TTM Tip - Creating Classes to Maximize Competition

Using Think Through Math as a way to help your students work towards classroom goals? Consider this approach that Amanda Long (Salado Intermediate) decided to take:

Right now all my students are enrolled into one class with 52 students total. The limit on TTM to create classroom goals is 45. Is it possible to separate the class into my two classes-the morning and afternoon? This way the students can contribute their points toward a classroom goal of a pizza party.

Jayne Shanklin (TTM Rep for Area 20) was kind enough to share an extension to Amanda's point, as well as some instructions:

"You might even challenge your two groups to see which can earn the pizza party first by telling them the first to the goal gets cupcakes/ice cream/ extra recess/ to eat with principal/ etc. in addition to the pizza. "

And, here are the instructions, which I've taken the liberty of modifying slightly for publication here:

Step 1 - Create a Class
Follow the steps outlined in this TTM tutorial:

Step 2 - Move Students
Note that you cannot move students from classes for which you are not the teacher. Jayne points out:

Teachers can take care of moving students within their own schedules, so in the scenario below, the teacher can make this sort of adjustment. If a student moves between teachers, a TTM campus admin can make the move, between schools, a TTM district admin can do it, and from another district, ttm customer support can help.

Actual steps for moving students include the following:

1.      Click on the CURRENT STUDENTS button under the one big class

2.      Check the box next to the name of up to 10 students from one page that need to move to the new class

3.      At the top of the class list, click CHANGE CLASS

4.      Select the name of the new class, and click move

Special thanks to Amanda Long (Salado Intermediate) for sharing the question!