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by alexsouthmayd 10 days ago
These are really thoughtful points. Thanks for sharing them. I'd love to check out your code.

The percentage mastery threshold on Summit may indeed be quite high, but the Summit also comes after the student has proven they are ready for the it by satisfying the BKT threshold on Climb. Still, though, it is worth testing out mastery percentage thresholds to see if lowering it makes any positive difference (e.g., maybe we are not letting students progress fast enough because the bar for quasi-perfection is so high).

On students asking AI outside of Bloomy: that is always likely to be a challenge. One way we mitigate this is by protecting the clipboard so students cannot copy/paste in or out of the platform. This is especially helpful in our Writing Studio tool, where students write long form essays (although clipboard protection is optional and can be disabled by the teacher/parent if they wish -- e.g., if the student typically drafts in Google Docs or Word and wants to easily paste).