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Amsterdam-Based Employee Relocation Platform Settly Raises $6.5M in Seed Funding

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Amsterdam-Based Employee Relocation Platform Settly Raises $6.5M in Seed Funding
Amsterdam-Based Employee Relocation Platform Settly Raises $6.5M in Seed Funding

Settly, an Amsterdam-based HRTech startup for employee relocation has recently announced that it has raised $6.5 million (€6 million) in a seed funding co-led by French evergreen impact fund “2050” and Mediahuis Ventures, the Belgian venture capital fund of international publisher Mediahuis. With the funds, the startup intends to expand its product offering, cement its position in key markets, and further grow its operations across global markets.

Co-founded by Marieke van Iperen and Kimo Paula, Settly supports international employees during their transition to a new country and unburdens the employer. The startup aims to create a world where everyone can feel at home and provides end-to-end support and an optimal experience for employees and their partners. It operates in the Netherlands, Germany, the UK, Spain, Portugal, the Czech Republic, and Australia. The company employs 55 people from 33 nationalities, mostly women at all organisational levels, and LGTBQIA+ is well represented.

Speaking about the company, Co-founder & CEO of Settly, Marieke van Iperen, said:

The number of people living and working outside their birth country is expected to grow by 70 million in the next years. Our mission is to transform the future of work, where it no longer matters where you come from but where you feel at home. Settly wants to change how companies look at international talent, recruiting, culture and community. We do this by not only offering support in immigration, tax and soft landing but also by focusing on how people feel in their new country through a multi-local approach.

Settly was named one of the ‘top 5 global bootstrapped startups to watch’ by Dealroom last year, almost quadrupled in revenue and team size in 2022, and is on track to achieve impressive growth numbers in 2023. The firm has a local set-up in each country to support its clients. In doing so, it combines a hyperpersonal and multi-local approach to improve the employee experience. The company claims it grew 350 per cent last year while maintaining a client satisfaction score of 9.2/10. Marie Ekeland, Founder of 2050, commented:

It is our mission to change how the VC model works and help grow businesses that have a meaningful impact on people, society and the planet. Settly’s 3% churn rate and a Client Satisfaction score of 9.2 shows a strong need for a personalized approach in a market worth $58 billion among larger multinationals alone. The startup’s core values align seamlessly with our investment policy.

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Recruitroo Raises $1.1M to Simplify Hiring Process for UK & Irish Firms

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Recruitroo Raises $1.1M to Simplify Hiring Process for UK & Irish Firms
Recruitroo Raises $1.1M to Simplify Hiring Process for UK & Irish Firms

Recruitroo, an Irish recruitment and migration platform, has raised $1.1 million (€1.0 million) in a funding round led by Delta Partners, with participation from Enterprise Ireland and some angel investors.

Dublin-headquartered Recruitroo was founded in April 2022 by Shane Kiernan and Stephen MacCarthy with a mission to use software to simplify and enhance the international recruitment process for both employers and candidates. Its services are designed to support Irish and UK companies that aim to source international talent across various industries. The platform provides a pool of potential employees who have registered and created profiles, enabling employers to assess and select candidates based on their specific requirements.

Commenting on the fundraising, Co-founder of Recruitroo, Shane Kiernan, said:

This investment, plus the addition of Andreea, marks a significant milestone for Recruitroo as we strive to transform the international hiring landscape. We are committed to empowering businesses to access top global talent seamlessly while ensuring compliance and simplifying the international recruitment process.

Dermot Berkery, General Partner of Delta Partners, added:

The labour shortages experienced in Ireland, across Europe, and the US are a major contributor to economic challenges. Our investment in Recruitroo goes to the heart of solving these challenges. We believe that Recruitroo’s innovative approach will majorly impact the challenges. Their technology-driven solution has the potential to revolutionise the industry, and we are excited to support Recruitroo’s journey.

