What's New on ThinkCentral

You can view details on recent updates to Personal Math Trainer here.

Personal Math Trainer Help Videos

These easy-to-follow videos are great for help with frequently used tasks in Personal Math Trainer® Powered by Knewton™. These videos are accessible through the Personal Math Trainer dashboard icon in the selection tray as shown below, which also includes a detailed FAQ document. You can also access these videos and user guides on our Back to School Support site or watch them now on our HMH YouTube channel!

Video topics include:

  • How to Create an Assignment
  • How to Add Adaptive Flow to Assignments
  • How to Customize an Assignment
  • How to Access Quick Reports
  • How to Do an Assignment (for students)
  • How to Review Results (for students)
  • How to Work on an Assignment Offline (for students)
Personal Math Trainer Help Videos

New Knewton Analytics Reporting

Knewton™ reporting shows the Class Name on the report to ensure clarity when managing multiple classes, and reports show the Average Cumulative Duration, which indicates the average total time that students in the class have spent on a given standard.

The Class Proficiency Overview report provides teachers with students’ proficiency levels, time spent in adaptive exercises, recent changes, and recommended study plans. Reports can be generated for classes or individual students across an entire course or for a particular module. These reports are perfect for quickly highlighting struggling students and particular sections that need additional review.

The Class View, Grade Overview report shows each student’s name and links to their own analytics page. Use this report to identify top sections to review with the class which are highlighted in red.

Knewton Report

The Student View includes personalized recommendations and trends from the past week. This report is great for parent/teacher or student/teacher conferences to highlight the student’s progress in the program or within a particular section of the program.

Knewton Analytics Reporting

Simplified Answer Palette

The Answer Palette which allows students to enter fractions or math symbols is now optimized to better support younger students. A modified version of the Answer Palette is also available for a better tablet experience, which includes navigation arrows.

Answer Palette

Access to Quick Reports

Teachers can now access reports formerly found only within HMH Player directly within ThinkCentral. The Reports section of ThinkCentral now contains a Quick Reports link that will launch these Class Assignments and Progress Reports*.

Access to Quick Reports

Improved Graphing Tool

Now students can select points on a graph and drag them to new locations with a much more intuitive interface. Tablet users will notice new guidelines have been added to better indicate the exact coordinates where the point will be plotted.

Graphing

Praise for Completed Activities

If a student has completed an adaptive activity, a message in English or Spanish will appear and advise the student to turn in the assignment.

Assigning to Multiple Classes

Teachers can now copy an existing assignment and assign it to more than one class. Once assigned, each class’s assignment can be customized to a specific subset of students.

Exporting Assignment Lists

Exported Class Comprehensive Report files will now include a list of all assignments at the bottom of the report, ordered in individual rows according to their due date.

Delegating Adaptive Assignments

Administrators can now delegate an adaptive Personal Math Trainer® assignment.

Printing Assignments

Teachers can now print out a PMT assessment with one question per page, so that students who are having difficulty with online access can still complete an assignment. You can also access Quick Reports within the platform with the ability to print or export.

TC Print