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Unacademy Group-Owned Graphy Acquires Community Building Platform Scenes

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Jaswinder Singh
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Unacademy Group-Owned Graphy Acquires Community Building Platform Scenes
Unacademy Group-Owned Graphy Acquires Community Building Platform Scenes

Unacademy-owned Graphy, a software-as-a-service-based platform for content creators, has announced that it has acquired Scenes, a Singaporean community-building platform. According to the company, the acquisition will enable Graphy to expand its product offerings and reach the creator ecosystem. Besides, the deal will help Scenes utilise Unacademy’s resource base, expertise and content library to fuel its growth further.

Founded in 2021 by Varun Mayya, Abhinav Arora, and Shashank Udupa, Scenes provides creators with an all-in-one solution for overseeing, moderating, and monetising their communities. The platform allows creators to sell their digital products, organise events, and process payments. The platform is used by top creators such as Sharan Hegde (1% Club), Sourav Jain (Digital Scholar), and more.

Commenting on the deal, Co-founder & CEO of Graphy, Sumit Jain, said in a statement:

The acquisition of Scenes is a strategic move to strengthen our leadership position in the creator economy. Scenes has built a robust community platform for creators, and this acquisition aligns with our vision of helping creators and educators develop and scale their online knowledge business.

Varun Mayya, Co-founder and CEO of Scenes added: Scenes has been an exciting journey.

We’ve partnered with many large creators and businesses over the years. The Scenes product and customers could not have found a better home than Graphy.

Scenes has raised about $50,000 in a seed round. Gaurav Munjal, Co-founder and CEO, is an investor in Scenes. Besides Munjal, Scenes counts Kunal Shah, Blume Ventures (and investor in Unacademy), Better Capital, Tanmay Bhat and Flipkart’s Kalyan Krishnamurthy as its backers. Scenes has a holding entity in Singapore called Avalonmeta Ventures Pte.

Launched in 2020 by Sumit Jain, Sushil Kumar, and Shobhit Bakliwal, Graphy empowers creators and educators to scale their online brands and business by launching online courses and selling them via white-labelled websites and mobile apps. The company claims to have helped over 1,00,000 educators and creators undertake their online courses. It allows users to explore stories, ideas, books and original content through video, audio, images, and quizzes.

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Join first MoodleMoot Ecuador 2023 on 1-2 Aug, 2023

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Jaswinder Singh
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Join first MoodleMoot Ecuador 2023 on 1-2 Aug, 2023
Join first MoodleMoot Ecuador 2023 on 1-2 Aug, 2023

Moodlemoot Ecuador 2023 will be held on 1-2 August 2023 in Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador. The edtech conference will be an in-person event as this will be the country’s first Moodlemoot ever.

By participating in the MoodleMoot Ecuador 2023, you will have the incredible opportunity to attend in-person workshops, conferences, plenaries, networking sessions, panel discussions, and other knowledge-sharing spaces on eLearning, Moodle, and educational technology.

The registration for the Moodlemoot Ecuador 2023 is completely free of cost. The last date for registering for the edtech event is July 17. There will be more than 15+ conferences and workshops in the event.

The presentations will be focused on the following themes:

  • Implementation of tools and functionalities in Moodle
  • Trends and challenges of online education
  • Evaluation and monitoring in Moodle
  • Teaching methodologies in Moodle

The edtech conference is hosted by Edu Labs, Escuela Politécnica Nacional. For complete details, please check out the official website here.

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Moodle Administrators – Merge User Accounts to clean up the database easily

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle Administrators - Merge User Accounts to clean up the database easily
Moodle Administrators - Merge User Accounts to clean up the database easily

Moodle LMS is used by more than 365 million users around the world. The flexibility for customization offered by Moodle LMS is unbeatable by any other open source LMS. However, the Moodle administrators struggle with cleanup of the Moodle database over a long time. In this post, we will see how you can clean up the user accounts in your Moodle site.

There may be times that you have got multiple accounts created for a single user in Moodle. On top of that they have recorded some progress in both of their user accounts. It will be a huge problem for the Moodle Admins to keep their progress from both accounts and then remove any one account.

The merge User Accounts plugin is a perfect fit for this specific scenario. It will help you to merge two Moodle user accounts into one. You can get the latest version of this plugin from the official plugins repository here.

The plugin will assign all activity & records from user A to user B. After merging the user account, the User B will keep record of all progress ever made by the user in Moodle. This plugin can help you significantly reduce the unnecessary users created in your Moodle records.

What are the other tips you want to share with other Moodle administrators to clean up their databases. Please share with us in the comments section below.

