[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":7034},["ShallowReactive",2],{"author-profile-manisha-prabhakar":3,"author-blog-manisha-prabhakar":26,"author-customers-manisha-prabhakar":7033},{"id":4,"title":5,"bio":6,"expertise":7,"extension":12,"firstName":13,"image":14,"lastName":17,"links":18,"longBio":20,"meta":21,"name":22,"slug":23,"stem":24,"__hash__":25},"authors\u002Fauthors\u002Fmanisha-prabhakar.json","Director of Sales","Manisha is a Sales Director at Synap. 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She has seen how organisations across education and business approach security, scale and compliance, and writes from that vantage point — helping teams understand what to look for in an exam platform and how to make the move to online delivery with confidence.",{},null,"manisha-prabhakar","authors\u002Fmanisha-prabhakar","Jc92NPX-HGKZxFm3nMhUvKMqaBA0VSNPbUJ4ioXZzIg",[27,361,534,862,1380,1691,2151,2551,5634,5675,5968,6188,6229,6367,6433,6747],{"id":28,"title":29,"author":23,"body":30,"description":19,"extension":340,"headerImage":341,"highlights":22,"isPublished":345,"meta":346,"navigation":347,"path":348,"publishedAt":349,"readingTime":350,"seo":351,"seoDescription":352,"seoTitle":29,"slug":353,"stem":354,"subtitle":355,"topicLabels":22,"topics":356,"__hash__":360},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fdelivering-online-exams-a-comprehensive-guide.md","A comprehensive guide to delivering online exams",{"type":31,"value":32,"toc":319},"minimark",[33,38,42,46,49,62,66,88,96,100,103,123,127,130,147,151,154,162,166,169,174,177,181,201,205,208,219,223,226,240,244,247,264,268,271,275,278,292,296,299,313],[34,35,37],"h2",{"id":36},"introduction","Introduction",[39,40,41],"p",{},"In a rapidly evolving examination landscape, the shift towards online assessments unlocks a variety of innovations and automations, enhancing the exam experience for administrators, educators, proctors, and candidates.\nIn this comprehensive blog post, we delve into the key considerations and essential strategies for successful online exam delivery.\nWhether you're venturing into online exam delivery for the first time or searching for a new exam platform to elevate your examination practices, this guide aims to provide valuable insights, practical tips, and best practices to navigate this transformative journey effectively.",[34,43,45],{"id":44},"_1-uploading-exam-questions-online","1. Uploading exam questions online",[39,47,48],{},"When delivering exams online, consider the current format of your questions and the most efficient method for uploading them onto the chosen exam platform.",[50,51,52,56,59],"ul",{},[53,54,55],"li",{},"PDF or Word format: If your questions are currently in a PDF or Word document, the straightforward approach typically involves copying and pasting them into the question editor, provided by the online exam platform.",[53,57,58],{},"CSV format: If your questions are in a CSV, it's advantageous to explore whether the exam platform offers bulk upload capabilities. This feature streamlines the conversion process, allowing you to effortlessly upload all your entire questions into the online assessment platform in one go.",[53,60,61],{},"Adding more questions: Leveraging the capabilities of an online exam platform enables you to enhance your question management processes. You'll have the flexibility to effortlessly create and expand your question bank, while also assigning points and categorising questions with tags, for improved organisation and efficiency.\n![Creating a question](\u002Fcms\u002FCreating a question)",[34,63,65],{"id":64},"_2-harness-automated-features-for-online-exams","2. Harness automated features for online exams",[39,67,68,69,74,75,81,82,87],{},"Efficiency is key when delivering online tests, and a robust exam platform offers a range of ",[70,71,73],"a",{"href":72},"\u002Fblog\u002F10-ways-to-reduce-exam-workload\u002F","automated features"," designed to streamline your processes. These automations can alleviate workload burdens and save valuable time.\nTake the time to explore the automation capabilities provided by your chosen testing platform, identifying opportunities to optimise your workflow. From automating the ",[70,76,80],{"href":77,"rel":78},"https:\u002F\u002Fsynap.ac\u002Fdocs\u002Fexams\u002Fcreate-and-manage-exams\u002Fcreating-an-exam\u002Fdynamic-exams",[79],"nofollow","creation of exams from question pools",", to seamlessly ",[70,83,86],{"href":84,"rel":85},"https:\u002F\u002Fsynap.ac\u002Fdocs\u002Fexams\u002Fmark-attempts",[79],"grading responses",", these features can transform your exam management practices.\nAs you set up your exams, consider the following:",[50,89,90,93],{},[53,91,92],{},"Evaluate your current exam processes: Identify any manual tasks or time-consuming activities, such as grading or scheduling, that could benefit from automation. Streamlining these processes can significantly reduce administrative overhead and free up valuable resources.",[53,94,95],{},"Assess additional offerings: Reflect on whether your current exam format adequately meets your needs. Are there features, such as branded certificates or extensive question banks, that could enhance the value of your exams? Exploring new functionalities can enrich the exam experience for both administrators and candidates alike.\n![Certificate verification page](\u002Fcms\u002FCertificate verification page)",[34,97,99],{"id":98},"_3-thoroughly-test-the-exam-process","3. Thoroughly test the exam process",[39,101,102],{},"When developing online exams, thorough testing of the entire process to identify any discrepancies or issues, is essential before launching live with candidates.\nThis proactive approach minimises potential issues on the day of the exam and ensures a seamless experience for candidates, especially if it's their first encounter with the exam platform.",[50,104,105,108,111,114,117,120],{},[53,106,107],{},"Review questions: Begin by meticulously reviewing all exam questions to ensure accuracy in content and formatting. Utilise tools, such as question flagging, to facilitate quality assurance, enabling you or your colleagues to flag questions and leave comments for necessary updates.",[53,109,110],{},"Experience as a test taker: Put yourself in the shoes of a test taker and go through the exam to evaluate if the settings, such as timers and pass\u002Ffail grades, align with your requirements.",[53,112,113],{},"Evaluate proctoring: If proctoring features are employed, understand how they function and verify that the configuration meets your specifications.",[53,115,116],{},"Verify automations: If implementing APIs or Zapier to connect to your existing tools, ensure that the automated workflows function as intended. Thoroughly test each automation to confirm that it performs the desired tasks accurately and efficiently.",[53,118,119],{},"Invite colleagues: To participate in the testing process - additional perspectives help identify issues more efficiently and contribute to a more thorough testing phase. Collaborative testing facilitates quicker resolution of any identified issues, ensuring that the exam is fully prepared for successful administration.",[53,121,122],{},"Allow ample time for testing: Ensure there is sufficient time to test before the live exam, which enables continuous refinement of the end-to-end experience. By iteratively testing and addressing any issues that arise, you can ensure that the exam meets your standards and provides a smooth experience for candidates.",[34,124,126],{"id":125},"_4-inviting-candidates-to-an-exam","4. Inviting candidates to an exam",[39,128,129],{},"Transitioning to an online testing platform requires consideration of how candidates are invited to the platform in the first instance, before they commence the exam. Several methods can be employed to invite candidates to an exam user group:",[50,131,132,135,138,141,144],{},[53,133,134],{},"Inviting candidates by entering their email address: This method involves individually entering the email addresses of candidates, making it suitable for inviting single or a small number of candidates at a time.",[53,136,137],{},"Bulk importing users via CSV: For larger groups of candidates, bulk importing users through a CSV file offers a convenient solution for efficient mass upload.",[53,139,140],{},"Pre-generating user accounts: Pre-generating candidate accounts beforehand ensures seamless access for the test takers, streamlining the onboarding process.",[53,142,143],{},"Shareable user group link: Simplifying administrative tasks, this method involves sharing a single group-specific link, that candidates can click on to join the user group effortlessly.",[53,145,146],{},"Automating enrolment: Integrating the exam platform with existing systems, such as a CRM, HR, or eCommerce system, allows for automated enrolment, achieved through APIs or a Zapier integration. This enables seamless enrolment of candidates and eliminates administrative burden.\nEach method offers its own advantages and considerations, allowing organisations to choose the most suitable approach based on their specific needs and requirements.\n![Inviting users](\u002Fcms\u002FInviting users)",[34,148,150],{"id":149},"_5-communicating-exam-instructions-and-guidelines","5. Communicating exam instructions and guidelines",[39,152,153],{},"A key exam feature is the ability to add custom exam instructions, which can greatly enhance candidate’s understanding of the exam format for a smooth testing experience.",[50,155,156,159],{},[53,157,158],{},"Instruction details: These instructions can serve to inform candidates about the exam format, rules, and frequently asked questions, ensuring a standardised and transparent testing environment.",[53,160,161],{},"Sharing instructions in advance: Consider sharing exam instructions with candidates to read, well in advance of the exam date. This will provide test takers with ample time to review and familiarise themselves with the guidelines, minimising confusion, and reducing the likelihood of support requests on the exam day.\nThis proactive approach not only empowers candidates to prepare adequately, but also contributes to a smoother and more efficient exam administration process overall.\n![Exam instructions-1.Exam instructions](\u002Fcms\u002FExam instructions-1.Exam instructions)",[34,163,165],{"id":164},"_6-conduct-pre-tests-to-prepare-candidates","6. Conduct pre-tests to prepare candidates",[39,167,168],{},"When transitioning to an online exam system, candidates may be encountering the online platform for the first time. To mitigate potential issues on the exam day, such as forgotten login details or confusion over exam procedures, conducting a pre-test can be invaluable.",[170,171,173],"h3",{"id":172},"what-is-a-pre-test","What is a pre-test?",[39,175,176],{},"Consider inviting candidates to the exam platform a week or so before the formal exam to participate in a brief, informal pre-test. This test doesn't need to be lengthy, it can consist of just 5-10 questions.\nThe test also does not need to be formal, it can involve simple questions that use similar features to the real exam. For example, if the formal exam has images in the question, include a question with an image in the pre-test, to check that images load for candidates.",[170,178,180],{"id":179},"benefits-of-pre-tests","Benefits of pre-tests:",[50,182,183,186,189,192,195,198],{},[53,184,185],{},"Account creation: Pre-tests prompt candidates to create their accounts, streamlining the registration process for the actual exam.",[53,187,188],{},"Seamless logins: Typically, candidates remain logged into the exam platform after their first experience, simplifying the login process on exam day and ensuring a smoother experience.",[53,190,191],{},"Navigation familiarisation: Pre-tests familiarise candidates with the platform's navigation, enabling them to navigate between questions, as well as learning to use on-platform exam tools, such as highlighting or bookmarking, with confidence.",[53,193,194],{},"Proctoring setup: If proctoring is required for the exam, the candidate will normally set this up as part of their pre-test, ensuring that the proctoring works as required, and is set up ready for the formal exam. This significantly reduces exam-day stresses that can be caused by setting up the proctoring at the last minute.",[53,196,197],{},"Issue resolution: Pre-tests provide candidates with ample opportunity to identify and address any technical issues, browser compatibility concerns, or proctoring-related challenges, by speaking with your team or their IT team in advance of the exam day.",[53,199,200],{},"Early review of exam rules: Inviting candidates to the platform before the exam's scheduled date allows them to review exam rules and guidelines in advance, promoting clarity and compliance for when the exam goes live.\nBy conducting pre-tests, you empower candidates to familiarise themselves with the exam platform, address potential issues proactively, and approach the formal exam with confidence and preparedness.\n![Pre-test example](\u002Fcms\u002FPre-test example)",[34,202,204],{"id":203},"_7-launch-with-a-pilot-group","7. Launch with a pilot group",[39,206,207],{},"For large-scale online testing initiatives, consider adopting a phased approach, beginning with a pilot group comprised of a small number of users.",[50,209,210,213,216],{},[53,211,212],{},"Invite a small pilot group: Once you've set up and internally tested your assessment platform, extend invitations to your pilot group of selected candidates.",[53,214,215],{},"Ask for feedback: Following the completion of the exam, promptly ask for feedback from participants. This initial phase serves as an invaluable opportunity to understand the user experience, and identify any potential areas for improvement.",[53,217,218],{},"Improve the exam experience: Actively listen to the test-takers comments and suggestions, recognising their invaluable perspective as early adopters of the platform. Utilise this feedback to iterate and refine your exam delivery process, ensuring a seamless experience for future candidates.",[34,220,222],{"id":221},"_8-establish-a-contingency-plan","8. Establish a contingency plan",[39,224,225],{},"Preparing for the unexpected is a crucial aspect of any form of examination. Anticipating potential challenges and devising a comprehensive contingency plan can mitigate disruptions, and ensure the smooth execution of online exams, even in adverse circumstances.",[50,227,228,231,234,237],{},[53,229,230],{},"Imagine scenarios: Take the time to envision worst-case scenarios and develop clear protocols to address them effectively. Consider various scenarios such as fire alarms, candidate sickness, late arrivals, internet outages, or technical malfunctions.",[53,232,233],{},"Define a contingency plan: Define your policies and procedures for handling each situation, outlining steps to mitigate the impact on candidates and maintain exam integrity.",[53,235,236],{},"Reflect on the contingency plan: Post-exam, document the effectiveness of these contingency measures, including any adjustments required for marking guidelines, considerations for fairness, and strategies for improvement.",[53,238,239],{},"Ask for support: If you are unsure how to effectively mitigate these scenarios, consider reaching out to the support team of your chosen online exam platform. Their expertise and experience likely include encountering and addressing similar situations, making them valuable resources for advice and best practices.\nBy proactively addressing potential challenges and establishing robust contingency plans, you can instil confidence in candidates, minimise disruptions, and uphold the integrity of your online exam administration process.",[34,241,243],{"id":242},"_9-comprehensive-staff-training-and-resources","9. Comprehensive staff training and resources",[39,245,246],{},"When transitioning to an online assessment platform, consider how to effectively onboard your staff to maximise efficiency and competency.",[50,248,249,252,255,258,261],{},[53,250,251],{},"Small teams co-ordination: In smaller teams where versatility is key, ensure all members are adept at utilising various platform features to facilitate seamless exam administration.",[53,253,254],{},"Large team delegation: For larger organisations with designated roles, such as exam administrators, proctors, and markers, tailor training to specific responsibilities to optimise workflow efficiency.",[53,256,257],{},"Role-based access permissions: Evaluate whether the online testing platform provides role-based access permissions, enabling tailored access levels for distinct roles within your organisation. For example, permissions can be set up so that exam markers can view candidate’s exam results, but cannot schedule exams.",[53,259,260],{},"Help guides for staff: Evaluate the availability of comprehensive help guides within the exam platform for staff reference. Additionally, inquire if the platform offers direct training sessions to enhance staff proficiency.",[53,262,263],{},"Help guides for candidates: Enhance the candidate experience by crafting user-friendly help guides, aiding test-takers in familiarising themselves with the platform's functionalities to minimise potential disruptions during exams.",[34,265,267],{"id":266},"_10-maximise-onboarding-and-support-resources","10. Maximise onboarding and support resources",[39,269,270],{},"Selecting an online exam platform with responsive and ongoing support ensures a seamless exam administration experience, provides peace of mind for any challenges that may arise, and ensures you make the most of the available features.",[170,272,274],{"id":273},"ensuring-reliable-support-from-the-exam-platform","Ensuring reliable support from the exam platform",[39,276,277],{},"Given the high stakes associated with exam delivery, particularly regarding  if candidates have a poor experience and the institutional damage this can cause, selecting the right online exam platform is paramount.\nOpting for the cheapest testing solution may prove detrimental, as such platforms often offer limited support avenues and slower response times.\nWhether you're working towards a specific launch date, are wanting to provide a professional and smooth exam experience to candidates, or conducting large-scale exams, prioritising an online exam platform with robust support services is imperative.\nBy investing in a provider known for its responsive and comprehensive support, you can mitigate risks and ensure a smooth and reliable exam experience for all stakeholders involved.\nWhen choosing an online exam platform, it’s worth checking what level of support is provided:",[50,279,280,283,286,289],{},[53,281,282],{},"Support methods: Is it just help guides that are provided? Can you only reach out to a human via a chat bot, or do you have a dedicated account manager who can assist you every step of the way?",[53,284,285],{},"Response times for non-urgent issues: Assess the platform's responsiveness to non-urgent queries, such as how to use a particular feature. Will you receive prompt assistance to swiftly overcome hurdles, or are you left for weeks before hearing back from someone?",[53,287,288],{},"Response times for urgent issues: No one hopes for a critical problem to occur in an exam, but if it does, are you able to get through to someone to provide urgent support and resolve the issue promptly?",[53,290,291],{},"Ongoing support: Is support only provided for a few weeks during your onboarding period, or can you reach out any time for assistance? With exceptional exam platforms, they will provide ongoing support throughout your time with them, beyond the initial onboarding period. This is advantageous as it ensures assistance is accessible whenever needed, whether for periodic exams, evolving exam plans, or scaling initiatives.",[170,293,295],{"id":294},"support-types","Support types",[39,297,298],{},"A reliable testing platform should offer comprehensive support to help you get to grips with the system, particularly during the onboarding period. Here's how to make the most of it:",[50,300,301,304,307,310],{},[53,302,303],{},"Read help guides: Dive into the provided help guides that are available 24\u002F7, to understand the functionality of different features and how to navigate the platform effectively.",[53,305,306],{},"Watch video tutorials: Visual learners can benefit from watching video tutorials that demonstrate various aspects of the assessment platform.",[53,308,309],{},"Ask questions via email or chat support: For immediate assistance, reach out to the support team via email or live chat. This allows for quick resolution of queries and troubleshooting.",[53,311,312],{},"Arrange onboarding calls: Schedule onboarding video calls with product specialists who can provide personalised guidance, tailored to your specific exam requirements. These calls offer an opportunity to discuss your exam plans and optimise platform usage.\nSelecting an online exam platform renowned for its comprehensive support services, in terms of responsiveness and offering ongoing support, is crucial for ensuring a seamless and reliable exam experience for everyone involved.",[314,315,316],"blockquote",{},[39,317,318],{},"The number one thing we love about Synap is the support. There is an extensive library of documents, and on top of that we can quickly message the support team anytime. Our rep scheduled several meeting with us while we were getting set up to make sure our deployment was easy and seamless. - Elise, Technical Trainer at Fusion Risk Management: Read the case study.",{"title":19,"searchDepth":320,"depth":320,"links":321},2,[322,323,324,325,326,327,328,333,334,335,336],{"id":36,"depth":320,"text":37},{"id":44,"depth":320,"text":45},{"id":64,"depth":320,"text":65},{"id":98,"depth":320,"text":99},{"id":125,"depth":320,"text":126},{"id":149,"depth":320,"text":150},{"id":164,"depth":320,"text":165,"children":329},[330,332],{"id":172,"depth":331,"text":173},3,{"id":179,"depth":331,"text":180},{"id":203,"depth":320,"text":204},{"id":221,"depth":320,"text":222},{"id":242,"depth":320,"text":243},{"id":266,"depth":320,"text":267,"children":337},[338,339],{"id":273,"depth":331,"text":274},{"id":294,"depth":331,"text":295},"md",{"url":342,"altText":343,"title":344},"\u002Fcms\u002FTeam working to deliver online exams","Two women looking at a laptop at a desk","Team working to deliver online exams",false,{},true,"\u002Fblog\u002Fdelivering-online-exams-a-comprehensive-guide","2024-03-23T00:03:29.671Z","13 min read",{"title":29,"description":19},"Synap provides a comprehensive guide with 10 essential factors for delivering online exams for the first time or transitioning to a new platform.","delivering-online-exams-a-comprehensive-guide","blog\u002Fdelivering-online-exams-a-comprehensive-guide","10 essential factors for delivering online exams for the first time, or when transitioning to a new exam platform.",[357,358,359],"candidate-experience","exam-setup","automation","unzyYGNRD1jQbKcKqoEcBLwTYQ3mmKMWIAILA9azPPw",{"id":362,"title":363,"author":23,"body":364,"description":19,"extension":340,"headerImage":516,"highlights":22,"isPublished":345,"meta":520,"navigation":347,"path":521,"publishedAt":522,"readingTime":523,"seo":524,"seoDescription":525,"seoTitle":526,"slug":527,"stem":528,"subtitle":529,"topicLabels":22,"topics":530,"__hash__":533},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fsynap-proctoring-solution-british-data-awards.md","Synap Success: Finalist in the British Data Awards 2024!",{"type":31,"value":365,"toc":504},[366,370,379,383,392,396,399,403,411,416,420,423,427,430,440,444,459,464,468,476,480],[34,367,369],{"id":368},"synap-shortlisted-as-a-finalist-for-the-british-data-awards","Synap shortlisted as a Finalist for the British Data Awards",[39,371,372,373,378],{},"We’re delighted to announce that Synap has been selected as a Finalist in the esteemed British Data Awards 2024!\nOur groundbreaking proctoring tool, Synoptic, has earned its place among the contenders for ",[70,374,377],{"href":375,"rel":376},"https:\u002F\u002Fpredatech.co.uk\u002Fbritish-data-awards-2024-finalists\u002F",[79],"two prestigious awards",", 'Innovation of the Year' and 'Education Initiative of the Year'! Standing shoulder to shoulder with industry giants such as British Airways, Lloyds Banking Group, and Admiral Insurance UK, we are honoured to be recognised for our innovation and dedication to advancing education.\nIn addressing the challenges faced by test-takers in developing countries and rural regions with limited internet access, we identified a crucial need for a more accessible proctoring solution. Thus, Synoptic was born - a revolutionary, low-bandwidth alternative that ensures secure exam monitoring while consuming only a fraction of the bandwidth typically required by traditional proctoring methods.\nWith over 300 applicant submissions, we are thrilled to have shortlisted as a finalist in such a prestigious award. This is a testament to our unwavering commitment to inclusivity, accessibility, and pushing the boundaries of technological innovation here at Synap.\nThe winner will be announced on Wednesday 8th May 2024 at an eagerly anticipated awards ceremony in London.\n![British Data Awards 2024 finalists](\u002Fcms\u002FBritish Data Awards 2024 finalists)",[34,380,382],{"id":381},"synoptic-proctoring-innovation","Synoptic proctoring innovation",[39,384,385,386,391],{},"Synap has pioneered  a unique proctoring tool, ",[70,387,390],{"href":388,"rel":389},"https:\u002F\u002Fsynap.ac\u002Fdocs\u002Fexams\u002Fproctoring\u002Fproctoring-with-synoptic",[79],"Synoptic",", to monitor high-stakes examinations. In response to the challenges posed by the global shift to online examinations due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Synoptic emerged as an innovative proctoring tool designed to address the unique needs of people in low-bandwidth environments, especially in the developing world and rural areas.",[34,393,395],{"id":394},"the-problem-proctoring-in-low-internet-bandwidth-areas","The problem: proctoring in low internet bandwidth areas",[39,397,398],{},"The rapid transition from traditional in-person exams to online assessments highlighted the pressing need for a proactive strategy to secure high-stakes examinations.\nConventional proctoring methods, which heavily rely on continuous video monitoring, often falter in areas with poor internet connectivity. This not only results in the exclusion of a significant population from high-stakes examinations, but also exacerbates digital inequality on a global scale1, considering approximately 1.1 billion people live in internet poverty2.\nThis disadvantage disproportionately affects candidates in remote regions and in the developing world, hindering their ability to obtain high-value qualifications and limiting their access to educational and career opportunities.",[34,400,402],{"id":401},"the-problem-experiencing-internet-disruptions-firsthand","The problem: experiencing internet disruptions firsthand",[39,404,405,406,410],{},"We encountered firsthand the challenges associated with delivering exams in regions facing internet connectivity issues. In 2020, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, our client, the ",[70,407,409],{"href":408},"\u002Fcustomers\u002Fsouth-african-university-overcomes-online-exam-hurdle\u002F","University of Free State (UFS)"," in South Africa, sought our assistance in transitioning to online exams for the first time.\nHenda, the Program Director at UFS’s Faculty of Law, shared more information on the country's vulnerability to frequent internet outages caused by 'load shedding' - a controlled measure aimed at protecting the electricity power system from a complete blackout3:",[314,412,413],{},[39,414,415],{},"During our examinations we had stage 4 loadshedding (this means that our national electricity provider cuts the electricity grids across the country for 3 hours at a time 4 times a day). The impact this had on a normal examination and the stress levels of our students were immense. But, (the Synap) team got every single student through the exam with a professional attitude, support and kindness.",[34,417,419],{"id":418},"the-solution-how-synoptic-works","The solution: how Synoptic works",[39,421,422],{},"Synoptic overcomes the hurdle of internet constraints with a unique approach that records changes in the exam platform’s HTML code, which is then used to produce a digital re-creation of the candidate’s exam session, showing a video of what they were doing.\nCompared to traditional ‘video proctoring’ this approach requires significantly less bandwidth, reducing the need for a broadband internet connection and making secure exams possible, even in extremely low-bandwidth environments.\nAdditionally, Synoptic leverages intermittent webcam and laptop screenshots instead of continuous video monitoring. Synoptic captures snapshots at regular intervals, allowing identification of potential cheating attempts, such as opening browser tabs or having someone in the room.\n![Synoptic breaches](\u002Fcms\u002FSynoptic breaches)\nThis approach enables individuals in remote or underserved regions with limited internet access to participate in high-stakes online exams, without the hindrance of connectivity issues.\nThis democratisation of access ensures that education and career advancement opportunities are extended to a broader spectrum of candidates, breaking down geographical barriers and fostering inclusivity in the examination process.\nBy functioning in low-bandwidth environments, Synoptic prioritises the well-being of test-takers by mitigating stress associated with exam disruptions caused by continuous video proctoring methods. This reduction in stress not only contributes to a more positive and conducive exam environment, but also supports fair and equitable assessment by allowing candidates to perform at their best.\nSynoptic enables  educational institutions to uphold the integrity and validity of high-stakes examinations. This comprehensive monitoring process allows organisations to identify and deter potential cheating attempts, reinforcing the credibility of their examination processes.\nBy embracing Synoptic, organisations can strengthen the trust placed in their assessment, safeguarding the value and reliability of certification, and qualifications,  which is paramount for the credibility of educational and professional certifications.\n![Synoptic breach detected](\u002Fcms\u002FSynoptic breach detected)",[34,424,426],{"id":425},"the-results-thousands-of-exams-proctored-worldwide","The results: thousands of exams proctored worldwide",[39,428,429],{},"In its first year since inception, Synoptic has facilitated over 8,000 exams spanning across 33 countries!\nFrom Haiti to Ghana, South Africa to India, Mongolia to the Philippines, and beyond, our reach extends far and wide. Not only have we supported individuals in remote regions, but we've also partnered with clients in the UK, USA, and Australia.\nDr. James Gupta, Synap’s Co-Founder and CEO, said:",[314,431,432],{},[39,433,434,435,439],{},"We are immensely proud of the widespread adoption of Synoptic in its first year, and the significant number of test-takers we've been able to support in their examinations.\nThis widespread implementation underscores the global impact of Synoptic in empowering test takers in their educational and professional pursuits. James shared:\nExams, whether for educational or professional development, can often induce stress, particularly when compounded by internet dropouts and connectivity challenges. We take pride at Synap in empowering our test-takers to navigate their exams seamlessly, offering a dependable and hassle-free proctoring experience.\nSynoptic has demonstrated its success among our clients. Rachel, representing a ",[70,436,438],{"href":437},"\u002Fcustomers\u002Fprovincial-department\u002F","Provincial Department in Canada",", shared her insights of using Synoptic to conduct online recruitment exams for the first time:\nThe whole onboarding, getting everything out, and advising the individuals who would be taking the test, and providing support to our proctor, was absolutely excellent.",[34,441,443],{"id":442},"about-the-british-data-awards","About the British Data Awards",[39,445,446,447,452,453,458],{},"The ",[70,448,451],{"href":449,"rel":450},"https:\u002F\u002Fpredatech.co.uk\u002Fbritish-data-awards\u002F",[79],"British Data Awards"," is an annual quest to discover and celebrate the UK’s data success stories. Organisations taking part this year range from FTSE 100 heavyweights, public sector pioneers, technology unicorns, fast-growing scale-ups, essential Not-For-Profits, and everything in between.\nA record 321 entries were received for the fourth edition of the British Data Awards which means that competition to be named a Finalist proved to be particularly tough, so we’re especially pleased to be announced as a Finalist.\nJason Johnson, Co-Founder of ",[70,454,457],{"href":455,"rel":456},"https:\u002F\u002Fpredatech.co.uk\u002F",[79],"Predatech"," and British Data Awards judge said:",[314,460,461],{},[39,462,463],{},"With so many excellent entries received this year, being named a Finalist in the British Data Awards 2024 really is a great achievement. Our Finalist also remind us of the rich vein of innovation that runs throughout the United Kingdom, and I can’t wait to celebrate all our Finalists in May.\nDr. James Gupta, Co-Founder and CEO of Synap, expressed his thoughts on the team's prestigious award nomination:\nBeing shortlisted for this award is a testament to the dedication of our team, reflecting the efforts put into every stage of Synoptic's journey - from research and design to development and testing. This accolade not only honours our collective commitment but also serves as a testament to our mission of advancing education and reducing digital inequality.",[34,465,467],{"id":466},"experience-secure-exam-delivery-with-synap","Experience secure exam delivery with Synap",[39,469,470,471,475],{},"Arrange a tailored demo and start a 14-day free trial to explore the full potential of Synoptic and other dynamic exam features, elevating your online exam delivery to new heights! ",[70,472,474],{"href":473},"\u002Fbook-a-demo\u002F","Book a demo today",".",[170,477,479],{"id":478},"references","References",[481,482,483,490,497],"ol",{},[53,484,485,486,475],{},"IMF. \"Low Internet Access Driving Inequality.