ScootPad App is now available to Students, Teachers and Parents on all Kindle Fire devices (Kindle Fire 1st generation, Kindle Fire 2nd Generation, Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Fire HD 8.9). Download the free ScootPad app for your Kindle device here or visit our mobile page and click the Kindle icon.
Posted by scootpad on March 31, 2013
http://blog.scootpad.com/2013/03/31/scootpad-app-now-on-any-kindle-fire-tablet/
We’re excited to release these new and improved Common Core Standards based Reports.
Proficiency By Standard
ScootPad makes it easy to visualize student proficiency relative to the common core standards. Assess your classroom and individual student proficiency in real-time.
Standards based Progress Reports
Review & share with parents what students have mastered relative to the common core standards. Parents also get real-time access to the progress report.
Thank you all for your feedback and suggestions. Should you have any questions or feedback, do not hesitate to contact us.
Love,
ScootPad Team!
Posted by scootpad on March 21, 2013
http://blog.scootpad.com/2013/03/21/common-core-reports-standards-based-proficiency-progress-report/
We’re excited to release this new classroom setting using which teachers can restrict/lock ScootPad features for all students or each individual student. For example, teachers can lock access to shoutouts for all students during school hours (up to 6 hours). Teachers can unlock a feature for certain students while locking it for the rest of the students.
Select a Class/Group from your dashboard, click “Class Settings” and scroll down to the section where you can change the “Student Access Settings” as shown below:
Lock a feature: For all students or specific students?
Lock a feature at the classroom level (Classroom Setting) for all students. To lock/unlock for specific students, change settings for each student individually.
This advanced setting is only available to classrooms with Premium / Premium Free Subscription.
Thank you all for your feedback and suggestions. Should you have any questions or feedback, do not hesitate to contact us.
Love,
ScootPad Team!
Posted by scootpad on March 13, 2013
http://blog.scootpad.com/2013/03/13/restrictlock-student-access-to-features/
We are excited to announce the latest ScootPad platform updates! These updates will further engage students and encourage friendly competition.
Avatars, Friends & Shoutouts for Basic/Free Student Accounts
Students with the Basic/Free subscriptions can now choose from a limited set of avatars. Also, students with Basic/Free subscription can now add one friend and send one shoutout per day. Upgrading to Silver subscription, gives students over 350 avatars, unlimited friends and unlimited shoutouts.
Student Achievements
Student achievement dashboard showcases intrinsic rewards (badges, unit graduation, leaderboard rank etc.) and encourages them as they progress through their learning path.
Improved Class Wall Layout
New Friend Feed (For Students)
Thank you all for your feedback and suggestions. Should you have any questions or feedback, do not hesitate to contact us.
Love,
ScootPad Team!
Posted by scootpad on March 10, 2013
http://blog.scootpad.com/2013/03/10/scootpad-updates-10th-march-2013/
Uppsala, Sweden, Mountain View, CA – February 21 2013 - ScootPad, the leading online learning platform for elementary grades and ReadSpeaker®, the leading online text-to-speech service, have teamed up to enable “voice/read-aloud” support for students on ScootPad.
ReadSpeaker’s “click & listen” feature enables all K-5 students using ScootPad’s platform to instantaneously listen to the math and reading practice questions & answers. Hearing the questions, and having each word (and/or sentence) visually highlighted at the same time, helps students improve word recognition skills and vocabulary, as well as improved reading comprehension, fluency, accuracy, and concentration.
ReadSpeaker makes online educational content more accessible to students with cognitive issues, learning difficulties, and/or vision problems. ReadSpeaker’s online text-to-speech solutions also help students who use English as a second language. Additionally, it provides multitasking opportunities for learners and portability of content to other devices, such as smartphones and tablets.
“We’re excited to partner with ReadSpeaker to seamlessly enable voice support on ScootPad across any device. The read-aloud feature has been valuable in enhancing vocabulary and comprehension for students in lower grades (K & 1st), English Language Learners (ELL) and those with special education needs.” said Bharat Kumar, ScootPad Cofounder & CEO.
“We are thrilled to be part of ScootPad’s growing platform. Adding text-to-speech capabilities to ScootPad’s math and reading lessons helps all of their K-5 students better understand, perform and succeed. The ReadSpeaker audio and highlighting features that ScootPad now offers, brings a new, useful and fun approach to learning,” said Joop Heijenrath, ReadSpeaker Cofounder and responsible for ReadSpeaker’s business operations.
Posted by scootpad on March 6, 2013
http://blog.scootpad.com/2013/03/06/scootpad-integrates-readspeakers-leading-text-to-speech-technology-into-its-learning-platform/
ScootPad’s 30-day free subscription allows you to test drive the premium features for 30 days and helps you decide to either upgrade or continue with the basic/free subscription. We are excited and encouraged to see an overwhelming rate of adoption of these premium features by teachers, students and parents. Thousands of teachers and parents have pro-actively started to upgrade so they can continue to enjoy these premium features with no disruption to student learning.
A BIG THANK YOU to all those who already upgraded! Your upgrade helps us continue to make ScootPad better and support millions of students learn for free!
Teachers: 30-day free Classroom Premium Subscription ending?
