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Welcome to our third [Inside the App] series, where we take you inside our apps and show you why our apps work for struggling learners.

Today’s focus is understanding your learner’s progress.

As an SLP, parent or educator, it is vitally important that you know how your struggling learner is progressing.

If you are allocating your learner’s time to a resource, you need to be confident that the resource is giving your learner the benefit you expect.

At Happy Frog, we take that very seriously. We offer both ‘at a glance’ AND detailed reporting to meet your needs.

At-a-Glance Reporting

The quickest way to see your learner’s progress is to go the ‘Select Level’ screen and see how many levels are open and how many stars have been earned for each level.

To open a level, your learner must pass the previous level. This means at some point your learner achieved 8/10 on the previous level.

Stars are assigned when you pass a level. 8/10 earns you one star.  9/10 earns you two stars. 10/10 earns you 3 stars.

The stars will show you how well your learner did the last time they completed that level.

Detailed Reporting

To get more detailed information, go to the User Information page, accessed from the main screen.

At the top of the User Info page, you will find a dashboard. The large dial shows you your learners accuracy over the last 10 completed levels.

The remaining dials shows your learner’s top 3 levels and bottom 3 levels. The top 3 levels are those your learner has performed best on during the last 10 completed levels.  The bottom 3 show the levels your learner has performed the worst on over the last 10 completed levels.

Below the dashboard, you can find more detailed information about your learner.

The left hand column shows you how your learner has performed on each level. You can see which levels have consistent good performance, which are uneven, and which are challenging.

On the right hand side, you get a log of the levels your learner has completed.  Date, level and performance are recorded. Use this data to ensure your learner is practicing regularly.

And there we have it!  We give you quick information to the level you need so that you KNOW your learner is progressing.  

As your learner is playing the levels, you can be confident that you can check later to get all the information you need.

Welcome to our second [Inside the App] series, where we take you inside our apps and show you why our apps work for struggling learners.

Today’s focus is wrong answers. How an app responds to a wrong answer can make a big difference for how quickly your child learns.

You may have noticed that some apps have really fun sounds when an answer is incorrect.​ That is a really bad idea!

When the wrong answer is fun, struggling learners are often motivated to get the wrong answer over and over again.  AND over and over again!

I’m sure you’ve experienced this 🙂

Playing around with wrong answers is NOT learning!​

To motivate struggling learners, you need to make sure that the wrong answer is NOT fun, and that the correct answer IS fun or rewarding in some way.  ​

A simple way to test an app is to check out the app’s response to correct and incorrect answers.  You’ll quickly know whether this is a good choice for your learner.​

And what about Happy Frog apps?

Well our wrong answers are super boring!  Either nothing happens, or a helpful hint will pop up. No sound effects, no visual effects. Nothing but help for learning.

And correct responses?  They get a nice upbeat chime that dos not get annoying and the user earns coins to spend in the shop.

Yay.  Your student is now motivated to work for the correct answer.​

Want to see this in action in one of our apps?  Check out Inference Ace. It’s great for all learners.

We hope you’ve enjoyed this look inside our apps.  You are now ready check out educational apps… to make sure they are actually educational!

This is the first in our [Inside the App] series where we take you inside our apps and show you why our apps work for struggling learners.

Today we put our Reward Center under the microscope.

What is the Reward Center?

All our apps have Reward Centers. The Reward Center contains two games that learners can access after they have done their daily work.

When a user first accesses our apps, the Reward Center is closed. To open the Center, users must do their ‘daily work’. This corresponds to finishing about one or two levels of the app.

Why Include A Reward Center?

It comes down to one word: Motivation

Our Reward Centers motivate your student in several ways.

• As a reward for hard work.

Learning new skills is hard work, especially if it is a skill you struggle with.

Kids need a reward for doing that hard work and that’s what our Reward Centers provide. After passing a few levels, kids can chill out for a few minutes playing the available games.

• As a motivation to work more

To purchase items in the shop or to play the in-built game, you need to earn coins. The only way to earn coins is to get correct answers.

You will find your learners playing extra levels just to get enough coins to play the fun games again. That’s a really good thing!!

Why Isn’t the Reward Center Open All the Time?

Our Reward Center is not always open. Every day your learner must complete 10-15 minutes of work to re-open the Reward Center.

This means your child must work before they get their reward. Since most kids LOVE our Reward Centers, they will get to work without complaint in order to get time to play in the Reward Center.

This has several benefits.

1. You don’t have to push so hard to get your child to do the work.

2. You’ll know when your child has done a good amount of practice. Working too little means no progress. Working too long without reward leads to burnout.

With our apps, if your child has opened the Reward Center, then you know that he/she has done a good amount of work for the day. You can let your child lead the way to play in the Rewards Center… or do a bit more work to earn more coins to spend.

We hope you have enjoyed our look inside the app. Watch for more in this series!