statscloud is fast establishing itself as the go-to tool for teaching statistics in higher education. It's modern, touch-friendly interface is extremely popular with students, and its unique teaching tools make it a compelling alternative to other statistics software.
Students aren't required to click through lots of options and tick-boxes when running analyses
View formulas, change tests and alpha levels, and edit charts all inside the analysis output
The app was designed for every device and works as well on phones / tablets as on desktops
Every analysis has a plain-English explanation so it's easy to make sense of everything on screen
A clear and recognisable interface is important to help make students feel comfortable with statistics.
Most statistics software is designed for professional statisticians and is often filled with options and tickboxes which many students find overwhelming. However, statscloud has a much more streamlined interface; it focuses on showing students what they need to know and keeps the jargon to a minimum.
Every analysis can be run with a few simple clicks and every test result is fully interactive to encourage students to explore the output at their own leisure. Students can view formulas, toggle alpha levels and test statistics all within the analysis output and watch the the results change instantly.
statscloud was designed principally as a teaching tool so it has a whole range of unique teaching tools you won't find in other statistics software.
Visualisations are a great way of teaching concepts in statistics (e.g., data distributions) but stats apps are limited in what charting features they offer. With statscloud, you can view high quality, informative charts and interact with them in ways that were never possible before.
One key feature of statscloud is the ability to view the formulas behind every calculated statistic. This provides a unique way of integrating statistics theory in stats workshops and showing students worked formulas behind every statistic.
The 'Code' tab gives students exposure to a stats programming language (e.g., Python, Julia, R) which can help bridge them to the language later on in their career. All the code is annotated line-by-line to help students understand exactly what it does and migrate whenever they're ready to.
A stats app that can be used remotely opens up a wealth of new teaching opportunities and allows stats sessions to become much more interactive.
With statscloud, interactive stats sessions are no longer limited to computer labs. By providing students with a link to a new statscloud project, students can now open the app in lectures or online workshops on whatever device they have with them. This allows them to follow along with what you're doing in the session and complete interactive tasks together as a group.
As statscloud allows you to generate links to projects at any stage (a project template, or a project populated with data and analyses), you can disseminate these to students as short links or through a QR code, so they can open up a project at whatever stage you'd like them to.
In summary, statscloud has many features which make it the go-to app for teaching statistics in schools, colleges or universities across a range of academic subjects.
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