RainbowStar vs Smart Learning@EdUHK Library

Your e-books, your pedagogy. Cater your student's need. RainbowStar lets you create your own e-Learning materials and hold a truly interactive and engaging e-lesson. E-books can be easily created and adjusted freely to suit your needs. Our interactive e-lesson equipped with functions which helps you to save time. Exercises can be auto-corrected, and the learning data are analyzed to let you know more about your students’ ability. And the most important is, it is fun! Innovative e-Book Editor: Total Design Freedom We offer 80+ comprehensive tool and 10000+ images for you to tailor-make your e-books. You can start with a free canvas or choose from our templates. With easy drag and drop you can customize anything. Cross-platform lesson: Interact with your students Lesson can be held in a cross-platform environment. You can group your students and hold a competition, voting or discussion. We also provide page-sync, black-out screen and other functions that helps you manage your class. Instant Charts: Know your students well All questions with pre-set answers are instantly corrected. Learning data are automatically collected and analyzed. You can easily find out the learning difficulties of your students. Bookstore with editable e-books Share your knowledge! Here we have a bookstore for you to share your materials in public, and you can read the e-books from the bookstore to get some inspiration, or even download and edit it to suit your needs.

Real-life scenarios are provided to meet your diverging learning needs: Why library? Why not just Google or Baidu? Information search process: Tips on searching with the best results, “Are they good?”, “Are they enough?”, etc. Doing things right: Academic integrity and how to cite other people’s works Main Features: You can use this app to learn at your own pace and select your own topics of interest. Contents of the app are path-oriented and you will be guided from starting point to complete the tasks. You can also select topics based on your needs and interests. Recommendations of choices will also be provided. Focuses mainly on information searching process and referencing. Real examples are used to demonstrate searching in the real life environment. Adopts an interactive assessment approach like quizzes and drag & drop games to help strengthening users’ engagement and stimulating their interests and understanding.