\" IMF Blog, June 29, 2020. ",[70,487,488],{"href":488,"rel":489},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.imf.org\u002Fen\u002FBlogs\u002FArticles\u002F2020\u002F06\u002F29\u002Flow-internet-access-driving-inequality",[79],[53,491,492,493,475],{},"Brookings Institution. \"Measuring Internet Poverty.\" Brookings Institution, July 26, 2021. ",[70,494,495],{"href":495,"rel":496},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.brookings.edu\u002Farticles\u002Fmeasuring-internet-poverty\u002F",[79],[53,498,499,500,475],{},"Kleinman Center for Energy Policy. \"Shedding the Load: Power Shortages Widen Divides in South Africa.\" Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, July 28, 2023. ",[70,501,502],{"href":502,"rel":503},"https:\u002F\u002Fkleinmanenergy.upenn.edu\u002Fnews-insights\u002Fshedding-the-load-power-shortages-widen-divides-in-south-africa\u002F",[79],{"title":19,"searchDepth":320,"depth":320,"links":505},[506,507,508,509,510,511,512,513],{"id":368,"depth":320,"text":369},{"id":381,"depth":320,"text":382},{"id":394,"depth":320,"text":395},{"id":401,"depth":320,"text":402},{"id":418,"depth":320,"text":419},{"id":425,"depth":320,"text":426},{"id":442,"depth":320,"text":443},{"id":466,"depth":320,"text":467,"children":514},[515],{"id":478,"depth":331,"text":479},{"url":517,"altText":518,"title":519},"\u002Fcms\u002FBritish Data Awards 2024 finalists","Finalist image from British Data Awards","British Data Awards 2024 finalists",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fsynap-proctoring-solution-british-data-awards","2024-03-20T18:32:21.810Z","7 min read",{"title":363,"description":19},"Synap's Synoptic proctoring is a British Data Awards 2024 finalist for its innovative approach to exam delivery in low-internet environments.","Synap: Finalist in the British Data Awards 2024 - Synap","synap-proctoring-solution-british-data-awards","blog\u002Fsynap-proctoring-solution-british-data-awards","Explore how our Synoptic proctoring has been nominated for two awards, for its pioneering approach to exam delivery in low-internet environments.",[531,532],"company","proctoring","V2E8N4HXP0diLQWSIkOwwnG9_UkyIMdcaCG-ep5beO0",{"id":535,"title":536,"author":23,"body":537,"description":19,"extension":340,"headerImage":840,"highlights":844,"isPublished":345,"meta":851,"navigation":347,"path":852,"publishedAt":853,"readingTime":350,"seo":854,"seoDescription":855,"seoTitle":856,"slug":857,"stem":858,"subtitle":855,"topicLabels":22,"topics":859,"__hash__":861},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Ftransitioning-from-paper-to-online-exams.md","Switching from paper-based testing to online exams",{"type":31,"value":538,"toc":804},[539,541,549,553,557,560,564,583,587,590,598,601,610,614,617,624,627,636,640,643,646,649,662,666,669,676,679,694,698,701,715,718,746,750,753,756,759,774,778,782,785,789,797,801],[34,540,37],{"id":36},[39,542,543,544,548],{},"Traditionally, paper-based exams have been the cornerstone of assessment in educational and professional settings. However, as technology continues to evolve, the landscape of examinations is undergoing a profound transformation.\nThe advent of ",[70,545,547],{"href":546},"\u002Fsolutions\u002Fonline-exam-platform\u002F","online exam platforms"," welcomes a new era, marked by automation, scalability, and flexibility, transforming the way exams are administered and experienced.\nJoin us as we examine the key differences between paper-based and online exams, and uncover the benefits and efficiencies afforded by digital testing solutions in the modern era.",[34,550,552],{"id":551},"_1-creating-exams","1. Creating exams",[170,554,556],{"id":555},"paper-exams","Paper exams",[39,558,559],{},"**Gathering questions: **Creating exam papers for in-person assessments can be a challenge due to the multitude of educators holding different question sets. This challenge is further compounded by the diverse formats in which questions are stored—some may be in Word documents, while others are in PDFs.\n**Resource-intensive printing: **After compiling the exam questions, the resource-heavy process of printing exam papers for every candidate ensues. This not only consumes a significant amount of paper, but also contributes to environmental concerns regarding paper waste.\n**Logistical nightmare of updates: **The complexity of exam creation deepens when updates to questions are required, transforming the process into a logistical nightmare. Coordinating updates across different question sets and formats poses significant challenges for exam administrators.\n![Printing exam papers-1.Printing exam papers](\u002Fcms\u002FPrinting exam papers-1.Printing exam papers)",[170,561,563],{"id":562},"online-exams","Online exams",[39,565,566,567,570,571,576,577,582],{},"**Streamline question storage: **The transition to an ",[70,568,569],{"href":546},"online exam platform"," presents a solution by unifying the question format and providing a structured environment for exam creation, streamlining the process and enhancing efficiency.\nIf exam questions exist in PDF or Word format, most online exam platforms offer a user-friendly ",[70,572,575],{"href":573,"rel":574},"https:\u002F\u002Fsynap.ac\u002Fdocs\u002Fquizzes\u002Fcreating-a-quiz#step-2-adding-questions",[79],"question editor",". This simplifies the transfer process through a straightforward copy-and-paste method, ensuring seamless integration of diverse question formats.\n**Efficiency of question editor tool: **A user-friendly question editor tool allows educators to easily create new questions, add them to the question bank, duplicate existing questions, and export questions for external work, enhancing efficiency and productivity.\n**Bulk uploading of questions: **For those with questions stored in a spreadsheet or CSV format, the transition to online exams becomes even smoother. Robust exam platforms can support ",[70,578,581],{"href":579,"rel":580},"https:\u002F\u002Fsynap.ac\u002Fdocs\u002Fquizzes\u002Fimporting-and-exporting",[79],"mass uploading of questions",", saving time and ensuring a quick and efficient transfer of question content to the online environment.\n![Creating a question](\u002Fcms\u002FCreating a question)",[34,584,586],{"id":585},"_2-scheduling-exams","2. Scheduling exams",[170,588,556],{"id":589},"paper-exams-1",[39,591,592,593],{},"**Logistical realities: **In the realm of face-to-face exams, logistics often reign supreme. These assessments typically unfold on a designated day, within a specific timeframe, and within the confines of a testing centre or room, often overseen by an in-person proctor. The process demands significant administrative efforts to secure venues, arrange proctoring, and coordinate with candidates.\n**Limited flexibility: **While some flexibility may be extended to candidates regarding exam times, the option for complete flexibility when choosing specific dates and times are often constrained. This limitation stems from the labour-intensive nature of scheduling for exam administrators and proctors.\n**Travel commitments: **In-person exams entail substantial travel commitments for candidates, who must carve out time for commuting to and from the testing venue. Particularly for high-stakes certification exams, candidates may find themselves traversing cities, states, or even countries, entailing meticulous travel arrangements and considerable time investment.\n",[594,595],"img",{"alt":596,"src":597},"students-sitting-exam-in-hall.jpg","\u002Fcms\u002Fstudents-sitting-exam-in-hall.jpg",[170,599,563],{"id":600},"online-exams-1",[39,602,603,604,609],{},"**Scalability and flexibility: **Embracing an online examination platform brings forth a paradigm shift in scalability and flexibility. While the synchronous completion of exams remains a hallmark feature, the online environment offers unparalleled scaling capacity, unbound by physical venue limitations. With the click of a button, a robust testing platform can seamlessly accommodate thousands of candidates, all commencing their exams simultaneously.\n**Enhanced scheduling options: **The flexibility of scheduling reaches new heights with online exams. By setting specific ",[70,605,608],{"href":606,"rel":607},"https:\u002F\u002Fsynap.ac\u002Fdocs\u002Fexams\u002Fcreate-and-manage-exams\u002F5.-share\u002Fschedule#fixed-date-range-exams",[79],"windows of exam availability",", candidates gain the liberty to choose their preferred testing time, whether at 1am or 1pm, they can take the exam at their convenience.\n**Greater convenience: **Online exams provide numerous benefits for candidates, especially in terms of remote accessibility. Candidates can take exams from their own homes, cutting out the need to travel to a testing location. This saves time, transportation costs, and reduces the stress associated with commuting.\nAdditionally, being in a familiar and relaxed environment can help alleviate exam nerves, enabling candidates to perform better. Overall, online exams create a more comfortable and accommodating testing experience for candidates.",[34,611,613],{"id":612},"_3-grading-exams","3. Grading exams",[170,615,556],{"id":616},"paper-exams-2",[39,618,619,620],{},"**Manual grading: **With traditional paper-based exams, grading is predominantly a manual process. Educators spend numerous hours meticulously reviewing and assessing each response, resulting in a laborious and time-consuming task.\n**Educator frustrations: **The workload associated with the repetitive nature of manually grading paper exams can take a toll on educators, leading to feelings of frustration and dissatisfaction. Educators often express a desire to allocate more time to their primary role of teaching, rather than spending countless hours on administrative tasks such as grading exams.\n",[594,621],{"alt":622,"src":623},"marking-papers.jpg","\u002Fcms\u002Fmarking-papers.jpg",[170,625,563],{"id":626},"online-exams-2",[39,628,629,630,635],{},"**Streamlined grading: **The transition to online exams revolutionises the grading process, offering a streamlined and efficient approach. Automatic marking of multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, dropdown, and ",[70,631,634],{"href":632,"rel":633},"https:\u002F\u002Fsynap.ac\u002Fdocs\u002Fquizzes\u002Fcreating-a-quiz\u002Fquestion-types",[79],"other question types",", significantly reduces the grading workload.\nEducators also benefit from marking dashboards that facilitate the coordination of marking written responses and essays, enhancing efficiency further.\n**Enhanced focus on teaching: **By saving educators a substantial amount of time on grading, online assessments afford them the opportunity to allocate more time toward teaching and engaging with candidates, thereby enriching the educational experience.\nThe shift to online exams not only modernises the grading process, but also enables educators to reclaim valuable time to provide a more impactful educational experience.\n![Marking dashboard](\u002Fcms\u002FMarking dashboard)",[34,637,639],{"id":638},"_4-exam-security","4. Exam security",[170,641,556],{"id":642},"paper-exams-3",[39,644,645],{},"**In-person proctoring: **With paper-based exams conducted in a face-to-face setting, security is often ensured through in-person proctors, who typically are internal staff member. A human proctor may walk around the room to monitor candidates and deter cheating behaviours.\n**Cost and availability: **In-person proctoring can be quite costly, as it involves hiring and training human proctors. For proctors who are internal staff, it also involves reallocating the individuals from their regular business duties, disrupting workflow and productivity.\nAdditionally, it is limited by the availability of proctors, especially during busy work periods. These factors contribute to increased administrative overhead and resource allocation.\n**Limited scalability: **The effectiveness of in-person proctoring is restricted by the proctor's capacity to monitor a limited number of candidates simultaneously. This limitation can impact the scalability of exam security, particularly for large cohorts.",[170,647,563],{"id":648},"online-exams-3",[39,650,651,652,656,657,661],{},"**Rise of remote proctoring: **Online exams have witnessed the emergence of remote ",[70,653,655],{"href":654},"\u002Fblog\u002Fproctoring-online-exams-top-5-benefits\u002F","proctoring technologies",", ensuring secure monitoring through video or screenshot recording. This method enables continuous surveillance of candidates from remote locations.\n**Lockdown browser functionality: **To prevent unauthorised access and cheating, ",[70,658,660],{"href":659},"\u002Fonline-exam-platform\u002Fproctoring\u002F","online proctoring"," solutions often incorporate lockdown browser functionality. This feature restricts candidates from accessing other browsers, using desktop applications, or attaching second monitors during the exam session.\n**Integration of artificial intelligence: **The use of artificial intelligence further enhances security by automatically detecting cheating behaviours, such as use of mobile devices, plagiarism, or unauthorised assistance from others.\n**Enhanced scalability: **The integration of on-demand, remote proctoring ensures exam integrity round the clock for global test takers. With proctors available 24\u002F7, monitoring exams becomes a seamless endeavour, enhancing the overall proctoring efficiency and accessibility of the examination experience.\nThis flexibility eliminates geographical barriers and time constraints associated with in-person proctoring, facilitating seamless exam administration on a larger scale.\n![Synoptic breach detected](\u002Fcms\u002FSynoptic breach detected)",[34,663,665],{"id":664},"_5-static-and-dynamic-exam-formats","5. Static and dynamic exam formats",[170,667,556],{"id":668},"paper-exams-4",[39,670,671,675],{},[672,673,674],"strong",{},"Static exam papers:"," With paper examinations, candidates typically face a standardised set of questions presented in a fixed order, constituting what is known as static exams. This format ensures consistency across test-takers and simplifies the process for manually administering the exam.\n**Introduction of variations: **Occasionally, organisations may introduce a limited number of variations to the exam paper, which are rotated between test takers to enhance fairness and prevent cheating.\nWhile variations add an extra layer of security, they also introduce complexities in exam administration. Exam administrators must carefully manage and track the distribution of variation sets to ensure equitable treatment of all candidates.",[170,677,563],{"id":678},"online-exams-4",[39,680,681,682,687,688,693],{},"**Preserving familiarity: **The transition to an online testing system maintains the option to deliver ",[70,683,686],{"href":684,"rel":685},"https:\u002F\u002Fsynap.ac\u002Fdocs\u002Fexams\u002Fexams-vs-quizzes#static-exams",[79],"static exams"," and incorporate variations, ensuring continuity with familiar practices from paper-based exams.\n**Versatility with dynamic exams: **A sophisticated online exam platform can introduce a revolutionary approach to exam authoring that transcends the constraints of traditional in-person exams. Administrators can embrace the innovation of ",[70,689,692],{"href":690,"rel":691},"https:\u002F\u002Fsynap.ac\u002Fdocs\u002Fexams\u002Fcreate-and-manage-exams\u002Fcreating-an-exam#type",[79],"dynamic exams",", where questions are randomly generated from an extensive question bank using predefined logic.\nFor example, a set of 10 questions tagged with 'Biology' and 'Easy' can be randomly selected for each candidate, ensuring that each test-taker receives a unique set of questions, while adhering to the same underlying logic.\n**Scalable dynamic exams: **This dynamic approach not only adds an element of fairness, but also enables exam administrators to effortlessly generate thousands of unique exams in a matter of minutes, an approach that is extremely difficult to administer for paper-based exams.\n![Dynamic exams](\u002Fcms\u002FDynamic exams)",[34,695,697],{"id":696},"_6-issuing-exam-retakes","6. Issuing exam retakes",[170,699,556],{"id":700},"paper-exams-5",[39,702,703,706,707,710,711,714],{},[672,704,705],{},"Manual retake processes:"," For in-person, paper-based exams, the process of issuing retakes is predominantly manual. When candidates fail an exam, retakes are administered through a labour-intensive process. This often involves significant administrative effort and coordination to arrange for retake opportunities.\n",[672,708,709],{},"Delayed retake opportunities:"," Immediate retakes are often unfeasible for face-to-face exams as exam papers need to be manually marked, delaying the issuance of retake opportunities. This delay can prolong the time it takes for candidates to attempt a reevaluation of their performance.\n",[672,712,713],{},"Administrative overhead:"," Exam administrators must manually identify failed candidates, determine specific exam dates for retakes, and engage in back-and-forth communication with candidates to finalise arrangements. This administrative overhead adds to the complexity and time required for managing retake processes.",[170,716,563],{"id":717},"online-exams-5",[39,719,720,723,724,729,730,733,734,737,738,741,742,745],{},[672,721,722],{},"Automated retake workflows:"," A good online assessment platform can offer a range of automated workflows, streamlining the process of ",[70,725,728],{"href":726,"rel":727},"https:\u002F\u002Fsynap.ac\u002Fdocs\u002Fexams\u002Fcreate-and-manage-exams\u002F3.-configure\u002Fresits",[79],"issuing retakes",". Automated systems handle many aspects of retake administration, reducing the need for manual intervention and streamlining the overall process.\n",[672,731,732],{},"Swift policy configuration:"," Retake policies can be configured swiftly with an online exam platform, with exam administrators having the flexibility to determine retake schedules, and the number of allowed retakes. This flexibility enables administrators to tailor retake policies to meet the specific needs of their organisation.\n",[672,735,736],{},"Immediate access to retakes:"," Upon failing an exam, candidates can receive immediate notification and, if applicable, access to retake opportunities on an online exam platform. This enables candidates to promptly attempt a reattempt of their test without unnecessary delays.\n",[672,739,740],{},"Future retake scheduling:"," Alternatively, an online testing platform can facilitate the automatic scheduling of retakes for the future. This provides candidates with ample time to prepare by reviewing course content, developing their knowledge further, or arranging 1-to-1’s with educators.\n",[672,743,744],{},"Automated communication:"," Instructions for retakes, including details about scheduling, procedures, and guidelines, can be automatically generated and communicated via email with an online exam platform. This automated communication enhances efficiency and ensures that candidates receive timely and relevant information about retake opportunities.\n![Automating retakes](\u002Fcms\u002FAutomating retakes)",[34,747,749],{"id":748},"_7-awarding-certificates","7. Awarding certificates",[170,751,556],{"id":752},"paper-exams-6",[39,754,755],{},"**Delayed certificate processing: **In the realm of paper-based exams, the issuance of certificates to successful candidates is often subject to delays, due to the reliance on manual marking processes. This dependency on human intervention prolongs the time it takes for candidates to receive their credentials.\n**Logistical hurdles: **Following the completion of exams, the process often entails forwarding candidate information to a certificate printing service, introducing logistical complexities and potential errors in data transfer.\n**Time and cost: **Printing and postage expenses add both time and monetary costs to the certificate issuance process, contributing to prolonged processing times and increased administrative burden.\n**Environmental impact: **The reliance on paper copies for certificates not only adds to the administrative workload, but also poses environmental concerns, as it contributes to high usage of paper and resource consumption.\n**Extended waiting period: **Candidates are often left waiting for weeks or even months to receive their certificates, causing frustration, and impeding their ability to utilise their credentials for career advancement or further education.",[170,757,563],{"id":758},"online-exams-6",[39,760,761,762,767,768,773],{},"**Efficient automation: **A sophisticated online testing platform transforms the certificate issuance process by enabling efficient automation. Exam administrators can set up the ",[70,763,766],{"href":764,"rel":765},"https:\u002F\u002Fsynap.ac\u002Fdocs\u002Fexams\u002Fcreate-and-manage-exams\u002F3.-configure\u002Fcertificates",[79],"certificate issuance process"," in a matter of minutes, streamlining the workflow for thousands of candidates simultaneously.\n**Immediate certificate delivery: **Branded or custom certificates can be instantly generated and issued to successful candidates upon successfully passing an online exam. This immediate delivery enhances the sense of accomplishment and satisfaction for candidates, providing instant recognition of their achievements.\n**Enhanced candidate experience: **The immediate receipt of certificates significantly enhances the candidate experience, fostering a positive impression of the examination process and the issuing institution.\n**Convenient access: **Candidates can conveniently access their certificates digitally, allowing for easy download and printing, if required. This flexibility ensures that candidates have quick access to their credentials whenever required.\n**Social sharing: **The digital nature of online certificates facilitates effortless sharing via a ",[70,769,772],{"href":770,"rel":771},"https:\u002F\u002Fsynap.ac\u002Fdocs\u002Fexams\u002Fcreate-and-manage-exams\u002F3.-configure\u002Fcertificates#verification-qr-code",[79],"QR code"," or on professional networking platforms such as LinkedIn, enhancing visibility and recognition within professional networks and facilitating career advancement opportunities.\n![Certificate verification page](\u002Fcms\u002FCertificate verification page)",[34,775,777],{"id":776},"_8-accessibility-for-exams","8. Accessibility for exams",[170,779,781],{"id":780},"in-person-exams","In-person exams",[39,783,784],{},"**Administrative overhead: **Managing accommodations such as extra time or modifications to the exam paper entails a significant amount of administrative overhead. Exam administrators must meticulously track and allocate resources to ensure equitable treatment of all candidates.\n**Distractions in testing venues: **Conducting exams in a physical testing venue, particularly for candidates requiring extra time, can pose challenges. The presence of other candidates completing their exams and leaving the venue simultaneously can create distractions and disrupt the testing environment.\n**Social stigma: **Candidates who receive accommodations may experience feelings of embarrassment or self-consciousness, as they may feel singled out from the majority of test-takers in the exam venue.\n**Segregation of candidates: **In some cases, candidates with additional needs are held in separate venues from other candidates, potentially leading to feelings of isolation or stigma.",[170,786,788],{"id":787},"online-exams-7","Online Exams",[39,790,791,792,796],{},"**Built-in accessibility features: **A modern, remote exam platform is designed with integrated ",[70,793,795],{"href":794},"\u002Fblog\u002Finclusive-and-accessible-online-exams\u002F","accessibility tools",", enhancing the inclusivity and user-friendliness of the testing interface. These features cater to diverse needs and ensure equitable access to assessments.\nExamples of such tools include provision for additional time allocation, customisable font size options for exam papers, and compatibility with screen readers, enabling candidates with varying abilities to navigate and engage with the exam content effectively.\n**Comfort and focus: **Taking exams in the comfort of their own homes allows candidates to minimise distractions and focus more effectively on their assessment, particularly if they require extra time or accommodations.\n**Reduced social stigma: **By eliminating the physical presence of other candidates, online exams help reduce the potential for embarrassment or stigma associated with receiving accommodations. This fosters a more empowering and inclusive testing environment for all candidates.",[34,798,800],{"id":799},"conclusion","Conclusion",[39,802,803],{},"Delivering exams on paper compared to online presents distinct differences in logistics, efficiency, and overall experience. Paper-based exams often involve manual processes for creation, distribution, and grading, leading to significant administrative burdens for administrators and educators.\nIn contrast, online exams leverage automation via a digital platform to streamline processes, offering greater convenience, scalability, and flexibility. With online exams, educators can create, administer, and grade exams efficiently, while candidates benefit from remote access, immediate feedback, and enhanced accessibility features.\nOverall, the transition from paper-based to online exams represents a shift towards a more efficient and user-friendly examination experience.",{"title":19,"searchDepth":320,"depth":320,"links":805},[806,807,811,815,819,823,827,831,835,839],{"id":36,"depth":320,"text":37},{"id":551,"depth":320,"text":552,"children":808},[809,810],{"id":555,"depth":331,"text":556},{"id":562,"depth":331,"text":563},{"id":585,"depth":320,"text":586,"children":812},[813,814],{"id":589,"depth":331,"text":556},{"id":600,"depth":331,"text":563},{"id":612,"depth":320,"text":613,"children":816},[817,818],{"id":616,"depth":331,"text":556},{"id":626,"depth":331,"text":563},{"id":638,"depth":320,"text":639,"children":820},[821,822],{"id":642,"depth":331,"text":556},{"id":648,"depth":331,"text":563},{"id":664,"depth":320,"text":665,"children":824},[825,826],{"id":668,"depth":331,"text":556},{"id":678,"depth":331,"text":563},{"id":696,"depth":320,"text":697,"children":828},[829,830],{"id":700,"depth":331,"text":556},{"id":717,"depth":331,"text":563},{"id":748,"depth":320,"text":749,"children":832},[833,834],{"id":752,"depth":331,"text":556},{"id":758,"depth":331,"text":563},{"id":776,"depth":320,"text":777,"children":836},[837,838],{"id":780,"depth":331,"text":781},{"id":787,"depth":331,"text":788},{"id":799,"depth":320,"text":800},{"url":841,"altText":842,"title":843},"\u002Fcms\u002Fstudents-completing-paper-exam.jpg","Students writing an exam in a classroom","Students taking an exam",[845,847,849],{"text":846},"Online exams centralise question banks, simplify creation, and eliminate the need for printing or manual updates.",{"text":848},"Automation enables instant grading, flexible scheduling, and immediate retake or certificate issuance.",{"text":850},"Digital exams improve accessibility and inclusivity with built-in accommodations and remote delivery.",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Ftransitioning-from-paper-to-online-exams","2024-03-12T12:00:00.000Z",{"title":536,"description":19},"Digital evolution: From manual to automated, transform your exam delivery with online innovations.","Switching from paper-based to online exams - Synap","transitioning-from-paper-to-online-exams","blog\u002Ftransitioning-from-paper-to-online-exams",[562,860],"exam-delivery","X7xANqbFCwT73xEbKc_v7p9WAUQFAKm2Q_QA77SbqOw",{"id":863,"title":864,"author":23,"body":865,"description":19,"extension":340,"headerImage":1357,"highlights":1361,"isPublished":345,"meta":1368,"navigation":347,"path":1369,"publishedAt":1370,"readingTime":523,"seo":1371,"seoDescription":1372,"seoTitle":1373,"slug":1374,"stem":1375,"subtitle":1372,"topicLabels":22,"topics":1376,"__hash__":1379},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fanti-cheat-methods-for-online-exams.md","21 Anti-cheating methods to increase online exam security",{"type":31,"value":866,"toc":1331},[867,871,874,877,880,884,890,901,907,913,928,934,937,943,949,962,968,974,993,998,1004,1015,1021,1027,1044,1050,1056,1067,1073,1086,1092,1096,1099,1105,1109,1112,1116,1119,1124,1130,1147,1153,1159,1180,1186,1192,1199,1203,1206,1212,1225,1231,1235,1238,1241,1247,1266,1272,1293,1299,1305,1318,1324],[34,868,869],{"id":36},[672,870,37],{},[39,872,873],{},"Ensuring the security of online exams is a critical priority for organisations such as professional certification bodies, universities, and corporate training providers, where the integrity of assessments directly impacts qualification credibility, compliance, and reputation.",[39,875,876],{},"As AI-powered tools, contract cheating services, and online answer-sharing communities continue to grow in popularity, cheating in online exams has become both easier for candidates to carry out and harder for organisations to detect.",[39,878,879],{},"Without robust security measures in place, organisations risk exam content leakage, compromised qualifications, reputational damage, and a loss of trust in their assessment processes. In this guide, we explore 21 anti-cheat features that strengthen the integrity of your online exams and explain why each one matters to your organisation.",[34,881,883],{"id":882},"anti-cheat-features-for-creating-exams","Anti-cheat features for creating exams",[34,885,887],{"id":886},"_1-disabling-copying-and-pasting",[672,888,889],{},"1. Disabling copying and pasting",[39,891,892,893,896,897,900],{},"An effective and popular anti-cheating measure involves disabling the copy-paste functionality during an exam. By implementing this restriction, candidates are ",[672,894,895],{},"prevented from copying exam content"," and distributing it externally. It also ensures ",[672,898,899],{},"candidates cannot input text from external sources",", such as AI tools, personal notes or Google, into the exam's text box. For organisations running written assessments, this is a foundational control that protects both question integrity and the validity of candidate responses.",[39,902,903],{},[594,904],{"alt":905,"src":906},"Disabling copying and pasting","\u002Fcms\u002Fdisabling-copying-and-pasting.png",[34,908,910],{"id":909},"_2-disabling-right-click",[672,911,912],{},"2. Disabling right-click",[39,914,915,916,919,920,923,924,927],{},"Disabling right-click functionality during an exam blocks a common shortcut for ",[672,917,918],{},"copying text",", ",[672,921,922],{},"printing pages",", or ",[672,925,926],{},"saving images",". This is a low-friction exam control that helps safeguard proprietary question content from unauthorised sharing while maintaining a smooth and uninterrupted experience for test-takers.",[34,929,931],{"id":930},"_3-restricting-question-navigation",[672,932,933],{},"3. Restricting question navigation",[39,935,936],{},"Locking candidates into the current question prevents them from navigating forwards or backwards through the exam. This features helps to maintain a focused linear assessment experience and prevents colluding by reducing the risk of future questions being viewed, shared, or leaked.",[39,938,939],{},[594,940],{"alt":941,"src":942},"Disabling navigation in an exam","\u002Fcms\u002Fdisabling-navigation-in-an-exam.png",[34,944,946],{"id":945},"_4-disabling-spell-check",[672,947,948],{},"4. Disabling spell check",[39,950,951,952,957,958,961],{},"In language assessments and other scenarios where the authenticity of candidates' written work is paramount, the option to ",[70,953,956],{"href":954,"rel":955},"https:\u002F\u002Fsynap.ac\u002Fdocs\u002Fexams\u002Fanti-cheat-features\u002Fdisabling-spellcheck-for-exams",[79],"disable spell check"," ensures that the content submitted truly reflects the candidate's own efforts, ",[672,959,960],{},"maintaining the authenticity and accuracy"," of their written responses. This is particularly relevant for organisations using assessments as evidence of competency for regulatory or compliance purposes.",[39,963,964],{},[594,965],{"alt":966,"src":967},"Disabling spell check","\u002Fcms\u002Fdisabling-spell-check.png",[34,969,971],{"id":970},"_5-creating-dynamic-exams-from-question-banks",[672,972,973],{},"5. Creating dynamic exams from question banks",[39,975,976,980,981,984,985,989,990,475],{},[70,977,979],{"href":77,"rel":978},[79],"Dynamic exams"," offer the capability to ",[672,982,983],{},"create unique exams for each candidate",". This functionality enables admins to quickly ",[70,986,988],{"href":987},"\u002Fonline-exam-platform\u002Fauthoring\u002F","generate exams"," of equal weighting from extensive question banks. This is achieved by specifying how many questions are selected with a specific tag, such as \"select 10 questions with the topic tag 'Chemistry'\". Consequently, candidates encounter varied sets of questions aligned with identical subject categories, ",[672,991,992],{},"ensuring both exam security and fairness",[39,994,995],{},[594,996],{"alt":979,"src":997},"\u002Fcms\u002Fdynamic-exams.png",[34,999,1001],{"id":1000},"_6-delivering-exams-in-timed-conditions",[672,1002,1003],{},"6. Delivering exams in timed conditions",[39,1005,1006,1007,1010,1011,1014],{},"By setting a specific time limit for an exam, candidates have a ",[672,1008,1009],{},"restricted time frame"," for completing the assessment. This minimises opportunities for collusion among test-takers or attempts to search for answers online. Upon the time limit expiring, candidates are ",[672,1012,1013],{},"automatically locked out of the exam",", adding an extra layer of security against question leakage. This measure not only deters potential cheating but also ensures a more controlled and secure examination environment.",[39,1016,1017],{},[594,1018],{"alt":1019,"src":1020},"Timed exam","\u002Fcms\u002Ftimed-exam.png",[34,1022,1024],{"id":1023},"_7-timed-sections-and-locking-of-sections",[672,1025,1026],{},"7. Timed sections and locking of sections",[39,1028,1029,1030,1035,1036,1039,1040,1043],{},"Organising an exam into ",[70,1031,1034],{"href":1032,"rel":1033},"https:\u002F\u002Fsynap.ac\u002Fdocs\u002Fexams\u002Fcreate-and-manage-exams\u002F2.