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Hybrid Workforce Management Startup Gable raises $16m

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Jaswinder Singh
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Hybrid Workforce Management Startup Gable raises $16m

Gable, a start-up that assists distributed companies in managing office space for their workforce, has secured $16 million in funding led by SemperVirens and Foundation Capital, with participation from Tishman Speyer Ventures, Ulu Ventures, and January Ventures. The startup plans to expand its sales, customer success, and marketing workforce. Gable intends to target larger enterprise customers, spreading its roof further. It also wants to extend its product offering and hire more engineers and product team employees in its Israeli offices to facilitate this.

Co-founded by Liza Mash Levin and Omri Haviv, Gable strives to empower companies and employees to embrace distributed work and maximise what it offers. It provides a one-stop shop for managing employees’ remote working options. Through the platform, employees can search for and book a spot at a locally available workspace in 26 countries, and employers can manage payments. The startup claims that its service supports multiple teams within a company, from HR and people operations to real estate and workplace teams, saving both time and money.

The company provides a portal where employees can view where their co-workers are working and book a desk alongside them while the company can monitor employee satisfaction and manage budgets.

According to recent surveys, 98 million United States workers have the option to work remotely, while 77% of respondents desire greater workplace flexibility, and an increasing number of employees are reporting burnout, disconnection, and disengagement.

Speaking about the company, Co-founder & CEO of Gable, Liza Mash Levin, said:

The most challenging task for a product team is to build simple solutions people want to use, so, naturally, that’s what I’m passionate about. There’s no better feeling than showing someone a demo of Gable and them being amazed by its capabilities and simplicity.

Levin further added:

We’re expanding our product offering to provide a hybrid management solution that will become a one-stop-shop for People and Workplace teams to have complete visibility and control over their workforce, whether in flex space or leased spaces. Another exciting thing we’re focusing on [is] deepening the insights and data we can surface based on tracking employee bookings and behaviour. With this, we’ll be able to help people-leaders be more data-driven.

The HRTech platform claims that over 5,000 employees are using its service. It also reports that employees have enjoyed a 4x to 5x increase in productivity, collaboration, and satisfaction since switching to it. Now, Gable want to bring this improvement in engagement to more businesses and more employees. It aims to make itself as ubiquitous as Slack or Microsoft Teams and be part of every company’s essential toolkit for managing its hybrid workforce.

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Moodle Educators – Archive and remove past courses using the Course Archiver Plugin

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle Educators - Archive and remove past courses using the Course Archiver Plugin
Moodle Educators - Archive and remove past courses using the Course Archiver Plugin

Moodle LMS is used by more than 350 million users in more than 238 countries. In more than last 20 years Moodle LMS has been one of the most popular open source Learning management system in the world. With more than 2085 plugins in the official plugins repository, customising Moodle is pretty easy. In this post, I will share about the Course Archives plugin which allows you to archive and remove past courses easily.

All teachers might have faced problems while setting up their courses for the next session and need to plan for the year-end procedures. Moodle allows to reuse the courses once created by backing up and restoring them. However, according to statutory requirements, the institutions required the user data to be retained for a certain period.

The Course Archiver plugin is used to search for courses, notify the course owners, and mass hide or archive (backup and remove) courses. The course archiver plugin allows you to search for courses based on all possible criteria including teacher name, course name, start/end date, created before/after date, accessed before/after date etc.

You can also customize the template emails which will be used to send to the owners of the selected courses to notify them that their course(s) will be hidden or archived. You can also delay  he deletion of archived courses with a specified duration.

Overall, the plugin seems to be pretty useful for administrators to help them setup Moodle for next session. You can easily archive courses in bulk by using the Course Archiver plugin. You can download the plugin from the official plugins directory here.

What are the other plugins which you are using during your year end procedures? Please share with us in the comments section below.

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Join the MoodleMoot UK & Ireland 2023 from May 15th to 17th

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Jaswinder Singh
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Join the MoodleMoot UK & Ireland 2023 from May 15th to 17th
Join the MoodleMoot UK & Ireland 2023 from May 15th to 17th

The 2023 MoodleMoot UK & Ireland will be organised from May 15th to 17th 2023. The edtech conference will be organised by the local Moodle community. The event features experienced keynote speakers, practice share sessions from institutions around Europe and dedicated sessions and workshops for various online learning capabilities.

The edtech conference will take place in a new hybrid format this year. Using a combination of a Moodle site, Virtual Classrooms, live streaming, and local social hubs the MoodleMoot aims to be more inclusive than before.

