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Join MoodleMoot Brasil 2023 on 26-28 April in Sao Paulo

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Join MoodleMoot Brasil 2023 on 26-28 April in Sao Paulo
Join MoodleMoot Brasil 2023 on 26-28 April in Sao Paulo

The MoodleMoot Brasil 2023 will be heldon 26-28 April 2023 in Universidade Mackenzie de São Paulo. This year, the edtech event will return back to in-person event. The MoodleMoot Brasil was held as a virtual event since last two years.

The three day event will be a great chance for educators to access to exclusive content, workshops and chats with professionals. The edtech event will have content across the following themes:

  • Teacher World
  • Technologcial Management
  • Educational Manager

The registrations for the MoodleMoot Brasil 2023 are now open. You can register your seat for the edtech conference here. The three day event ticket price is fixed at BRL 250.

The event will give you three days of face-to-face events filled with unique knowledge, built and applied in practice by the Moodle community.

For more information about the MoodleMoot Brasil, please visit the official website here.

InCred Capital Acquires 20% Stake in HRTech SaaS Platform TeamNest

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InCred Capital Acquires 20% Stake in HRTech SaaS Platform TeamNest
InCred Capital Acquires 20% Stake in HRTech SaaS Platform TeamNest

InCred Capital, a new-age financial services provider focused on bringing cutting-edge solutions for sophisticated individual investors and institutional clients, has invested in TeamNest, a payroll and HR SaaS platform. However, the company did not disclose the amount of the investment.

After the investment, InCred Capital will hold a 20% stake in the company. The latest infusion forms a part of the Series A round in TeamNest. With the fresh capital, TeamNest will enable it to expand its reach and enhance its product offerings.

It will also allow TeamNest to tap into InCred’s extensive network in the Indian market, providing the platform with the necessary resources to compete effectively in the HRTech space.

Founded in 2017 by Mahesh Jethani, and Prashant Shah, TeamNest is a cross-border, multilingual platform that helps businesses of all sectors and sizes manage their payroll and human resources function more efficiently. With its user-friendly interface, automated processes, and advanced analytics, the startup has become a popular option in the payroll and HR segment, with more than 10% month-on-month growth for the last 15 months.

Speaking about the latest development, Co-founder, CMO & Director of TeamNest, Prashant Shah, said:

We are delighted to have InCred Capital as our investor and partner in this journey. Their extensive experience and network in the Indian market will be invaluable to us as we work towards capturing the HRTech market in India. This investment will allow us to accelerate outreach across the country, expand our reach, and become the hire-to-retire partner for our customers.

Saumya Mittal, Head of Structured Finance, InCred Capital, added:

We are excited to partner with TeamNest and support their growth in the Indian market. With its innovative technology and dedicated team, TeamNest has the potential to transform the HRTech landscape in India, and we are thrilled to be a part of this journey.

Mumbai-based TeamNest began with a mission to provide a world-class HR platform to small and medium organisations. It also aims to provide every possible convenience, from attendance to payroll, tax filing, and investments. The company believes that professionals and workforces worldwide need a single-point platform to run their professional lives efficiently, intuitively, and securely. From to-dos to compliances to physical workspaces – it will cover everything one needs to ensure that one can focus on creating magic at their workplace.

InCred Capital is an India-focused institutional platform that advises marquee clients on some of India’s largest and most significant business transactions across sectors. The Fintech company provides access to an all-in-one ecosystem of experts to craft bespoke solutions for Indian wealth creators.

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Leave Management Platform Tilt Raises $10M to Fuel Expansion and Growth

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Leave Management Platform Tilt Raises $10M to Fuel Expansion and Growth
Leave Management Platform Tilt Raises $10M to Fuel Expansion and Growth

Tilt, an HRTech platform that aims to improve the employee leave of absence process in a significant way using a platform-based approach, has recently raised $10 million in a funding round led by Origin Ventures, with participation from Firework Ventures.

Founded by Jen Henderson in 2017, Tilt offers organizations a stress-free and cost-saving leave of absence management platform that streamlines the entire process. This frees up time and ensures that each leave is handled empathetically, effectively, and consistently. The firm also makes it easy for organizations to capitalize on funds from state and local government benefit programs while keeping data secure and reducing compliance risk. It also provides HR departments with a dream solution for their most headache-inducing task while helping retain employees through personalized support and empathetic technology.

The Colorado-based startup plans to use the funding to support its ongoing expansion and fulfilling the substantial market demand by investing in its technology and partnerships. It also intends to grow its team to ensure a compassionate and positive leave experience for all its users.

Tilt’s research-based approach to LOAs has proven invaluable to HR teams across the country, making managing leaves seamless for HR, payroll, employees and managers no matter what state they reside, all while saving organizations time and money.

