Many of you may have noticed that it has been a while since there was a Wurkbuk development update. A lot has changed in the landscape of VLEs and LMSs over the last few years, one of which is the introduction of AI into education technology. One of the important factors of the development of Wurkbuk was that it would bring something unique to the edtech landscape. With hundreds of thousands of edtech tools already out there, I didn't want Wurkbuk to just be a duplicate of something that was already there. It needed to provide a meaningful solution to problems that educators were having. When Wurkbuk was being developed, I strongly believed that this was the case. Even though now, it pretty much still is, the introduction of AI changes things. So I have made a concious effort to step back from development of Wurkbuk until I see how it can be of real benefit to educators....
After over 2 years of extra planning, coding, adding features and fixing bugs I can now say that Wurkbuk Beta 3.5 is now live! With better stability, better usability and better work flows.The following features have been added:
- Quiz creation, sharing, exporting and results management
- Direct import of lessons and quizzes to your account
- Verification with Google and UI Update
- Wurkbuk Account Types
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I am well aware that there hasn't been an update on Wurkbuk in a VERY long time. But rest assured that during this time (most of it, anyway) there has been a considerable amount of work going on behind the scenes. The newest version of Wurkbuk, which will be version 3.5 will be released very soon, and features some of the biggest updates yet. Further details of what has been done will be described in future blog posts, however, just as a teaser I can say that the newest version will feature improved Google integration, easier importing and exporting, quizzes and lots more resources coming to the database. Watch this space..
All accounts with Wurkbuk Beta 3.5 are totally free.
When you first register, you are put on Wurkbuk Basic account. However, it is easy to upgrade..
My previous blog post introduced the App Creation series of Wurkbuk lessons, which had just been put up on the resource database. This featured 5 free lessons to teach students how to use MIT App Inventor to create apps and learn about app businesses. These lessons have now been put up on the Wurkbuk Demo site for everyone to check out and read through. As well as this mini update, there has been a pretty major update to Wurkbuk...