When you work for a company whose sole purpose is to help college students improve their personal financial knowledge and prepare for their future and career, it can be gratifying to pause and take a minute to highlight the strides you’ve reached toward your overall objectives. So for this, we wanted to highlight the amazing product developments we’ve completed here at iGrad.
As financial literacy experts, we’ve built our reputation by developing an innovative online financial literacy platform that relays financial education in a fun and exciting way to students. Through creative hustle and vigorous work, we take pride in developing new and innovative features and benefits to complement our products to better serve all colleges and students.
Recently, we released the long-awaited financial literacy education curriculum entitled Your Financial Mastery – Financial Literacy for the Real World. To complement the curriculum and assist facilitators in delivering the content via the “flipped classroom model,” we’ve developed an online companion site to house the plethora of interactive exercises, videos, etc., that can be accessed by students outside the classroom at a time convenient to them. Each resource coincides with a relevant chapter to reinforce learning objectives. Check out the benefits and features below and experience how the Your Financial Mastery and online companion site can assist you in improving your students’ financial understanding today.
Benefits and features include:
Articles
The online companion site comes equipped with loads of articles. Each article is geared toward delivering relevant and resourceful financial education content that is specifically designed to reinforce each chapter, topic, and assignment. These come in handy for homework, class assignments and group exercises.
Videos
It’s no secret that using educational videos to relay information is effective. Videos have a knack for delivering specific information in a way that helps bridge the gap between the simple and complex, which allows students to learn without much effort. Education videos provide experiences that are sometimes unattainable by instructors through interactive and engaging means. From how to prepare yourself for retirement by Ben Stein to how to protect yourself from identity theft, the online companion site provides multiple engaging videos to assist in modifying your students’ money management behaviors.
Infographics
Two words: fun and serious. That is the easiest way to describe an infographic. Infographics’ forte is to dissolve important complicated content (like compound interest) that is typically boring and reinvent the topic into a fun and intriguing experience. Not only do infographics require less reading, they also are 30 times more likely to be read and are processed by the brain at a rate that is 60,000 times quicker than that of text.
Games
Like videos and infographics, using games to educate can do two things:
- Games bridge the gap between simple and complex while engaging students
- Games cater to a digital generation that has grown up using technology and different learning methods
Games make learning fun. This creates an environment that is conducive to learning as students become more focused and motivated.
Calculators
From compound interest calculators to a budgeting calculator to a credit card payment calculator, the online companion site has a calculator for every lesson the financial literacy curriculum sets out to teach.
Individual Instructor Access
Each instructor that receives an instructor guide for the Your Financial Mastery - Financial Literacy Curriculum will also receive a set of credentials that will grant them all-access to the online companion site. Here, instructors will find all pertinent resources that will allow them to teach the course more effectively (quiz and exam answer keys, assignment keys, etc.).
Though benefits and features are important, it’s vital to understand how each can assist in your financial literacy objectives. That’s where iGrad and our partners’ testimonials come in handy – so take a look and see why your colleagues are raving about iGrad and our innovative products.
Better yet, let us show you by setting up a Your Financial Mastery – Financial Literacy Curriculum presentation.
