Melaa™
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Small Groups & Sharing Snapshots

Band your roster into proficiency groups for stations, and hand a co-teacher a read-only student snapshot.

Build small groups

  1. Open "Groups" above your student list and choose "Auto-band by proficiency" (visible when you have 2+ students). From the "By class section" view you can also click "Auto-band these" to band just that class.
  2. Auto-band works on whatever you're already looking at: the students you've selected manually, the class you've filtered to, or your whole roster. A Band row at the top of the builder shows each available scope with its student count so you can switch between them.
  3. Pick the domain you're teaching - Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking, or Overall - and Melaa bands those students into Foundational (levels 1-2), Building (3-4), and Extending (5-6) groups.
  4. Each group comes with a level-appropriate instructional focus, and students without a score in that domain are listed so you can place them by judgment.
  5. "Print groups" makes a station-planning sheet. Groups are a starting point - adjust for personalities and content knowledge.
  6. "Use in chat" on any group loads those students straight into the AI chat's Group mode, with the band (domain, levels, and focus) included as context. A chip above the student list shows which group is loaded.
  7. Bands bigger than 10 students split into balanced, score-adjacent sub-groups - pick one sub-group per chat and run the others in their own chats.

Changing the selection by hand turns the loaded band back into a regular custom group - the band context only applies while the selection matches the built group.

Share a student snapshot

  1. Select a student and click Share in their profile toolbar.
  2. Choose how long the link should live (7, 30, or 90 days) and click "Create link & copy".
  3. Send the link to the co-teacher, specialist, or sub who needs it. They see a one-page read-only snapshot - current levels, a short CAN DO summary, and active supports - no login needed.
  4. Links expire automatically, you can revoke any link immediately, and every view is logged for your admin's audit trail. A link also stops working if the person who created it is deactivated or no longer has access to the student. Read-only accounts can't create links.

Share links only with staff who work with the student - the snapshot is a confidential student record.

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