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AI-Powered Education Platform Edsoma Raises $2.5M From Shaquille O’Neal

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Jaswinder Singh
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AI-Powered Education Platform Edsoma Raises $2.5M From Shaquille O’Neal
AI-Powered Education Platform Edsoma Raises $2.5M From Shaquille O’Neal

Edsoma, a startup that developed an AI-powered reading, education and communication platform for children, has raised $2.5 million in a seed round led by NBA legend and philanthropist Shaquille O’Neal. The investment marks O’Neal’s first foray into the EdTech sector, demonstrating his passion for helping children and belief in Edsoma’s potential.

Founded by Kyle Wallgren, Edsoma is available on both the Google Play store and Apple App Store, offering a free version with limited features and a premium version priced at $9.99 per month or $99.99 per year. The premium version provides unlimited books, group video calling, and peer reading sessions and allows for multiple users. The firm has witnessed rapid growth since its inception. Starting with only 300 paid users, the platform swiftly grew to 1,000 users within the first month and 9,000 users by the second month. This quick expansion illustrates the platform’s usefulness and attraction.

Speaking on the fundraising, Founder & CEO of Edsoma, Kyle Wallgren, said:

We can surpass our competitors this year and emerge as leaders in the EdTech space by next year. Shaquille O’Neal’s investment further propels Edsoma towards achieving its ambitious goals, demonstrating the trust and support the NBA superstar has placed in the platform’s ability to impact education.

With Edsoma, children can explore a vast digital library of age-appropriate content, including books, articles, and interactive exercises. The platform intelligently adapts to each child’s learning pace and preferences, providing tailored recommendations and personalized challenges. Along with its educational features, the startup facilitates communication between children, teachers, and parents, fostering collaboration and engagement.

With its innovative reading assistant app, Edsoma aims to revolutionize learning and communication for children and individuals of all ages. The startup’s impressive growth and plans for future expansion demonstrate its commitment to becoming a leading player in the EdTech industry. As it continues to evolve and gain traction, the company has the potential to transform the way we approach literacy education and empower learners worldwide.

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Video Interviewing Startup Spark Hire Acquires Talent Assessment Platform Chally

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Jaswinder Singh
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Video Interviewing Startup Spark Hire Acquires Talent Assessment Platform Chally
Video Interviewing Startup Spark Hire Acquires Talent Assessment Platform Chally

Spark Hire, a video interviewing platform that helps thousands of organizations make better, more collaborative, & quicker hiring decisions, has announced the acquisition of Chally, a talent assessment platform, for an undisclosed amount. According to the press statement, the deal will enable Spark Hire to expand its talent acquisition site to thousands of companies worldwide.

Founded in 1973, Chally provides assessment reports of potential hires to clients, including some in the Fortune 500. Headquartered in Dayton, Ohio, the firm aims to help companies make successful and efficient appointments of leaders and employees. Its assessments use a mix of science and technology to provide detailed information on the candidate’s strengths, weaknesses, attitude, work ethic and other vital characteristics.

Speaking on the deal, Chief Executive Officer of Spark Hire, Josh Tolan, said:

The acquisition of Chally is a major milestone for Spark Hire. It will help us expand our suite of innovative and trusted candidate assessment tools and deepen our commitment to providing the industry’s best and most effective interviewing experience.

Spark Hire will continue to operate normally following the acquisition, and no action is necessary from its customers. The firm also stated that it will continue to invest in the platform’s development, with additional features and products coming soon.

Spark Hire was established in 2010 with the goal of assisting all organizations in improving their recruiting efficiency and effectiveness by providing an innovative and modern SaaS platform. Over 6,000 organizations have interviewed millions of candidates across 100+ countries on the platform. In June this year, the Illinois-based Spark Hire merged with leading ATS provider Comeet.

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Moodle Teachers – Create your Moodle Quiz questions easily using the Fast Test plugin

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle Teachers - Create your Moodle Quiz questions easily using the Fast Test plugin
Moodle Teachers - Create your Moodle Quiz questions easily using the Fast Test plugin

Moodle LMS is the world’s most popular open source learning management system with more than 396 million users around the world. The vast collection of Moodle plugins allows the administrators as well as Moodle teachers to extend the functionality to improve the learning experience for all users. In this post, we will discuss about the Fast Test plugin and how you can use it to create your Moodle quiz questions easily.

