Course Statistic Report
Ready and waiting for teacher assessed grades
Course Statistic Report
Ready and waiting for teacher assessed grades
All of a sudden there is huge interest in building a solid base of objective learning data. Fortunately, there is easily enough time to do this given the switch to online learning and increased student enthusiasm to engage with this now they know their teacher holds the trump grade cards.
I spoke to one of our schools yesterday about TAGs and downloaded a gradebook based on our End of Module (section) Assessments which aim to provide a syllabus knowledge audit. Voila!
Teaching benefits:
A solution that can take the heat out of online lessons.
In order to enhance integrity, assessments can be completed within online lessons. An excellent advance relative to the quality of lessons that can be delivered due to onerous online restrictions.
All of our courses provide the same opportunities to support TAG
We are currently offering a 6-month subscription to accommodate this shift in circumstances.
January 2021
Before online lessons commence again there are many grounds for reflecting a little on how these are run, what they achieve and if the experience can be improved.
A good place to start is the experiences of teachers that have isolated or have had to teach isolated year groups/classes. Almost all of our discussions with teachers indicate that online lessons in its current form help to maintain a timetable and register, but that these lessons can be frustrating, stressful and achieve far less than physical classes.
In many ways this is because VC tech was not designed for larger meetings for young people with video cams switched off and participants muted or for meetings where you need to understand what everyone is doing and make sure everyone completes the same task. The difficulties shouldn’t be surprising and can be highlighted with some simple analysis.
Class location |
||
Class characteristics |
School |
Online |
Maintain timetabled lessons |
✓ |
✓ |
Attendance register |
✓ |
✓ |
Teacher eyes and ears on |
✓ |
x |
Efficacy of self marking |
✓ |
x |
Ease of peer marking |
✓ |
x |
Speed of mark collection |
✓ |
x |
Visual verification of work |
✓ |
x |
Engagement awareness |
✓ |
x |
Note taking awareness |
✓ |
x |
Ease of question asking |
✓ |
x |
AFL |
✓ ✓ | ✓ |
This week, for the third time, EzyEducation supported the Economics in Action event. This event is principally designed to provide students with access to professional economists and our role is to focus on the approach of exams and good technique.
Due to the pandemic this was conducted online with pre-recorded sessions. EzyEducation's presentation is below. Apart from some useful insights into exams and essay writing this also highlights our new green screen set up.
Examination Support
There are plenty of exam resources within our courses. Here are some complimentary samples:
These represent the tip of our iceberg. Book a demo here to see the full story.
Economics in Action - Introducing your students to some of UK's top economists
This event is definitely worth finding out about. This year they had a highly impressive list of professional economists speaking.
Stephen King, Senior Economic Adviser at HSBC - What happens when the money runs out?
Becky Maule, Bank of England - Monetary Policy.
Ayeisha Thomas-Smith, New Economics Foundation and Broadcaster - Coronavirus and the legacy of austerity.
Sam Dumitriu, Adam Smith Institute - The Economics of Uber.
Tim Harford OBE, Economist, journalist and author - How to make the world add up.
EzyEconomics Snapshot Booklet:
The free Augmented Reality app allows students to create a very personalised experience on their phone which can work without a connection. This is how it might work if a Y12 user decided to set up all the videos covering last half term and forthcoming material.
The main thing to appreciate is that the update process cannot delete students or their records. It will simply update the class allocations for students and teachers and add new users.
Things to avoid
How does it work:
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EzyEducation Ltd
September 2020
For most students, engagement doesn’t just happen. In this respect digital is no different to any other activity in schools. Regardless of the quality of digital or other activities, engagement has to be managed and clearly evidencing engagement is perhaps the most important aspect of this.
We have responded to this with some exciting service enhancements which use automation to take all the work and effort out of managing engagement while improving student awareness and accountability.
Effortless 121 reviews in just 2 clicks – rapid access to personalised assignment hub data or student gradebook via links in school management.
A lot of additional functionality has been introduced over the last few months (hopefully you have noticed some helpful improvements). Before covering these, I need to start with some details regarding necessary GDPR actions.
GDPR
During March 2020 we will delete personal data held in our archive. As this should contain students and teachers that are no longer subscribed this should not present any issues for schools.
