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The Academy
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Discover The Big Challenge Academy, an interactive platform that saves teachers time and motivates their students.
Updated 2 weeks ago
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The Academy, what is it?
The Big Challenge Academy is a turnkey online platform designed to strengthen students' English learning throughout the school year. It offers a range of tools and resources to motivate students and facilitate the work of teachers.
Main advantages
Aligned with the new school curricula: The content is carefully organized by cultural themes and skills of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).
Ready-to-use and varied tools: Access interactive exercises, captivating podcasts, stimulating challenges, and detailed progress tracking, all from a single, intuitive dashboard.
Significant time savings for the teacher: Benefit from automated preparation and grading, as well as clear statistics to quickly assess the progress of your classes.
Sustainable student engagement: The platform promotes visible progress and offers regular events to maintain a high level of motivation within the class.
💡 Tip: Vary the educational fun! Combine the different Academy modules (assignments, audio series, games) to create dynamic, personalized, and captivating learning sequences for your students.
How is the content created?
The educational content of The Big Challenge Academy is the result of a close and continuous collaboration with a team of experienced teachers. This approach ensures their alignment with the requirements of the National Education curriculum and the real needs of students.
A rigorous co-creation process
Brainstorming and selection: Regular discussions with teachers help define the most relevant themes, activity formats, and difficulty levels.
Design and validation: Each activity is then designed and subjected to a dual pedagogical and linguistic validation by experts.
Online publication and continuous improvement: Once available on the platform, the content is constantly evaluated and improved thanks to valuable feedback from student and teacher users.
👉 Why is this important? This iterative process ensures that the proposed activities are always current, relevant, engaging, and perfectly aligned with learning objectives.
Self-grading assignments
Simplify homework management! Create custom assignments in a few clicks and let The Big Challenge Academy platform handle the grading. This allows you to consolidate your students' learning in a fun and effective way.
Key Features
Rich and varied question bank: Access thousands of questions classified by level (A1, A2, B1) and by curriculum theme.
Variety of exercise types: Offer varied activities to stimulate different aspects of learning: MCQ, matching pairs, putting elements in order, fill-in-the-blanks, etc.
Immediate and constructive feedback: Students receive instant correction, allowing them to understand their mistakes and progress. They can redo the exercises as many times as necessary.
Detailed results dashboard: Track individual and collective performance, identify strengths and weaknesses to adapt your teaching.
Complete curriculum coverage: Cover all essential themes: vocabulary, grammar, culture, reading and listening comprehension, and even pronunciation.
💡 Save precious time: Free yourself from repetitive grading tasks and focus on personalized student support and animating your classes.
Audio Series
Offer your classes an enriching daily oral immersion thanks to authentic podcast series, specially designed and aligned with the cultural themes of the curriculum. It's an excellent way to develop students' autonomy in their listening.
What your students will love
Short and engaging episodes: 4 to 6-minute formats, perfect for maintaining attention and effectively working on listening comprehension.
Integrated interactive quizzes: Each episode is accompanied by a quiz to check comprehension and reinforce learning in a fun way.
Varied and current themes: Explore a wide range of captivating topics: daily life of young English speakers, cultural aspects of English-speaking countries, scientific discoveries, adventure stories, etc.
Adaptation to student levels: Content available for levels A1 to B1, with new episodes added regularly to renew interest.
How does it work?
Active listening: Students listen to the audio episode, in class or at home.
Immediate interaction: They then answer the quiz directly on the platform.
Real-time tracking: You view their progress and results instantly from your dashboard.
🎧 The bonus: The audio series are an excellent tool for preparing students for listening comprehension tests and familiarizing them with different accents.
Events
Energize the school year and strengthen the cohesion of your classes with stimulating group challenges that encourage team spirit, active participation, and the engagement of each student.
Regular events to maintain motivation
Weekly class goal: Each week, the class is invited to collectively reach a point goal by completing activities on the Academy. An excellent way to foster mutual support!
Monthly thematic challenge: Every month, a new theme is featured. Students explore this topic through specific activities and accumulate points for their class.
The CLASS Challenge: The flagship event of the year! Classes from all over France compete in a friendly competition. Up for grabs: trophies, medals, and certificates to reward efforts and successes.
👉 Zero preparation, 100% motivation: All challenges are integrated directly into The Big Challenge Academy application. Everything is managed automatically, you have nothing to prepare!
Resource Library
Access an exclusive library of over 100 varied and ready-to-use educational materials to enrich and energize your English classes throughout the year.
A wide range of included materials
Interactive games and Escape Games: To learn while having fun and develop logic and collaboration.
Thematic vocabulary sheets: Targeted and illustrated word lists to facilitate memorization.
Targeted grammar exercises: To work on specific points of the curriculum progressively.
Cultural videos and tutorials: To discover English-speaking culture and get clear explanations on key concepts.
Fun activity ideas for the class: Turnkey suggestions to liven up your sessions and involve all your students.
Printable materials: Worksheets, flashcards, and other documents to use in class or at home.
The advantages for your teaching
Diversify your teaching approaches: Adapt your methods to the different learning profiles of your students.
Personalize your classes: Choose the most relevant resources according to the specific needs of your classes and each student.
Save precious time: Reduce your preparation time with quality, ready-to-use materials.
📚 Always more new content: The resource library is regularly enriched with new content to offer you ever more choice and possibilities.
Progress Tracking
The Big Challenge Academy provides you with powerful tracking tools to allow you to precisely measure your students' progress, individually and collectively.
Key features for effective tracking
Centralized teacher dashboard: Access all the progress data for your classes from a single, clear, and intuitive interface.
Detailed results visualization: Analyze performance by skill (listening, reading, grammar, vocabulary), by activity, by student, or for the entire class.
Quick identification of needs: Easily spot strengths to highlight and persistent difficulties to implement targeted support.
Engagement and participation tracking: Visualize your students' attendance and their involvement in the various proposed activities.
Easy data export: Generate reports and export results for your pedagogical reviews, class councils, or to communicate with families.
The benefits for your pedagogy
Personalize your support: Adapt your interventions and offer specific remedies based on identified needs.
Recognize efforts and successes: Encourage your students by concretely showing them their progress.
Make informed pedagogical decisions: Base your didactic choices on objective and reliable data.
📊 A tool for success: Progress tracking helps you better understand each student's learning journey and optimize your teaching strategies.
What are the registration fees?
A one-year subscription to The Big Challenge Academy is now included with every registration for the annual contest.
💡 For any questions or to obtain a personalized quote, do not hesitate to contact The Big Challenge team.