Zero Grading!

We have created a method for teaching logic that allows you to set your homework as automatically graded quizzes in your school's learning management system (LMS), whether it is Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard or other.

That means that there is literally no grading, not even dealing with grade reports to transfer into your LMS grade book!

Doesn't creating LMS quizzes take time?

No! It took us time to develop them originally, but you don't have to do any of that. We have fully built quizzes for every LMS.

If you use Canvas: we have uploaded a full version of problem sets and exams to the Canvas Creative Commons, which you can import into your course with the click of a button.

If  you use Moodle or Blackboard: we have the quizzes built in your LMS's syntax. With a minute of copy and pasting you are done; or you can create question banks by uploading our CSV files.

After you've used our textbook once, you can automatically transfer your quizzes to your next course. Then you can make whatever modifications you'd like so that your problem sets are slightly different every semester. The ability to easily modify the homework to combat cheating is an additional benefit of LMS quizzes.

Switching to our LMS quiz approach is quite easy, and after you try it, you'll see how fantastic this solution is to eliminating grading!

Back-End Access to Student Progress

Even though standard homework problem sets are done in your LMS, there are still several ways you can use the textbook for student assessment if you wish.

When students purchase the textbook, they are automatically placed in your group on our website. That allows you to run reports (downloadable as CSV) on students' progress in the textbook, amount of time they have spent on the site, etc. Our system quantifies student progress for you, if you wish to use it for an assignment or extra credit.

The textbook also includes an annotation/note-taking feature, that allows students to take notes on each section of the text. In your instructor dashboard you have access to all of your students' notes. Instructors can use this interactivity in many ways. For example, you can have your students write "help" in sections that they need the most help with, and by running a search in your dashboard you can see exactly which sections, and how many students, need the most help on them.

Alternatively, you could arrange so that students can also see each others notes, which allows you to use notes as a group-annotation tool! We also have a second tool you can use for peer learning: we can enable discussion board threads right in the textbook for just your students, which allows them to ask and answer questions for each other.

How much time you spend interacting with students in the textbook, though, is completely up to you and your time constraints. With no time wasted on grading, you can use your time for teaching instead!