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System Requirements

What do my students need to use uTheory? uTheory is fully cloud-based and runs in almost every web browser with no software or app installation. The following browsers and operating systems are currently supported: ComputerMac: Safari v. 11 or laterChrome v. 63 or laterFirefox

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News

David Newman Joins uTheory

Famous for his teaching songs, which have millions of views on YouTube, David Newman will focus on developing ear training lessons, exercises and games for uTheory.

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How To Navigate the uTheory Dashboard

Choose Edit Account to edit your name, email and profile picture or to change your password.Click on view selector to view uTheory as a student.Go to Lessons to view all* uTheory lessons, and Skills to view all skills exercises. Select Teach to

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How To Access Teacher Features

The Teach tab from the uTheory dashboard on desktop (left) and mobile (right).Click the Teach tab from the dashboard. On mobile, expand the menu to display the Teach tab. If you are a teacher and you don’t see the teach tab, contact

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How To View uTheory as a Student

Teacher view icon (left) and student view icon (right).Click on the view selector at the top of the dashboard. Choose a class from the drop down menu to view uTheory as a student in that class. The view selector will change to a

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How To Create A Class

Go to the Teach tab from the dashboard.Click the green plus button to create a new class.Create a new class3. Choose the class type. Create a uTheory class will establish a new class in uTheory. Use a Google Classroom class to connect

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How To Connect To Google Classroom

Go to uTheory → Teach → Classes.Select the green plus button to create a new class.Create a new class in uTheory3. Choose Use a Google Classroom class for the class type. Connect an existing Google class to uTheory4. If you’re connecting your first

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How To Change Class Settings

To expand the settings for a class, go to uTheory → Teach → Classes, and click the (…) button. Content OptionsClick Choose Lessons to assign lessons, due dates and late work requirements. Click Choose Skills to assign skills or synchronize skills with lessons. Read here for more

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How To Add Students To A Class

How to Add Students to Your ClassHow to Join a Class for StudentsThere are 2 ways* to add students to your uTheory class: Class Code and Invite Link. *If you’ve connected to an existing Google Classroom class, students will be automatically added to

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How To Move Students Between Classes

Goto uTheory → Teach → Classes.Click "__ Students" to open the roster for the class you wish to move students from.Check the box next to the names of students to be moved. Click the red “x” button that appears at the top right of the

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How To Remove Students From A Class

On the Classes page, go to Students to open the roster for the class you wish to remove students from.Check the box next to the names of student(s) to be removed. Select the red “x” button that appears at the top right

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How To Assign Lessons

Go to Teach → Classes and expand the class settings with the (…) button.Select Choose Lessons.Click the icon next to a lesson name to change the status. Optional and hidden lessons are not included in grade calculation.Required, optional and hidden lessons in Choose

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How To Assign Skills

Go to uTheory → Teach → Classes.On the Classes page, expand the class settings with the (…) button.Click the Choose Skills button.Click the circle next to a skill topic to make it required, optional or hidden. Optional and hidden skills are not included in

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How To Create Tests

How to Create a uTheory TestCreate a New TestGo to the Teach tab from the dashboard, then Tests from the top-right menu.Click the green plus button to create a new test.Name the test, and click the blue check to begin editing the

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How To Connect Tests To A Class

If the students who will be taking your test are part of a uTheory class you teach, the easiest way to give them access to a test is by connecting it to a uTheory class. You can connect a test to as many classes

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How To Assign Individual Accommodations

Teachers can create accommodations as required on an individual student basis. Individual Student AccommodationsGo to Teach → Classes → Students.Click the student’s name from your class roster in uTheory. This will take you to the student detail page.Under the student’s profile picture,

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How To Apply A Group License

After you create a class, you'll need to apply your group license. This will allow unlimited access to uTheory for students enrolled in that class. Go to Teach → Classes and expand the class settings with the (…) button.Check the box under Use group license

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How To Add Teachers

With a uTheory group or testing-only license, you can give other teachers access to the license, or add them to a class or test in uTheory. Add Teachers to a LicenseIf multiple teachers across a school or district will need to access the license,

Class Settings

To expand the settings for a class, go to uTheory → Teach → Classes, and click the (…) button. Classes PageuTheory Class SettingsClick Choose Lessons to assign lessons, due dates and late work requirements.Click Choose Skills to assign skills or synchronize skills with lessons. Connect Tests

Test Settings

To get go the tests page, go to uTheory → Teach → Tests. Here you can create new tests, edit existing tests, view test results and share tests to students. Tests PageClick (...) to expand the test settings for an existing test. Test SettingsClick Sections & Questions

Student Detail Page

Go to uTheory → Teach → Classes → Students and click any name to open the student detail page. Student Detail PageOn the student detail page you can see the student's grade, number of questions answered in uTheory, total amount of time spent in uTheory, last login,

Student Grade Spreadsheet

Go to uTheory → Teach → Classes → Students to open the grade spreadsheet for that class. On the spreadsheet, you can scroll up or down, left or right to see more students and columns. The students’ names and column headings will always stay in view. Student

Skills Calculation

The overall score for skills shown on the dashboard is the average of the score calculations for every required skill. This average does not include skills that are made optional or hidden from students, but does count all required skills – so, if a student

Checkpoints

Checkpoints are tests that occur throughout the lessons. Unlike lesson exercises and skills practice, students only have one attempt per question and do not see their answers or receive feedback until the end of the test. Checkpoints appear in the list of lessons under