Benefits for Students
Learn at your own pace • Review what’s most important for you.
Always Ready—Your own student home page shows the assignments from your teachers, whether you’ve completed them and your scores. Here you’ll have everything you need—both the questions and helpful reference material. You can sign-in from school, home or library to work and when you finish your assignment, it’s automatically sent to your instructor.
Instant Feedback—In review sessions, you know always how many questions you’ve answered correctly and your score.
Behind the Correct Answers—Every correct answer includes an explanation of the reasons why the answer is the right choice
Help for Wrong Answers—Every incorrect answer includes key information in the form of a ‘hint’ plus related vocabulary with definitions and the opportunity for you to
answer the question again.
Personalized Reviews—Instant feedback from assignments lets you know which areas need more review. It’s easy to create a personalized session with more questions on the same topic so your child can practice at his or her own paced with emphasis on the areas most needed.
Independent Use—Create your own review to practice in your areas of weakness. Students have access to all courses plus special math skill and vocabulary activities.
COURSES
| Feature | Benefit |
| Wide variety of courses | |
| Access to all courses | Students can access Math, Science Social Studies, English, and Foreign Language courses |
ASSIGNMENTS
| Feature | Benefit |
| Activities assigned by teachers | |
| Short Answer assignments | Teacher-created short answer sessions |
| Flash Card assignments | Teacher-created Flash Cards |
| Constructed Response assignments | Teacher-created constructed response sessions |
| DBQ assignments | Teacher-created DBQ (document-based questions) sessions |
| Incomplete Assignment Alert | Students are alerted whenever they have incomplete assignments |
SHORT ANSWER REVIEW
| Feature | Benefit |
| Multiple choice and fill-in questions | |
| Access assigned sessions | Teachers can assign sessions to individual students or entire classes |
| Self-generated sessions | Students can create an unlimited number of sessions on their own |
| Retries | Students can make two attempts at answering a question |
| Feedback | Immediate feedback is given to the students as they answer questions in the form of hints, reasons, and related vocabulary |
| Reference Tables | Available for selected Math and Science courses |
| Multiple Choice Style | Specify numeric (1,2,3,4) or letter (A,B,C,D) choices |
| Font Selection | Specify font and font size |
VOCABULARY
| Feature | Benefit |
| Fully defined vocabulary terms | |
| Vocabulary Activity | Look up a vocabulary term from Castle Learning Online's extensive vocabulary databases |
| Flash Card assignments | Teacher-created vocabulary flash cards |
| Unit Flash Cards | Students can view vocabulary flash cads related to an entire unit |
| Session Flash Cards | Students can view vocabulary flash cards related to a specific short answer session |
CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE AND DBQs
| Feature | Benefit |
| Questions requiring longer responses | |
| Access assigned Constructed Response and DBQs | Teachers can assign Constructed Response and DBQ assignments to individual students or entire classes |
| “Save” and “Save as Final” | Students can work on an answer and update it later on before making it their “final” answer |
| Feedback | Feedback includes a sample answer. Teachers can score each question and provide comments. |
ESSAYS
| Feature | Benefit |
| Essay questions | |
| Critical Essays (English) | Provides essay questions that students can work on off-line |
MATH SKILLS
| Feature | Benefit |
| Math practice | |
| Variety of computer-generated questions | An unlimited supply of skill-oriented math questions |
GRAMMAR LESSONS
| Feature | Benefit |
| Grammar tutorials | |
| Mini-lessons with option to create a session | Brief tutorials on major elements of grammar |
MISCELLANEOUS
| Feature | Benefit |
| Multiple choice and fill-in questions | |
| Profile | Change password or specify an email address (useful for forgotten IDs when at home) |
| Study Tip of the Day | Useful tips, from Professor Bill himself! |
