Evolvink is a next-generation digital textbook publishing platform. It provides students with advanced individual assessment tools and a collaborative learning environment at less than the price of a traditional paper textbook. Professors benefit from reduced TA needs, leaving more time for help in the classroom.
Take a look at the sections below to explore what Evolvink can offer.
The Textbook
Example Chapter - Click to Enlarge
The textbook is the heart of any evolvink course. Each page in the textbook covers a specific topic and can contain images, formulas, videos, and interactive simulations.
- Each topic has an associated set of practice problems
- Each practice problem has hints and fully-worked solutions
- Students can rate each problem on clarity, usefulness, and difficulty to provide feedback to the author
- If assistance is required, students can post questions for each problem to be answered by other students/TAs
The Discussion Board
The Discussion Board allows students to post questions about course content, practice problems, or quiz questions.
- Students can answer other student questions for points
- Students assign points to answers as they see fit
- Course TAs can answer questions, rephrase questions, split posts, and reassign points as needed
- Posts about a practice problem or quiz problem will link directly to the appropriate spot in the Textbook or Quiz section
A sample discussion board post
Self Test Quizzes
Students choose parameters (chapters of interest, number of questions, difficulty) and are presented with a unique quiz to test their abilities
- Each question is unique, algorithmically generated from a defined set of parameters
- Each question has hints, FAQs, and fully-worked solutions, dynamically generated from those same random parameters
- Each question has an integrated section from the Discussion Board that can be used to ask/answer questions
- Student results are anonymously aggregated and compared to the rest of the class so students can evaluate their performance
- Students can rate problems on its clarity, usefulness, and difficulty to provide feedback to the author
Graded Quizzes
Graded Quizzes can either use algorithmically generated questions or the same problems for all students
- Professors can set start/end times for their quizzes and limit the number of student attempts
- The professor can accept alternate answers, accept all answers, or disregard individual questions as needed
- Results are automatically recorded, tabulated, and marks are held until released by the professor
- Students can view their results online, ask questions about the problems they got wrong, and learn from their mistakes
Student Benefits
- Cheaper than most paper textbooks
- Easy to use and accessible from anywhere
- Videos & interactive simulations to aid learning
- Online support from TAs and Students
- Receive help from other students any hour of the day or night
- Test yourself with algorithmic questions and see how you compare to your class
Professor Benefits
- Centralize your marks and testing
- Create dynamic quizzes unique to each student
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- Grant TAs administrative access to answer student questions
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- Students answer each other's questions online, resulting in less work for your staff
- Interactive tools to aid comprehension
Book Author Benefits
- Non-exclusive: maintain complete ownership of your content
- Update your book and make changes in real-time
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- Easily add excel spreadsheets, word documents, flash simulations, and videos to your book.
- Reduced distribution costs allow a greater revenue share
Using Evolvink At Your School
Evolvink has been used by thousands of students at both the undergraduate and graduate level. With over 10 years of live use in schools, it has been constantly refined to handle the needs of students, professors, and book authors.
- Watermarked .pdf versions of each textbook chapter can be made available to students who prefer a printed copy
- Access to Evolvink can be purchased through online or at your schools local bookstore
- Advanced behavior analysis to detect students sharing account information
- Advanced caching to ensure site availability during high-load periods (often the night before final exams)
- Contact us at below for a demo account or to request more information
