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The Five Steps to Getting Started

1. Creating a Teacher Account
2. Navigating Using the Tabs - Quick Tutorial
3. Creating a Class
4. Finding and Assigning Pre-Built Content
5. Creating a Student Account and Enrolling in a Class

The Features of ASSISTments

1. Building Your Own Content
2. Skill Builders
3. Instructions for ARRS
4. Parent Notification
5. Data Driven Instructions
6. Support for Open Ended Questions
7. Evaluate the Web

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ASSISTments Lingo

• An "Assistment" is a question and its associated feedback.
• A "Problem Set" is a grouping of assistments. See the different types of problem sets
• A "Scaffold" is the tutoring for an assistment that "breaks the problem into steps" for the student.
• A "Bottom Out Hint" is the hint on an assistment that gives the answer to a question.