The BrainNook Grade 3 Math app is now live in the App Store! It covers the following topics:
- Expressing multiplication as repeated addition
- Word problems involving multiplication and division
- Beginning fractions: representing fractions on a number line, as pie charts, and in rectangular grids
- Equivalent fractions
- Comparing fractions with the same numerator or denominator
…and many more!
Try it out now and let us know what you think!
We’re excited to announce that the BrainNook Grade 1 Math app has been released! The app contains 14 games that cover the fundamental math skills required in first grade, mapped to the Common Core State Standards: beginning arithmetic, commutative and associative properties of addition, word problems, counting, and much more!
Kids can log in to their BrainNook account on the iPad, allowing teachers to track their performance on the iPad and give them assignments to complete in the app!
Download the BrainNook Grade 1 Math app from the App Store today!
We’re excited to announce that the BrainNook iPad app for Grade 2 has launched in the App Store! Kids can play many of the same BrainNook games as on the website, log in to their BrainNook account to solve assignments from their teacher, and win badges!
The app is available for FREE in the App Store here! Try it out and let us know what you think!
We speak with teachers all over the country using BrainNook in their classrooms, and one of the top requests we hear is for ways to control how much time students can spend chatting. With the latest version of BrainNook on our website (try it here!), we’ve given teachers the control to do just that.
In your teacher account, you’ll notice two additional controls to help you fine-tune the way your students use chat.
First, you can limit how many chat messages each student can send per day. You set this limit from the “Account Settings” screen. Once your students have exhausted the limit of messages they’re allowed to send per day, they’ll have to wait till the next day before they can chat again!
You can also control the type of chat each student has access to. Go into the “Manage Your Class” screen, and you can control whether a student can type in their own words into chat (the Safe Words mode) or whether they can only select from a list of pre-created phrases (the Safe Phrases mode). You can even turn off chat entirely for a student, and they won’t be able to send messages to anyone else in the game at all.
We hope you find this useful in keeping your students on track in BrainNook! Let us know if you have any suggestions on how we can make this feature better!
Check out our new “BrainNook Lite” apps in the Edmodo app store! The new apps are tightly focused on specific curriculum areas, with a set of six games that cover each area thoroughly. You can set assignments, track progress and print awards just as you do from the regular BrainNook app!
There are currently a couple of BrainNook Lite apps in the app store, covering the Grade 2 Arithmetic (2.OA) and Numbers in Base Ten (2.NBT) areas of the Common Core Standards. We’ll be adding more apps on an ongoing basis. Check out the new apps now — we’re excited to hear your feedback!
We’ve been hard at work adding new games to BrainNook! These games will give your students practice in additional areas from the Common Core State Standards. In future, we’ll be adding additional games to deepen our coverage of other standards.
Here’s a list of the new areas these games cover, with each game’s name in parentheses:
Grade 1:
Grade 2:
Grade 5:
To assign any of these games to your students, or just try them out, log in to your teacher account in BrainNook, and go into Set an Assignment under the Assignments menu. Then search by topic (for example, “word problems”), or by game name (for example, “Parenthetical Equations”).
Try out these new games today! And let us know if there are other areas you’d like to see more coverage of in BrainNook!
As your students come back to class for the new year, you’re probably finding that their math and language skills have — to put it mildly — deteriorated just a tiny bit over the summer break.
Good news! We’ve just added a new way to help your students refresh skills from last year: assignment groups!
What are assignment groups?
An assignment group is a set of related assignments around a specific Common Core topic — for example, second grade arithmetic, or third grade spelling and punctuation. Each assignment in the group tests a skill within the larger topic. For example, an assignment group on second grade arithmetic might contain one addition assignment, one subtraction assignment, and one mixed arithmetic assignment.
With a single click, you can assign all the assignments in an assignment group to your students, helping them practice a range of skills related to the topic. This gives your students a well-rounded workout across these topics while saving you time — win-win!
How can you set an assignment group?
In three simple steps:
Step 1: Log in to your teacher account, and click on Set An Assignment Group under the Assignments menu.
Step 2: You can view all assignment groups related to just Math, or just Language Arts. Click on the Assign button next to any assignment group to set it for your class.
Step 3: There is no step 3 — that’s all there is to it!
Your students will see all the assignments in this assignment group as a bunch of new missions to complete in BrainNook.
Tracking assignments and assignment groups
As always, you can track all the assignments in the assignment group from the Track Assignments screen. Each assignment is identified by which assignment group it belongs to.
Log in to your BrainNook account to try out this feature today! And let us know whether (and how much) you find assignment groups useful — we’d love to hear from you!
In time for the new school year, we’re excited to announce the launch of the BrainNook book library!
The BrainNook book library vastly expands the range of language content available to your students in BrainNook. The library is a set of classic novels we’ve hand selected for your (and your students’!) enjoyment. Simply select one or more books from the library, and BrainNook will automatically present your students with words and sentences from those books when they play language games in BrainNook.
This is a great way for you to make sure that what you’re reading in class this year is what your students are seeing when they play BrainNook as well!
The games span a wide range of skills — sentence construction, anagrams, synonyms and antonyms, homophones, and many others — so this will give your students quite a language workout, and all using books that you select for them!
To select books for your students, simply log into your teacher account, and click on the Choose Books button.
Select one or more books from the library by checking the box next to them. You can even play some games to see how words and sentences from those books will appear within the game.
That’s it! Your students will now see words and sentences from the books you select when they play language games in BrainNook.
Here are just some of the books currently available in the BrainNook book library:
Don’t see your favorite books in here? Let us know which other books you’d like to see!
And as a little bonus, along with books, we’re also rolling out another much-requested feature: word lists.
Word lists are probably a familiar concept — simply sets of words that you want your students to practice (and practice again!) till they master them. Now with BrainNook, you can insert just the words you want into all of the language games your students play.
Simply go into the Word Lists section of your teacher account, and click on the Add a Word List button to create a new word list.
Only students in the grades you specify will see words from the word list — so you can have different word lists for different sets of students!
As the new school year gets underway, hope you find these new features useful! Try it out now, and let us know what you think!
Do your new students this year have BrainNook accounts already? Here’s how you can move them from their previous teacher to your teacher account! It’s three simple steps (really):
Step 1: Log into your teacher account, go into the Manage Your Student List screen, and click on the Import button. (It’s near the bottom of the screen.)
Step 2: Enter the BrainNook username for your students’ previous teacher. Ask your students’ previous teacher what username she uses in BrainNook if you don’t know. You don’t need her password, just the username.
Step 3: Select the students you want to move to your account.
That’s it! The selected students will be moved to your account. You can now see their past performance, set them assignments, and give them awards. And the students you moved get to keep their BrainNook level, points and badges!
The fine print:
We hope you find this feature useful! Let us know at support@brainnook.com if you have any questions!
Just in time for back to school, we’ve reduced the price on the BrainNook Edmodo app by 15% — now just $84.99 for your classroom for a year!
Check us out in the Edmodo app store!
