School Profile

British International School, Phuket (BISP)

• Location: Phuket, Thailand 
• Curriculum: UK National Curriculum (adapted), IGCSE, IB Diploma Programme (IBDP), and BTEC 
• Grades: Ages 2 to 18 (K-13) 
• Enrollment: Over 1,100 students

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Life Before Wayground (The Challenge)

The school faced a core conflict between the demands of a complex international curriculum (British and IB) and the reality of teacher workload and time poverty.

• The Grading Burden: Teachers, particularly in secondary subjects like Computer Science, were spending extensive hours self-marking formative and summative assessments. This meant time that could be spent planning or providing direct feedback was instead used for manual administrative tasks.

• Time-Consuming Resource Creation: Teachers were constantly hunting for or creating new resources from scratch to align with the school's high academic standards, consuming valuable time.

• Fragmented Tech Stack: The school's reliance on multiple, separate platforms like Kahoot!, Quizlet, and Edpuzzle for different needs led to scattered data and inconsistent workflows.

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Why Wayground? (The Solution)

Jonathan Clark championed Wayground (Quizizz) because it offered a single platform that balanced speed, quality, and administrative relief, transforming resource creation from a difficult task into a rapid, high-impact workflow.

• Initial Hook: Instant, Vetted Content: The primary appeal was the ability to rapidly curate custom question banks by pulling quality, applicable questions from other teacher-created public resources, allowing teachers to build robust quizzes without starting from zero.

• A Proven Time-Saver (Self-Marking): WayGround's self-marking and instant feedback capabilities directly solved the grading burden, replacing hours of manual work.

• AI to Bolster Rigor and Feedback: The school adopted new AI features to enhance instruction, including:
  
  • AI Answer Explanations to give students immediate, high-quality corrective feedback.
  • AI Evaluation of Audio Responses to support language teachers, such as those teaching French or Spanish.
• Strategic Adoption: The Head of Computer Science led a successful top-down adoption strategy, promoting WayGround as the "go-to tool for quiz questioning" and challenging staff with the assurance that they could "make a quiz in five minutes".

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Life With Wayground (The Results)

• Active Teacher Adoption: 70% (49 out of 70 rostered teachers), which is well above the 40% industry benchmark. Adoption is strongest in the Secondary School.
• Efficiency Gains: Teachers reclaimed up to 4 hours of evening time from manual grading per assessment cycle, eliminating the need to "mark 20 papers on an evening".
• Assessment Correlation: Strong correlation between performance on Wayground and formal grades, with high scores on quizzes directly aligning with top grades in computer science papers.

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Qualitative Wins (The Culture Shift)

• Time-Saving Mindset: Teachers were convinced that the platform was a "time saver" because it allowed them to use a self-marking quiz instead of spending many hours marking manually.

• Applicable Content: The ability to pull applicable and good questions from other teacher-created resources ensured the content used in quizzes was high-quality and relevant.

"It can save you time. You can make a quiz rather than self-marking a quiz... I don't have to spend four hours marking that evening."
— Jonathan Clark, Head of Computer Science and Technology Integration