Build on or modify your current activity

Change a Q&A pair, add levels, change an image–your students will always see the latest version of your activity

Every time your students launch their SmashFact app they will see the latest version of your activity. This allows you to build your activity as the semester progresses, rather than in one sitting. It also means you can go back in and modify any of the content used in your SmashFact activity.

Smashing Suggestion: With the semester coming to an end soon, challenge your students by adding in additional bonus levels.

 

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Students, no sign up needed to use SmashFact

Getting the SmashFact app is easy for students–just download it from any app store.

One of the best things about the SmashFact app is that it is designed for mobile devices. Students can play SmashFact activities on-the-go with the app installed on their phone or tablet. There is no signing up necessary, just tell them to head to one of the app stores listed below:

For Apple users, visit the App Store to download SmashFact for iPhone or SmashFact HD for iPad.

For Android users, visit the Google Play Store to download SmashFact for phone or SmashFact HD for tablet.

Android users can also visit the Amazon App Store to download SmashFact for phone or SmashFact HD for tablet.

If a student prefers to play SmashFact on their desktop, or if you are interested in purchasing the SmashFact app for your classroom computers, visit our Britt Carr Interactive Learning Shop to download SmashFact Student Version for Desktop.

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Preparing for Midterms with SmashFact

It’s officially Autumn now and already time to start thinking about midterm exams

How do you help your students prepare for midterms? Do you provide practice tests? A list of the vocabulary terms? Do students dread studying from these types of aids?

With SmashFact you can easily turn these static documents into fun, interactive mobile games that help your students study. They will love racing the clock and advancing levels, all while experiencing greater retention of the important information.

Smashing Suggestion: If you have a static study aid that you think would be a great SmashFact game, but don’t have the time to make it, contact us. Our team can help get it into your students’ hands in time to study for midterms.

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SmashFact Offers a New Kind of Tutoring

Upperclassmen build SmashFact games for introductory courses

SmashFact offers a new kind of tutoring that benefits both sides–plus it is a lot more fun! Have your upperclassmen create SmashFact games for students in the introductory courses.

The upperclassmen benefit from:

• reviewing the content
• learning how to create an assessment
• and designing a mobile game (who wouldn’t want to do that for an assignment?)

The students in the introductory classes benefit from having an engaging, interactive way to learn and study the fundamental concepts of the subject.

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SmashFact Now Supports Longer Questions & Answers

SmashFact v.1.2 now supports longer questions and answers as well as Spanish characters

We heard many requests from Educators, like yourself, to increase the number of characters allowed per question and answer in a SmashFact activity. So, we have spent the past couple months researching and testing ideal font sizes for mobile devices (since we have seen that most students play SmashFact on their tablet or phone). Now, when you edit your activities, you will notice that a question can be up to 90 characters and the answer/distractors up to 95 (we have included a handy character counter to help keep track).

We have not only expanded the questions and answers, SmashFact now supports Western character sets for foreign languages. We have found that the audio feature in SmashFact makes it a great tool for studying foreign language, and the image feature makes Asian and Arabic languages possible as well.

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SmashFact app 1.2 is here!

Just in time for the start of the new school year, SmashFact app 1.2 now supports longer questions and answers.

Once students update their SmashFact app they will now be allowed to skip levels and to add more than one activity from the same teacher or from different teachers.

 

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