Reading Time

When students go to an article page, a timer begins to count how long they spend on the article and its activities. Active Time (on Article) indicates how long a student spent actively working on an assignment at a specific reading level.

Review Student Time on Article

For an overview of average reading times for your students, teachers with paid subscriptions can go to their Classroom Data Report and look at the Active Time column. From here, teachers can navigate into any individual student's Reading Report page, where they can view their Active Time for a specific class or article. 

How Active Time is Recorded

Active Time on article is based on a student's session on the page. A new session begins when a student opens an article. The timer will begin to record the time spent on the article. The timer will pause after 60 seconds of inactivity (no scrolling or clicking on the article page). When the student begins scrolling or clicking on the article page again, the timer will resume. A session will continue until the student completes one of the following actions:

• Changes the reading level of the article

• Navigates to a different page within Newsela

• Closes the window

The time will only be sent to the teacher’s Classroom Data Report when the session is over.

Troubleshooting

There may be a delay between a student's reading activity and the time being added to the Teacher Binder. If the time is still not showing up after 24 hours, please contact us so we can look into this. Let us know what student is affected and for which article. In addition, please give us your student's device details available here: https://www.whatsmybrowser.org/.