Overview
Discover The Big Challenge Academy, an interactive platform that saves teachers time and motivates their pupils.
What is The Academy?
The Big Challenge Academy is a turnkey online platform designed to strengthen pupils' English learning throughout the school year. It offers a range of tools and resources to motivate pupils and make teachers' work easier.
Key benefits
- Aligned with the curriculum: The content is carefully organised by cultural themes and the competences of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).
- Varied, ready-to-use tools: Access interactive exercises, engaging podcasts, stimulating challenges and detailed progress tracking, all from a single, intuitive dashboard.
- Significant time savings for teachers: Benefit from automated preparation and marking, as well as clear statistics to quickly assess your classes' progress.
- Lasting pupil engagement: The platform encourages visible progress and offers regular events to maintain a high level of motivation within the class.
💡 Tip : Mix up the learning! Combine The Academy's different modules (homework, multimedia series, games) to create dynamic, personalised and captivating learning sequences for your pupils.
How is the content created?
The educational content of The Big Challenge Academy is the result of close, ongoing collaboration with a team of experienced teachers. This approach ensures it matches the requirements of the curriculum and pupils' real needs.
A rigorous co-creation process
- Brainstorming and planning: Regular discussions with teachers help define the most relevant themes, activity formats and difficulty levels.
- Design and validation: Each activity is then designed and submitted for double validation, both educational and linguistic, by experts.
- Publication and continuous improvement: Once available on the platform, the content is constantly evaluated and improved thanks to the valuable feedback of the pupils and teachers who use it.
👉 Why does this matter? This iterative process ensures that the activities on offer are always up to date, relevant, engaging and perfectly aligned with the learning objectives.
Self-correcting homework
Simplify homework management! Create bespoke homework in just a few clicks and let The Big Challenge Academy platform handle the marking. This lets you consolidate your pupils' learning in a fun and effective way.
Key features
- A rich and varied question bank: Access thousands of questions sorted by level (A1 beginner, A2 elementary, B1 intermediate) and by curriculum theme.
- A variety of exercise types: Offer varied activities to stimulate different aspects of learning: multiple-choice questions, matching pairs, putting items in order, filling in the blanks, and more.
- Immediate, constructive feedback: Pupils receive instant marking, allowing them to understand their mistakes and make progress. They can redo the exercises as many times as needed.
- A detailed results dashboard: Track individual and collective performance, and identify strengths and difficulties to adapt your teaching.
- Full curriculum coverage: Cover all the essential themes: vocabulary, grammar, civilisation, reading and listening comprehension, and even pronunciation.
💡 Save precious time : Free yourself from repetitive marking tasks and focus on the personalised support of your pupils and on running your lessons.
Multimedia series
Give your classes enriching daily oral immersion thanks to series of authentic podcasts, specially designed and aligned with the cultural themes of the curriculum. It is an excellent way to develop pupils' independence in their listening.
What your pupils will love
- Short, engaging episodes: Formats of 4 to 6 minutes, perfect for holding attention and working effectively on listening comprehension.
- Built-in interactive quizzes: Each episode comes with a quiz to check comprehension and reinforce learning in a fun way.
- Varied, topical themes: Explore a wide range of captivating subjects: the everyday life of young English speakers, cultural aspects of English-speaking countries, scientific discoveries, adventure stories, and more.
- Adapted to pupils' levels: Content available for levels A1 (beginner) to B1 (intermediate), with new episodes added regularly to keep things fresh.
How does it work?
- Active listening: Pupils listen to the audio episode, in class or at home.
- Immediate interaction: They then answer the quiz directly on the platform.
- Real-time tracking: You can view their progress and results instantly from your dashboard.
🎧 The bonus : The multimedia series are an excellent tool to prepare pupils for listening comprehension assessments and to familiarise them with different accents.
Events
Energise the school year and strengthen class cohesion with stimulating collective challenges that encourage team spirit, active participation and the engagement of every pupil.
Regular events to keep up the motivation
- Weekly class objective: Each week, the class is invited to collectively reach a points target by completing activities on The Academy. An excellent way to encourage mutual support!
- Monthly themed challenge: Every month, a new theme takes centre stage. Pupils explore that subject through specific activities and earn points for their class.
- The Class Challenge: The flagship event of the year! Classes compete in a friendly contest. Up for grabs: trophies, medals and certificates to reward effort and success.
👉 Zero preparation, 100% motivation : All the challenges are built directly into The Big Challenge Academy app. Everything is managed automatically — you have nothing to prepare!
Resource library
Access an exclusive library of more than 100 varied, ready-to-use teaching resources to enrich and energise your English lessons throughout the year.
A wide range of materials included
- Interactive games and Escape Games: To learn while having fun and to develop logic and collaboration.
- Themed vocabulary sheets: Targeted, illustrated word lists to aid memorisation.
- Targeted grammar exercises: To work on specific points of the curriculum step by step.
- Cultural videos and tutorials: To discover English-speaking culture and get clear explanations of key concepts.
- Ideas for fun classroom activities: Turnkey suggestions to liven up your sessions and involve all your pupils.
- Printable materials: Worksheets, flashcards and other documents to use in class or at home.
The benefits for your teaching
- Diversify your teaching approaches: Adapt your methods to your pupils' different learning profiles.
- Personalise your lessons: Choose the most relevant resources according to the specific needs of your classes and of each pupil.
- Save precious time: Reduce your preparation time thanks to quality materials that are ready to use.
📚 Always more new content : The resource library is regularly enriched with new content to offer you ever more choice and possibilities.
Progress tracking
The Big Challenge Academy provides you with powerful tracking tools to accurately measure your pupils' progress, both individually and collectively.
Key features for effective tracking
- A centralised teacher dashboard: Access all your classes' progress data from a single, clear and intuitive interface.
- Detailed results visualisation: Analyse performance by competence (listening, reading, grammar, vocabulary), by activity, by pupil or for the whole class.
- Quick identification of needs: Easily spot the strengths to build on and the persistent difficulties so you can put targeted support in place.
- Engagement and participation tracking: View your pupils' attendance and their involvement in the various activities on offer.
- Easy data export: Generate reports and export results for your educational reviews, class councils or to communicate with families.
The benefits for your teaching
- Personalise your support: Adapt your interventions and offer specific remediation according to the needs identified.
- Recognise effort and achievement: Encourage your pupils by showing them their progress in concrete terms.
- Make informed teaching decisions: Base your teaching choices on objective, reliable data.
📊 A tool that supports success : Progress tracking helps you better understand each pupil's learning journey and optimise your teaching strategies.
What are the registration fees?
A one-year subscription to The Big Challenge Academy is included with every registration for the annual contest — see Registration fees for details.
💡 If you have any questions or would like a personalised quote, please do not hesitate to contact The Big Challenge team.
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