Teachers: Getting Started with Prodigy

Prodigy is a fun, curriculum-aligned, adaptive, online game-based learning platform. Prodigy makes our Math and English curriculum-aligned educational content available to everyone, so we can continue to strive towards our goal of helping every student in the world love learning!

Featuring over 50,000 Math questions spanning Grades 1-8 (and over 12,000 English questions spanning Grades 1-6), players will get to watch their very own character grow stronger, learn new abilities, and acquire new pets and equipment - all by answering questions! We're always adding new game and educational content to help your learners reach their fullest potential!

Free to Use

We offer completely optional membership subscriptions for students —  giving them access to increased levels of customization, the ability to collect a larger number of pets or currency, faster levelling, and added in-game rewards.

Membership is not required to access the in-game curriculum-aligned Math and English content. The vast majority of our users make use of Prodigy at no cost!

Curriculum Aligned

Prodigy's questions align themselves directly to many different curricula so you can ensure your students are getting content that matches what you're teaching in class.

By aligned, we mean we arrange all available content by grade level and expectation (or standard) in keeping with the way it’s arranged in your curriculum. Plus, we're adding new content all the time!

Learn more about our Math curricula here and our English curricula here.

Adaptive

Prodigy makes use of a proprietary algorithm in order to automatically deliver appropriate material for students. When a student begins playing Prodigy, they’re automatically put through a placement test to determine the appropriate starting grade. Afterwards, we're constantly examining their progress through our curriculum tree to determine the next skill they should receive. If they're doing well on a topic, we'll move them to the next one in the grade. If they're struggling with a skill we'll pull them back to a prerequisite to get some practice before giving them another shot.

Want more customization than that? We give teachers the option to assess their student's knowledge of a skill by creating assignments for them. Assignments immediately insert selected skills into the game for students the next time they play. You'll even get a report you can view during and after they complete it!

Online

There are a variety of ways to access the no-cost world of Prodigy for teachers, students and parents on a wide array of devices!

Because Prodigy is web-based, students can play the game both in school and at home, or even on vacation! Anywhere they have access to the internet, students can access Prodigy's exciting online world.

We work hard to ensure Prodigy can be accessed on a wide variety of platforms including PCs, Chromebooks, iPads and Android devices. Either through a web browser or through our iPad or Android apps, students can play Prodigy on the breadth of devices available to them in the new and amazing world of technology we live in today.

View our supported platforms guide for more details!

RPG-style video game

RPG stands for "Role-Playing Game", which means you take on or "play" the "role" of a character in the immersive Prodigy world. When your students begin to play, they'll start by creating a character that represents them in the Prodigy world. These characters have their own names, appearance, items and skills which develop and change as students play.

Getting Started

Now that you have an understanding of what Prodigy is, the information below will help you get started.

Account Setup

To start with, it's important to know that Prodigy offers three different types of free accounts: 

Teachers - Used by teachers & home school teachers. This account has access to tools like assignment creation and reports, and support for multiple classes. 

Parents - Used by parents or guardians. This account type allows parents to monitor their child(ren)'s progress in Prodigy, retrieve their login credentials, and more! 

Students - Used by students. These accounts are used to log in and play the game only. They’re not allowed access to the logged-in components of the teacher/parent website which are restricted to parent/teacher account holders. 

If you're a teacher looking to get started, you'll first want to create your free Prodigy Teacher Account! 

1. Follow the instructions in the article below:

2. Read the article below and to get your class(es) and students connected with your account: 

3. Now you're ready to let your students work through their Placement Test, or you can get started with an Assignment!  Learn more below:

Tools and Reports

Prodigy offers a number of reports to help you track your students' progress.  To view them, you'll need to log into Prodigy if you haven't already. This article explains how:

After you log in, you'll be brought to your Dashboard page. If you'd like to learn more about your Dashboard, check out these articles:

From the class dashboard, you can do a number of things such as view reports, print student login information or personalized letters to send home to parents, align Prodigy content to your in-class content through Assignments, and change passwords and grade levels for your students. Learn about all of these features by checking out the articles linked here:

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