Parent Testimonial on FreshGrade:
For this weeks Group blog post, we had the opportunity to ask a parent about their experience with using FreshGrade. The parent we interview has two daughters who attend a SD61 school and both use FreshGrade in their classrooms.
Was your overall experience with FreshGrade positive?
Yes, it was a helpful window into my children’s day to day activities in the classroom.
Were there any negatives with using FreshGrade?
I don’t know if there were any negatives. I found that when the teacher posted a picture or an update from the day in the classroom, my kids were excited to see it and it usually prompted a discussion about what they did at school that day.
Were the teachers using it consistently?
One teacher used it very consistently, another not so much. I do think it helps to be quite consistent with it so that both the teacher and parents remained regularly engaged with it.
Did you find that you were able to have an insight of where your children would be exceeding or having challenges by the information posted on FreshGrade?
Not really. Sometimes the teacher would specifically do an assessment of, for example, reading level on FreshGrade. And in that case you would see if your child was meeting expectations for the grade level or not. That was a pretty rare occurrence though. Most of the posts were classroom updates and not child specific.
Is there anything you would have liked to change about FreshGrade?
The App itself is very clunky and buggy. It frequently crashed or the videos would not play with sound and other annoyances. It could certainly use some work to get it to a more usable level.
