skooldesk is an intuitive e learning platform that helps kids improve their test grades at primary level, through auto grading, interactive content and an analytics engine that identifies strengths and weaknesses at subject and topic level.
Skooldesk is an innovative e learning platform for young learners with an aim of improving proficiency levels. The platform includes curated learning materials, high quality practice test questions.
Interactive learning objects include the traditional direct learning methods combined with interactive objects such as audio, video, games, puzzles and other interesting challenges.
A robust...
SEE ALLSkooldesk is an innovative e learning platform for young learners with an aim of improving proficiency levels. The platform includes curated learning materials, high quality practice test questions.
Interactive learning objects include the traditional direct learning methods combined with interactive objects such as audio, video, games, puzzles and other interesting challenges.
A robust analytics engine ensures all activity is tracked for monitoring purposes, which is useful for parents and teachers to identify strengths and weaknesses at subject and topic levels.
Employing faceted search allows users to navigate the platform easily, just like shopping online.
Users of the platform are able to select tests from a plethora of quizzes by selecting a subject and class level. Upon completion of a quiz/test, the user receives instant feedback with correct and wrong answers.
The platform has been developed with inclusion in mind and ensuring users with disabilities (Visual & Hearing) can use it easily.
The platform is multi lingual enabling countries whoose primary language of instruction is not English to use it.
SEE LESSStage 4: Transition to Scale
We are in the process of scaling the innovation to other countries in the region and these include Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania.
Registered in Ugandain Uganda
Focus Areas:
Entrepreneurship, Education, Basic Education and 5 MoreSEE ALL
Entrepreneurship, Education, Basic Education, Curriculum, Literacy, Testing & Assessment, Digital Development and TechnologySEE LESS
$60,000
Funds Raised to Date
Problem
Student grades are low for many students in Sub Saharan Africa. Teachers spend a lot of time marking paper based scripts. Drop out rates are high due to low grades. The existing school system models have existed for the last 100 years and are failing. Students dont have access to good learning materials, that foster learning.
It's one of the few e learning platforms that operates on the software as a service model which implies a school can use it independently
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Solution
An online mulit lingual e learning platform that can provide rich learning materials that stimulate a real learning environment while providing analytics to identify strengths and weaknesses at subject and topic level. Instant grading that provide students with instant feedback on correct and wrong answers.
The platform is accessible to students with disabilities (visual & hearing). A virtual tutor using machine learning is being tested to act like a human teacher.
Target Beneficiaries
Primary Schools
Secondary Schools
Parents
Teachers
Higher learning Education Institutions
Organizations for inhouse or external training purposes
Mission and Vision
Better learning means that no child is left behind irrespective of disabilities.
Competitive Advantage
Most of the existing innovations are not interactive to create a real learning environment that can produce tangible results. They use basic technology that is not robust enough to solve the problems associated with low grades due to low literacy levels and math skills.
Our platform is multi lingual and can be easily scaled to other countries.
We have a robust analytics engine that identifies strong and weak points of an individual learner at subject and topic levels.
It's one of the very few e learning platforms that operates on the software as a service model, which means that any school or education institution can have its own version of the platform with its own content.
The platform is accessible to students with disabilities (visual and hearing).
We are constantly updating our database of content to keep up with emerging industry trends and introducing new and exciting features.
We have a highly skilled team
Planned Goals and Milestones
Scaling to 3 countries in the East African Region and later to Sub Saharan African.
Expanding the content
Introducing new features which are currently in development
Our platform has been selected among the top 100 solutions on the African continent
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| Funding Goal | 200,000 |
| Projected Cumulative Lives Impacted | 1 |
| New Implemented Countries | Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania |
| Recruit | Content Editors, Animators, Graphic Designers |
| New Feature | machine learning |
The Team Behind the Innovation
We have a highly skilled team of Teachers, Software, Web & Mobile Application Developers, Business Analysts, Sales & Marketing. Many of these have worked in excess of 10 years excelling in their positions, some have worked in Europe, Asia and North America bringing valuable skills, experiences and lessons that are useful for benchmarking. Borrowing best practices from other countries helps us develop a world class e learning solution that can compete with the very best on a global scale
EXECUTIVE TEAM INCLUDES WOMEN AND YOUTH