Chief Executive Officer of Enterprise Ireland, Leo Clancy, commented:

Attracting talent is one of the most significant issues facing businesses. Recruitroo is bringing solutions to the market that address this fundamental challenge. Enterprise Ireland has backed Recruitroo since its early days. We are confident that the innovation and vision of Shane, Stephen and their team will ensure they continue to compete and win in global markets.

The company’s innovative platform offers unique features that set it apart in the recruitment industry. One of these is the video-based profiles, which provide a comprehensive picture of a candidate’s skills, personality, and current working environment, going beyond what a traditional CV might offer. This helps employers quickly evaluate core skills, assess language and communication ability, and appreciate the context in which candidates work.

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What are Custom Reports in Moodle? Check out how to get started?

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What are Custom Reports in Moodle? Check out how to get started?
What are Custom Reports in Moodle? Check out how to get started?

Moodle LMS is world’s most popular open source learning management system. It is used by more than 365+ million users around the world. With so many exciting features, it also allows you to extract customized reports out the Moodle LMS. In this post we will see what are Custom Reports in Moodle and how you can use them.

Custom reports allow administrators and educators to extract specific data from their Moodle installation and gain valuable insights into student progress, course performance, and more. These reports can range from simple overviews to complex analyses, depending on your requirements. Whether you need to track student engagement, evaluate course completion rates, or identify areas for improvement, custom reports empower you with the necessary information to make data-driven decisions.

Creating Custom Reports in Moodle:

Here’s a step-by-step guide to get you started with Custom Reports in Moodle:

  • Define your reporting goals: Begin by clearly defining the purpose of your custom report. What data do you need? What insights are you looking to gain? Establishing clear goals will help guide you throughout the report creation process.
  • Access the report builder through Site Administration > Reports > Custom Reports.
  • Click new Report to add a new report, give it a name and select your source – whether you want to report on courses, a cohort or specified users. Click Save.
  • Depending on your source, you will be presented with columns relevant to the data you want.
  • Remove any columns you don’t want and add columns which you do want.
  • You can also customize your report from Conditions, Filters, Sorting and Card view on the right.
  • Preview your report by clicking the Preview button top right.

How to give access to users to the Custom reports:

Once you have created a report as Site Administrator, you can choose which roles will be able to access the reports.

  • From Audience you can select a system role, cohort or manually selected users by clicking the + against who you want and then saving your choice.
  • Once chosen, You can check the actual users from the Access tab.

How to schedule the Custom Reports delivery?

The Custom reports can be delivered through email to the specified users. You can define the schedule for Custom reports delivery through Schedules tab by:

  • Click New schedule;
  • Give it a name and choose its format ( .csv by default);
  • Decide when the report will first be sent out and how often to send it.
  • The audience will already be selected if you have defined your audience.
  • If desired, you can add a message to the recipients.
  • In Advanced, decide what to do if there is nothing to report.

What are the data sources available for Custom Report:

As on with Moodle 4.2 version, the following data sources are available to be used as data sources for custom reports:

  • Badges
  • Blogs
  • Cohorts
  • Comments (New in 4.2)
  • Course participants
  • Courses
  • Files
  • Groups
  • Notes
  • Tags
  • Task logs
  • Users
  • User badges (New in 4.2)

The Custom reports in Moodle can be a powerful reporting and analysis tool for administrators and educators with valuable insights into the performance and progress of their courses. By leveraging the platform’s powerful reporting capabilities, Moodle users can access specific data, make data-driven decisions, and enhance the overall learning experience. Whether you’re looking to track student engagement, evaluate course effectiveness, or identify areas for improvement, custom reports offer a flexible and powerful solution.

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London-Based Generative AI Startup Kinnu Raises $6.5M in New Funding Round

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London-Based Generative AI Startup Kinnu Raises $6.5M in New Funding Round
London-Based Generative AI Startup Kinnu Raises $6.5M in New Funding Round

Kinnu, a London-based generative AI EdTech company, has raised $6.5 million in a fresh funding round led by LocalGlobe (a member of the Phoenix Group) and Cavalry Ventures. The startup is currently focusing on adult enthusiast learners. Its app, which has over 100,000 downloads, uses artificial intelligence to generate tailored learning content for science, history and psychology.

