New Teacher Features | October, 2020

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Shiny new features for you!

Thanks to the insightful feedback from incredible learners and educators like you, our team has been hard at work ensuring the best Simbi experience to make reading meaningful. And boy do we have some treats for you:

• 💬 Verbal Feedback Conversations. Engage, encourage, improve.
• 📋 Automated Running Record View. Yes, you read that right.
• 👨‍👦 Connect Parent Emails. Keep learners’ #1 fans in the loop.
• 💌 Weekly Progress Reports. Impact Reports revamped!
• 📈 New Student Activity Graphs. See reading trends at a glance.

Simbi Educator Janessa highlights how she uses the new feedback and running record features.

Watch the video walkthrough: New Features Update Video 10/1/20

And we’re just getting started…

💬 Verbal Feedback Conversations

Educators now have the option to leave verbal feedback on each page of a students’ narration. Students receive a notification, and are able to directly reply in a seamless conversation view. Great for developing typists or students whose writing skills don’t align with their comprehension skills.

Leave verbal feedback for students to respond in seamless conversational view.

📋 Automated Running Record View

Educators now have an automated running record view for each student narration. This tool enables you to quickly glance at a students’ reading fluency before listening to their narration & taking a deeper look.
Print or save running records as PDFs to add to student portfolios.

Automated Running Record views give educators a glance at student reading.

👨‍👧 Connect Parent Emails

Educators can now add parent emails when creating student accounts. Parents will be updated on their child’s reading progress, and be able to listen to narrations. Encourage parents & students to check the notification bell every Friday to see the impact they’re making on global literacy simply by reading!

Educators can add parent emails when creating student accounts.

💌 Weekly Progress Reports

The Weekly Impact Report you know and love just got even better. In addition to seeing who is reading your narrations around the world, educators, parents, and students alike will be updated on how much time they or their learners have spent reading along and narrating over the past week.
Look out for suggestions on which book you may like to read next as well!

Weekly Progress Report shows impact report, and minutes read along & narrated.

📈 New Student Activity Graphs

Redesigned student activity graphs map out words correct per minute (WCPM) data from specific reading activity, giving educators a snapshot of a learner’s trends from the past year, month, or week.

Student activity graphs give a snapshot of student reading progress.

Ready to see these features in action?

Happy Reading! 📚🧡

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