We just launched a new feature that helps teachers add explanations to struggling questions. Check out the feature in the new "Experimental" section:

You can also read more about this feature in this article.

We recently made some quality-of-life improvements and also added a feature to make it easier for teachers to review struggling questions with their students. You can read all about these changes in our latest community update!

Hi all, to prevent your students' personal decks from building up too much during the Thanksgiving break, please consider freezing their personal decks. For more details, check out this article in our community space: https://community.podsie.org/posts/important-reminder-freeze-your-personal-decks-during-the-thanksgiving-holiday

We recently added a teacher homepage and the ability to sort standards categories and standards! You can read more details, ask questions, or provide feedback about these features here: https://community.podsie.org/posts/102021-updates

This past week, we added another view to allow teachers to gain further insights into the state of their students' Personal Decks. First, we removed the Personal Deck view from the class page:

We moved this view to the Student Progress view. There, we added a view where you can now see the number of questions a student has currently due, how many are about to be due in the upcoming week, and how many are due more than a week out:

Personal deck reviews are now broken up into individual sessions. By default, each session will have at max 20 questions in it:

Concretely, this means the following:

1. Let's say for example that a student had 68 questions due. When a student starts a study session, it will pull the 20 most due questions into a study session. 

2. If a student misses a question during the study session, that missed question will appear at the end of those 20 questions, and not at the end of the 68 questions. This will allow students to progress through review questions in a chunked manner.

3. When students complete the 20 questions, they will get an opportunity to review their progress, and then start another study session. 

Please feel free to email me at josh@podsie.org if you have any thoughts or feedback on the way this is set up!

Teachers can now see breakdowns of individual question performance. To navigate there, click on Student Progress on the left sidebar:

Then, select the Question Progress tab:

This page provides insight on how students are doing on each specific question.

We've added the ability to add variations to a question. Here's how it works.

- Go to the 'Edit Questions' page under an assignment.

- Once you're there, you can either select a question that's part of the assignment, or an existing question from older assignments:

- Then, click on the pencil icon, which now has a number badge over it:

- Once you're there, you can add variations to this question:

What this means is that once a student comes across this question in their personal decks, instead of seeing that same question every single time, the student will see one of the questions out of the combination of the base question and its variations (the logic for how a question is selected is explained if you hover over the 'How does this work?' text).

This goal here is prevent students from purely memorizing answers to a question over time without understanding the underlying concept that's being assessed.

We've just added the ability to select individual students for assigning assignments in addition to entire classes.

We added notifications on the teacher and student side. For now, the only notifications you'll get are when our system detects that a student has perhaps inacurrately self-assessed themselves on a free response question. Eventually, we plan on adding more notifications on other useful events (e.g. when several students are underperforming on a question); please let us know if there's one that you'd be interested in having.

When you get that notification, you'll get the opportunity to either keep the student rating or to override it with your rating:

If you choose to override it and mark it as incorrect, then your student will get a notification about it:

After you're done with the notification, you can archive it: