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Indonesian Online Education Platform Pintar Raises $3M in Pre-Series A Round

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Jaswinder Singh
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Pintar, an Indonesian online education platform that aims to enhance employment opportunities for all people of productive age, has recently raised $3 million in a pre-Series A funding round led by Havez Capital, an investment firm founded by Imelda Harsono, which is also the vice president of Indonesian industrial gas company Samator Group. The round also witnessed participation from SIG Venture Capital.

Pintar, formerly HarukaEdu, focuses on workforce development with solutions such as training, credentialing, and job placement. This sets it apart from most EdTech startups in Indonesia, primarily focusing on K-12 education. The company believes that successful job opportunities will improve people’s quality of life, boost their sense of responsibility to themselves and the community, and provide opportunities to discover the best version of themselves.

Speaking about the company, Chief Executive Officer of Ray Pulungan in a statement:

Our mission is to empower labour. The company aims to enhance workers’ skills to “break through the infamous middle-income trap.”

The startup claims that it currently serves over 2 million users. Its platform is also used by private companies like minimarket chain Indomaret for recruitment and training and state-owned company Krakatau Steel for talent development and compliance refreshers.

In addition to enterprises, Pintar has also partnered with Indonesia’s Ministry of Education and the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Before renaming as Pintar in 2022, HarukaEdu raised funding to the Series C round with a total disclosed amount of $2.2 million.

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Safe Exam browser updated for iOS & MacOS devices

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Jaswinder Singh
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Safe Exam browser updated for iOS & MacOS devices
Safe Exam browser updated for iOS & MacOS devices

Safe Exam Browser is the open source web browser environment to carry out e-assessments safely. The software turns any computer temporarily into a secure workstation. It controls access to resources like system functions, other websites and applications and prevents unauthorized resources being used during an exam.

Safe Exam Browser is widely used across educational institutions to safeguard the exams. It runs on a local computer and it is connected via the internet to a learning management system (LMS) or an e-assessment system. Many popular LMS systems such as Moodle, ILIAS, Inspera Assessment supports Safe Exam Browser.

Recently the Safe Exam Browser has been updated for Apple devices including the iOS & MacOS devices. The updates are mainly for fixing the known issues with some new features. For the MacOS devices, update fixes issues regarding file download, the Settings (formerly known as Preferences) window and allows exporting uncompressed configuration files (for example for directly importing it into Moodle). Also contains several security fixes.

For the iOS devices, the update allows exporting uncompressed configuration files (for example for directly importing it into Moodle) and corrects various issues.

You can download the latest version of Safe Exam Browser from the official website here.

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Online Psychotherapy Startup Hedepy Closes $4.17M Investment Round to Enhance Platform

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Jaswinder Singh
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Hedepy, an online psychotherapy platform, has secured $1.89 million (€1.75 million) and completed its $4.17 million (€3.85 million) funding round. The company intends to use the funds to enhance its platform for preventative mental healthcare and to provide further support to corporate clients that use Hedepy for their employees.

Hedepy began online psychiatric services in 2023, provided by verified and qualified psychiatrists in partnership with Unicare Medical. Each associated professional, whether therapists or psychiatrists, must have the necessary skills, but there are still plenty of candidates. The company now has over 1,500 people on its waiting list in its operating nations. The platform also provides therapeutic services to workplaces and schools and an advanced self-help zone where people can focus on preventative mental healthcare. It has grown by over 200 per cent year-on-year, with more than 100,000 therapy sessions last year.

Speaking about the company, Co-founder & CEO of Hedepy, Lukáš Krčil, said:

The market is changing; we no longer have to explain as much why it is essential to take care of our mental health. Instead, we can focus on getting help to everyone who needs it.

The startup has been operating in the Czech market since 2020. The platform has grown into ten other European markets in four years, including Poland, Romania, Ukraine, Greece, and Finland. Hedepy is the market leader in five of these markets, providing more than 60% of its therapies abroad.

Gergő Iváncsics, Partner at Impact Ventures, stated:

Hedepy is exceptional in that it has not only managed to expand into eleven global markets in a short period but has also succeeded in them and continued to develop. The way they combine quality therapists with a self-help app is unique in Europe, and because of this, we believe they can soon become a regional leader.

