Author: Flocabulary Team

Last week, we rolled out some brand new features on our site. We’re really excited about how these updates will not only help teachers to check student comprehension but also to use Flocabulary for planning, differentiation and intervention in the classroom. Our new online assessments offer students a more interactive experience, allowing them to demonstrate what they learned from our videos and activities. And with these student features, we’ve created some great new assigning and reporting tools for teachers, too! Explore our new features and what they’ll bring to your classroom below: Check comprehension with a quiz Now, in addition…

Brooklyn, N.Y., July 21, 2015 – Today Flocabulary announced the launch of a new suite of features to help teachers, schools and districts assess student knowledge and diagnose needs for differentiation and intervention. In addition to the educational hip-hop videos and interactive activities Flocabulary is known for, each instructional unit now features an auto-graded formative assessment for students. Updated features include a new dashboard for teachers to assign units and analyze student results to inform their instruction. "Teachers have enjoyed using Flocabulary’s videos and activities to engage students and supplement instruction across the curriculum," says Flocabulary co-founder and CEO Alex…

Here at Flocab HQ, we’ve been thinking a lot about the news topics that seem to come up week to week. For every Week in Rap video we release, we try to make sure to give you a quick summary of a bunch of major headlines - and sometimes, we don’t have time to dive deep into the larger, important issues (we’re working with a two-minute rap video, you know?!). That’s why we’ve decided to kick off a new type of video - the Week in Rap Extra. With this series, we’re providing a more in-depth resource to help explain…