-build-exam\u002Fsections",[79],"sections"," and adding timed constraints within each section is an effective anti-cheating strategy. This approach r",[672,1037,1038],{},"estricts candidates from revisiting previous questions"," once a section is completed, significantly reducing the likelihood of question sharing. Moreover, by imposing time limits on each section, candidates are compelled to manage their time efficiently. Once the allotted time for a section elapses, candidates are ",[672,1041,1042],{},"automatically locked out",", preventing prolonged access and further mitigating the risk of cheating.",[39,1045,1046],{},[594,1047],{"alt":1048,"src":1049},"Sectioned exam","\u002Fcms\u002Fsectioned-exam.png",[34,1051,1053],{"id":1052},"_8-shuffling-the-order-of-questions-and-answers",[672,1054,1055],{},"8. Shuffling the order of questions and answers",[39,1057,1058,1059,1062,1063,1066],{},"Randomising the order of questions is a valuable anti-cheating measure, whereby a candidate's ",[672,1060,1061],{},"questions appear in a different order"," to everyone else. This ensures that each candidate encounters questions in a unique sequence, preventing the possibility of sharing answers based on question number. Furthermore, ",[672,1064,1065],{},"shuffling the answer options"," in multiple-choice questions adds an extra layer of complexity. This variation makes it challenging for test-takers to convey specific answers to their peers, as the correct response is likely to be in a different position for each individual, thus reinforcing the exam's integrity.",[34,1068,1070],{"id":1069},"_9-restricting-ip-addresses",[672,1071,1072],{},"9. Restricting IP addresses",[39,1074,1075,1076,1081,1082,1085],{},"Enforcing an approved list of ",[70,1077,1080],{"href":1078,"rel":1079},"https:\u002F\u002Fsynap.ac\u002Fdocs\u002Fexams\u002Fcreate-and-manage-exams\u002F4.-advanced",[79],"IP addresses",", such as testing centres or campuses, ensures that candidates can ",[672,1083,1084],{},"only access their exams from these specified locations",". This stringent measure prevents the possibility of candidates sharing exam links externally, fortifying the exam against unauthorised access.",[39,1087,1088],{},[594,1089],{"alt":1090,"src":1091},"Restricting IP address","\u002Fcms\u002Frestricting-ip-address.png",[34,1093,1095],{"id":1094},"_10-custom-terms-and-conditions","10. Custom terms and conditions",[39,1097,1098],{},"Before starting the exam, candidates are provided with clear instructions highlighting key terms and conditions such as outlining expected behaviour, exam integrity policies, and links to formal terms. They can also be required to formally accept these terms before beginning the exam, ensuring they understand expectations around behaviour during the exam. This creates a clear agreement that strengthens the professionalism and governance of the exam.",[39,1100,1101],{},[594,1102],{"alt":1103,"src":1104},"Exam instructions","\u002Fcms\u002Fexam-instructions.png",[34,1106,1108],{"id":1107},"_11-resume-attempt-control","11. Resume attempt control",[39,1110,1111],{},"You can control whether candidates are permitted to resume an exam attempt, including restricting resuming to the same session (for example, when tied to a static IP address) or disabling the option entirely. This helps prevent misuse, such as a candidate starting an exam and passing access to someone else to complete it.",[34,1113,1115],{"id":1114},"_12-webcam-screenshot-questions","12. Webcam screenshot questions",[39,1117,1118],{},"Even without full proctoring, you can have webcam screenshot prompts during an exam. These allow candidates to capture images of themselves at key points, providing an added layer of identity verification and acting as a deterrent, without introducing technical complexity. This is particularly beneficial in low-bandwidth environments, as screenshots require significantly less data than continuous video streaming.",[1120,1121,1123],"h1",{"id":1122},"secure-methods-for-online-exam-access","Secure methods for online exam access",[34,1125,1127],{"id":1126},"_13-locking-and-unlocking-of-exam-attempts",[672,1128,1129],{},"13. Locking and unlocking of exam attempts",[39,1131,1132,1133,1138,1139,1142,1143,1146],{},"For precise verification of the candidate's identity, implementing a ",[70,1134,1137],{"href":1135,"rel":1136},"https:\u002F\u002Fsynap.ac\u002Fdocs\u002Fexams\u002Fcreate-and-manage-exams\u002F4.-advanced#locked",[79],"two-step process"," is effective. Initially, the ",[672,1140,1141],{},"exam is locked"," for all participants until the identity check is successfully completed. Once the correct candidate is confirmed to be present, the exam attempt can ",[672,1144,1145],{},"then be unlocked",", granting them access to commence the examination. This method ensures a secure and controlled environment for the exam, minimising the risk of unauthorised entry.",[39,1148,1149],{},[594,1150],{"alt":1151,"src":1152},"Locking and unlocking of exam attempts","\u002Fcms\u002Flocking-and-unlocking-exam-attempts.png",[34,1154,1156],{"id":1155},"_14-defining-access-rights-to-protect-questions",[672,1157,1158],{},"14. Defining access rights to protect questions",[39,1160,1161,1162,1167,1168,1171,1172,1175,1176,1179],{},"Creating ",[70,1163,1166],{"href":1164,"rel":1165},"https:\u002F\u002Fsynap.ac\u002Fdocs\u002Fusers-and-groups\u002Fpermissions\u002Feducator-permissions",[79],"educator groups"," with ",[672,1169,1170],{},"specific access rights and responsibilities"," plays a pivotal role in safeguarding your question content and the examination process. A strategic approach involves creating specialised educator groups, such as those dedicated solely to grading exams. Members of these groups possess the authority to only assess exams ",[672,1173,1174],{},"without the ability to view the source questions or edit the exams",". This structure of permissions is essential to mitigate the risk of both internal employees and external contractors inadvertently or intentionally leaking exam questions online. By implementing these measures, you proactively ",[672,1177,1178],{},"protect your intellectual property"," and uphold the integrity of your examination system.",[39,1181,1182],{},[594,1183],{"alt":1184,"src":1185},"Educator permissions for exams","\u002Fcms\u002Feducator-permissions-for-exams.png",[34,1187,1189],{"id":1188},"_15-unique-exam-links-for-candidates",[672,1190,1191],{},"15. Unique exam links for candidates",[39,1193,1194,1195,1198],{},"Each candidate can be issued a unique exam link that is tied directly to their email address. This ensures that access is individualised and securely assigned to the intended candidate. It also helps reduce the risk of links being forwarded or shared more widely, ",[672,1196,1197],{},"strengthening control over exam distribution and maintaining the integrity"," of the assessment process.",[34,1200,1202],{"id":1201},"_16-passcodes-for-candidates-to-unlock-exams","16. Passcodes for candidates to unlock exams",[39,1204,1205],{},"You can issue a passcode that candidates must enter to unlock their exam, adding an extra layer of access control. These passcodes can be distributed only after attendance or identity has been verified, ensuring that entry is both secure and appropriately timed. This approach gives administrators greater control over when candidates can begin, helping to prevent unauthorised early access and reinforcing the integrity of the exam environment.",[34,1207,1209],{"id":1208},"_17-single-sitting-submissions",[672,1210,1211],{},"17. Single sitting submissions",[39,1213,1214,1215,1220,1221,1224],{},"Mandating that candidates complete the exam in a ",[70,1216,1219],{"href":1217,"rel":1218},"https:\u002F\u002Fsynap.ac\u002Fdocs\u002Fexams\u002Fcreate-and-manage-exams\u002F4.-advanced#resume-attempt-settings",[79],"single sitting"," is a strategic measure to prevent unauthorised access. By enforcing this rule, if a candidate shares their exam link, it ensures that the ",[672,1222,1223],{},"intended examinee is the only one who can enter and undertake the exam",", reinforcing the security of the examination process.",[39,1226,1227],{},[594,1228],{"alt":1229,"src":1230},"Sitting an exam in one sitting","\u002Fcms\u002Fsitting-exam-one-sitting.png",[34,1232,1234],{"id":1233},"_18-single-sign-on","18. Single Sign On",[39,1236,1237],{},"Enabling Single Sign-On (SSO) for both candidates and internal staff helps to prevent unauthorised access to your exams. It adds an additional layer of authentication by integrating with your existing identity provider, ensuring that only verified users can gain access. It also reduces reliance on separate passwords, lowering the risk of compromised accounts while streamlining and securing the login experience.",[1120,1239,1240],{"id":532},"Proctoring",[34,1242,1244],{"id":1243},"_19-lockdown-mode",[672,1245,1246],{},"19. Lockdown mode",[39,1248,1249,1250,1253,1254,1257,1258,1261,1262,1265],{},"Enabling robust ",[70,1251,1252],{"href":659},"lockdown mode"," via Synoptic's desktop app ensures candidates are confined to staying within the exam window. Test-takers are ",[672,1255,1256],{},"unable to access other browsers"," (preventing the ability to Google questions), ",[672,1259,1260],{},"utilise desktop applications"," (including messaging apps such as WhatsApp), or ",[672,1263,1264],{},"connect additional monitors"," to load notes. This comprehensive security measure enhances the integrity of the exam environment by significantly limiting potential avenues for cheating.",[34,1267,1269],{"id":1268},"_20-using-proctoring-for-enhanced-monitoring",[672,1270,1271],{},"20. Using proctoring for enhanced monitoring",[39,1273,1274,1276,1277,1280,1281,1284,1285,1288,1289,1292],{},[70,1275,1240],{"href":659}," is an ideal solution for closely monitoring candidates during exams. Synoptic captures ",[672,1278,1279],{},"webcam and screen snapshots or recordings"," for post-exam review, while the ",[672,1282,1283],{},"Chrome extension"," logs breaches such as leaving the exam window or opening unauthorised tabs. For high-stakes exams, the ",[672,1286,1287],{},"desktop app"," adds full device lockdown. Overall, ",[70,1290,660],{"href":1291},"\u002Fblog\u002Fremote-proctoring\u002F"," heightens the validity and integrity of online assessments.",[39,1294,1295],{},[594,1296],{"alt":1297,"src":1298},"Synoptic breach detected","\u002Fcms\u002Fsynoptic-breach-detected.png",[34,1300,1302],{"id":1301},"_21-identity-verification",[672,1303,1304],{},"21. Identity verification",[39,1306,1307,1308,1313,1314,1317],{},"Ensuring the correct candidate gains entry to the exam is achieved through ",[70,1309,1312],{"href":1310,"rel":1311},"https:\u002F\u002Fsynap.ac\u002Fdocs\u002Fexams\u002Fanti-cheat-features\u002F#id-6.-identity-verification",[79],"ID checks",". This critical step guarantees that only the authorised candidate, with the rightful access, participates in the exam, ",[672,1315,1316],{},"preventing any unauthorised individuals"," from taking the test.",[34,1319,1321],{"id":1320},"see-synaps-anti-cheat-features-in-action",[672,1322,1323],{},"See Synap's anti-cheat features in action",[39,1325,1326,1327,1330],{},"Every organisation's exam security needs are different. Whether you're running high-stakes professional certifications, university assessments, or corporate training programmes, Synap's anti-cheat features can be tailored to fit your requirements. ",[70,1328,1329],{"href":473},"Book a personalised demo"," with our team to see exactly how Synap can protect the integrity of your exams.",{"title":19,"searchDepth":320,"depth":320,"links":1332},[1333,1334,1335,1336,1337,1338,1339,1340,1341,1342,1343,1344,1345,1346,1347,1348,1349,1350,1351,1352,1353,1354,1355,1356],{"id":36,"depth":320,"text":37},{"id":882,"depth":320,"text":883},{"id":886,"depth":320,"text":889},{"id":909,"depth":320,"text":912},{"id":930,"depth":320,"text":933},{"id":945,"depth":320,"text":948},{"id":970,"depth":320,"text":973},{"id":1000,"depth":320,"text":1003},{"id":1023,"depth":320,"text":1026},{"id":1052,"depth":320,"text":1055},{"id":1069,"depth":320,"text":1072},{"id":1094,"depth":320,"text":1095},{"id":1107,"depth":320,"text":1108},{"id":1114,"depth":320,"text":1115},{"id":1126,"depth":320,"text":1129},{"id":1155,"depth":320,"text":1158},{"id":1188,"depth":320,"text":1191},{"id":1201,"depth":320,"text":1202},{"id":1208,"depth":320,"text":1211},{"id":1233,"depth":320,"text":1234},{"id":1243,"depth":320,"text":1246},{"id":1268,"depth":320,"text":1271},{"id":1301,"depth":320,"text":1304},{"id":1320,"depth":320,"text":1323},{"url":1358,"altText":1359,"title":1360},"\u002Fcms\u002FDelivering online exams securely","A padlock on a keyboard with red and green lights.","Delivering online exams securely",[1362,1364,1366],{"text":1363},"Advanced anti-cheat features like timed sections, lockdown mode, and question randomisation strengthen exam integrity.",{"text":1365},"Identity verification, controlled access rights, and IP restrictions protect exam content and prevent unauthorised entry.",{"text":1367},"Dynamic exams, proctoring, and secure workflows ensure fairness while safeguarding intellectual property.",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fanti-cheat-methods-for-online-exams","2024-03-06T12:00:25.000Z",{"title":864,"description":19},"How to reduce cheating and enhance the security and integrity for your online exams.","21 anti-cheating methods for online exam security - Synap","anti-cheat-methods-for-online-exams","blog\u002Fanti-cheat-methods-for-online-exams",[1377,532,1378],"security","exam-design","at-UpYMxJsYziLYIc68C7AuKQvo0A3TKu7FFwJVwDmU",{"id":1381,"title":1382,"author":23,"body":1383,"description":19,"extension":340,"headerImage":1667,"highlights":1671,"isPublished":345,"meta":1678,"navigation":347,"path":1679,"publishedAt":1680,"readingTime":1681,"seo":1682,"seoDescription":1683,"seoTitle":1684,"slug":1685,"stem":1686,"subtitle":1687,"topicLabels":22,"topics":1688,"__hash__":1690},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Finclusive-and-accessible-online-exams.md","Inclusive testing: 12 ways to make online exams accessible for all",{"type":31,"value":1384,"toc":1648},[1385,1387,1406,1410,1426,1430,1437,1441,1459,1463,1470,1474,1485,1489,1495,1499,1506,1510,1521,1525,1542,1546,1553,1557,1564,1568,1587,1591,1608,1612,1622,1624],[34,1386,37],{"id":36},[39,1388,1389,1390,1393,1394,1397,1398,1401,1402,1405],{},"In the dynamic landscape of delivering online exams, the pursuit of ",[672,1391,1392],{},"accessibility and inclusivity"," stands as a cornerstone for creating a ",[672,1395,1396],{},"fair and equal opportunity"," for every candidate to showcase their understanding. The key to achieving this lies in embracing accessibility, and ensuring a user-friendly experience that ",[672,1399,1400],{},"caters to the diverse needs"," of all participants.\nIn this blog post, we delve into the essential provisions and accommodations that are key to designing an ",[70,1403,1404],{"href":546},"online assessment environment","that not only supports, but champions the varied abilities and circumstances of each test-taker.",[34,1407,1409],{"id":1408},"_1-granting-extra-time","1. Granting extra time",[39,1411,1412,1417,1418,1421,1422,1425],{},[70,1413,1416],{"href":1414,"rel":1415},"https:\u002F\u002Fsynap.ac\u002Fdocs\u002Fexams\u002Fcreate-and-manage-exams\u002F6.-manage#extra-time-and-open-close-windows",[79],"Extending time allowances"," for an exam proves to be a valuable accommodation for candidates who may face challenges in completing their assessments within the standard timeframe.\nWith an average of ",[672,1419,1420],{},"31% of candidates"," in some exams requiring 25% extra time or more 1, this is often the most commonly requested access arrangement for examinations.\nImplementing an ",[672,1423,1424],{},"exam time extension for eligible candidates"," ensures that they are granted the additional time necessary to successfully navigate through their exams, promoting a more inclusive testing environment.\n![Granting extra time in an exam](\u002Fcms\u002FGranting extra time in an exam)",[34,1427,1429],{"id":1428},"_2-screen-reader-compatibility","2. Screen reader compatibility",[39,1431,1432,1433,1436],{},"To accommodate candidates with ",[672,1434,1435],{},"visual or auditory impairments",", it is crucial for online exams to be seamlessly compatible with screen readers. This ensures that individuals with these access arrangements can effectively engage with exam content, fostering a more inclusive and accessible examination experience.",[34,1438,1440],{"id":1439},"_3-font-size-customisation","3. Font size customisation",[39,1442,1443,1444,1449,1450,1454,1455,1458],{},"Empowering candidates to ",[70,1445,1448],{"href":1446,"rel":1447},"https:\u002F\u002Fsynap.ac\u002Fdocs\u002Fusing-synap\u002Fsynap-students#account-and-manage-settings",[79],"customise font sizes"," through flexible ",[70,1451,1453],{"href":1452},"\u002Faccessibility\u002F","accessibility settings"," enhances the user-friendliness of the entire exam experience. Whether individuals require larger or smaller font sizes, providing the ",[672,1456,1457],{},"flexibility to adjust"," not only the exam content, but also the entire platform, ensures a more accommodating and accessible environment for all participants.\n![Font size customisation](\u002Fcms\u002FFont size customisation)",[34,1460,1462],{"id":1461},"_4-keyboard-navigations","4. Keyboard navigations",[39,1464,1465,1466,1469],{},"Selecting an online assessment platform that empowers candidates to navigate their exam using only a keyboard, ensures accessibility for users who rely on keyboard navigation instead of a mouse. Ensure that every interactive element, from moving between questions and selecting answers with letter keys, to submitting responses and accessing tools like calculators or notepads, is fully optimised for keyboard use. This design ",[672,1467,1468],{},"adheres to WCAG accessibility standards",", creating a more inclusive and user-friendly experience.",[34,1471,1473],{"id":1472},"_4-multiple-languages","4. Multiple languages",[39,1475,1476,1477,1480,1481,1484],{},"Choosing an exam platform that offers multiple languages empowers candidates to choose their ",[672,1478,1479],{},"preferred portal language"," for a more comfortable experience.\nAdditionally, ",[672,1482,1483],{},"uploading exams in various languages"," facilitates a global reach, and catering to the diverse linguistic preferences of users worldwide. This combined approach ensures a more inclusive and accessible examination environment on a global scale.",[34,1486,1488],{"id":1487},"_5-multilingual-user-experience","5. Multilingual user experience",[39,1490,1491,1492,1494],{},"Choosing an online exam platform that offers multiple languages empowers candidates to choose their ",[70,1493,1479],{"href":1452},". This ensures that candidates can navigate the platform and interact with content in a language they understand best.\nOffering multilingual support is especially crucial in diverse, global settings, where candidates may come from various linguistic backgrounds. It eliminates language barriers and reduces stress, enabling candidates to focus entirely on their exam performance.\n![Multi-lingual options](\u002Fcms\u002FMulti-lingual options)",[34,1496,1498],{"id":1497},"_6-multi-lingual-content-support","6. Multi-lingual content support",[39,1500,1501,1502,1505],{},"Institutions can cater to a diverse, global audience by uploading exam content in any language, enabling them to ",[672,1503,1504],{},"deliver assessments tailored to candidates"," from various linguistic and cultural backgrounds. This feature encourages inclusivity by removing language barriers, making exams accessible to non-native speakers and international students alike.",[34,1507,1509],{"id":1508},"_7-resilience-in-low-internet-bandwidth","7. Resilience in low internet bandwidth",[39,1511,1512,1513,1516,1517,1520],{},"Candidates often encounter challenges such as low internet bandwidth or connectivity issues during online exams, leading to potential disruptions and increased stress in an already demanding examination situation.\nChoosing an assessment platform that considers low bandwidth environments becomes crucial in alleviating these concerns. Such platforms seamlessly ",[672,1514,1515],{},"saves the candidate's progress",", eliminating the need for restarting in the event of internet drop-offs.\nThis resilience ensures that ",[672,1518,1519],{},"test-takers can continue with their exams"," unaffected by intermittent connectivity, allowing them to submit their responses once the internet connection is restored. This approach significantly contributes to a more reliable and stress-free examination experience.",[34,1522,1524],{"id":1523},"_8-proctoring-in-low-bandwidth-environments","8. Proctoring in low bandwidth environments",[39,1526,1527,1528,1533,1534,1537,1538,1541],{},"Traditional proctoring methods often rely on continuous video monitoring, demanding a strong and stable internet connection.\nOpting for a ",[70,1529,1532],{"href":1530,"rel":1531},"https:\u002F\u002Fsynap.ac\u002Fdocs\u002Fwhats-new\u002Fbig-features\u002Fsynoptic",[79],"proctoring solution"," designed for low bandwidth environments ensures that ",[672,1535,1536],{},"monitoring remains effective"," even in situations with limited connectivity. This strategic choice not only allows for uninterrupted proctoring but also safeguards ",[672,1539,1540],{},"exam security and integrity",".\n![Synoptic breach detected](\u002Fcms\u002FSynoptic breach detected)",[34,1543,1545],{"id":1544},"_9-mobile-friendly-exams","9. Mobile-friendly exams",[39,1547,1548,1549,1552],{},"Recognising that some candidates may lack access to desktops or laptops, with only 36.1% of households in developing countries having access to a computer at home 2, it becomes essential for exams to be compatible with mobile devices and tablets, to ensure equal usability.\nThis approach aims to eliminate potential disadvantages, enabling all participants to engage with their exam seamlessly, ",[672,1550,1551],{},"regardless of the device they use",". By offering mobile-friendly options, the examination process becomes more inclusive and accessible to a diverse range of candidates.",[34,1554,1556],{"id":1555},"_10-modern-browsers","10. Modern browsers",[39,1558,1559,1560,1563],{},"Ensuring user convenience during an exam is paramount, and a key aspect of this is compatibility with all modern browsers. This includes popular options such as Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Microsoft Edge, and others.\nBy functioning ",[672,1561,1562],{},"seamlessly across various browsers",", the exam platform offers a versatile and accessible experience, accommodating users regardless of their browser preference and contributing to a smoother examination process.",[34,1565,1567],{"id":1566},"_11colour-contrast-ratio","11. Colour contrast ratio",[39,1569,1570,1571,1576,1577,1580,1581,1586],{},"Colour contrast ratio refers to the difference in luminance between text and its background. This ratio plays a vital role in ensuring that users can clearly and comfortably engage with platform content, whether it’s an exam question, an email, or other interactive items.\nAdhering to the ",[70,1572,1575],{"href":1573,"rel":1574},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.w3.org\u002FWAI\u002FWCAG21\u002FUnderstanding\u002Fcontrast-minimum.html",[79],"Web Content Accessibility Guidelines"," (WCAG) is essential for inclusive design. The WCAG AA standard recommends a ",[672,1578,1579],{},"minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1",", while the stricter WCAG AAA standard suggests a ratio of 7:1 for enhanced readability.\n",[70,1582,1585],{"href":1583,"rel":1584},"https:\u002F\u002Fwebaim.org\u002Fresources\u002Fcontrastchecker\u002F",[79],"Meeting these standards"," ensures a highly accessible user experience, offering clear and readable content for candidates of all abilities, including those with visual impairments or colour vision deficiencies.",[34,1588,1590],{"id":1589},"_12-wcag-21-aa-compliance","12. WCAG 2.1 AA compliance",[39,1592,1593,1594,1599,1600,1603,1604,1607],{},"Opting for an online exam platform that aligns with ",[70,1595,1598],{"href":1596,"rel":1597},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.w3.org\u002FTR\u002FWCAG21\u002F",[79],"WCAG 2.1 AA"," standards ",[672,1601,1602],{},"guarantees an inclusive and accessible digital environment"," for users of all abilities. This commitment to accessibility ensures that the platform is ",[672,1605,1606],{},"designed to accommodate diverse needs",", meeting the standards set by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and fostering an equitable experience for every user.",[34,1609,1611],{"id":1610},"deliver-accessible-and-inclusive-exams-with-synap","Deliver accessible and inclusive exams with Synap",[39,1613,1614,1615,1618,1619,475],{},"Discover how an ",[70,1616,1617],{"href":1452},"accessible online exam platform","can support the needs of your test takers with a tailored demo and a 14-day free trial - ",[70,1620,1621],{"href":473},"arrange a demo today",[170,1623,479],{"id":478},[481,1625,1626,1637],{},[53,1627,1628,1629,919,1633],{},"Ofqual. \"Access Arrangements for GCSE, AS, and A-Level: 2022 to 2023 Academic Year\" GOV.UK, published ",[1630,1631,1632],"span",{},"2023",[70,1634,1635],{"href":1635,"rel":1636},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gov.uk\u002Fgovernment\u002Fstatistics\u002Faccess-arrangements-for-gcse-as-and-a-level-2022-to-2023-academic-year\u002Faccess-arrangements-for-gcse-as-and-a-level-2022-to-2023-academic-year",[79],[53,1638,1639,1640,919,1643],{},"Statista. “Developing countries: Share of households with a computer in 2022”, published ",[1630,1641,1642],{},"2021",[70,1644,1647],{"href":1645,"rel":1646},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.statista.com\u002Fstatistics\u002F748564\u002Fdeveloping-countries-households-with-computer",[79],"www.statista.com\u002Fstatistics\u002F748564\u002Fdeveloping-countries-households-with-computer",{"title":19,"searchDepth":320,"depth":320,"links":1649},[1650,1651,1652,1653,1654,1655,1656,1657,1658,1659,1660,1661,1662,1663,1664],{"id":36,"depth":320,"text":37},{"id":1408,"depth":320,"text":1409},{"id":1428,"depth":320,"text":1429},{"id":1439,"depth":320,"text":1440},{"id":1461,"depth":320,"text":1462},{"id":1472,"depth":320,"text":1473},{"id":1487,"depth":320,"text":1488},{"id":1497,"depth":320,"text":1498},{"id":1508,"depth":320,"text":1509},{"id":1523,"depth":320,"text":1524},{"id":1544,"depth":320,"text":1545},{"id":1555,"depth":320,"text":1556},{"id":1566,"depth":320,"text":1567},{"id":1589,"depth":320,"text":1590},{"id":1610,"depth":320,"text":1611,"children":1665},[1666],{"id":478,"depth":331,"text":479},{"url":1668,"altText":1669,"title":1670},"\u002Fcms\u002Fwoman-taking-online-exam-at-home.jpg","A woman in a wheelchair sitting at a wooden table using a laptop to take an online exam in a bright home environment.","Woman Taking an Online Exam at Home",[1672,1674,1676],{"text":1673},"Accessible exams support diverse needs through features like extra time, screen reader compatibility, and font customisation.",{"text":1675},"Multilingual, mobile-friendly platforms ensure inclusivity for global candidates, even in low-bandwidth environments.",{"text":1677},"WCAG 2.1 AA-compliant design promotes clarity, readability, and equal access across all devices and abilities.",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Finclusive-and-accessible-online-exams","2024-02-27T12:00:51.000Z","6 min read",{"title":1382,"description":19},"Synap offers 9 ways to make online exams accessible, ensuring fair opportunities for all candidates with inclusive testing practices.","9 ways to make online exams accessible - Synap","inclusive-and-accessible-online-exams","blog\u002Finclusive-and-accessible-online-exams","How to enhance exam accessibility to provide a fair and equal opportunity for every candidate.",[358,1689],"accessibility","SElo93y5TU1klTKs13FXEJMkVM96XXZbakT9ofJurzM",{"id":1692,"title":1693,"author":23,"body":1694,"description":19,"extension":340,"headerImage":2127,"highlights":2131,"isPublished":345,"meta":2138,"navigation":347,"path":2139,"publishedAt":2140,"readingTime":2141,"seo":2142,"seoDescription":2143,"seoTitle":2144,"slug":2145,"stem":2146,"subtitle":2147,"topicLabels":22,"topics":2148,"__hash__":2150},"blog\u002Fblog\u002F10-ways-to-reduce-exam-workload.md","10 ways to reduce exam workload and save time with an online exam platform",{"type":31,"value":1695,"toc":2099},[1696,1698,1701,1707,1714,1718,1730,1742,1746,1753,1756,1762,1766,1773,1780,1784,1791,1796,1800,1803,1815,1819,1830,1836,1840,1843,1857,1861,1868,1874,1878,1886,1893,1899,1903,1906,1917,1923,1927,1935,1942,1946,1957,1963,1967,1970,1983,1989,1993,1996,2004,2010,2014,2017,2024,2027,2031,2038,2044,2048,2055,2057],[34,1697,37],{"id":36},[39,1699,1700],{},"If you deliver exams regularly, you know how much time goes into the work around them: creating papers, monitoring sessions, marking scripts, chasing retakes. A lot of that sits outside actual teaching.",[39,1702,1703,1704,1706],{},"The good news is that ",[70,1705,547],{"href":546}," can take a meaningful chunk of that admin off your plate and help your team work more efficiently.",[39,1708,1709,1710,1713],{},"Below are 10 features worth looking for. Each one reduces workload for educators while keeping ",[70,1711,1540],{"href":1712},"\u002Fonline-exam-platform\u002Fsecurity\u002F"," intact.",[34,1715,1717],{"id":1716},"_1-automatic-marking-of-diverse-question-types","1. Automatic marking of diverse question types",[39,1719,1720,1721,1725,1726,475],{},"Traditional grading, especially on paper, is one of the biggest time sinks for assessment teams. Educators can spend hours reviewing scripts ",[70,1722,1724],{"href":1723},"#ref-1","[1]",", and some research puts faculty grading time at around 54 hours a year ",[70,1727,1729],{"href":1728},"#ref-2","[2]",[39,1731,1732,1733,1737,1738,1741],{},"Online exam platforms tackle this by ",[70,1734,1736],{"href":1735},"\u002Fonline-exam-platform\u002Fgrading\u002F","automating the marking process",". At minimum, most can ",[672,1739,1740],{},"automatically grade multiple choice questions",", which alone removes a large manual task.",[170,1743,1745],{"id":1744},"more-auto-graded-question-types","More auto-graded question types",[39,1747,1748,1749,1752],{},"Better platforms go further, with ",[672,1750,1751],{},"automatic marking for fill-in-the-blank, dropdown, and short written responses"," (cloze questions).",[39,1754,1755],{},"That means you can run a wider range of question types without adding to your marking queue. Time saved on grading can go back into teaching, student support, or whatever your team needs most.",[39,1757,1758],{},[594,1759],{"alt":1760,"src":1761},"Screenshot of automatic marking in Synap","\u002Fcms\u002Fblog-auto-marking-screenshot.png",[34,1763,1765],{"id":1764},"_2-customisable-weighted-and-dynamic-exams","2. Customisable, weighted and dynamic exams",[39,1767,1768,1769,1772],{},"Building a weighted exam, where each candidate gets a ",[672,1770,1771],{},"unique paper drawn from a question bank",", is fiddly to do by hand. On a decent platform, it is much quicker.",[39,1774,1775,1776,1779],{},"Pick how many questions you need and which tags to filter by. For example, you might set \"10 questions tagged 'cardio'\". In a few minutes, you can generate ",[70,1777,692],{"href":77,"rel":1778},[79]," with different questions per candidate, while keeping the overall difficulty balanced.",[170,1781,1783],{"id":1782},"enhanced-exam-security","Enhanced exam security",[39,1785,1786,1787,1790],{},"There is a security benefit too. When everyone gets a different paper, ",[672,1788,1789],{},"collusion gets much harder",", which helps keep the assessment fair.",[39,1792,1793],{},[594,1794],{"alt":979,"src":1795},"\u002Fcms\u002Fblog-dynamic-exams.png",[34,1797,1799],{"id":1798},"_3-instantly-awarding-branded-certificates","3. Instantly awarding branded certificates",[39,1801,1802],{},"Printing and posting certificates slows everyone down: your team handles fulfilment, and candidates wait.",[39,1804,1805,1806,1810,1811,1814],{},"With ",[70,1807,1809],{"href":1808},"\u002Fonline-exam-platform\u002Fgrading\u002F#certification","online certificates",", credentials can be issued as soon as someone passes. You can include your organisation's ",[672,1812,1813],{},"logo and branding",", plus the certification date, exam name, and expiry date.",[170,1816,1818],{"id":1817},"additional-certificate-security","Additional certificate security",[39,1820,1821,1822,1829],{},"Synap also provides a ",[70,1823,1826],{"href":1824,"rel":1825},"https:\u002F\u002Fsynap.ac\u002Fdocs\u002Fexams\u002Fcreate-and-manage-exams\u002F3.-configure\u002Fcertificates#enabling-certificates",[79],[672,1827,1828],{},"certificate verification page",", so employers or managers can check a certificate is genuine. Less risk of tampering, and candidates have something they can share with confidence.",[39,1831,1832],{},[594,1833],{"alt":1834,"src":1835},"Certificate verification page","\u002Fcms\u002Fblog-certificate-verification.png",[34,1837,1839],{"id":1838},"_4-streamlining-retake-processes","4. Streamlining retake processes",[39,1841,1842],{},"Retakes have a way of piling up. Someone did not pass, someone else needs a resit, and suddenly you are tracking eligibility, timing, and individual follow-ups.",[39,1844,1845,1848,1849,1852,1853,475],{},[70,1846,1847],{"href":546},"Online exam software"," lets you ",[672,1850,1851],{},"set how many retakes each candidate gets"," and configure ",[70,1854,1856],{"href":726,"rel":1855},[79],"when retakes open",[170,1858,1860],{"id":1859},"flexibility-for-scheduling-retakes","Flexibility for scheduling retakes",[39,1862,1863,1864,1867],{},"You can ",[672,1865,1866],{},"release retakes straight away or after a cooling-off period",", so candidates have time to prepare. What used to be a manual chain of emails and spreadsheets becomes a few settings.",[39,1869,1870],{},[594,1871],{"alt":1872,"src":1873},"Automating retakes","\u002Fcms\u002Fblog-automating-retakes.png",[34,1875,1877],{"id":1876},"_5-precise-grade-calculations","5. Precise grade calculations",[39,1879,1880,1881,1885],{},"Grades need to be right, especially for high-stakes exams. On paper, tallying scores by hand is slow and easy to get wrong",[70,1882,1884],{"href":1883},"#ref-3","[3]",". Online exam software calculates scores (as a percentage) and grades (pass\u002Ffail, and so on) for you.",[39,1887,1888,1889,1892],{},"Spreadsheets help, but manual entry still introduces errors. On platform, ",[672,1890,1891],{},"scores and grades are worked out instantly",", which saves time and keeps data consistent.",[39,1894,1895],{},[594,1896],{"alt":1897,"src":1898},"Calculating grades","\u002Fcms\u002Fblog-calculating-grades.png",[34,1900,1902],{"id":1901},"_6-provide-immediate-results","6. Provide immediate results",[39,1904,1905],{},"Candidates hate waiting for results. Under traditional processes, that can mean days or weeks of uncertainty, particularly before a retake or certification decision.",[39,1907,1908,1909,1912,1913,1916],{},"When exams use ",[70,1910,1911],{"href":1735},"auto-marked questions",", such as multiple choice or fill-in-the-blank, results can go out ",[672,1914,1915],{},"as soon as the attempt is submitted",". No queue for manual marking.",[39,1918,1919],{},[594,1920],{"alt":1921,"src":1922},"Automatic marking of questions","\u002Fcms\u002Fblog-automatic-marking.png",[34,1924,1926],{"id":1925},"_7-accelerate-feedback-delivery","7. Accelerate feedback delivery",[39,1928,1929,1930,1934],{},"Useful feedback needs to land while the exam is still fresh. That matters even more when someone is preparing for a retake ",[70,1931,1933],{"href":1932},"#ref-4","[4]",". Research on the testing effect suggests feedback is most effective when it is honest, specific, timely, and gives learners clear direction on how to improve.",[39,1936,1937,1938,1941],{},"An online exam platform can ",[672,1939,1940],{},"deliver question-level feedback automatically",", with images, videos, or links to learning materials. For auto-marked questions, candidates can see that feedback right after they finish.",[170,1943,1945],{"id":1944},"tailored-feedback","Tailored feedback",[39,1947,1948,1949,1956],{},"Educators can also ",[70,1950,1953],{"href":1951,"rel":1952},"https:\u002F\u002Fsynap.ac\u002Fdocs\u002Fexams\u002Fcreate-and-manage-exams\u002F6.