Description

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.

What type of user is this article for?

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.

In this article we will cover :

What's different about Nurture when students submit assessments compared Microsoft Teams Assessments or Google Classroom?
How to submit an assessment on Nurture as a student - Step-by-step instructions
Video tutorial on how students submit assessments on Nurture.
Troubleshooting & F.A.Q

What's different about Nurture when students submit assessments compared Microsoft Teams Assessments or Google Classroom?

Students may be used to submitting homework and assessments 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 an assessment on Nurture we collect the following information :

1. The students confidence level (Required).

Students are asked how confident they were completing the work for this assessment. 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 :

😢 Low Confidence
🙂 Neutral Confidence
😎 High Confidence.

💡 Important

When a student submits an assessment on Nurture, they must submit their confidence score at a minimum for it to count as a submission on Nurture.

2. The students personal comment for the teacher. (Optional)

Students can leave a personal comment for their teacher to give some more context on how the student felt they did on this assessment. 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 :

The most important thing I learned was...
The way I learned was...
What I found difficult was...
What I enjoyed the most was...
What helped me when something got tricky was...
Some things I did to help learning include...
Why do I think learning this skill / content is important...
What can I do now that I could not do last week/month/year...

At the beginning, students may not have much to say, but over time as they submit more assessments 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 assessment on Nurture :

Student confidence and personal comment submitted on Nurture the first time a student used the app.

Fast forward 12 months and several assessments 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.

💬 Benefit

The personal comment is only visible to the teacher and it has proven to be an excellent way for students who may be shy to express their feelings and thoughts on their work privately to their teacher instead of infront of the whole class.

3. The students work as an attachment (Optional).

⚠️ Note

Students do not complete their assessment on Nurture or write their answers on Nurture. They must create their work outside of Nurture by either typing their answers on a document or else handwriting their answers. They must upload their work foor the assessment as an attachment.

It is reccomended that students always submit attachments of their work on Nurture when possible. This will help the teacher create better personal feedback.

If their work has been typed, students may submit these documents as an attachment. Word, PDF and Powerpoint files would be the most common but many other file types are also supported.

If their work is handwritten, they can simply take photos of their work and attach them as images.

If a student cannot submit an attachment of 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.

How to submit an assessment on Nurture as a student - Step-by-step instructions

If you would rather watch a full tutorial video, skip to the bottom of this guide!

⚠️ Note

The steps here are the same on both desktop and mobile devices however there may be some subtle differences in how files are selected for uploading on mobile devices. Contact us if you are unsure.

1. On the assessment page, scroll down to the 'My Submission' panel.

2. Student types their personal comment in the 'Notes' field.

3. Student selects their confidence level for this assessment.

4. Click on 'Add Attachments' to upload your work.

5. Click on 'Select Files to Upload' to open your file explorer or else drag and drop your files into this box.

6. Select the attachments of your work and click 'Open' in your file explorer to choose them. You must then click 'Upload' to upload them to Nurture.

7. Finally, once you are happy with your personal comment, your confidence and the attachments you have uploaded for your work, click 'Submit Assessment'. Once you get the green success notification you have completed your submissioon for this assessment!

You will now notice the status on the assessment page has changed from 'Pending' to 'Submitted'. (You may need to close the assessment and reopen it to see this change)

Video Tutorial

Troubleshooting & F.A.Q

My students cannot access their assessment on Nurture.

If your students cannot access their assessment on Nurture, first of all check out our article here on how students can do this on desktop and mobile devices. If students are still unable to access their assessment, try troubleshooting these common issues first:

Check if the assessment is scheduled to publish at a later time. Students will only be able too access their assessment once it is published.
Check if your student has been added as a member or a guest of your Microsoft team and confim that they have access to that team and can log into Nurture. You can find out how to add students to a team in this article here.

If your students still cannot access their assessment, please contact us.