How can students directly enter a classroom and go through a course? This is apart from global assessment and system-driven recommendation of courses based on the learner’s performance in the quiz.

Creation of a tenancy for students would solve this issue, as they then enter their tenancy directly and take up courses specifically made available for users.

Where does the proficiency assessment for the learner come from? Is it Gooru’s assessment questions that are used to identify the skyline and to identify the relevant content to be recommended later to the learner?

The proficiency assessment comes from each assessment as each of it is tagged and built to test specific competencies. Every time a learner learns a lesson/competency, an assessment tests the proficiency/mastery.

If the learner scores the requisite mastery score in the assessment (as decided by the partner in their tenancy, otherwise usually default at 80%), the competency turns dark blue in the learner proficiency graph and helps in locating the skyline.

If the learner scores less than the requisite score, the system can surface a reroute suggestion that brings up another set of learning content for the same competency.

How do we create a flow for the student to take lessons in order? This is to avoid skipping and moving ahead?

The student study flow is based on the competency framework. The lessons are created according to the sequence of competencies in the framework. The domains in a framework become units, the competencies become lessons.

In case a flow is required which is different from the competency framework flow, this will need to be specified presently in a spreadsheet to the Gooru team and they can set it accordingly for instructors to use.

The student experience for independent study, right now, still follows the competency framework flow.

Do we need to put up relevant assessment questions for every file uploaded in a course so that it can help decide which content in the course the learner needs to go through?

The approach in Navigator course building is to ensure there is an assessment (with a set of min 5 questions if possible) for each competency/lesson to be studied. The individual questions can cover the sub-lessons/ micro-competencies covered in the particular competency/lesson.