-manage#marks",[79],[672,1954,1955],{},"add personalised comments per question",", so candidates get specific pointers on what to improve, not just a number.",[39,1958,1959],{},[594,1960],{"alt":1961,"src":1962},"Providing feedback to candidates","\u002Fcms\u002Fblog-providing-feedback.png",[34,1964,1966],{"id":1965},"_8-effortless-candidate-enrolment-into-the-exam","8. Effortless candidate enrolment into the exam",[39,1968,1969],{},"Getting candidates into the right exam sounds simple until you are doing it at scale: checking access, matching the right paper, sending invites one by one.",[39,1971,1972,1973,1978,1979,1982],{},"Many platforms connect to your existing stack to automate enrolment. With APIs or a ",[70,1974,1977],{"href":1975,"rel":1976},"https:\u002F\u002Fsynap.ac\u002Fdocs\u002Fintegrations\u002Fzapier",[79],"Zapier integration",", you can link your exam platform to a ",[672,1980,1981],{},"CRM, LMS, website, database, or eCommerce store"," and assign exams automatically when someone signs up or purchases.",[39,1984,1985],{},[594,1986],{"alt":1987,"src":1988},"Automating user enrolment","\u002Fcms\u002Fblog-automating-enrolment.png",[34,1990,1992],{"id":1991},"_9-seamlessly-integrating-exam-results-with-existing-systems","9. Seamlessly integrating exam results with existing systems",[39,1994,1995],{},"Pulling results out of one system and into a CRM, database, or BI tool by hand is tedious, and mistakes creep in easily.",[39,1997,1998,1999,2003],{},"APIs or ",[70,2000,2002],{"href":1975,"rel":2001},[79],"Zapier"," can push results to the tools you already use, so your data stays in sync without someone running exports every week.",[39,2005,2006],{},[594,2007],{"alt":2008,"src":2009},"Automating send exam results to external systems","\u002Fcms\u002Fblog-automating-results-export.png",[34,2011,2013],{"id":2012},"_10-flexible-proctoring-for-exam-integrity","10. Flexible proctoring for exam integrity",[39,2015,2016],{},"Proctoring supports exam security, but live monitoring is hard to staff for long exams, big cohorts, or candidates across time zones.",[39,2018,2019,2023],{},[70,2020,2022],{"href":388,"rel":2021},[79],"Synoptic proctoring",", built into Synap, captures webcam and screen screenshots during the exam and logs breaches for your team to review afterwards.",[39,2025,2026],{},"Data is ready as soon as the attempt finishes, so reviewers can start with the highest breach counts instead of watching every minute of footage.",[170,2028,2030],{"id":2029},"on-demand-proctoring","On demand proctoring",[39,2032,2033,2034,2037],{},"Synap also supports ",[672,2035,2036],{},"on-demand proctoring",", so candidates can sit a secure exam when it suits them without your team blocking out live monitoring slots.",[39,2039,2040],{},[594,2041],{"alt":2042,"src":2043},"Synoptic proctor review","\u002Fcms\u002Fsynoptic-proctor-review.png",[34,2045,2047],{"id":2046},"discover-how-synap-uses-these-features-to-streamline-online-exams","Discover how Synap uses these features to streamline online exams",[39,2049,2050,2051,2054],{},"Want to see how this works for your exams? ",[70,2052,2053],{"href":473},"Book a tailored demo"," and try Synap with a 14-day free trial.",[170,2056,479],{"id":478},[481,2058,2059,2069,2079,2089],{},[53,2060,2061,2064,2065],{},[1630,2062],{"id":2063},"ref-1","Department of Education. (2018). Exploring Teacher Workload. ",[70,2066,2067],{"href":2067,"rel":2068},"https:\u002F\u002Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk\u002Fmedia\u002F5aa1189e40f0b64d821c40db\u002FExploring_teacher_workload.pdf",[79],[53,2070,2071,2074,2075],{},[1630,2072],{"id":2073},"ref-2","Leunig T. (2012). Academics need to spend more time teaching and less time marking. ",[70,2076,2077],{"href":2077,"rel":2078},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theguardian.com\u002Fhigher-education-network\u002Fblog\u002F2012\u002Fjul\u002F03\u002Ftim-leunig-on-teaching-and-marking",[79],[53,2080,2081,2084,2085],{},[1630,2082],{"id":2083},"ref-3","Klein J. The failure of a decision support system: inconsistency in test grading by teachers, Teaching and Teacher Education. ScienceDirect. 2002; 8(18): 1023-1033. ",[70,2086,2087],{"href":2087,"rel":2088},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.sciencedirect.com\u002Fscience\u002Farticle\u002Fpii\u002FS0742051X02000574",[79],[53,2090,2091,2094,2095],{},[1630,2092],{"id":2093},"ref-4","Yang BW, Razo J, Persky AM. Using Testing as a Learning Tool. Am J Pharm Educ. 2019 Nov;83(9):7324. ",[70,2096,2097],{"href":2097,"rel":2098},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\u002Fpmc\u002Farticles\u002FPMC6920642\u002F",[79],{"title":19,"searchDepth":320,"depth":320,"links":2100},[2101,2102,2105,2108,2111,2114,2115,2116,2119,2120,2121,2124],{"id":36,"depth":320,"text":37},{"id":1716,"depth":320,"text":1717,"children":2103},[2104],{"id":1744,"depth":331,"text":1745},{"id":1764,"depth":320,"text":1765,"children":2106},[2107],{"id":1782,"depth":331,"text":1783},{"id":1798,"depth":320,"text":1799,"children":2109},[2110],{"id":1817,"depth":331,"text":1818},{"id":1838,"depth":320,"text":1839,"children":2112},[2113],{"id":1859,"depth":331,"text":1860},{"id":1876,"depth":320,"text":1877},{"id":1901,"depth":320,"text":1902},{"id":1925,"depth":320,"text":1926,"children":2117},[2118],{"id":1944,"depth":331,"text":1945},{"id":1965,"depth":320,"text":1966},{"id":1991,"depth":320,"text":1992},{"id":2012,"depth":320,"text":2013,"children":2122},[2123],{"id":2029,"depth":331,"text":2030},{"id":2046,"depth":320,"text":2047,"children":2125},[2126],{"id":478,"depth":331,"text":479},{"url":2128,"altText":2129,"title":2130},"\u002Fcms\u002FExam.png","Person taking an exam on Synap platform using MacBook Pro while holding a coffee.","Managing online exams with Synap",[2132,2134,2136],{"text":2133},"Automation in online exam platforms streamlines marking, grading, and feedback, saving educators hours of administrative work.",{"text":2135},"Dynamic exams, instant certificates, and seamless integrations simplify delivery while maintaining fairness and security.",{"text":2137},"Built-in proctoring and smart retake management reduce workload, enabling scalable, secure, and efficient exam administration.",{},"\u002Fblog\u002F10-ways-to-reduce-exam-workload","2024-02-12T12:00:05.000Z","8 min read",{"title":1693,"description":19},"Learn 10 ways to reduce exam workload and save time with Synap's online exam platform. Streamline processes and enhance efficiency.","Reduce exam workload with online platform - Synap","10-ways-to-reduce-exam-workload","blog\u002F10-ways-to-reduce-exam-workload","Discover how to streamline your exam processes and enhance efficiency with delivering exams online.",[2149,359,532],"assessment","hRU78nTenqFHL9lqFBLAhsqFbI5gI7cFgQs0R9ia1_I",{"id":2152,"title":2153,"author":23,"body":2154,"description":2526,"extension":340,"headerImage":2527,"highlights":2531,"isPublished":345,"meta":2538,"navigation":347,"path":2539,"publishedAt":2540,"readingTime":523,"seo":2541,"seoDescription":2542,"seoTitle":2543,"slug":2544,"stem":2545,"subtitle":2546,"topicLabels":22,"topics":2547,"__hash__":2550},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fproctoring-online-exams-top-5-benefits.md","Benefits of online proctoring: 5 proctoring types your company can use",{"type":31,"value":2155,"toc":2511},[2156,2166,2179,2184,2188,2199,2203,2210,2213,2217,2224,2228,2235,2237,2255,2259,2270,2273,2277,2285,2296,2301,2312,2318,2322,2333,2336,2347,2351,2365,2371,2375,2378,2386,2394,2398,2405,2411,2415,2421,2432,2438,2442,2450,2456,2460,2468,2475,2482,2486,2497,2502,2506],[39,2157,2158,2159,2162,2163,475],{},"As the landscape of exam delivery shifts towards online platforms, ensuring the security of examinations becomes a paramount concern. ",[70,2160,2161],{"href":659},"Online proctoring"," emerges as a pivotal tool in addressing these challenges, providing a robust framework for maintaining ",[70,2164,2165],{"href":1712},"integrity and security of online exams",[39,2167,2168,2169,919,2172,2175,2176,475],{},"In this blog post, we explore the advantages of online proctoring and why it is preferred by organisations as an alternative for in-person proctoring. We also identify five proctoring types that organisations can adopt to ",[672,2170,2171],{},"enhance exam security",[672,2173,2174],{},"provide flexibility to candidates",", and ",[672,2177,2178],{},"reduce overall exam costs",[314,2180,2181],{},[39,2182,2183],{},"Online proctoring safeguards exam integrity while slashing the costs and logistics of in-person testing.",[34,2185,2187],{"id":2186},"what-is-proctoring","What is proctoring?",[39,2189,2190,2191,2194,2195,2198],{},"Proctoring, at its core, involves the ",[672,2192,2193],{},"monitoring of candidates during exams",", coupled with ",[672,2196,2197],{},"anti-cheat methods"," designed to reduce cheating. This multifaceted approach elevates exam security and instils confidence in the authenticity and credibility of assessment outcomes.",[34,2200,2202],{"id":2201},"why-is-online-proctoring-popular","Why is online proctoring popular?",[39,2204,2205,2206,2209],{},"Organisations are increasingly turning to ",[70,2207,2208],{"href":659},"online proctoring solutions"," to address the high costs and logistical challenges associated with traditional in-person exams. The potential damage to exam credibility and a company's reputation often makes delivering exams without any proctoring impractical.",[39,2211,2212],{},"Here are four reasons why online proctoring has proven to be invaluable for organisations:",[170,2214,2216],{"id":2215},"cheaper-costs","Cheaper costs",[39,2218,2219,2220,2223],{},"The expenses tied to in-person proctoring, including venue rentals and candidate travel reimbursements, can accumulate rapidly. Online proctored exams ",[672,2221,2222],{},"eliminate the need for physical testing venues",", allowing candidates to take their exams remotely and significantly reducing overall costs.",[170,2225,2227],{"id":2226},"candidate-preference","Candidate preference",[39,2229,2230,2231,2234],{},"In the era of flexible and hybrid working arrangements, candidates are increasingly averse to spending extended periods traveling to in-person exam locations. Online proctoring enables ",[672,2232,2233],{},"candidates to take exams in the comfort of their chosen setting",", often within the familiarity of their own homes.",[170,2236,2030],{"id":2029},[39,2238,2239,2240,2243,2244,2247,2248,2251,2252,475],{},"Coordinating in-person exams across different locations, time zones, and countries poses logistical challenges for exam coordinators. ",[70,2241,2242],{"href":659},"Online proctoring tools"," offer remote proctors ",[672,2245,2246],{},"on demand, 24\u002F7",". This flexibility empowers candidates to ",[672,2249,2250],{},"choose a convenient exam time",", irrespective of their timezone, ",[672,2253,2254],{},"without the need to pre-schedule",[170,2256,2258],{"id":2257},"scalability","Scalability",[39,2260,2261,2262,2265,2266,2269],{},"Scaling in-person exams faces constraints related to venue capacity and the availability of on-site proctors. Online proctoring addresses these limitations by providing a scalable ",[70,2263,2264],{"href":546},"remote exam solution",". The virtual environment allows for a ",[672,2267,2268],{},"larger pool of proctors",", facilitating the simultaneous monitoring of a high number of candidates during large-scale exams.",[39,2271,2272],{},"Let's explore five proctoring types that organisations can embrace to suit their exam security needs.",[34,2274,2276],{"id":2275},"_1-lockdown-mode","1. Lockdown mode",[39,2278,2279,2280,2284],{},"Delivering an online exam in ",[70,2281,2283],{"href":388,"rel":2282},[79],"lockdown mode via Synoptic's desktop app"," offers a robust security measure, ensuring candidates remain confined within the exam interface and preventing access to external browsers, desktop applications, or additional monitors.",[39,2286,2287,2288,2291,2292,2295],{},"This feature proves invaluable in addressing concerns related to test-takers trying to ",[672,2289,2290],{},"Google"," answers, or engaging in unauthorised communication such as messaging on ",[672,2293,2294],{},"WhatsApp"," during the exam.",[39,2297,2298],{},[672,2299,2300],{},"Ideal for:",[50,2302,2303,2306,2309],{},[53,2304,2305],{},"Exams that are proctored in person, for example if you have someone walking around the exam room monitoring candidates.",[53,2307,2308],{},"Remote exams that need enhanced anti-cheating measures but do not require video or screen monitoring.",[53,2310,2311],{},"Organisations seeking a cost-effective method to deter cheating, as lockdown mode is often the cheapest proctoring option.",[39,2313,2314],{},[594,2315],{"alt":2316,"src":2317},"Synoptic breach detected during an online exam","\u002Fcms\u002Fsynoptic-breaches-min.png",[34,2319,2321],{"id":2320},"_2-webcam-and-laptop-screenshots","2. Webcam and laptop screenshots",[39,2323,2324,2325,2329,2330,475],{},"A widely adopted method for monitoring test-takers involves intermittent webcam and laptop screenshots, a feature commonly found in proctoring tools such as ",[70,2326,2328],{"href":388,"rel":2327},[79],"Synoptic's screenshot-based proctoring",". This technique captures images of both the candidate and their surroundings, along with snapshots of their laptop screen ",[672,2331,2332],{},"every few seconds",[39,2334,2335],{},"This method proves effective in identifying unauthorised presence in the room, usage of mobile devices, or attempts to search for answers online. Particularly beneficial in environments with limited internet bandwidth, intermittent screenshots consume a fraction of the bandwidth compared to continuous video monitoring.",[39,2337,2338,2339,2342,2343,2346],{},"Post-exam, educators can review the captured screenshots immediately. They can ",[672,2340,2341],{},"annotate timestamps",", providing a comprehensive overview to ",[672,2344,2345],{},"confirm or reject"," the legitimacy of the candidate's proctoring status.",[39,2348,2349],{},[672,2350,2300],{},[50,2352,2353,2356,2359,2362],{},[53,2354,2355],{},"Low internet bandwidth environments.",[53,2357,2358],{},"Exams where candidates need to use a tool such as custom software, Excel, an e-book, or course material.",[53,2360,2361],{},"Candidates who use company laptops where downloading software is an issue, for example in IT or NHS settings.",[53,2363,2364],{},"Organisations seeking a cost-effective alternative to continuous video monitoring.",[39,2366,2367],{},[594,2368],{"alt":2369,"src":2370},"Synoptic proctoring review with webcam and screen captures","\u002Fcms\u002Fproctor-review-min.png",[34,2372,2374],{"id":2373},"_3-proctoring-via-zoom-or-teams","3. Proctoring via Zoom or Teams",[39,2376,2377],{},"Using video conferencing tools such as Zoom or Teams is a useful method to monitor candidates in an exam. This approach typically involves a proctor observing the candidates and their environment, without seeing their screen activity.",[39,2379,2380,2381,2385],{},"Organisations who proctor via Zoom or Teams often implement other anti-cheat methods to enhance exam security. One such method is ",[70,2382,2384],{"href":388,"rel":2383},[79],"Synoptic's Chrome extension",", compatible with both Zoom and Teams. It automatically detects actions such as exiting full screen, opening additional browser tabs, or connecting a second monitor, and presents a count of breaches to the proctors post-exam.",[39,2387,2388,2389,2393],{},"Additionally, proctors can leverage ",[70,2390,2392],{"href":1135,"rel":2391},[79],"locking and unlocking exam attempts",". By locking the exam upfront so candidates cannot start, they are required to join Zoom or Teams first, allowing the proctor to authenticate their identity. Only after confirming the right candidate's presence does the proctor unlock the exam.",[39,2395,2396],{},[672,2397,2300],{},[50,2399,2400,2403],{},[53,2401,2402],{},"Organisations who have the capacity, or already implement proctoring via Zoom or Teams.",[53,2404,2364],{},[39,2406,2407],{},[594,2408],{"alt":2409,"src":2410},"Proctoring tab detection during an online exam","\u002Fcms\u002Fonline-exam-platform-proctoring-tab-detection.png",[34,2412,2414],{"id":2413},"_4-continuous-webcam-and-screen-video-recording","4. Continuous webcam and screen video recording",[39,2416,2417,2418,475],{},"This advanced proctoring technique entails uninterrupted video recording of both the candidate's webcam and screen, capturing every action they perform throughout the exam. This method stands out as one of the most secure means of proctoring and reinforces the ",[672,2419,2420],{},"credibility and validity of high-stakes assessments",[39,2422,2423,2424,2428,2429,2431],{},"To enhance exam security, ",[70,2425,2427],{"href":388,"rel":2426},[79],"continuous video monitoring"," is often coupled with the ",[672,2430,1252],{}," described in section 1. This dual-layered approach ensures candidates are unable to navigate to other web pages or utilise desktop applications during the examination.",[39,2433,2434,2435,475],{},"Recorded proctoring footage can be securely stored for an extended duration, either for a number of years or indefinitely. This extended retention is especially critical for high-stakes exams subjected to ",[672,2436,2437],{},"external audits or reviews",[39,2439,2440],{},[672,2441,2300],{},[50,2443,2444,2447],{},[53,2445,2446],{},"High-stakes or certification exams, where exam security, validity, and integrity are of paramount importance.",[53,2448,2449],{},"Exams that require long-term storage of footage for auditing purposes.",[39,2451,2452],{},[594,2453],{"alt":2454,"src":2455},"Continuous video monitoring during an online exam","\u002Fcms\u002Fenhanced-proctoring-for-exams.gif",[34,2457,2459],{"id":2458},"_5-ai-proctoring","5. AI proctoring",[39,2461,2462,2463,2467],{},"In the era of artificial intelligence, leveraging automated analysis can streamline the workload for an organisation's proctoring team. ",[70,2464,2466],{"href":2465},"\u002Fblog\u002Fai-powered-proctoring\u002F","AI proctoring"," is often adopted alongside continuous video recording (section 4) and lockdown mode (section 1).",[39,2469,2470,2471,2474],{},"AI technology works by ",[672,2472,2473],{},"automatically flagging suspicious behaviour",", such as the presence of an additional person in the room or the use of a mobile device by the candidate. This intelligent system allows proctors to focus on key events flagged by the AI, rather than sifting through hours of continuous video footage.",[39,2476,2477,2478,2481],{},"A ",[672,2479,2480],{},"proctoring report post-exam"," is a notable advantage of this approach. Reviewers can focus on candidates with the highest breach counts, streamlining the review process and maximising effectiveness in maintaining exam integrity.",[39,2483,2484],{},[672,2485,2300],{},[50,2487,2488,2491,2494],{},[53,2489,2490],{},"High-stakes or certification exams.",[53,2492,2493],{},"Organisations that have limited human resources to proctor exams themselves.",[53,2495,2496],{},"Organisations that deliver a large number of exams.",[39,2498,2499],{},[594,2500],{"alt":2501,"src":2043},"Synoptic proctor review with breach annotations",[34,2503,2505],{"id":2504},"explore-synaps-built-in-proctoring-options-for-secure-online-exams","Explore Synap's built-in proctoring options for secure online exams",[39,2507,2508,2509,475],{},"Schedule a tailored demo to see how Synap's proctoring features work for exams hosted on the platform and find the right setup for your organisation. ",[70,2510,474],{"href":473},{"title":19,"searchDepth":320,"depth":320,"links":2512},[2513,2514,2520,2521,2522,2523,2524,2525],{"id":2186,"depth":320,"text":2187},{"id":2201,"depth":320,"text":2202,"children":2515},[2516,2517,2518,2519],{"id":2215,"depth":331,"text":2216},{"id":2226,"depth":331,"text":2227},{"id":2029,"depth":331,"text":2030},{"id":2257,"depth":331,"text":2258},{"id":2275,"depth":320,"text":2276},{"id":2320,"depth":320,"text":2321},{"id":2373,"depth":320,"text":2374},{"id":2413,"depth":320,"text":2414},{"id":2458,"depth":320,"text":2459},{"id":2504,"depth":320,"text":2505},"As the landscape of exam delivery shifts towards online platforms, ensuring the security of examinations becomes a paramount concern. Online proctoring emerges as a pivotal tool in addressing these challenges, providing a robust framework for maintaining integrity and security of online exams.",{"url":2528,"altText":2529,"title":2530},"\u002Fcms\u002Fonline-proctoring-exam-security-laptop.png","A laptop displaying a shield and padlock icon, representing secure online exam proctoring and test integrity.","Secure Online Exam Proctoring",[2532,2534,2536],{"text":2533},"Online proctoring combines flexibility with robust exam security, reducing costs and logistical challenges of in-person testing.",{"text":2535},"From lockdown mode to AI monitoring, a range of proctoring types ensures integrity across diverse exam formats and needs.",{"text":2537},"Scalable, on-demand proctoring empowers candidates worldwide to take secure exams anytime, supported by advanced monitoring tools.",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fproctoring-online-exams-top-5-benefits","2024-02-06T12:00:03.000Z",{"title":2153,"description":2526},"Explore the top 5 benefits of online proctoring with Synap, including different types to reduce cheating and enhance security.","5 types of online proctoring your company can use - Synap","proctoring-online-exams-top-5-benefits","blog\u002Fproctoring-online-exams-top-5-benefits","Explore the different types of proctoring for online exams, to reduce cheating and enhance security.",[532,2548,2549],"exam-integrity","artifical-intelligence","h1hXUz6xeq_lnsERVKwYTdQYe0WeccLEDXjrhY_ycZA",{"id":2552,"title":2553,"author":23,"body":2554,"description":19,"extension":340,"headerImage":5621,"highlights":22,"isPublished":345,"meta":5625,"navigation":347,"path":5626,"publishedAt":5627,"readingTime":5628,"seo":5629,"seoDescription":5630,"seoTitle":2553,"slug":5631,"stem":5632,"subtitle":5630,"topicLabels":22,"topics":22,"__hash__":5633},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Ftools-for-teachers-and-students.md","100 Tools for Teachers and Students",{"type":31,"value":2555,"toc":5476},[2556,2560,2563,2565,2569,2628,2631,2635,2643,2662,2666,2674,2691,2695,2703,2720,2724,2732,2750,2754,2762,2779,2783,2791,2807,2811,2819,2836,2839,2843,2851,2868,2872,2880,2896,2900,2908,2923,2926,2930,2938,2956,2960,2968,2984,2988,2996,3012,3016,3024,3040,3044,3052,3067,3071,3077,3089,3092,3096,3104,3121,3125,3133,3150,3154,3162,3177,3181,3189,3206,3210,3218,3235,3238,3242,3250,3266,3270,3278,3293,3296,3300,3308,3326,3330,3338,3355,3359,3367,3385,3389,3397,3414,3418,3426,3442,3446,3454,3469,3472,3476,3484,3501,3505,3513,3526,3530,3534,3542,3559,3563,3571,3586,3589,3592,3596,3604,3620,3624,3632,3647,3651,3659,3674,3678,3682,3690,3708,3712,3720,3736,3740,3748,3764,3768,3776,3792,3796,3800,3806,3824,3828,3836,3852,3856,3864,3879,3882,3886,3894,3910,3914,3922,3937,3940,3944,3952,3969,3973,3981,3997,4001,4009,4024,4028,4031,4047,4051,4054,4070,4074,4082,4097,4101,4109,4125,4129,4137,4153,4157,4165,4180,4184,4192,4207,4211,4214,4229,4233,4241,4256,4260,4268,4283,4287,4295,4310,4314,4318,4324,4341,4344,4348,4356,4373,4377,4385,4401,4405,4413,4428,4432,4440,4457,4461,4469,4484,4487,4491,4499,4515,4519,4527,4542,4546,4554,4569,4573,4581,4596,4600,4608,4625,4629,4633,4641,4657,4661,4669,4686,4690,4698,4715,4719,4727,4743,4747,4755,4771,4775,4783,4799,4803,4811,4828,4832,4840,4855,4859,4867,4882,4886,4894,4909,4913,4921,4937,4941,4949,4966,4970,4978,4994,4998,5006,5021,5025,5033,5049,5053,5057,5065,5083,5087,5095,5111,5115,5123,5139,5143,5151,5162,5166,5174,5189,5193,5201,5217,5220,5224,5232,5244,5248,5256,5272,5276,5284,5299,5303,5311,5326,5330,5334,5342,5359,5363,5371,5387,5391,5399,5415,5419,5427,5442,5446,5453],[34,2557,2559],{"id":2558},"_100-best-tools-for-teachers-and-students","100 Best Tools for Teachers and Students",[39,2561,2562],{},"Technology has changed every aspect of modern life and education is no exception! The modern school sees students confidently engaging with technology and sharing knowledge with each other through their devices. Increasingly students are looking for more engaging and interactive methods to learn and revise moving away from being confined to a desk reading a dull textbook. Teachers now have to compete for their students attention by utilising technology that engages their class and that makes learning fun and effective. This demand has lead to the rapid expanse of the market for education technology n the past decade. There are hundreds of tools for teachers and students to choose from available on the market which can make it difficult to find exactly what you’re looking for. We’ve found our 100 best tools for teachers and students – enjoy!",[34,2564],{"id":19},[34,2566,2568],{"id":2567},"_100-best-tools-for-teachers-and-students-quick-links","100 Best Tools for Teachers and Students: Quick Links",[50,2570,2571,2574,2577,2580,2583,2586,2589,2592,2595,2598,2601,2604,2607,2610,2613,2616,2619,2622,2625],{},[53,2572,2573],{},"Classroom tools",[53,2575,2576],{},"Communication and Organisation",[53,2578,2579],{},"Design",[53,2581,2582],{},"Flashcards",[53,2584,2585],{},"Forums",[53,2587,2588],{},"Games",[53,2590,2591],{},"Languages",[53,2593,2594],{},"Instructionals",[53,2596,2597],{},"Learning",[53,2599,2600],{},"Learning Management System",[53,2602,2603],{},"Massive Open Online Courses",[53,2605,2606],{},"Music",[53,2608,2609],{},"Organisation",[53,2611,2612],{},"Programming",[53,2614,2615],{},"Mindfulness",[53,2617,2618],{},"General Tools for Teachers",[53,2620,2621],{},"Tools for Teaching Medicine",[53,2623,2624],{},"Video Lessons",[53,2626,2627],{},"Quiz \u002F Assessment Tools",[34,2629,2573],{"id":2630},"classroom-tools",[170,2632,2634],{"id":2633},"_1-kahoot","1) Kahoot",[39,2636,2637,2642],{},[70,2638,2641],{"href":2639,"rel":2640},"https:\u002F\u002Fkahoot.it\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Kahoot","\nCreate, Play, Share, Reinforce. Make fun learning games “Kahoots” and multiple choice questions. This is an excellent resource for a plenary, with students collaborating on a smartphone or tablet to select the right answer and eager to win more points for being the fastest team. You can sit back and watch students as they literally jump with excitement to learn and work together. You can also take the gap in between question to consolidate learning and address misconceptions.No matter what the year group, students love Kahoot and will will keep asking to play it!\nAvailable on: Desktop, iOS and google play.",[50,2644,2645,2648,2651,2654],{},[53,2646,2647],{},"Type: Priced at around $10 per month",[53,2649,2650],{},"Type: Classroom tool",[53,2652,2653],{},"Target: Aimed at teachers for children",[53,2655,2656,2657],{},"Website: ",[70,2658,2661],{"href":2659,"rel":2660},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.kahoot.it",[79],"www.kahoot.it",[170,2663,2665],{"id":2664},"_2-zzish","2) Zzish",[39,2667,2668,2673],{},[70,2669,2672],{"href":2670,"rel":2671},"https:\u002F\u002Flive.zzish.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Zzish","\nEdTechs Most passionate pioneers Teacher dashboards and Quizalize quiz application combine to deliver assessment, classroom and test prep tools. Teachers see who needs help with what, and how well they are progressing through the activity. 75,000 teachers from 110 countries, 400 schools and universities across the globe and work with OUP, Discovery.",[50,2675,2676,2679,2681,2684],{},[53,2677,2678],{},"Type: Free and premium versions available",[53,2680,2650],{},[53,2682,2683],{},"Target: Aimed at teachers for schools",[53,2685,2656,2686],{},[70,2687,2690],{"href":2688,"rel":2689},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.live.zzish.com",[79],"www.live.zzish.com",[170,2692,2694],{"id":2693},"_3-google-classroom","3) Google Classroom",[39,2696,2697,2702],{},[70,2698,2701],{"href":2699,"rel":2700},"https:\u002F\u002Fgoogleclassroom.google.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Google Classroom","\nStreamlines assignments and boosts collaboration. Use Google Classroom to create classes to distribute homework assignments, track the progress of your students and send (immediate) feedback. Gone are the days where students make excuses for you not giving them a paper copy of the homework as Google Classrooms can be accessed anywhere, anytime, and on any device!",[50,2704,2705,2708,2710,2713],{},[53,2706,2707],{},"Type: Free for schools",[53,2709,2650],{},[53,2711,2712],{},"Target: Aimed at teachers",[53,2714,2656,2715],{},[70,2716,2719],{"href":2717,"rel":2718},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.googleclassroom.com",[79],"www.googleclassroom.com",[170,2721,2723],{"id":2722},"_4-class-charts","4) Class Charts",[39,2725,2726,2731],{},[70,2727,2730],{"href":2728,"rel":2729},"https:\u002F\u002Fclasscharts.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Class Charts","\nInstant seating plans and easy to use behaviour management. Class Charts allows teachers to produce instant seating plans, with an incredibly helpful integration of pupils’ school pictures and data from SIMS. No longer will you need to scribble out and re-write paper versions of seating plans or constantly copying and pasting to edit online copies, with just a few clicks, teachers can quickly change the seating arrangement of a classroom on Class Charts to help improve pupil behaviour and save precious time!",[50,2733,2734,2737,2740,2743],{},[53,2735,2736],{},"Type: Free",[53,2738,2739],{},"Type: Classroom Tool",[53,2741,2742],{},"Target: Aimed at teachers.",[53,2744,2656,2745],{},[70,2746,2749],{"href":2747,"rel":2748},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.classcharts.com",[79],"www.classcharts.com",[170,2751,2753],{"id":2752},"_5-socrative","5) Socrative",[39,2755,2756,2761],{},[70,2757,2760],{"href":2758,"rel":2759},"https:\u002F\u002Fsocrative.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Socrative","\nClassroom app for fun, effective classroom engagement allowing teachers to instantly connect with students as learning happens Quickly assess students with prepared activities or on-the-fly questions to get immediate insight into student understanding and make quizzes.",[50,2763,2764,2767,2769,2772],{},[53,2765,2766],{},"Type: Prices start from $56.99",[53,2768,2739],{},[53,2770,2771],{},"Target: Aimed at Institutitions",[53,2773,2656,2774],{},[70,2775,2778],{"href":2776,"rel":2777},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.socrative.com",[79],"www.socrative.com",[170,2780,2782],{"id":2781},"_6-remind","6) Remind",[39,2784,2785,2790],{},[70,2786,2789],{"href":2787,"rel":2788},"https:\u002F\u002Fremind.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Remind"," — School communication should not be so hard and with Remind, it’s not. Remind allows teachers to send quick and simple messages to other teachers, parents or students. With Remind, communication is faster and condensed so helps put an end to unread emails with colleagues and encourages students to complete homework with a reminder over the weekend. Remind is already being used in more than 70% of U.S. state schools.",[50,2792,2793,2795,2797,2800],{},[53,2794,2736],{},[53,2796,2650],{},[53,2798,2799],{},"Target: Aimed at institutions and teachers.",[53,2801,2656,2802],{},[70,2803,2806],{"href":2804,"rel":2805},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.remind.com",[79],"www.remind.com",[170,2808,2810],{"id":2809},"_7-teacherkit","7) TeacherKit",[39,2812,2813,2818],{},[70,2814,2817],{"href":2815,"rel":2816},"https:\u002F\u002Fteacherkit.net\u002F",[79],"Learn more about TeacherKit","\nTeacherKit is the number one class management tool used by more than 1 million teachers around the world. TeacherKit makes routine tasks like attendance recording, grade monitoring easy and straightforward, $39.99 yearly.",[50,2820,2821,2824,2826,2829],{},[53,2822,2823],{},"Type: Aimed at institutions and teachers.",[53,2825,2650],{},[53,2827,2828],{},"Target:",[53,2830,2656,2831],{},[70,2832,2835],{"href":2833,"rel":2834},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.teacherkit.net",[79],"www.teacherkit.net",[170,2837,2576],{"id":2838},"communication-and-organisation",[170,2840,2842],{"id":2841},"_8-classdojo","8) ClassDojo",[39,2844,2845,2850],{},[70,2846,2849],{"href":2847,"rel":2848},"https:\u002F\u002Fclassdojo.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about ClassDojo","\nGives teachers parents and students the power to create incredible classrooms by connecting them. Communication app for the classroom allowing teacher\u002Fstudents\u002Fparents to communicate to do work together as a team.",[50,2852,2853,2855,2858,2861],{},[53,2854,2736],{},[53,2856,2857],{},"Type: Classroom Organisation",[53,2859,2860],{},"Target: Aimed at all.",[53,2862,2656,2863],{},[70,2864,2867],{"href":2865,"rel":2866},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.classdojo.com",[79],"www.classdojo.com",[170,2869,2871],{"id":2870},"_9-slack","9) Slack",[39,2873,2874,2879],{},[70,2875,2878],{"href":2876,"rel":2877},"https:\u002F\u002Fslack.