
Category: Assessment
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Benchmark Now! Press Release
Read MoreNaiku is pleased to announce Benchmark Now!, a free tool for math teachers to quickly measure their students’ knowledge of Common Core standards. Benchmark Now! provides teachers a set of professionally developed, standards aligned assessments in grades 3-12, coupled with the Naiku assessment engine so teachers benefit from automatic scoring and reporting. Download the full […]
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New Quick Question Features
Read MoreExtra! Extra! Read all about it! Naiku releases two new features to their popular web-based student response system Quick Question. This free on-line formative assessment tool now allows teachers to 1) create questions on the fly in Quick Question and 2) save the data from the session for later viewing. When you launch Quick Question […]
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Quick Key Press Release
Read MoreNaiku is pleased to announce the availability of Quick Key, a new feature within the Naiku assessment platform. Quick Key allows for use of existing paper based tests in PDF, DOC, or similar formats within Naiku, thereby providing the benefits of immediate automated scoring, standards aligned reporting, teacher-student feedback, and more. Download the full press […]
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Naiku Quick Key
Read MoreWe’ve heard from many Naiku users who’ve said something along these lines: “I already have my test created in Word. Can I use that test in Naiku?” “I’ve got my tests saved as PDF files. Can I import those into Naiku?” The answer use to be “No, you can’t import each of those questions […]
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Importing Examview Tests into Naiku
Read MoreAs an alternative to creating an assessment in Naiku, you can import an existing assessment. If you’ve already built your test in Examview, you can import that test into Naiku. Export to Blackboard Format First, export your test out of Examview into a Blackboard file format. Go to File, select Export, and choose Blackboard 7.1-9.0… Choose a […]
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Google Forms – Naiku Comparison
Read MoreWe are sometimes asked how Naiku compares to Google Forms, a free general purpose survey tool, for use in assessment by schools. In short, Naiku is specifically designed for educators and has many built-in features that promote teacher-student feedback, enhance collaboration, give greater insight into student performance by standard and save time. The following table […]
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Quick Question Quick Tip #2
Read MoreEngaging Students Without a Projector Did you know that you can easily share Quick Question class results with all of your students without the need for a projector? Whether working with a small group in class or all your students outside of class, simply press the Send Results button and the class results will be […]
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Quick Question Quick Tip #1
Read MoreHow To Identify Individual Student Answers Did you know that you can easily identify individual student answers when polling your students with Quick Question? It’s easy – simply hover your mouse over the answer selection, and a pop-up box will highlight all those students (or teachers if you are using in a staff meeting!) that […]
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Naiku receives eSchool Media Readers’ Choice Award
Read MoreMINNEAPOLIS, July 24, 2012 – Naiku announced today that, for the 2nd straight year, they received a Readers’ Choice Award from eSchool Media. The Honorable Mention award was given for the Naiku SaaS assessment platform, the only such product to receive a Readers’ Choice Award from eSchool Media this year. The Naiku platform is used […]
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Fifth Graders Use Naiku on ASUS Transformer Tablets
Read MoreLast week, I had the pleasure of visiting a group of 5th graders using Naiku for the first time. Their school had just received a class set of ASUS Transformer tablets. The students and their teacher were excited to use the devices. They were equally excited to use Naiku for the first time. It was […]