Remote Fast ForWord use

Your students can use Fast ForWord and Reading Assistant Plus at home!

On this page:

Training and recorded webinars

Use the resources below to quickly set up your remote/distance learning program.

Self-paced videos

Share these videos with your students to introduce them to the product

Share these videos with your students to help them in the exercises

Free live training

Recorded webinars

  • Paraeducators and Student Success – The Evolving Role of Paras in Remote Learning
  • Paraeducators play an important role in student success. Continuing to leverage their support during periods of non-traditional instruction can be vital to continued student growth. In this session, you will learn how paras can support both students and teachers utilizing Fast ForWord and Reading Assistant Plus in their virtual classroom.
  • Remote Learning Using Fast ForWord – Overview for Parents of Elementary Age Students
  • For parents of elementary students, this 30 minute session followed by a question and answer session will give an overview of how Fast ForWord and Reading Assistant Plus can be done at home. Parents will receive information on how these components can help their children increase their reading skills and their ability to attend to tasks, practice self-regulation, build working memory, and process more efficiently.
  • Remote Learning Using Fast ForWord – Overview for Parents of Middle School and High School Students
  • For parents of middle school or high school students, this 30 minute session followed by a question and answer session will give an overview of how Fast ForWord and Reading Assistant Plus can be done at home. Parents will receive information on how these components can help their children increase their ability to attend to tasks, practice self-regulation, build working memory, and process more efficiently.

Parent resources

These tools let you communicate with parents and caregivers about using the product at home (includes Spanish translations for most documents).

Use this form to share a student’s login credentials with parents/caregivers.

  • Log in to www.myscilearn.com and go to the Manage page.
  • Select your school and check specific students or check All.
  • Go to More Actions and choose Print Usernames and Passwords.
  • Repeat for the next page if you have a large number of students.

Alternatively, if you or your school's IT staff will be sending an email blast to all parents at the same time, please do not include individual usernames and passwords. Simply modify the Using at home documents above as needed.

If you have any questions please contact Support.

Instruct parents/caregivers how students should log in from home

Use these letters to give parents/caregivers an overview of the product

Help parents/caregivers build reading skills at home

Surveys

Set up weekly automated emails

The product makes it easy to communicate with parents/caregivers when students are working remotely. Watch the first video to learn how to set up an automated email report. You will be instructed to select the Fast ForWord Weekly Growth report and/or the Reading Assistant Plus Selections report. The next two videos explain how to read these reports and you can even copy and paste our email templates into your automated email which include links to these two videos. See the section below - Text to copy and paste into automated email.

Steps to set up weekly automated email reports
  1. Log in to www.myscilearn.com and go to Reports.
  2. Select Email Scheduler in the upper right hand corner and go to New Email.
  3. Enter the parent’s email address in the “To” box and title the email (the title will appear on each sent email).
  4. We have prepared three email templates for you. One for Fast ForWord, one for Reading Assistant Plus, and one for combined use. Each template contains a video(s) that parents can watch to learn about the report(s) they are receiving. Copy the text from the appropriate template below into the box titled Include Message (optional):
  5. From the Schedule menu, choose Weekly.
  6. Click Add/Remove Reports, select Student Level from the Report Level menu, and select the group.
  7. Select the parent’s child.
  8. If the student is using Fast ForWord, check the Weekly Growth Report. If the student is using Reading Assistant Plus, check the Selections Report (or both as appropriate).
  9. Click Add. The parent will then receive an automated email each Saturday with the report(s) you selected.

Fast ForWord email template

Copy and paste the text to the right into the box titled:

Include Message (optional):

Dear [enter parent or caregiver name],

Attached you will find your child’s weekly progress report for the Fast ForWord product. To learn how to read this report, watch the quick tutorial below and then let me know if you have any questions. Thanks!

Learn how to read the Weekly Growth report - https://help.scilearn.com/toolbox/videos/ffwweeklyrpt/ffwweeklyrpt.html

Sincerely,

[Teacher’s name]

Reading Assistant Plus email template

Copy and paste the text to the right into the box titled:

Include Message (optional):

Dear [enter parent or caregiver name],

Attached you will find your child’s weekly progress report for the Reading Assistant Plus assignment. To learn how to read this report, watch the quick tutorial below and then let me know if you have any questions. Thanks!

Learn how to read the Reading Assistant Selection report - https://help.scilearn.com/toolbox/videos/RAweeklyrpt/RAweeklyrpt.html

Sincerely,

[Teacher’s name]

Combined Fast ForWord and Reading Assistant Plus email template

Copy and paste the text to the right into the box titled:

Include Message (optional):

Dear [enter parent or caregiver name],

Attached you will find your child’s weekly progress reports for the Fast ForWord and Reading Assistant Plus assignments. To learn how to read this report, watch the quick tutorial below and then let me know if you have any questions. Thanks!

Learn how to read the Weekly Growth report - https://help.scilearn.com/toolbox/videos/ffwweeklyrpt/ffwweeklyrpt.html

Learn how to read the Reading Assistant Selection report - https://help.scilearn.com/toolbox/videos/RAweeklyrpt/RAweeklyrpt.html

Sincerely,

[Teacher’s name]

Zoom screen sharing tips

During your remote sessions with students, you may want to show them the exercise demos using your screen sharing program. If you are using Zoom, follow these simple steps to ensure your students see the demo screen you are sharing. Please note, if your Zoom account allows you to share your entire screen, you won’t need to follow these steps, but if you share a single browser window you will.

  • To access the Fast ForWord exercise demos, go to the Manage tab in mySciLEARN and click on Exercise Demos in the upper right corner. From there you can go to any component and choose an exercise to demo. If you start sharing your screen before launching a demo, Zoom will not see the exercise demo that launches, because it appears in a new browser window.
  • Make sure to select a demo first and that it appears in front of everything else. Then click the Share Screen option in Zoom and you'll see the following two options. Choose the demo you just launched to share.
  • You will also want to share your computer sound so the students can hear the demo. After you have started sharing your screen, hover on the green bar below to access the menu called More and choose Share computer sound.
  • If you are sharing multiple exercise demos, stop sharing after each demo and follow the steps above once you've launched the new demo and start sharing your screen again.