What are Luna Next Steps?
Available to teachers at districts with a Balanced Assessment by Formative package. After an assessment is submitted, Luna analyzes student performance against learning standards and instantly recommends Luna Next Steps for enrichment or additional targeted support. Teachers can chat with Luna to further customize Luna Next Steps. Luna Next Steps is easily accessible from the assessment’s Insights page within the platform, supporting efficient, data-driven instruction at scale.
Note: By default, Luna Next Steps is not enabled on Common Assessments. Creators will need to enable the feature on Common Assessments intentionally.
How It Works
For Luna Next Steps to be available on an assessment:
Student responses must be submitted
Note: for optimal accuracy of Next Steps suggestions, it is recommended to have all student responses fully graded before interacting with the Luna
Luna Next Steps will be generated based on the top 3 underperforming standards tagged to the assignment. If standards have not been tagged to the assignment, Luna will use the top 3 underperforming questions to generate the Next Steps suggestions.
Access Luna Next Steps
Within an assessment, navigate to the Insights tab. Click on the Luna icon at the bottom right corner of the screen. As long as the above prerequisites are met, Luna will present you with Next Steps suggestions and offer to create a follow-up assignment or practice set based on your students' performance on standards.
Generate New Formative
Select 'Generate new formative'
Luna will offer you additional insight and ask for input on how you would like your Next Steps formative to be constructed
Provide Luna with responses and Luna will generate suggested items to include.
Review the suggested items directly in the activity editor.
Accept, reject, or regenerate individual suggestions. You can also accept or reject all suggestions at once.
Once accepted, generated items are added to the formative. If needed, open the item menu and select `Undo Luna` to revert an accepted Luna change.
You can continue chatting with Luna to add more items or edit the newly created formative.
Generate Practice Set
Select 'Generate practice set'
Allow Luna some time to process your request
Once done, Luna will display a confirmation message at the bottom of the screen
Scroll to the bottom of the Insights tab, the newly created follow-up practice set will be accessible from the Practice Progress section
From here you can assign the set, view progress on it, or pop it open in a new tab
You can also head over to your Practice Sets tab to locate the generated follow up set
Click into the practice set to review the cards and edit as needed, share and assign