The Fast test plugin in true sense is an excel based utility which can create question pools in an easy and intuitive way. By using the Fast Test utility you can create almost all types of Moodle Questions easily. You will get a xml file from this utility which can be imported in Moodle question bank.

By using the Fast Test plugin you can create any type of Moodle questions even if you don’t know how to create some kind of question in Moodle. You will only have to write the questions in the corresponding cells in Microsoft Excel. But you need to use the Microsoft Excel desktop app and not the excel web version.

The plugin is initially developed in Spanish language but it available in English, French, Italian, German & Portuguese. You can download the Fast Test plugin from the official plugins repository here.

By leveraging this plugin, educators can provide a more engaging and effective learning experience for their students while streamlining their own workload. If you’re an educator using Moodle, give the Fast Test Plugin a try to see how it can revolutionize your assessment processes.

What are the other useful tools you are using to create your Moodle questions? Please share with us in the comments section below.

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Moodle Educators – Make your Course format more engaging with Topics activity cards format

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle Educators - Make your Course format more engaging with Topics activity cards format
Moodle Educators - Make your Course format more engaging with Topics activity cards format

Moodle course format plugins allows you to customize the look and feel of your Moodle Course. You can change the complete layout by using different course format plugins like Cards format, Flexible Sections course format etc. In this post we will discuss about Topics activity cards format Moodle plugin.

The Topics activity cards format plugin can greatly enhance the look and feel of your Moodle course all by keeping the advantages of Topics course format. You can create your course content in the Topics format and then this plugin can show them in different cards.

The Topics activity cards format Moodle plugin can display sections and or activities as cards with various opportunities for customization. The options are:

  • Set width for each card
  • Override the activity description
  • Include an image in the card header
  • Put text in a footer section
  • Apply additional CSS classes to the cards
  • Specify a duration for the activity

You can download the latest version of Topics Activity Cards course format plugin from the official plugins repository here.

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

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Indian Government launches Skill India Digital To Bring All Skilling Initiatives On One Platform

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Jaswinder Singh
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Indian Government launches Skill India Digital To Bring All Skilling Initiatives On One Platform
Indian Government launches Skill India Digital To Bring All Skilling Initiatives On One Platform

The government has launched Skill India Digital (SID) platform to make skill development more innovative, accessible, and personalised with a focus on digital technology and Industry 4.0 skills. This new innovative digital platform is the nation’s digital public infrastructure (DPI) for skilling and education.

Skill India Digital (SID) has emerged as a pioneering initiative driven by the vision to make skill development more innovative, accessible, and personalized for youth. The platform strongly emphasizes digital technologies and Industry 4.0 skills, ultimately paving the way for a more skilled and dynamic workforce. It aims to transform talent acquisition, facilitate lifelong learning, and enable career advancement within a digital ecosystem.

Speaking on occasion, Dharmendra Pradhan said:

The consensus on India’s advocacy for global digital public infrastructure and addressing skills gaps was the centrepiece of India’s successful G20 Presidency. Taking another leap towards creating digital public infrastructure, MSDE has developed an open-source platform to address the skilling needs of India’s diverse demography. Skill India Digital is another step towards harnessing our demographic dividend and establishing India as a global skills hub.

Pradhan called the launch of the open-source platform another step by India towards creating digital public infrastructure. SID will be a comprehensive information gateway to consolidate all government skilling and entrepreneurship initiatives under one digital platform. This integrated approach is aimed at streamlining access to resources, ensuring that learners nationwide can benefit from these initiatives. It has included several features that promise to transform skill development in India. These features include:

  • Multilingual support
  • Secure access with Aadhaar-based eKYC
  • Mobile-first approach
  • Digitally verified credentials
  • Digital CVs with personalized QR codes

The platform is designed to encompass all training programmes initiated by central and state governments and numerous departments. It strives to accomplish this by creating a uniform and centralized platform for skill development activities. With this initiative, the government hopes learners will be offered enhanced accessibility, personalized learning experiences, streamlined verification processes and improved career guidance.

