How to Listen to a Recording on Raz-Kids

On Raz-Kids, you are not only able to read books, but also you are able to listen to the books and even you can record your reading. By recording your reading, you are able to evaluate your reading. Your parents and your teachers can also listen to the recording of your reading so that they can also assess your progress.

The Steps to Record and Listen to a Recording on Raz-Kids

Reading aloud while recording it on Raz-Kids is aimed to be evaluated how good your reading is. As a student who uses Raz-Kids, you are able to record and listen to your recording by following the steps below.

    • The first thing that you have to do is to log in to your account on Raz Kids. It can be done by opening Raz-Kids and then you have to enter the username of your teacher. After that, you have to find your name and then click on it. Now, you have to click on your password and then hit the Go button.
    • After you log in, then you have to click on the Reading Room in the home page.
    • Now, you are able to choose a book that you want to read.
    • When you are choosing your book, you have to choose the book icon not the headphone icon. If you choose the headphone icon, it means that you will listen to the book. choose the book icon not the headphone icon-
    • Now, you have to click on the triangle icon or arrow icon at the top of the screen to open the tools menu.
       click on the triangle icon or arrow icon at the top of the screen
    • After the tools menu is opened, then you have to click on the microphone icon. After you click on it, you will see that there will be three options including Play button, Starting New Recording button and the Start Recording button.
    • To record your reading, the thing that you have to do is to click on the Start Recording button where it is a circle icon. It can record for up to 15 minutes and the recording will stop automatically at 15 minutes. Now, you can record your reading.
      click on the Start Recording button
    • If you want to stop recording, you have to click on the Stop button where it is in a square icon. It is important for you to note that when you are recording, the Start Recording button will change into pause button so that if you click on it during recording, you can click on Record (circle icon) again to resume recording. However, if you want to start recording again from the beginning which deletes what has been recorded, you can click on the New Recording button.
    • After you record your reading but then you want to listen to your recording first before you send it to your teacher, you are able to press the Play button.
      How to Listen to a Recording on Raz-Kids
    • If everything is okay and you have done it, then you can click Done at the end of the book to send the recording to the teacher. It is important for you to note that a recording must be at least 30 seconds long for it to appear in the In Basket of your teacher and for the student to earn stars.

Before you record your reading, you have to make sure that you allow your microphone to be used. If you use an iPad, the microphone may already be at the top of the screen. After listening to the story, read the story and record yourself when you are reading aloud, don’t forget to take the quiz.

You are able to watch a video on Youtube from L Yoon entitled Raz-Kids: Recording Yourself Reading which was uploaded on April 16th, 2020. There, you are able to see how you can record your reading and listen to it.

How Teachers Listen to The Students’ Reading Record

According to the Heidi Doyle Youtube channel on her Youtube video entitled Viewing a Student Recording in Raz-Kids which was uploaded on April 6th, 2020, here are the steps to listen to the student’s recording for teachers.

    • If you are the teacher and you want to listen to the recording of your students’ reading, you have to be on the dashboard of Raz-Kids.
    • There, you have to put your cursor on My Classroom and then there will be your Class Roster and you have to choose the name of the student whose recording will be listened by you.
    • After that, you will be directed to another page where it is the page of that student.
    • Scroll down a little bit and you will find View (the name of the student) Reports button. You have to click on this button.
    • Now, you will be on the page of the Reports of that student. There, you will see a list of the student’s assignments and you can choose which assignment that you want to check and to listen to the student’s recording, you have to click on the Practice Recording.
    • Now, you will be directed to another page where there is the book that has been read by the student and you are able to read the recording by clicking on the Play button at the left top of the screen.

Customizing Student Access in Raz-Kids

On Raz-Kids, you are allowed to customized your classroom or individual student’s experience so that it can meet the unique needs of your students. If you want to change Raz-Kids Class-wide settings in your classroom, you are able to follow the steps below.

    • The first thing that you have to do is to login to your account at www.raz-kids.com.
    • After that, you have to navigate to the Roster page from the Manage Students action button.
    • In this step, you have to choose Customize from the All Students row in the Book Room column.
    • Then, you need to slide the silver bars to choose a level or range of levels that your classroom will have access to in the Raz-Kids Book Room.
    • Now, you have to turn additional book categories on or off by choosing or deselecting the radio boxes beside each option. After that, you can choose the orange Save & Close button so that the settings will apply.

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