“We are a large squad that uses Prepd for both extemp and Congress. We have found that Prepd is a platform that students learn very quickly. The fast catch feature on Prepd makes it very easy to file articles for both extemp and congress. Students can practice extemp speeches using the generated topics from Prepd. The challenges feature makes it easy for a coach to create specific levels of expected participation and easily evaluate which students have met those participation levels. Challenges can be used to set the minimum number of articles added to the library as well as the minimum number of articles that are marked read. Prepd is a fantastic tool for Congressional Debate preparation. In addition to adding articles to a specific docket of legislation, students can highlight portions of articles and apply them to arguments they are creating. The student can use the arguments created to organize and update speeches they intend to give in Congress sessions. The Precedence Tracker (and Question Tracker) is a fantastic tool students can use in round to become even more involved with their session. One of the best features of Prepd is the offline feature. Articles, arguments and speeches can be saved in a form that can be read offline during tournament rounds. This is much better than transferring articles stored on flashdrives or cloud storage sites that are inaccessible when internet is not allowed to be used. The Prepd team is constantly listening to the input of coaches and students to improve their product. I would highly recommend Prepd for all students.”

“Prepd has revolutionized the way that we save articles for extemporaneous speaking. On the coaching end, before Prepd, we would copy and paste articles into a dizzying maze of a Windows-based folder system that only became more confusing over time. I would spend around an hour every Saturday morning before a tournament transferring everything onto flash drives for each student. Now with Prepd, the files are accessible anywhere on all of their computers with virtually no extra work on my part. The weekly reports are also a great accountability tool to gently push students to aid their teammates by uploading more articles. On the student end, Prepd is easy to use, promotes collaboration, and makes my students better at extemporaneous speaking because they can focus more practice and prep time on critical thinking and analysis and less on searching for articles. Our students love to use Prepd, and we will continue to use it in the future.”