Top 3 Ways To Use Report Cards

Coaches and Parents: You need data!

The report card feature on ChessKid.com is a great resource not only to track your students, but also to help them in areas that they are struggling. Report cards can be generated for an individual student, or for a large chess club.

Here's a look at one student's activity. You basically can see nearly every key stroke!

 

• Individual - For coaches and parents that primarily work with students one-on-one in private lessons, report cards can really help your students with their individual needs. You can see the student above played and lost four games last week, completed 144 puzzles, and did not complete any lessons. The coach or parent can look through these games (and the individual puzzles!) and try to find the reasons why the student lost their games and which puzzle were solved incorrectly. The next step is to assign videos, lessons, workouts, or puzzles by theme that would address these areas in order for the student to improve.

 

• Clubs and Groups - For coaches, parents, and teachers managing clubs and groups the club report card feature is super valuable! As you see in the above photo, you can select specifically what areas you want to look at for your entire club, or simply select all to see everything. You might want to only see the lessons completed by your students, especially if you assigned everyone the same lesson during class. 

 

• Sharing with Parents and Families - Several schools now have chess as part of the daytime curriculum. The report card feature on chesskid.com makes it easy for teachers to share the chess work their students have completed over a given grading period with parents. The teacher can show what the students need to work on, as well as their strengths. 

Report cards are a great way to track, motivate, and share the students hard work!