So, What Can It Do?

Teacher Voices

Interview Summary

• A secondary teacher sharing her experience with XpressLab.
• Grade 9 academic and grades 11 and 12 enriched.
• XpressLab used to provide greater opportunites for speaking French. It is difficult to give all students the opportunity to speak in class.
• Computer lab is used for oral reading and for questions that assess reading and listening comprehension.
• Oral skills of all students can be assessed in a single class period.
• Takes away the intimidation and fear factor that students have when speaking in class.
• Oral presentations can cause stress.
• Students are comfortable with the computer.
• XpressLab motivates students to speak more because of the positive feedback they get in assessments which gives them confidence.
• XpressLab is incredibly easy to set up and use even if you are not technically savvy.
• Flex Test (Mastery Style Test) is liked the most because students like to submit their best possible work.