Oodlü Phonics released!

We are delighted to say that a significant development has now been completed and today we released the new oodlü Phonics system.

Here is a video overview:

Oodlü Phonics enables you to quickly and easily create phonics and spelling questions for your students.  You can create questions manually with the Phonics Picker, or you can use the Phonics Generator tool to quickly filter and create questions from 1700 ready to use words.

The 7 new question types

All the new question types can be played in formative or summative mode and are supported in all game types (including the Quickfire whole class game and mobile, when Apple approve the new release).

The Phonics Picker tool

Use the Phonics Picker tool to build words from phonemes and graphemes.  Select the phoneme that you need, click on the associated grapheme and it will be added to the word.  You can click each grapheme in the word as you build it to hear the phoneme sound for it.  As you roll over each phoneme you get information about it.

The Phonics Picker tool

You can even use the advanced filters to reduce the phoneme list:

Advanced filters within the Phonics Picker tool

Once you've built your word you just click save and the question is ready to use!

The Phonics Generator

Use the Phonics Generator to quickly create questions from the 1700 words that we have already prepared for you.

Simply go to "Bulk create questions" within the Question Collection editing screen and select any of the phonics Question Types.

The Phonics Generator tool

Filter on Phonics scheme, CV structure, number of syllables and IMF structure, then simply choose the words you want and click "Save".  The questions will be generated and added to your Question Collection.

Game Play

When the questions are displayed in games, we use a system of common correspondance errors to ensure that the distractors keep things interesting for the learners.

Oodlü also provides feedback to help guide the students through the question in formative mode.

And, of course, questions are delivered via our dynamic question delivery system which selects the most appropriate next question for the student.

Detailed data about the student progress and exactly how they answered the question is available in the Analytics section.

We hope you find this useful, and look forward to your feedback.  Thank you!