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Great teachers spend less time marking and more time teaching
Our Grammar Soundalikes course has been getting more popular recently, with over 17,000 uses in the last year alone. The diagnostic assessment has had over 10,000 runs just by itself, so I thought it would be interesting to look at what students know – and what they don’t know. Best and worst spelling results: The…
If you fancy extending your authoring skills over the holiday, check out Yacapaca’s list of permitted embeds, which I have just updated. Author Kevin O’Driscoll has produced some great exemplar material combining video with quizzes. Try his course AIMS practice: Strand 1: Number Sense to get
In a traditional test, one does not give feedback at all. This is a result of the limitations of the medium; give feedback on paper and you also give the game away. Working online, you can give extended feedback as soon as the question is answered, but how do you do it for maximum effect?…
Teachers’ time is too valuable to be wasted grading assignments… …so let computers do the mundane work, and just give you the results. Students’ time is too valuable to be wasted on summative assessments… …so turn every assessment into a formative learning experience as well. Let’s all work together… …so anything one person does will…
Here’s a question I get asked a lot: How can I create a quiz with more than 100 questions in it? Answer: don’t. 100 questions is your limit, but I recommend you make quizzes much shorter than this. Here is why: A typical quiz cycle is based on 1 minute per question. Very few children…
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