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Seattle-Based Recruitment Automation Startup Humanly Raises $12M in Series A Round

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Jaswinder Singh
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Seattle-Based Recruitment Automation Startup Humanly Raises $12M in Series A Round
Seattle-Based Recruitment Automation Startup Humanly Raises $12M in Series A Round

Humanly, a Seattle-based HRTech startup that helps companies automate their recruiting functions, has raised $12 million in its Series A  round led by Drive Capital. With this investment round, the company plans to grow its engineering and go-to-market teams.

The startup’s goal is to automate mundane tasks for human resources personnel so they can focus on building deeper connections with candidates. Its technology also helps with interviews by providing automated notes, follow-up emails and insights. It claims to have processed more than 1 million job candidates, including for clients such as Microsoft, the restaurant chain Fazoli’s and Seattle-based accounting and consulting firm Moss Adams.

Co-founded by Prem Kumar, Andrew Gardner and Bryan Leptich in 2019, Humanly provides artificial intelligence-powered chat that handles tasks like screening, scheduling and re-engaging with candidates. The platform’s chat technology can also help with reference checks.

Speaking about the company, Co-founder & CEO of Humanly, Prem Kumar, said:

Any conversation you’re having with job candidates, via SMS chatbot or human, we want to be there and make those more efficient and more equitable. The startup aims to address a pain point in the hiring process where limited data is exchanged between hiring managers’ bots, screening tools, and interview transcripts. Multiple devices often make candidates feel like they are “being interviewed by three companies.

Humanly’s library of conversational interactions is stripped of bias triggers such as gendered words, culture-specific terminology, lines of questions that bias towards certain cognitive processes, and even role-specific biases. It optionally allows customers to hide fields like a candidate’s name, so hiring teams can focus on factors predictive of success per role, industry, and market.

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What is Eduaide.AI? How you can use it for your online classroom

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Jaswinder Singh
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What is Eduaide.AI? How you can use it for your online classroom

In today’s fast-paced and technology-driven world, the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) is felt across various sectors, including education. One recent AI based Edtech tool is Eduaide.AI, a groundbreaking platform that aims to transform the way we teach and learn. By leveraging the power of AI, Eduaide.AI is revolutionizing education, enhancing student experiences, and empowering educators worldwide. In this blog post, we will delve into the concept of Eduaide.AI and explore its remarkable potential.

What is Eduaide.AI?

Eduaide.AI is an advanced educational platform that combines AI algorithms, machine learning, and natural language processing to create an interactive and personalized learning environment. It goes beyond traditional methods of education by providing intelligent tutoring systems, adaptive learning pathways, and comprehensive data analytics. The platform acts as a virtual assistant, supporting both students and teachers in their educational journeys.

Eduaide.AI Key Features and Benefits:

Here are the key features of Eduaide.AI platform:

  • Personalized Learning: Eduaide.AI employs AI algorithms to analyze students’ learning patterns, strengths, and weaknesses. By understanding their unique requirements, it tailors educational content and activities to suit individual needs. This personalized approach maximizes learning outcomes and helps students progress at their own pace.
  • Intelligent Tutoring: The platform acts as a virtual tutor, offering guidance and assistance in real-time. Eduaide.AI utilizes natural language processing capabilities to interact with students, answer their questions, and provide explanations. It adapts its teaching methods based on individual learning styles, fostering a more engaging and effective learning experience.
  • Adaptive Learning Pathways: Eduaide.AI tracks students’ progress and continually adjusts the learning pathways accordingly. By identifying areas where students are struggling or excelling, the platform provides targeted resources, exercises, and assessments. This adaptive approach ensures efficient knowledge retention and a deeper understanding of the subject matter.
  • Accessible and Inclusive Learning: Eduaide.AI strives to make education accessible to all. It accommodates different learning styles and supports learners with diverse needs. The platform can offer multilingual interfaces, audiovisual aids, and assistive technologies, ensuring that students with disabilities or language barriers can also benefit from its educational resources.
  • Continuous Learning: Eduaide.AI promotes lifelong learning by offering a wide range of courses, subjects, and skill-based modules. It provides opportunities for students to explore new areas of interest, expand their knowledge, and develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills beyond traditional curricula.

Eduaide is an innovative AI tool designed specifically for teachers, offering a wide range of features to enhance their teaching practices. With Eduaide, educators can express their creativity, cultivate their expertise, and align their lesson planning with their students’ needs. The platform provides a revolutionary infrastructure for sourcing educational resources, eliminating the time-consuming search process.

How to use Eduaide.AI?

You can access the Eduaide.AI through any device with internet connectivity by going to website – https://www.eduaide.ai/

You can click on Try for Free to get started. You may be required to login with your google account to proceed.

How to create content with Eduaide.AI?

To begin planning on Eduaide is to interact with an AI. You select your subject and grade level from drop-down menus. Describe what you want to teach in as much detail as possible. Your words mixed with the above prompts will shape the kind of resource you will get back.

