Creating Rosters in Raz-Kids

In order to access Learning A-Z products, especially Raz Kids, you must be entered into a roster first. The Roster was created by your teacher to allow the students access to all  subscribed products including Learning A-Z resources.

If you are a teacher and this is your first time to create a roster in Raz Kids, you may need a guide to create a roster and enter your students into. Creating a roster in Raz Kids is straightforward, just takes for a few minutes. Let’s find out the guide to create a roster in Raz Kids through our post below!

Creating a Roster in Raz Kids, Here’s How!

To start creating a roster in Raz Kids, you just simply click the ‘My Classroom’ button once you log into Kids A-Z with your teacher username and password. To log into Raz Kids, you can visit Raz-Kids.com. Once you are at Raz Kids page, you can click the ‘Member Login’ option near the top of the page.

In the Login section, you just enter your credentials that will bring you to the Raz-Kids dashboard. From here, you can manage your roster and see the weekly analytics on how your students are doing.

After logging in, you can then create a classroom roster. There are two ways to create a roster in Raz Kids, here they are:

Way 1: Add students manually

• • Once you are in the ‘My Classroom’ section, you can click the ‘Add Students’ button.
  • Then, you can create a unique username for each student.
  • After that, you need to associate each username with a student’s first and last name (It will be visible to the logged in teacher)
  • Here, you can assign specific learning levels for each student.
  • Last, you can assign a unique password for each student.

Way 2: Upload using a CSV File

• • Once you are in the ‘My Classroom’ section, you can click the ‘Add Students’ button.
  • Then, you need to click the ‘Upload CSV File’ button.
  • From here, you need to upload your CSV file.
  • Make sure to assign specific subscription levels for each student.
  • Last, you can assign a unique password for each student.

Okay, those are two ways to create a roster in Raz Kids. Whatever the method you take, make sure to follow the step-by-step correctly.

What’s next? Once you create your classroom roster, you can then assign more general and subscription-specific features to your class or individual students with the resource tabs above your roster. Those include to turn on or off Raz Rocket incentives giving parental access for individual students and more.

How if you remove a student from your Roster accidentally? Need to know, all student data is stored for one year securely. To retrieve any student data which was removed accidentally, you can click the ‘Add Students’ button. Then, you can click the ‘Restore Removed Students’ button.

How to create a CSV File? If you do not know yet how to create your  CSV file, no worries, this post will show you the step-by-step to create your CSV file, as follow:

• • First, open Microsoft Excel on your computer.
  • Then, add in the first row the headers in the sample shown below!

• • After that, you can start adding your students.
  • Then, click the ‘Save As’ button and change the ‘Save as type’ dropdown from XLS to CSV.
  • You can close your Excel File. (You may be asked to save the file again. You can then click the ‘Don’t Save’ button)
  • Last, you can then upload your CSV File.

That’s how to create a CSV File on Microsoft Excel.

How to Use Raz Kids for Teacher?

If you have created an account on Raz Kids, you can encourage parents and guardians to request access to the Parent Portal by clicking the ‘Parents’ button at http://www.kidsa-z.com/. You may need to approve Parent Portal access from your Roster page.

As a teacher, you can see the student reading activity and progress on the Reports page. You can also send messages to students by clicking the speech bubble icon on the Roster. Make sure to frequently reward your students with extra stars through messages, as they will really  love receiving messages from the teachers.

Furthermore, you can create custom assignments by looking for books by topic or skill. To do so, you can just click the orange Assign button to assign to an individual student, your whole class or small group.

Last but not least, you can encourage your students to use the digital tools to write and annotate a response to the text.

Here are some tips for teacher of using Raz Kids:

• • To keep your students fun, you can play Raz-Plus Sings on an interactive whiteboard  during class transitions. Before the song is complete, you can also challenge the students to be cleaned up and in their seats or in line.
  • To make it easier for you to know each level of your students, you can create folders for each level that is labeled with a large letter/color according to the level. You can also put worksheets for books at that level into each folder for independent student access.
  • Make sure to protect your student’s privacy and display only the first letter of a student’s last name and remember to check the box on your Roster.
  • You can also add fun to Raz-Plus assignments by making treasure hunts for each level, for instance, find two things that you have to make salsa.
  • Playing  a simple game by writing student’s names on plastic cups. After that, you can stack them on top of the computer in the classroom. The student whose cup is on top is ‘up’ at the computer. Your students will be able to set a time for a teacher-designated time and then move their cup to the bottom of the stack, so the next student will be able to take their turn.

Alfin Dani

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