Newsela Reports for Admins

School and District Administrators have access to multiple Newsela and Newsela Writing reports via the Admin Console, that can be accessed by clicking 'Admin' at the top of any Newsela page.

Within the Admin Console, admins can access and download the following list of reports. Click the links below to learn more about each of the higher-level reports available. In this article we will focus on accessing Teacher Reports by impersonation.

School Directory information (*District Admins only)
Faculty Directory information
Classes Directory information
Student Directory information
Usage Report
Newsela Writing Data
Teacher Reports / Student Performance (*by impersonation)

What Data is Accessible to Admins by Impersonation?

Administrators have visibility into assignments and class-based reporting that they can access by impersonating teachers in their organizations. This allows admins an ability to provide better support for their teachers.

By impersonating teachers, admins can access the following:

Classroom Data
- Class Overview
  - Average reading level
  - Total texts viewed by class
  - Minutes average reading time
  - Texts read by grade levels
- Reading Skills
- Reading Activity
Power Words Data
Assignment-specific Data
- Quiz responses
- Write prompt responses
- Annotations
- Read time
- Checks for understanding

Note:

This impersonation feature is view-only, meaning while the admin can see what the teacher will see, the admin can't make any changes in the account.
Admins can download reports when impersonating teachers.
Admins can only impersonate teachers, they can not impersonate other admins.
If a teacher on the Faculty Directory is not yet verified in Newsela's systems, when the admin clicks the impersonate button it will throw an error. Admins can verify their staff members on the systems used for bulk-rostering for an automatic verification to take place in Newsela's system overnight; or they can reach out to Newsela's support team with a request to verify the teacher on the back-end.

Impersonate a Teacher

Begin by navigating to your Faculty Directory within your Admin Console:

Click 'Admin' at the top of screen
Select 'Admin Console' from the dropdown menu
Scroll to the Admin Directories section to select to view Faculty Directory, or select 'Faculty' from the left-hand navigation menu
Proceed to click on the 'Impersonate' button next to a teacher's record.

Your view will change to the selected teacher's home page. You will see the teacher's data in the profile tile at the top right corner of the screen, and an indication that you are currently impersonating them.

Once you're done gathering the data needed, don't forget to click back into the profile tile and select 'Stop Impersonating' to navigate back to your own account.

Access Teacher Reports

While impersonating a teacher, admins can access all the data that has been collected on the teacher's account. Below you'll find step-by-step instructions to accessing assignment-specific data, classroom data, and power words data.

Assignment-specific Data

Quiz responses
Write prompt responses
Annotations
Read time
Checks for understanding

To access:

Click Assignments at the top of the page.
You will see a list of the teacher's assignments and drafts, along with indication of how many students have viewed each assignment.
Not seeing the assignment you are looking for? Adjust the filters panel on the left side of your screen to the desired date range and/or filter by class
Click an assignment's title to go to the Assignments Review Page.
From here, you can review a summary of class activity for the assignment, high-level information on individual student performance, and which students need their work reviewed.
The table will display student information related to the specific subject (or subjects) for which you have a subscription. This includes subject-specific quizzes, subject-specific write prompts, overall read time, and any annotations made. It will also display a column for Checks for Understanding (CFU) if the students have taken them.
Click on any presented score or 'score now' prompt to be redirected to the Activities Review page, where you can toggle between Quiz, Write Prompts, and Annotations submissions for a more in-depth view of the students' work, and manually score the Write Prompts. You can narrow down the list of submissions by filtering by class or lexile level.

Download Assignment Data

To complete your own manipulations of student assignments data, you can download that information as a spreadsheet.

Simply click Download Data from the Assignments tab and you will get a spreadsheet that includes:

Classroom
Student Name
Student Username
Article Title
Article Level
Last Activity
Write Score
Count of Annotations
Quiz Score
Time in Article

Classroom Data

Click on Reports at the top of the page
Select 'Classroom Data' from the dropdown menu
Use the filters at the top the screen to narrow down the data by class and/or by date range
Use the filters on the right-side navigation bar to drill-down into specific classes and specific students data
You can also click into the Power Words tab to view Power Words reporting
From here you can click on the name of any student to display a more in-depth view of the reading summary and Power Words reports
Selecting the Classroom Data report you will have the option to view the following reports by class, with the ability to further drill down in the data by student:

Class Overview
- Average reading level
- Total texts viewed by class
- Minutes average reading time
- Texts read by grade levels
Reading Skills
Reading Activity

Begin with selecting the desired class from the dropdown at the top right of the page, and adjust the desired date range on the dropdown at the top left.

Class Overview

Get a rapid snapshot of how the students are reading on Newsela.

Average Reading Level -
- Average Lexile level for texts viewed by class: Based on the Lexile level of all nonfiction texts viewed by students in this class
- Average grade level for texts viewed by class
Texts read by grade levels - The number of texts that were viewed either at, below, or above the class grade level.
Total texts viewed by class
Minutes average reading time

Reading Skills

Each level of every Newsela article has its own 4-question quiz connected to reading skills. When you have a Newsela ELA or Newsela Essentials subscription, you can use the Classroom Data report to understand the students' levels of success on reading informational text skills.

The Reading Skills section includes students' quiz performance in all reading skills listed below.

Anchor Skills

What the Text Says
Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
Main Idea, Key Details, and Summarization
Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
Connecting People, Events, and Ideas
Analyze how and why individuals and events, or ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
Word Meaning & Choice
Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative and figurative meanings and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
Text Structure
Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g. a section, chapter, scene or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.
Point of View and Purpose
Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.
Interpret Multimedia
Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively as well as in words.
Arguments & Claims
Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.

Note: This feature is not available for Newsela Social Studies and/or Newsela Science subscriptions.

By default the table will present data for all reading skills. You can filter the data to a specific reading level by selecting the desired one from the dropdown above the table.

Sort the table by performance on each of the anchor skills, by clicking on an individual row's title. First click will sort performance on the skill by low-high, a second click will change the order by high-low.

Click on a student's name to access their individual report.

You can download the data from the Reading Skills report as a .csv file

Reading Activity

This section includes students' overall reading activity across texts, including:

Text level - average level of articles viewed
Views - articles viewed
Active Time - average active time on article
Quizzes - number of quizzes taken
Scores - average quizzes score
Write Prompts - average score
Annotations - average submitted
Power Words - average score

Sort the table performance on each activity, by clicking on an individual row's title. First click will sort performance by low-high, a second click will change the order by high-low.