Once you have generated a resource, it is time to shape it into the instructional tool that would most useful in your classroom. You can highlight any portion of the generated assignments, right-click, and access a range of personalization features—keyword generator, translate, and lexile-level scaling. From here, you may freely edit the generated material to best fit your instructional needs and style.

What are the other AI based Edtech tools which you are using for your classroom? Please share with us in the comments section below.

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Moodle Users Association – Ordering Question type coming to Moodle core in future

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle Users Association - Ordering Question type coming to Moodle core in future
Moodle Users Association - Ordering Question type coming to Moodle core in future

Moodle Users Association – the community arm of the Moodle LMS has been running the January-June 2023 project development cycle. As we reported earlier, the final voting cycle for this project cycle was ongoing. Now, the voting period is ended and the project for this cycle has been finalized.

In the current project development cycle – the Moodle users Association (MUA) members voted the following projects in the final round:

  1. Add the Ordering question type (qtype_ordering) into Moodle core – 31696
  2. Show information for teachers about submissions on the course main page in the Boost theme – 31279
  3. Allow Activity Completion Settings for Topics/Weeks – 28863
  4. Allow session stores to fully manage the session ==> never touch mdl_sessions table! – 13393
  5. Improve availability of activities and resources overview pages in Boost theme – 3869

So, the final voting leads to have the Ordering Question type in the Moodle core in upcoming Moodle released. The Moodle Users Association is a non-profit entity to support the growth of Moodle, the open-source online learning platform, by providing a strong and united voice to users, giving direction and resources for new developments.

Inclusion of Ordering Question type will be a welcoming news for many educators as it is one of the most downloaded and actively maintained Moodle plugins.

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London-Based Experiential Learning Startup Yayem Raises $2M in Seed Round

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Jaswinder Singh
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London-Based Experiential Learning Startup Yayem Raises $2M in Seed Round
London-Based Experiential Learning Startup Yayem Raises $2M in Seed Round

Yayem, a London-based experiential learning platform aiming to cater to the needs of hybrid professionals and teams seeking immersive learning experiences, has secured $2 million in a seed round to help global power expansion.

With a growing membership base in prominent global cities like London, Lisbon, Mexico City, Cape Town, and New York City, Yayem is reshaping the work and leisure dynamics for educated urbanites in this “hybrid” world. Its impact redefines how millions of individuals approach their professional and personal lives, blurring the boundaries between work and play.

Co-founded by Lindsey Elkin and Nicolas Buteau, Yayem’s newly launched mobile app introduces a digital product as a passport to physical spaces, diverse learning opportunities, and a global network of professionals and digital nomads. Its goal is to provide users with a sense of boundlessness and familiarity, transcending geographical boundaries. The platform has an AI-powered concierge that acts as a matchmaker (of the non-romantic kind!) within the community.

Commenting on the investment, Co-founder & CEO of Yayem, Nicolas Buteau, said:

We couldn’t be more excited to launch during Pride Month, with Yayem celebrations happening worldwide. Just this past Tuesday, we took members on a private tour of Queer Britain – with London and visiting members joining us to learn, engage and connect. As a gay, black CEO, it was important to build Yayem with strong principles of diversity and inclusion — we are proud of the variety of our initial founding member base and plan to keep growing with these principles top of mind.

With its mission to redefine how professionals and teams connect and learn, Yayem aims to empower millions of individuals in the hybrid world, transforming work and play into a seamless and enriching experience.

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Moodle teachers – How to Paste grades from Spreadsheet in Moodle gradebook?

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle teachers - How to Paste grades from Spreadsheet in Moodle gradebook?
Moodle teachers - How to Paste grades from Spreadsheet in Moodle gradebook?

Moodle LMS is packed with a lot of hidden features which are pretty useful for educators. This is one of the main reason behind its popularity. It offers you the possibility to customize the features by using the Moodle plugins if not present in the core. In this post, we will see how you can paste the student grades from spreadsheet in Moodle gradebook.

The Moodle Gradebook itself is one of the best gradebook management tool. With Moodle gradebook, you can create different type of gradebook setup e.g. different weights for grade items, manual grade items, grade categories, different aggregation methods etc. Now, let’s see how you can import grades from a spreadsheet in Moodle gradebook.

There may be times that you might have assigned the grades for your class in a spreadsheet and you have to import them in Moodle for a compiled gradebook. You can also have a look at manual graded items in Moodle. So, lets see how you can import the grades from spreadsheet.

Method 1:

The first method is to save the whole spreadsheet as a csv file. Once you finalized your spreadsheet, you can save it as a comma separated values file. To import the grades from this csv file, please follow these steps:

  • Navigate to your Course > Grades > Import page.
  • Just drop your csv file in the dropdown area.
  • Set options as required.
  • Click the “Upload grades” button.

