itslearning

What do you like best?

A few of my favorite things are online tests, Google Integration, and assignments. With online tests, it cuts down on my grading time and my students like immediate feedback. Google integration has made it easy for students to complete a Google assignment and it organizes it in a Google folder in my drive rather than students having to share all of their copies with me. I also like that I can add anything on Itslearning and my class has immediate access. It makes learning much more efficient. With assignments, I like that I can give quick feedback verbally or written out. Anther thing that I really like is being able to hyperlink everything in the tree because we are currently on week 23 and we have a folder for each week, a folder for each day inside of that, and a page for each class inside of that, which is all neatly linked on the homepage for them.

What do you dislike?

I dislike that Testing mode does not work on our school Chromebooks, so there is a worry of students opening other tabs and cheating during tests. I also dislike that when making copies of a folder to use for a different week, I have to go in and individually "create own copy" of the pages. I wish that there was an option for automatically creating separate copies when making the copy of the entire folder. This takes a lot of time when copying an entire week's worth of class pages over.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

I think it is a fantastic tool for school districts or organizations to use. I also know that we use it to house materials for teachers such as district documents, training videos, etc. that can be accessed when it is convenient. This has made things more accessible for all.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

I have had Skype sessions with Itlsearning and a couple of my students to see possible changes to the newest platform. My students shared that they liked the landing page with boxes of each course rather than having to search for it in the courses dropdown arrow. I love that Itslearning works with BCSC, my school district to make changes that will benefit our users. The Google integration and new home page for students evolved from these conversations in the past. Students really enjoy getting to have those meetings.