May 1, 2019 | Best Practices
Math has been the bane of my educational career, starting from kindergarten (“Count what?”) to when I was studying to get my teaching credential and had to take an Educational Foundations of Math class (“There’s a difference between concept and skill?!”). Teaching...
May 1, 2019 | New Features
Fractions can be the most frustrating concept to teach! I struggled with making sure my students understood that in order to do anything with fractions (compare, add, subtract, etc), the fractions themselves had to have equal-sized parts. Can’t compare fractions with...
Apr 29, 2019 | New Features
Teachers, you are visionaries of learning in your classrooms. You work hard to develop lesson plans that will create learning pathways for each of your students, making modifications according to need (i.e. English Language Learners, students with special...
Oct 31, 2018 | Software Updates
We are excited to announce our latest, Windows Oktopus release. Introducing Game Zones, multi-touch and multi-player games designed for touchscreens. Access over 90 educational games for Social Studies, Language Arts, Math, and Science. Create up to 4 game zones so...
Feb 1, 2018 | Software Updates
A new truly-4K performance enhanced version of OKTOPUS is now available to download! We’ve made our pen super-fast, even on 4K displays with limited spec hardware and integrated graphics. This should also make a difference to the pen speed for all our users, no...
Jan 17, 2018 | Community Feedback
Thanks again to everyone who has been in touch with us with their latest feedback and requests. With 4K / UHD flatpanels now being sold over 1080p / FHD flatpanels, we get a lot of users asking us about 4K support. We actually added in native 4K support last year, so...
Oct 27, 2017 | Software Updates
A new version of Qwizdom OKTOPUS is now available to download! We’ve implemented the Smart Notebook import improvements as requested by our community, we’ve made that change to the Periodic Table that was reported to us, we’ve implemented a new...
Oct 17, 2017 | Community Feedback
Our Smart Notebook import functionality has been well received and we have been hearing about some missing functionality that people would love to see. These include: better shape import support, background colours and images, ordered and unordered lists, adding...
