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Tag: analytics
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I have been experimenting this morning running Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) over students’ peer feedback responses. So far, all I’ve done is analyse the last 50,000 responses in aggregate, and only on a few dimensions. Here is what I found: The ‘personal’ and ‘formal’ columns are comparison averages generated by the system. I assume…
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Today we launched a redesigned Gradebook that gives you a lot more information at a glance. Columns are colour-coded for assignment type. In the example above, you can
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How useful would it be to know what time your students really sit down to do their homework, and how long they actually spend on it? Well, now you can, because we have updated the Homework and Revision logs. Here’s what the
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Since last October, we’ve been having what amounts to the most gigantic spring clean. Noticing that some teachers were re-uploading the same group of students each time they wanted to assign work (slap wrist!) we started cautiously de-duplicating the student list. And we went very cautiously; many schools have two or more students of the…
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