{"id":340901,"date":"2017-05-15T01:36:40","date_gmt":"2017-05-14T17:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?p=1489468"},"modified":"2017-05-15T01:36:40","modified_gmt":"2017-05-14T17:36:40","slug":"epigrammar-uses-student-annotations-to-improve-classroom-discussions-tests-and-comprehension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/epigrammar-uses-student-annotations-to-improve-classroom-discussions-tests-and-comprehension\/","title":{"rendered":"Epigrammar uses student annotations to improve classroom discussions, tests and comprehension"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Classroom collaboration software exists, but Disrupt New York Hackathon participant Epigrammar thinks\u00a0its\u00a0approach better tackles the issue of student grammar, test creation and comprehension<\/a>. Teachers can help facilitate student conversations\u00a0on an assigned\u00a0text by\u00a0uploading it to Epigrammar, then\u00a0helping their students review and annotate the work, in real time.<\/p>\n

Epigrammar\u2019s goal to improve reading comprehension among\u00a0high schoolers is accomplished by\u00a0collecting compelling annotations and opinions from students, which teachers might use\u00a0to\u00a0guide class discussion.<\/p>\n

Backstage, I asked the two-man hacker team \u2014 Uday Singh and\u00a0Gilad Penn \u2014 how Epigrammar is actually more useful for students than free annotation and collaboration software, like Google Docs. The differentiator is that\u00a0Epigrammar allows the teacher to save time, which would\u2019ve otherwise been spent passing out sheets in class for students to annotate, or\u00a0figuring out\u00a0which areas of an assigned text students need to be tested on.<\/p>\n

Epigrammar isn\u2019t only a classroom annotation tool, but a\u00a0test\u00a0service, using student\u2019s comments as the source material for automated test questions for class assessments. The test creation service\u00a0will cost teachers\u00a0a monthly fee of $20, for an unlimited number of classes.<\/p>\n

The software uses PubNub for real-time annotations,\u00a0Elixir\/Phoenix lean API on the backend, Apollo to the\u00a0React JS front-end and in-house annotation libraries. Regarding launch, Epigrammar expects to debut\u00a0to the public this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"\" Classroom collaboration software exists, but Epigrammar thinks its approach better tackles the issue of student grammar, test creation and comprehension. Teachers can help facilitate student conversations on an assigned text by uploading it to Epigrammar, then helping their students review and annotate the work, in real time. Read More<\/a><\/p>\n

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