Please make contact to advise any reason why we should not delete your School’s archive.
Snapshot Booklets - School Discounts
We have upgraded the tech support for these. This delivers a vastly improved student experience.
Following our first Augmented Reality offer we are delighted to launch a new and much improved range of snapshot booklets supported by our new Augmented Reality partner ZapWorks.
The App is free and simple to set up and generates AR experiences rapidly. It provides access to a video play or download option, PDF material and links to more detailed video content or formative assessment activities within our courses. All achieved without letting go of your device.
Over the last 12 months, your students have been very busy. Over 3.3m questions answered.
As a result of this activity, your students will now reap the rewards of all this work with a QLA empowered gradebook.
The new gradebook is planned for release on Monday 23rd December 2019.
When students next login after this release they will have access to a new gradebook. This provides:
Some additional benefits:
Although this has been thoroughly tested please do let us know if you run into any issues over the Xmas holidays at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Finally, we would like to thank all our schools and their students for their support this year. Our business relies on your support and we hope to continue to meet the needs of schools in 2020 with high quality, time-saving and data-driven learning system that takes the heat off teachers and helps them to help their students achieve more.
Happy Xmas and best wishes for 2020
EzyEducation Team.
Today some changes to the Assignment Hub were released. These apply to student users:
A more significant change will be a new student gradebook. This is scheduled for release on 21/12/19 and will provide a single Html page with details of
This will enter the final test phase soon thanks to the help of some of our student users. Watch out for updates.
This week's edition of the Weekly 5 recaps some important business stories of the past week. If you are an A-Level Economics student there is an interesting article about UK productivity, as well as a story on global tax systems and standards.
The main stories, as chosen by our team this week:
This week's edition of the Weekly 5 recaps some important economics stories of the past week. If you are an A-Level Business student these topics will help prepare you for the Global Business section of the course.
The main stories, as chosen by our team this week:
Alongside these stories you will also discover some additional features such as:
Click here to access the full PDF version
Stay tuned for further editions of the Weekly 5 released weekly during term time!
The Weekly 5 is back with a fresh new look! After three years of producing the Weekly 5, the team at EzyEconomics and EzyBusiness have combined their efforts to produce a weekly newsletter that includes features designed to recap the key talking points of the week, help students improve exam technique and their data analysis skills, and satisfy the appetite of those students who are passionate about the subject.
The upgrade has seen a host of new additional features built into the discussion about the current issues in real world business and economies. These features include the discussion of the key figures behind an economic theory or business idea, analysing the charts and big numbers that are making the headlines and a series of quantitative and written based questions which build upon the reports in the newsletter.
The editions for business and economics will run in alternative weeks during term time. This week's edition focuses primarily on business stories, but there is plenty of scope for crossover for economics students.
We hope that you had an enjoyable and sun-soaked summer break! Here at EzyEconomics the team have been busy putting together a summary of the latest economics news for you to recap the main stories that have unfolded over the summer. This is a gentle recap document of a broad selection of stories related to many of the main topics and concepts that you will come across throughout your studies of A-Level Economics. For each of the stories featured in the recap document, we have placed an external link taking you to a more detailed report written on this story for further reading if you wish to do so.
We have introduced a number of improvements to the Assignment Hub.
Please see below for details and instructions:
We are currently in the process of giving the courses a "face-lift" to improve the student and teacher interface and user experience when navigating through the course home page. The main changes for the Econ. courses are detailed here. Similar changes will be implemented Science and Maths through the rest of the summer.
Course Description:
This week's Weekly 5 covers stories ranging from a political perspective to a sporting one! If anyone is unfamiliar with this regular feature it aims to provide you with a short summary of some of the most significant and interesting stories of the week across and within economies around the world. This helps keep you up to date with the news, whilst at the same time provide you with examples of economic theories and policies in action in the real world.
The Weekly 5 returns for its last edition before the May Half-Term! If anyone is unfamiliar with this regular feature it aims to provide you with a short summary of some of the most significant and interesting stories of the week across and within economies around the world. This helps keep you up to date with the news, whilst at the same time provide you with examples of economic theories and policies in action in the real world.