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1 Oct 2026
Student Access - How to Provide it for Free
This week, we’ve updated all the how-to portions of the site: how to navigate it, how to set up student access, how to ask questions and more. The larger InThinking team also created a set of video tutorials...
13 Aug 2026
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If you are in a southern hemisphere IB school, you will, we hope, forgive the self-absorption of your colleagues in the north. For us northerners, it is back to school time. At InThinking, we haven't...
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Thanks Tim; I agree with your school's policy and the IB stand on this. You know our social-media inclined students anything for a quick abbreviation; IMO.
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Hi Tom, At my current school, we do not allow this. The IB has cautioned students against using emojis. Here is what they say on page 11 of their FAQs document (it was updated last year to include this new information). Question:...
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Dear Tim or David, A question from an IO student: may students use emojis as part of their ten bullet points? Or are we to regard an "emoji as painting a thousand words"? Surely above the IO limit. Let me know how to respond...
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Hi Tim and David, I have a question - if students would like to write a comparative essay on two lit texts, in the previous EE course, one had to be in English and the other one in translation. However, now it says, that the...
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