The CAASPP Math exam poses unique challenges that contribute to students' struggle to meet academic standards, ultimately causing many districts to see low CAASPP results. Unlike traditional...
As an educator, you are most likely aware of the CAASPP Math tests, which are administered annually to students in many US states and are designed to measure student proficiency in math and English...
The majority of CAASPP practice tests aim to prepare students for the complex questions included on the CAASPP, but ultimately fail to help students practice the types of Mathematical Strategic...
In comparison to the California Standards Test (CST), the CAASPP presents a wider variety of challenges for students and educators to overcome. In order to address the unique CAASPP stressors, it is...
While the pandemic may be coming to an end, the long-lasting effects on students around the globe remain. Due to the break from the classroom, districts are noticing a rise in behavioral issues and...
What is Digital Citizenship?
Over the past few years, the impact of the pandemic has created a massive need to digitalize the classroom. With technology becoming an integral part of the lives...
Orange Unified School District educator, Ray Melchor, has been using Classtime since 2020 to effectively track student progress and identify learning gaps. He says that his students are very engaged...
Educator Lisa Piccione from Rochester City School District was looking for a solution that would give her real-time insight into her students’ performance. She knew that having access to real-time...
Classtime has been working with Dillon School District Four since 2018 by supporting their schools with formative and summative assessments. Dillon educator Ramona McKoy-Cummings has been using...
Demands for Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) resources have been on the rise post-pandemic. According to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s 7th Annual Educator Confidence Report, 56% of educators ranked...
Classtime has been working with Allegiance STEAM Academy (ASA Thrive) in Chino CA since 2019 to help educators improve teaching quality and boost overall performance on assessments. ASA Thrive...
Educator Amy Huntley from Okemos High School in Ohio says that at first glance Classtime seemed like “a traditional assessment tool with some extra question types”, but she quickly realized...
Lynwood Unified School District has been working with Classtime since the beginning of the pandemic in early 2020, serving their 13 elementary and middle schools (including an online virtual...
What are learning disabilities?
Learning disabilities are neurological disorders; they are parts of the brain that cause the way a person thinks, reads, processes, and problem-solves to be different...
“With Classtime, my students instantly know why they got a question wrong and why the correct answer is right. I can immediately identify if the majority of the class is struggling in a...
Classtime’s School License offers unique features that can bring your teaching to the next level. In this article, we will discuss how you can have complete control over your class with the...
With millions of teachers around the world conducting online assessments, schools are now more worried about how to create safe exams online that will help combat cheating and inappropriate...
Last month, Classtime announced our exciting new integration with Google Classroom. This Premium feature allows educators to easily import their classes from Google Classroom to Classtime, manage...
An impactful way you can enhance your online lessons today is by incorporating audio clips. Using audio and video tools in teaching is proven to have several advantages for both English language...
As Black Lives Matter protests have erupted across the country, many long-standing institutions are looking to try to better understand and combat racial issues. Among this fight for justice is the...
EduProtocols have risen in popularity in the past few years. Developed by veteran educators Marlena Hebern and Jon Corippo, EduProtocols aim to foster a supportive and close-knit environment between...
In this article, we will explain how to help prevent student cheating in online assessments along with better organizing your Classtime Sessions. With distanced learning, it's easier than ever for...
Remote learning felt like it came with so many things to unpack: how to deliver content quickly and efficiently, how to ensure equitable learning possibilities for all students and how to check-in...
Back in 2017, Edtech Magazine reported that about 63 percent of K-12 teachers utilize technology in their classrooms daily. However, with the new reality of distance learning in 2020, it wouldn’t...
We created Classtime as an educational tool that is convenient for teachers with students of all ages. Using Classtime, thousands of teachers have already conquered distanced online learning. This...
We asked educators about their biggest challenges during remote learning and what would make their lives easier, and here are the results! In this article, we'll be sharing tips on how Classtime can...
Use your favorite video conferencing tool with your students and enhance engagement with Classtime. Due to the Coronavirus closures, popular conferencing tools are now also offering FREE access to...
Assessments are part of everyday school life for most teachers and students, and often associated with night-long correction work or a long worry about the results. However, conducting online...
Student & Teacher Requirements
- Both students and teachers can use any device that supports an internet browser (smartphones, tablets, computers, Chromebooks) (Learn more).
