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as a diagnostic tool for grades K–5 math and remedial math students. SAFARI Montage has partnered with Best Quest Teaching Systems (www.bestquest.com) to digitally deliver two of its math teaching systems, Math’scool (for grades 5–9) and Algebra’scool (for grades 7-12), through video-on-demand. The teaching programs provide all supporting materials needed to prepare students for success in algebra and higher math through lessons, graphics, and short videos profiling professionals who use math in their careers. CTB/McGraw-Hill, a publisher of standards-based achievement tests for pre-K–12 and beyond, has added additional security features and product enhancements to its online essay assessment system, Writing Roadmap (www.ctb.com/WritingRoadmap). Aimed at students in grades 3–12, Roadmap provides students with feedback as they write, while the program’s automatically generated scores allow them to make instant revisions. Essays are evaluated along six writing dimensions: ideas and content, organization, voice, word choice, conventions, and fluency. New security features include a lockdown student browser, which disables access to other applications once students start the program; asterisk technology, which flags scores for teacher review; 16 new writing prompts; and an improved scoring algorithm. Key Curriculum Press, a publisher of mathematics and science educational materials for elementary, middle, and high school students, is launching The Key to Tracker, an online subscription service that serves as the companion to the company’s Key to… workbooks. The Key to Tracker helps teachers improve students’ basic math skills and monitor their progress as they use the Key to…workbooks for fractions, decimals, percents, and algebra instruction. All tests in the self-paced material are computergraded. Teachers can view both individual scores and class averages. A free trial of The Key to Tracker is available at www.keypress.com through August 1, 2008. Applied Answers, Inc. has released a new Web-based, managed file-transfer and storage solution, FileGenius (www .filegenius.com). Users can transfer and store files in a secure online environment: FileGenius offers 128-bit Technology & Learning May 2008 | 61 http://www.ctb.com/WritingRoadmap http://www.bestquest.com http://www.keypress.com http://www.filegenius.com http://www.filegenius.com http://www.qwizdom.com/connectpromo http://www.qwizdom.com/

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