Co-founded by Christopher Kahler, Abraham Muller, and Hanna Celina in 2021, Kinnu works with the mission to give everyone the power to learn anything they want to. The platform uses generative AI in a “three-pronged content creation approach” to create content. They are human experts, large language models and community feedback. Human experts create the course outline or pathway. This is fed into the startup’s “Learning Engine”, which uses large language models like those powering ChatGPT to pick out the main ideas of a subject and turn out relevant revision questions in different formats, such as multiple choice. It can also repackage that information to prevent learners from spotting patterns.

Speaking about the company, Co-founder & CEO of Kinnu, Christopher Kahler, said:

There’s a huge opportunity for AI-powered learning that focuses on accelerating the pace of human learning itself. 10 years ago, online learning experienced a boom because it democratised access to content. The next frontier is democratising access to the mechanism of how we learn, from quantum mechanics and Chaucer to idioms and soft skills adapted to the learner’s own pace and ability. It’s this that excites us.

Adding further about the platform, Co-founder of Kinnu, Hanna Celina, said:

Our backgrounds are perfectly complementary. I worked at Google, Futurelearn and Deliveroo and studied at Harvard, so we all bring a unique perspective on the future of learning and how to build it.

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Join Moodle Users Association Special Townhall Meeting on July 11

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Join Moodle User's Association's Special Townhall Meeting on July 11
Join Moodle User's Association's Special Townhall Meeting on July 11

Moodle User’s Association is the community arm of the Moodle LMS which enables you to get your favorite features added to the LMS. As an MUA member you can propose and vote for your favorite projects. This month Moodle Users Association will be hosting a special townhall meeting where something new is expected.

As posted on the MUA newsletter, the team has been working on something special for the community over past few months. During the special townhall meeting, the MUA committee is going to announce that. The special townhall meeting is scheduled to be held on July 11, 6 PM UTC onwards.

During the special townhall meeting, Mike Churchward, David Pesce and Brett Dalton will announce about “Major Announcement: Attend to shape the future of the MUA“. Please click on this link to join the Moodle Users Association townhall meeting on July 11.

Apart from the special townhall, MUA newsletter also announces the updates on the Project selected during the July-December 2022 Project Development Cycle – Default setting settings for completion criteria for activities and resources.  The project aims to streamline the process for teachers and content creators by enabling site administrators to establish default Completion criteria values for the entire site.

As per the update the project will be included in the upcoming Moodle 4.3 version. You can check out the progress at the tracker issues here and here.

In addition “Add the Ordering Question Type” is declared as the winner for Project Cycle Jan-Jul 2023.

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Study Abroad Startup Leverage Edu Raises $40M in Series C Round

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Study Abroad Startup Leverage Edu Raises $40M in Series C Round
Study Abroad Startup Leverage Edu Raises $40M in Series C Round

Leverage Edu, an overseas-focused higher education counselling platform run by Leverage EdTech Pvt Ltd, has announced that it has raised $40 million in its Series C round led by Educational Testing Service (ETS), an educational testing and assessment organization. Existing investors, Blume Ventures, DSG Consumer Partners, & Kaizenvest PE have also participated in the round.

With this new fundraising, the Noida-based company plans to strengthen its presence in the US and Australian markets.

Founded in 2017 by Akshay Chaturvedi, Leverage Edu provides full-stack services, including counselling, application-admission support, and financing to students pursuing international education. It assists students from India, Nigeria, Nepal etc. The platform helps students figure out what they should do and where they should be – wherever that be in the world – to realize their full potential. It also helps students navigate & assess their journey thus far, matches them to personalized mentors, counsels them towards their higher education dream with an employability lens, and ensures that everyone punches way above their weight to make dreams come alive and truly be able to level up.

