Blutick is a next-generation AI-powered Maths teaching platform. Students are able to enter their working to mathematical problems line by line and get intelligent feedback as they go, with practical help when they make mistakes.
The multiple teacher personalities make learning fun and supportive, building confidence as well as understanding.
Blutick supports students as they work through problems.
To have a go with Blutick for free before registering, go to blutick.com/demo.
Try making deliberate mistakes to see how the teacher responds, and also make sure to check out the hints, and click on the teacher to chat with them.
Each lesson has three levels available, and for the quiz students need to answer 6 questions correctly to complete the topic.
Even in complex expressions, Blutick can identify a range of common errors
All Blutick users need their own account. Follow these steps to set yours up:
Go to blutick.com and click ‘Register’
Click the appropriate age confirmation button. Then enter your details on the form and click ‘Register’ or sign in with Facebook or Google+
If you are the first teacher from your school to sign up to Blutick, you can create a Blutick School by following the steps shown here. If your school already exists as a Blutick School, join it by entering your school code.
Find out more about using Blutick in our support documents for teachers.
Creating and managing a class is easy with Blutick.
Go to Your Classes to enter the details for your class and add students.
You can give the students a link to follow, so they can join independently, upload a whole class list yourself, or add single students individually. The system will generate a number for their username, or if you wish you can submit students’ email addresses.
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Adding students to a class as a group
Adding students to a class individually
You can set a task quickly and easily. Just visit the topic you want to set, click the clipboard icon in the top right, add any details you want and then click “Create Task”.
In “Advanced Options” you can choose to set only specific levels of the topic and add a start date if required.
Alternatively, you can browse the topics in our topic list, and there choose which topic(s) you want to set for a task.
When setting a task you can choose to send an email to students. If you select this option, your students will automatically be emailed the task details, if they have an email address associated with their Blutick account.
Under Your Tasks you can see the tasks you have created and their completion rates, and send reminders.
The task summary for each task gives you detailed feedback on the students’ performance.
Under Your Classes you can also view a Mark Book for each of your classes.
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With Blutick you can view your students’ performance in every topic in as much detail as you want.
Under Your Classes you can view a Mark Book for each of your classes.
Click on the green “View Mark Book” button next to your chosen class. Here you’ll see which tasks the students have completed and their Smartscore. The blue “i” will take you to the individual task summary for each task. The yellow pen icon allows you to send a reminder to students who haven’t completed the task.
You can also access the individual task summaries for all of the completed tasks from Your Tasks. Click on the green “View Task Summary” button for your chosen class.
Here you can see how long they spent on a task, how many errors they made and if they watched the worked example videos.
You can scroll down to see graphs of their performance, and you can even see every step of working for a task by clicking the eye icon under View Full Working:
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What do the numbers in the green circles mean?
Using the Blutick Maths Editor to enter mathematical signs and symbols
Use the Clear Progress checkboxes in your class Mark Book to reset the score for a whole class on a particular task. To reset the score for individual students on all their tasks, Clear Progress via the Manage Students page.
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How to reset scores on a single topic for a whole class of students
How to reset scores on all topics for a single student or class
You can use Blutick to set up a Revision Schedule, a Course, or a Test.
Revision Schedules are ideal to help your students prepare for upcoming exams.
Courses are longer-term planning, allowing you to plan which topics to tackle weeks or even months in advance.
Tests can help you to measure how your students are progressing.
Revision Schedules are ideal to help your students prepare for upcoming exams.
Students will be sent an email every day during the schedule with a short list of tasks to complete. You’ll also get an email telling you the day’s tasks so you can keep track of the topics covered. This is a great way to practise a little bit of Maths every day and develop their Maths With Confidence!
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Courses are mid- to long-term planning, allowing you to plan which topics to tackle weeks or even months in advance.
Set a plan of topics to cover a term, or even a whole school year. Students will be set tasks to complete on the set dates. You can schedule pauses in the Course to take account of school holidays, trips taking students out of school, and similar. Courses can be set for more than one class at a time, for multiple teachers’ classes, and saved as templates to be used year after year.
Blutick course templates are available to give you a starting point.
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Blutick Tests can help you to measure how your students are progressing. Use and edit our templates, or create your own.
Go to Manage Tests and click the green “Create a Test” button.
Template tests are available for several year groups and topic areas, and can be added to and edited to suit you. If you wish to create your own test from scratch, select “Empty Test (0 questions)” from the menu. Complete Tests can be viewed from the Manage Tests page – just click the green “View Results” button for the relevant Test.
Students see Tests displayed on their Home Page. Students click the green “Complete Test” button to take the test. If students are struggling, they can skip a question or submit the Test before completing it. However, both these options will result in a lower Smartscore. When they have finished, students can go to Your Completed Tests to view their Tests. Here they can click on “View Results” to see their Test Summary.
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