Our Values
Bakpax’s mission is to help to make the job of teaching more efficient and fulfilling. We love working in a field, and at a company, that is making a positive contribution to the world. The world’s got...
View ArticleMaking Homework More Effective: Putting Content in Context for the Learner
For years, there has been a tension in primary and secondary education between testing and learning. Measuring students takes time away from learning, and stresses out students (and teachers and...
View ArticleMiracles and Mysteries in the Classroom
The gradual global increase in high stakes testing over the last few decades has exerted pressure on schools to act more like test prep cram programs. Ever-more harried teachers must teach to...
View ArticleStartups Have Just One Unfair Advantage—Use it!
Will my startup fail? It’s a question every entrepreneur obsesses over. It’s nearly impossible to give general advice about startups. They succeed or fail for what appear to be extremely specific...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Get the Best Results from Bakpax During Test Season
Teachers, summer is almost here! Start the break a little early by letting Bakpax grade your final exams for free. It’s time to start planning your Teacher Summer Renewal, so send those tests our way....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bakpax Release Notes: 6.19.19 – Speedier Grading, Better Assignment View, and...
Speedier Grading! We have increased the speed of the AI grading process! Now, instead of chopping the image into pieces and then sending each to the AI for grading, we send all of the student’s answers...
View ArticleA sneak peak of what’s to come (SPOILER: We love llamas)
Getting students to engage in the classroom is hard enough, not to mention getting them to engage with a new learning app! That’s why we’re paying special attention to how the assignment submission...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bakpax Release Notes: 8.14.19 – Better Navigation, Student Submission Dates,...
We’re working hard to improve the Bakpax user experience, so you can hit the ground running this fall with time saving grading techniques and instant feedback to your students. Here are a few recent...
View ArticleWill Robots Take My Job? Artificial Intelligence and Unemployment
In my recent essays, AI Is Fire and Artificial Sentience vs Artificial Intelligence, I wrote that we shouldn’t fear a super-advanced “Artificial Sentience,” because when AS arrives it won’t be hostile...
View Article