Managing calculator availability gives teachers greater flexibility to align assignments with their instructional goals and student needs. Whether you're assessing students' fluency without a calculator, allowing calculator use for complex problem solving, or providing access as part of a student's accommodations or individualized learning plan, you can choose the setting that best supports the assignment objectives.
By default, calculators are accessible to all students for all assignments. If you choose to turn calculator access Off for a specific assignment, the change applies only to that assignment. Past assignments and future assignments will continue to use their own calculator availability setting.
Calculators will either appear or be hidden based on their assignment settings
1. Select and Add for one ore more an interactive assignments.
2. Click Assign.
3. Choose Playlist or Separate Assignments. Then, click Next.
4. Resources with available calculator access will show the square calculator icon next to the resource title. NOTE: If no calculator icon is visible, calculator access is not available for this resource.
5. Click Next, set the assignment dates, and click Next again.
6. On the Students screen, you may adjust calculator settings for the whole class or individual students.
To adjust calculator settings for the whole class:
To adjust calculator settings for individual students:
1. Use Class Settings to make Calculator > Unavailable for the whole class. You’ll notice the calculator icons disappear next to all student names in that class.
2. On the student row, click the 3 dots for Student Settings to make Calculator > Available for just that student. The calculator icon will appear on the student’s row.
In this example, the calculator has been turned off for the class, but exceptions have been made for Jacob and Olivia:
Adjusting calculator availability within a Playlist works the same as for a single assignment.
All of these types support adjusting calculator settings.
ReadyChecks (Topic and Module level) ✅
Pre & Post Tests ✅
End-of-Topic Tests ✅
Standardized Tests ✅
Snapshot Assessments ✅
End-of-Module Tests ✅
Practice Assignment ✅
Stretch Assignment ✅
Exit Tickets ✅
Spaced Review ✅
End-of-Topic Practice ✅
Skills Practice ✅
Beginning of year/Middle of year/End of year ✅
Adjusting the calculator settings is not available for MATHia and MATHStream activities.