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Moodle Teachers – How To Regrade A Moodle Quiz Student Attempts?

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle Teachers - How To Regrade A Moodle Quiz Student Attempts?
Moodle Teachers - How To Regrade A Moodle Quiz Student Attempts?

Moodle LMS is world’s most popular open source learning management system (LMS). It has been built around the social constructionist pedagogy which makes it easier for teachers to built modern learning solutions with Moodle. However, there may be times that as a teacher you have wrongly configured a Quiz Question and it has been attempted by your students. In this post we will see how you can award correct grade to students in such a scenario.

Let’s suppose that you have created a Moodle quiz in your course but you have wrongly marked an answer as correct option. When students attempted the quiz, they may have selected the correct option but didn’t received any grades since it was not configured correctly.

In this case, you can use the ‘Regrade All’ function in the Moodle quiz. But before proceeding to regrade, you need to fix the question which created the problem. For that, you can find that question in the question bank and make necessary changes to reflect the correct answers.

Moodle Teachers - How To Regrade A Moodle Quiz Student Attempts?
Moodle Teachers – How To Regrade A Moodle Quiz Student Attempts?

Once you have fixed the problematic question, then you can Go to the quiz that needs to be regraded. Click the Results tab on the top secondary navigation bar. On this page, click the Regrade all button. This will re-run the students’ answers against what’s in the question bank, so will fix scores on questions with incorrectly marked answers. Click Continue when prompted. Now in the quiz grades table, you’ll see students’ grades have been adjusted.

What are the other useful tips which you would like to share with other fellow moodlers? Please share with us in the comments section below.

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Saudi Arabia-Based iStoria Raises $1.3M to Enhance Its English Learning Platform

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Jaswinder Singh
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Saudi Arabia-Based iStoria Raises $1.3M to Enhance Its English Learning Platform
Saudi Arabia-Based iStoria Raises $1.3M to Enhance Its English Learning Platform

iStoria, a specialized application for teaching the English language, has recently announced that it has raised $1.3 million in a seed round led by notable investors, including Nama Ventures، Classera, Flat6Labs, BIM Ventures, and several prominent angel investors. With the new financing, the startup plans to enhance its English language learning platform, accelerate innovation, and reach learners worldwide. This recent investment marks a significant milestone in establishing iStoria as a leader in English language education, providing even more value to its consumers.

Co-founded in 2022 by Abdullah Al-Jaberi, Faisal Al-Hamoud, Abdel Nasser Al-Wali, Ismail Ashour, and Khaled Al-Rashed, iStoria is a Saudi-based initiative in partnership with Oxford, stands out for its unique approach to English language education. The platform focuses on vocabulary-building through graded-reader stories tailored for learners of all levels, accompanied by comprehension questions and rigorous tests to master vocabulary. This approach is meticulously designed to ensure that students complete international language assessments. Furthermore, the app has new features that improve the entire user experience.

Eng. Abdullah Al-Jabri, the founder and CEO of iStoria, expressed his satisfaction with the completion of this financing round, stating:

Through this funding, we will continue our mission to empower individuals to communicate effectively and boost their confidence in using the English language. We are optimistic and eagerly anticipate the next phase of our journey. Our growth and impact will primarily come from serving organizations and expanding our global presence.

iStoria’s vision is to be the most effective application and best learning option for dedicated learners to improve their English language skills and establish a community of a million learners on its platform. The company hopes to teach English innovatively, achieving all learners’ goals while maintaining the highest quality standards.

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Moodle teachers – Add nicely Formatted Text in Moodle using Unilabel plugin

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle teachers - Add nicely Formatted Text in Moodle using Unilabel plugin
Moodle teachers - Add nicely Formatted Text in Moodle using Unilabel plugin

Moodle – the world’s most popular open source Learning Management System with more than 400 million users around the globe. With a collection of more than 2,100 free Moodle plugins, it offers you a complete flexibility to customize the learning portal.

The Unilabel Moodle plugin allows you to easily add nicely formatted text in your Moodle course. It can also be used to add exciting text blocks on the frontpage. The unilabel plugin support 5 different content types:

  • Simple text
  • Carousel
  • Collapsed text
  • Course teaser
  • Topic teaser

The plugin provides easy to use and extremely helpful feature which allows the teachers to customize their Moodle courses into modern looking courses.