Method 2:

The second method allows you to directly paste from a spreadsheet into Moodle gradebook. But you need to make sure that you have the correct column names for your grades. It is best to first export the grades and then use the same spreadsheet to add grades.

  • For the students you need either their username, their ID or their email address. Add the grades you need and copy the relevant section.
  • In your course, go to Grade >Import>Paste from spreadsheet and paste.
  • In the preview, ensure you match up the identifier you used for the students -so if you used ‘username’, ensure it maps to ‘username’. Do the same for your graded activities
  • If everything has been correctly mapped, you should get a success message and the grades will have been added, displaying in a different colour to show they were imported directly into the gradebook.

If you face any problems while importing your grades in Moodle, please feel free to share with us in the comments section below.

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Adda247 Acquires 3D Experiential Learning App Veeksha to Strengthen Test Prep Offerings

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Jaswinder Singh
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Adda247 Acquires 3D Experiential Learning App Veeksha to Strengthen Test Prep Offerings
Adda247 Acquires 3D Experiential Learning App Veeksha to Strengthen Test Prep Offerings

Adda247, India’s largest vernacular test prep platform, has announced that it has acquired Ahmedabad-based 3D experiential learning-based platform Veeksha for an undisclosed amount. With this acquisition, Adda247 aims to offer interactive learning modules to students to enable an in-depth understanding of concepts through better visualisations. Veeksha will merge into Adda247 and complete vision synergies as a part of the deal.

Co-founded in 2021 by Gaurishankar Singh, Hariprasad Bommidi and Miral Songhela, Veeksha produces interactive 3D simulations and AR/VR learning modules for mathematics and science for new-age learners who prefer learning on digital devices. Its immersive and experiential learning modules are cross-platform and can be used by teachers and students. The startup aims to create a system where students can learn from virtual labs and experiential, gamified learning.

Speaking on the deal, Founder & CEO of Adda247, Anil Nagar, said:

We are working to scale up our AR/VR capabilities and offer the best learning to the students coming to our platform. With Veeksha, we plan to simplify complex concepts into simple 3D visualisations, virtual experiments, and explanatory videos, ultimately leading students to perform better.

Co-founder of Veeksha, Gaurishankar Singh, added:

We are excited to introduce the expertise of Veeksha to all content consumers in the educational institution space. Adda247’s large user base, along with our ability to create 3D visualised content, can pave the way for exciting advancements in education with AR and VR.

Founded in 2016 by Nagar and Saurabh Bansal, Adda247 caters to more than 50 million users on its various platforms every month by providing online courses for more than 500 exams, including government job exam, UPSC, IIT JEE, NEET, CUET, et al. The platform offers comprehensive solutions for all learning needs, including – online live classes, on-demand video courses, mock tests, e-books, etc. The startup’s mission is to bring quality education to the masses by providing online courses for all major exams in more than ten regional languages in India.

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Use Google Meet in Moodle for web conferencing & learning

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Jaswinder Singh
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Use Google Meet in Moodle for web conferencing & learning
Use Google Meet in Moodle for web conferencing & learning

World’s most popular open source Learning management System – Moodle LMS allows integration of different tools to enhance learning. There are multiple tools available which are having seamless integrations through Moodle plugins. In this post, we will see how you can integrate Google Meet with Moodle to host meetings.

Google Meet is one of the most popular and stable web-conferencing tool released by Google. It has been used across various industries to allow users to host their own video conferences. It allows more relaxing features than Zoom.

While Google Meet is one of the best ways to use the web conferencing in Moodle, there are other open source tools which can also be integrated in your Moodle. There are BigBlueButton & Jitsi and various others which can be used with Moodle.

With Google meet for Moodle plugin, You can allow the teachers to create a room and make available to the students the recordings of the room saved in Google Drive, without having to leave Moodle.

You can download the Google Meet for Moodle plugin from the official plugins repository here. After installing this plugin, you need to setup an OAuth service in Moodle to connect Google from Moodle. Once you have completed the setup as defined in the plugin documentation, you can use it from your Moodle course.

To setup a Google Meet session, you need to add the Google Meet activity in your course. You can setup the recurring event also as you can configure the recurring dates/duration.

You can also record your meetings and then save them to the Google Drive repository. The recordings can be lates shared to students to let them go through at a later date.

There are many advantages of using Google Meet in Moodle, such as:

  • Easy access – Since most of users are having Google account, so it is easier for them to get started with Google meet.
  • Relaxed Limitations – You can host 60 minutes meeting for 100 participants.
  • Easy recordings – All the meetings are recorded as well as can be accessed at a later date without any problem.

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

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