Quick Key now does Gridded Response After several months of R&D, I am proud to announce that Quick Key now does Gridded Response for numerical answers on paper quizzes. You can view our help article here. What is Gridded Response? Gridded Response uses a paper bubble sheet with bubbles for digits 0-9, plus decimal point, negative [...]
Back to School Advice for Establishing a Parent-Teacher Partnership Every school has a back to school night, and every parent can use some back to school advice from a teacher. Back to school night is the perfect occasion to lay the foundation for the strong parent-teacher partnership that will support the academic and social-emotional success of [...]
Please join us tonight - December 11, 2017 - at 5:30 pm for the MIT Enterprise Forum (MITEF) EdTech Launch Smart Clinic Walter and I will be presenting QKXchange™ to the MIT Enterprise Forum, a.k.a. MITEF, a group of scholars, educators, engineers, and other members of the tech venture community. QKXchange™ is the next phase of our Rapid [...]
Remake Scantron testing for your organization. Whether a traditional school or district, a training organization or an ACT/SAT test prep service, Quick Key will save you time and money while delivering you better results. Based on feedback from 70 institutions and teachers in 20 countries, we've added 100 question answer sheets and enhanced the accuracy and simplicity [...]
Is Assessment for Learning any different from testing? Yes indeed! According to the National Council of Teachers of English, “Well over a decade into federal education policy that endows significant consequences to single tests of student achievement too late in the academic year to lead to any action, teachers might be pleased that the term [...]
Using the Chrome Plugin version of our digital quiz app? update to the latest version to get all of the new features and benefits of the latest version of the app (which is also available to students at student.quickkeyapp.com) Here's how to update your Chrome plugins: https://www.howtogeek.com/64525/how-to-manually-force-google-chrome-to-update-extensions/
Quick Key CEO Isaac D. Van Wesep presented the Company's 5-minute business pitch at the Flatley Challenge business pitch competition on October 24th, 2017, winning 2nd place. In attendance were investors, entrepreneurs, and other interested guests from the Flatley business complex in Nashua, NH. Mr. Van Wesep presented the company's mission, product, competitive space, business model [...]
Quick Key CEO Isaac D. Van Wesep will be presenting Quick Key's new 'iTunes for Assessment' platform model to the MIT Enterprise Forum's (MITEF) Launch Smart Clinic on December 11, 2017. According to MITEF, "At the EdTech Themed Launch Smart Clinic, startups present a 20-minute pitch for feedback from our panel of experts + the audience." [...]
I am proud to announce that Design by Educators, Inc. (DBE, the maker of Quick Key) has been accepted to TiE Boston's ScaleUp accelerator, Cohort 4. TiE ScaleUp is a highly-competitive accelerator for Boston-area companies that are beginning to scale their businesses. Cohort 4 is focused on software platform companies. DBE is in this group because [...]
New Improved Bubble Sheets to be Released on Sep. 23, 2017 I have some exciting news: we have been working on improved bubble sheets for Quick Key over the summer, and on September 23rd, 2017 we are going to release updated mobile apps that use the new sheets. We will also be replacing the old sheets [...]