09 January 2019The Texthelp Team
The final destination of the Texthelp World Tour 2019 is the TCEA 2019 Convention and Exposition, taking place in San Antonio, Texas from February 4 - 7. If you’re planning on attending and want to learn more about Texthelp, our products, or even what sessions we’d recommend attending, here is a helpful guide to everything that’s going on at #TCEA19!
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08 January 2019Ruth Scott
ATIA 2019 is just around the corner so that means Florida is the next stop on the Texthelp World Tour 2019. If you're planning on attending and want to learn more about Texthelp or our products, here is a helpful guide to all of our activities that are going on at #ATIA19.
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07 January 2019The Texthelp Team
It’s very nearly that time again as the Texthelp world tour brings us ever closer to Florida for FETC 2019! Taking place from January 27 - 30, FETC is packed full of cutting edge tech, as well as future-facing seminars and talks from seasoned educators to CEOs. If you’re heading along and want to learn more about Texthelp, our products, or what to check out during the conference, here’s a guide you can use as a helpful itinerary for your visit!
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06 January 2019The Texthelp Team
If you’re planning on attending BETT and want to learn more about Texthelp or our products, here is a helpful guide to all of the Texthelp activities.
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04 January 2019Jason Carroll, Global Product Manager
WriQ® is Texthelp’s newest Google Chrome extension designed to help teachers assess student writing in Google Docs.
While the extension is new, WriQ itself has been around for over 2 years as an Add-on for Google Docs. Thanks to feedback from thousands of users, WriQ has been completely re-written as a Google extension to provide more flexibility, features, and a better experience for users.
Something new to the WriQ extension that was not part of the Add-on is the WriQ score. The WriQ score is meant to provide a meaningful number to help teachers know how well their students are writing by taking into account several useful metrics along with a national norms comparison.
Keep reading to learn how the score is calculated…
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19 December 2018Kathleen Colburn
Read&Write for Windows offers useful tools to support students in their daily reading, writing and studying, helping them to be more independent and productive learners. However when it comes to taking exams, rules and regulations often restrict the use of many of those tools. That’s why we have introduced a new Exam Mode feature in Read&Write for Windows, which allows for the toolbar to be restricted to just those features approved for exams. It can be easily configured for a handful of students or even an entire network of computers. So students can continue to use approved Read&Write features when taking exams, and schools and colleges can meet exam requirements.
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