September Newsletter

Back to school is already behind us. How time flies! For September, we've put together as much relevant content as possible to help you prepare for the year 24-25. Enjoy your reading. On the program for this news : 👉 Do you speak the Feedback language? 📚 The use case library 💻 Back-to-school webinars ⭐ What's new in ChallengeMe

👉 Feedback, the key to peer review

In this fourth episode of the special Peer Power series with Julien Morice, Julien welcomes Stéphane Moriou, author, speaker and entrepreneur, to discuss the importance of feedback in educational and professional contexts.

During this fascinating exchange, discover :

• How feedback can transform not only corporate team dynamics, but also teaching practices.
• The challenges and opportunities of implementing feedback in higher education.
• Cultural differences around feedback and how they influence our practices.
• Practical tips for improving the way you give and receive feedback, both at work and in your personal life.

📚 Use case library

Get inspired by your colleagues' best practices! Our use case library has been enriched with more than 30 examples! Find out how teachers are using ChallengeMe :

• Leveraging AI to help students develop their ability to give and receive constructive feedback
• Easily assess portfolios as part of APC
• Evaluate the dynamics and effectiveness of working groups, and intervene if necessary
• Evaluation and feedback on posters or presentations
• Assisting the teacher in assessment using AI

💻 Back-to-school webinars

We've grouped our 33 use cases into 10 webinars, starting next week! On the menu:

• Improving feedback quality
• Engaging students during presentations/simulations
• Assessing and customizing learning in large cohorts
• Evaluating lessons
• Facilitating skills assessment as part of PCA
• Facilitate interaction at events (hackathon, business game, etc.)
• Help students develop teamwork skills
• Individualize the rating and identify free-riders
• Evaluation of student productions (videos, podcasts, resumes, essays, etc.)
• AI, new perspectives for evaluation and feedback
• Optimize student evaluation by teachers
• Preparing students for an exam

⭐ What's new for back-to-school on the ChallengeMe platform

The start of the 2024-2025 school year promises to be rich in innovations for teachers and educational engineers using the ChallengeMe platform. Here are the main features and enhancements:

• Criteria Book : Criteria collection

Allows teachers to create and manage personalized criteria grids to assess specific skills. Once set up, one click is all it takes to find all the criteria associated with the grid, making it easy to reuse and enrich activities.

• Feedback evaluation (retro-feedback)

Teachers can evaluate and advise on student feedback, while students can anonymously evaluate feedback from other students, encouraging more objective and constructive feedback.

• Course synchronization for teachers

Teachers can synchronize their lessons without coach intervention, simplifying their work.

• Synchronization with LMS

Support for the Canvas, Blackboard, Brightspace (in progress) and Moodle 1.3 APIs, with asynchronous synchronization to reduce errors during long synchronizations.