How Do We Find a Client Success Specialist The Macmillan Learning Client Success Specialist role is a unique role that requires a unique skillset. When hiring a new Client Success Specialist, there are three main questions we ask. 1. Is the candidate a subject... 
Sapling Wins Innovation Award! Congratulations to Professor Donna McGregor and Professor Pam Mills of Lehman College (CUNY) in New York for winning an Innovation award! Donna and Pam were recently awarded the Online Learning Consortium's Innovation... 
Turning digital distractions into a resource for your classroom Do you get frustrated by computers, tablets, and phones in your class? Do you feel that students are not paying attention to the material you carefully crafted? In a recent conversations with a few intro biology instr... 
How to Use Our Monthly Suduko Puzzles Looking for a fun way to interact with your class? Each month we'll be featuring a new suduko puzzle! Get your monthly puzzle by visiting our archive and downloading each month's puzzle to use with your class. How do... 
Sapling Learning Questions - Authoring Process Our team of educators work in concert to craft original questions and feedback to provide you with quality content for your course. To create the exceptional questions instructors expect from Sapling Learning, each on... 
Sapling Learning Questions - Periodic Review Process Sapling Learning’s content is created by a team of educators and subject-matter experts. A typical question authored by Sapling Learning has passed through the hands of five people before it is placed in assignm... Keeping Students Engaged: Part 2 Keeping Students Engaged:A Tale from Introductory Chemistry(Part II) By Kevin Revell, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Chemistry and Consultant · Sapling Learning I’ve been experimenting ... 
Technology, Innovation, and Pedagogy Originally posted by Andrew S. Campbell, Ph.D. Academics like you are rarely satisfied with the status quo, and that extends to the classroom. Thanks to modern advancements, a lecture course can be adjusted, and even ... New Questions with Real World Applications: Batteries Students often find chemistry more engaging when the concepts they learn in the classroom are connected to real world applications. Sapling Learning strives to provide questions that not only cover the concepts learne... 
Improving Questions: The Sapling Learning Quality Control Process Sapling Learning is committed to creating the highest quality content, but we also devote a considerable effort towards maintaining and improving the efficacy of existing questions. This post covers what happens to a ... 
Flipping the Class: Part 2 How to start flipping your course: part 2 Originally posted by Rebecca Celik, Ph.D. Video is, of course, the preferred medium for delivering flipped lectures, but creating one from scratch can seem intimidatin... Keeping Students Engaged: Part 1 Keeping Students Engaged:A Tale from Introductory Chemistry(Part I) by Kevin Revell, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Chemistry and Consultant · Sapling Learning Just before the spring 2012 seme... How to keep your office hours efficient Originally posted by Kelli Mayes-Denker. Have you had a student stop by during office hours only to mention that they "just don’t get chapter 5"? For a student, this specific chapter may be especially daunting. ... Flipping the Class: Part 3 How to start flipping your course: part 3 Originally posted by Rebecca Celik, Ph.D. What’s the most important part of an experiment? Results. Flipping a course should be treated like any other sci... Flipping the Class: Part 1 Originally posted by Rebecca Celik, Ph.D on July 17, 2014. How to start flipping your course: part 1 When Dr. Amanda Brindley, faculty lecturer at the University of Califoria, Irvine, flipped her g... Current Events Make Econ Come Alive! Originally posted by Kelli Mayes-Denker on August 11, 2014. As an instructor who has taught a variety of economics classes, both principles and intermediate, I find that making the connection to real life application... Combatting Cheating Cheating on homework: how can you stop it? Originally posted by Rebecca Celik, Ph.D. Today’s students have access to more online information than ever before, and with that access comes increased ... Spring Cleaning, Resolving Student Issues Every spring, we use student usage data to comb through our library of questions, looking for those that students struggle with the most. While some questions are simply difficult—even deliberately so—othe... 
Requesting New Content The Sapling Learning content library contains a broad selection of high-quality questions, but there will likely be times that you can’t quite find the problem you’re looking for. When this happens, one of... 
Improvements to Existing Content Before a new question goes “live” in the Sapling Learning physics library, it must first pass a rigorous internal review process. However, the question’s journey of improvement doesn’t end ther...
