Education Galaxy provides online Fast Forward assessment and practice for students
Wisconsin has adopted the Wisconsin Academic Standards. Wisconsin schools will administer the Wisconsin Forward Exam to measure student proficiency of Wisconsin Academic Standards. Education Galaxy’s Wisconsin Forward Exam preparation program provides online assessment and practice for students in Grades K-8 to help build mastery towards the Wisconsin Academic Standards. Our unique online program is easy to use and enjoyable for both teachers and students. Students work on their Study Plans practicing important concepts while teachers pull formative assessment reports to identify the strengths and weaknesses of their classroom and individual students.
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Built Specifically to Wisconsin Academic Standards
None of our content is ever simply “Aligned”. We ensure all our questions are built from the ground up to prepare students for the rigor of the Wisconsin Academic Standards for Wisconsin Forward Exam. Education Galaxy provides thousands of questions for you to use with online assessments and printable worksheets. Content covers math, language arts, reading, and science.
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Personalized Student Study Plans
Every student receives their own personalized Wisconsin Forward Exam Study Plan that allows them to see exactly how they are performing in each individual Wisconsin Academic Standard. Students can work self-paced, or teacher directed. Students work through their Study Plans to earn rewards and show mastery. Education Galaxy makes Wisconsin Forward Exam test prep fun and engaging!
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Our Video Alien Explanations Provide Deep Instructional Support Like Never Before
Most online programs fail at providing adequate or helpful feedback to students after they miss questions. Many programs offer text based feedback that students rarely read and quickly ignore. Our revolutionary Alien Explanations provide video explanations for every single question that is specific to that question. This provides drill-down instruction to the very basic skills the students are struggling with. With Education Galaxy, your students will quickly master concepts because their instruction is tailored to them.
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Education Galaxy is Curiously Fun
Students can’t wait to “play” Education Galaxy! While Education Galaxy is fun, students must earn their rewards and game time. We reward students for success throughout the school year to keep them engaged while rewarding their progress of mastering standards. Answering questions correctly during study time allows them to play mini games. Mastering concepts provides them Galaxy Stars that are used to unlock rockets for their games and to improve their Alien Ranking. Galaxy Cards show absolute mastery!
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Questions Built 100% to the Rigor of Wisconsin Academic Standards
Wisconsin Forward Exam preparation is fun and rewarding with Education Galaxy. Students can take formative online Wisconsin Forward Exam practice assessments and receive immediate feedback when questions are answered incorrectly. Students must first get the correct answer before moving to the next question. When sessions are complete, students are given a full summary of their work and can even go back through missed questions. Study sessions allow for true Common Core assessment and provide valuable practice for students.
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We Also Support Kindergarten and First Grade!
Along with wonderful solutions for grades 2-8, Education Galaxy provides amazingly fun solutions for our younger learners in kindergarten and first grade. Students are seamlessly integrated into an assessment environment with beautiful graphics, games, and fun questions. A real human voice reads all text to the students. In many cases, it is other kids reading the reading passages and questions! Your young learners will love Education Galaxy!
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Supporting Middle School (6-8)
Education Galaxy also now supports middle school students (6th-8th grade). We provide engaging instruction that rewards student progress and celebrates their academic growth. Each student receives an individualized learning plan aligned to the Wisconsin Academic Standards from our dynamic diagnostic assessments. Students are empowered throughout their learning and receive differentiated instructional practice to meet their specific learning needs.
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Build Custom Benchmarks and Printable Worksheets
Students immediately have access to Wisconsin Academic Standards formative assessments online with their personal Study Plans. Education Galaxy also allows you to easily create custom summative assessments with our huge library of content sorted by standard. Need worksheets? Use Education Galaxy to create custom worksheets with our unique Worksheet Builder.
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Comprehensive Reporting for Teachers
Wisconsin Teachers can easily pull different reports filtered either by student, class, grade level, subject, or school. Reports allow teachers to quickly find the specific Wisconsin Academic standards that students are doing well in and areas that require more instruction. Use individual student reports to help with parent teacher conferences or student progress reports. Our reports are all aligned to the Wisconsin Academic standards and help ensure that your instruction and planning is data driven to support all learning needs for K-8.
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English and Spanish
Assessment items are available in both English and Spanish. Three different language modes allow you to customize the experience for each student. Choose whether to allow students to toggle back and forth between English and Spanish or to see questions in only English or only Spanish.
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Group Instruction Module
Get your entire class involved while enjoying real-time data on every question and standard for all your students. Allow your students to compete in teams or small groups. When students struggle on a question, play video Alien Explanations to provide specific instruction. Winning teams are rewarded with QUICK games after each successful question. Best game score wins! Watch live as each student answers the questions and see the results immediately to grasp class and student level comprehension of each question or standard.
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Writing Composition Practice
Assign your students writing assignments to help them practice writing literary, expository, procedural, and persuasive compositions. Here’s how it works: The teacher would select a prompt and scoring rubric (optional) to assign to students. Students would then type and submit a draft of their composition online. Then teacher reads, scores, and provides feedback to student drafts online. Next the students review feedback, edit their draft, and submit their final composition. Then the teacher would score the composition online or offline.
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4th & 8th Grade Science Wisconsin Forward Preparation
Our practice questions and assessments are aligned with the Wisconsin Academic Standards and reflect the rigor and verbiage of the Wisconsin Forward test. The 4th grade science and 8th grade science program supports extensive assessment, practice, and video instruction for all of the tested Wisconsin Academic Standards.
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Fluency Component
Skills Practice allows the student to work on fact fluency and basic skills in a fun way. Students compete in a race against other students while practicing their fluency. Our facts and fluency module allows for a break from the rigorous test prep style questions throughout the rest of Education Galaxy programs.
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Variety of Question Types Encourage Higher Order Thinking
We support many assessment options aside from multiple choice questions. Challenge your students with next level question types including drag and drop, dual-passage, multi-select, and text response.
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Test Builder
Our test builder helps teachers create their own assessments and assignments. Teachers can create and share formative assessments, spiral reviews, benchmarks, or any other custom test desired. Create quick topic-based assignments with randomized questions or choose each individual question for your custom test.
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Math & Reading Adaptive Intervention
Have students with skill gaps? LiftOff, our adaptive intervention program, is a great resource for your students needing extra assistance with their math and reading skills. Through adaptive diagnostics, we identify skill gaps in a vertical alignment and create personalized learning paths for each student. The program offers read aloud and Spanish support features. Reports provide weekly and monthly progress monitoring. Another report helps teachers to purposefully plan for ability groups.
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NWEA MAP and LiftOff
LiftOff also integrates with the NWEA MAP! Once students take their Beginning of the Year MAP assessment, you can import your students RIT scores into LiftOff.
Our LiftOff program will:
Fine tune each student’s skill gaps with a focused specific diagnostic assessment tailored to each student that is reduced and targeted
Determine each student’s level of proficiency within a set of vertically aligned topics and skills in math and reading
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Google Classroom Integration
Education Galaxy integrates with Google Classroom!
Teachers will be able to link their class and Education Galaxy assignments seamlessly to their Google Classroom. Students will see their Education Galaxy assignments in their Google Classroom, and teachers will be sent their results directly
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Canvas Integration
Education Galaxy integrates with Canvas!
Teachers are able to connect Education Galaxy to their Canvas classes as an assignment or module to support students with seamless access to their practice and assignments with Education Galaxy.
