If you are a teacher on Raz-Kids, of course you have to know how to use the platform, including how to customize student access in Raz-Kids. To find out that great information, you have to read the text below carefully.
How to Customize Student Access in Raz-Kids?
As a teacher, you are able to customize your classroom or individual student’s experience in Raz Kids to meet their needs.
Here are steps to change Raz Kids settings in your classroom:
Step 1: You have to log in to www.raz-kids.com by using your username and password.
Step 2: After that, you have to navigate to the Roster page from the Manage Students Action Button (provide screenshot of pop up) 
To make class wide changes, you are able to use the following step 3:
Step 3:
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- Choose In the All Students row, under the Book Room column, you are able to choose Customize.
- After that, slide the silver bars at the end of the rainbow level range to indicate specific levels each student should have access to in the Book Room. Or, you are able to select a number from each drop-down menu to give permission to a number of levels above and below each student’s current reading level. This is going to apply to all students in the classroom, regardless of their assigned level, and also will adjust as they progress via the program.
- Now, you are able to repeat for Spanish Leveled Books and Trade Book Quizzes if you want your students to access those resources as well.
- Please turn additional book categories on by choosing or deselecting the radio boxes in front of each book type. For your information, Hint is to preview books and navigate to the Raz-Kids “Resource” drop down menu. This is going to give you a great opportunity to explore additional book categories and preview the student experience.
- After completing your choices, you have to choose the orange “Save & Close” button to update each student’s access immediately.
- Choose In the All Students row, under the Book Room column, you are able to choose Customize.
To make individual student changes, you are able to use the following step 3:
Step 3:
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- Please click the student’s hyperlinked name from the roster homepage.
- Then, you have to select Edit next to the student’s name.
- Ow, choose Book Room Settings
- Next, slide the silver bars at the end of the rainbow level range to indicate specific levels the student should have access to in the Book Room. Or, you are able to select a number from each drop-down menu to give permission to a number of levels above and below each student’s current reading level. This is going to apply to your students in the classroom, regardless of their assigned level, and will be able to adjust as they progress via the program.
- Please turn additional book categories on by choosing or deselecting the radio boxes in front of each book type. For your information, Hint is to preview books and navigate to the Raz-Kids “Resource” action button. This is going to give you a great opportunity to explore additional book categories and preview the student experience.
- After completing your choice, you have to choose the orange “Save & Close” button to update the student’s access immediately.
Step 4: Encourage Student Access
The students will be able to discover these new changes when they log in to their own Raz-Kids account and enter the “On Your Own Book Room.” Please contact the training department to learn more about the customized webinars and onsite training available at training@learninga-z.com. If you still have any questions, you are able to contact them at 1.866.889.3729 or support@learninga-z.com.
Parent Access
As a teacher, if you want a better way to involve the parents in a student’s education, now you are able to provide parent access.
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- Send Home Information
Send a letter to the parents that explains how to log in from their own home through the Kids A-Z interactive learning environment. Also, the letter explains how parents will be able to monitor the student’s activity. The letters are able to be downloaded for the class as a single pdf file or as a zip file containing individual pdf files for each student. Please login to download the letter to the parents.
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- Provide Parents Access
You will only need an email address to sign up the parents from the Roster page.
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- Please find the student on your roster.
- After that, click the edit icon.
- Then, click “Parent Access.”
- Lastly, you are able to add a parent’s email address.
Also, the parents are able to request access. If a parent requests access from the student’s account, a red icon will appear next to the student’s name on the Roster page. Just click the icon to approve parent access.
For those who are parents, you are able to use the Parent Portal to see which books and activities your child has already completed, monitor their own progress, and send them messages. Aside from that, you are able to log into Kids A-Z as your child to request access. Just click the “Parents” link at the top right of the page and then follow the instructions to provide an email address. Your child’s teacher is going to approve the email address before you are able to see your child’s information.
About Raz-Kids
Some of you may now know what Raz-Kids is. For your information, Raz-Kids is a product which provides comprehensive leveled reading resources for the students in the world. With lots of eBooks offered at 29 different levels of reading difficulty, it is very easy to put the right content for every student. The students will be able to access their leveled text via a portal which is designed to keep them motivated and engaged. Every eBook in Raz-Kids is available in online and mobile formats. It allows the students to listen to, read at their pace, and record themselves reading. Besides, the students will be able to take eQuiz with an extended answer response for testing comprehension and also determine future instruction needs.
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