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Slack","\nWhere work happens, Slack is the fastest growing app of all time. Team communication made easy and many apps integrate to slacks platform making task sharing and communication much easier within a team.",[50,2881,2882,2884,2887,2889],{},[53,2883,2736],{},[53,2885,2886],{},"Type: Communication and Organisation",[53,2888,2860],{},[53,2890,2656,2891],{},[70,2892,2895],{"href":2893,"rel":2894},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.slack.com",[79],"www.slack.com",[170,2897,2899],{"id":2898},"_10-trello","10) Trello",[39,2901,2902,2907],{},[70,2903,2906],{"href":2904,"rel":2905},"https:\u002F\u002Ftrello.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Trello","\nAn online tool for managing projects and personal tasks and allows groups of people to easily split up jobs and roles. Trello allows people to create boards, lists and cards to help organise and prioritize projects in a fun, flexible and rewarding way.",[50,2909,2910,2912,2914,2916],{},[53,2911,2736],{},[53,2913,2886],{},[53,2915,2860],{},[53,2917,2656,2918],{},[70,2919,2922],{"href":2920,"rel":2921},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.trello.com",[79],"www.trello.com",[34,2924,2579],{"id":2925},"design",[170,2927,2929],{"id":2928},"_11-canva","11) Canva",[39,2931,2932,2937],{},[70,2933,2936],{"href":2934,"rel":2935},"https:\u002F\u002Fweb.seesaw.me\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Canva","\nMore than 100m+ designs made all over the world Canva is an elegant solution to the complex design process started by Melanie Perkins who was teaching graphic design programs at university and found students struggled to learn the basics, partnering with Cliff Obrecht they eventually launched Canva with tech co-founder Cameron Adams. Canva can be used by individuals to create memorable CV’s or presentations or posters. Canva has a wide business application for social media posts, presentations etc.",[50,2939,2940,2943,2946,2949],{},[53,2941,2942],{},"Type: Free to use but many features are unlocked with the pro upgrade",[53,2944,2945],{},"Type: Design",[53,2947,2948],{},"Target: Aimed at all",[53,2950,2656,2951],{},[70,2952,2955],{"href":2953,"rel":2954},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.canva.com",[79],"www.canva.com",[170,2957,2959],{"id":2958},"_12-haiku-deck","12) Haiku deck",[39,2961,2962,2967],{},[70,2963,2966],{"href":2964,"rel":2965},"https:\u002F\u002Fhaikudeck.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Haiku Deck","\nHaiku Deck is a presentation design tool that allows you to create amazing presentations on the web, iPad or iPhone. Haiku Deck clears away the clutter helping you to focus on the key idea of your presentation.",[50,2969,2970,2973,2975,2977],{},[53,2971,2972],{},"Type: Prices vary starting from $7.99 per month",[53,2974,2945],{},[53,2976,2860],{},[53,2978,2656,2979],{},[70,2980,2983],{"href":2981,"rel":2982},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.haikudeck.com",[79],"www.haikudeck.com",[170,2985,2987],{"id":2986},"_13-prezi","13) Prezi",[39,2989,2990,2995],{},[70,2991,2994],{"href":2992,"rel":2993},"https:\u002F\u002Fprezi.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Prezi","\nPrezi next is everything you need for the most dynamic and engaging presentations ever. With a huge library of beautiful presentations Prezi makes it easy and fun to design your own presentations.",[50,2997,2998,3001,3003,3005],{},[53,2999,3000],{},"Type: Free 30 day trial then prices start from £7 per month",[53,3002,2945],{},[53,3004,2860],{},[53,3006,2656,3007],{},[70,3008,3011],{"href":3009,"rel":3010},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.prezi.com",[79],"www.prezi.com",[170,3013,3015],{"id":3014},"_14-animoto","14) Animoto",[39,3017,3018,3023],{},[70,3019,3022],{"href":3020,"rel":3021},"https:\u002F\u002Fanimoto.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Animoto","\nCreate professional video slideshows by turning your photos and video clips into slide shows, quickly and easily. Easy to use and hosted in the clouds you can have access to your projects where ever you go.",[50,3025,3026,3029,3031,3033],{},[53,3027,3028],{},"Type: Free trial then premium from £7.99 per month",[53,3030,2945],{},[53,3032,2860],{},[53,3034,2656,3035],{},[70,3036,3039],{"href":3037,"rel":3038},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.animoto.com",[79],"www.animoto.com",[170,3041,3043],{"id":3042},"_15-tinkercad","15) Tinkercad",[39,3045,3046,3051],{},[70,3047,3050],{"href":3048,"rel":3049},"https:\u002F\u002Ftinkercad.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Tinkercad","\nTinkercad is a simple online 3D design and 3D printing app for everyone. Tinkercad is used by designers, hobbyists, teachers and kids to make many things such as toys, prototypes, etc.",[50,3053,3054,3056,3058,3060],{},[53,3055,2736],{},[53,3057,2945],{},[53,3059,2860],{},[53,3061,2656,3062],{},[70,3063,3066],{"href":3064,"rel":3065},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.tinkercad.com",[79],"www.tinkercad.com",[170,3068,3070],{"id":3069},"_16-imovie","16) iMovie",[39,3072,3073,3076],{},[594,3074],{"alt":19,"src":3075},"https:\u002F\u002Fs3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\u002Fsynap.ac\u002Fblog\u002FBlog\u002Ftools\u002Fimovie.jpg","\niMovie lets you easily turn your videos into movies to make unique presentations and learning tools. You can upload and edit clips from anywhere and add music and effects.",[50,3078,3079,3082,3084,3086],{},[53,3080,3081],{},"Type: Free for iOS and macOS",[53,3083,2945],{},[53,3085,2948],{},[53,3087,3088],{},"Website: iMovie on iTunes",[34,3090,2582],{"id":3091},"flashcards",[170,3093,3095],{"id":3094},"_17-quizlet","17) Quizlet",[39,3097,3098,3103],{},[70,3099,3102],{"href":3100,"rel":3101},"https:\u002F\u002Fquizlet.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Quizlet","\nSimple tools for learning anything, make and practices quizzes and flashcards. 194,597,000 study sets and counting.",[50,3105,3106,3109,3112,3114],{},[53,3107,3108],{},"Type: $19.99 per year",[53,3110,3111],{},"Type: Flashcards",[53,3113,2948],{},[53,3115,2656,3116],{},[70,3117,3120],{"href":3118,"rel":3119},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.quizlet.com",[79],"www.quizlet.com",[170,3122,3124],{"id":3123},"_18-brainscape","18) Brainscape",[39,3126,3127,3132],{},[70,3128,3131],{"href":3129,"rel":3130},"https:\u002F\u002Fbrainscape.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Brainscape","\nThe worlds smartest flash cards learn twice as fast and remember longer with spaced repetition. people can make their own flashcards and use those made by other community members.",[50,3134,3135,3138,3140,3143],{},[53,3136,3137],{},"Type: Free to use",[53,3139,3111],{},[53,3141,3142],{},"Target: Aimed at students and teachers as a study tool",[53,3144,2656,3145],{},[70,3146,3149],{"href":3147,"rel":3148},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.brainscape.com",[79],"www.brainscape.com",[170,3151,3153],{"id":3152},"_19-tiny-cards","19) Tiny Cards",[39,3155,3156,3161],{},[70,3157,3160],{"href":3158,"rel":3159},"https:\u002F\u002Ftinycards.duolingo.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Tiny Cards","\nA part of Duolingo, Tinycards is a fun flashcard app that helps you memorise anything for free, forever. Bite-sized lessons are the best way to master anything from Spanish to the periodic table.",[50,3163,3164,3166,3168,3170],{},[53,3165,2736],{},[53,3167,3111],{},[53,3169,2860],{},[53,3171,2656,3172],{},[70,3173,3176],{"href":3174,"rel":3175},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.tinycards.duolingo.com",[79],"www.tinycards.duolingo.com",[170,3178,3180],{"id":3179},"_20-anki","20) Anki",[39,3182,3183,3188],{},[70,3184,3187],{"href":3185,"rel":3186},"https:\u002F\u002Fapps.ankiweb.net\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Anki","\nAnki is a program which makes remembering things easy and is more efficient than traditional study methods. Anki aims to reduce the time people spend studying whilst increasing the amount that they learn.",[50,3190,3191,3194,3196,3199],{},[53,3192,3193],{},"Type: One off payment of £23.99",[53,3195,3111],{},[53,3197,3198],{},"Target: Aimed at students.",[53,3200,2656,3201],{},[70,3202,3205],{"href":3203,"rel":3204},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.apps.ankiweb.net",[79],"www.apps.ankiweb.net",[170,3207,3209],{"id":3208},"_21-memrise","21) Memrise",[39,3211,3212,3217],{},[70,3213,3216],{"href":3214,"rel":3215},"https:\u002F\u002Fmemrise.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Memrise","\nMany topics including languages, over 200 courses with rich content. Uses science and fun to help to enrich learning and has a community focus.",[50,3219,3220,3223,3226,3228],{},[53,3221,3222],{},"Type: Free to use and there is a premium offer",[53,3224,3225],{},"Type: Flashcards and Smart learning",[53,3227,2948],{},[53,3229,2656,3230],{},[70,3231,3234],{"href":3232,"rel":3233},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.memrise.com",[79],"www.memrise.com",[34,3236,2585],{"id":3237},"forums",[170,3239,3241],{"id":3240},"_22-the-student-room","22) The Student Room",[39,3243,3244,3249],{},[70,3245,3248],{"href":3246,"rel":3247},"https:\u002F\u002Fthestudentroom.co.uk\u002F",[79],"Learn more about The Student Room","\nIs the largest student community in the world with 1.8million members and is a space for people to discuss university, jobs and exams. Offers free university application help and revision tools.",[50,3251,3252,3254,3257,3259],{},[53,3253,2736],{},[53,3255,3256],{},"Type: Forum",[53,3258,2860],{},[53,3260,2656,3261],{},[70,3262,3265],{"href":3263,"rel":3264},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.thestudentroom.co.uk",[79],"www.thestudentroom.co.uk",[170,3267,3269],{"id":3268},"_23-quora","23) Quora",[39,3271,3272,3277],{},[70,3273,3276],{"href":3274,"rel":3275},"https:\u002F\u002Fquora.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Quora","\nQuora is an online forum where you can ask pretty much anything and the responses are regulated by the community members. They aim to share and grow the worlds knowledge and help people find the answers to questions that are not easily found online.",[50,3279,3280,3282,3284,3286],{},[53,3281,2736],{},[53,3283,3256],{},[53,3285,2860],{},[53,3287,2656,3288],{},[70,3289,3292],{"href":3290,"rel":3291},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.quora.com",[79],"www.quora.com",[34,3294,2588],{"id":3295},"games",[170,3297,3299],{"id":3298},"_24-my-times-tables","24) My Times Tables",[39,3301,3302,3307],{},[70,3303,3306],{"href":3304,"rel":3305},"https:\u002F\u002Fmytimestables.org\u002F",[79],"Learn more about My Times Tables","\nA fun and effective way for kids to learn their time’s tables. Helps children to learn their first 20 times tables in a fun way.",[50,3309,3310,3313,3316,3319],{},[53,3311,3312],{},"Type: Free and offers in-app purchases",[53,3314,3315],{},"Type: Game",[53,3317,3318],{},"Target: Aimed at children and parents",[53,3320,2656,3321],{},[70,3322,3325],{"href":3323,"rel":3324},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.mytimestables.org",[79],"www.mytimestables.org",[170,3327,3329],{"id":3328},"_25-math-bingo","25) Math Bingo",[39,3331,3332,3337],{},[70,3333,3336],{"href":3334,"rel":3335},"https:\u002F\u002Fabcya.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about ABCya (Math Bingo)","\nA fun and effective way for children to practice their basic numerical skills. Over 1 million players.",[50,3339,3340,3343,3345,3348],{},[53,3341,3342],{},"Type: £2.99",[53,3344,3315],{},[53,3346,3347],{},"Target: Aimed at children",[53,3349,2656,3350],{},[70,3351,3354],{"href":3352,"rel":3353},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.abcya.com",[79],"www.abcya.com",[170,3356,3358],{"id":3357},"_26-lumosity","26) Lumosity",[39,3360,3361,3366],{},[70,3362,3365],{"href":3363,"rel":3364},"https:\u002F\u002Flumosity.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Lumosity","\n50 million users from around the world. Claim to help improve cognitive function with simple fun games.",[50,3368,3369,3372,3375,3378],{},[53,3370,3371],{},"Type: Free basic membership then premium and family plans charged monthly from $15",[53,3373,3374],{},"Type: Games",[53,3376,3377],{},"Target: Aimed at adults",[53,3379,2656,3380],{},[70,3381,3384],{"href":3382,"rel":3383},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.lumosity.com",[79],"www.lumosity.com",[170,3386,3388],{"id":3387},"_27-peak","27) Peak",[39,3390,3391,3396],{},[70,3392,3395],{"href":3393,"rel":3394},"https:\u002F\u002Fpeak.net\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Peak","\nGames that claim to boost your cognitive function. Specialised daily workouts.",[50,3398,3399,3402,3404,3407],{},[53,3400,3401],{},"Type: Free to download and premium options available",[53,3403,3374],{},[53,3405,3406],{},"Target: Aimed at adults.",[53,3408,2656,3409],{},[70,3410,3413],{"href":3411,"rel":3412},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.peak.net",[79],"www.peak.net",[170,3415,3417],{"id":3416},"_28-elevate","28) Elevate",[39,3419,3420,3425],{},[70,3421,3424],{"href":3422,"rel":3423},"https:\u002F\u002Felevateapp.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Elevate","\nDesigned to build communication and analytic skills. The more you train the more you benefit.",[50,3427,3428,3431,3433,3435],{},[53,3429,3430],{},"Type: Free to download premium options available",[53,3432,3374],{},[53,3434,3406],{},[53,3436,2656,3437],{},[70,3438,3441],{"href":3439,"rel":3440},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.elevateapp.com",[79],"www.elevateapp.com",[170,3443,3445],{"id":3444},"_29-cognifit","29) Cognifit",[39,3447,3448,3453],{},[70,3449,3452],{"href":3450,"rel":3451},"https:\u002F\u002Fcognifit.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Cognifit","\nOffers a scientifically validated software to precisely measure and train each individual’s cognitive skills. Play a variety of fun games.",[50,3455,3456,3458,3460,3462],{},[53,3457,3430],{},[53,3459,3374],{},[53,3461,3377],{},[53,3463,2656,3464],{},[70,3465,3468],{"href":3466,"rel":3467},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.cognifit.com",[79],"www.cognifit.com",[34,3470,2591],{"id":3471},"languages",[170,3473,3475],{"id":3474},"_30-duolingo","30) Duolingo",[39,3477,3478,3483],{},[70,3479,3482],{"href":3480,"rel":3481},"https:\u002F\u002Fduolingo.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Duolingo","\nGamification of language learning, Read, listen speak available on Android, iOS, Windows. Analyzed how millions of people learn at once to create the most effective educational system and tailor it to each student.",[50,3485,3486,3489,3492,3494],{},[53,3487,3488],{},"Type: Free or plus is $9.99 per month",[53,3490,3491],{},"Type: Language",[53,3493,2948],{},[53,3495,2656,3496],{},[70,3497,3500],{"href":3498,"rel":3499},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.duolingo.com",[79],"www.duolingo.com",[170,3502,3504],{"id":3503},"_31-sign-bsl","31) Sign BSL",[39,3506,3507,3512],{},[70,3508,3511],{"href":3509,"rel":3510},"https:\u002F\u002Fitunes.apple.com\u002Fgb\u002Fapp\u002Fsign-bsl\u002Fid998361466?mt=8",[79],"Learn more about Sign BSL (App Store)","\nEasily find and view signs on your mobile device with over 20,000 videos in the video dictionary. Free.",[50,3514,3515,3518,3521,3523],{},[53,3516,3517],{},"Type: Aimed at all.",[53,3519,3520],{},"Type: Search and compare thousands of words and phrases in British Sign Language",[53,3522,2828],{},[53,3524,3525],{},"Website: App store link",[34,3527,3529],{"id":3528},"instructional","Instructional",[170,3531,3533],{"id":3532},"_32-instructables","32) Instructables",[39,3535,3536,3541],{},[70,3537,3540],{"href":3538,"rel":3539},"https:\u002F\u002Finstructables.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Instructables","\nInstructables is a website specialising in user-created and uploaded DIY projects. Instructables has a tonne of awesome projects for teachers to do with their classes and supports teachers and students by providing free premium membership.",[50,3543,3544,3547,3550,3552],{},[53,3545,3546],{},"Type: Free for Teachers and student, paid options for individuals",[53,3548,3549],{},"Type: Instructional",[53,3551,2860],{},[53,3553,2656,3554],{},[70,3555,3558],{"href":3556,"rel":3557},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.instructables.com",[79],"www.instructables.com",[170,3560,3562],{"id":3561},"_33-wikihow","33) wikiHow",[39,3564,3565,3570],{},[70,3566,3569],{"href":3567,"rel":3568},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wikihow.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about wikiHow","wikiHow’s website has loads of tutorials broken down into simple steps to show you how to do anything and it is the worlds most popular how to website. The website aims to create the worlds most useful how to space and show anyone how to do anything.",[50,3572,3573,3575,3577,3579],{},[53,3574,2736],{},[53,3576,3549],{},[53,3578,2948],{},[53,3580,2656,3581],{},[70,3582,3585],{"href":3583,"rel":3584},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.wikihow.com",[79],"www.wikihow.com",[170,3587],{"id":3588},"_1",[34,3590,2597],{"id":3591},"learning",[170,3593,3595],{"id":3594},"_34-wolfram-alpha","34) Wolfram Alpha",[39,3597,3598,3603],{},[70,3599,3602],{"href":3600,"rel":3601},"https:\u002F\u002Fwolframalpha.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Wolfram Alpha","\nWolfram Alpha uses a collection of data and built in algorithms to help people find the knowledge they need to answer questions. Their long term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone by bringing expert level knowledge and capabilities to the broadest range of people spanning all professional and education levels.",[50,3605,3606,3608,3611,3613],{},[53,3607,2736],{},[53,3609,3610],{},"Type: Learning",[53,3612,2860],{},[53,3614,2656,3615],{},[70,3616,3619],{"href":3617,"rel":3618},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.wolframalpha.com",[79],"www.wolframalpha.com",[170,3621,3623],{"id":3622},"_35-mavis-beacon","35) Mavis Beacon",[39,3625,3626,3631],{},[70,3627,3630],{"href":3628,"rel":3629},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.mavisbeaconfree.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Mavis Beacon","\nMavis Beacon Teaches Typing is one of the best known typing tutors evermade. Mavis Beacon integrates personalised lessons and games to teach children and adults how to touch type.",[50,3633,3634,3636,3638,3640],{},[53,3635,2736],{},[53,3637,3610],{},[53,3639,2860],{},[53,3641,2656,3642],{},[70,3643,3646],{"href":3644,"rel":3645},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.mavisbeaconfree.com",[79],"www.mavisbeaconfree.com",[170,3648,3650],{"id":3649},"_36-iknow","36) iKnow!",[39,3652,3653,3658],{},[70,3654,3657],{"href":3655,"rel":3656},"https:\u002F\u002Fiknow.education\u002F",[79],"Learn more about iKnow!","\niKnow! is a social learning platform that is built upon a learning engine that is supposed to free users from sorting study materials and help them create effective study plans. iKnow! measures students learning progress over the long term allowing users to set personal goals.",[50,3660,3661,3663,3665,3667],{},[53,3662,2736],{},[53,3664,3610],{},[53,3666,3198],{},[53,3668,2656,3669],{},[70,3670,3673],{"href":3671,"rel":3672},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.iknow.education",[79],"www.iknow.education",[34,3675,3677],{"id":3676},"learning-management-systems","Learning Management Systems",[170,3679,3681],{"id":3680},"_37-blackboard","37) Blackboard",[39,3683,3684,3689],{},[70,3685,3688],{"href":3686,"rel":3687},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.blackboard.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Blackboard","\nEducations partner in change, helping learners, educators, institutions and companies thrive in a complex and changing environment. Innovate best-in-class technologies and services helping institutions drive success.",[50,3691,3692,3695,3698,3701],{},[53,3693,3694],{},"Type: Detailed pricing not publically available",[53,3696,3697],{},"Type: LMS",[53,3699,3700],{},"Target: Aimed at institutions.",[53,3702,2656,3703],{},[70,3704,3707],{"href":3705,"rel":3706},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.blackboard.com",[79],"www.blackboard.com",[170,3709,3711],{"id":3710},"_38-moodle","38) Moodle",[39,3713,3714,3719],{},[70,3715,3718],{"href":3716,"rel":3717},"https:\u002F\u002Fmoodle.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Moodle","\nAn open source software offering grade management, attendance management, assessment implementation and lesson planners.management Offers special modules for creating courses.",[50,3721,3722,3725,3727,3729],{},[53,3723,3724],{},"Type: Operates on the Freemium model",[53,3726,3697],{},[53,3728,3700],{},[53,3730,2656,3731],{},[70,3732,3735],{"href":3733,"rel":3734},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.moodle.com",[79],"www.moodle.com",[170,3737,3739],{"id":3738},"_39-edmodo","39) Edmodo",[39,3741,3742,3747],{},[70,3743,3746],{"href":3744,"rel":3745},"https:\u002F\u002Femodo.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Edmodo","\nWith over 85 million members Edmodo aims to bring education into a 21st-century environment. Communication, collaboration and coaching between students, teachers and parents is enabled through Edmodo.management",[50,3749,3750,3753,3755,3757],{},[53,3751,3752],{},"Type: Prices vary and are given upon request",[53,3754,3697],{},[53,3756,3700],{},[53,3758,2656,3759],{},[70,3760,3763],{"href":3761,"rel":3762},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.emodo.com",[79],"www.emodo.com",[170,3765,3767],{"id":3766},"_40-schoology","40) Schoology",[39,3769,3770,3775],{},[70,3771,3774],{"href":3772,"rel":3773},"https:\u002F\u002Fschoology.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Schoology","\nThe only online management system that connects all the people, content and systems that fuel education. Easily create objectives- align assessments that are managed from one central location and delivered in the normal course workflow.",[50,3777,3778,3781,3783,3785],{},[53,3779,3780],{},"Type: Prices available on request",[53,3782,3697],{},[53,3784,3700],{},[53,3786,2656,3787],{},[70,3788,3791],{"href":3789,"rel":3790},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.schoology.com",[79],"www.schoology.com",[34,3793,3795],{"id":3794},"massive-open-online-courses-moocs","Massive Open Online Courses) (MOOCs)",[170,3797,3799],{"id":3798},"_41-udemy","41) Udemy",[39,3801,3802,3805],{},[594,3803],{"alt":19,"src":3804},"https:\u002F\u002Fs3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\u002Fsynap.ac\u002Fblog\u002FBlog\u002Ftools\u002Fudemy.jpg","\nUdemy is a global marketplace for learning and teaching online where students are mastering new skills and achieving their goals by learning from an extensive library of over 50,000 courses taught by expert instructors. Udemy provides tools which enable users to create a course, promote it and earn money from tuition charges.",[50,3807,3808,3811,3814,3817],{},[53,3809,3810],{},"Type: Charges depend",[53,3812,3813],{},"Type: MOOC",[53,3815,3816],{},"Target: Aimed at anyone who wants to learn a new skill for work.",[53,3818,2656,3819],{},[70,3820,3823],{"href":3821,"rel":3822},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.udemy.com",[79],"www.udemy.com",[170,3825,3827],{"id":3826},"_42-coursera","42) Coursera",[39,3829,3830,3835],{},[70,3831,3834],{"href":3832,"rel":3833},"https:\u002F\u002Fcoursera.org\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Coursera","\nCoursera offers courses taught by top instructors from the world’s best universities and educational institutions. Courses include recorded video lectures, auto-graded and peer-reviewed assignments and community discussion forums, when you complete a course you’ll recieve a sharable electronic course certificate.",[50,3837,3838,3841,3843,3845],{},[53,3839,3840],{},"Type: Open to everyone prices at about $29-$99 per course",[53,3842,3813],{},[53,3844,3816],{},[53,3846,2656,3847],{},[70,3848,3851],{"href":3849,"rel":3850},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.coursera.org",[79],"www.coursera.org",[170,3853,3855],{"id":3854},"_43-future-learn","43) Future Learn",[39,3857,3858,3863],{},[70,3859,3862],{"href":3860,"rel":3861},"https:\u002F\u002Ffuturelearn.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about FutureLearn","\nFutureLearn offers a diverse selection of courses from leading universities around the world, which are delivered in one step at a time lessons available on any device where ever you are. Since the launch in 2013 over 6 million people have joined FutureLearn.",[50,3865,3866,3868,3870,3872],{},[53,3867,2678],{},[53,3869,3813],{},[53,3871,3816],{},[53,3873,2656,3874],{},[70,3875,3878],{"href":3876,"rel":3877},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.futurelearn.com",[79],"www.futurelearn.com",[34,3880,2606],{"id":3881},"music",[170,3883,3885],{"id":3884},"_44-yousician","44) Yousician",[39,3887,3888,3893],{},[70,3889,3892],{"href":3890,"rel":3891},"https:\u002F\u002Fyousician.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Yousician","\nA fun fast way to learn an master the piano, guitar, bass and ukulele. Play the music you want your way with easy to follow courses and tasks.",[50,3895,3896,3898,3901,3903],{},[53,3897,2678],{},[53,3899,3900],{},"Type: Music",[53,3902,2860],{},[53,3904,2656,3905],{},[70,3906,3909],{"href":3907,"rel":3908},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.yousician.com",[79],"www.yousician.com",[170,3911,3913],{"id":3912},"_45-andy-guitar","45) Andy Guitar",[39,3915,3916,3921],{},[70,3917,3920],{"href":3918,"rel":3919},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.andyguitar.co.uk\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Andy Guitar","\nFree online video guitar lessons that cater to a range of abilities from absolute beginners to advanced. Andy Guitar provides are great space for people to learn and improve on their guitar technique and knowledge.",[50,3923,3924,3926,3928,3930],{},[53,3925,2736],{},[53,3927,3900],{},[53,3929,2860],{},[53,3931,2656,3932],{},[70,3933,3936],{"href":3934,"rel":3935},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.andyguitar.co.uk",[79],"www.andyguitar.co.uk",[34,3938,2609],{"id":3939},"organisation",[170,3941,3943],{"id":3942},"_46-black-bullion","46) Black Bullion",[39,3945,3946,3951],{},[70,3947,3950],{"href":3948,"rel":3949},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.blackbullion.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Black Bullion","\nThe learning platform for people who want to be in control of their money and improve their money management skills. Discover the latest FinTech products and unlock rewards by completing your tasks.",[50,3953,3954,3956,3959,3962],{},[53,3955,3137],{},[53,3957,3958],{},"Type: Financial organisation",[53,3960,3961],{},"Target: Aimed at university students",[53,3963,2656,3964],{},[70,3965,3968],{"href":3966,"rel":3967},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.blackbullion.com",[79],"www.blackbullion.com",[170,3970,3972],{"id":3971},"_47-google-drive","47) Google Drive",[39,3974,3975,3980],{},[70,3976,3979],{"href":3977,"rel":3978},"https:\u002F\u002Fgoogledrive.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Google Drive","\nThe perfect way to back up and store homework, class plans and work. Get access to files anywhere through secure cloud storage and file backup of photos vidoes and files.",[50,3982,3983,3985,3988,3990],{},[53,3984,2736],{},[53,3986,3987],{},"Type: Organisation",[53,3989,2948],{},[53,3991,2656,3992],{},[70,3993,3996],{"href":3994,"rel":3995},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.googledrive.com",[79],"www.googledrive.com",[170,3998,4000],{"id":3999},"_48-dropbox","48) Dropbox",[39,4002,4003,4008],{},[70,4004,4007],{"href":4005,"rel":4006},"https:\u002F\u002Fdropbox.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Dropbox","\nDropbox is a technology company that builds simple, powerful products for people and businesses. Cloud based storage and access.",[50,4010,4011,4013,4015,4017],{},[53,4012,2678],{},[53,4014,3987],{},[53,4016,2948],{},[53,4018,2656,4019],{},[70,4020,4023],{"href":4021,"rel":4022},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.dropbox.com",[79],"www.dropbox.com",[170,4025,4027],{"id":4026},"_49-exam-countdown","49) Exam Countdown",[39,4029,4030],{},"A simple way to keep track of exam dates. Counts down to exams helping students effectively plan revision.",[50,4032,4033,4036,4038,4040],{},[53,4034,4035],{},"Type: Free app",[53,4037,3987],{},[53,4039,3198],{},[53,4041,2656,4042],{},[70,4043,4046],{"href":4044,"rel":4045},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.root38.com",[79],"www.root38.com",[170,4048,4050],{"id":4049},"_50-myhomework","50) myHomework",[39,4052,4053],{},"An app that allows students to manage their school life. Replacing the traditional student planner with a great experience on the students preferred device.",[50,4055,4056,4058,4060,4063],{},[53,4057,2736],{},[53,4059,3987],{},[53,4061,4062],{},"Target: Aimed at students",[53,4064,2656,4065],{},[70,4066,4069],{"href":4067,"rel":4068},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.myhomeworkapp.com",[79],"www.myhomeworkapp.com",[170,4071,4073],{"id":4072},"_51-evernote","51) Evernote",[39,4075,4076,4081],{},[70,4077,4080],{"href":4078,"rel":4079},"https:\u002F\u002Fevernnote.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Evernote","\nEvernote is a platform that aims to help you organise your work making sure that across all your devices where ever you are your work is in sync. Designed for notetaking Evernote allows users to create a ‘note’ which can be text or a voice memo, or even handwritten.",[50,4083,4084,4086,4088,4090],{},[53,4085,2678],{},[53,4087,3987],{},[53,4089,3198],{},[53,4091,2656,4092],{},[70,4093,4096],{"href":4094,"rel":4095},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.evernnote.com",[79],"www.evernnote.com",[170,4098,4100],{"id":4099},"_52-grade-hound","52) Grade Hound",[39,4102,4103,4108],{},[70,4104,4107],{"href":4105,"rel":4106},"https:\u002F\u002Fomnigroup.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Grade Hound","\nGrade Hound helps you manage your classes, organise your assignments and track your grades. The planner app makes organisation easier than ever and helps you track grade progressions.",[50,4110,4111,4113,4115,4118],{},[53,4112,2736],{},[53,4114,3987],{},[53,4116,4117],{},"Target: Aimed at students and teachers.",[53,4119,2656,4120],{},[70,4121,4124],{"href":4122,"rel":4123},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.omnigroup.com",[79],"www.omnigroup.com",[170,4126,4128],{"id":4127},"_53-wunderlist","53) Wunderlist",[39,4130,4131,4136],{},[70,4132,4135],{"href":4133,"rel":4134},"https:\u002F\u002Fwunderlist.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Wunderlist","\nWunderlist helps you to organise and share your to-do lists and sends you reminders for tasks. With Wunderlist you can collaborate with anyone and share project tasks across your team and have access to those lists anywhere.",[50,4138,4139,4142,4144,4146],{},[53,4140,4141],{},"Type: Free and premium options available",[53,4143,3987],{},[53,4145,2860],{},[53,4147,2656,4148],{},[70,4149,4152],{"href":4150,"rel":4151},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.wunderlist.com",[79],"www.wunderlist.com",[170,4154,4156],{"id":4155},"_54-skitch","54) Skitch",[39,4158,4159,4164],{},[70,4160,4163],{"href":4161,"rel":4162},"https:\u002F\u002Fevernote.com\u002Fproducts\u002Fskitch",[79],"Learn more about Skitch","\nSkitch lets you get your point across with fewer words using annotation, shapes and sketches so that your ideas become a reality faster. Use Skitch to take photos and screen shots and save your sources of inspiration.",[50,4166,4167,4169,4171,4173],{},[53,4168,2736],{},[53,4170,3987],{},[53,4172,2860],{},[53,4174,2656,4175],{},[70,4176,4179],{"href":4177,"rel":4178},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.evernote.com\u002Fproducts\u002Fskitch",[79],"www.evernote.com\u002Fproducts\u002Fskitch",[170,4181,4183],{"id":4182},"_55-highly","55) Highly",[39,4185,4186,4191],{},[70,4187,4190],{"href":4188,"rel":4189},"https:\u002F\u002Fhighly.co\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Highly","\nHighlight the web to share the important parts. Save and share highlights right as you read and works on most apps and websites making it a great tool for essay writing and research.",[50,4193,4194,4196,4198,4200],{},[53,4195,2736],{},[53,4197,3987],{},[53,4199,2860],{},[53,4201,2656,4202],{},[70,4203,4206],{"href":4204,"rel":4205},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.highly.co",[79],"www.highly.co",[170,4208,4210],{"id":4209},"_56-diigo","56) Diigo",[39,4212,4213],{},"Annotate web pages and PDF’s directly as you browse online with diggo. Organise your links, references and personal input to create a structured research base through Outliner.",[50,4215,4216,4218,4220,4222],{},[53,4217,2736],{},[53,4219,3987],{},[53,4221,2860],{},[53,4223,2656,4224],{},[70,4225,4228],{"href":4226,"rel":4227},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.diigo.com",[79],"www.diigo.com",[170,4230,4232],{"id":4231},"_57-pocket","57) Pocket",[39,4234,4235,4240],{},[70,4236,4239],{"href":4237,"rel":4238},"https:\u002F\u002Fgetpocket.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Pocket","\nPocket manages your reading list of articles from the internet so you never miss out on something you want to read. With over 22 million registered users pocket intergrates into more than 1500 app and is available on all major platforms.",[50,4242,4243,4245,4247,4249],{},[53,4244,2736],{},[53,4246,3987],{},[53,4248,2860],{},[53,4250,2656,4251],{},[70,4252,4255],{"href":4253,"rel":4254},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.getpocket.com",[79],"www.getpocket.com",[170,4257,4259],{"id":4258},"_58-feedly","58) Feedly",[39,4261,4262,4267],{},[70,4263,4266],{"href":4264,"rel":4265},"https:\u002F\u002Ffeedly.