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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
Back to School (For Some)
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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Good day, Could you help me understand the following comments from IBIS regarding the orals. Last year and this year I was the only teacher assessing work. Last year no adjustments were made to grades, yet this year all grades were reduced many...
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