The Latest Teacher Features! – Aug 2021

Hello again amazing teachers!

It would appear back to school time is upon us once again, and in celebration, we have some exciting new surprises for you and your students!

Create Your Own Assessments

One of the top requests we have consistently received from you, our legendary users, has been to be able to create and add your own questions to assignments. Well, we loved this idea so much, we decided to build it into our app!

We are starting with the basics: You can now create multiple-choice text assessments! Start by manually creating questions or by uploading a spreadsheet–assessments can host up to 99 questions, regardless of how they’re created. Add your own assessment to an assignment along with question games, simulations, or instructional games. Just like assignments, you’ll be able to see reporting on individual student answers in assignment results. Keep an eye out though, we will soon add even more assessment capabilities like questions with images and multi-select answers!

For more detailed information on creating assessments check out this article by our amazing partner success team:

https://intercom.help/legends-of-learning/en/articles/5452894-adding-teacher-created-assessment-questions

 

New Hero Sweepstakes!

We couldn’t be happier that you have chosen Legends of Learning games to use with your classes!

We are so thrilled, that we recently introduced Legendary Rewards so you can earn points for usage, which can be redeemed to reward your class, and yourself!

Now we are launching a new even bigger reward. It’s a monthly sweepstakes you can enter using Legendary Points! Prizes are updated regularly and there are many chances to win!

 

Coming Soon – Shared Assignments with Legendary Rewards!

Keep on the lookout! Very soon we will be releasing assignment templates that are much easier to share with other teachers! Not only that, you will earn Legendary Points every time another teacher uses an assignment template you created with their class!

 

To find more information on the sweepstakes click here and log in (or sign up): https://app.legendsoflearning.com.com/teachers/rewards/use-points

Thank you, as always, for taking the time to check out our latest teacher features! We have some more big updates coming soon so please check in soon and stay subscribed to our monthly newsletter!

And always, if you have any questions or feedback, don’t hesitate to email: support@legendsoflearning.com

The Latest Teacher Features – July 2021

Greetings Summertime Legends! We hope your summer is fulfilling, rewarding, and maybe even a little relaxing, after a tumultuous year!

We have some brand new updates to Legends of Learning that we are excited to share with you!

¡Español! Our Spanish Versions Are Out Now

Over 700 of our games now have Spanish translations with another 125 more game translations coming soon!

This was, by far, one of the biggest requests from our amazing Teachers. We aren’t going to lie, it’s been a decent amount of work, but we think it’s well worth it! We are overjoyed our curriculum-aligned, Math and Science educational games can now be enjoyed by Spanish speaking students.

More Info:

Assigning Games in Spanish

Setting up Student Language Settings

 

Games Are Now Categorized By Reading Level

Did you know that many of Legends of Learning’s amazing employees were former teachers and principals? Our partner success team emphatically understood it was important for teachers to find games that were not just categorized by standard or grade, but that teachers also needed to find games that met specific students’ needs. And hence, they embarked on an epic quest to use sophisticated algorithms, along with some old-fashioned elbow grease, to categorize almost all of our games by reading level. Specifically, Lexile Level ranges were used to help teachers find the perfect game using our search filters!

More Info:

Finding Games With Appropriate Reading Level

Thank you, as always, for taking the time to check out our latest teacher features! We have some more big updates coming in the future so please check back soon and stay subscribed to our monthly newsletter!

And always, if you have any questions or feedback, don’t hesitate to email: support@legendsoflearning.com

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Awakening – What’s Behind The Door?

Your class might notice a new door in the Awakening base they may encounter after finishing an assignment. What’s behind the door, you ask? Well, we aren’t going to do any spoilers on our end so you’ll just have to find out!

By the way, Teachers can get their own avatar and try out Awakening after an assignment by pressing the “Try” button in the live assignment view.

Then you too can find out what’s behind the door!

 

The Latest Teacher Features! June 2021

Summer is here! And it’s getting hot at Legends of Learning HQ (not to mention the local cicadas are out in force)!

We know your classes may be ending until the fall but we have some summer fun in the sun to show our appreciation for our Legendary Teachers.

And that is why we are bringing you…

 

Legendary Rewards!

 

We appreciate all the things you do for your students (and for us)! That’s why we want to reward you for:

  • Writing Reviews
    • When you write game reviews, it not only helps other teachers find the right games for their lessons, but it helps our game developers understand how to improve their games to be more fun, and better at helping your students master topics. So for every game you review, we award 500 points!
  • Referring Colleagues
    • When you believe in our product, referrals are vital to help grow our user base so we can continue making and improving more and more games, aligned with more and more standards. We know it’s not the first thing you are always thinking of as you are using our product, so we want to show our thanks for every invite you provide. When you invite someone and they create an assignment, joined by 3 students or more, you and the person you refer both get 10,000 reward points!
    • Also, any teachers who have already referred someone, who has created an assignment, will retroactively be awarded 10,000 points!
  • Creating Assignments Played by Your Students
    • We know you put in a lot of effort finding the right set of games and the perfect set of assessment questions to engage your classes. We want to show our appreciation for the effort you put into using our platform because we know it isn’t always easy. It takes time to try out each game and make sure it’s the right fit. So for every student who joins an assignment, we award 10 points!

