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The company I work for, Schoolshape, is supporting a number of new projects relating to online resources for French teachers. The first is a website contains activities and exercises for lea… Read More

Problems with Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud's internal network on which we rely are currently causing stability issues with Schoolshape.  We are working on migrating to… Read More

The new login screen forms is fundamental our current developments which will allow Schoolshape to run on tablets and smartphones. The aim is to provide a faster, seamless login process, whi… Read More

Are you or your students fed up with having to remember different passwords for each site you use?  If so, we have some good news for you.  You can now forget about your Schoolshap… Read More

You no longer have to create student accounts on their behalf.  You can tell new students to visit lab.schoolshape.com/authenticate, from where they can create their own accounts, and h… Read More

The number of junior schools submitting their oral exams via Schoolshape increased again from 88 in 2014 to 91 in 2015. A total of 141 senior schools elected to moderate the exams in Schools… Read More

Caio de Almeida Cunha of the Sao Paulo language school, 4AllBrazil, visited Papplewick on Friday 24th October to exchange ideas for the design of a new classroom suite they are building in… Read More

Last week representatives of 4All Brazil, a language school based in Sao Paulo, flew to the UK Channel Island of Jersey to meet the directors of Schoolshape Limited to discuss the distributi… Read More

The number of recordings of speaking tests submitted online through the Schoolshape system has increased dramatically from 165 in May 2009 to 2504 in May 2014. Statistics for 2014 In May 20… Read More

We've recently been redesigning the home page of our software. It seems that, in general, people don't read anything that's on the screen, so we're redesigning all the buttons to have relev… Read More

Internet Explorer versions 6 and 7 were released in 2002 and 2006 respectively, and have now been outmoded by more recent browsers. As part of our work to support new devices such as mobil… Read More

The 2013 Common Entrance oral exams are complete, with a record number of 2,414 exams being completed between Monday and Saturday.  Schoolshape has now successfully processed over 9,000… Read More

We have been working hard over the last few weeks on perfecting CloudWriter and now that it is being used every day in over 30 schools, we are proud to announce a general release to the publ… Read More

CloudWriter has recently added a slew of new features to help students improve their writing skills, including: automated real-time grammar hints to help students think about structuring sen… Read More

Following on from the success of the Online Examinations System and the Language Lab, Schoolshape is today announcing a third online service. Named CloudWriter, the new software will focus o… Read More

Schoolshape has made available more than 1000 French, German and Spanish worksheets free of charge.  These can be completed online, or on iPads, Android tablets or smartphones. Asi… Read More

We know that many teachers need students to print off hard copies of their answers for the record, and this is now possible with Schoolshape Worksheets.  Just press Ctrl-P or choose pri… Read More

Jack Burston et al at the Cypress University of Technology have published a new paper on computer-assisted language learning.  CUT use the Schoolshape Language Lab in their research, de… Read More

Worksheets created using the Schoolshape Language Lab have now been converted to work with HTML5 (without the flash plugin, and on mobile phones and tablets).  Your students can access… Read More

Professor Burston will be conducting a workshop at the CALICO conference at Northern Arizona University on Tue 16 May. Discover Schoolshape: Digital Language Learning Activities Made Easy Pl… Read More

On Wednesday 22nd February, the Language department at Papplewick school hosted its annual conference under the banner of sharing good practice. The conference called ‘Language skills… Read More

Schoolshape subscribers can now assign worksheets as tasks which appear on student todo lists.  When the student starts completing the worksheet, you will be automatically given access… Read More

We have added automatic grading to Schoolshape worksheets.  Partial credit is available for reattempting an incorrect answer, and teachers can also change and set their own grades Read More

Schoolshape announce the general availability of CloudCaster, a collaborative recording app.CloudCaster enablesstudents to record themselves speaking a foreign language;students to send reco… Read More

You now have finer control when setting tasks for your students:You can set tasks for individual students or selected students within a class rather than simply for the whole classYou can ad… Read More

When assigning tasks in Schoolshape, there is a new 'Settings' tab available which allows you to control what students are and are not allowed to do while completing the task. For now, there… Read More