Santa Monica, CA (December 12, 2018): Classtime now supports Clever integration, allowing more students and teachers across the US to single-sign on to Classtime via Clever. With this first step of their partnership, Clever and Classtime set the best practices in privacy, security, and data control to help US districts and applications keep student data safe. “With more than 50% of U.S. K-12 schools on the Clever platform, Classtime is excited to provide an additional way for students and teachers to quickly and securely enjoy our education technology.” says Pollock Technologies’ CEO US Valentin Ruest. “It perfectly complements …
Go Pollock is now Classtime
Santa Monica, CA (August 09, 2018): Pollock Technologies, announced that – after listening to their valued community and thoroughly discussing their brand – they have changed the name of their flagship product from Go Pollock to Classtime. “We hope you agree that Classtime makes it easier to understand what our product is about: having a great time in your class with your students and spending it most effectively and efficiently,” says Pollock Technologies’ CEO Europe Jan Rihak. “We also hope that it will make it easier for your students and colleagues to join your Sessions.” The new website address is classtime.com (all current URLs for …
Introducing Go Pollock Premium
Santa Monica, CA (February 21, 2018): Pollock Technologies, today, announced a new Premium plan addition to their flagship product Go Pollock. This Premium plan includes features such as auto-grading, detailed excel exports with individual student scores and answers, and the ability to launch Sessions for classes larger than 40 students. In order to sustain revenue and continue building new features and products, the company has introduced a subscription plan that includes premium features to help educators save time on preparing and analyzing their lessons so they can focus on spending more time delivering the best teaching method possible. “Go Pollock Premium is …
Go Pollock now available on SoftwareONE ACADEMIC
Santa Monica, CA (December 20 , 2017): Go Pollock has partnered with SoftwareONE ACADEMIC to deliver an exclusive offering. From December 20th through March 31st of 2018, SoftwareONE ACADEMIC customers, both teachers and administrators, have the unique opportunity to use Go Pollock’s EdTech Solution for free via SoftwareONE’s ACADEMIC portal. This is Go Pollock’s first special licensing deal with a professional distributor. “We are excited to have our first collaboration with a professional EdTech distributor to end 2017.” says Jan Rihak, one of the Founders of Go Pollock. “This is a great opportunity to reach a larger educator base and show more teachers how Go Pollock …
Go Pollock at Accenture Innovation Awards
Santa Monica, CA (September 26, 2017): Pollock Technologies was invited as one out of 750 companies to the Accenture Innovation Summit 2017 which is to take place on October 27th at De Fabrique, Utrecht. Go Pollock has now been named one of the 5 finalists of the ‘Skills to Succeed’ category. With the perfect stage to test the newest product innovations, Go Pollock will be presenting Collaborative Challenges. Go Pollock’s Collaborative Challenges enable the teacher to create a narrative around their lesson plan and link the narrative to the learning goal. These stories can be leveraged for various subjects to inspire student …
Go Pollock Now California Student Privacy Alliance Approved
Santa Monica, CA (August 29, 2017): Pollock Technologies has signed the California Student Privacy Alliance V1 agreement with Southern California’s Tustin Unified School District. “The agreement has been reviewed by several sets of legal and subject matter experts ranging from the Federal government, private attorneys, and educators working in the data privacy field both within the State of California and beyond. Users of this document can know, with a high degree of confidence, that it meets both the requirements of Federal and California State law,” says the CETPA website. Go Pollock has also signed the General Offer of Terms, Exhibit E, meaning that …
Introducing Go Pollock in Different Languages for Teachers
Santa Monica, CA (August 29, 2017): Go Pollock, today, announced the addition of languages available for teachers. After launching Go Pollock in different languages for students, there was a greater need to the teacher side of the app to be available in different languages as well. To change to another language, teachers can switch the language toggle at the top of the screen. The initial launch includes German, Turkish, Ukranian, Russian, and Portuguese. These will soon be followed by Spanish, French and other languages. “The Go Pollock community is diverse and we want to be able to offer the product for …
Bundled Free Text Validation
Santa Monica, CA (July 21, 2017): Today, Go Pollock introduces bundled free text validation. This new feature groups identical open ended responses and allows you to validate all corresponding student answers with one click, saving the teacher time by not having to individually validate student answers. With this update, all validations are saved in the app so the next time the teacher used the question, the answers that were previously validated will be automatically confirmed. “Our goal is that this new validation solution will make Go Pollock even more valuable for teachers,” says Pollock Technologies’ CEO Valentin Ruest. “Free text …
Go Pollock Now Available in Bulgarian and Other Languages for Students
Santa Monica, CA (June 01, 2017): Go Pollock, today, announced the addition of languages available for students. With this update, Go Pollock can now be used in classrooms speaking languages other than English. Once the students get their access code, the student side of the product, including the instructions, questions, and answers, will be in the language chosen by the teacher. Due to a request from a teacher, the first language available for students will be Bulgarian. Other languages will immediately follow, including Finnish, French, German, Greek, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Ukrainian. While Go Pollock will now offer additional languages …
Go Pollock Introduces Collaborative Stories
Santa Monica, CA (May 17, 2017): Today, Pollock Technologies introduced the Collaborative Story, which allows educators to more easily engage and focus the entire class in a collective purpose while simultaneously gaining real-time insights into every students’ understanding of the material so they can intervene as necessary. This new feature enables teachers to develop the lesson around a meaningful narrative that presents a problem which students must work together to solve. In its ability to create an educational experience that is active, social, contextual, engaging and student-owned, the Collaborative Story leads to deeper learning and prepares students for real-life work situations. …