The startup launched the ‘Study Abroad with LeverageEdu’ app last year, with over a million downloads. It has also forayed into loans and foreign remittances. In May, Leverage Edu launched UnivaleyOS, enabling universities to streamline and automate student recruitment processes. In October last year, it introduced a financial services arm, Fly Finance, to disburse education loans and student remittances. It also received an FFMC (full-fledged money changers) license from the Reserve Bank of India.

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Add webmail messaging to your Moodle using the Mail plugin

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Add webmail messaging to your Moodle using the Mail plugin
Add webmail messaging to your Moodle using the Mail plugin

Moodle LMS is one of the most robust and feature rich open source learning management system in the world. It is used by more than 365+ million users around the world. You can add Moodle plugins to extend the feature set to customize the learning environment according to your requirements. In this post we will have a look at the Mail plugin which can be used to add Webmail like messaging system.

The Mail plugin for Moodle can be used by participants to connect with each other. The user interface is similar to modern web mail clients. The user can send messages using the Mail plugin only to the other users within the same course.

This plugin allows users to send messages to each other, using an interface and features similar to webmail clients. Messages are tied to courses, users can only contact other participants in courses they are enrolled. Reading/sending of messages is done through a new item in the navigation block called “My Mail”.

You can download/get the Mail plugin for Moodle through the official repository here. The plugin is pretty actively maintained over past so many years and received Early Bird badge for all recent Moodle version released.

The plugin can add a much useful and anticipated email kind of feature in your Moodle LMS. So, if you are looking for a solution to allow your users communicate with each other, you can use this plugin.

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SaaS Recruitment Analytics Platform Datapeople Raises $13M in Series A Round

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SaaS Recruitment Analytics Platform Datapeople Raises $13M in Series A Round
SaaS Recruitment Analytics Platform Datapeople Raises $13M in Series A Round

Datapeople, a SaaS recruiting predictability platform, has recently raised $13 million in its Series A round led by GreatPoint Ventures and New Markets Venture Partners, with the participation of existing investors including First Round Capital, NextView Ventures and Uncork Capital as well as operator syndicates Gaingels and FOG Ventures.

Founded in 2015, Datapeople offers recruiting predictability and control using a combination of natural language processing, data science, responsible AI, and behavioural science. With accessible metrics and actionable insights, hiring teams can ground their recruiting decisions in science and fairness. The platform brings data-backed objectivity, efficiency and predictability to talent acquisition, beginning with optimized job descriptions and following with reporting and analytics on recruiting processes and performance. The firm claims that since 2022, more than 10,000 users have edited 170,000 jobs in the Datapeople platform.

The New York-based startup will use the funds to scale its go-to-market function and increase the delivery of new features and products. Speaking about the company, Co-founder & CEO of Datapeople, Amit Bhatia, said:

Talent acquisition is facing multiple challenges today, including uncertain economic times, scrutiny on hiring spend, and labour market tightness, while also being expected to continue to deliver with leaner teams and smaller spend. The control over processes and outcomes that Datapeople provides is essential, as well as our ability to help with meaningful improvements in hiring quality, diversity, speed, and cost.

Commenting on the fundraising, Associate Partner of GreatPoint Ventures, David Resnekov, said:

Hiring teams today are under pressure to efficiently drive and sustain growth with talent, which is exactly where Datapeople is impacting its customers. We invested in Datapeople because they’re solving a major problem by giving recruiting leaders intelligence and control throughout the hiring process, starting with the job description.

Datapeople’s data-informed recommendations are powered by a database of over 65 million job posts and millions of hiring outcomes to examine job posts holistically: both on content (what is said) and language (how it is said). Its bias guidance identifies eight forms of bias, including racism, tokenism, ableism, ageism, sexism, nationalism, religious bias, and elitism. The company’s Job Score helps users understand how their content will likely perform in the local market across various dimensions, including candidate pool volume, quality and diversity.

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Find out the time spent by students in Moodle course by Course Dedication plugin

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Find out the time spent by students in Moodle course by Course Dedication plugin
Find out the time spent by students in Moodle course by Course Dedication plugin

With a vast range of features and plugins, Moodle LMS offers educators and learners the tools they need to create engaging and interactive online courses. However, many educators look to find a solution to check how much time the learners have spent in their course.

