Re-ordering and Foldering your Word Lists

Some teachers have to manage a lot of lists. Those working with lots of classrooms or grades can have hundreds of lists that they need to manage for a single school year.

We rolled out some tools to let you organize your word lists in a much more flexible way.

Watch this short video, or read below.

Sort Word Lists Manually

Many teachers have reached out to me, wanting to be able to sort their lists of words in chronological order. They want to follow the word lists by-week from curricula such as UFLI, Orton-Gillingham, and Words Their Way.

To reorder, start by tapping on the Reorder Lists button:

(The Reorder Lists button will appear when you have 3 or more word lists.)

You will then see drag handles (6 dots) appear to the left of each Word List:

You can now drag the drag handle, and drop to reorder into a different order.

When you are done, tap on the Done button:

Sort All Word Lists by Name

If you have a lot of Word Lists and want to sort them all by name, start by tapping on the Reorder Lists button:

(The Reorder Lists button will appear when you have 3 or more word lists.)

You will then see two arrows, an Up and a Down arrow, next to the Name table header:

Tap on the Up arrow to sort Ascending (e.g. A to Z), or on the Down arrow to sort Descending (e.g. Z to A).

After tapping on either arrow, you will be asked to confirm. Tap OK, and your list will be sorted. Note that this will override any manual reordering you may have done earlier.

Create and manage Folders

Spelling Test Buddy lets you organize your Word Lists into Folders. This is useful if you manage Word Lists for multiple grade levels, levels of differentiation, or generally need to organize your lists.

To create a folder, tap on New Folder:

Name your folder and tap Create Folder:

Your folder is created. Note the 0 indicates that has zero word lists within it:

Move Word Lists into Folders

To move a Word List into a Folder, tap on the three dots to the right of the folder, and tap on Move to Folder:

Choose your folder name, and tap Move:

Your Word List has been moved to the folder:

You can open the Folder by tapping on the Folder name:

I hope this is a helpful addition for those of you managing a lot of word lists in Spelling Test Buddy.

Please send me your feedback!

Jason