Digital Services & Support @ Hodder Updates

New PiRA and PUMA Performance Indicators

by Charlotte Akhurst
Performance Indicators are now available for New PiRA and New PUMA. These are designed to help identify whether pupils are meeting performance expectations for their year. As a result of National Test cancellations in 2020 and 2021, our
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New PiRA and PUMA Summer Test Resources

by Charlotte Akhurst
New PiRA and New PUMA Summer Markschemes and Test Guidance are now available on MARK. The Summer test Markschemes include answers but facility value and strand performance data will be added in Autumn 2021. Summer term data tables will also
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New PIRA Spring interactive tests

by Paul Coyne
New PIRA Spring interactive tests are now live on MARK for customers to use. This will now allow schools to assign and sit the Spring term interactive reading assessments which will then be automatically marked and the data populated into
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MARK Interactive Tests and Apple iPads

by Paul Coyne
A few days ago our engineers confirmed a technical bug affecting interactive tests played on iPads with iOS version 13 or 14. The bug, introduced through recent iOS upgrades dos not affect other version of iOS. Android tablets...
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Performance with MARK

by Paul Coyne
Throughout today the MARK site has been slow to respond, especially for reports. We have identified the cause of the problem and working hard to resolve it. An incident has logged at https://status.hoddereducation.co.uk. Please visit the...
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Mark schemes for Puma and Pira.

by Paul Coyne
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All supporting documents for New PiRA and New PUMA Autumn tests are now available from the MARK resource picker, so customers of the new editions can find all they need to administer, mark and analyse results in MARK. This includes...

We're starting a changelog 📣

by Paul Coyne
Today we're are thrilled to introduce our digital services timeline. The purpose of this timeline is to keep you informed about updates and changes we are continuously pushing to Hodder Education and Rising Star websites. This includes...
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