Our friends at Notion Ink showed their cool new Android tablet “Adam” last week at CES … and SOLARO was on its desktop. Here is a vid showing SOLARO in action on the Adam http://notionink.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/adam-for-students-solaro/
We can’t wait to see this in every student’s hands.
If you want to learn more about SOLARO and how we want to bring education to every student’s desktop and mobile device, check us out at http://www.solaro.com.
SOLARO is ready for California. Lessons and practice questions are 100% aligned to the California state standards.
For the lower grades we have:
For the higher grades SOLARO offers:
You can get SOLARO on your computer or on your iPad/iPod Touch/iPhone. Sign-up at http://www.solaro.com
Teachers and Principals! SOLARO believes that every child should have access to high quality learning resources, practice and remediation online and for free. We are offering SOLARO for free to public schools in the United States and Canada so students, while at school, have a trusted place to turn — and teachers have a repository of high-quality, standards-aligned resources to draw on.
Currently, SOLARO covers Grades 3 to 12 Math, Sciences and English Language Arts in California, Alberta, British Columbia and Ontario. More states and provinces are coming.
While SOLARO is free for students at school, those who want to continue using it while at home (and on an iPad/iPod Touch) can purchase a premium “SOLARO at Home” subscription.
Learn more about SOLARO and schools at http://solaro.com/schools
You can assess what you have learned on the go! The iPad assessments are located with the content that the assessments are related to.
In horizontal view, you will see a menu on the left-hand side of the screen. This is a list of all of the questions on the test. The list will make it easy for you to jump from question to question. You can also move between questions by using the Next and Previous buttons. These are located at the bottom of the page near the Finish Test button. Don’t forget that if you choose to finish your test before completing the entire test, unanswered questions will be automatically marked as wrong. Make sure you only use that button when you are sure you are done with the test. Finally, if you need another way to navigate between questions, you can swipe your finger across the page to go to the next page.
Significant changes to the parent account include:
Have you checked out the iPad application yet? We launched the iPad SOLARO™ App on the same day the iPad was made available in the US. It is really cool! It looks very similar to the App for the iPhone and iTouch, so if you have used that App, you should know your way around in the iPad App. To start your SOLARO™ session, download the application to your iPad and log in with your account’s e-mail address and password. Once you are inside the App, you will see a welcome message with some general points on how to navigate through SOLARO™.
At the top of the application, you will see the Menu button on the left, then a To-Do Button, and a Search button.
The Menu button will take you to lessons and assessments. From there, you can follow the links to whatever you want to learn. Any notes you have made or any assessments related to the subjects you are studying will be available on the menu. In the top right corner of the lessons will be an icon with a book on it. That icon allows you to bookmark the lesson so you can navigate back to it again quickly.
Did you sign up for SOLARO™ last night but can’t seem to find that pesky activation email?
Yeah, sorry about that.
Around 1AM CST we started experiencing issues where outgoing mail was being blocked. The issue persisted till 12:30PM CST but things should be back to normal now. Hotmail users may still be experiencing some problems - we are working through them as quickly as we can.
If you are still experiencing issues email us - support@SOLARO.com - and we will help you out.
SOLARO is now in the Apple iTunes App Store!
There are two versions of SOLARO™: on the iTunes store.
This is a really cool, new way to use SOLARO every day (What a great reason to convince your parents to buy you an iPhone or iTouch!). Jump into the iTunes store and download the SOLARO App for your iPhone or iPad.
As soon as you log into the App, you will be taken to a list of the courses you have chosen. You can dive right into the lessons and assessments at this point, or you can go to the search section, look at your goals, or even check out your avatar!
The search function allows you to search all of the content. Biology, poetry, polynomials; whatever you want to learn, you will find it here.
In the To-Do List, you will find all of the goals you have set for yourself. You can go straight into the lessons that correspond with your particular goals. It’s just that easy.
The iPhone, iTouch, and iPad applications give you access to all the same content you can get on your computer. You can even do your quizzes right on the iPhone! Even if you don’t have an internet connection available where you are, you can review any lessons that you have seen previously because they are saved on your device. Imagine being able to finish your homework on the bus even before you get home. That will leave you more time to do other things.
Great News! SOLARO™ is now in the Apple iTunes App Store
SOLARO™ and SOLARO Mobile™ are for Students - SOLARO™ Parent is in development and will be coming soon
There are two versions of SOLARO™:
Both version of SOLARO™ Mobile allow students to:
SOLARO™ (iPad) and SOLARO™ Mobile (iPhone and iPod Touch) are FREE so grab them now.
SOLARO™ was just update with a focus on improvements to the parent interface.
We will give you the details of all the new features over the next few days but I thought I’d let you know the top three changes that we have made:
We love to hear your feedback on the changes!
What do you like or dislike about the updates?
