using spaced-repetition with esl classes, part 3

Keeping up Motivation

Ensuring your class doesn’t give up on using Memrise: creating leaderboards

and making it competitive

“Memrise seems great but…will they use it??”

- Everyone

CREATE A LEADERBOARD FOR YOUR CLASS

A good way to keep up motivation is to…

Log-in to Memrise

Give your students the URL of your Memrise account

Go to this URL and click ‘Follow’

Get them to follow you - this will let you see their progress

Click here

Then get them to follow each other!

Click on ‘Followers’ to see the other people who are following me (it should just be your classmates). Click on their profiles and follow them!

Competition

Who will have the most points by next Tuesday’s lesson??

DOES THIS WORK?

See for yourselves…

Week 2

…Not everyone has successfully followed me yet...

Week 3 (after Easter)

Only one hasn’t managed to follow me!

Week 4

…I forgot to take a screenshot

Week 5

I’ve caught them all!

“But this is with a (halfway) motivated class!!”

- Everyone

How about this class…

They’re like… and I’m like…

Week 1

They’ve all registered…

Let’s see how it goes from here…

My accounts!! Not relevant…

Week 2

Week 4 (after setting individual targets)

You could give out prizes!

Battle Royale

If you create your own course, the account you used will show a leaderboard of all the people studying it.

You could pit different classes against each other!