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Implementation guide: the first day, week and month

How a school starts Goal100 without new accounts, new passwords or student data. Written for principals, coaches and teachers.

What makes it simple. Today Goal100 has no student accounts. Teachers share a link, students open it in Chrome, and progress stays in that browser on that device. Students press “Send to my teacher” to make a short code; the teacher pastes codes into the teacher side to see mastery by lesson. Source: our How Goal100 helps teachers page and FAQ.

A suggested plan. No accounts, no student data; progress stays on each device.

Before day 1 (about one planning period)

Pick a team. One grade team or one subject, the same way the free 60-day pilot starts.
Open the course yourself from Courses by grade. Try the student side, then the teacher side (answer keys, NYS standard codes and the code reader).
Set the teacher PIN on your own device. It is a simple lock on that device only, not real security, so keep answer keys off student screens.
Choose the first 3 lessons. Lessons 1 to 3 of every course are in the Free Preview.
Check one Chromebook. 3D needs internet the first time. If a device cannot run 3D, the lesson shows text and pictures instead.
Science teachers: plan the Lab Safety and Equipment course before the first lab.

Checkmarks save only in this browser on this device.

Day 1: share one link

Share the link. Post the course link on your class page, or write the short address on the board. No sign-up, no email.
Show it on the board. Open the lesson on the classroom display and do the “do-it-together” example as a class. The Smart Board Academy shows how to use the board well.
Make it mine. Students set text size, language, pace and colors in Make it mine.
Teach the help ladder. Show “I'm stuck”: read slowly with a hint, remove one wrong answer, learn it another way, ask a teacher or classmate.
First code. At the end, every student presses “Send to my teacher” and gives you the code the way you choose (typed into a class form you already use, or written on an exit slip).

Never ask students for names in a Goal100 screen, emails or photos. The code is enough.

Week 1: build a routine

Students

One lesson step at a time, with the Listen button when helpful.
Goal: 100%. Mastered starts at 95%; 100% earns a gold Perfect star.
“Not yet” means try again with a new way to learn it.
A code at the end of each session.

Teachers

Paste codes into the class table on the teacher side.
Sort students into small reteach groups by lesson.
Use the two games in each Required lesson as a warm-up (games never change a grade).

Families (English and Spanish)

Send home the link to Families · Familias.
The 🌎 ES button at the top of the site switches pages to Spanish; every course has Spanish help.
Practice at home uses the same link, with no account.

Weeks 2 to 4: review and reteach

Spaced review appears by itselfGoal100 brings lessons back after 1 day, 1 week and 1 month. Leave a few minutes for these refreshes.
Codes become groupsOnce a week, look at the class table: who mastered each lesson, who is “not yet”. Reteach in small groups.
Add an Extra (optional)Extras help students succeed and are never graded. Keep them clearly apart from Required work.
Teachers share one tipAt a team meeting, each teacher shares one thing that worked on the board or in a group.

Day 30: look at it together

Use the measures your team chose before the pilot (for example lessons mastered, a short teacher survey and time saved). Write them on one page. The pilot runs 60 days, so day 30 is a midpoint check, not a decision.

See Evidence and logic model for example measures.

Template: one-page pilot report

Your team fills it in and prints it

Team and dates: [grade or subject team], [number] students, [start date] to [end date].
Goals we chose on day 1: [for example: share of assigned lessons marked Mastered; teacher survey average; minutes saved per week].
What we saw at day 30 and day 60: [numbers from your class tables and survey].
What we changed along the way: [one or two sentences].
Honest limits: no comparison group, so these numbers describe what happened; they do not prove cause.
Our decision: [continue / expand / stop], and why.

Two school examples

Example with made-up numbers

“Hillcrest Middle School”: a grade-6 math team

3 math teachers, 4 classes each, about 22 students per class. They start with lessons 1 to 3 of Grade 6 Math.

Classes: 3 teachers × 4 classes = 12 classes Students: 12 × 22 = 264 students Codes in week 1 (one per student per session, 3 sessions): 264 × 3 = 792 codes to paste Per teacher: 792 ÷ 3 = 264 codes in the week ≈ 53 a school day

What they changed: instead of pasting every code every day, each teacher pasted codes once at the end of the week and formed 3 reteach groups per class. Day 30: they compared the number of lessons marked Mastered in the class table with the goal they set on day 1.

Example with made-up numbers

“Riverside Intermediate”: science plus a family night

2 science teachers, 150 students, about 40% of families prefer Spanish at home (made-up).

Spanish-preferring families: 150 × 0.40 = 60 families Lab Safety course: 5 short sessions before the first lab Board time per session: about 10 minutes (an assumption) Total board time: 5 × 10 = 50 minutes over week 1

What they changed: teachers showed each Lab Safety lesson on the board, then students repeated the lesson on Chromebooks. At a family night, the team showed the 🌎 ES button and the Families page in Spanish, and sent the same link home.

Tips and honest limits

Shared devices: progress is kept in the browser on the device. A student who changes devices, or a device whose browser data is cleared, starts that device fresh. The code a student sent you is still in your class table.
Codes are made by students. Goal100 does not see them. Live class dashboards come only with district-approved accounts under a signed data privacy agreement.
The teacher PIN is not security. It is a convenience lock on one device.
Accessibility: every 3D scene and game has a text or alternative version. Read the Accessibility statement for known limits.

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Sources

Rules can change. If a link and this page ever disagree, the official page or the signed agreement wins.

How Goal100 helps teachers (codes, teacher PIN, games): goal100.html (checked Nov 7, 2026)
FAQ (devices, 3D needs internet the first time, Spanish): faq.html (checked Nov 7, 2026)
Schools page (free 60-day pilot steps): schools.html (checked Nov 7, 2026)
Accessibility statement: accessibility.html (checked Nov 7, 2026)
Student Data Privacy: student-data-privacy.html (checked Nov 7, 2026)