- Both students and...
What are the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?
There are many global challenges the world faces in the 21st century. In 2015, the 193 members of the United Nations agreed to achieve 17...
As reported in the Los Angeles Times (2016), many schools have been struggling with the math assessment coming out of the CAASPP design. Only 33% of students in the United States meet or exceed the...
All teachers want to meet their students' needs, but some tasks can seem pretty daunting for beginners and experts alike. In this webinar, "Don't Ditch That Tech," we tackled two scary ones: creating...
My teaching career started in 2014 as a special education teacher for middle schoolers (~ages 12-15). Since then, I’ve moved on to teaching history at the high school level with some much older...
Teaching with technology can be frustrating.
On one day, you show up to a computer lab with your class and all of the desktops have to run mandatory updates. Trying to avoid that problem in the...
No matter the subject area, all teachers want their students to be thinkers.
We want them to be reflective, pursue topics in-depth, attack problems from multiple angles, and draw complex...
If you’re not familiar with the “Escape Room” (and increasingly digital escape rooms) phenomenon found across the U.S., you’re definitely missing out! Escape rooms have made their way...
As teachers in an ever-more demanding profession, the one resource that we all wish we had more of is time. Over the past couple of years, I’ve had the chance--with some help from Classtime--to...
Learning how to code is akin to learning a new language. In a study on bilingualism published on NCBI, it was discovered that learning another language has cognitive benefits. These benefits begin...
Here, you’ll find the same steps to creating “Rapidfire Classtime Assessments” that were mentioned in the video, as well as the resources mentioned in it. At the very end, you’ll find...
Learn how to create controversy with Classtime, and find all of the resources that were mentioned at the end of the video.
Keys to Setting Up A Good Prompt for Controversy1. Make sure that your...
A couple decades ago, the idea of blending electronic technology and traditional classroom teaching would not have been possible. Not every student had a computer in their home and reliable internet...
Previously, we discussed how Learning Analytics collects and measures student data during and after your lessons to help you refine your teaching towards creating a more effective learning experience...
Challenge. Over the years, schools, districts, and educational organizations have been criticized for the traditional ways they offer professional learning for teachers. Typically, they schedule...
We recently had an interview with Scott Houston, an education consultant at Educators Cooperative. Scott has played a part in the evolution of Classtime's gamification solution (Collaborative...
In our last post on differentiated instruction, one of the tips focused on preparing thoughtful, data-backed lessons. The strategies you use to differentiate the learning experience in your classroom...
When it comes to engaging all of your students, you’ve probably realized that students learn in different ways. Some may work best when engaged in group work, while you may find others that perform...
More schools are adopting the Professional Learning Communities (PLC; learn more) process as the way to work together and reach students more effectively. PLC works. It isn’t a program or...
Inspired by an article written by Osvitoria, we’ve outlined seven ways that educators around the world use Classtime to quickly analyze their lessons, engage students with collaboration, and make a...
Standardized testing has long been a controversial topic among education enthusiasts. In theory, standardized tests are intended to unbiasedly measure a student’s academic performance in order to...
As technology continues to evolve and become an integral part of our everyday lives, it’s only natural that we utilize it to improve education as well. One aspect of technology that promises to...
We see the importance of working together now more than ever. Not surprisingly, this has been a major topic in the educational world as well. The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional...
In the age of the internet, tech tools and apps make it easier for teachers to engage their students and introduce new modes of collaboration and learning into their lesson plans. With the use of...
Living in a world where Google seems to answer all of our questions without having to even think about it, it’s often hard for students to understand how the knowledge they’re learning in the...
Well-crafted multiple choice questions are like a clean window. If the question is articulated clearly and concisely, it allows you to see what the student does and doesn’t know. These fixed choice...
Every student has their own individual knowledge and experience, and your job as a teacher is to support each one of them in their educational goals by providing them with the tools and motivation...
No matter what grade level you teach, creating a productive and engaging class environment is essential for student success. While it can be difficult to gain the trust and respect of your students,...
In today’s globalized world, speaking multiple languages can be useful in many ways. The problem with becoming multilingual is the arduous task of learning a foreign language in the first place....
As human beings, we naturally form biases in order to organize our experiences more efficiently in our effort to understand and engage with the world around us. In the classroom, these teacher biases...