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  • Make key information stick in your long-term memory using methods that have been proven to work.
  • Change the level of difficulty to suit you.
  • Sites have been created by teachers so you can trust the content.

Get started straightaway by clicking on a subject or searching for the unit or topic you want.

Look out for the Help icon on each page

Good luck revising!

  • Easily set up your own (free) revision site or direct your students to one already here.
  • Help them store information in their long-term memory using proven methods of retrieval practice.
  • Information pages and quizzes can be differentiated so that all students are appropriately challenged.
  • Make interactive gap-fills that change each time they are completed.
  • See how your students are doing (verification needed).
  • Sites have been created by teachers so you can trust the content.

If you have set up a teacher account, once you have verified your email (check junk / MS Office quarantine) you will see a button on the top of the homepage to "Edit My Site".

Look out for the Help icon on each page

Any problems, see the Contact Us link at the bottom of the page.

A site is usually set up for one teacher, subject department or school. A site is made up of different units. A unit would be a GCSE module or a course - e.g. Y9 History. Each unit is divided up into topics - e.g. Women's Rights, WWI, Rise of Dictators.

Each topic can have its own pages providing key information. A unit may also have Short Answer Quizzes. Here you can choose to test yourself through multiple choice questions. Better for securing knowledge in your long-term memory is to type answers in Text mode. Intelligent quizzing tests you more frequently on the questions you are less secure on.

Your scores are stored for each keyword on gap fills and for each Quiz question. This lets you quickly see how much progress you are making.

You are awarded bananas for each correct answer (one for each multiple choice and two for each key word or typed quiz answer). You can't eat them, but they will help you move up the leaderboard.

The amount of information in a course can be overwhelming for many learners. Teachers are encouraged to create sites with information in different levels of detail:

  • Essential: the key info that everyone should try to unnderstand and remember.
  • Core: the standard information for most students on the course.
  • Challenge: extra detail or complexity.

Start with essential, then build up as your confidence grows.

Edit Unit

It's easy to get started and hopefully the site is quite intuitive. Decide what your first unit will be - e.g. a GCSE module or a major theme - and create this on the Edit Site page. Then divide this into topics on the Edit Unit page and create your pages:

Edit Page

These are revision pages with information to explain the main ideas. Try to keep this brief. The site is much more useful if you can write text at 3 different levels for each page (Essential, Core and Challenge).

Make each page interactive by selecting Key Words - double click on each word to select or de-select (you need a mouse; touch screens not supported yet, but it's on the list). Try to choose quite a few for each page. When the student turns on 'Gap Fill' mode, the site will select gaps from the keywords you have chosen: 3 for Essential, 5 for Core and 7 for Challenge. This is a key feature which really tests understanding. Many gap fills online are static - after they have been completed once, there is less point in repeating them. You can click and drag to select a short phrase.

Another feature is Alternative Answers. Click the 'Edit Alt Answers' button (Edit Page) and here you can add in as many correct answers for each gap as you wish. E.g. if the key word is 'attacked' you might also allow 'invaded' or if the answer is a number, you might want to allow both the digits and the word. This will help to keep learners engaged as it reduces the frustration of giving an acceptable answer but the site marking it wrong. To speed things up, the site will Suggest Alt Answers from ones currently in the database. Hopefully we will expand and improve this. Answers are NOT case sensitive.

Edit Quiz

Students really enjoy the short answer quizzes. Make sure that you've created at least one topic for your unit before making a quiz. For each question you need:

  • to assign a topic and a difficultly level.
  • the question.
  • the correct answer.
  • at least 3 wrong answers, separated by a semi-colon. If you have more, it will choose a selection each time.
  • as many alternative correct answers as you want (again, separated by semi-colons). These really improve the learners' experience. Answers are NOT case sensitive and punctuation and 'the' are ignored.