Courselets helps the student get out of the passive, multiple-choice mindset to see exactly where their thinking is going wrong. This process reliably diagnoses the student's individual blindspots — whatever is blocking that individual student.
Even the best help becomes dramatically less usable for the student if there is any delay whatsoever. Courselets can reliably give students help with their individual blindspot(s) within seconds of their first attempt to solve a problem, because it already has a catalog of the common blindspots on that problem — and we immediately add new blindspot help as soon as one student makes a truly novel conceptual error.
This school year, our community platform will use:
Khan Academy math exercises (over 28,000 math questions covering grades K-12): students, teachers and parents are very familiar with Khan Academy's teaching materials and exercises, so this enables them to continue using the learning materials they're familiar with, but with a fundamentally different level of support — immediate help diagnosing each student's individual blindspots.
A+Click math exercises (over 10,000 open-response math questions covering grades K-12): enables students to answer in their own words (instead of just multiple-choice), or by scribbling their answer on a tablet, or even by drawing a picture. This is how our community platform can diagnose exactly what each student is actually thinking, and help her with her individual blindspots.
