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Wonderful for kids with learning challenges
This app is fabulous for my students with disabilities. They love that they can hear my voice saying the words and they love writing with their fingers. It is less like studying and more like fun :) I highly, highly recommend this app for anyone studying spelling words.WESTeacher
This is an ESSENTIAL app if you have school age children
I have a lot of apps for my kids, and this is the one app that we use every single week. With the new text import feature it saves a significant amount of time vs typing all the words in on the screen, particularly if the words you want to use are already on your teacher's website or on any other spelling assistance website. My kids love the 'write it out' feature, because if they think they know how a word should look they write it out to check their own work, all the while building their spelling confidence.
I had a few questions for the developer, and they were answered well above my expectations, both in speed and thoughtfulness. Its obvious he cares very much that the users are happy with their use of his application.Show lessSimple314
Brilliant application
My son aged 7 is having a ball with this application. It's fitted in perfectly with his weekly spelling routine from school, and getting him involved in adding and recording the words really helps him to think of the context in which to use them. One minor request for the release - would it be possible to sort the quizzes added chronologically, rather than alphabetically? It would be useful to see the latest at the top of the list. Great app!Show lessB_Family
Bless You
This app was actually an answer to prayer for me. My daughter has Down syndrome and it is so hard to keep her focused when we are working on spelling homework. This fantastic app has made practicing and testing fun and I couldn't be more grateful. I recommend it to other moms who have children with varying exceptionalities. Homework time is fun again in our house! Yeah!Show lessDSTeachingMom
Serious shortcomings
I've been using this app with my kids for around a week and I am less than thrilled with it. First, when they say you can add any word from any language, they are correct. You can also add any incorrect variant of any word you are trying to teach. In my mind, a simple spell check dictionary would have been an obvious option to include. When you have to add 30 or more intermediate to advanced words for advanced students, this would be very useful and the option to turn it off or ignore it should have been added.
It requires way too many button pushes to add words to a quiz.
Then there is the periodic crashing while creating quizzes, which is greatly irritating when you've added a bunch of words with audio. It should save after each word, but it does not. It does not support landscape view (but the index card rotates sideways). It is also too easy to delete quizzes, I quickly discovered after handing the iPad off to my middle schooler (who is usually tech savvy).
Great idea, poor execution. I guess if you just want to download quizzes, it works well for that. I wanted this app to upload words on my kids spelling quizzes and I believe this app isn't ready for prime-time and isn't worth the $5 price tag.Show lessMr.P-72
Almost perfect!
Let me start of by saying that I am in now say affiliated with the developers.
I have been using mathboard with my children since release and it was just what I wanted.
When I saw Spellboard, i couldn't believe my luck, as again, it was just what I wanted - spelling lists which speak the word and also use the word in a sentence so the child knows the context too.
Being british, I was a little disappointed in the provided audio in the Palaware spelling lists, and the audio quality wasn't that great too, but there's a nifty feature which lets you create your OWN spelling lists and record your OWN voice!!! how neat is that? And you can also share those custom spelling lists with others.
I must commend the developers wholeheartedly for their efforts.
The ONLY niggles I have is that there is a lag between letters when the child writes out in the word in the whiteboard area - but I'm confident this will be fixed, making it a 5 star app.
If you want your child to spell on the go using their iPad - THIS IS A MUST HAVE APP.Show lessbavster
Great app
This app is really great. It allowed me to customize spelling quizzes for my daughter based on her spelling list. It allows me to record the word for her to listen to and replay if needed. You can also record a sentence using the word if you want which is nice. I can setup multiple quizzes based on dates for her to do every day...saves a lot of time for me. The best part is it makes doing her spelling quiz FUN!!!Show lesssurfjump
Love it!
My son enjoys studying for spelling tests much more with this wonderful app. He gets a kick out of hearing my voice pronouncing the words along with silly sentences to keep him interested. It is admittedly a little labor intensive to enter the words myself but totally worth it to help him prepare for the school spelling bee. I've recommended this app to another mom and she also loved it.Show lessgenevalove
Not sure it is worth the money
First exploration of the application after buying it, I discovered that we have to enter in all the information. Unlike other apps by this designer, we have to supply all the information. Would have been great if words are preinstalled. Felt it was very labor intensive. After putting in my 19th word of the first quiz (recording etal), the app unexpectedly closed and I lost everything! Had to start all over again. I am not enjoying this. I thought this app would assist me, but I find it is much faster to write out the words on a paper. Still trying to figure out what the app actually does.Show lesscruzdeeva
Great app! has a few issues to fix
This is a great app for my third grade son - I can update each week. recently it's crashing more which needs to be fixed. If you put in 25 words in a quiz and it crashes - you have to start all over again...very frustrating. otherwise very useful! I have been in contact with customer support and they are extremely responsive and working on the issue.Show lessIrwinopolis
