Chalkface Blog
The best teaching materials in the most practical format.
Author: Ian Grove-Stephensen
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We have significantly improved the way that marking works – particularly for essays and portfolio assignments. After you mark an assignment, it will by default stay open for the student to have another go. Just above the ‘save’ button on the markscreen, there is a new dropdown called “Prevent further changes by student?”. This allows…
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This morning’s TES came with no fewer than three heavy job supplements. The staffing crisis is now so bad that the Secondary Heads Association has had to issue an edict against schools poaching each others’ best teachers. Costs are going through the roof the TES is making a mint out of all this advertising, all…
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Yesterday I was invited to look through the work of a class following our Applied Business GCSE scheme. Privacy rules normally prevent me from doing this, so it’s a real privilege to be allowed to have a root around. One thing I discovered was a pattern of two students who often got the same marks…
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Whilst the roots of elearning lie in the US military, current developments are driven by a very diverse international group that collaborates under the auspices of the International Standards Organisation’s Joint Technical Group SC36. I keep a watching brief on this through my membership of the BSI committee (IST/43) that feeds British contributions into the…
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Reuters – wild cheering today greeted the official launch of SCORM 2004 (the excitingly-renamed SCORM 1.3) amidst all the pomp and splendour of the ADL court. World leaders got themselves interviewed in front of national monuments about it, Romania declared today a national holiday and the Royal Mint minted a special commemorative coin. The most…
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