Understanding Skill Cards
Your Roadmap is ultimately a set of skills. Each of these skills is displayed on a skill card - let’s look at one to go over all the information and experiences that it contains.
How to Read a Roadmaps Skill Card
Icon Key
"Recommended for review": This indicates that a recent diagnostic recommends you review this skill.
“Ready for”: The symbol in the lower right corner indicates that you are ready to start learning this skill based on the skills that you have already shown that you know.
"Teacher Review Requested": This indicates that your teacher recommends that you review this skill.
Requesting Help
If you are stuck on a skill, you can click on the “I need help with this skill” button to notify your teacher that you have attempted the skill but need additional help. You can add a comment and edit your comment after submitting the request. Check out this article for more tips on requesting help!
The "When will I use this?" Button
On some skill cards, you might see a button that says "When will I use this?". If you click on this button, you'll be sent to a link where you can read about the different careers that use the skill that you're working on! If you have a hard time accessing this link, tell your teacher and ask them to reach out to the Roadmaps Help Center for help.
Get Started
Clicking on a skill card will open up the Skill Resource Page. The first tab you will see is the Get Started This includes a link to an introductory video on the skill and sample assessment questions. The sample questions do not count towards completing a skill, though! They're for practice.
Keep Learning
There are four kinds of resources that you can check out on the Keep Learning page: Lessons, Practice, Vocabulary, and Additional Resources. The wheel is interactive and it will lead you to the different resources when you click on each. If you have already attempted the skill, your current skill status will be displayed at the top.
Lessons contains links to lessons that you can do on your own, lessons that your teacher may ask you to work on with your peers (these are called Peer to Peer or Small Group Collaborative activities), and lessons that your teacher may lead (these are called Teacher Led Lessons - Student Materials). This page will also tell you which lessons you’ve viewed already. There is an option to tell us if you liked a particular lesson by clicking on the blue thumbs up button.
Practice contains links to practice sets on the skill. Vocabulary is a list of definitions for words associated with the skill. Additional Resources contains links to all other kinds of resources associated with the skill - some are videos, some are articles, some are games!
Take Assessment
Clicking on the Take Assessment tab will lead you to the five question quiz to see how well you know the skill. Select Take Assessment to start the new assessment.
Reflect
Reflect is a space to answer an Essential Question. It isn’t a scored question, it’s a big picture question to help you talk about the concept you’re learning. For example, instead of answering the question “what is four times six?” you might be asked to answer “how is multiplication different from addition? How is it the same?”
In addition to the Essential Question, you'll see a history of the assessments you've taken on this skill under Experience History. In this section, you will be able to review the status and the results of the assessments taken on this skill.
If you need help with this skill, you can also click on Request Help with Skill and your teacher will receive a notification. This help request will stay recorded under Experience History. Click the button again to remove or edit the help request if it was clicked by mistake.