Speaking about the capital raised, Founder & CEO of Tilt, Jennifer Henderson, said

This round reflects the dedication and passion Tilters have put forth in our unwavering mission to make leave not suck. What we’ve been able to accomplish with our previous funding round has been tremendous. We’ve seen our Tilt family triple as we’ve made massive strides in evolving our platform to make leave management more accessible than ever for HR, all while continuing our commitment to provide the most empathetic leave experience for employees. With this new capital, we’ll be able to invest in growing our team and enhancing our solution even further as we continue to deliver the best leave-of-absence experience in the world.

Brent Hill, Managing Partner at Origin Ventures commented:

The modern labor force expects leaves of absence – in various forms, including those related to family medical leave – to be well-managed before, during, and after the absence. Tilt’s technology delivers a seamless employee experience, while coordinating compliance and financial settlement for HR and finance professionals, respectively. Our firm is pleased to be helping Tilt deliver on their vision for the Workplace of the Future.

Brigette Lau, Founding Partner of Firework Ventures, added:

Jen and the Tilt team are truly inspiring. The pandemic accelerated a reassessment of the relationship between employees and their employers, and we’ve seen this team execute and capture the moment. We’ve been thoroughly impressed by their ability to build a thoughtful and scalable product that is a win-win for employers and their workforces. We are excited about the growth opportunity ahead for the company and have the conviction that this team will continue to excel.

Tilt offers HR departments a dream solution for their most headache-inducing task while helping retain employees through personalized support and empathetic technology.

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Moodle 4.2 QA Testing Commencing from March 20th

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle 4.2 QA Testing Commencing from March 20th
Moodle 4.2 QA Testing Commencing from March 20th

Moodle LMS’s new version i.e. Moodle 4.2 will be packed with awesome new features. The new major version is scheduled to be released on 24th April 2023. The Quality Assurance testing (QA Testing) for Moodle 4.2 will commence from March 20th 2023.

The new major Moodle version was initially planned to be released in May but the whole release cycle is left shifted by Moodle LMS team recently. Read complete details here.

The Quality Assurance (QA) testing is carried out to ensure the functionality of Moodle from a user’s point of view. Real users systematically try each feature in Moodle and ensure that it works in the current version of the Moodle code. These tests are repeated in a series of cycles, around 4 – 6 weeks before each major release, once all major features have landed.

You can also participate in the QA testing for Moodle 4.2 by going through this guide. You need to use the Moodle 4.2 QA site here. The participants will also earn a QA Tester badge on Moodle.org.

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Moodle Mobile App 4.1.1 Released, Check out New Features

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Moodle Mobile App 4.1.1 Released, Check out New Features
Moodle Mobile App 4.1.1 Released, Check out New Features

The Official Moodle Mobile App has been updated to a new version compatible with Moodle 4.1.1 version. The official Moodle Mobile App allows you to setup your own learning portal with your own customised app.

With the Moodle app, you can learn wherever you are, whenever you want, with these app features:

  • Easily access course content – browse the content of your courses, even when offline
  • Connect with course participants – quickly find and contact other people in your courses
  • Keep up to date – receive instant notifications of messages and other events, such as assignment submissions
  • Submit assignments – Upload images, audio, videos and other files from your mobile device
  • Track your progress – View your grades, check completion progress in courses and browse your learning plans
  • Complete activities anywhere, anytime – attempt quizzes, post in forums, play SCORM packages, edit wiki pages and more – both on and off-line

The new Moodle App 4.1.1 includes the following new features and improvements:

  • Initial support to custom reports
  • New in-app audio recorder supporting common formats
  • Better support for video and audio recorded using the text editor options

There are many other bugs and security issues fixed in the new version. You can download the Latest Moodle Mobile App from Android store here and Apple App Store here.

Check out the Moodle Mobile App version 4.1.1 Release Notes here.

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B2B Hybrid Workspace Platform Desana Raises $7.4M to Expand Its Operations in US

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B2B Hybrid Workspace Platform Desana Raises $7.4M to Expand Its Operations in US
B2B Hybrid Workspace Platform Desana Raises $7.4M to Expand Its Operations in US

Desana, a UK-based B2B global hybrid workspace software that lets enterprises book flexible office desk space for their employees on the fly, recently announced that it has raised $7.4 million in a funding round co-led by PT1 – PropTech1 Ventures and JLL Spark Global Ventures, with participation from original pre-seed investor Techstart Ventures, BGF and Groundbreak Ventures.

The company intends to use the funds to continue to expand operations and its business reach, particularly in the US, where they see significant opportunity to expand their list of enterprise customers, which includes Github, Twilio, Sonos, Elastic and Splunk, amongst others.

