January 2021

Real Time Analytics 

Happy New Year to our Methodmaths Community. We hope you are safe and well in these challenging times. Following the recent news that GCSE exams have been cancelled for 2021, it is likely that we will be returning to Teacher Assessed grades. It is also likely that teachers will need to build an evidence base for each of their pupils. Methodmaths is perfect for this. Not only can you conduct real practice exams on our website, you can also generate accurate summative grades for each test. 

Over the Christmas period, the Methodmaths team have been busy building a summative analytics tool that easily extracts both engagement data, raw mark progress over different time periods and a set of grades for all test papers completed. This is live and will update in real time. To access the reports which can be downloaded as either pdfs or excel files, you will now notice a new button on your teacher dashboard. 

Test Titles 

You may have noticed that we have changed all of the test titles at the start of the year. We appreciate that this may cause some initial inconvenience but the new numbering system is the outcome of consistent feedback from schools that they wanted the test series 'cloaked' to make it slightly more difficult for students to look up the solutions on you tube. We have left it to the last minute so that pupils could still complete any homework you may have set over the holidays. Each test has a unique number so it should make it easier to direct pupils to a specific test going forward. 

There is a mapping document for staff in the GDrive resource folder. 

More tests will be arriving very soon on your dashboard which you will be able to access by scrolling down the menu.