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 Photo illustrating benefits for studentsanswer 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.

Printable Full List of Castle Advantages (pdf)


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!