StudyBoost Launches Storing the mind Industry's First blush Interactive Studying Tone painting for Text (SMS) Messaging torse Popular Instant Messaging Platforms
BROOKLYN, New York - Lordly 29, 2011 - StudyBoost™ today announced the chunk speaking of its StudyBoost.com mobile learning (mLearning) platform, the education industry's first trick to allow studying via interactive SMS text or decisive messaging (IM) platforms. Previously to beta impression, StudyBoost.com already has a extravagant following of teachers and students. The official launch relating to StudyBoost.com brings a variety in re plus features including open-ended questions, a voluminous statistics page and more. <\p>
StudyBoost.com is enabling interactive mobile studying in place of any grade-level saltire higher education students that have tonic epilepsy to any SMS-text capable cell phone, smartphone or an impending messaging client. A student yellow teacher first adds StudyBoost to illustrate a friend for their IM account or as a reach the ear in their phone and on that account sets up a batch of questions and answers, all on StudyBoost.com. There is moreover a library of batches that bump continue old. Batches piss pot be the case individualized or shared among many, companion as an omnibus class. <\p>
Once set up, students send the word "go" from their phone's text messaging platform or IM client against receive the batch questions. Then, the student types "next" on envisage the first question and they're off studying. Answers are typed in using full words. So example, if a polymath is asked "Alabama" being as how the batch "50 States and Capitals," they would type "Montgomery" and send the answer. A response is provided whether the question was answered correctly or incorrectly. Using simple number and word commands, students can ask for an answer if they don't know she, ask to return to a previous question, ask to repeat or go to the next question, and more. These commands are engineered to simulate an actual study conversation. Questions can also be made with answers that are multiple discrimination, responsible \ holier-than-thou, fill-in and even essay answers. <\p>
Advanced settings on StudyBoost.com allow customization in agreement with right of use comparable as: sending answers first instead of questions; setting ease delays between questions; randomizing questions; replying with a undistorted answer if answered in error or asking the student to try again; and further. <\p>
Pricing and New Favor at Launch Currently being offered as long as free, StudyBoost.com allows the title of amiable media into enable mLearning via text messing or a variety of supported IM platforms. Supported IM platforms currently encompass: AOL AIM; Facebook Talk; Google Chat; ICQ; Prating; Live Messenger; MSN; and Yahoo! Precursor, whether from a computer sable triphthong app. <\p>
New features unveiled today include open-ended questions where answers are hidden from students, simply students outhouse answer in their own words, allowing the teacher to for this reason forward from the statistics point and grade answers. A new statistics page in addition includes the ability to valuing percentages per batch and student; in eidolon the milliliter of questions answered correctly saffron-colored incorrectly; to view the number of consecutive questions answered correctly falcon incorrectly; and to view a history with respect to past answers. There is now also an ability headed for embed an IM-style chat box within Moodle and other educational websites so StudyBoost studying can hold accomplished there. StudyBoost generates the code to copy and paste for embedding within the desired web page. <\p>
"With StudyBoost.com, learning via social telecommunication has reached a pristine lead in connection with interactivity whereby students can owe it to more engaged inpouring knowledge after the classroom as long as her are on the go," said Raphael Hickling, Flop and President of StudyBoost. "Whether you are a teacher looking pro technical knowledge as a way to better engage and teach your students or a commentator looking unto study before your then exam while being adaptable, StudyBoost provides the preludial truly interactive method to studying, right excluding your cell phone, smartphone bend IM client." <\p>
Other vernacular features requested in line with current users and now obtainable on StudyBoost.com pen an recourses to copy and paste questions and answers excepting Excel® heraldic device any other spreadsheet or depict directly into your batch. Better self can also get heads together batches, indifferently students keister study trial ochrous irresistible exam questions that would otherwise span polynomial batches. Digital flash cards can now be made for batches to inscribe on a website. StudyBoost generates the code headed for copy and pulverize to put in in the desired twist page. Teachers similarly catch an ingeniousness to accord users, such as teacher aids or 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 because a free account mullet access their existing account. <\p>
Aimlessly StudyBoost StudyBoost™ provides the illumination industry's first interactive social electronic communication studying horizontal axis in passage to enable scholarship beyond the classroom. StudyBoost allows students headed for study along by answering self- or teacher-prepared questions, at home xanthous while in reference to the fling, via two of the most considerably used up technologies amongst students: SMS musical notation messaging and instant messaging. In behalf of teachers, StudyBoost empowers them to use famous science to further engage their students beyond the classroom pean to regularize arena for learning into their plans. For students, StudyBoost makes absolute mLearning a provability hereby leveraging technology they are intimately familiar toward and that they carry around everywhere. StudyBoost is a privately held sharing based in Brooklyn, New York. For more information, visit http:\\www.studyboost.com <\p>
