It's time to Celebrate! To celebrate Back to School 2017 - as well as Quick Key's new and upcoming features & benefits, we are doing a giveaway :-D We have partnered with S&S Worldwide, the uber webstore for school supplies to give away a $250 gift card to www.ssww.com How to enter to win the $250 [...]
Quick Key is proud to support Title I schools in meeting their School Improvement Plan Goals. Equity, Synergy, and Achievement Last February, Quick Key was honored to participate in the National Title I Conference, hosted by the National Title I Association. This conference was held at the Long Beach Convention Center, in Long Beach, [...]
Exploring the challenges of introducing technology in the classroom using the SAMR Model. Are you one of those "Tech Savvy" teachers? You know who you are. You’re that “tech savvy” teacher that your peers sometimes don’t know what to think about, but when something breaks, or they need a new idea, you’re their first stop. Perhaps [...]
One of the great rewards of running a company with a social mission is getting to be involved in the growth and development of people and their ideas. When we started Design by Educators the people who built the software for were Walter's former students and friends. One of those friends ended up staying with the [...]
Flying Kites' Launch Pad and Quick Key You know you are paying it forward when people do amazing things with your ed-tech software and you have to find out through the social media grapevine. I was overjoyed to see this video on Facebook today. This is why we invented Quick Key Mobile. About Flying Kites Flying Kites is [...]
Google Forms Grader has been discontinued After two years we have decided to discontinue the Google Forms Grader by Quick Key, and focus giving teachers the ability to build quizzes and tests from shared questions via the new Xchange Community. You can learn more about the new Xchange Community here.
It is easy to track student performance along a Bloom's Taxonomy axis using Quick Key. Quick Key's Advanced Quiz Builder isn't just for making rich question items, adding images, or making gridded response questions. It's also where you can tag your question with anything you want, from standards codes to Bloom's Taxonomy categories. Once you [...]
The Stakes are High Students who take standardized high stakes tests on paper can improve their scores significantly by being sure to mark their answers carefully and correctly. According to a study by researchers at Boston College, marking errors can have a meaningful impact on a student's grade. This, in turn, can have a negative impact on not only [...]
Giving great classroom feedback is one of the most effective ways to improve student learning and overall performance. But all feedback is not created equal. In fact, bad feedback can be counterproductive to the same degree that great feedback can drive success. So what characteristics make great feedback great? The top 5 characteristics of great classroom feedback: [...]
Multiple Choice is a highly effective form of assessment Multiple choice questions have the benefit of being able to be quickly graded and to provide analyzable data to educators and students. But a lot of non-educators think of multiple-choice questions as "multiple guess," with no real benefit except expediency for the teacher. Most educators know this couldn't be [...]