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Moodle Teachers – Use CodeRunner plugin to set programming questions in Moodle Quiz

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle Teachers - Use CodeRunner plugin to set programming questions in Moodle Quiz
Moodle Teachers - Use CodeRunner plugin to set programming questions in Moodle Quiz

Moodle Quiz is one of the most flexible and most customizable quiz engine. It allows you to customize the Online Quiz for your learners based on your requirements with plethora of customization possibilities. In this post, we will see how you can set programming questions in Moodle quiz.

The CodeRunner Question type plugin allows you to add programming questions in your Moodle Quiz. The plugins allows you to create questions in which the student answer is code in some programming language, which is graded by running it.

CodeRunner has been in use at the University of Canterbury for over seven years, running millions of student quiz question submissions in Python, C , JavaScript, PHP, Octave and Matlab. CodeRunner currently supports Python2 (considered obsolescent), Python3, C, C++, Java, PHP, JavaScript (NodeJS), Octave and Matlab. The architecture allows easy extension to other languages.

You can download the CodeRunner Moodle plugin from the official plugins repository here. To install & run it properly, you need to have a separate Jobe installation (read here for more detailed instructions).

The plugin can help you create exams in different programming languages and evaluate the student’s answer easily. CodeRunner support a wide variety of question types and can easily be extended to support others. A CodeRunner question type is defined by a question prototype, which specifies run time parameters like the execution language and sandbox and also the template that define how a test program is built from the question’s test-cases plus the student’s submission.

What are the other useful Moodle plugins you are using to create programming quiz questions? Please share with us in the comments section below.

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IOMAD 4.2 released – Multi-tenancy Moodle based solution updated for Moodle 4.2

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Jaswinder Singh
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IOMAD 4.2 released - Multi-tenancy Moodle based solution updated for Moodle 4.2
IOMAD 4.2 released - Multi-tenancy Moodle based solution updated for Moodle 4.2

IOMAD – the Moodle based Multi-tenancy solution has been updated to new version based on Moodle 4.2. The new IOMAD 4.2 introduces some nice new multi-tenant features as well as general cleanup and improved support for PHP 8.0.

IOMAD is a multi-tenancy solution for the business, corporate and workplace markets. It allows you to run a single Moodle installation and cater different companies with completely separate platform such that users from one Company won’t see users from another.

New Features in IOMAD 4.2

The new version adds the following new features:

  • Completion overview report: This new report provides a RAG chart for the current state of users and courses, allowing managers to quickly check if their staff are all up to date with all required training and see where training has either expired or is due to.
  • Parent company roll-up of reports: Course completion reports and log-in reports will now show an overview for the company managers of parent companies across their own and all child companies. Child companies appear on the department picker, and there is an option in the filters to switch between these views.
  • Added per tenant SMTP settings: This allows the site administrator to define different outgoing email configuration settings for different tenants while retaining the default site settings for everyone else.
  • Training event attendance condition: A new condition has been added so that activities and resources within a course can be made available to users who have successfully signed up for a training event.
  • IOMAD SAML2 plugin: We have converted the SAML2 authentication plugin so that it will work with different configurations for different tenants. This provides the same configuration as already exists for the IOMAD OIDC authentication plugin for the SAML2 authentication methods.

There are other various improvements and fixes. Complete details are mentioned in the release notes here. For more details about IOMAD, please check out the official website here.

IOMAD is an open source option for the users who are looking to implement a single Moodle installation to cater for various companies. Other options include Moodle Workplace which is an official solution from Moodle HQ.

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Moodle Teachers – Provide a glimpse of your course activities using Restriction by Course Role plugin

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle Teachers - Provide a glimpse of your course activities using Restriction by Course Role plugin
Moodle Teachers - Provide a glimpse of your course activities using Restriction by Course Role plugin

Moodle – world’s most popular open-source learning management system (LMS), is renowned for its flexibility and extensibility. One of the key factors contributing to its popularity is the vast ecosystem of plugins that allow educators to customize and extend their eLearning environments. In this post we will have a look at Restriction by course role Moodle plugin and how you can use it.

The Restriction by course role Moodle plugin can restrict the course activities or complete sections to the users who belongs to a specific role. This can be used to restrict the course sections to authenticated users and provide a glimpse of course activities to Guest users. So, when a visitor comes to your course page they will see sample course activities and course details to decide if they want to enroll in your course.

By using this plugin Restriction by course role Moodle plugin you can achieve a course listing similar to popular online learning platforms like Udemy. The learners can see part of your courses before actually paying for it. If they liked them then they can pay for the course and get access to all other course content.

