{"id":115419,"date":"2024-11-26T19:41:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T18:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigndave.org\/?p=115419"},"modified":"2024-11-26T19:41:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T18:41:04","slug":"craig-n-dave-newsletter-november-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pennstudiostaging.co.uk\/craig-n-dave\/craig-n-dave-newsletter-november-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig \u2018n\u2019 Dave Newsletter: November 2024\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This month brings another huge update to Smart Revise. We have redesigned the active tasks interface to make it more obvious what the status of a task is. The date of the Craig\u2019n\u2019Dave conference for 2025 has been confirmed, new terminology guides are coming, the Christmas coding challenges are back and is it the end of the Lesson Hacker videos?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Come and see us\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

You can meet us at:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The BIG Computing Leadership Conference<\/strong>: 12th<\/sup> December at Oxford Brookes University. \u00a0
The conference is now fully booked, but for those of you who want to learn how and why we changed the way we taught A level Computer Science, we can\u2019t wait to see you at our session.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CAS A Level online webinar<\/strong>: 15th<\/sup> January online. We will be giving a talk about supporting students with 8-, 9- and 12-mark essay-style questions for OCR A Level. Book your ticket HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2024-2025 VEX V5 Robotics Competition Cotswold Regional<\/strong>: 25th<\/sup> January at Chipping Campden School. We will be one of the judges. If you\u2019re not part of the event this year, why not consider this extra-curricular opportunity for your students next year? See all the details for the event HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Craig\u2019n\u2019Dave and Friends conference<\/strong> is back for 2025 at Bromsgrove School! The event next year will be bigger and better, and to capture this we have rebranded it as \u201cThe Festival of Computing<\/strong>\u201d. The main event will be on Wednesday 2nd<\/sup> July 2025 with an opportunity of an evening meal and overnight accommodation for delegates and speakers on the Tuesday night. We are indebted to the inimitable Johnny Palmer and Frances Round for working with us to make it happen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

More details will follow shortly.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smart Revise\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Task management update\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Have you seen the new interface for managing Tasks yet<\/a>? We have significantly increased the data visibility and added a status to make it much easier to see the task workflow.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The full release notes for this update detailing everything that is new can be found here: News \u2013 Smart Revise<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s next \u2013 have your say\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The next major feature will be \u201cGoals\u201d, where Smart Revise uses the data about the progress a student is making to suggest how they should use the platform to achieve their flight path target cone and aspirational target. In addition to what\u2019s on our road map there are other features that we develop in tandem based on your feedback too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently we are finishing work on an option to automatically release marks immediately after AI has marked questions in a task. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beyond that, here are the top 4 requested features at the moment: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FEATURE 1: Delete and add question option in addition to view and change when questions are chosen for a task.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    FEATURE 2: Priority levers to influence the automatic question selection for a task. E.g. prioritise AI markable questions, or questions that have not been set before etc.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      FEATURE 3: Tasks that only contain Quiz or self-assessed questions to have an option to present the marking for the question before the next question is shown. Known as the Q-A-Q-A approach in addition to the current Q-Q-A-A approach.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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        FEATURE 4: Question selector for Advance similar to the deck builder for Tasks.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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          If you have a preference which you would like us to work on next, please email us: admin@craigndave.co.uk<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

          Your vote will decide our priorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          Classroom resources\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

          New terminology guides coming soon\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

          Our terminology guides for AQA<\/a>, Edexcel<\/a> and OCR<\/a> courses that are included with a Craig\u2019n\u2019Dave membership<\/a> were created some time ago and were based on definitions from the British Computer Society<\/a>. When we introduced Terms mode in Smart Revise,<\/a> we refined the definitions included in the platform to make them shorter and better match the requirements of the specifications and mark schemes. This means there is a difference between the older terminology documents and Smart Revise Terms. Nothing is inaccurate, it\u2019s just different, and that\u2019s not helpful!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          To resolve this, we have created a new set of reports in the back-end of Smart Revise. This means we can more easily publish one set of key terminology documents that are the same in both the classroom resources and Smart Revise<\/a> Terms.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          We are currently redesigning our website, and when this work is complete, Craig\u2019n\u2019Dave<\/a> members will be able to download the new terminology documents.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          Time2Code\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

          Christmas coding challenges\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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          Our friends Anna & Harry at Mission Encodeable<\/a> have once again made their Python Christmas coding challenges available for students and teachers. There are nine levels that exactly match the nine levels in Time2Code.<\/a> This means that students can undertake some more festive themed challenges within the levels they are currently working on while still making progress.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          The link to the activities is on the homepage of the Time2Code website<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

          The direct link is: missionencodeable.com\/christmas<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          YouTube\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

          The Lesson Hacker series is changing\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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          Episode 52 will be the last video in the current Lesson Hacker series. Each week for a whole year, David Morgan aka \u201cThe Lesson Hacker\u201d has produced a 5-minute video on our YouTube channel covering a topical issue in Computing. These also included questions in the video description that you could use for class discussions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

          The full playlist of videos from the first series can be found on our YouTube channel<\/a>:\u00a0Lesson Hacker video series<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          However, all good things must come to an end, but fear not, David is still going to be producing content for us, just with a different style and emphasis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

          Next month will see the introduction of our new \u201cshorts\u201d. These new videos will be reduced to just one minute and focus on a core nugget of knowledge with a single question such as: <\/p>\n\n\n\n