Waypoints for Admins

Overview

This article is intended for School Admins, Principals, and Counselors who will be using Waypoints. Waypoints is an assessment suite comprising summative and formative measures to help you understand students' areas of strength and growth in relation to our future-ready skills. These tools effectively track student growth in each of our 6 Core Skills.

Summative and classic Formative Waypoints are set up at the district level and, thus, can only be set up by users with System Admin access. If you are a System Admin, please see our How to Set Up Waypoints guide. Once your System Admin has set up Waypoints, you do not need to do anything to assign the Summative or Formative assessments to your students at your school. The assessments will automatically populate on students' (Student-Reported) or teachers' (Educator-Observed) dashboards during the set assessment windows. 

If you would like to set up Custom Formative Waypoints, please see our How To Set Up Custom Formative Waypoints guide. 

This article contains the following topics: 

• Waypoints - Key Features
• Understanding the Student View
• How to Reset Student-Reported Waypoints
• Resources

For a video walkthrough on Waypoints, check out our "Waypoints How-To: Counselor + School Admin" video in Wayfinder Academy.

 

Waypoints - Key Features

Viewing Waypoints Data

1. Log in to Wayfinder
2. Click on "Waypoints" from the left-hand navigation bar

Filtering Waypoints Data

You can use the filters on the left-hand side of the Waypoints page to focus in on a specific assessment or class. Using filters will change the data you see on the right side of the page. Filters are broken down by: 

• Submission Type (the submission types you see depend on your school or district's assessment plan)
  • Student-Reported: Students respond to prompts about themselves. Students will see the assessment on their dashboard when they log in. 
  • Educator-Observed: Educators respond to prompts about students based on observations. Educators will see the assessment in the To-Do List on their Home dashboard. See Educator-Observed Waypoints for details. 
• Assessment Name (the assessments you see depend on your school or district's assessment plan)
  • Summative
  • Formative
  • Custom Formatives: If any of your classes have been assigned a custom Formative assessment, you will also see them under the Assessment Name filter
• Grade
• Classes

Previewing Waypoints Questions

To preview an assessment and its prompts, select the assessment name on the left, then click the "View Details" dropdown at the top right of the page. Then, click "Waypoint Questions". 

Overview Tab

On the Overview tab, you'll see an overview of the scores from the chosen assessment.

1. Click on the Overview tab.
2. Hover over the bars in the bar charts to see specific averages of skill data. 
3. Completion rate tracks who has completed the assessment. Click on the View Details button to view specific school, class, or student names. 
4. Click on the "Find Activities" button to search for activities that target the Room for Growth skill. 

Students Tab

To view a list of your students and their individual scores, click on the Students tab. 

1. Click on the Students tab
2. Use the dropdown at the top right of the table to filter by assessment (Summative only). 
3. Click on the skill name at the top of each column to sort by specific skill data. 

 

Understanding the Student View

Want to see what students see? Our video on Understanding the Student View breaks down the differences between our PreK-5th grade and 6-12th grade dashboards.

Taking Waypoints gives your student a Wayfinder persona based on their biggest area of strength for our six Core Skills. Below is a list of Wayfinder's 6 personas: 

• The Reflector (Self-Awareness)
• The Adapter (Adaptability)
• The Interpreter (Empathy)
• The Partner (Collaboration)
• The Advocate (Agency)
• The Changemaker (Purpose)

For more information, click here.

How to Reset Student-Reported Waypoints

To allow a student to retake Waypoints, you can reset their assessment to have it reappear on the student's To-Do List:

1. Navigate to the student's profile via the Waypoints or the Classes page
   1. From the Waypoints page, click on the Students tab, use the search bar to search for the student, and then click on their name
   • From the Classes page, click on the class that the student is in and then click on the student's name from within the Students list. 
2. Once on the student's profile page, scroll down to view their Timeline
3. Locate the row that says "Submitted" for the assessment that you would like to reset
4. Click on the "View Response" button on the right-hand side
5. Click the Reset button at top right of the page
   • Note: The "reset" button will be grayed out if the assessment window has already passed. To extend the window, contact your System Admin or [e-mail].
6. Review the message in the pop-up window and click "Reset"

For instructions on resetting/resubmitting Educator-Observed Waypoints, see our Educator-Observed Waypoints guide. 

 

Resources

See our implementation guides for Waypoints:

• 3-5 Implementation Guide
• 6-12 Implementation Guide
• K-12 Educator-Observed Implementation Guide