Led by Michael Cockburn, CEO, Desana offers employers on-demand access to workspace in over 600 cities across more than 60 countries. For the first time, companies are able to provide their employees with access to workspace anywhere in the world, while only paying for the exact hours that workspace is used.

Sharing about the company, Co-founder & CEO of Desana, Michael Cockburn, said:

We’ve come a long way from launching our initial product from our living rooms in Edinburgh to working at a global scale with some of the biggest companies in the world as they fundamentally rethink the way they utilise office space. We established Desana ahead of one of the biggest shifts in working culture for generations, and this unprecedented transition has driven a huge amount of growth for us. But, given the scale of the change in this industry, we believe that there’s still so much more to come.

Companies can also integrate their own offices onto the platform, offering a single solution to the complex task of managing global hybrid working patterns and allowing the tracking of accurate workspace data to support long-term real estate decisions.

Headquartered in Edinburgh, Scotland, the company is witnessing significant demand from enterprises wishing to adjust to new, hybrid working modes. Since its launch, the SaaS and marketplace platform garnered reach in North America, with its team now straddling Canada, the US, and its UK HQ. The firm delivers the “future of work” solution globally.

Tanguy Quero, Investment Principal, JLL Spark, commented:

Desana has developed a best-in-class platform to help companies address the challenge of managing a distributed workforce with a hybrid or flexible model. Their solution uniquely combines ease of deployment and scalability for management teams with great user experience for employees.

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Kuwaiti Educational Platform Baims Raises $4M in Series A Round

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Kuwaiti Educational Platform Baims Raises $4M in Series A Round
Kuwaiti Educational Platform Baims Raises $4M in Series A Round

Baims, the leading edtech startup in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Jordan, Bahrain, and Turkey, has successfully raised $4 million in its Series A funding round led by AK Holding and the participation of Al-Wazzan Educational Group, Rasameel Investment House and other investors.

Kuwaiti startup plans to utilize the latest funding to accelerate the development of its innovative platform, increase its marketing efforts, and develop new educational content and services. With its innovative approach to education and its commitment to empowering students, Baims is poised to impact the future of education in MENA significantly.

Commenting on the fundraising, Co-founder & CEO of Baims, Yousef Al-Husaini, said:

We are thrilled to have the support of our investors, who share our vision of providing accessible and affordable education to students across Baims is short for Big Aims. It was chosen because it is characteristic of young people, especially university students, who have their whole life and possibilities ahead of them and big future goals.

Co-founded by Bader Al-Rasheed and Yousef Alhusaini in 2017, Baims aims to provide accessible and affordable education to university and high school students across MENA, regardless of their background or financial situation. The platform allows top instructors to teach and students to study anytime and anywhere at a fraction of today’s cost, making high-quality education accessible to everyone. It offers various educational content and services, including tailored video lectures, live sessions, chat groups, and interactive exercises. With an intuitive and user-friendly interface, students can access these materials anytime and anywhere, making it easy to learn at their own pace and on their schedule.

Abdullateef Al-Thuwaini from AK Holding added:

We are proud to lead the Series A investment round supporting Baims. We have followed its noticeable growth over the years and are confident it can grow even more to become the leading EdTech company in the MENA region soon. Baims stands out, and its impact on students is clear with its wide array of online courses. We trust the CEO’s vision and leadership to bring the company to bigger success. AK Holding Company values hard-working entrepreneurs such as Yousef Al-Husaini and his team. We will continue to support projects that bring added value to society.

Baims plans to use the funds from this Series A funding round to accelerate the development of its innovative platform, increase its marketing efforts, and develop new educational content and services. With its innovative approach to education and its commitment to empowering students, Baims is poised to make a significant impact on the future of education in MENA.

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Gold star for Polish edtech as ‘Coding Giants’ raises €3.5 million

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Gold star for Polish edtech as 'Coding Giants' raises €3.5 million
Gold star for Polish edtech as 'Coding Giants' raises €3.5 million

Coding Giants – the Polish Edtech Startup has announced a funding round of €3.5 million from CEE-based investors PortfoLion and Nunatak Capital. Coding Giants is an organization that provides coding classes to children and teens ages 7 to 18.

Lead investor Budapest-based PortfoLion has previously invested in several edtech companies such as Novakid, CodeCool, and SDA. Nunatak Capital are a Polish VC fund specialising in the areas of data science and AI.

Coding Giants offers courses for students 7 to 19 years old, in over 120 stationary locations in addition to online courses throughout Poland and 14 other countries. Aside from its own operations it also offers a franchise model which is currently at play in 12 countries including Croatia, Bulgaria, Mexico, Australia and UAE.

