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  • Managing students

    How to add, remove and move students to and from your student sets.

  • 5 tips for success with Mastery Mode

    Keep it short. Students will do 5 minutes per day quite happily. Keep your assignment to a single quiz, at least until you have feedback from the students. Explain the principle to your students. They many not be used to homeworks that enforce a daily routine, and some will moan like heck at you that…

  • Introducing Mastery Mode

    If you are a fan of Mastery Learning  you are going to love our latest feature. When assigning, you will find the setup dialog has changed slightly. There is a new item “Mode”. When you change this, you see

  • Measure confidence, reward improvement

    I am really excited about these two new metrics added to the Results page. They give you a view of each student you have not had before, and which you can use today to improve the quality of their

  • 62.5% is the ideal quiz score. Here’s why

     What is the optimum average score for a quiz? 100%? Not in my view. It is 62.5%, or a number close to that. When using a quiz as a summative assessment, your goal is maximum discrimination. That is, you want to be able to see as clearly as possible which students have ‘got it’ and…