Category: Updates

9/5 Whizzimo Updates

9/5/2016

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We're excited to announce our most recent updates. Here's a video update of the most important changes.

The Changes

Automated password resets. No more having to email us for a new password!
Google Chrome is now our only officially supported browser.
Prefixes, suffixes, blank tiles, and symbols can now be added to individual workbooks.
Letter tiles in the Flashcards Activity can now be moved horizontally.
Move between words in the Flashcard activity using the arrows on each side of the screen.
Long words now fit on one row in the flashcards activity.

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6/7 Whizzimo Updates

6/7/2016

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We're excited to announce our most recent updates. The larger changes are listed below, followed by the smaller updates. And here's a video update of the most important changes.

The Larger Changes

Moved the Lesson Plans tab to under the Course Workbooks header.
Moved the Course tab to the sidebar where courses are switched.
Moved the Whizzimo Collection (our set of default workbooks) to the tab called 'Add a Workbook'.
Added a new popup window that allows users to easily add specific words.

The Rest...

Workbooks and Courses over the limit are now deactivated.
Workbook switching is enabled in the Blackboard activity.
Lesson Plans are now linked to courses.
Added some new letter tiles like 'olk', 'olt', and a bunch of prefixes.
New workbooks without names are now called 'Untitled'.
Hitting the trashcan in the Wordcards activity resets the wordcards.
Lowered the font on the Workbook titles.
Added a warning message when a workbook that is about to be deleted is a part of a lesson plan.
Squashed a bug where the letter tiles sometimes don't appear in the Spelling activity.
Squashed a bug where users' names sometimes had strange capitalization.
Squashed a bug with the transparency screen on the Flashcards activity.

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4/18 Whizzimo Updates

4/19/2016

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We've been hard at work incorporating user feedback. Here are the latest updates that we released on 4/18:

Pdfs, sentences, sentence parts, and passages can now be shared between users when workbooks are shared.
Users can now search their own libraries for specific workbooks based on the workbooks' titles.

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4/4 Whizzimo Updates

4/4/2016

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We quietly released these features today, and we'll announce them in our next batch up updates.

The maximum number of words in an activity has been raised to 50.
In the flashcard view, one syllable words do not show the syllable view and multisyllabic words no longer show the onset/rime view.
Users can now search the Whizzimo Collection for specific concepts based on the workbooks' titles.

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3/20 Whizzimo Updates

3/21/2016

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To help you save even more time, we've added the following functionality to Whizzimo:

Courses, Lesson Plans, and Lesson Plan steps can now be copied and reordered. This includes the ability to save Lesson Plans for reuse as templates.
Lesson Plan steps can be renamed.
For Demo users
- The time limit has been removed from the Blackboard.
- The upgrade screen for all other available activities has been raised to 5 minutes.

Happy Teaching!

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January 2016 Whizzimo Updates – Part 2

1/13/2016

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Here’s another video update with more details about our recent updates. This video covers smaller tweaks to the program like the new typing tool and the ability to use prefixes and suffixes in the spelling activity.

Happy Teaching!

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January 2016 Whizzimo Updates – Part 1

1/11/2016

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We just released some exciting new functionality for you, including:

Nonsense Words – We’ve added over 70,000 nonsense words to the Whizzimo Database.
Sentence, Passage, and .Pdf activities – 3 new activities designed to save you even more time.
Workbook Tiles – You now have a separate, automatically generated workbook for every single workbook in your library.

We recorded a quick overview of the updates.

Happy Teaching!

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New Search Options for Controlled Wordlists

12/29/2015

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Great news!

The best wordlist builder just got better with the addition of the following 5 new types of searches:

Grapheme Searches
Morphology Searches
Phoneme Searches
Syllabication Searches
“Quick” Searches

Grapheme Searches – Search for specific graphemes based on their location in the words. There are four filters of this type:

First Grapheme
Last Grapheme
Any Grapheme
Does Not Contain Grapheme

Morphology Searches – Search for specific prefixes and suffixes in words: There are two filters of this type:

Prefixes
Suffixes

Phoneme Searches – Identify the number of sounds that you’d like to have in each word. This is useful because some words have more letters than sounds. For example, the word ‘time’ has 4 letters from only 3 sounds. There is one filter of this type:

Number of Sounds

Syllabication Searches – Find words based on specific syllable division rules. This search is especially powerful because finding controlled wordlists based on syllabication can be very time consuming. There is one filter of this type:

Syllable Division

Quick Searches – Include or Exclude Words based on specific broad categories. For example, you can decide that a wordlist needs to include or exclude words with digraphs. There are two filters of this type:

Quick Exclude
Quick Include

Happy Teaching!

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9/5 Whizzimo Updates

The Changes

6/7 Whizzimo Updates

The Larger Changes

The Rest...

4/18 Whizzimo Updates

4/4 Whizzimo Updates

3/20 Whizzimo Updates

January 2016 Whizzimo Updates – Part 2

January 2016 Whizzimo Updates – Part 1

New Search Options for Controlled Wordlists

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