You can download the Restriction by course role Moodle plugin from the official plugins repository here. Once installed, you will see a new restriction under Restrict Access section on each activity/section settings page. You can set the restriction settings for restricted activities (not available to guest users) as the user Role Must Not be Guest as you can see below. It will show the restriction that this section is not available unless you are not a Guest.

Restriction by course role
Restriction by course role

I can personally see a lot of creative use cases for this plugin in Moodle sites which are designed to sell courses. What are the creative uses you can think of using this awesome plugin? Please share with us in the comments section below.

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Denmark’s Language Training Platform Swap Language Raises $2.15M in Seed Round

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Jaswinder Singh
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Denmark's Language Training Platform Swap Language Raises $2.15M in Seed Round
Denmark's Language Training Platform Swap Language Raises $2.15M in Seed Round

Denmark’s enterprise language training provider – Swap Language has recently raised $2.15 million (€2 million) in a seed round co-led by Amsterdam-based Mediahuis Ventures and Helsinki-based Sparkmind. With the financing, the company intends to grow into the German market, where first pilots are already underway, add more languages, and begin constructing its vision of a full-fledged AI teacher capable of replacing humans in teaching speaking and writing abilities.

Swap Language’s freshly announced second-generation platform, built on a multi-tenant architecture, is the market’s first freemium enterprise language teaching platform. It enables companies to enrol overseas employees in their language learning community, providing them direct access to hundreds of free on-demand language sessions and quizzes and the opportunity to practice with local colleagues.

Co-founded by Nichlas Walsted, and Allan Hermansen, Swap Language aims to tackle the problem by helping international employees integrate and feel an increased sense of belonging within their organization and in their new home. The platform uses a combination of engaging video content, AI-generated exercises, and real-life online speaking lessons to help international employees reach fluency in and outside the workplace.

Speaking about the company, Co-founder & CEO of Swap Language, Nichlas Walsted, said:

Highly skilled international employees are ambitious and work for the highest paced, demanding enterprises. They need flexible, engaging solutions and use the newest technology to help them develop language skills that they can apply both in their jobs and while settling in their new host country. While the B2C market has some amazing players like Duolingo, the B2B language training market is old and dominated by traditional language schools.

Vesa Laakso, Founding Partner of Sparkmind.vc, commented:

We’re excited about truly transformative educational technologies. Swap Language caught our attention because of its mission-driven founding team and solutions crafted with a deep understanding of global workforce challenges. Their thought-out content and innovative approach to merging the virtual and real worlds of language acquisition sets a new standard for enterprise language training. We believe that their unique vision for fostering genuine human connections through Language will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of international workplaces. It’s an investment in a company and a brighter, interconnected global community.

The startup believes there is a better and more enjoyable way to achieve. It focuses on making Language learning more flexible, entertaining, and context-based so international employees can learn Danish.

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Moodle teachers – Use Organizer plugin to let students subscribe to the events

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle teachers - Use Organizer plugin to let students subscribe to the events

Moodle is one of the most popular open source learning management system in the world with more than 390 million users around the world. In the online learning scenarios it is often desired by the teachers to have some direct learning interactions with the students. In this post we will see how you can use the Organizer Moodle plugin to add the events in your Moodle course.

The organizer Moodle plugin allows the teachers to setup direct interaction meetings with students or a group of students. The students can then subscribe to the events and discuss with the teachers according to their scheduled event.

This plugin can help save a lot of time for the Moodle teachers who would like to schedule interactions with their students. With the setting of availability slots in advance by the teacher, and the choice of slot by the learner based on these slots, making appointments is much less time-consuming and more fluid. It also offers teachers better training management as well as global visibility, from a single tool.

You can download the Organizer Moodle plugin from the official plugins repository here. It is developed by Academic Moodle Cooperation. As a teacher you can see all available and past events and see the enrollment status of the students. You can also send reminders to students who have not enrolled yet. You can define the Location as well as Location link (Zoom meeting URL or Google Meet or Microsoft Teams URL).

Overall, this plugin can offer a handy way to let teachers manage their time better and schedule appointments with students as per their convenience.

What are the other appointment tools you are using on your Moodle LMS? Please share with us in the comments section below.

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