The founders of Coding Giants said:

Along with the general development of the company, we want to speed up growth on foreign markets. In Spanish-speaking countries, we have proven that we are able to implement our business model, expanding at a rapid pace. Now we wish to accelerate expansion even further, which would be difficult to achieve without the support of external funding. We are interested not only in financial resources as we have gained partners who have experience in the development of educational start-ups in global markets.

Coding Giants has over 77 courses and over 500 lesson plans for students which include Scratch, App Inventor, Python, C#, JavaScript and HTML – with a goal of increasing trainer numbers to 1000 by the end of the year. Funding will also be allocated to the development of the proprietary LMS system with innovative gamification and AI modules supporting education.

Adam Purwin, Nunatak Capital said:

Data Science solutions, especially those based on AI algorithms, are increasingly being used in the edtech sector. The analysis of data from Coding Giants’ learning management system on student behaviour will enable the identification of learning styles, level of motivation to learn, commitment to current tasks, and an accurate diagnosis of knowledge gaps

Europe make up the lion’s share of current customers with only 5% from the Latin America region, and 5% from other regions. It has seen its growth in Spanish-speaking countries triple due to a focused effort – a continuous key objective.

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Moodle Educators – Now grade essay questions easily using Essay auto-grade plugin

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Moodle Educators - Now grade essay questions easily using Essay auto-grade plugin
Moodle Educators - Now grade essay questions easily using Essay auto-grade plugin

Moodle LMS provides one of the best online quiz engine. As an educator, you can use Moodle Quiz to create all different types of online exams with various types of questions. There are many other question types contributed by the community in the Moodle plugins directory. In this post we will see about one such Moodle plugin – Essay (auto-grade).

As an Moodle educator, you might have faced the problem with essay type questions which need manual grading. Most of the other question types are automatically graded but Essay Question type needs the educator’s intervention for grading. It often consumes a lot of time and effort of the teachers as well as the students needs to wait for their results until its graded.

The Essay (Auto-Grade) question type plugin awards a provisional grade as soon as the student submits an essay. The provisional grade is based on the number of words, sentences and target phrases that are present in the essay. For automatic grading the plugin uses the following characteristics:

  • the number of words in the response
  • the number of characters in the response
  • the presence of one or more target phrases in the response
  • the presence of one or more common errors in the response

The best thing about this plugin is that at any time, the teacher can override the automatically generated grade by giving a manual grade and feedback as in the standard “Essay” question type. In addition, this question type allows the teacher to specify “grade bands” which can be used to create a non-linear grading scheme.

You can download the latest version of the Essay (Auto-Grade) question type plugin here.

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GitHub Launches Octernships to Empower the Next Generation of Students

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GitHub Launches Octernships to Empower the Next Generation of Students
GitHub Launches Octernships to Empower the Next Generation of Students

GitHub, the world’s largest software development collaboration platform, has launched its new Octernships programme to empower the next generation of developers through real-world experience with partner organisations.

According to the platform, the initiative would put students in touch with global business partners for internships and mentoring programmers in open-source and software development. GitHub Octernships is initially available to students in 10 countries — Colombia, India, Indoneisa, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. It will gradually expand to more regions.

How GitHub Octernships work?

To apply, students need to be verified on GitHub Global Campus, and be an active contributor on GitHub. Verified and eligible students on GitHub Global Campus can explore industry opportunities from the GitHub Partner network. Partner organisations share a problem statement, or an assignment that students need to build, and then submit using GitHub Classroom.

Partner organisations review submitted projects, communicate via pull requests, and schedule interviews. Selected students start working on industry projects with GitHub partner organisations and join the premier GitHub Octernship community.

Talking about the new programme, Arkodyuti Saha, Education Community Manager at GitHub, said,

Imagine working on real-world projects and getting paid for it while being a student. That’s only a part of what Octernships offer. Students also receive hands-on experience and the chance to work on different projects to help them hone a wide range of software development skills, including open-source projects, documentation, design, and testing. Students also get meaningful mentorship from industry experts, the chance to work with other developers, and connect with potential employers from our curated list of registered partners.

Eldad Fux, CEO of Appwrite, said,

We have had a great experience working with the GitHub Octernships pilot program. The intern we selected from the previous year became an Appwrite employee and has consistently exceeded our expectations. The program’s emphasis on real-world projects and evaluation of interns based on their efforts and quality of work allows us to confidently choose the best fit for our team. Overall, we highly recommend this program to other tech companies looking to find top talent with interns

GitHub is the complete developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 100 million people, including developers from 90 of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to build amazing things together across 330+ million repositories.

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