The main goal for us at Nurture is to improve student outcomes and this starts from a students very first interaction with the Nurture app. Once you have assigned your first assessment with for your class group, your students will be able to access it and submit their work for it.

This article is for students using Microsoft Teams to access Nurture and also for Teachers who want to know how the Nurture student app works.

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Students may be used to submitting homework and tasks on other platforms like Microsoft Teams Assessments or Google Classroom but Nurture goes a bit deeper, collecting more data and information from the student that helps the teacher create more effective feedback.

Each time a student submits a task on Nurture we collect the following information :

Students can complete their work directly in Nurture using the text box to submit their answers. All answers for all questions must go here. It is reccomended that students create their work on Nurture, but if they wish to create their answers on a separate document or event handwrite their answers and submit photos, they can add these as attachments instead.

If a student cannot submit their work on Nurture for any reason, they should submit their confidence score and add a personal comment for their teacher. This will count as a submission on Nurture and they can hand up their work in class to their teacher.

Students are asked how confident they were completing the work for this task. This is a form of 'pre-reflection' for the student and will help the teacher get a better understanding of how the student felt they did on this assessment.

They must select either :

Students can leave a personal comment for their teacher to give some more context on how the student felt they did on this task. This is optional but it is reccomended that the student gives as much information to their teacher as possible. If the teacher has a good understanding of how the student felt they did on this assessment, they can create better personal feedback for that student.

To help create their personal comment, students could coonsider any of these prompts :

At the beginning, students may not have much to say, but over time as they submit more tasks on Nurture, their ability to self-reflect on their work will improve. For example, here is the confidence and personal comment of Rebecca, a 13 year old student on her very first task on Nurture :

Fast forward 12 months and several tasks on Nurture later, this is the personal comment Rebecca submitted with her work :

Look at the difference in Rebecca's ability to self-reflect on her own work and communicate that to her teacher! Remember this is a now 14 year old student after using Nurture for one year.

1. Once the student has opened their latest task, on the task page, the students work area is on the right side of their screen in the 'Your work for this task goes here' panel.

2. Students have three options to add their work on this panel.

2a. Option 1 . Students can type their answers into Nurture here. Their work is auto-saved if they need to leave and come back to it later before submitting.

2b. Option 2. Students can type theirr answers in a separate document and upload that as either a word document or a PDF. They can simply drag and drop the file in here or else click the file uploader to open their file explorer and select the file.

2c. Option 3. Students can write their answers by hand, take photos of their work and then submit these photos as attachments. If they are using the Nurture app on a mobile device they can also take these photos directly in-app.

3. Once the student has added their work with one of the above options, to complete their submission they must click 'Submit work for this task' and on the next screen they must select their confidence level. Once they have selected their confidence level, click 'Next'

4. On the next screen the student can add a personal comment for the teacher. This step is optional, but reccomended! Once they are happy to proceed, click 'Confirm Submission'

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5. The final step is to review their entire submission. This is one last chance to review their work and ensure they are happy with their confidence and personal comment. If the students wants to change anything, they can do so here. Once they are happy with their work, confidence level and personal comment, click 'Yes, Submit Assessment' and their task will be submitted 🎉.

You will now notice the status on the assessment page has changed from 'Not Started' to 'Submitted'. (You may need to close the assessment and reopen it to see this change)

If students are still unable to access their assessment, try troubleshooting these common issues first:
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If your students still cannot access their assessment, please contact us.

Contact us directly by sending us a message in-app or send an email to support@gonurture.com