So, you’ve bought your school subscription. Now here is our Teacher’s Guide to using Cogito Education. Here, we’re going to show you how to:
Set tutorials as homework
Use and re-use our quizzes
Check student progress
Cogito Education is a fantastic resource for reducing teacher load and simultaneously improving student outcomes. Let’s see how that can work:
Using Cogito Education as homework
As a teacher myself, I know that finding the appropriate homework each week is hard. At Cogito Education, our ever-growing set of resources means that there is always something of the highest quality to set.
Simply direct your students to a specific course, which they can access from home.
The benefits of using Cogito Education for homework are:
- Student-level assignments
- Subject and syllabus specific
- Easy to direct students to
- Each tutorial is short (10-15 minutes + a quiz)
You can also check their progress through our progress tracker, which you alone have access to. You can view an individual’s progress, or the group’s progress on a specific quiz. Talking of quizzes…
Using Cogito Education’s quizzes
It’s important for teachers to be able to check comprehension quickly and easily. This is why we’ve built quizzes into each and every tutorial.
For students, actively engaging in a recall tasks allows them to cement recently acquired knowledge. Before being able to complete any tutorial, they must achieve 80% in their quizzes.
At the end of each tutorial course (collection of tutorials), there is a final quiz. This questions students about the whole of their course, requiring a greater act of memory. You can ask students to take and retake these final tutorials at different points in your teaching so that memory is routinely reinforced.
The benefits of using Cogito Education’s quizzes are:
- Improve student comprehension
- Improve student recall
- Reduced teacher load (auto-marked)
- Reduced teacher load (automatically attached to each tutorial)
You can then see each quiz a student has sat, and how they’ve done in our student progress tracker…
Using Cogito Education to track student progress
As a teacher, you can get real-time information on a whole range of student performances including:
- Tutorials completed
- Scores in tests
- When tests were taken
This level of tracking allows you to have complete scores for student charts, and track when they have not completed a particular assignment. You can also us the group management function to email your students (or a particular group of students who have, for instance, not completed a specific tutorial).
Track student progress
Email specific groups
The benefits of this system are:
- Easily track student data
- Marks ready for charts
- Email students who are behind
Using Cogito Education will transform your teaching – it is your A-level RS teaching solution. It reduces teacher load, improves student performance, and allows you to focus on what you got into the profession for: Teaching.
