What’s New in the Learning Accelerators – Maths Progress

Maths Progress is a Learning Accelerator integrated into Microsoft Teams in Glow. It helps educators create maths assignments, assess student work and gains insights into trends which may help support learning and teaching across a number of maths topics.

Key Features and Updates

Intelligent Assignment Creation

An AI-powered question generator can be used to generate maths problems for specific topics. It includes ‘distractor’ answers based on common misconceptions to help encourage critical thinking.

‘Show Your Work’ Option

Students can upload images or link to OneNote pages to demonstrate their problem solving process or support the promotion of deeper understanding.

Assignments Can be Customised

Educators can:

  • Shuffle question order for each student
  • Enable student difficulty ratings (easy, hard, just right)
  • Choose whether students must show their work

Automatic Feedback

Automatic grading can be used. Mistakes and misconceptions are flagged and students receive step by steps guidance to learn the correct solutions.

Analytics Dashboard

Detailed insights are available into:

  • Individual and class performance
  • Most frequent difficulty ratings
  • Common errors and misconceptions
  • Progress over time across multiple assignments