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05/2022
Ziplet

Ziplet

Ziplet
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Ziplet offers an easy and engaging way to run exit tickets, SEL prompts and well-being checks.

Ziplet makes it easy to check in with students. Conduct exit tickets, check on student comprehension, SEL, wellbeing, or prompt reflection in under 30 seconds. A huge template library of questions makes it easy, and teachers can even reply to individual or group student responses with a message or emoji.

Age groups 
Elementary
Middle school
High School
Tertiary Education
Professional education
All education levels
Languages 
English
Platform 
Browser-based
Mobile Android
Mobile iOS
Registration 
Required
Offline play 
Internet required
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Ziplet offers a bank of question suggestions

Ziplet offers a bank of question suggestions

Check-ins can be conducted also anonymously.

Check-ins can be conducted also anonymously.

Collected data of the class can be viewed in one glance

Collected data of the class can be viewed in one glance

Pedagogy
Educational Quality
Learning Goals

The pedagogical analysis covers how the product supports learning of the identified skills. The student’s role is assessed by four contrary pair parameters, which are selected to cover the most essential aspects on the use of the product.

Passive
Active
Ziplet is built for a very clear purpose. The platform lets the students to become active participants to their studies by allowing and easy way to ask what students feel and how they reflect on theirs studying. Ziplet gives choices of options for a teacher can ask, which is a great source of ideas.
Rehearse
Construct
Ziplet guides and enables the learner in reflecting their progression in learning. The suggested questions allows students to focus on their thoughts and feeling and reflect. Building a habit of asking for student's opinion brings student's well-being into focus and builds their learning skills.
Linear
Non-linear/Creative
It's possible to create regular check-in routine and repeat the questions to see the trend and compare the results from different rounds. Ziplet also offers a possibility to scheduled the check-ins. For the student, it is very clear, when questions come up, and how to answer them. There are several tools for the teachers to quickly analyze the general feeling and thought of students, for example the word cloud, and answer graphs.
Individual
Collaborative
Ziplet focuses on individual thoughts and feelings of the learner, and the student can be very autonomous on their answers. The chance to respond anonymously makes this eve make all the decisions individually. There are good teacher-student messaging tools, and some convenience tools, such as group reply.

The following are the high educational quality aspects in this product.

Ziplet is very focused, easy-to-use tool for quick check-ins.
The bank of suggested questions make it easy to get started, and there are good tools for eg. scheduling and repeating questions.
Encouraging students to express their thoughts and feelings with quick chec-ins develops students emotional as well as mental growth.

The supported learning goals are identified by matching the product with several relevant curricula descriptions on this subject area. The soft skills are definitions of learning goals most relevant for the 21st century. They are formed by taking a reference from different definitions of 21st century skills and Finnish curriculum.

Subject based learning goals

Showing concern for the feelings of others.
Recognizing strengths in others.
Managing one’s emotions.
Identifying one’s emotions.
Developing positive relationships.
Communicating effectively.
Linking feelings, values, and thoughts.
Having a growth mindset.
Developing interests and a sense of purpose.
Understanding and expressing gratitude.
Demonstrating curiosity and open-mindedness.
Identifying solutions for personal and social problems.
Demonstrating honesty and integrity.
Examining prejudices and biases.
Experiencing self-efficacy.
Exhibiting self-discipline and self-motivation.
Showing the courage to take initiative.
Demonstrating personal and collective agency.
Identifying diverse social norms, including unjust ones.
Taking others’ perspectives.
Resisting negative social pressure.

Soft skills learning goals

Using technology to express one’s emotions and experiences
Using technology for interaction and collaboration
Understanding and practicing safe and responsible uses of technology
Practicing to take responsibility of one's own learning
Encouraging the growth of positive self-image
Practicing to recognize and express feelings
Learning to face failures and disappointments
Practicing to give, get and reflect feedback
Practicing to express own thoughts and feelings
Practicing to evaluate one's own learning
Practicing communication through different channels
Enabling the growth of positive self-image
Learning to plan and design own written content and textual representations
Learning to understand people, surroundings and phenomenons around us
Practicing to argument clearly own opinions and reasonings
Learning to plan and organize work processes
Learning to understand the meaning of rules, contracts and trust
Practicing to take care of one's own wellbeing and health
Encouraging students to be innovative and express new ideas
Learning decision-making, influencing and accountability

The Finnish Educational Quality Certificate

Our Quality Evaluation Method is an academically sound approach to evaluating a product’s pedagogical design from the viewpoint of educational psychology.

The method has been developed with university researchers and all evaluators are carefully selected Finnish teachers with a master's degree in education.

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