New features and enhancements to the ChallengeMe platform for the 2024-2025 academic year

The start of the 2024-2025 school year promises to be rich in innovations for teachers and educational engineers using the ChallengeMe platform. This update brings a number of significant features and enhancements, aimed at simplifying and enriching the teaching experience. Here's a detailed overview of what you can expect.

📚Criteria Book : Criteria grids

This new feature is designed to facilitate the management of evaluation criteria, a crucial element in teaching.

• Availability: Accessible from the "Global Criteria", "Tenant Criteria", "My Criteria" and "Challenge Edition" pages.
• Use :
  
  • Collection creation: Go to the "My criteria" page to add a new collection of criteria. Give your collection a name and description.
  • Add criteria: You can add your own criteria or use criteria predefined by ChallengeMe or your school. You can create a copy of the selected criteria for independent modification, or use them as they are, with automatic updating if necessary.
  • Sample grids: Sample skills grids are available to assess soft-skills, specific projects, language levels and more. This enriches and simplifies the implementation of various activities.
  • Skills tracking: Students can track their skills as they learn.
• Benefits :
  
  • Ease of use: once set up, all the criteria associated with the grid are just a click away.
  • Enriching activities: Examples of competency grids help to diversify ideas for projects and activities.

👩‍🏫Évaluation Feedbacks

This feature enables teachers to evaluate and advise on student feedback, reinforcing the quality of exchanges.

• Availability: Accessible from the "Challenge edition" and "Participation" pages.
• Use :
  
  • Feedback evaluation: Teachers can evaluate student feedback and offer advice. Students can also evaluate other students' feedback anonymously and suggest improvements.
  • Objectivity: This approach allows for more objective feedback, as it is not aimed at oneself, which encourages critical hindsight and learning how to construct relevant feedback.
• Benefits :
  
  • Learning: Students learn how to construct relevant feedback and evaluate constructively.
  • Feedback quality: Feedback is more objective and critical, which improves the quality of exchanges.

⚙️Synchronisation Courses for Teachers

This feature enables teachers to synchronize their lessons without the intervention of coaches, simplifying their work.

• How to use: Teachers can synchronize their courses directly from the platform.

🛠️Synchronisation with LMS

• API support: The platform now supports the Canvas, Blackboard and Brightspace APIs (in progress), as well as Moodle 1.3. Asynchronous synchronization reduces errors during long synchronizations.
• Group additions and deletions: Information on the various changes is now included in the synchronization.

Conclusion

These new features and enhancements are designed to simplify and enrich the learning experience for teachers and students.

The ChallengeMe platform now offers more effective tools for managing assessment criteria, evaluating feedback, synchronizing courses, and improving administrative management. These features should contribute to a more productive and interactive back-to-school season 2024-2025 for all users.

By integrating these new features, you can optimize your teaching methods, improve the quality of exchanges between teachers and students, and facilitate administrative management. Feel free to explore these new features to get the most out of the ChallengeMe platform, or contact our team at coach@challengeme.online.