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Feedly","\nFeedly is a news aggregator application and is also available as a cloud based service. Feedly offers a place for you to organise, read and share the information you need to stay ahead of the next industry.",[50,4269,4270,4272,4274,4276],{},[53,4271,2736],{},[53,4273,3987],{},[53,4275,2860],{},[53,4277,2656,4278],{},[70,4279,4282],{"href":4280,"rel":4281},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.feedly.com",[79],"www.feedly.com",[170,4284,4286],{"id":4285},"_59-kindle","59) Kindle",[39,4288,4289,4294],{},[70,4290,4293],{"href":4291,"rel":4292},"https:\u002F\u002Famazon.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Kindle","\nThe Kindle app and Kindle readers lets you have access to thousands of books at anytime anywhere. Carry all your ebooks with use the amazon store to buy more.",[50,4296,4297,4299,4301,4303],{},[53,4298,2736],{},[53,4300,3987],{},[53,4302,2860],{},[53,4304,2656,4305],{},[70,4306,4309],{"href":4307,"rel":4308},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.amazon.com",[79],"www.amazon.com",[34,4311,4313],{"id":4312},"tuition","Tuition",[170,4315,4317],{"id":4316},"_60-tutorful-formerly-known-as-tutora","60) Tutorful (formerly known as Tutora)",[39,4319,4320,4323],{},[594,4321],{"alt":19,"src":4322},"https:\u002F\u002Fs3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\u002Fsynap.ac\u002Fblog\u002FBlog\u002Ftools\u002Ftutora_logo.jpg","\nLearn anything from a huge selection of tutors or sign up to be a tutor, trusted and safe. Created by Scott Woodley and Mark Hughes who were unable to find a good service for locating tutors.",[50,4325,4326,4329,4332,4334],{},[53,4327,4328],{},"Type: Take a commission (25%) from the tutors earning",[53,4330,4331],{},"Type: Private Tutors",[53,4333,2948],{},[53,4335,2656,4336],{},[70,4337,4340],{"href":4338,"rel":4339},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.tutorful.co.uk",[79],"www.tutorful.co.uk",[34,4342,2612],{"id":4343},"programming",[170,4345,4347],{"id":4346},"_61-hopscotch","61) Hopscotch",[39,4349,4350,4355],{},[70,4351,4354],{"href":4352,"rel":4353},"https:\u002F\u002Fgethopscotch.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Hopscotch","\nNo setup. No typing. No syntax. Just drag blocks and instantly play what you’ve made. With Hopscotch you can make anything you want from your own mini games to beautiful drawings and even minecraft remakes.",[50,4357,4358,4361,4364,4366],{},[53,4359,4360],{},"Type: Free to download from the app store and monthly subscriptions cost $7.99",[53,4362,4363],{},"Type: Programing",[53,4365,2860],{},[53,4367,2656,4368],{},[70,4369,4372],{"href":4370,"rel":4371},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.gethopscotch.com",[79],"www.gethopscotch.com",[170,4374,4376],{"id":4375},"_62-mimo","62) Mimo",[39,4378,4379,4384],{},[70,4380,4383],{"href":4381,"rel":4382},"https:\u002F\u002Fgetmimo.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Mimo","\nMimo is an app that teaches computer science in a fun and interactive way. You can learn to code, make apps, build websites all on the go with 1000+ bite-size lessons.",[50,4386,4387,4389,4392,4394],{},[53,4388,2678],{},[53,4390,4391],{},"Type: Programming",[53,4393,2860],{},[53,4395,2656,4396],{},[70,4397,4400],{"href":4398,"rel":4399},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.getmimo.com",[79],"www.getmimo.com",[170,4402,4404],{"id":4403},"_63-codeacademy","63) Codeacademy",[39,4406,4407,4412],{},[70,4408,4411],{"href":4409,"rel":4410},"https:\u002F\u002Fcodeacademy.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Codecademy","\nCodeacademy is an online interactive programming platform that offers coding classes in 12 different languages including Python, Java, PHP, SQL etc. Codeacademy makes learning to code fun, rewarding and less intimidating.",[50,4414,4415,4417,4419,4421],{},[53,4416,2678],{},[53,4418,4391],{},[53,4420,2860],{},[53,4422,2656,4423],{},[70,4424,4427],{"href":4425,"rel":4426},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.codeacademy.com",[79],"www.codeacademy.com",[170,4429,4431],{"id":4430},"_64-code-kingdoms","64) Code Kingdoms",[39,4433,4434,4439],{},[70,4435,4438],{"href":4436,"rel":4437},"https:\u002F\u002Fcodekingdoms.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Code Kingdoms","\nCode Kingdoms was built for kids with kids, by (big) kids. This is a great platform for getting kids into programming by showing them how to build their own Minecraft mods.",[50,4441,4442,4445,4447,4450],{},[53,4443,4444],{},"Type: Monthly, yearly and lifetime plans available",[53,4446,4391],{},[53,4448,4449],{},"Target: Aimed at children.",[53,4451,2656,4452],{},[70,4453,4456],{"href":4454,"rel":4455},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.codekingdoms.com",[79],"www.codekingdoms.com",[170,4458,4460],{"id":4459},"_65-programarcadegamescom","65) Programarcadegames.com",[39,4462,4463,4468],{},[70,4464,4467],{"href":4465,"rel":4466},"https:\u002F\u002Fprogramarcadegames.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Program Arcade Games"," — This site is used to teach an introductory programming class at Simpson College and is available for free because creator Professor Paul Craven believes that anyone should be able to learn how to program for free and teach someone else. This website is simple and easy to use with fantastic chapters and explanations.",[50,4470,4471,4473,4475,4477],{},[53,4472,2736],{},[53,4474,4391],{},[53,4476,2860],{},[53,4478,2656,4479],{},[70,4480,4483],{"href":4481,"rel":4482},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.programarcadegames.com",[79],"www.programarcadegames.com",[34,4485,2615],{"id":4486},"mindfulness",[170,4488,4490],{"id":4489},"_66-headspace","66) Headspace",[39,4492,4493,4498],{},[70,4494,4497],{"href":4495,"rel":4496},"https:\u002F\u002Fheadspace.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Headspace","\nStudying and teaching can be incredibly stressful and Headspace is a digital service that provides guided meditation sessions and mindfulness training to help people manage their stress. For just 10 minutes a day you can use Headspace to help you unwind, with over 14 million downloads from all over the world Headspace certainly appears to be working for many people.",[50,4500,4501,4503,4506,4508],{},[53,4502,2678],{},[53,4504,4505],{},"Type: Mindfulness",[53,4507,2860],{},[53,4509,2656,4510],{},[70,4511,4514],{"href":4512,"rel":4513},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.headspace.com",[79],"www.headspace.com",[170,4516,4518],{"id":4517},"_67-goodreads","67) Goodreads",[39,4520,4521,4526],{},[70,4522,4525],{"href":4523,"rel":4524},"https:\u002F\u002Fgoodreads.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Goodreads","\nGoodreads is the perfect website for book lovers allowing you to read reviews written by their community members on thousands of books. Goodreads helps you find your next book to get lost in.",[50,4528,4529,4531,4533,4535],{},[53,4530,2736],{},[53,4532,4505],{},[53,4534,2860],{},[53,4536,2656,4537],{},[70,4538,4541],{"href":4539,"rel":4540},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.goodreads.com",[79],"www.goodreads.com",[170,4543,4545],{"id":4544},"_68-pinterest","68) Pinterest",[39,4547,4548,4553],{},[70,4549,4552],{"href":4550,"rel":4551},"https:\u002F\u002Fpinterest.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Pinterest","\nPinterest is a great way to find new hobbies or learn new ones from sewing, to cooking to woodwork you can find almost anything on this website. Pinterest is also great for students and teachers who are looking for new creative ways to study or teach.",[50,4555,4556,4558,4560,4562],{},[53,4557,2736],{},[53,4559,4505],{},[53,4561,2860],{},[53,4563,2656,4564],{},[70,4565,4568],{"href":4566,"rel":4567},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.pinterest.com",[79],"www.pinterest.com",[170,4570,4572],{"id":4571},"_69-medium","69) Medium",[39,4574,4575,4580],{},[70,4576,4579],{"href":4577,"rel":4578},"https:\u002F\u002Fmedium.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Medium","\nMedium is a blogging website where you can read and write about anything. Medium taps into the brains of the worlds most insightful writers and storytellers to bring you the smartest topics that matter. Discover teaching and education bloggers to find inspiration during those difficult days.",[50,4582,4583,4585,4587,4589],{},[53,4584,2736],{},[53,4586,4505],{},[53,4588,2860],{},[53,4590,2656,4591],{},[70,4592,4595],{"href":4593,"rel":4594},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.medium.com",[79],"www.medium.com",[170,4597,4599],{"id":4598},"_70-night-sky","70) Night Sky",[39,4601,4602,4607],{},[70,4603,4606],{"href":4604,"rel":4605},"https:\u002F\u002Ficandiapps.com\u002Ficandiapps",[79],"Learn more about Night Sky"," — A powerful augmented reality personal planetarium. Quickly identifies stars, planets, constellations and satellites. Stargazing is an awesome way to spend an evening and you can learn some amazing things about our place in the universe.",[50,4609,4610,4613,4616,4618],{},[53,4611,4612],{},"Type: Free and offers in app purchases",[53,4614,4615],{},"Type: Tool",[53,4617,2860],{},[53,4619,2656,4620],{},[70,4621,4624],{"href":4622,"rel":4623},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.icandiapps.com\u002Ficandiapps",[79],"www.icandiapps.com\u002Ficandiapps",[34,4626,4628],{"id":4627},"tools","Tools",[170,4630,4632],{"id":4631},"_71-endnote","71) Endnote",[39,4634,4635,4640],{},[70,4636,4639],{"href":4637,"rel":4638},"https:\u002F\u002Fendnote.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Endnote","\nReference management software with Synchronise features to keep references organised and easy to find. Synchronise your references between devices.",[50,4642,4643,4646,4648,4650],{},[53,4644,4645],{},"Type: $115 for students",[53,4647,4615],{},[53,4649,4062],{},[53,4651,2656,4652],{},[70,4653,4656],{"href":4654,"rel":4655},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.endnote.com",[79],"www.endnote.com",[170,4658,4660],{"id":4659},"_72-chegg","72) Chegg",[39,4662,4663,4668],{},[70,4664,4667],{"href":4665,"rel":4666},"https:\u002F\u002Fcheg.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Chegg"," — Online textbook rental company that specialises in online textbook rentals, homework help and online tutoring. The name Chegg is a combination of the words chicken and egg based on the founders experience after graduating as it was impossible to get a job without experience and could not get experience without a job.",[50,4670,4671,4674,4676,4679],{},[53,4672,4673],{},"Type: Prices depend on the service one weekly plan for tutoring costs $15 for 30 minutes",[53,4675,4615],{},[53,4677,4678],{},"Target: Aimed at students in high school and university",[53,4680,2656,4681],{},[70,4682,4685],{"href":4683,"rel":4684},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.cheg.com",[79],"www.cheg.com",[170,4687,4689],{"id":4688},"_73-got-it-study","73) Got It Study",[39,4691,4692,4697],{},[70,4693,4696],{"href":4694,"rel":4695},"https:\u002F\u002Fgot-it.co\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Got It Study","\nHomework help by simply taking a photo of Maths, Physics or Chemistry problems and upload it through their app to get a detailed explanation of the problem. You can get 10 minutes with a subject matter expert for as low as $0.99 or earn credits for solving other peoples homework problems.",[50,4699,4700,4703,4705,4708],{},[53,4701,4702],{},"Type: Free to download then in app purchases available",[53,4704,4615],{},[53,4706,4707],{},"Target: Aimed at Students",[53,4709,2656,4710],{},[70,4711,4714],{"href":4712,"rel":4713},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.got-it.co",[79],"www.got-it.co",[170,4716,4718],{"id":4717},"_74-mindmeister","74) Mindmeister",[39,4720,4721,4726],{},[70,4722,4725],{"href":4723,"rel":4724},"https:\u002F\u002Fmindmeister.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Mindmeister"," — Mindmeister is a collaborative mind mapping app that allows its users to visualise their thoughts in the cloud. Using user modeling to visualise information and real time collaboration Mindmeister is a great tool for task management.",[50,4728,4729,4732,4734,4736],{},[53,4730,4731],{},"Type: Personal £4.99 per month, Professional £8.49 per month",[53,4733,4615],{},[53,4735,2860],{},[53,4737,2656,4738],{},[70,4739,4742],{"href":4740,"rel":4741},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.mindmeister.com",[79],"www.mindmeister.com",[170,4744,4746],{"id":4745},"_75-goodreader","75) Goodreader",[39,4748,4749,4754],{},[70,4750,4753],{"href":4751,"rel":4752},"https:\u002F\u002Fgoodreader.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Goodreader","\nGoodreader is the super-robust PDF reader for iPad, iPhon and iPod touch. It is a professional tool for teachers who want to read and manage files and allows you to easily add annotations to PDF documents which you can access anywhere.",[50,4756,4757,4760,4762,4764],{},[53,4758,4759],{},"Type: One off payment of $4.99 available on the app store",[53,4761,4615],{},[53,4763,2860],{},[53,4765,2656,4766],{},[70,4767,4770],{"href":4768,"rel":4769},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.goodreader.com",[79],"www.goodreader.com",[170,4772,4774],{"id":4773},"_76-refme","76) RefMe",[39,4776,4777,4782],{},[70,4778,4781],{"href":4779,"rel":4780},"https:\u002F\u002Frefme.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about RefMe","\nNow apart of cite this for me, comprehensive guides to reference. Write smarter, plagiarism checker and its available desktop apps iOS and Android, reference any source.",[50,4784,4785,4788,4790,4792],{},[53,4786,4787],{},"Type: Free, Aimed at higher education",[53,4789,4615],{},[53,4791,4062],{},[53,4793,2656,4794],{},[70,4795,4798],{"href":4796,"rel":4797},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.refme.com",[79],"www.refme.com",[170,4800,4802],{"id":4801},"_77-mendeley","77) Mendeley",[39,4804,4805,4810],{},[70,4806,4809],{"href":4807,"rel":4808},"https:\u002F\u002Fmendeley.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Mendeley","\nA free reference manager and academic social network. Cite as you write keeping your work organised and concise.",[50,4812,4813,4816,4818,4821],{},[53,4814,4815],{},"Type: Free to download and use",[53,4817,4615],{},[53,4819,4820],{},"Target: Aimed at students and teachers",[53,4822,2656,4823],{},[70,4824,4827],{"href":4825,"rel":4826},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.mendeley.com",[79],"www.mendeley.com",[170,4829,4831],{"id":4830},"_78-google-sheets","78) Google Sheets",[39,4833,4834,4839],{},[70,4835,4838],{"href":4836,"rel":4837},"https:\u002F\u002Fgoogle.com\u002Fspreadsheets",[79],"Learn more about Google Sheets","\nA free cloud-based tool for creating spreadsheets. Sheets has powerful tools for organising, editing and collaborating different types of information.",[50,4841,4842,4844,4846,4848],{},[53,4843,2736],{},[53,4845,4615],{},[53,4847,2860],{},[53,4849,2656,4850],{},[70,4851,4854],{"href":4852,"rel":4853},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.google.com\u002Fspreadsheets",[79],"www.google.com\u002Fspreadsheets",[170,4856,4858],{"id":4857},"_79-google-slides","79) Google Slides",[39,4860,4861,4866],{},[70,4862,4865],{"href":4863,"rel":4864},"https:\u002F\u002Fgoogle.com\u002Fslides",[79],"Learn more about Google Slides","\nA free cloud-based tool for teachers to use for creating presentations. Slides allows you to collaborate on presentations and access them anywhere.",[50,4868,4869,4871,4873,4875],{},[53,4870,2736],{},[53,4872,4615],{},[53,4874,2860],{},[53,4876,2656,4877],{},[70,4878,4881],{"href":4879,"rel":4880},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.google.com\u002Fslides",[79],"www.google.com\u002Fslides",[170,4883,4885],{"id":4884},"_80-grammarly","80) Grammarly",[39,4887,4888,4893],{},[70,4889,4892],{"href":4890,"rel":4891},"https:\u002F\u002Fgrammarly.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Grammarly","\nGrammarly’s AI-powered products help people communicate more effectively by improving their grammar. Grammarly’s web extension can be used to check essays, messages and documents.",[50,4895,4896,4898,4900,4902],{},[53,4897,2678],{},[53,4899,4615],{},[53,4901,2948],{},[53,4903,2656,4904],{},[70,4905,4908],{"href":4906,"rel":4907},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.grammarly.com",[79],"www.grammarly.com",[170,4910,4912],{"id":4911},"_81-bibliotech","81) Bibliotech",[39,4914,4915,4920],{},[70,4916,4919],{"href":4917,"rel":4918},"https:\u002F\u002Fbibliotech.education\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Bibliotech","\nThe Spotify of textbooks that provides students and teachers with all the textbooks they need at any time on any device for a small monthly fee. Their search engine runs definitions, diagrams and examples with the aim to help students learn faster than ever before.",[50,4922,4923,4926,4928,4930],{},[53,4924,4925],{},"Type: From as little as £2.99 per month for students!",[53,4927,4615],{},[53,4929,4062],{},[53,4931,2656,4932],{},[70,4933,4936],{"href":4934,"rel":4935},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.bibliotech.education",[79],"www.bibliotech.education",[170,4938,4940],{"id":4939},"_82-inkling","82) Inkling",[39,4942,4943,4948],{},[70,4944,4947],{"href":4945,"rel":4946},"https:\u002F\u002Finkling.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Inkling"," — Mobile smart content system brings content to life for the deskless worker. Gives teams direct access to the information they need to get their jobs done.",[50,4950,4951,4954,4956,4959],{},[53,4952,4953],{},"Type: Free trials available then Subscription",[53,4955,4615],{},[53,4957,4958],{},"Target: Aimed at Teachers",[53,4960,2656,4961],{},[70,4962,4965],{"href":4963,"rel":4964},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.inkling.com",[79],"www.inkling.com",[170,4967,4969],{"id":4968},"_83-elements","83) Elements",[39,4971,4972,4977],{},[70,4973,4976],{"href":4974,"rel":4975},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.touchpressmedia.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Elements (Touch Press)","\nA visual exploration not just a reference app. rich and engaging with fantastic 3D images of the elements.",[50,4979,4980,4983,4985,4987],{},[53,4981,4982],{},"Type: £13.99 one off payment",[53,4984,4615],{},[53,4986,2860],{},[53,4988,2656,4989],{},[70,4990,4993],{"href":4991,"rel":4992},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.touchpressmedia.com",[79],"www.touchpressmedia.com",[170,4995,4997],{"id":4996},"_84-itunes-u","84) iTunes U",[39,4999,5000,5005],{},[70,5001,5004],{"href":5002,"rel":5003},"https:\u002F\u002Fitunesu.itunes.apple.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about iTunes U","\nProvides everything an instructor needs to bring the classroom together instructors can build lessons with their own material and lectures and students can follow it and submit work. Teachers can provide the content they want directly to students.",[50,5007,5008,5010,5012,5014],{},[53,5009,2736],{},[53,5011,4615],{},[53,5013,2860],{},[53,5015,2656,5016],{},[70,5017,5020],{"href":5018,"rel":5019},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.itunesu.itunes.apple.com",[79],"www.itunesu.itunes.apple.com",[170,5022,5024],{"id":5023},"_85-blinkist","85) Blinkist",[39,5026,5027,5032],{},[70,5028,5031],{"href":5029,"rel":5030},"https:\u002F\u002Fblinkist.com\u002F",[79],"Learn more about Blinkist","\nBig ideas in small packages. 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Augmented Reality. Gamified Learning. Blended Learning. Mobile Learning… The list of technologies that promise to revolutionise medical education (or education in general) could go on, creating an exciting yet daunting task for the course leaders and educators who have to evaluate them.\nThe visceral appeal of technology is understandable: technology is cool, and it’s increasingly a part of student’s lives and therefore something that they expect to be integrated into their curriculum. However, it’s worth bearing in mind that use of technology is only a means to an end, and without a clearly defined implementation plan and goal, projects are often doomed to fail.\nMedical schools therefore have the difficult job of balancing student demand for technology with resource constraints and opportunity costs. This isn’t easy, especially considering that technology is evolving at such a rate that it is very difficult to find traditional evidence-based appraisals of these implementations, before the technology that was being tested is obsolete.\nIt’s easy to see how unchecked enthusiasm for technology could be disastrous, if medical schools were to take too many risks and replace traditional-but-proven learning models with exciting-but-unproven tech-based alternatives. An example of this can be seen in ‘Problem Based Learning’, an intuitively appealing idea that medical schools could modernise their approach to teaching by creating a curriculum that traded traditional lectures for small, group-based discussions where students were ‘put in charge of their own learning’ and encouraged to solve problems.\nA number of medical schools completely swapped out their curriculum to PBL, though even the most favourable studies now show that, at best, ",[70,5643,5646],{"href":5644,"rel":5645},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\u002Fpmc\u002Farticles\u002FPMC4082522\u002F",[79],"PBL is no better than traditional learning",". A number of medical schools now have to move back from PBL to a more traditional curriculum, which is obviously not an inexpensive process.\nThe PBL example shows that it is possible for people and institutions to get over-excited about a new idea, and to sacrifice tried-and-tested techniques in favour of them. It is worth bearing this example in mind as a warning of what can go wrong when evaluating new technologies. It is perfectly reasonable to assume that new technologies can lead to significant improvements in medical education but they need to be considered carefully.\n“…the best system is the one that people will ",[5649,5650,5651],"em",{},"actually use”","\nIn order to successfully evaluate new technologies, educators should first speak to students about what they are already using. In the vast majority of cases, medical students will already be using technologies to help their learning, and where possible the medical school should look to complement and support, rather than replace this. After all, the best system is the one that people will ",[5649,5654,5655],{},"actually use",".\nSecondly, educators should consider what metrics to measure success by. This can be tricky and there’s rarely a single metric that can measure the impact of a complex intervention, but it’s important to have at least some indication of whether the technology is better or worse than the thing it replaced.\nIn summary, we’re in a very exciting time for medical education. New technologies mean that medical students can get more exposure to conditions, procedures, and emergency scenarios during their time at medical school, or even just from home with the right equipment.\nSimilarly, even more established technologies and platforms such as Wikipedia, blogs, and YouTube are enabling a revolution in ‘peer to peer learning’, with content being created, reviewed, and consumed by students themselves, with little to no input from the medical school. The role for medical educators is to successfully guide their institution, and their students, through these changes and to implement technologies in a way that produces safer and more competent doctors. This means saying ‘no’ to new technologies just as much as it means saying ‘yes’.",{"title":19,"searchDepth":320,"depth":320,"links":5658},[],"Virtual Reality. Augmented Reality. Gamified Learning. Blended Learning. Mobile Learning… The list of technologies that promise to revolutionise medical education (or education in general) could go on, creating an exciting yet daunting task for the course leaders and educators who have to evaluate them.\nThe visceral appeal of technology is understandable: technology is cool, and it’s increasingly a part of student’s lives and therefore something that they expect to be integrated into their curriculum. However, it’s worth bearing in mind that use of technology is only a means to an end, and without a clearly defined implementation plan and goal, projects are often doomed to fail.\nMedical schools therefore have the difficult job of balancing student demand for technology with resource constraints and opportunity costs. This isn’t easy, especially considering that technology is evolving at such a rate that it is very difficult to find traditional evidence-based appraisals of these implementations, before the technology that was being tested is obsolete.\nIt’s easy to see how unchecked enthusiasm for technology could be disastrous, if medical schools were to take too many risks and replace traditional-but-proven learning models with exciting-but-unproven tech-based alternatives. An example of this can be seen in ‘Problem Based Learning’, an intuitively appealing idea that medical schools could modernise their approach to teaching by creating a curriculum that traded traditional lectures for small, group-based discussions where students were ‘put in charge of their own learning’ and encouraged to solve problems.\nA number of medical schools completely swapped out their curriculum to PBL, though even the most favourable studies now show that, at best, PBL is no better than traditional learning. A number of medical schools now have to move back from PBL to a more traditional curriculum, which is obviously not an inexpensive process.\nThe PBL example shows that it is possible for people and institutions to get over-excited about a new idea, and to sacrifice tried-and-tested techniques in favour of them. It is worth bearing this example in mind as a warning of what can go wrong when evaluating new technologies. It is perfectly reasonable to assume that new technologies can lead to significant improvements in medical education but they need to be considered carefully.\n“…the best system is the one that people will actually use”\nIn order to successfully evaluate new technologies, educators should first speak to students about what they are already using. In the vast majority of cases, medical students will already be using technologies to help their learning, and where possible the medical school should look to complement and support, rather than replace this. After all, the best system is the one that people will actually use.\nSecondly, educators should consider what metrics to measure success by. This can be tricky and there’s rarely a single metric that can measure the impact of a complex intervention, but it’s important to have at least some indication of whether the technology is better or worse than the thing it replaced.\nIn summary, we’re in a very exciting time for medical education. New technologies mean that medical students can get more exposure to conditions, procedures, and emergency scenarios during their time at medical school, or even just from home with the right equipment.\nSimilarly, even more established technologies and platforms such as Wikipedia, blogs, and YouTube are enabling a revolution in ‘peer to peer learning’, with content being created, reviewed, and consumed by students themselves, with little to no input from the medical school. The role for medical educators is to successfully guide their institution, and their students, through these changes and to implement technologies in a way that produces safer and more competent doctors. This means saying ‘no’ to new technologies just as much as it means saying ‘yes’.",{"url":5661,"altText":5662,"title":5663},"\u002Fcms\u002Fsynap_iphone10_xrayquiz-1536x1152.png","X-ray image displayed on an iPhone screen led on top of a notepad.","Medical Education with Synap",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fstudent-led-technology-in-medical-education","2021-10-04T12:00:44.000Z","3 min read",{"title":5636,"description":5659},"Discover how Augmented Reality and other technologies are reshaping medical education.","student-led-technology-in-medical-education","blog\u002Fstudent-led-technology-in-medical-education",[5673],"medical-education","q5dX0C2uGYVkuF7fvzjrLzLDZjCK8BDCqiF6gty2zB4",{"id":5676,"title":5677,"author":23,"body":5678,"description":5682,"extension":340,"headerImage":5951,"highlights":22,"isPublished":345,"meta":5955,"navigation":347,"path":5956,"publishedAt":5957,"readingTime":2141,"seo":5958,"seoDescription":5959,"seoTitle":5960,"slug":5961,"stem":5962,"subtitle":5963,"topicLabels":22,"topics":5964,"__hash__":5967},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Faward-winning-lms.md","Delivering an award winning assessment platform to SME’s and institutions",{"type":31,"value":5679,"toc":5927},[5680,5683,5687,5720,5724,5735,5739,5748,5752,5759,5763,5774,5779,5783,5794,5797,5800,5803,5812,5815,5820,5824,5831,5834,5837,5840,5849,5852,5866,5871,5875,5887,5890,5893,5896,5899,5902,5909,5914,5918],[39,5681,5682],{},"It started out as a personal project and evolved into an app used by various sectors around the world. Synap’s award-winning learning platform has allowed companies and educators to transform their teaching, with it’s ability to deliver personalised, effective and engaging training at scale.",[34,5684,5686],{"id":5685},"the-origins-of-synaps-platform","The Origins of Synap’s Platform.",[39,5688,5689,5690,5693,5694,5697,5698,5701,5702,5705,5706,5711,5712,5716,5717],{},"Studying towards their medicine degree in 2015, our founders James and Omair found reading a text book time consuming and a largely ineffective revision method. They wanted to create a more engaging way to study to ",[5649,5691,5692],{},"learn more in less time.","\nAfter some research into different learning models, the pair settled on the idea of studying using questions. Creating, sharing and practicing quizzes with each other challenged James and Omair to revise in a new, challenging and sociable way. Sharing this method with their peers led to a Facebook group being made, then evolved to a WordPress plugin and finally evolved into it’s own website called ",[5649,5695,5696],{},"Synap.","\nSynap’s original website allowed users to create and share quizzes with their friends. Within weeks they had ",[672,5699,5700],{},"tens of thousands of professionals"," visiting the website to benefit from active learning including; doctors, lawyers, engineers, accountants, and pilots to name a few. By the time James and Omair graduated ",[672,5703,5704],{},"25% of medical students in the UK"," were using the revision platform.\nOne of the most desirable aspects of the Synap app is the Spaced Learning feature. It is based on ",[70,5707,5710],{"href":5708,"rel":5709},"https:\u002F\u002Fbjorklab.psych.ucla.edu\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002Fsites\u002F13\u002F2016\u002F07\u002FRBjork_1975.pdf",[79],"Bjork’s Spaced Repetition theory"," that states reviewing information at regular intervals greatly improves the amount of knowledge that is retained in long-term memory. With Spaced Repetition, you can gradually increase the length of these intervals so that you’re effectively ‘testing’ your memory at each review point. Forcing your memory to work hard triggers the formation of new neural pathways so that retrieval will be easier in future. \n",[594,5713],{"alt":5714,"src":5715},"spaced-learning-curve-1.png","\u002Fcms\u002Fspaced-learning-curve-1.png","\nOver the past few years Synap has transformed from a B2C into a B2B company. The focus is now on creating a customisable platform for business’ and institutions to use and see visible results. ",[5649,5718,5719],{},"So how has Synap’s LMS successfully been implemented?",[34,5721,5723],{"id":5722},"increasing-freenows-driver-workforce-in-ireland","Increasing FreeNow’s Driver Workforce in Ireland.",[39,5725,5726,5727,5730,5731],{},"FreeNow is one of the ",[5649,5728,5729],{},"leading taxi companies in Europe."," To become a certified driver the trainees must first pass an extensive industry and area knowledge test including roads, street names, landmarks, routes and diversions. With over 18,000 roads in Dublin there’s a lot of information to take in!\n",[594,5732],{"alt":5733,"src":5734},"synap-freenow-customer-story-1.png","\u002Fcms\u002Fsynap-freenow-customer-story-1.png",[170,5736,5738],{"id":5737},"the-challenge","The challenge",[39,5740,5741,5742,5747],{},"With the exam being so demanding, ",[70,5743,5746],{"href":5744,"rel":5745},"https:\u002F\u002Ffree-now.com\u002Fie\u002Fdriver\u002F",[79],"FreeNow"," wanted a platform that would let drivers practice between jobs. They required valuable insights into which drivers were ready for the test and who needed additional help.",[170,5749,5751],{"id":5750},"what-we-did","What we did",[39,5753,5754,5755],{},"We developed a platform alongside FreeNow to create their vision. The FREE NOW Manual is able to embed Google Street view images and Google Maps content into the questions, providing visual context for the drivers preparing for their exam.\nWe also enabled a feedback and flagging system. This allowed for users to raise any questions that they have seen on the test but not yet seen in the manual, maintaining the relevance of the content.\nCustom reports were made for each user based on their results, allowing FreeNow administrators to monitor progress and quickly identify when users were ready to sit the test.\n",[594,5756],{"alt":5757,"src":5758},"freenow-exam-preparation.png","\u002Fcms\u002Ffreenow-exam-preparation.png",[170,5760,5762],{"id":5761},"the-results","The results",[39,5764,5765,5766,5770,5771],{},"The use of our ",[70,5767,5769],{"href":5768},"\u002Fblog\u002Fwhat-is-spaced-learning\u002F","Spaced Learning"," and the ability to track progress has attracted **10,000 users each month.**The use of Synap has also seen the companies first time pass rate increase significantly from ",[672,5772,5773],{},"only 20% to a tremendous 80%",[314,5775,5776],{},[39,5777,5778],{},"If you’re serious about passing the test, the FreeNow Manual is absolutely perfect. It’s easy to use and understand and helps you study with purpose. I failed the exam 3 times and then started using it and passed after a few weeks! It was invaluable. - Tommy, Certified Freenow Driver",[34,5780,5782],{"id":5781},"collaboration-and-custom-diagnostic-tools-scaling-purplebees-business-online","Collaboration and Custom Diagnostic Tools; Scaling PurpleBee's Business Online",[39,5784,5785,5786,5789,5790],{},"PurpleBee are a chain of award-winning nurseries in Cambridge. Linda ",[5649,5787,5788],{},"(CEO of PurpleBee)"," realised the secret to their success was how they trained their staff and the programmes that they offered. They were soon looking for a way to scale their training without losing it's quality.