The Tech4Learning team has put the Wixie update into production and you can log in to your current Wixie account to see the changes!

With the Wixie update releasing at the end of this week, you will be able to use Wixie from your mobile smart phone!

Students and teachers can already access Wixie on Chromebooks, iPads, and Mac/PC devices, so is it really necessary for them to access it on their phones as well? Yes! Here's why. 

The new teacher home page coming in the Wixie update makes it even easier to organize, distribute, and grade project work. All project management options now appear on the left-side of the screen when you log in to your Wixie account.

Wixie is more accessible than ever before. Not only does it work on more devices, like phones, it includes powerful new features like text-to-speech. Text-to-speech makes written information accessible to a wider range of learners.

The Highlights feature in the upcoming version of Wixie makes it even easier for students to archive, share, and celebrate learning.

As the school year winds down and we get closer to the release of the Wixie update this summer, we want to make sure you are aware of changes coming and how to support your teachers and students through the process.

As part of a unit on colonial America, my son came home with an assignment to spend an evening behaving like a puritan child. The assignment included a few bullets in faux-Colonial English describing what was expected of a puritan child and a space for my signature and grade for his work.

Over the past 10 years of Pixie and Wixie, we have built a lot of templates and activities for students. Here are some things that we have learned over the years that you will hopefully find helpful in your own templates and activities.

Landscape vs. portrait orientation. It is almost always better to create templates and activities using the default landscape orientation. This layout works best on a variety of devices. Portrait layouts become hard to work with in the workspace of a tablet, so try to use this orientation only when designing templates that will need to be portrait when they are printed.

With back-to-school in full swing, or looming for others, now is the busy time with Wixie. Tech4Learning has just released an Implementation Guide and Introducing Wixie Workshop Kit to help you get Wixie up and running.

The Wixie legacy UI will disappear this summer. For many users this means nothing. They have never seen the legacy UI and they don’t have a hyperlink that lets them switch into it if they want. For some, this just means that a hyperlink that they have never clicked in the upper-right corner next to Settings will no longer be there. For a few, it means they will start using the new UI instead of the one they were trained on over two years ago.