Classroom Hero vs AAPALearning

Classroom Hero: Power Up Your Existing Classroom Reward System Enhance (not replace) your classroom reward system with powerful digital tools! Classroom Hero digitizes your current incentive strategy in your classroom while adding fun gamification elements that students love. Customizable Rewards: Recognize the behaviors you already value - volunteering, improvement, hard work, or anything specific to your teaching style. Digital Classroom Economy: Seamlessly convert your existing classroom marketplace into a digital format where students purchase rewards with their earned points - we handle all the accounting. Collaborative Management: Invite teaching assistants to distribute points on your behalf, maintaining your reward structure while saving valuable time. Class-Wide Goals: Motivate your entire class with shared objectives like pizza parties or movie days that complement your current reward philosophy. Classroom Hero doesn't ask you to change what's working for your class - it simply makes your existing reward system more engaging, consistent, and manageable. All the benefits of gamification with none of the extra work!

The American Association of Pathologists' Assistants (AAPA) is the only professional organization exclusively built for the advancement of pathologists' assistants, from student to working professional and beyond. The AAPA advocates, promotes, and sustains the highest education and standards for the profession. All AAPA educational content is created specifically for the success of PAs at any stage in their career – from the Study Guide for those prepping for the ASCP BOC exam, to PA-specific CE for working PAs who need to recertify, and the Preceptor Program for PAs that have taken on new training responsibilities in the lab. Through AAPALearning, the AAPA LMS App, AAPA members can access all free educational content included with membership, such as peer-reviewed journal articles and monthly manuscripts, webinars on demand, and special features. Buy and stream conference lectures from the last two years, and easily watch and take quizzes on your mobile device. Keep up to date and enhance your skills with special courses designed by PAs for PAs including the Preceptor Program, a multi-part course designed to feature lab-specific training and resources. Students can access the Study Guide with content created specifically to help them prepare for the ASCP BOC exam, and discover which areas are their strongest and which may require some extra studying. Search materials by content type and credit type, including Advanced AP, General AP, Medical Ethics, and Laboratory Safety. All credits earned in the LMS will be transferred weekly to your ASCP certification account for AAPA Fellow members.