Big Improvements Coming Soon!
Dear All,
School holidays may be starting soon, but it’s all go here at Mangahigh.com! We are doing our best to bring you some terrific improvements for August, ready for next term:
Games 2.0
Thought the games couldn’t get better? Wrong. We have been re-engineering our incredible maths games since January, and we think you are going to love the changes.
Prodigi 2.0
Prodigi will be so much more powerful from August with surprising new functionality.
Class Update Wizard
We know you want to update your student records for the new academic year. With our new Admin section, it’s going to be a breeze.
Updated Class Management
You are going to love this great new system for managing your classes.
Updated User Authentication
No more ‘I forgot my login’.
Keep checking back and we will keep you informed.
From Your Mangahigh.com Team
By alex, July 27, 2010 @ 7:36 pm
I wanted to comment on the way prodigi picks problems
for students.
There is an online chess tactics website
chess.emerald.net where chess problems are selected
to students based on rating of a problem and rating of
a student. Ratings of both problems and students are
dynamically adjusted. There is a description of how that
system works at http://chess.emrald.net/ratinginfo.php
From my personal expirience that rating system works very well.
I think compared to it the rating system prodigi uses
is less flexible and makes learning experience less rewarding. The part that works against prodigi is that
when student reaches “expert” level he will be offered only expert level problems until he is knocked down to
a lower level. I noticed that this leads to unnecessary negative emotions in students.
In a similar sityation the system I mentioned
above would instead offer a mix of problems with different ratings “centered” around “expert” level.
So a student who is not quite at an “expert” level
will still be offered problems that he can easily solve
together with more difficult problems. I noticed that this makes the experience more positive.
that was just a comment.
mangahigh is very nice! keep up good work!
By toby.rowland, August 2, 2010 @ 12:15 pm
Dear Alex,
Thank you for this thoughtful and good post. This is an interesting concept, but it is a radical step away from our current system! It is difficult to imagine how we would incorporate this in the near term given the medals system that we have.
We are making some big improvements to Prodigi currently that will make it a little easier for students to make progress through the difficulty levels, and also more inviting for students to ask for Hints & Solutions. We will also incorporate more instruction material within Prodigi. We hope this will make Prodigi better for your students,
Regards,
Toby Rowland