GOORU ALPHA
Gooru Alpha is our first version of Gooru, which is under active development. Improvements and changes will occur often as we iterate and add features, but we want the public to use what we have developed so far.
Register to become an Alpha-user and join us in improving Gooru! Have a question or something to say? Please reach out to us at support@goorulearning.org.
GOORU OVERVIEW
Welcome to our Global Classroom, where we always have a seat reserved for you!
Gooru is a search engine for learning that allows you to explore and study over 2,600 standards-aligned and personalized study guides. Study guides cover 5th-12th grade math and science topics, and resources include digital textbooks, animations, instructor videos and more. All resources are vetted and organized by teachers or Gooru’s content experts, so you don’t have to sort through the mess of subpar educational resources available online yourself.
Gooru also makes it easy for you to connect with your worldwide peers to make learning a social experience. Post questions to an active community of students, teachers and experts, or find friends and peers to study with.
Best of all, Gooru adapts to you. Based on the topics you study and your performance on self-assessments, Gooru suggests resources and study guides that will help you master the concepts. You can track your study habits and monitor your performance on any of the topics you study.
Want to know more? Check out our Gooru resources below.
Gooru is a search engine for learning that allows you to explore and study over 2,600 standards-aligned and personalized study guides. Study guides cover 5th-12th grade math and science topics, and resources include digital textbooks, animations, instructor videos and more. All resources are vetted and organized by teachers or Gooru’s content experts, so you don’t have to sort through the mess of subpar educational resources available online yourself.
Gooru also makes it easy for you to connect with your worldwide peers to make learning a social experience. Post questions to an active community of students, teachers and experts, or find friends and peers to study with.
Best of all, Gooru adapts to you. Based on the topics you study and your performance on self-assessments, Gooru suggests resources and study guides that will help you master the concepts. You can track your study habits and monitor your performance on any of the topics you study.
Want to know more? Check out our Gooru resources below.
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Our mission is to honor the human right to education, so we’re delivering standards-aligned educational resources to students all over the world – for free.
Thanks to Open Educational Resources (OER), which are high-quality, open licensed, online educational materials, Gooru is able to harness and share the best web resources at no cost.
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation defines OER as “teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use or re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.”
Open educational resources are part of the OER Commons Initiative, launched in February 2007 by the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME) and supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. The initiative is an ongoing, worldwide collaborative movement that encourages teachers and students to use, reuse, adapt and share open educational resources to grow a sustainable educational culture.
To learn more about open educational resources and the OER Commons Initiative, please visit http://www.oercommons.org/.
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GooruSummary.pdf
GooruContent.pdfGooru Features
Resources
Collections
Study
Quizzes
CLASSROOM
Gooru makes it easy for students and teachers to find the best online education resources. Using machine learning and human judgment, Gooru curates, auto-tags and contextualizes collections of web resources to accommodate personalized learning pathways. Multimedia resources available on Gooru dramatically increase student engagement and motivation to learn by connecting topics with 21st century resources and real life applications. Gooru also offers adaptive assessments that allow students to test their knowledge on topics with formative quizzes.
RESOURCES
Search, browse and save the best education resources on the Web. Over 50,000 resources have been organized and vetted by educators for classroom learning and home-study. Learn from over ten different types of online resources ranging from instructor videos to digital texts and interactive games.
Search by keyword, browse the Resource Library or check out our favorites in Featured Resources.
Preview: Instantly preview, read comments, and see how other teachers and students have used each resource.
Save: Use My Resources to save and organize all the resources you love.
Preview: Instantly preview, read comments, and see how other teachers and students have used each resource.
Save: Use My Resources to save and organize all the resources you love.
COLLECTIONS
Keep up with your school lessons by selecting a collection from one of our 2,600+ collections. Gooru collections are published by educators and aligned to U.S. Common Core Standards for Math and to California Science Curriculum Standards.
My Collections: Organize the Collections you’ve made or subscribed to. You can also copy and customize the collections you love or create a new collection by easily uploading your own materials.
To supplement your studying, use the Notes and Network drawers to find additional resources, questions asked by other students, related collections, and practice quizzes.
Marketplace - Coming Soon! Browse and download apps related to your studies. You can find a tutor, play a game, buy a lab-kit, and much more!
Search
Search for full collections of resources that cover all 5th-12th grade math and science classes. You can preview any collection to get a glimpse of its resources before you begin studying.My Collections: Organize the Collections you’ve made or subscribed to. You can also copy and customize the collections you love or create a new collection by easily uploading your own materials.
Study
While studying on Gooru, use tools to view the author’s narration, take notes and save your favorite resources. When you think you’ve got it, take a practice quiz to see what you’ve learned.To supplement your studying, use the Notes and Network drawers to find additional resources, questions asked by other students, related collections, and practice quizzes.
Marketplace - Coming Soon! Browse and download apps related to your studies. You can find a tutor, play a game, buy a lab-kit, and much more!
PRACTICE
Practice what you've learned by using the Review tab in the Notes Drawer. You'll have access to an assortment of practice questions on the topics you study. Use the Practice Tools to check your answers, find hints and read full explanations for solving the tough problems.
In practice mode, you can use tools to check your answers, see hints, and read a full explanation for every question.
Search for quizzes for any lesson you study. You can customize quizzes or add practice questions from our question bank. When you take a quiz, you receive instant feedback on your results.
In practice mode, you can use tools to check your answers, see hints, and read a full explanation for every question.
Search for quizzes for any lesson you study. You can customize quizzes or add practice questions from our question bank. When you take a quiz, you receive instant feedback on your results.
SEARCH
PREVIEW
SAVE
SEARCH
BROWSE
MY COLLECTIONS
PLAY COLLECTIONS
NETWORK DRAWER
NOTES DRAWER
NOTES DRAWER
PRACTICE TOOLS
MY QUIZZES
