An App That Teaches and Engages Students

What is Derivita?

The best thing about the Derivita app is that it can help create a better math learning experience in any modality. This app was designed to assist middle school, high school, and college math teachers with creating high-quality homework, quizzes, and exams to better engage their students with the material. Derivita can be integrated into online, hybrid, or in-person classes to give students easy access to materials and on-the-spot feedback.

But Derivita isn't a one-trick pony. Not only can it help you create assignments, Derivita can also automatically grade work and generate targeted feedback for your students. This frees up your time so you can focus on other important aspects of teaching and on the students who could use more help. The automatic feedback feature allows your students to see where they went wrong in their work so they can instantly reflect, respond, and continue to progress in the course. This helps students master key concepts, increase their understanding, and become more confident in their math abilities - which in turn, helps keep students motivated and engaged in your class.

You can also use Derivita to work problems in class, facilitate discussion, and show students your step-by-step process so they can better understand what they are learning. Then, use the app to select from over 40,000 questions to give your students the chance to explore, practice, and respond on their own.

What the Derivita Question Editor Has to Offer

For many instructors, the first time using a new app or technology can be intimidating. That's why the Derivita Question Editor was designed to be simple to use so you can quickly and easily create your own questions without additional stress. Some apps require you to use the questions they provide, but those stock questions may miss important elements that you want to be sure your students understand.

The Question Editor also gives you the space to create a variety of questions that will best meet the needs of your students. You can include images and videos that help explain the problem to your students or provide additional context. And you can create questions that elicit numerical answers or even an explanation of why the student did what they did. This capability is invaluable since it gives you greater insight into the student's thought process.

How Derivita Shows Student Work

Some educators are hesitant to use an app to create homework because they worry that an online platform won't allow them to see their students' work and thought process. And since the work behind an answer is often more important (and informative) than the work itself, this is a major cause for concern. With Derivita, you don't have to worry about this problem since you can actually enable your questions to allow students to show their work.

By toggling on the Show Work feature on any Derivita assignment, you can make it easy for your students to show the work they did to come up with their answer. They do this by uploading a photo of the work they did on paper. This gives you valuable information that can guide your future lessons. Once you have turned on Show Work, you simply navigate to the assignment, the specific student, and then view the photos they uploaded of their work.

Accessing the Derivita Question Library

While most instructors love the ability to create their own questions, you can't always write every question yourself. This is where the Derivita question library comes in. The library grants you access to over 40,000 questions that you can use to supplement the homework you create. You can easily access and use these questions directly from your Learning Management System to build assignments, quizzes, and exams that meet the needs of your students and assess their newly learned skills.

Your work as a math instructor is difficult, but it can be made easier with Derivita. Engaging students and assessing their ability is always challenging, but with the help of this app you can make things a little more manageable. With Derivita, you can be free to focus on creating engaging lessons and connecting with your students in a more meaningful way.