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Assessment is about to get a whole lot more fun. 

We’re almost ready to release Classcraft Boss Battles! The team can hardly contain our excitement, so we wanted to give everyone a sneak peek of what’s in store.

Ready? Voila!

What are Boss Battles, exactly? They’re review games designed to make quizzes so exciting that students will ace your next test or exam.

Boss Battles are another way for teachers to add their own content in Classcraft. Every time students, teams, or the whole class answers one of your questions correctly, they’ll knock Health Points (HP) off a boss monster and gain Experience Points (XP) as a reward. Cool, huh?

What happens if students aren’t prepared? For every question they get wrong, the boss attacks and takes away some of their HP. Yikes!

If students demonstrate their mastery of your lesson, they’ll defeat the boss and be victorious!

We hope you’re as excited as we are! :)

I suck at drinking water. And if you’re like me, it’s perpetually on your to-do list, an abandoned New Year’s resolution (15 years running). And if you’re like me, and have IBD, it’s really important to get your 8 full glasses/day.

I stumbled across this app in a pregnancy forum (the cutest water drinking reminder app ever) but I wanted to share it with my IBDers too. It’s called ‘Plant Nanny’- choose your own plant, pot, and setting and then ‘feed it’ whenever you finish a glass of water in real time. It will remind you if you’ve gone too long without hydrating with notifications.

There’s something about that little creature and the joy it displays as a result of my hydration. Somehow I don’t really care too much if I get dehydrated but if that sweet little plant starts to wither, it’s game over for my emotions -I have to save it!

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