How do I use the portal?

A detailed explanation manual

To maximise efficiency when you use the Sonic Phonics Teacher Tool, we encourage you to read through our manual below to understand how each aspect can enhance the connection between your teaching style and your students’ learning.

Quick Start Guide

Draft of points based off new updates screenshots:

• Every time a student plays an activity in the Sonic Phonics app, their voice-based attempts are logged.
• Teachers can see how many attempts it took to succeed, helping identify areas where students struggle with particular sounds or words.
• A 3 star system shows how confidently the child performed: 1–3 stars based on accuracy and consistency.

Highlight struggled sounds and letters

• Automatically flags phonemes that each child finds difficult.
• Helps teachers focus on specific learning needs (e.g. child mishears or mispronounces M or A repeatedly).

Time spent vs progress visuals

• Infographic-style summaries show how much time a student is spending and what progress that time leads to.
• Helps spot children who may be disengaged, or working hard but not progressing — without complex graphs.

Classroom and individual views

• Teachers can switch between whole-class insights and individual student pages.
• See class averages, common struggle points, and how one child compares to the group without framing it as competition.

Failure before success metrics [J-NOTE not percentages anymore]

• This encourages a growth mindset, especially for kids who take longer to learn.
• Each student’s journey shows how many failed attempts led to eventual success, emphasizing growth over perfection.

Voice specific feedback [web?]

• Designed to work with New Zealand English and diverse accents, the tool gives teachers confidence that it’s assessing based on how their students actually speak.
• Errors caused by background noise or mic issues are accounted for in the accuracy logic.