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Jan 19, 2025

What to Include in edTech Data Dashboards

As new edTech products crowd the market, school administrators and other technology buyers judge learni...
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Jan 10, 2025

Strategies for Addressing Chronic Absenteeism through edTech Product Design

As the pandemic’s impacts on education become clearer, our user experience research uncovered a challen...
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Oct 06, 2023

Teacher Council Report: How to Give Your Users Better Tools for Back-to-School

Year after year, we see edTech companies set product or feature launch dates for the fall. But user res...
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Jan 18, 2023

Self-Directed Workshop: Using Game Mechanics To Boost Teacher Engagement in Your edTech Product

Quizzes. Badges. Levels. Leaderboards. We design these features for students who use our edTech product...
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Jul 22, 2022

ToolKit: The Best Features for Remote Learning Products

Are your products remote learning ready? It's about more than designing learning tools kids can use on...
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Jul 19, 2022

Competitive Audit: Comparing SEL Features in Epic, Lalilo, and Khan Academy Kids

Assess the marketplace and prioritize your next feature roll-out with our mini competitive audit, where...
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Nov 11, 2021

Self-Directed Workshop: Design Thinking for edTech Product Teams

Uncover innovative solutions to persistent user challenges or align on a new direction with a design th...
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Feb 12, 2021

Self-Directed Workshop: Designing edTech Products for Your Primary User

Identify your resonant persona and unlock the look and feel of your next edTech product....
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Nov 12, 2020

Teacher Council Report: How to Design Better Adaptive Learning Tools

In an ideal world, adaptive edTech products provide students with personalized support based on their n...
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Nov 11, 2020

Teacher Council Report: What Teachers Want in Remote Learning Tools

Validate your next round of feature designs using the insights from Backpack Interactive's Teacher Coun...
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Sep 11, 2020

Self-Guided Workshop: Creating Digital Experiences with a Small Budget

When you’re a small nonprofit or mission-driven organization, redesigning your digital presence is ofte...
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May 15, 2020

ToolKit: How to Improve UX for Complex edTech Products

When developing an edTech product, it's important to determine how to push your product to be both easy...
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ToolKit: Designing SaaS Solutions in edTech
Feb 17, 2020

ToolKit: Designing SaaS Solutions in edTech

Are you ready to design a new edTech SaaS solution? There are some key questions you should ask yoursel...
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Jan 14, 2020

ToolKit: How to Build edTech Features That Strengthen SEL Skills

Students need help building their Social Emotional Learning skills, now more than ever. Can edTech prod...
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