Exact Path for Student Guide Grades 6-7

When you log in to your account, you’ll be taken straight to your home page. This is where you’ll find your learning paths. Select a learning path tile to open your learning path.

This an example of a skill on a Reading learning path. The section at the top tells you what skill you will be learning. Select the i button to learn more about the skill. Select the Play button to begin the activity. Complete all the activities that are available to you to unlock the progress check.

Lessons

These teach you something new. Select the Play button to begin, then read, watch and listen. As you progress through the lesson, you’ll answer some questions to check your understanding. Use the menu on the left of the screen to access helpful tools. You’ll find a highlighter, resources, a dictionary, reading tools, translators, and other useful things.  They’re designed to help you engage with your learning path in whichever way makes it the most understandable and memorable to you.

Practices

Practices ask you questions to help build upon your knowledge and test your understanding. Follow the instructions, as the question types vary and require you to interact in different ways. Select the reader tools button at the top of your screen to open a tool bar with click to speak options, a highlighter and a dictionary. Select the Submit button to submit your answers.

Progress Checks

Progress Checks are last. You are given questions about the skill you have been learning. Select the Next button to submit your answer and see the next question.

Reader tools are available in progress checks too. Score 80% or higher to earn a trophy! Then you can move on to the next skill in your learning path.

Navigating

Select Save & Exit to go back to your learning path whenever you need to. This will save all your work up to that point. That means you don’t need to complete an activity in a single session.

Be sure to check if the slides have multiple parts. Use the orange arrows to navigate through all the parts of the content before you move to the next slide.

You earn trophies by mastering skills in your learning paths. Your goal is to earn 2 trophies per week in Math and 2 trophies per week in Reading! For a quick view of your trophies, you can find a trophy count towards the top of the screen on any of your learning paths.

You can find all of your trophies in the My Rewards area. Rewards that you have earned and are in progress are shown here.

Note that the Latest Earned section may show trophies and badges that have been earned during summer and the school year.

To see how long you have been working on your learning paths this week, select the Clock icon from the menu.

The pop up tells you how much time you have spent in each of your subjects. It does not count how long you have spent completing diagnostic tests.

At a minimum, you should spend 30 minutes per day in Math and 30 minutes per day in Reading, Monday – Friday. This is a total of 1 hour per day and 5 hours per week.

If you need help with Exact Path, you can visit the Help Center.

1. Choose the button with ? Help Center at the bottom of the screen.
2. The Help Center menu opens with useful resources to explore.