2 Sep
New content
AP, Personal Finance and the investing track brought level with IB
An internal audit found the assessment-support material was heavily weighted toward IB: four marked exemplars for IB Economics against none at all for AP Microeconomics or Personal Finance, and nothing whatsoever for the investing track. That is now corrected. Every assessed task has a paired exemplar - one near the top band and one in the middle on the same question - because the marking decisions that are actually hard sit between 1 and 2, not between 0 and 3. The glossary roughly tripled for AP Macro, AP Micro and Personal Finance, and the investing track gained one of its own.
2 Sep
Fixed
The investing track was silently missing from teacher lesson plans
The lesson-plan generator matched lessons to courses through curriculum units. The ninety-odd investing lessons are grouped by module instead, so every one of them was skipped - and the generator reported a healthy total without ever mentioning them. They now all have plans, with answer keys drawn from their own questions.
2 Sep
New feature
Internal Assessment and Extended Essay support
New for IB Economics and Business Management: the assessment criteria restated in language a student can act on, a term-by-term timeline, the specific ways marks get thrown away, and a drafting workspace whose word counter counts the way a word limit counts. A draft can be marked against that course's own criteria before it reaches you, and the moderation queue puts the least certain work first so you moderate a pile rather than marking one. Your mark always replaces the machine's, and the original stays visible underneath.
2 Sep
New feature
Everything prints, and downloads as an editable document
Lesson plans, worksheets, answer keys, glossaries, IA checklists and exam technique pages all print, and all download as files that open in Word, Pages and Google Docs so you can change them before you hand them out. Worksheets come in two versions from the same document: the student copy with answer space, and the teacher copy with the answer and explanation for every question. Cover lessons are flagged separately - they work with no devices and nobody who teaches the subject in the room.
2 Sep
New content
Teacher lesson plans for every lesson
Objectives, a starter, timings that add up, questions worth asking out loud, homework, the misconceptions that actually turn up in that topic and what to say back, and an answer key you can hold while the class works. Plans written by hand for whole topics are labelled as such; the rest are built from the lesson they sit on, and we say which is which.
2 Sep
New content
TOK, CAS, international-mindedness and a key-terms glossary
Theory of Knowledge prompts that are questions about how we know rather than economics questions phrased loftily, CAS links only where a student could genuinely do the activity, and international-mindedness prompts per unit. The glossary gives every term its definition, how it is used in context, and the wrong definition students most often give - which is the part that makes it a teaching glossary rather than a dictionary.
2 Sep
New feature
Where our data comes from
A public page listing every source behind the market data and simulators, what it covers, how often it refreshes, and what it cannot do - including plainly that prices are delayed and are not a licensed market feed. Published because it is the first question a serious department asks, and because a teacher should be able to answer a student who asks where a number came from.
Why this page exists, and what it does not claim
Platforms in this market advertise update frequency — “every week, 52 weeks a
year” and similar. The claim matters because it answers a real question: is this thing
alive, or was it built once and left?
We are not going to put a number on our cadence, because a number is only worth anything if you
can check it. This page is the checkable version. If entries stop appearing, that will be visible
here too, which is the only thing that makes the page worth reading.
Everything a student reads on QuantAim was written by a person. For exactly where automated
marking sits and where it does not, see
where we use AI, and where we don’t.