Differentiate for Every Student’s Needs With Accommodations on Wayground

At Wayground, we recognize that every student can thrive if their unique learning needs are supported. And that is why we are pleased to introduce Accommodation! 

With this feature, you can provide specific accommodations to students in your class. This means you can save time by assigning the same Wayground task to your whole class while ensuring you provide compliant scaffolded experiences for your students.

To learn about the different Accommodations available on Wayground, check out this article: Explore Each Accommodation on Wayground.

How Accommodations work

Let’s say you’re assigning a Wayground session to your math class. With Accommodations, you can differentiate instruction within your class such that:

1. Sue and Derik receive an extra 30 seconds while answering questions, 
2. Jamal has the Read Aloud feature enabled, 
3. Sanjay, Beth, and Jon see reduced answer choices, 
4. Ola, Ria, and Shankar can access reading mode during lessons and adjust font sizes and themes,

and the remaining students in your class will experience the session with regular session settings.

You can assign a student as many Accommodations as needed. These accommodation settings will be saved for future reuse and can always be edited and modified.

To learn about the different Accommodations available on Wayground, check out this article: Explore Each Accommodation on Wayground.

How to assign Accommodations to students

You can assign Accommodations to your students in three ways:

• from the Accommodations tab on the left navigation pane
• before starting/assigning a session
• while managing your Classes

Once you have set up Accommodations for your students, you can reuse these settings for every activity you assign them without having to set them up again.

How to share and sync Accommodations with other teachers

You can now work with other teachers in your school or district to easily manage and assign Accommodations to students. Once a teacher shares access with you, you’ll be able to:

• Set up or edit Accommodations for their students

• Share your own Accommodations dashboard with them

• Sync updates so changes appear across all shared dashboards

Note: 

• To work together, a teacher must first share access with you by adding your email
• You both need to be part of the same organization (same email domain)
• Once shared, you can edit each other’s Accommodations and sync updates across your dashboards

To share access to your dashboard with another teacher,

1. Click on the 'Share access' button
2. Enter the email address(es) of the teacher(s) you want to invite
3. Check the box for 'I consent to sharing my students' data with these teacher(s)'
4. Click on 'Share'. Now, they will be able to assign Accommodations to your students
   
   

To access the dashboards of teachers who have granted you access,

1. Click on the teacher's profile for whom you're setting Accommodations. You'll find the list on the left side of your screen, and hover over a profile to view their names. Alternatively, you can expand the view by clicking on the arrow () button
   
   
   
   
2. Assign Accommodations following the steps above
3. Click on 'Save changes'
   
   

To apply and sync these Accommodations across the dashboards shared with you,

1. Click on 'Apply to other teachers'
2. Select the teacher(s) whose dashboard(s) you want to sync with the Accommodation changes you've made 
3. Click on 'Apply'
   
   

FAQ

Q. Why am I seeing 'Conflicting Accommodations'?

A. When you select multiple students who have been assigned different Accommodations, the Accommodation settings will conflict with each other. This means that the selected students have been assigned different Accommodations and not common ones. To resolve this:

• Click on 'Edit' on the 'Conflicting Accommodations' pop-up, and proceed to remove existing  Accommodations assigned to the selected students 
• Then, proceed to assign the selected students' Accommodations from the beginning
  
  
  
  
• Additionally, ensure that you unselect previously selected students when assigning new Accommodations to the rest of your students to avoid 'Conflicting Accommodations'
  
  

Learn more:

Explore Each Accommodation on Wayground