By checking the time spent in the course, you can link it to further actions like issuing a certificate with hours spent etc. So, in this post we will see the Course Dedication plugin which can help you track the time spent by users in your Moodle course.

The Course Dedication Moodle plugin allows to calculate estimated dedication time of participants within a course. Kindly note that this plugin is not tracking any user directly to trigger any privacy related problems. Instead the Time is estimated based in the concepts of Session and Session duration applied to Moodle’s log entries:

  • Click: every time that a user access to a page in Moodle a log entry is stored.
  • Session: set of two or more consecutive clicks in which the elapsed time between every pair of consecutive clicks does not overcome an established maximum time.
  • Session duration: elapsed time between the first and the last click of the session.

You can download the Course Dedication Moodle plugin from the official plugins repository here.

The block is mainly intended to be used by the teachers but you can also make it visible to the students. For teachers the Course Dedication block provides:

  • Dedication time of the course: calculates total dedication time, mean dedication time and connections per day for each student, which you can filter by course group if required.
  • Dedication of a student: detailed sessions for a student with start date & time, duration and ip.
  • Report builder source: The plugin includes a custom report builder source to allow for site-level reporting to be generated.

What are the other ways you are using as a Moodle teacher to keep track of your student’s progress. Please share with us in the comments section below.

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Generative AI English Learning App Loora Raises $9.25M in Seed Round

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Generative AI English Learning App Loora Raises $9.25M in Seed Round
Generative AI English Learning App Loora Raises $9.25M in Seed Round

Loora, the generative AI English language learning platform, has announced that it has raised a $9.25 million seed round led by lead investor Emerge, with participation from Two Lanterns Venture Partners and Kaedan Capital. With the funds, the startup plans to further research and develop its generative AI capabilities, improve its product, expand its team of AI researchers and engineers, and ramp up marketing efforts.

Co-founded by Roy Mor and Yonti Levin in late 2020, Loora harnesses the power of generative AI purpose-built to make English fluency attainable and accessible. The platform believes everyone deserves the opportunity to speak English fluently and that learning English shouldn’t be a barrier that holds anyone back from fulfilling their dreams and aspirations. To bridge this gap, the company has developed the most advanced AI English tutor building a bespoke system of cutting-edge large language models, specifically trained and optimized to provide the best and most personalized experience for each learner.

Speaking on the fundraising, Co-founder & CEO of Loora, Roy Mor, said:

English is the lingua franca of today’s globalized world, and professional success can be an uphill battle without mastery of the language. Yet, most people still need access to affordable and impactful English learning solutions. While generative AI has immense potential to help people practice their language skills, not all AI is created equal. Our conversational AI was created and optimized specifically to enable people to access more opportunities by equipping them with the English skills they need to thrive. We’re thrilled to have the support of investors who recognize our technology’s importance and far-reaching impact, and we look forward to continuing to deliver the future of English language learning.

With Loora by their side, it enables people to tap into their true potential. The firm equips them with the tools to master English, paving the way for better career opportunities, business, education, or personal lives.

Headquartered in Tel Aviv, Loora, available via a subscription model, already has thousands of paid subscribers spanning the US, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Its AI is built, trained, and optimized specifically for those seeking a personalized English learning experience. It provides an experience that matches naturally conversing with a native English speaker on-demand with real-time feedback.

Liad Rubin, General Partner of Emerge, added:

We have been partnering with trailblazing AI companies since 2016, so Loora was a natural fit in our portfolio. In 2020, co-founders Roy Mor and Yonti Levin already recognized the potential of generative AI for language learning. They set out on a mission to harness it for the benefit of society far before the introduction of ChatGPT. General-purpose generative AI models are effective in the execution of generic tasks, but there is a massive advantage in building and training an AI specifically for a domain. This is why Loora envisioned and built their AI tutor to teach English, creating an unparalleled, next-gen solution for virtual English education. We’re excited to be part of this journey.

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