You can download the Unilabel Moodle plugin from the official plugins repository here. The plugin is recently updated to support Moodle 4.3 version. It has also received the Early Bird badge since Moodle 3.7 to 4.2 versions.

What are the other useful Moodle plugins you are using on your Moodle site? Please share with us in the comments section below.

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Class Partners With Microsoft to Offer the Next Generation Virtual Classroom With Class for MS Teams

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Jaswinder Singh
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Class Partners With Microsoft to Offer the Next Generation Virtual Classroom With Class for MS Teams
Class Partners With Microsoft to Offer the Next Generation Virtual Classroom With Class for MS Teams

Class Technologies Inc., a global pioneer in virtual classrooms, has announced a partnership with Microsoft and the launch of Class for Microsoft Teams, its next-generation virtual classroom platform. Class for Microsoft Teams is built on the Teams platform and connects smoothly with Microsoft 365. It adds unique capabilities and analytics that enhance the virtual learning experience.

Class for Microsoft Teams includes enhancements informed by customer testing and feedback to enable active learning, collaboration and engagement in online classrooms and virtual instructor-led training.

Expressing his enthusiasm for the collaboration, Co-founder & CEO of Class, Michael Chasen, said:

We are thrilled to continue this journey with our partners at Microsoft. With the availability of Class for Microsoft Teams, we expand our reach more than ever in our history and provide more options to our customers regardless of the video conferencing platform they choose to standardize on.

Highlights of Class for Microsoft Teams include the ability to:

  • Improve learner engagement by delivering a dynamic and personalized online learning experience with interactive screen sharing, highly collaborative sessions, and virtual whiteboards.
  • Facilitate meaningful collaboration by providing the tools to share ideas and collaborate effectively with enhanced breakout rooms and integrations that make working simultaneously on shared documents possible.
  • Leverage analytics & automation to expand the reach of virtual offerings with interactive recordings and demonstrate efficacy with data dashboards that report key automated metrics like session engagement and participation.

Class Technologies Inc. developed Class, which enables active learning for 10 million users from 1,500+ education, corporate, and government institutions worldwide and is the leading provider of virtual classroom software for education. The company’s mission is to revolutionize how the world learns. It is dedicated to providing learners and educators with tools that promote active learning, collaboration, and engagement, regardless of location or circumstances. Its next-generation virtual classroom solutions aim to improve the learning experience by encouraging participation, interactivity, and community-building, resulting in better outcomes for everybody.

Paige Johnson, VP of Education Marketing at Microsoft, commented:

Microsoft is a platform company, and the power of Microsoft is through our relationships. Class for Microsoft Teams allows institutions to extend their usage of Microsoft 365 and transform how learning is delivered online.

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Manchester-Based Northcoders Raises $12.7M to Enhance Its Bootcamp Courses

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Jaswinder Singh
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Manchester-Based Northcoders Raises $12.7M to Enhance Its Bootcamp Courses
Manchester-Based Northcoders Raises $12.7M to Enhance Its Bootcamp Courses

Northcoders, a leading technology training provider, has recently secured an additional $12.7 million (£10 million) in funding from the Department for Education. With additional financing, the Manchester-based startup aims to extend its bootcamp courses in software development, data engineering, and cloud computing.

Northcoders is based on the belief in a dynamic and diverse digital community, and it is led by people who love technology and believe that a team is stronger when everyone is included. The platform aims to give the tech industry the required talent while delivering life-changing chances to people from all walks of life. Its bootcamps enable individuals to become work-ready software developers, cloud engineers, or data engineers in just 13 weeks. Coding abilities are in high demand in today’s rapidly changing world. The courses will provide students with all of the necessary skills to begin a career in technology, regardless of their experience.

Speaking about the company, Chief Executive Officer of Northcoders, Chris Hill, said:

This a fantastic demonstration of Northcoders’ reputation as a market leading, quality technology training company. With the global skills challenge increasing through the continuous introduction of emerging technologies, training in these fields has become a priority across public and private sectors. Knowing we are the provider of choice is a testament to the team and the business we have built. This contract provides us with strong visibility and dependable cash flow for the year ahead, so we move into 2024 with strong confidence.

