The education landscape has essentially changed overnight due to COVID-19, and so has what we’ve been working on here at Showbie. Just as teachers have been working hard to move their lessons online, we’ve been working hard to quickly deliver some Distance Learning features for our users to help them through these unknown times. Thursday,…
Showbie has partnered with ThinkSimple, an education thought-leadership firm founded by Abdul Chohan, to offer professional development to educators who use Showbie and Socrative. For those of you who have been fortunate to see Abdul Chohan speak about education and technology, you can certainly agree that you will leave his sessions inspired and ready to…
During March and April 2020 we granted 16,230 free Showbie Pro and Socrative pro-teacher licenses across 113 school districts and 2,681 schools, a value of US$1.05 million! We’re inspired to see the resilience of teachers as they take on the unprecedented challenge of remote learning. Showbie and Socrative form the essential tools to manage a distance…
The Showbie team is doing everything in its power to help you through this challenging time. As we work to provide continued service to the rapidly increasing number of schools, teachers, and students affected by COVID-19 mitigation measures, we will continue to share up-to-date information here. Visit our Live System Status Page Wednesday, March 24 at 4:40pm GMT We…
I would like to provide you with a brief update on the current impact of the COVID-19 crisis as it pertains to Showbie, and the steps we are taking to support our customers during this difficult period. Friday’s Incident On Friday, March 13, 07:34 GMT, Showbie became unavailable. This outage was caused by an unprecedented…
Yesterday I announced that we were launching a program to help schools move to a virtual learning setup using our Showbie and Socrative apps. In this message, I promised to give Showbie and Socrative free to Schools through the end of July 2020. I intended to offer our apps to all interested schools in order…
