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Welcome

What is ChooChoo?

  • ✨ ChooChoo is a Checklist tool for educators
  • ✨ ChooChoo encourages learning through student self-assessment, class collaboration and diagnostic teaching.
  • ✨ Students and instructors interact with choochoo-bot through a Github issue thread. This makes ChooChoo especially relevant to those who already teach using Github. It's also a great way to introduce your students to the wonderful world of Git, Github and version control!
  • ✨ ChooChoo is free to use and adapt under a Creative Commons License.

Features

Checklists and tutorials

  • 📋 Create checklists for your students to work through
  • 🖊️ Link checklist items to tutorials written with Jupyter Notebooks or Markdown

Student self-assessment

  • ❓ Link checklist items to a question bank
  • 👩‍🎤 Allow students to generate their own personalised question sets

Class collaboration

  • 📢 Enable students contributions to the question bank
  • 🧑🏽‍🤝‍🧑🏽 Use student peer-review to decide which questions are published

Diagnostic teaching

  • 📊 Generate online plots to summarise class progress in real time

Interested?

See the setup guide for instructors.

Pretty-please say hi 👋 if you are using ChooChoo - either through the discussions page or via email. If we know people are using it, we're more likely to do the housework- sweeping out the old dusty code, polishing up the documentation 🧹.

Tip

Are you a student looking to get started with ChooChoo? The place you're looking for is probably the student setup instructions.