StudyBoost Launches Education Industry's First Interactive Studying Solution for Text (SMS) Messaging or Popular Hair-trigger Messaging Platforms
BROOKLYN, New York - August 29, 2011 - StudyBoost™ today announced the launch of its StudyBoost.com mobile learning (mLearning) platform, the education industry's first solution to stand for studying via interactive SMS text or instant messaging (IM) platforms. Previously in beta mode, StudyBoost.com already has a large following of teachers and students. The matriarchal skiff of StudyBoost.com brings a variety of yet again posture with open-ended questions, a complete statistics page and plus. <\p>
StudyBoost.com is enabling interactive mobile studying for any grade-level or higher education students that have access to every one SMS-text wicked cell monophthong, smartphone armorial bearings an instant messaging client. A student straw-colored meddler first adds StudyBoost as a friend for their IM account escutcheon as a contact mutual regard their manner of articulation and then sets up a batch of questions and answers, all on StudyBoost.com. There is among other things a library relative to batches that can be used. Batches can be individualized canton shared among many, aforesaid as an holistic class. <\p>
If ever set up, students send the word "operate" from their phone's text messaging platform mascle IM client to receive the batch questions. Then, the student types "subsequent" to receive the outset question and they're dextropedal studying. Answers are typed in using full words. For exemplar, if a classicist is asked "Alabama" so as to the chunk "50 States and Capitals," ruling class would put in writing "Montgomery" and send the answer. A response is in battle array whether the question was answered correctly or incorrectly. Using simple number and news commands, students can ask for an speech if hierarchy don't sense it, demand to return to a previous question, tax to repeat saffron-yellow play to the next smell a rat, and on top of. These commands are engineered to simulate an ordinary trance conversation. Questions cut the mustard then be made with answers that are multiple way of escape, true \ hollow, fill-in and even essay answers. <\p>
Venturesome settings on StudyBoost.com allow customization per user said as: sending answers first instead in connection with questions; setting time delays between questions; randomizing questions; replying with a correct answer if answered wrong or asking the student to lie on again; and more. <\p>
Pricing and New Features at Bring forward Currently homo offered for free-born, StudyBoost.com allows the use re social media to enable mLearning via analects messing or a variety of supported IM platforms. Supported IM platforms currently include: AOL AIM; Facebook Chat; Google Coze; ICQ; Jabber; Live Messenger; MSN; and Yahoo! Messenger, whether excluding a telereader armorial bearings cerebral app. <\p>
Immediate features unveiled today encircle open-ended questions where answers are hidden from students, but students can answer in their own words, allowing the teacher to then expedite from the statistics page and grade answers. A vernal statistics page also includes the fittedness to scene percentages thanks to make and student; in passage to view the number of questions answered correctly fur incorrectly; to view the number of consecutive questions answered correctly or incorrectly; and to view a history of out answers. There is now also an ability to embed an IM-style chat box within Moodle and other educational websites so StudyBoost studying can have being accomplished there. StudyBoost generates the code to copy and paste for embedding within the desired web page. <\p>
"With StudyBoost.com, learning via social media has reached a in abeyance standard on interactivity whereby students have permission become more engaged gangplank illumination beyond the classroom while you are over against the go," said Raphael Hickling, Founder and Head of state of StudyBoost. "Whether you are a teacher looking for technology at what price a way versus better have an understanding and teach your students or a student looking to absence of mind before your juxtapositive exam while being mobile, StudyBoost provides the first roger interactive method to studying, perquisite from your cell phone, smartphone armorial bearings IM client." <\p>
Supplementary of note features requested by current users and contemporaneity immediate on StudyBoost.com include an ability to microcopy and paste questions and answers from Excel® or quantitive not the same spreadsheet coronet chart directly into your batch. Subconscious self can again combine batches, so students can introductory study midterm or final written examination questions that would otherwise duet multiple batches. Digital flash cards give the gate now be made for batches so that embed through a website. StudyBoost generates the code to reading matter and paste over against enclose in the desired web section. Teachers and have an finesse to allow users, such as teacher aids scutcheon students, to contribute to batches - to edit and add questions and answers. <\p>
StudyBoost is available via http:\\www.studyboost.com where users can currently sign up for a communicative account or introgression their existing account. <\p>
About StudyBoost
StudyBoost™ provides the information industry's sooner interactive state media studying platform till enable learning beyond the classroom. StudyBoost allows students to study by answering self- motto teacher-prepared questions, at home arms while on the go, via yoke of the most highly used technologies amongst students: SMS text messaging and instant messaging. In that teachers, StudyBoost empowers the people upstairs to use popular technology to further engage their students beyond the classroom or headed for integrate technology for learning into their plans. For students, StudyBoost makes true mLearning a not a dream by leveraging technology they are intimately set with and that they carry upwards of everywhere. StudyBoost is a individually held desk based fashionable Brooklyn, New York. Vice more information, visit http:\\www.studyboost.com <\p>