1.5.6 LearnBoost
LearnBoost is a tool that helps teachers to manage their classrooms. It keeps track of student progress, generates reports for parents and students, supports analytics and statistics. It can also create lesson plans integrated into a dynamic calendar, track attendance, integrate Google Apps, and tag Common Core State Standards.
This tool has a lot of the basic and broad needs for a teacher to effectively manage a class and see how students are doing.
Good Features:
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Simplistic, non-cluttered screens.
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Student, teacher, and parent modes.
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Statistics provided per class (average, min, max) along with automatic report generation
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Option to provide comments to individual students on every input assignment
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History of grades and attendance available to students/parents
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Student info section gives detailed information on each student enrolled
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Filtered Analysis and Statistics for individual assignments, all assignments, individual student, all students
Bad Features:
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Not enough unique assignment types
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Too many irrelevant features. (Attendance, parent reports, etc)
Missing Features:
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Customizable assignent types
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Grouped assignments
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No histogram for dynamically changing a curve.
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Online assignment submission
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Messaging/email service between instructor and students
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