NoRedInk, the learning platform used to help students learn and practice grammar and writing skills, has made a slight, but game-changing alteration to their system. The service, notorious among middle and high school students for allowing teachers to easily assign their students hours of topics to master, can be frustrating to some, with a major complaint about the platform being the amount of tries one gets after getting one question wrong. 

Up until a few weeks ago, if a student mastering topics got just one question wrong, they would have to get three more follow up questions correct – in a row – to move on to a new topic question. If a student were to get one of these three questions wrong, they’d have to complete three more questions. This could get repetitive and frustrating for some, and it seems that NoRedInk has been listening to the feedback, as they have changed their “rule” from three tries to just two. 

Though it’s just one less question or “try”, this may help students to be more motivated to do their topics assigned to them. In their news post announcing the change, NoRedInk claims that the changes were made to increase student confidence, with students and teachers reporting positive outcomes when working with the new, more forgiving system.