\n",[594,5791],{"alt":5792,"src":5793},"purplebee-ecommerce.png","\u002Fcms\u002Fpurplebee-ecommerce.png",[170,5795,5738],{"id":5796},"the-challenge-1",[39,5798,5799],{},"A key part of PurpleBee’s training methods are customising learning to each individual. For face-to-face training this is easy. You can simply ask the individual what areas they’d like to focus on to set them the relevant assignment. But translating this to an online platform meant we needed a tool that would ask people questions and organise them based on their response.",[170,5801,5751],{"id":5802},"what-we-did-1",[39,5804,5805,5806,5811],{},"To tailor the learning to each individual we created a tool that allows users to self-assess and choose the areas they want to focus on. We built this functionality into the platform to keep the process as seamless as possible for the learner. The end result is a built-in diagnostics tool that sorts users into the right learning paths.\nWe also created an integrated ",[70,5807,5810],{"href":5808,"rel":5809},"https:\u002F\u002Fcourses.purplebeelearning.com\u002Fshop\u002F",[79],"eCommerce store"," allowing PurpleBee to reach a wider market both nationally and internationally. They now sell more of their training online, directly to learners and institutions.",[170,5813,5762],{"id":5814},"the-results-1",[314,5816,5817],{},[39,5818,5819],{},"As a startup company, having Synap as our tech partners has been invaluable in helping us to create an online learning environment that is both innovative and agile. They continue to be incredibly supportive as we continue to develop and grow. - Linda Baston-Pitt, CEO of PurpleBee Learning",[34,5821,5823],{"id":5822},"_30-score-improvements-in-medical-education","30% Score Improvements in Medical Education",[39,5825,5826,5827],{},"Synap has a long-term partnership with Oxford University Press (OUP) and is now also partnered with the Medical Defence Union (MDU). Synap offers professional online learning content to students and doctors from OUP’s famous Clinical Handbooks. As Synap is well established with members of the medical community it was the perfect opportunity to partner and provide medical students and doctors a study platform filled with content from Oxford University Press.\n",[594,5828],{"alt":5829,"src":5830},"mdu-revision-platform.png","\u002Fcms\u002Fmdu-revision-platform.png",[170,5832,5738],{"id":5833},"the-challenge-2",[39,5835,5836],{},"To create an engaging learning platform to help medical students learn more in less time.",[170,5838,5751],{"id":5839},"what-we-did-2",[39,5841,5842,5843,5848],{},"We have worked closely with the MDU to set up the platform. As part of our on-boarding we assisted in creating marketing materials, presentations and attended events to inform students and doctors about the platform.\nUsing custom groups, students and doctors can register through the ",[70,5844,5847],{"href":5845,"rel":5846},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.themdu.com\u002Flearn-and-develop\u002Fsynap",[79],"MDU website."," Their Synap account are generated automatically to reduce friction. Once registered, users are able to access the app through iOS and Android as well as online.\nOur intelligent Spaced Learning algorithm informs users of the topics that require the most improvement. Users receive daily push notifications when their personalised quizzes have been generated to improve those areas. By providing content through a mobile platform, MDU has made revision more accessible and active for their students.",[170,5850,5762],{"id":5851},"the-results-2",[39,5853,5854,5855,5858,5859,5862,5863],{},"**1 in 4 medical students now choose to use Synap and OUP’s handbooks to study for their exams.\nOver ",[672,5856,5857],{},"100 million questions"," have been answered by students and professionals.\nIn an analysis of results from students using Synap in Brighton and Sussex Medical School, we found that users who follow the recommendations of our Spaced Learning algorithm benefited from a ",[672,5860,5861],{},"30% score increase"," That could be the ",[672,5864,5865],{},"difference between a C grade and an A grade.",[314,5867,5868],{},[39,5869,5870],{},"The Synap team have been extraordinarily helpful with every step of the process. They helped with item uploading, engagement data gathering, and even structuring a separate private environment reserved for my students. I know more about how my students, on average, use the excellent system. This is helping us to move forward with both educational best practice and educational research publications. - Harry Witchell, Professor of Physiology.​",[34,5872,5874],{"id":5873},"preparing-law-students-for-the-solicitors-qualifying-exam-with-our-lms","Preparing Law Students for the Solicitors Qualifying Exam with our LMS.",[39,5876,5877,5878,5883],{},"The University of Law is the leading provider of undergraduate legal education in the UK with 10 campuses. They are now using Synap to deliver a new range of blended and ",[70,5879,5882],{"href":5880,"rel":5881},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.law.ac.uk\u002Fabout\u002Fpress-releases\u002Fsynap-partnership\u002F",[79],"fully digitalised courses for the Solicitors Qualifying Exam(SQE).",[594,5884],{"alt":5885,"src":5886},"ulaw-iphone.png","\u002Fcms\u002Fulaw-iphone.png",[170,5888,5738],{"id":5889},"the-challenge-3",[39,5891,5892],{},"By 2021 the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) will have made significant changes to the way in which solicitors will qualify in England and Wales. The introduction of the SQE exams means that every aspiring solicitor will now sit the same test, regardless of how or where they studied.\nULaw have designed a new range of courses to help individuals prepare for the SEQ and wanted an accessible platform that would enable them to deliver at scale. They also wanted a way of enhancing pass rates for the SEQ.",[170,5894,5751],{"id":5895},"what-we-did-3",[39,5897,5898],{},"We started off as a pilot programme for the university to gain feedback on what features students found beneficial. After the pilot we tweaked the platform, taking on board suggestions for improvement from both students and teachers.\nQuestions banks were made easily accessible to students and admins, making sure that images and text formatting were supported. Administrators are able to upload questions in bulk and our built-in flagging system allows for the questions to be updated to maintain accuracy.",[170,5900,5762],{"id":5901},"the-results-3",[39,5903,5904,5905,5908],{},"We have received some extremely positive feedback from students and teachers. Particularly about providing valuable insights into how and when their students revise. The ability to measure progress through learner analytics was also well-received.\nThe figures don’t lie - ",[672,5906,5907],{},"10,000 students across 10 campuses"," are using Synap to prepare for their exams.\nWe have been able to integrate our system seamlessly with the universities existing LMS. It was a necessity that students could use their existing log-on to access their Synap content.",[314,5910,5911],{},[39,5912,5913],{},"The University is delighted to announce Synap as our exclusive partner in providing the online learning platform for the SQE 1 assessment and our new BPC programme. Innovation for the improvement of learning is central to ULaw’s ethos and our students expect the best and latest tools, such as Synap, to enable them to achieve their goals - Professor Andrea Nollent, Vice-Chancellor and CEO at ULaw",[34,5915,5917],{"id":5916},"benefits-of-e-learning-for-training-and-development","Benefits of e-Learning for Training and Development.",[39,5919,5920,5921,5926],{},"It’s not surprising to learn that the e-learning market is projected to reach over ",[70,5922,5925],{"href":5923,"rel":5924},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.strategyr.com\u002Fmarket-report-e-learning-forecasts-global-industry-analysts-inc.asp",[79],"$242.7 Billion by the year 2025."," As you can see from our case-studies there are many reasons for the popularity of online learning increasing…\nScalability, learning more in less time, increasing retention rates and providing accessible resources are all very good reasons you should be using an LMS within your organisation.",{"title":19,"searchDepth":320,"depth":320,"links":5928},[5929,5930,5935,5940,5945,5950],{"id":5685,"depth":320,"text":5686},{"id":5722,"depth":320,"text":5723,"children":5931},[5932,5933,5934],{"id":5737,"depth":331,"text":5738},{"id":5750,"depth":331,"text":5751},{"id":5761,"depth":331,"text":5762},{"id":5781,"depth":320,"text":5782,"children":5936},[5937,5938,5939],{"id":5796,"depth":331,"text":5738},{"id":5802,"depth":331,"text":5751},{"id":5814,"depth":331,"text":5762},{"id":5822,"depth":320,"text":5823,"children":5941},[5942,5943,5944],{"id":5833,"depth":331,"text":5738},{"id":5839,"depth":331,"text":5751},{"id":5851,"depth":331,"text":5762},{"id":5873,"depth":320,"text":5874,"children":5946},[5947,5948,5949],{"id":5889,"depth":331,"text":5738},{"id":5895,"depth":331,"text":5751},{"id":5901,"depth":331,"text":5762},{"id":5916,"depth":320,"text":5917},{"url":5952,"altText":5953,"title":5954},"\u002Fcms\u002Faward-winning-lms.png","Trophy with stars falling out of the top","Award winning LMS",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Faward-winning-lms","2021-07-20T12:00:07.000Z",{"title":5677,"description":5682},"Synap's award-winning assessment platform serves SMEs and institutions. Discover our shift from consumer-focused to business-oriented.","Award-winning assessment for SMEs & institutions - Synap","award-winning-lms","blog\u002Faward-winning-lms","Discover how Synap evolved from a consumer-orientated approach to a business-focused model.",[5965,531,5966],"customer-stories","spaced-repetition","knK0MHUcIBqi1X0DgARUgILf0ZQLvQZwWc4mcrNkRfQ",{"id":5969,"title":5970,"author":23,"body":5971,"description":6172,"extension":340,"headerImage":6173,"highlights":22,"isPublished":345,"meta":6177,"navigation":347,"path":6178,"publishedAt":6179,"readingTime":6180,"seo":6181,"seoDescription":6182,"seoTitle":5970,"slug":6183,"stem":6184,"subtitle":6182,"topicLabels":22,"topics":6185,"__hash__":6187},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fthe-economics-of-learning-and-training.md","The economics of learning and training",{"type":31,"value":5972,"toc":6164},[5973,5986,5990,6005,6009,6041,6070,6074,6101,6105,6108,6122,6126,6153,6155],[39,5974,5975,5976,5981,5982,5985],{},"Investing time and money into learning makes us happier, ",[70,5977,5980],{"href":5978,"rel":5979},"https:\u002F\u002Fsocietyhealth.vcu.edu\u002Fwork\u002Fthe-projects\u002Feducation-it-matters-more-to-health-than-ever-before.html",[79],"healthier",", more productive, and wealthier. It seems like an obvious statement to say that better educated\u002Ftrained individuals are less likely to be unemployed. However, what is often overlooked is as to ",[5649,5983,5984],{},"why"," this is the case. What about education makes you a good worker? How many of us use the things we learned in school or university on a day to day basis? It turns out that these simple questions have more complicated answers. The costs of learning are spread throughout the economy, and technology has lead to disruption throughout the economy",[170,5987,5989],{"id":5988},"learning-trends","Learning trends",[39,5991,5992,5993,5998,5999,6004],{},"There is a huge emphasis on learning from a young age, and with good reason – we find it easier to learn new concepts and skills when we’re younger and or brains are more plastic in nature. Despite the fact that ‘forma’ education becomes optional from 16 in the UK, we’ve seen a steady increase in the number of young adults voluntarily enrolling in further education through college, apprenticeships or university. According to the 2009 ",[70,5994,5997],{"href":5995,"rel":5996},"https:\u002F\u002Fwebarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk\u002F+\u002Fhttp:\u002Fwww.cabinetoffice.gov.uk\u002Fmedia\u002F227102\u002Ffair-access.pdf",[79],"Milburn Report",", a third of UK jobs are now professional jobs and millions more professionals will be required in the marketplace by 2020 due to the economy shifting to being more service-oriented.\nTechnology and globalisation have played another huge part in this shift, with many manual jobs becoming ",[70,6000,6003],{"href":6001,"rel":6002},"https:\u002F\u002Fpublic.tableau.com\u002Fviews\u002FAutomationandUSjobs\u002FTechnicalpotentialforautomation?:embed=y&:loadOrderID=0&:display_count=yes&:showTabs=y",[79],"automated"," in the late 20th century. Similarly, many tasks that weren’t capable of being done by a machine could be easily be exported to foreign countries with lower labour costs. Some experts predicted in the Milburn report that once retirements are taken into consideration, in 2020 we’ll need about 7 million new professionals in employment. Luckily in Britain, it seems as though we will be able to meet this demand as a growing middle class in the ’80s and ’90s recognised this was the way the job market was going and helped to prepare their children mentally and financially for more education.",[170,6006,6008],{"id":6007},"human-capital","Human Capital",[39,6010,6011,6012,6017,6018,6024,6025,6028,6029,6034,6035,6040],{},"Whilst education",[70,6013,6016],{"href":6014,"rel":6015},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.nber.org\u002Fchapters\u002Fc2973.pdf",[79],"isn’t the only factor determining wages",", there is certainly a strong correlation. Intuitively, this makes sense – better trained and higher educated individuals get better jobs which therefore means they get higher wages. However, it’s worth asking the question ‘",[5649,6019,6020,6023],{},[672,6021,6022],{},"Why"," does more education lead to better wages?","‘ The answer can be found in economics and psychology.\nEducation adds to what economists call ",[5649,6026,6027],{},"human capital",", which is the stock of knowledge or characteristics that contribute to an individuals level of productivity. The term human capital was coined by",[70,6030,6033],{"href":6031,"rel":6032},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.nber.org\u002Fchapters\u002Fc3730.pdf",[79],"Gary Becker in 1964."," When we think of capital we tend to think of money in the bank or the value tied up in a house that will provide a source of income in the future, human capital can be thought of as providing a similar function. Investments in human capital today should yield returns in the tomorrow.\nIt is not just education that adds to human capital, but also investments in health and wellbeing and on-the-job training. Becker showed that high school and college education in the United States greatly raised a person’s income even after netting out the direct and indirect costs of schooling and after adjusting for better family backgrounds and higher ability. These findings have continuously been supported by books and other ",[70,6036,6039],{"href":6037,"rel":6038},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.sciencedirect.com\u002Fscience\u002Farticle\u002Fpii\u002FS1053535701001184",[79],"studies"," over the years.\nThere are many other interesting views on what human capital is:",[50,6042,6043,6046,6049],{},[53,6044,6045],{},"Schultz, Nelson and Phelps: Human capital refers to the set of social skills, time management and industriousness needed for anyone to work with other people.",[53,6047,6048],{},"Bowles-Gintis: Human capital is the capacity to adapt and obey orders, to be agreeable and follow the rules of a hierarchical system. Schools are where this process starts.",[53,6050,6051,6052,6057,6058,6063,6064,6069],{},"Spence: Many factors go into the composition of human capital, many of them not observable to the employer especially if they don’t know the person. Observable measures of human capital such as a university degree act as a signal of ability rather than characteristics that are independently useful in the production process.\nOne particularly interesting view of human capital comes from Howard Gardener a clinical psychologist who developed the idea of ",[70,6053,6056],{"href":6054,"rel":6055},"https:\u002F\u002Fpsycnet.apa.org\u002Frecord\u002F1993-97726-000",[79],"multiple intelligences"," and emphasised how many geniuses were very unskilled in some parts of their life yet highly skilled in other parts. According to this idea, we should not view human capital as static and unidimensional but instead as a multidimensional dynamic thing that we can add to and change.\nPiaget’s theory of cognitive development came from observations of children during play. Piaget noted that children are born with a mental structure that provides a platform for future learning and that development is a reorganisation of mental processes (",[70,6059,6062],{"href":6060,"rel":6061},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.cleverism.com\u002Fpiagets-theory\u002F",[79],"Find out more about Piaget’s theory here",") (If you want a better understanding of industriousness, agreeableness, have a look at this ",[70,6065,6068],{"href":6066,"rel":6067},"https:\u002F\u002Funderstandmyself.com\u002F",[79],"5 personality trait tests"," you can do online)",[170,6071,6073],{"id":6072},"building-and-investing-in-skills","Building and Investing in Skills.",[39,6075,6076,6077,6082,6083,6088,6089,6094,6095,6100],{},"Assuming the general idea of how a business works (to minimise costs and maximise profits), it is reasonable to say that at some point the only way to increase productivity is by getting better at certain tasks. 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For example, being very efficient at sewing the hem on a pair of Levi’s, whilst some degree of this skill is transferable it is not something that needs to go on a CV is someone wants to be an accountant.\nWhen it comes down to who makes investments in human capital a good rule of thumb is that the individual makes investments to improve their general skills. While firms make investments in the specific skills of their employees as they are essentially requiring workers to specialise which makes it more difficult for them to find jobs outside of that marketplace in the future. This isn’t a perfect rule, for example, many jobs require a specific degree like Maths yet don’t pay for it. The idea is there are enough jobs in the marketplace to make the investment in such a degree more than worthwhile for the individual.\nIn Germany, some firms offer to pay for apprenticeships for young employees to improve their general skills. On the surface, this may seem like a strange thing for a firm to do as they are voluntarily increasing their costs, and a logical thing for employees to do is stay just long enough to do their training, leave and get a better job. And although of course, some workers do this they tend to be in the minority.\nIn an ",[70,6096,6099],{"href":6097,"rel":6098},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.jstor.org\u002Fstable\u002F10.1086\u002F250071?seq=1\u002F#page_scan_tab_contents",[79],"analysis"," into investments and training Acemoglu and Pischke show that when firms invest in the education of their employees they create a relationship between them, employees in turn consciously or subconsciously assign a monetary value to that which increases the wage that they would be willing to take to move to a new firm.",[170,6102,6104],{"id":6103},"blackboards-to-black-screens","Blackboards to Black Screens",[39,6106,6107],{},"The marketplace for education and jobs have changed so much in the past decade and are set to change even more in the decades to come. There is a movement away from traditional forms of education. 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And if you have a healthy scepticism of such clickbait then there are better sources of evidence that suggest that we are shifting our attention away from books to mobile devices.",[53,6117,6118],{},"Higher levels of productivity required: Thanks to computers we’re automating a lot of time-consuming but relatively easy tasks away, which means a higher level of productivity is expected from people doing more complicated ‘uniquely human‘ tasks that machines aren’t able to do. This requires more training across a broad range of skills, which will need constant updating and redefining as markets change.",[53,6120,6121],{},"Rising expectations: The Deloitte Consumer Review shows that in the past few years there has been an increase in the level of expectations that consumers expect from businesses. through the internet, people have access to a huge amount of information so by the time they; get to a hotel, or ring up for help, go into a shop to buy something the chances are they’ve already done their research and an entry-level amount of knowledge won’t be sufficient to meet the customers demand. 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The next step is to find the best method to deliver this training. Micro training offers a great solution for this.\nMicro training is basically the process of delivering large amounts of content at specific intervals to make learning easier. It follows a very simple but effective logic if I gave you a huge cake to eat and said you have to finish it what would you do? You probably wouldn’t attempt to eat it in one bite, you’d cut a piece off then cut that piece into smaller pieces. If you were being smart you’d have noted that there was no specific deadline so you could have a piece a day for a week. The same logic can be applied to learning: break things up and repeat them. This is the idea behind ",[70,6142,6145],{"href":6143,"rel":6144},"https:\u002F\u002Fblog.synap.ac\u002Fspaced-repetition-what-is-it-and-why-should-students-use-it\u002F#.Wn2u0ZOFiuU",[79],"Spaced Repetition",", which is by no means a new concept but it is an extremely useful learning framework for anyone who needs to learn something new.\nIn 1885 German psychologist Herman Ebbinghaus published the groundbreaking *",[70,6148,6151],{"href":6149,"rel":6150},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\u002Fpmc\u002Farticles\u002FPMC4117135\u002F",[79],"Über das Gedächtnis","*or ‘On Memory’ which is all about the processes of learning and forgetting. Ebbinghaus’ most influential contribution was the Forgetting Curve as shown below.\nThis simple graph illustrates the individual’s rate of retention after learning something if it is re-visited or if it isn’t. If this showed a student studying for an exam and on day 1 they open up their textbook read a chapter and learn a topic. They are happy they’ve learned everything and for a little retention and if they could sit an exam immediately on that chapter they would get it 90%+ correct. In the real world, this is not what happens, we need to learn things today that we get tested on really far into the future (be that an exam or a real-world application).\nAs time goes by our student begins to forget what they have learned, this is shown by following the first curve down and in just a few days they’ve gone from knowing 100% to knowing nothing (this is a very exaggerated example of course). What they could do is wait for their retention to get 10% or so then go back to the books and essentially start again, and keep repeating this process until they know it. However, according to Ebbinghaus and neuroscience, there is a better more effective way. If our student instead revisits the same information way before their retention is too low (80%) then they can mitigate the effects of forgetting and learn things quicker.\nMicro training uses the core principles of Spaced Repetition to become a very useful tool for all types of learning from academic, to corporate. Employees can receive on-the-job training that only takes a few minutes a day and therefore doesn’t impact their daily levels of productivity.",[170,6154,800],{"id":799},[39,6156,6157,6158,6163],{},"Technology has changed the way we: communicate, travel, eat, work, and relax. And while the way we learn has changed it seems like there is more disrupt to happen. I think education and training will be moving out of the classrooms in the next 10 years to become something that is more personalised for each individual’s specific needs. I think there is a huge opportunity for technology to allow us to learn things in a much shorter space of time. If micro training is something you’d like to know more about, or if it is something you think could work for your business then check out ",[70,6159,6162],{"href":6160,"rel":6161},"https:\u002F\u002Fsynaplanding.wpengine.com\u002F",[79],"Synap for Business"," for more information.",{"title":19,"searchDepth":320,"depth":320,"links":6165},[6166,6167,6168,6169,6170,6171],{"id":5988,"depth":331,"text":5989},{"id":6007,"depth":331,"text":6008},{"id":6072,"depth":331,"text":6073},{"id":6103,"depth":331,"text":6104},{"id":6124,"depth":331,"text":6125},{"id":799,"depth":331,"text":800},"Investing time and money into learning makes us happier, healthier, more productive, and wealthier. It seems like an obvious statement to say that better educated\u002Ftrained individuals are less likely to be unemployed. However, what is often overlooked is as to why this is the case. What about education makes you a good worker? How many of us use the things we learned in school or university on a day to day basis? It turns out that these simple questions have more complicated answers. 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Of course, we would have loved to win but we're really pleased with the final result, and that all the hard work put in by our team have been recognised.\nI’d like to extend my congratulations to all our 2021 Runner-Ups. With 149 entries received this year, being named a Runner-Up is a real achievement, and all organisations should feel immensely proud. I’m really excited to see what the next 12 months has in store for them all. - Jason Johnson, Co-Founder of Predatech and British Data Awards judge",{"title":19,"searchDepth":320,"depth":320,"links":6211},[],"We’re delighted to announce that Synap has been named a Runner-Up at the British Data Awards 2021! The British Data Awards is an annual campaign run by Predatech, celebrating the organisations and people that are deeply passionate about data and helps to uncovers data success stories. Participants this year include FTSE 100 giants, tech unicorns, innovative start-ups, large public sector bodies, agile not-for-profits and everything in between.",{"url":6214,"altText":6215,"title":6216},"\u002Fcms\u002Fedtech-bda-runner-up.png","Banner for British Data Awards runner up.","British Data Awards Runner Up",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fsynap-announced-as-runner-up-for-edtech-of-the-year","2021-04-07T12:00:06.000Z","1 min read",{"title":6190,"description":6212},"Synap named Runner-Up for EdTech of the Year at the British Data Awards 2021. 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Investments in human capital today should yield returns in the tomorrow. It is not just education that adds to human capital, but also investments in health and wellbeing and on-the-job training. Becker showed that high school and college education in the United States greatly raised a person’s income even after netting out the direct and indirect costs of schooling and after adjusting for better family backgrounds and higher ability. These findings have continuously been supported by books and other ",[70,6269,6039],{"href":6037,"rel":6270},[79],[50,6272,6273,6275,6277],{},[53,6274,6045],{},[53,6276,6048],{},[53,6278,6051,6279,6282,6283,6063,6286,6069],{},[70,6280,6056],{"href":6054,"rel":6281},[79]," and emphasised how many geniuses were very unskilled in some parts of their life yet highly skilled in other parts. According to this idea, we should not view human capital as static and unidimensional but instead as a multidimensional dynamic thing that we can add to and change. 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Ebbinghaus’ most influential contribution was the Forgetting Curve as shown below.\nThis simple graph illustrates the individual’s rate of retention after learning something if it is re-visited or if it isn’t. If this showed a student studying for an exam and on day 1 they open up their textbook read a chapter and learn a topic. They are happy they’ve learned everything and for a little retention and if they could sit an exam immediately on that chapter they would get it 90%+ correct. In the real world, this is not what happens, we need to learn things today that we get tested on really far into the future (be that an exam or a real-world application). As time goes by our student begins to forget what they have learned, this is shown by following the first curve down and in just a few days they’ve gone from knowing 100% to knowing nothing (this is a very exaggerated example of course). What they could do is wait for their retention to get 10% or so then go back to the books and essentially start again, and keep repeating this process until they know it. However, according to Ebbinghaus and neuroscience, there is a better more effective way. If our student instead revisits the same information way before their retention is too low (80%) then they can mitigate the effects of forgetting and learn things quicker.\nMicro training uses the core principles of Spaced Repetition to become a very useful tool for all types of learning from academic, to corporate. Employees can receive on-the-job training that only takes a few minutes a day and therefore doesn’t impact their daily levels of productivity.",[170,6339,800],{"id":799},[39,6341,6157,6342,6163],{},[70,6343,6162],{"href":6160,"rel":6344},[79],{"title":19,"searchDepth":320,"depth":320,"links":6346},[6347,6348,6349,6350,6351,6352],{"id":5988,"depth":331,"text":5989},{"id":6007,"depth":331,"text":6008},{"id":6072,"depth":331,"text":6073},{"id":6103,"depth":331,"text":6104},{"id":6124,"depth":331,"text":6125},{"id":799,"depth":331,"text":800},{"url":6354,"altText":6355,"title":6356},"\u002Fcms\u002Fwilliam-iven-jrh5laq-mis-unsplash-2048x1360-1.jpg","Paper with charts and a highlighter","Charts and Highlighter on Paper",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fhow-learning-and-training-are-changing","2020-08-24T12:00:57.000Z",{"title":6231,"description":6172},"Discover the evolving learning landscape and technology's transformative role in education.","how-learning-and-training-are-changing","blog\u002Fhow-learning-and-training-are-changing",[6186,6365,5966],"corporate-training","3vRQ6gqQh54qt-KmJb3gSNflEXJFrcN_BxRM4UlHOgQ",{"id":6368,"title":6369,"author":23,"body":6370,"description":19,"extension":340,"headerImage":6421,"highlights":22,"isPublished":345,"meta":6424,"navigation":347,"path":6425,"publishedAt":6426,"readingTime":5667,"seo":6427,"seoDescription":6428,"seoTitle":6369,"slug":6429,"stem":6430,"subtitle":6428,"topicLabels":22,"topics":6431,"__hash__":6432},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fwhat-is-spaced-learning.md","What is Spaced Learning?",{"type":31,"value":6371,"toc":6418},[6372,6375,6378,6383,6386,6390,6397,6401,6404,6408],[34,6373,5769],{"id":6374},"spaced-learning",[39,6376,6377],{},"What is Spaced Repetition, and Why Should Students Use It?\nThroughout their education, however long it lasts, and then on into a working environment, both students and employed professionals are expected to both learn and retain vast quantities of information. This might be easier to source than it would have been for previous generations, but the need to find ways to both learn and retain remains. In fact, in a world with ever more ways of disseminating data, and of sidelining attention, it could be argued that finding workable processes is of increasing importance.",[6379,6380,6382],"h4",{"id":6381},"the-beginnings-of-spaced-repetition-as-a-learningdevice","The beginnings of spaced repetition as a learning device",[39,6384,6385],{},"Over 80 years ago, in his book ‘Psychology of Study’, the British philosopher and industrial psychologist Professor Cecil Alec Mace, who later became President of the British Psychological Society, first offered the idea that spaced repetition could be used to improve learning. About 15 years later, his ideas were tested on more than 3,000 sixth-grade Iowan students by H F Spitzer. 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Such platforms work to intelligently optimise the time spent in revising, allowing students to learn more in the limited time they have available.",[6379,6398,6400],{"id":6399},"the-process-of-spaced-repetition","The process of spaced repetition",[39,6402,6403],{},"The basis of this technique is to allow increasing lengths of time between subsequent reviews of the previously learned material. This makes use of the widely recognised ‘spacing effect’ whereby humans (and many other animals) find it easier to remember items or information when these are studied on a few occasions over a long timespan. The traditional way of repeatedly studying the same content in a much shorter period is shown to be much less effective on a long-term basis. We now know why putting off your studying and then ‘cramming’ until dawn the night before an exam tends not to work!\nThe idea of this spacing effect was identified and published over 130 years ago by the German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus, a recognised pioneer in the study of memory. 50 years or so later, C A Mace moved us onwards. He talked about ‘acts or revision’ which were spaced over gradually increasing time intervals, such as one day, two days, then four, eight and so on.",[6379,6405,6407],{"id":6406},"spaced-repetition-in-a-moderncontext","Spaced repetition in a modern context",[39,6409,6410,6411,6413,6414,6417],{},"We talked about ‘cramming’ earlier. It is typical of a learning process where passive study methods are used. This involves attempts to simply reread and memorise often complicated content. Educational psychologists and cognitive neuroscientists are going to tell you that learning that is both active and challenging is much more likely to deliver effective results.\nThe use of intelligent algorithms in computer-based learning, like those used by ",[70,6412,6395],{"href":5450},", help to create an active learning environment, making use of devices such as multiple choice question formats. The key, when using ideas such as these, is that the algorithms help monitor progress, and can then suggest the ideal time to return to specific sets of questions.