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What is it?

  • Free social learning network for teachers, students, schools and districts

  • Provides an engaging platform for blended learning and safe, productive social networking

  • Safe and easy way to:
    • Connect
    • Exchange ideas
    • Share content
    • Access homework, grades and school notices.

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Groups

  • Easy to create student groups
  • Each group has a code
  • You can open communication channels
  • Resources bank – Share with whichever group you like

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Polls

    • Create polls for students to answer.

Assignments:

    • Create them from scratch
    • Load an existing one
    • Set a date
    • Will appear in the student calendar
    • These can be sent to multiple

groups

Marking:

    • Grade work and add comments
    • Annotate work for students to see(Word Docs for example)
      • Download annotated work
    • Students can resubmit assignments
    • Grade book
      • Export to Excel
      • Students can view their own grade books

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Quizzes

    • Create quizzes to assign to groups
    • Can be:
      • True/False
      • Multiple Choice
      • Fill in the blanks
      • Short Answer
    • You can set time limits
    • Quizzes are self marking (Except short answers)
    • Can give instant results to students
    • You can put results directly into mark book
    • Perfect for homework or perhaps exams? Massive time saver.

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Badges

    • Badges can be awarded to students
      • You can choose ready made ones or create your own.
    • Students can collect them and they appear on their profile.

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Communities

    • Join communities
    • Lots of free resources from all around the world
    • Apps coming very soon.

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Mobile Devices

Available for:

  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • iPod Touch
  • Android