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  • Consumer choice has gone too far!

    seasonal toilet rolls

    Spotted in Tesco this morning.

  • Managing student sets and logins

    We get a lot of enquiries like this one from Geoff Welch.

    • When setting up pupils how do we set up pupil accounts so that different staff can set tasks for the same pupils?

    Time for a screencast!

  • Quiz authoring statistics video

    If you want to write really good quizzes, don’t expect to get them right first time. Here is a tool for monitoring results aggregated across all users. It helps you to spot questions that are not working for one reason or another, and to work out how to improve them.

  • Do you teach like this?

     When I tried to make this point it ran to 1,052 words. So, instead here’s the way the  inspiring Mr Moses did it, in just 52 words and a picture.

    Question: Do you teach like this?
    do-you-teach-like-this.jpg

    If so, tell me how and why that can’t be automated? Record your lecture once. Give your students a reading. Give your students a worksheet. Grade and repeat.

    Don’t think that teaching this way can be done with just the computer and without you? Think again.

  • 1000 teachers per day

    Yacapaca has just this minute hit 1000 teacher signing on in a single day, and I’m dancing around the room in glee.