And not only are we giving reward points for each of these actions, but we also award status points!

 

Redeeming Points

To start, you can redeem your reward points for coins and gems that you can gift to students in your class (or to yourself). Coins and Gems can be used to get Avatar clothing items and dance moves in our Awakening game! You can also redeem points to get a Legends of Learning cape for yourself, a colleague, or a student!  And keep checking back because we will be adding more redeemable rewards in the future!

Try out Legendary Rewards Points and let us know what you think!

 

And as always, thank you for taking the time to check out the latest Teacher Features for Legends of Learning. If you want to check any of these features out, you can sign in here.

If you need any help or have any questions feel free to email support@legendsoflearning.com!

Big Things Are Coming!

Big Things Are Coming to Our Multiplayer World!

What’s better than a 3D multiplayer world where students can safely hang out, answer math and science questions, and get amazing gear for their in-game Avatars all on a mobile device?

How about an arcade in the town that lets you play Legends of Learning math and science games!!!

Coming in time for fall school year 2021!

 

Thank you for learning more about our Awakening game. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to email support@legendsoflearning.com.

The Latest Teacher Features!
May 2021

Greetings Legends!

We have been busy over the last month improving parts of our user experience and fixing any issues reported by our Legendary users! But we also found time along the way to upgrade our Canvas and Google Classroom experiences…

Introducing:

Sending Assignment Scores to Google Classroom or Canvas

We have improved our integrations with Canvas and Google Classroom. Now you can not only send assignments but can also send assignment results. Results can be sent either based on student progress through the assignment or based on assessment question results.

 

 

Thank you for taking the time to check out the latest Teacher Features for Legends of Learning. If you want to check any of these features out, you can sign in here.

If you need any help or have any questions feel free to email support@legendsoflearning.com!

Awakening Mobile Multiplayer Extravaganza!

The Awakening game is now a multiplayer experience! 

Awakening multiplayer experience: Explore New Worlds Together

Now students playing the Awakening mobile game can leave their base and:

  • Explore new worlds!
  • Create a new Avatar especially for the town!
  • Interact with friends!
  • Bust out sick dance moves!
  • Interact with interesting and mysterious characters in the town!
  • Get awesome gear for their avatar!

As always, any questions answered in the Awakening game show up as data in the Teacher’s “Student Driven” section of reports.

And this is just the beginning…

More fun is on the way so stay tuned for future updates on Awakening!

And if you have any questions at all, don’t hesitate to contact support@legendsfolearning.com.

 

 

 

The Latest Teacher Features!
April 2021

Spring is in the air!

And you know what they say… April showers, bring Legendary Super Powers!

So without further ado, here are the latest features released since our last Teacher Features update!

 

Co-Teachers!

By far, one of the most requested new features has been co-teacher functionality. Well, we heard you loud and clear!

Now you can invite as many other teachers as you would like to be your co-teachers.

Co-teachers can view and manage your assignments, students, and all associated reports!

Click here to get detailed information on co-teacher functionality.

 

Mute Game Sounds

Sometimes the game’s sound effects volume is so loud, that it can drown out text-to-speech. Now students can mute the game volume and hear every word!

 

Thank you for taking the time to check out the latest Teacher Features for Legends of Learning. If you want to check any of these features out, you can sign in here.

If you need any help or have any questions feel free to email support@legendsoflearning.com!

The Latest Teacher Features!
March 2021

Happy March Legends!

Just like March, Legends of Learning is roaring in like a lion!

Here are the latest features released since our last Teacher Features update!

 

An Even More Engaging Student Assignment Experience

Students can now get Brainpower and Currency reward drops as they progress through the most engaging student assignment that motivates them to get all the way to completion!

We have also added new maps to make the experience more exciting!

Brainpower lets students unlock encrypted treasure keys that are on a timer instantly in the Awakening game.

Coins let students buy Avatar clothing items and dance moves in the Awakening game.

A New Search

Now it is even easier to find games for your assignments. Search is front and center and on every page of our app.

You can find games by searching for game name, standard name, subject, or even keyword.

You can also filter by grade, text to speech support, iPad support, and game type!

 

Refer a Friend!

Having a good time with your class, using Legends of Learning? Why not refer a friend or colleague?

