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students’ progress in Banzai:
a completion rate. Now, as
students move through the
software, Banzai quizzes
them and rewards them for
conquering new concepts.
These milestones instill in
students a sense of accom-
plishment as they navigate the
course, and give teachers a
simple way to track their
progress in the teacher
dashboard. Here’s a
few examples:
Bringing Vocab to
the Software
To learn the basics of finance,
students need to learn the
basics of financial language.
As you may already know, we
introduced a vocabulary page
to the Life Scenarios booklets
two years ago. Now, vocab
is a first-class citizen in
the software.
In fact, we’ve even made vocab
terms a fun part of the story.
As usual, we can’t help our
dorky selves.
backwards?” Until now, Banzai
has been linear  —   you only
move forward. Now, however,
the new course includes a
look-back button giving
students the ability to recall
the past. Press it and a history
feed will appear.
The look-back button helps
students who move too fast:
they can click back and
re-read the text. But, more
importantly, the new feature
keeps their feet planted in the
story  —   it reminds them where
they came from, and how they
got there.
New and
Improved Branding
In Banzai Teen, we’ve also
dramatically improved sponsor
exposure by increasing your
presence in the software.
Previously in Banzai’s high
school software, your logo
appeared as part of the
Interface. Banzai Teen,
however, brings your branding
into the course itself.
We’ve seamlessly incorporated
Credit Professionals
International into the scenery
We’re excited (and we hope you as well as the script. When
are too) to nail one of the most teens receive their first
common requests we’ve heard checking account, CPI’s logo
appears on their checkbook.
at Banzai: “Can students go
Staying In Context
The same is true for credit
cards, debit cards, and the
outside of branch buildings.
We’ve taken the CPI branding
and put it right into the story!
In addition to increasing CPI’s
presence in the software, we’ve
made offers and incentives to
students more flexible. Banzai
can now display your offer in
moments that make the most
sense to you  —   for example, you
can choose to present an offer
when a student completes
Life Scenarios, in context of
receiving their checking
account credit card and debit
card, or at the end of the game,
when you’re confident they’ve
earned your reward.
Introducing the Banzai
Teen Activity Kit
Banzai Teen is getting a new
printed resource: the Activity
Kit. You’ll note, for the last
seven years, students could
not complete Life Scenarios
without a printed booklet (or
PDF, which was awkward).
Recently we introduced a new
booklet for elementary schools
that works independent of the
software. This was such a
success, we decided to do
the same for middle and
high schools.
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The Credit Professional
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December 2018