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| 1.
After I signup, how long does it take to access
the site? |
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This entirely depends on the method
used to pay for your membership. A timetable by
payment method can be found below:
Credit Card Signups: Instant
access. You will receive log in instructions immediately.
Fax Orders: 1-2 business
days. Fax orders are manually processed. You will
receive log in instructions once processed.
Mail orders: 1-3 business
days after it is received. You will receive log
in instructions once processed.
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| 2. I'm a platinum
or silver member. Do I have access to the resources
available to gold members? |
| Each membership is
distinct and requires a separate sign-up. Supreme
members have access to every membership
site. |
| 3.
How much does it cost to use ExamBuddy as a student? |
| ExamBuddy is free to
all students. This is no cost associated with a
student account. There is only a cost for educators
who wish to create and maintain activities and materials
on ExamBuddy. Members can create student accounts
after creating a class. |
| 4. What is ExamBuddy? |
ExamBuddy.com provides
teachers with access to an unparalleled suite of
on-line tools for creating a variety of web-based
curriculum boosters, practice assessments, and test
preparation tools.ExamBuddy members have the ability
to create, edit, and save:
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Assessments
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Learning
Games
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Communication
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Word
Games
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Automatic Item
Analysis
Cyber Hunts
Instant Feedback
Online Group Tracking
Online Learning Units
Online Quizzes
Online Result Analysis
Online Scoring
Online Surveys
Printable Tests
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Cloze
Crossword puzzles
Flash cards
Flash-based math
Hangman
Hidden tiles
Trivia boards
What's that?
Win it all
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Class Calendars
Class Message Boards
Electronic Newsletters
Free Student Accounts
Members Share Activities
Picture Recognition
Post All Your Class Notes
Post Your Own Files
Web Page Maker
Web Quests
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Hangman
Hidden tiles
Jumble
Match the theme
Missing letters
Paragraph cryptograms
Sequence Lists
Spelling
Word searches
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| 5. How are students'
achievements recorded and reported? |
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ExamBuddy's powerful assessment
package allows the student, teacher, and parents
to track the student's progress. Students receive
immediate feedback on the activities, online quizzes,
and surveys that you create via our scoring system.
Students can learn what they get right and wrong
with our immediate automatic scoring feature.
For on-line learning games, quizzes,
and surveys; individual and group scores are reported
back to the teacher in the results manager section.
This allows you to see what content individuals,
as well as the entire group are having success
with or difficulty. This is an invaluable tool
that allows you real-time feedback for planning
your lesson. Click below to see an example of
the results manager.
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| 6. How do the electronic
newsletters work? |
| When you create an account
for a student, you input his/her email address and
the email addresses of his/her parent(s)/guardian(s).
You can at anytime send a text-based email newsletter
to all of the students, parents, and guardians of
a particular class. You can also choose to send
the email to select students only. This makes it
easier to keep your class up to date and on track.
Parents/guardians are also kept updated on the developments
of your class. |
| 7. How do surveys
work? |
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With ExamBuddy, you can create
multiple choice surveys for all of your students
to participate. After all students log-in, their
answers to the surveys are recorded and reported
back to you through the results manager.
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| 8. Can I share activities
with others? |
| Yes. Using the ExamBuddy
directory, you can add your own activities or use
activities, quizzes, learning units, surveys, or
printable quizzes that other members have chosen
to share with you. The directory is simple to use.
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| 10. How much does
it cost to use ExamBuddy as an educator? |
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Educators who wish to create and
maintain activities and materials on ExamBuddy
are charged based on the length they wish to be
a member. Membership rates are:
The cost for a 3 month
membership is currently : $14.99
The cost for a 6 month membership is currently
: $21.99
The cost for a 1 year membership is currently
: $29.99
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| 11. What
grade levels and content areas is ExamBuddy recommended
for? |
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ExamBuddy is recommended for all
grade levels and all content areas. Our tools
can be easily applied to all content areas. We
are also in the process of developing content
specific materials. You should begin to see these
in early October.
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| 12. As member how
many students can I have using ExamBuddy on one
license? |
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ExamBuddy allows all members to
maintain 5 groups of 150 students (600 total students).
This allows you for 5 unique web pages. Student
log-ins and passwords are automatically generated
for you.
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| 13. What
on-line activities will I be able to create for
students? |
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Each on-line activity is simple
to create using our templates. Click on each activity
type below to see an example of the types of on-line
activities members can create for student use
in minutes.
Online Word Games- hangman,
hidden
tiles,
jumble, match
the theme, missing
letters,
paragraph cryptograms, word
searches,
correct spelling.
Clue Activities- crossword
puzzles, flash
cards, hangman,
hidden tiles,
trivia board, win
it all!
Miscellaneous Activities-
cloze,
cyber hunts, sequence
lists, web
quests,
what's that?
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| 14. Is it easy to
use? |
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Step 1: Create a class.
Step 2: Edit the class-
Using the control panel below, just add all the
information you would like into our tools or use
our directory to add activities created by others.
This includes specific instructions at each step.
Step 3: Provide students
and parents with your ExamBuddy web site address.
This tracks students' quiz and survey results,
provides students with their individually randomly
generated user names and passwords. Students can
log-in to your web page from any Exambuddy log-in
panel.
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| 15. Do
I need to be a computer wiz to make my class web
pages? |
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You can create a simple web page
for each class you create with Exambuddy. The
web page maker works from a simple template. You
just add the text you would like and simply click
"Create". The seamless creation of web pages makes
it easy to keep your web pages updated. It will
take you minutes to update your calendar and web
pages on a daily basis.
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| 16. Is it easy to
use? |
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Step 1: Create a class.
Step 2: Edit the class-
Using the control panel below, just add all the
information you would like into our tools or use
our directory to add activities created by others.
This includes specific instructions at each step.
Step 3: Provide students
and parents with your ExamBuddy web site address.
This tracks students' quiz and survey results,
provides students with their individually randomly
generated user names and passwords. Students can
log-in to your web page from any Exambuddy log-in
panel.
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