\nIn this way, spaced learning is built into a student or working professional’s learning environment. It takes an old and well-proven idea and transforms it into a thoroughly practical modern context. Perhaps we should all listen to the words of Ghandi when he recommended: ‘",[5649,6415,6416],{},"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever","’.",{"title":19,"searchDepth":320,"depth":320,"links":6419},[6420],{"id":6374,"depth":320,"text":5769},{"url":6422,"altText":6423,"title":5769},"\u002Fcms\u002Flukas-blazek-uavyasdkzq8-unsplash-1536x1017.jpg","A person holding a small alarm clock.",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fwhat-is-spaced-learning","2020-02-06T12:00:03.000Z",{"title":6369,"description":19},"Spaced repetition: The smart study technique that boosts memory and mastery through perfectly timed reminders.","what-is-spaced-learning","blog\u002Fwhat-is-spaced-learning",[5966],"yZJsZ_za1WVe5E2C54ZsE2yBwlteInBjsmtho_gREs8",{"id":6434,"title":6435,"author":23,"body":6436,"description":19,"extension":340,"headerImage":6733,"highlights":22,"isPublished":345,"meta":6737,"navigation":347,"path":6738,"publishedAt":6739,"readingTime":6180,"seo":6740,"seoDescription":6741,"seoTitle":6435,"slug":6440,"stem":6742,"subtitle":6743,"topicLabels":22,"topics":6744,"__hash__":6746},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fwhat-is-a-learning-management-system-lms.md","What is a Learning Management System (LMS)?",{"type":31,"value":6437,"toc":6718},[6438,6441,6450,6478,6481,6483,6486,6490,6493,6497,6500,6504,6507,6510,6513,6517,6520,6524,6527,6531,6534,6537,6540,6588,6591,6600,6618,6620,6623,6626,6630,6633,6637,6640,6644,6647,6649,6653,6656,6660,6663,6667,6670,6674,6677,6681,6684,6688,6691,6695,6698,6702,6705,6709,6712,6715],[34,6439,6435],{"id":6440},"what-is-a-learning-management-system-lms",[39,6442,6443,6444,6449],{},"Technology has changed every aspect of our day to day lives. In the past 20 years technology has made our: transportation safer, massively increased consumer choice , connected people all around the world, improved health care availability and affordability and even made smart fridges. Every type of market has been effected and training and education have seen huge rises in the uptake of these technologies. One estimate on the value of the education and training market (EdTech) is to be around ",[70,6445,6448],{"href":6446,"rel":6447},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.forbes.com\u002Fsites\u002Frobynshulman\u002F2018\u002F01\u002F26\u002Fedtech-investments-rise-to-a-historical-9-5-billion-what-your-startup-needs-to-know\u002F#70e66f443a38",[79],"$252m by 2020","!\nThe LMS or Learning Management System has been around for a while, starting off in universities or large institutions who needed to manage and assign many things to students or staff, those original systems were often clunky, not very user friendly and were used because the next best viable alternative would have been to do it all on excel or paper. However in recent years new players have come to the market causing an explosion in competition and forced companies to redesign the humble LMS into something easily accessible to everyone following the  Software as a Service (SaaS) model created by the silicon valley giants. What this means is LMS’s are a now a scalable, cost effective and viable solution for organisations of any size to train their employees.",[50,6451,6452,6455,6457,6460,6463,6466,6469,6472,6475],{},[53,6453,6454],{},"What does a Learning Management System (LMS) do?",[53,6456,2597],{},[53,6458,6459],{},"Management",[53,6461,6462],{},"System",[53,6464,6465],{},"Who is a Learning Management System made for?",[53,6467,6468],{},"Organisations and Businesses",[53,6470,6471],{},"Educational Institutions",[53,6473,6474],{},"Training providers & Individuals",[53,6476,6477],{},"What sort of insights can a Learning Management System give?",[34,6479,6454],{"id":6480},"what-does-a-learning-management-system-lms-do",[170,6482,2597],{"id":3591},[39,6484,6485],{},"Create training content for your teams. There are 3 broad methods for this.",[6379,6487,6489],{"id":6488},"_1-courses","1. Courses",[39,6491,6492],{},"Linear collection of resources that users have to do in a specific order and complete one item to unlock the next one. For example a course could be made up of videos, presentations, quizzes, pdfs, document uploads, etc. Courses are helpful for onboarding new team members and introducing new concepts and with the addition of quizzes a users engagement and interaction with the content can be tracked.",[6379,6494,6496],{"id":6495},"_2-collections","2. Collections",[39,6498,6499],{},"Collection of content where users can self select what they want to look at. Collections work well for recurring training, things that don’t change very often, for example health and safety regulations and core product knowledge.",[6379,6501,6503],{"id":6502},"_3-question-banks","3. Question banks",[39,6505,6506],{},"Collection of multiple choice questions (MCQs) or extended matching questions that can be separated in to topics. Question banks are a really effective way to revise for professional or student exams as they continuously test a users knowledge and clearly show pass or fail on certain topics.",[170,6508,6459],{"id":6509},"management",[39,6511,6512],{},"Groups and hierarchies for managing your teams learning at scale. The ability to group users into departments or cohorts makes organising and setting recurring training easy. A good LMS will let you create custom groups and with certain permissions in order to create a hierarchy of learners and moderators. For example an organisation may have 3 types of users:",[6379,6514,6516],{"id":6515},"_1-admins","1. Admins",[39,6518,6519],{},"People who manage the LMS at scale such as senior mangers, department heads. They want to get an over view of all users and change the interface of the LMS. However they are probably not going to be the ones, assigning courses, and checking up on the end user.",[6379,6521,6523],{"id":6522},"_2-moderators","2. Moderators",[39,6525,6526],{},"People who aren’t going to be making any changes to the LMS but they are going to be engaging with the end user by assigning courses or content and checking any uploaded documents.",[6379,6528,6530],{"id":6529},"_3-learners","3. Learners",[39,6532,6533],{},"The end user of any LMS, these are the people that a good LMS is designed for in order to help them learn and complete training. They shouldn’t be able to make any fundamental changes to the LMS instead they are there to interact with content.",[170,6535,6462],{"id":6536},"system",[39,6538,6539],{},"The ‘System’ part of LMS is a bit of a relic left over from the original LMS’s in the 90s that were these big bits of software that needed to be installed manually and set up within an organisation. Now a days any LMS thats worth having should be online and accessible through any modern browser, that all users access through a username or email and a secure password. Good LMS’s will integrate with your existing websites and offer Single Sign On as an option. Most businesses will be looking for a cloud-based LMS that operates as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). These Cloud Based LMS’s should be the following:",[50,6541,6542,6545,6548,6551,6554,6557,6560,6563,6566,6569,6572,6575],{},[53,6543,6544],{},"Easy to set up",[53,6546,6547],{},"Fast to Load",[53,6549,6550],{},"Secure",[53,6552,6553],{},"Usable on all modern browsers",[53,6555,6556],{},"Full responsive to work on all mobile devices",[53,6558,6559],{},"Intuitive to use",[53,6561,6562],{},"Offer white labelling and customisation\nFor businesses with users in the European Union to follow GDPR compliance services should be located within the EU. 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In a survey conducted internally by ",[70,6613,6616],{"href":6614,"rel":6615},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.surveymonkey.com\u002Fcuriosity\u002Fwhy-employees-crave-more-training-and-how-employers-arent-delivering-it\u002F",[79],"SurveyMonkey"," they found 86% of employees say that on the job training is important to them and 3\u002F4 are willing to learn things outside of work hours. Training employees allows businesses to grow talent internally and boost workplace performance.",[170,6619],{"id":19},[170,6621,6468],{"id":6622},"organisations-and-businesses",[39,6624,6625],{},"LMS can store a businesses training content in ready to go courses that are easy to assign and manage and provide a detail training audits, businesses and organisations can use an LMS in the following ways:",[6379,6627,6629],{"id":6628},"_1employee-onboarding","1.Employee Onboarding",[39,6631,6632],{},"Training material for new employees can be delivered in a meaningful thought out way to introduce new employees to the business culture, policies and protocols. An LMS replaces printing off tonnes of material or putting it all on Google Drive and hoping that people work through it on their own.",[6379,6634,6636],{"id":6635},"_2product-knowledge","2.Product knowledge",[39,6638,6639],{},"In a developing business staying on top of product knowledge is vital for everyone especially a sales team. With an LMS new product knowledge can be learned and existing knowledge refreshed across all branches anywhere in the world. This ensures a standardised learning is being delivered and everyone is getting the same information, users can then refer back to the information at any time and self study products and information",[6379,6641,6643],{"id":6642},"_3-knowledge-retention","3. Knowledge Retention",[39,6645,6646],{},"A Learning Management System is an excellent compliment to face to face training, training days or an online course. Treating the first time that a user learns something as a ‘loading dose’ for learning and then through an LMS reinforcing that training to ensure that information is retained in the long run. This is particularly important in industries that have a high staff turn over and need to train staff quickly. For example call centres, whilst many organisations are large enough to facilitate their own call centres many businesses rely on buying seats at call centres, meaning those staff answering calls don’t actually work for that company. This means that staff need to be onboarded quickly and trained up in the policies and protocols around the company which has bought those seats, and many staff will be answering phones for many different businesses. An LMS means their training is organised and easily accessible.",[6379,6648],{"id":3588},[6379,6650,6652],{"id":6651},"_4-compliance","4. Compliance",[39,6654,6655],{},"Highly regulated industries such as financial, legal and medical must keep up to date with new regulations and be continuously refreshed on old ones. LMSs were used in 2018 to help businesses prepare for the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Financial institutions regulated by the FCA can use an LMS to provide a detailed audit log of training that can be shown to the regulator. Health and safety training can be conducted via an LMS and provide audit logs for health and safety inspectors.",[6379,6657,6659],{"id":6658},"_5-continuous-professional-development","5. Continuous Professional Development",[39,6661,6662],{},"Training extends into softer skills and personal development, this type of training may not provide a simple ‘pass or fail’ for people but is still very important for employees and adds value to their skill sets. An LMS lets people upload documents for a mentor to view as well as chat and book meetings whether they’re online or face to face. Feedback from employees can be collected through an LMS (good LMSs will let you build surveys internally) to inform future training decision and offerings.",[6379,6664,6666],{"id":6665},"_6-push-training","6. Push Training",[39,6668,6669],{},"Today more than ever we are looking at a mobile workforce, people who are away from their desk a lot of the time or people that simply don’t have a desk such as medical professionals. LMSs that are fully responsive or come with associated apps means that training can be done on a mobile, where ever and when ever someone has time. Push training is sending out training that must be done immediately, for example someone working in transportation say with trains, if there is an unexpected snow storm then push notifications and training materials can be sent out to members of the mobile workforce informing them and reminding them of the protocols for such an event.",[170,6671,6673],{"id":6672},"education","Education",[39,6675,6676],{},"Whether it is in schools, colleges, universities or in the workplace everyone has to do exams at some point. Universities and schools have used Learning Management Systems for years to allow students to access an online learning portal and view their assignments, Moodle and Blackboard are both examples of LMSs. As the market has grown specialist LMSs have popped up that cater to different types of learners.",[6379,6678,6680],{"id":6679},"_1-schools","1. Schools",[39,6682,6683],{},"Easy to use, simple LMSs can be used in schools to help students review material at their own pace. Not everyone learns at the same rate, many students need the oppoturnity to go back and review things a few more times, and all students will need to refresh things before exams. With and Learning Management System designed for schools students, parents and teachers can have access to learning and see what areas need to be worked on and what progress has been made.",[6379,6685,6687],{"id":6686},"_2-universities","2. Universities",[39,6689,6690],{},"The majority of Universities will all ready have an institutional wide Learning Management System, but with so many courses being offered different degrees have different requirements. LMSs can be personalised to different topics, for example medicine, law and engineering can benefit from a more question bank based LMS while part time courses and distance learning can benefit from an LMS that offers linear courses, document upload and one to one meetings.",[6379,6692,6694],{"id":6693},"_3-graduate-training","3. Graduate Training",[39,6696,6697],{},"Learning and training doesn’t stop after students graduate, with more and more companies offering graduate training LMSs are becoming an essential tool for businesses to onboard graduates into their first job and for managers to gain insights into which graduates to keep on after the scheme.",[6379,6699,6701],{"id":6700},"_4-professional-exams","4. Professional Exams",[39,6703,6704],{},"Offering the opportunity for employees to gain qualifications gives businesses the opportunity to grow talent internally which is often more cost effective than recruiting, and it increases job satisfaction. Learning Management Systems gives people the organisation and the freedom to study materials and feel confident going into professional exams.",[170,6706,6708],{"id":6707},"training-providers-individuals","Training Providers & Individuals",[39,6710,6711],{},"People who offer training or learning programs whether its face to face or with videos online, can use a Learning Management System to engage with users and scale their business. For example someone who offers coaching for public speaking, may do one day with a client and follow up with emails and a call. But with an LMS they can keep engaging with that user and provide more content for them to work through, which adds a huge amount of value to the service they are offering. Good LMSs will be able to integrate with existing websites to give the user a seamless experience when they transition to the LMS.",[34,6713,6477],{"id":6714},"what-sort-of-insights-can-a-learning-management-system-give",[39,6716,6717],{},"A Learning Management System provides information for admins, moderators and users. Using a System that tracks training and progression means that future training decisions can be data driven. Admins can use an LMS to get an insight into individual users, they can gain detailed reports on engagement, progression and activity levels. Admins can get information on cohorts and groups of users in order to make comparisons across departments or over different time periods. A good LMS provider will help you build customised reports and advise you on the best metrics to use.",{"title":19,"searchDepth":320,"depth":320,"links":6719},[6720,6721,6726,6732],{"id":6440,"depth":320,"text":6435},{"id":6480,"depth":320,"text":6454,"children":6722},[6723,6724,6725],{"id":3591,"depth":331,"text":2597},{"id":6509,"depth":331,"text":6459},{"id":6536,"depth":331,"text":6462},{"id":6590,"depth":320,"text":6465,"children":6727},[6728,6729,6730,6731],{"id":19,"depth":331,"text":19},{"id":6622,"depth":331,"text":6468},{"id":6672,"depth":331,"text":6673},{"id":6707,"depth":331,"text":6708},{"id":6714,"depth":320,"text":6477},{"url":6734,"altText":6735,"title":6736},"\u002Fcms\u002Fmockup-of-a-macbook-pro-on-a-coffee-shop-table-2315-el1-1536x1024.png","Online course video on Synap platform displayed on MacBook on coffee table","Delivering courses on Synap",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fwhat-is-a-learning-management-system-lms","2019-06-18T12:00:59.000Z",{"title":6435,"description":19},"Learn how LMSs streamline, administer, and track online learning activities and resources with Synap's detailed guide on LMS features.","blog\u002Fwhat-is-a-learning-management-system-lms","Learn how LMS's are designed to streamline, administer, and track online learning activities and resources.",[6745],"lms","nusEmGTDsZZ1oeCrp7CjirWwkCIUY3t1TUGnI9On_Fs",{"id":6748,"title":6749,"author":23,"body":6750,"description":6754,"extension":340,"headerImage":7021,"highlights":22,"isPublished":345,"meta":7025,"navigation":347,"path":7026,"publishedAt":7027,"readingTime":6180,"seo":7028,"seoDescription":7029,"seoTitle":6749,"slug":7030,"stem":7031,"subtitle":7029,"topicLabels":22,"topics":22,"__hash__":7032},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Ftop-10-surprising-memory-facts.md","Top 10 surprising memory facts",{"type":31,"value":6751,"toc":7008},[6752,6755,6759,6774,6779,6783,6797,6801,6815,6819,6822,6832,6836,6845,6850,6854,6863,6880,6912,6916,6945,6949,6958,6962,6975,6979,6984,6988],[39,6753,6754],{},"If you’ve ever marched confidently into a room only to forget why you went there in the first place, then you’ll understand that human memory is full of surprises. We seem to forget important information yet remember thousands of mundane details we’ll never need. Why is this the case? Read on for 10 of the strangest and most surprising facts about your memory.",[170,6756,6758],{"id":6757},"_1-there-is-virtually-no-limit-to-the-amount-of-information-you-can-remember","1) There is virtually no limit to the amount of information you can remember",[39,6760,6761,6762,6767,6768,6773],{},"Given how much we seem to forget on a daily basis, it may seem strange but it’s completely true that our brains have an essentially unlimited ‘storage capacity’ for learning. A rough calculation by Paul Reber, Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University suggests that the brain can store ",[70,6763,6766],{"href":6764,"rel":6765},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.scientificamerican.com\u002Farticle\u002Fwhat-is-the-memory-capacity\u002F?page=2",[79],"2.5 PETABYTES"," of data – that’s 2,500,000 Gigabytes, or 300 years worth of TV. So if we have a virtually unlimited storage capacity, why do we still forget so much? That’s a huge topic certainly worthy of it’s own post, but a lot of evidence suggests that we’re more likely to remember something if we make an active effort to understand it, and ",[70,6769,6772],{"href":6770,"rel":6771},"https:\u002F\u002Fblog.synap.ac\u002Fspaced-repetition-what-is-it-and-why-should-students-use-it\u002F",[79],"if we encounter it regularly"," – as this strengthens the connections between neurons in the brain and makes information easier to recall.",[314,6775,6776],{},[39,6777,6778],{},"The human brain consists of about one billion neurons. Each neuron forms about 1,000 connections to other neurons, amounting to more than a trillion connections. Neurons combine so that each one helps with many memories at a time, exponentially increasing the brain’s memory storage capacity to something closer to around 2.5 petabytes – Professor Paul Reber, Northwestern University",[170,6780,6782],{"id":6781},"_2-but-we-can-only-remember-a-handful-of-things-in-our-short-term-memory","2) … But we can only remember a handful of things in our ‘short term’ memory",[39,6784,6785,6786,6791,6792,6796],{},"A large part of the reason we seem to forget so much may well be that, whilst our long term memory is virtually limitless, our short term, or ‘working’ memory has a much, much smaller capacity. The original research into short term memory says we can only remember 5 to 9 pieces of information there at any given time, though more recent experiments suggest it may even be as low as 4! Not convinced? Try it yourself with this ",[70,6787,6790],{"href":6788,"rel":6789},"https:\u002F\u002Fpsychology.about.com\u002Fod\u002Fpsychologyexperiments\u002Ffl\u002FA-Short-Term-Memory-Experiment.htm",[79],"quick experiment","! Study the list of words below for 2 minutes, then (without looking back at them) write down as many words as you can remember.\nThese limits on short term memory explain why ‘cramming’ information just before an exam doesn’t work that well, so one clear strategy to remember more of what you learn is to ",[70,6793,6795],{"href":6770,"rel":6794},[79],"space out your studying"," so that more information moves from your short term to your long term memory.",[170,6798,6800],{"id":6799},"_3-learning-new-things-produces-physical-changes-in-yourbrain-structure","3) Learning new things produces physical changes in your brain structure",[39,6802,6803,6804,6809,6810,475],{},"It’s easy to think of the brain as a ‘magical box’ where your thoughts, memories and emotions are kept, but when it comes down to it, the brain is a part of your body just like the heart and your muscles. As such, ‘exercising’ your brain in specific ways – whether that’s learning a new skill such as a musical instrument or a new language, or simply learning new things from a book – produces physical changes in its structure. Thanks to modern imaging techniques such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), scientists are actually able to visualise these changes before and after ‘learning’ takes place, and have found not only significant increases in activity (measured by blood flow) in specific areas of the brain associated with those activities, but long-lasting structural changes in terms of white and grey matter. The picture to the left demonstrates these changes in the case of video games, but experiments have shown this in a huge variety of endeavours such as ",[70,6805,6808],{"href":6806,"rel":6807},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.science20.com\u002Fnews_articles\u002Fmental_maps_routelearning_changes_brain_tissue-158422",[79],"taxi drivers learning new navigation routes"," and (especially) during ",[70,6811,6814],{"href":6812,"rel":6813},"https:\u002F\u002Fsharpbrains.com\u002Fblog\u002F2008\u002F02\u002F26\u002Fbrain-plasticity-how-learning-changes-your-brain\u002F",[79],"childhood",[170,6816,6818],{"id":6817},"_4-being-able-to-access-information-quickly-ie-on-the-internet-makes-you-less-likely-to-remember-it","4) Being able to access information quickly (i.e. on the Internet) makes you less likely to remember it",[39,6820,6821],{},"It’s great being able to access almost any piece of information in a few seconds, and resources such as Google, Wikipedia and YouTube have clearly been major parts of a revolution in how we find information. But studies suggest there is an interesting flip-side to being able to access information so conveniently: if the brain knows it can just access it again so easily, it’s less likely to bother remembering the information itself!",[314,6823,6824],{},[39,6825,6826,6827,475],{},"We don’t attempt to store information in our own memory to the same degree that we used to, because we know that the internet knows everything… …One could speculate that this extends to personal memories, as constantly looking at the world through the lens of our smartphone camera may result in us trusting our smartphones to store our memories for us. This way, we pay less attention to life itself and become worse at remembering events from our own lives. – Dr. Maria Wimber, University of Birmingham\nThe phenomenon has become known as ‘The Google Effect’, and has become part of an on-going debate as to whether the ",[70,6828,6831],{"href":6829,"rel":6830},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.independent.co.uk\u002Flife-style\u002Fgadgets-and-tech\u002Ffeatures\u002Fgoogle-effect-is-technology-making-us-stupid-10391564.html",[79],"internet is making us stupid",[170,6833,6835],{"id":6834},"_5-we-can-remember-things-that-didnt-even-happen","5) We can remember things that didn’t even happen",[39,6837,6838,6839,6844],{},"As time goes on, it can be difficult to know how accurate our memories of an event are – indeed for many of our childhood memories, it can be hard to know for certain whether we’re remembering the firsthand event itself, or are simply recalling a story as told by our parents and from photos or home videos from the time. But this concept has a far scarier implication which has been studied by psychologists. In an experiment, ",[70,6840,6843],{"href":6841,"rel":6842},"https:\u002F\u002Farstechnica.com\u002Fscience\u002F2015\u002F01\u002Fpeople-can-be-induced-to-remember-crimes-they-never-committed\u002F",[79],"interviewers were able to convince 70% of people they had committed a crime"," when in reality they had not.",[314,6846,6847],{},[39,6848,6849],{},"In these sessions we had some participants recalling incredibly vivid details and re-enacting crimes they never committed – Dr. Julia Shaw, University of Bedfordshire\nThis has huge implications for our legal system, and how eyewitness testimony is used in court and provides another fascinating insight into how our brain actually works.",[170,6851,6853],{"id":6852},"_6-testing-yourself-on-information-is-better-than-simply-rehearsing-or-re-reading-it","6) Testing yourself on information is better than simply rehearsing or re-reading it",[39,6855,6856,6857,6862],{},"The word ‘test’ is probably up there with ‘public speaking’ in terms of it’s ability to absolutely terrify people. No-one likes tests, and even education professionals are arguing that we are ",[70,6858,6861],{"href":6859,"rel":6860},"https:\u002F\u002Fnews.bbc.co.uk\u002F1\u002Fhi\u002Feducation\u002F7396623.stm",[79],"tested too much",", and it’s getting in the way of ‘real’ education. Indeed, there’s an often-cited quote in education circles:",[314,6864,6865],{},[39,6866,6867,6868,6873,6874,6879],{},"You don’t fatten a pig by constantly weighing it\nAnd with the amount of mandatory, national tests students are expected to take today, it’s difficult to argue with. However, research shows that ",[70,6869,6872],{"href":6870,"rel":6871},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.sciencedaily.com\u002Freleases\u002F2011\u002F06\u002F110615171410.htm",[79],"regular, ‘low-stakes’ testing can actually be incredibly beneficial to our learning",". Rather than constantly being spoon-fed the information by re-reading it in the same book, testing forces us to confront gaps in our knowledge and makes the brain work harder to retrieve a piece of information. In doing so, it actually strengthens those neuronal connections and makes it easier to retrieve in future. The brain in this sense is just like a muscle: you need to exercise it to make it stronger.\nFor those interested, there is a great paper titled ‘",[70,6875,6878],{"href":6876,"rel":6877},"https:\u002F\u002Fpsych.wustl.edu\u002Fmemory\u002FRoddy%20article%20PDF",[79],"Ten Benefits of Testing and Their Applications to Educational Practice","‘ which highlights various ways in which regular testing can be helpful to our learning. 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When we try to remember things, we’re exercising our brain and telling it that ‘this piece of information is important, store it somewhere safe and easily accessible!’. This is a key concept behind the ‘spaced repetition’ technique. Spaced repetition is a study technique whereby pieces of information are re-visited at set intervals in order to strengthen the memory of it. The idea is that you re-visit a piece of information when you’ve ",[5649,6920,6921],{},"almost"," forgotten it, thereby bringing it back to the front of your mind. The process is used in a number of systems including ",[70,6924,6927],{"href":6925,"rel":6926},"https:\u002F\u002Fankisrs.net\u002F",[79],"Anki",", ",[70,6930,6933],{"href":6931,"rel":6932},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.supermemo.com\u002F",[79],"SuperMemo"," and (our own app!) ",[70,6936,6395],{"href":6937,"rel":6938},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.synap.ac\u002F",[79],".\nThe ‘forgetting curve’ shows just how quickly we forget information after we’ve learnt it. Regularly reviewing the information through Spaced Repetition can dramatically improve the amount of information we remember\nFor a more in-depth overview of Spaced Repetition, check out our blog post, ‘",[70,6941,6943],{"href":6770,"rel":6942},[79],"What is spaced repetition and why should you use it?","‘.",[170,6946,6948],{"id":6947},"_8-memories-start-forming-in-the-womb-as-early-as-4-months-into-a-pregnancy","8) Memories start forming in the womb – as early as 4 months into a pregnancy!",[39,6950,6951,6952,6957],{},"Known as prenatal or foetal memory, experiments have shown that foetuses can in fact",[70,6953,6956],{"href":6954,"rel":6955},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.scientificamerican.com\u002Farticle\u002Frecall-in-utero\u002F",[79],"remember sounds that are played to them",", supporting many anecdotal claims by mothers that their newly-born children are calmed by certain sounds playing in their environment. In fact, scientists now believe that prenatal memory is crucial in the development of attachment for an infant to it’s mother.",[170,6959,6961],{"id":6960},"_9-there-is-no-single-placewhere-a-given-memory-lives-in-the-brain-its-scattered-across-many-different-regions","9) There is no single place where a given memory lives in the brain; it’s scattered across many different regions",[39,6963,6964,6965,6968,6969,6974],{},"Living in The Internet Age, it’s easy to think of our brains as a kind of digital recorder for information which we can turn on and off when we’re reading, listening or watching something. The implied conclusion of this analogy is that the information is stored and packaged neatly in a ‘file’ somewhere in our mind which can then be accessed in the future. Unfortunately, human memory doesn’t work like that. Our brains are not like a video camera – information comes in from the world and is processed in parallel by a variety of different structures which converge and diverge from each other in a myriad of different ways. Our ‘memory’ of something is not a discrete file which can be identified, but a complex mosaic produced by different parts of our brain working in tandem.\nThe brain is an interconnected series of pathways which converge and diverge from each other at many different points",[1630,6966,6967],{},"\u002Fcaption","This is especially true for new memories, where different ‘types’ of information related to the memory are stored in the area of the brain they first arose in – so visual information resides in one area, auditory in another, familiar names go to another and so on. There is a process of ",[70,6970,6973],{"href":6971,"rel":6972},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.human-memory.net\u002Fprocesses_consolidation.html",[79],"consolidation"," which is crucial in forming long term memories where a memory is condensed and packaged into a more dedicated set of neurones in the brain, though this takes time to develop.",[170,6976,6978],{"id":6977},"_10-emotional-intensity-prioritises-how-memories-are-stored","10) Emotional intensity prioritises how memories are stored",[314,6980,6981],{},[39,6982,6983],{},"Emotionally charged events are better remembered – for longer, and with more accuracy – than neutral events –  Dr. John Medina, Brain Rules\nThe brain processes a huge amount of data every day, so clearly it needs some kind of ‘triage’ system for determining what is important stuff that needs to be remembered, and what can be erased from our memory. One obviously good way of doing this is to prioritise information by it’s emotional intensity. Clearly, things we have a strong emotional reaction to are likely to be more important than ones we barely notice. Whilst there is no precise definition of what constitutes an ’emotional event’, scientifically, one strong correlation is the release of a chemical called Dopamine into the brain. Dr. Medina describes dopamine as being a post-it note for the brain saying ‘REMEMBER THIS!’ and attaching itself to a specific memory. If we are learning in a way that engages us, emotionally, then we are more likely to remember it. This is related to how we can relate the information being processed to our own lives – so if we understand the importance of something, rather than simply trying to memorise a list of facts, then the information will be stored better and for longer.",[170,6985,6987],{"id":6986},"bottom-line","Bottom Line",[39,6989,6990,6991,6928,6996,7001,7002,7007],{},"Your brain is complicated, fascinating and weird. The facts above are really just the tip of the iceberg, and if you found them interesting I’d highly recommend subscribing to our mailing list for more posts like this, and checking out other great neuroscience and memory blogs such as ",[70,6992,6995],{"href":6993,"rel":6994},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.iflscience.com\u002Fbrain",[79],"IFLScience",[70,6997,7000],{"href":6998,"rel":6999},"https:\u002F\u002Fappliedneuroscienceblog.com\u002F",[79],"The Applied Neuroscience Blog"," and ",[70,7003,7006],{"href":7004,"rel":7005},"https:\u002F\u002Fpsychology.about.com\u002Fod\u002Fmemory\u002F",[79],"About.com’s section on Cognitive Psychology",". What do you think, are there any cool ‘brain facts’ you know that weren’t featured here? 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