If you would like to continue your classroom’s premium subscription, we strongly recommend you to upgrade before your 30-day free trial ends. If your classroom’s 30-day free trial ended or you decided not to upgrade, your classroom will automatically switch to “Basic/Free” subscription. Using the Basic/Free subscription, you and your students can continue to use ScootPad and enjoy the free basic features. No data will be lost or erased. When you upgrade your classroom subscription in the future, all the premium features and data will be available for your classroom and students. For more questions and answers about the premium subscription, please review the FAQs on Teacher Help Center.
Note: Classroom premium subscription does NOT include the premium (a.k.a. silver) features for students such as avatars, learning games, friends, shoutouts etc. Parents can optionally upgrade their kid’s account to Silver Subscription to enable these additional features to further engage and enhance learning for their kids. Using the basic/free subscription alone, students can access and complete all teacher assigned premium practices and assignments.
Parents: 30-day free Student Silver Subscription ending?
Student Premium Subscription has been renamed as Silver Subscription to avoid confusion with the Classroom Premium Subscription. We hope you and your kids enjoyed the features available during the 30-day free trial of the silver subscription. If you would like to continue enjoying these features, we strongly recommend you to upgrade your child’s account to silver subscription before the 30-day free trial ends. If your child’s silver subscription ended or you decided not to upgrade, your child’s account will automatically switch to “Basic/Free” subscription. Using the Basic/Free subscription, you and your child can continue to use ScootPad and enjoy the free basic features available for you and your child. For more questions and answers about the silver subscription, please review the FAQs on Parent Help Center.
Please do not hesitate to call us on our toll free subscription hotline: (888) 666 . 3106 – we are standing by to clarify any additional questions you may have regarding subscriptions and pricing. As always, we welcome your suggestions and feedback to make ScootPad even better!
ScootPad Team!
Posted by scootpad on March 4, 2013
http://blog.scootpad.com/2013/03/04/30-day-free-subscription-ending/
Over the past 3 weeks, since we launched ScootPad Premium, we had a number of teachers and parents ask us questions about the Premium subscription and how they could leverage the new premium features for their classrooms & students. Today, we wanted to share these questions and answers with all of you and help you get the most out of our premium features.
We hope these answers help clarify any questions you may have. Please do not hesitate to reach us on our toll free premium hotline: (888) 666 . 3106 where we are standing by to clarify any additional questions you may have with regards to premium subscriptions and pricing. As always, we welcome your suggestions and feedback to make ScootPad even better!
ScootPad Team!
Posted by scootpad on February 25, 2013
http://blog.scootpad.com/2013/02/25/premium-subscription-questions-answers/
We’re excited to announce the availability of our Kindle optimized ScootPad App. All ScootPad features can be accessed by Students, Teachers and Parents using our ScootPad app on the Kindle device. Download the free ScootPad app for your Kindle device here or visit our mobile page and click the Kindle icon.
Posted by scootpad on February 25, 2013
http://blog.scootpad.com/2013/02/25/kindle-scootpad-app-launched/
Mountain View, CA – Feb 18, 2013 - ScootPad, the leading online learning platform for elementary grades, today announced $600k in seed funding to accelerate product innovation and support hyper-growth.
This seed round is led by 3 silicon valley based business executives & angel investors:
ScootPad recently announced crossing the 1 million user milestone within 6 months of launch – making it one of the world’s fastest-growing education technology companies. ScootPad also released its Premium edition recently to enable deeper personalization and greater student engagement.
“Education is overdue for a major digital disruption and ScootPad is at the forefront of this revolution,” said Brad Buss. “I am excited to stand behind the ScootPad management team as they continue to innovate and shape the future of education.”
“ScootPad’s rapid adoption and overwhelming positive user feedback is a testament to the value and need for such a breakthrough application,” stated Michael Tate. “I am excited to be involved with such a strong management team to help bring this important and needed educational tool to the market. The ScootPad platform is truly revolutionary where it both simplifies and improves the educational process while also lowering the total cost of education.”
“We’re honored to work with such high caliber investors & advisors as we embark on our next major growth phase” said Bharat Kumar & Maya Gadde, ScootPad’s Co-Founders. “We’re just getting started! In the coming months, stay tuned for groundbreaking features that will lead classrooms into a new era of learning!”
Posted by scootpad on February 19, 2013
http://blog.scootpad.com/2013/02/19/scootpad-closes-600k-seed-funding/
| 1 million |
34 million |
6 million |
$1.7 million |
1,000+ |
| Total Users | Minutes of Student Learning | Minutes of Time Saved for Teachers | Cost Savings for Schools | Trees Saved for Green Earth |
Today we are pleased to announce that ScootPad has reached a new milestone – we now have over 1 million users! We are also thrilled to be the fastest growing edtech company to have crossed the 1 million user milestone within 6 months of launch!
ScootPad has also gotten a complete makeover! New and improved ScootPad is simpler, cleaner, faster and much easier to use. A ton of Premium features are now available to enhance student engagement, differentiate for each student, assess learning needs in real-time and improve teacher-student-parent collaboration.
“A big thanks to all the educators who embraced ScootPad as the go-to learning tool in their classrooms. We’re honored and proud to be part of your classrooms.” said Bharat Kumar & Maya Gadde, ScootPad Co-Founders. “We’re just getting started! In the coming months, stay tuned for groundbreaking features that will lead classrooms into a new era of learning!”.
Posted by scootpad on February 12, 2013
http://blog.scootpad.com/2013/02/12/one-million-strong-and-growing/