Thank you for taking the time to check out the latest Teacher Features for Legends of Learning. If you want to check any of these features out, you can sign in here.

If you need any help or have any questions feel free to email support@legendsoflearning.com!

New Year… New Games on Legends of Learning! February 2021

Our library of unique, standards-aligned games is constantly growing as we fill in topic areas you have requested and game developers respond to your feedback. Did you know that 500 different game studios around the world work on the Legends of Learning platform? 

 

Speaking of your feedback, we heard you LOUD AND CLEAR: “Don’t make my students start from scratch if they restart a game!” 

 

All new games on our platform will have an “automatic save” feature. If a student logs off before finishing the game, when they resume, they will start at a checkpoint wherever they left off, rather than needing to start over! Moving forward, all new games will offer this feature. 

 

As always, we LOVE your feedback, so please keep it coming!

 

New In Grades K-2

Legends of Learning now offers science games for K-2 students! We have published 12 new instructional games in 9 topic areas such as Forces and Motion, Ecosystems, and the Sun, Earth, and Solar System. And there are still more to come!

 

Legends of Learning offers new Kindergarten through 2nd grade science games

 

New In Grades 3-8

The games in our elementary and middle school suite continue to improve! In the last month, 11 high-quality games have been added as several lower-quality games have been removed. We feature EcoCity, a game addressing the topic Human Impacts on Earth Systems, towards the end of the blog. 

 

Let’s head to the virtual lab! One of our favorite partners, PhET Interactive Simulations, has published 3 new science simulations on Legends of Learning. Most commonly they are found in physical sciences topics, but this time around they included two simulations about Natural Selection!

 

A simulation from PhET Interactive on Natural Selection, allowing students to visualize a population of rabbits over time.

 

Completely *NEW* – CAREER TRAINING EDUCATION

Are any of your students interested in hands-on work? How about learning how real jobs work from real companies? We now offer two games on home construction and Water Damage Mitigation, one game on Solar Installation, and 6 games on Culinary Safety and Sanitation. These games are used by real company partners to train their own employees! These games are very well-designed, feature some beautiful artwork, and would be good exercises for middle school students to flex their real-world problem-solving skills!

 

A game about real-world solar installation skills.

 

More games across math and science, grades K-8 will be coming soon!

 

A Closer Look at Some New Games

BOLO AND THE TERRA TOWER – K-2 Science

 

Bolo and the Terra Tower Game Card on Legends of Learning Teacher Site

 

Teacher Reviews:

Bolo and the Terra Tower Favorable Teacher Ratings

 

Game screenshots and more info:

Students will learn about the Sun, Earth, and solar system in this game through simple but effective puzzles, where tutorials are available before the student practices themselves. 

 

Bolo and the Terra Tower Gameplay showing the pattern of the Sun's movement Bolo gameplay showing the affect of the Sun on the temperature of objects on Earth

 

ECOCITY – Elementary (G3-5) Science

 

Game Card for EcoCity

 

Teacher Reviews:

Favorable Teacher Reviews for EcoCity

 

Game screenshots and more info:

How would you manage the Power Production Plant, the Water Treatment Plant, and the Public Landfill? Do you spend more money on an automatic waste separator at the landfill, which helps reduce contamination of the land and water? Or maintain a lower budget and use cheap waste bags, which are less resistant to garbage getting out and polluting? There are fun mini-games along the way that of course are all themed with energy and waste management!

 

Gameplay in EcoCity game where student solves a water pipe-themed puzzle Gameplay in EcoCity game where student must place waste on a conveyor belt in the correctly labeled can.

Gameplay in EcoCity where the student is the mayor of the city making important decisions

 

MIGHTY CHIN-CHIN: WHAT’S THE MATTER –  K-2 Science

 

Game card for Mighty Chin Chin: What's the Matter

 

Teacher Reviews:

Favorable game ratings for Mighty Chin Chin: What's the Matter

 

Game screenshots and more info:

Through three levels of increasing knowledge and complexity, students will learn about how to classify objects based on properties such as size, weight, buoyancy, and conductivity. Each level has a visually engaging tutorial explaining the concepts, and shortly thereafter the students will need to put this knowledge to the test by using objects and their properties to cross a treacherous landscape.

 

Gameplay in Mighty Chin Chin: What's the Matter showing the physical property of object weight via a traditional scale with a 40 pound block on one side and a 20 pound block on the other. Gameplay in Mighty Chin Chin: What's the Matter showing properties of a rubber duck

Gameplay in Mighty Chin Chin: What's the Matter where student uses their knowledge of properties of matter to get through a maze

 

So that’s it for now but we’ll see you soon in the Learning Metaverse with these new games in your queue!

Stay tuned for more new game updates and if you have any questions please email support@legendsoflearning.com.

 

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