The organization is where people of various backgrounds come to better their lives. Whether someone comes here from school, university, previous employment, a career hiatus, or a refugee from another country, they will become a work-ready coder, data engineer, or cloud engineer. Since 2016, almost 2,000 people have graduated from a Northcoders bootcamp.

Steven Oakes, Northcoders’ newly promoted Chief Marketing Officer, stated:

This will help us provide enhanced training opportunities for more individuals over the next 18 months. It’s not just about expansion; this funding also represents an 18.6 per cent increase in revenue per student compared to our previous contract, aligning perfectly with our focus on driving near-term profitability. This gives us strong revenue visibility for FY 2024 and H1 2025, bolstering our confidence as we move forward.

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Moodle Administrators – Use TinyMCE Source Code Pro Plugin to improve your Workflow

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle Administrators - Use TinyMCE Source Code Pro Plugin to improve your Workflow
Moodle Administrators - Use TinyMCE Source Code Pro Plugin to improve your Workflow

Moodle has introduced the TinyMCE editor as its default text editor in recent versions. TinyMCE text editor has replaced the Atto text editor as the default text editor. In this post, we will see how you can improvise your workflow by using the Source Code Pro plugin for TinyMCE text editor.

The TinyMCE Editor was chosen as the default text editor due to its extensive user friendly features and possibility of using plugins. By default, the TinyMCE editor in Moodle comes with the option to view the Source code of the text entered in the text editor.

The Source Code view shows the html code behind the WYSIWYG formatted content. The Source Code Pro plugin replaces the Source code view with a better & enhanced view. The Source Code Pro plugin utilizes Code Mirror version 6 to provide syntax highlight, auto completion, block fold, etc.

CodeMirror is a code editor component for the web. It can be used in websites to implement a text input field with support for many editing features, and has a rich programming interface to allow further extension.

You can download the Source Code Pro plugin from the official Moodle plugins repository here. Once installed, the plugin will replace the default Source Code button with new Source Code Pro button.

You can click the Source Code Pro button to view the nicely formatted code with option to view in Dark/Light theme, syntax highlighting & auto completion options.

What are the other useful Moodle plugins you are using? Please share with us in the comments section below.

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Global Recruitment Platform Redrob Announces $4M in Seed Funding

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Jaswinder Singh
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Global Recruitment Platform Redrob Announces $4M in Seed Funding
Global Recruitment Platform Redrob Announces $4M in Seed Funding

Redrob, a global recruitment platform, has launched its Online Skill Test. The company is integrating artificial intelligence into every stage of the recruitment process, from candidate search to messaging and interviews. The startup also announced a $4 million seed investment, which closed in October.

McKinley Rice, the operator of the HRTech platform Redrob, aims to use Redrob Online Skills Tests to allow businesses to build and administer talent assessments to job applicants in as little as 30 seconds, allowing them to predict on-the-job performance without human bias.

Founded in 2018, Redrob is a global people discovery platform that uses AI to reorganize the world’s people data into a more universally understandable format to enable sales, networking, and recruitment worldwide. The platform provides comprehensive assessment tools for various industries, helping companies streamline hiring processes and identify the best candidates. It has over 200,000 users across the US, India, and South Korea.

Speaking about the development, Co-founder & CEO of Redrob, Felix Kim, said:

65% of the world’s population is online, yet so few businesses are truly global. A lack of contextual knowledge is the greatest obstacle to hiring and selling globally. For example, U.S. recruiters don’t know about the local Ivy League in India, while Indian salespeople don’t know much about local distributors in the U.S.

Following the fundraising, Redrob is expanding its online testing platform with ‘Redrob Global People Search, ‘ which uses AI to reorganize the world’s people data more globally and intelligibly, allowing for sales, networking, and recruitment.

In addition, Redrob plans to extend its Employer of Record (EOR) product line as more enterprises become globally distributed. Redrob Employer of Record enables businesses to skip outsourcing agencies and directly recruit personnel from countries such as India without the need to establish an office or manage payroll, allowing even small startups to emulate the 24/7 operations of the Fortune 500 and its global subsidiaries.

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