Automated Tracking

Tracking progress automatically and individually is no problem for StudyTag. Even though we are early in development it is already exciting to see how StudyTag is endlessly patient with me on the facts I tended to forget (such as who was the 13th President of the United States).

In order to create a custom learn experience for members StudyTage remembers how many times each member is asked each question, how many times they got the answer right, and what is the learning trend. The goal if for StudyTag to focus the students' energy on learning the things they really didn’t know rather than endlessly reviewing the facts they do know.

Oh, and the fun part is. You get a trophy to show off what you have learned!

Non-judgmental Learning

StudyTag helps us learn the facts we want to know, quizzes us on these facts, and learns how well we know them. In doing this StudyTag is non-judgmental. It doesn't care if the student doesn't initially know the facts they want to learn. It doesn't care if it takes the student 1 exposure to the material or 100. The system doesn't judge the student. Rather StudyTag simply tracks progress and displays tangible evidence of achievements made.

I say this for parents and teachers so don't judge the students either. As long as the student is spending the few minutes a day StudyTag requires for memory work please try not to judge the student. Some students will learn the facts really fast, and others really slow. The beauty of StudyTag is that each student can learn at a pace that is appropriate for them. As long as they are putting in the time don't judge, simply encourage!

Pre-Alpha Hosted

Our pre-alpha release is live. There are still multiple features to add before we complete the alpha release, but they should be complete this January and we wanted to start getting feedback from friends and family now. If you are part of this pre-alpha party then send me a note and I'll invite you to the Public Content group where you can see some of the examples I'll be talking about in these entries.

The best way to being is to take a lesson and create a lesson, or at least author a few facts. I'll describe a few features about the question editor.

We don't actually write questions in StudyTag, rather we write simple statements of facts that StudyTag can automatically turn into multiple different question types (True/False, Multiple Choice, Fill In the Blank). So, in StudyTag, write facts not questions. For example:

"George Washington was born in the colony of Virginia."

Is a simple statement of fact. To use StudyTag's automated generate a question capability carefully select the text Virginia with the following tags '[var]Virginia[/var]' Virginia is now marked as the variable in this question.

Based on the text selected as a variable, you next need to select foils. Foils is text that we replace your variable with to create a False statement. Foils for the above statement may be:

Maryland, New York, North Carolina

Write them in the foils section separated by a comma. Lastly you can add additional acceptable answers.

Acceptable Answers are other answers that we will also accept. If you had a statement of fact that "In 1775 there were thirteen American colonies" and "thirteen" was the variable and acceptable answer would be "13". If you had a statement "John Quincy Adams was the sixth president of the United States" and "John Quincy Adams" was the variable and acceptable answer may be "John Adams", "John Q. Adams", and "John Q Adams".

Currently in StudyTag, if you spell an answer wrong, your answer is wrong. We could change that, but should we?