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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 for 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, Ukrainian, 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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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. …

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Pollock Technologies Selected for The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam

Santa Monica, CA (February 10, 2016): Pollock Technologies has been selected as 1 of 50 startups in the Bootstrap program at The Next Web Conference 2017 in Amsterdam on May 18 and 19, 2017. The Next Web is Europe’s leading tech conference with more than 15,000 entrepreneurs, developers, marketing managers, CEOs, and policymakers visiting. With the perfect stage to test new product features, Pollock Technologies will be showcasing the newest innovations to their flagship product, Go Pollock. Go Pollock is a web-based solution for teachers that gives immediate insights into students’ learning progress. At The Next Web Conference 2017, the company will demonstrate …

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Public Launch of Go Pollock

Santa Monica, CA (January 7, 2017): Pollock Technologies, Inc., a software creation company with a focus on the world of digital education, launched their flagship product, Go Pollock, today. Following pilot tests in Switzerland and the development of the publicly accessible version of the product, Go Pollock is now open for registrations and usage in classrooms. Go Pollock is a web-based solution for teachers to see immediate insights into their students’ learning progress. The product is a teacher’s digital companion to traditional teaching methods, built for flexibility in the classroom. To use the web-based platform, the teacher simply creates engaging questions pertaining to …

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Incorporation of Pollock Technologies, Inc.

Santa Monica, CA (September 9, 2016): Today, Pollock Technologies, a software creation company with a focus on the world of digital education, has been incorporated as a privately held Delaware C-Corporation. After successful pilot tests in Switzerland with the beta version of their flagship product, Go Pollock, the team intends to grow its operations globally with a primary focus on the US market. Pollock Technologies’ next move will be to establish international headquarters in Santa Monica, CA, setting the foundation for the operational ramp-up in 2017. The flagship product, Go Pollock, is a web-based solution for teachers to gain immediate visibility of …

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