The call for presentation proposals is open now and the deadline to submit is March 17th 2023. The proposals acceptance will be sent by March 27th. This year there are five different tracks that you can choose to submit your presentation to. These are:

  • Further / Higher Education
  • Reflective Practice
  • Workplace of Corporate Learning
  • Professional Development
  • Moodle Development

The early bird discounted pricing is available till April 05th 2023 with a discount of EUR 25. The Early bird ticket costs EUR 150.00 while the standard ticket price is limited to EUR 175.00. Online Registration available below for up to 5 tickets. The ticket includes three-day access to all keynotes, presentations, workshops.

Check out the complete details about MoodleMoot UK & Ireland 2023 on the official website here – https://moodlemoot.ie/

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Join 2023 SPARCC EdTech Conference on July 18, 2023

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Jaswinder Singh
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Join 2023 SPARCC EdTech Conference on July 18, 2023
Join 2023 SPARCC EdTech Conference on July 18, 2023

The 2023 SPARCC EdTech Conference will be held on July 18th 2023 as in-person as well as virtual event. The conference will be held in person at the Stark County Educational Service Center at 6057 Strip Ave NW, North Canton, OH 44720.

The edtech event is a FREE conference for teachers, administrators, technology staff, and anyone interested in using educational technology to support teaching and learning. All the sessions will be recorded for those who cannot attend on the date of the conference. The sessions will also be live streamed for those who cant attend the conference in person.

Call for proposals is now open with option to present in-person, remotely or even pre-recorded sessions. The deadline for submission is April 23rd, 2023.The participants will also receive a certificate of attendance for professional development.

For more details about the 2023 SPARCC Edtech Conference, please check out the official website here – https://conference.apps.sparcc.org/home

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Online Recruitment Platform WorkLLama Raises $50M In New Funding

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Jaswinder Singh
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Online Recruitment Platform WorkLLama Raises $50M In New Funding
Online Recruitment Platform WorkLLama Raises $50M In New Funding

WorkLLama, a leading candidate engagement and referral management provider, has recently raised $50 million in a funding round. With the fresh capital, the Georgia-based startup will continue growing its team to keep up with the exponential growth, accelerate product enhancements to keep its competitive edge, embark on strategic acquisitions over the next 12 months, and invest in continued automation. It also plans to expand its presence across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.

Founded in 2016 by Sudhakar Maruvada and Saleem Khaja, WorkLLama is a total talent management and engagement suite that creates communities of highly engaged talent with a single, modern, AI-driven talent marketing, relationship management, and direct sourcing platform. Its full recruiting and hiring stack integrates seamlessly with applicant tracking and human capital management systems to deliver better experiences for candidates, recruiters and employers. The company’s holistic solution includes referral management, candidate engagement, multi-mode communication, AI-driven chatbot Sofi and on-demand staffing/scheduling.

Speaking about the investment, Founder & CEO of WorkLLama, Sudhakar Maruvada, said:

A customer’s number one asset is its people. This latest round of investment in WorkLLama cements our position in the market and allows us to solve further their number one challenge—access to talent and delivering on our promise to look at talent holistically. Our platform makes finding, engaging, and nurturing talent simple, leading to a superior user experience for both customers and candidates alike. This means access to engaged talent ready to work for your organization and invested in doing so.

Adding further about the fundraising, Co-founder & COO, WorkLLama, Saleem Khaja, said:

WorkLLama helps companies leverage their brand to create powerful candidate experiences. Existing talent channels are underperforming, and organizations are struggling to find quality talent for open roles, making workforce planning a challenge. This additional funding means we can continue to invest in our enterprise-grade platform, empowering customers and candidates with the proficiency they deserve and one simple, unified way to manage it all.

Since its inception, the WorkLLama team has grown to over 100 employees with customers across four continents. It delivered, on average, a 20% external labour cost reduction and a 66% reduction in time-to-hire for customers. The HRTech startup aims to help connect talent with meaningful roles and allow them to engage easily with brands in their chosen field.

Allen Born, Director of Fairmount Partners, commented:

It was a great pleasure working with Sudhakar, Saleem, and their team to leverage their experience in total talent management to find the ideal capital partner for the next phase of WorkLLama’s growth. We see a bright future for the company and hope the WorkLLama team continues success in the future.

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Language Learning Platform Duolingo Launches Literacy App for Kids’ Duolingo ABC’ in India

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Jaswinder Singh
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Language Learning Platform Duolingo Launches Literacy App for Kids’ Duolingo ABC’ in India
Language Learning Platform Duolingo Launches Literacy App for Kids’ Duolingo ABC’ in India

Duolingo, an American language learning platform, has recently launched its kid’s literacy app, ‘Duolingo ABC’ in India. The new platform is specially designed to assist children between the ages of three and eight years learn, how to read and write in English. Learning experts create it; the free-to-use app offers over 700 concise lessons covering the alphabet, phonics, and sight words.

An official statement said the program provides a unique learning approach with nine distinct levels. Duolingo ABC’ app has a child-friendly interface; it aims to assist children in learning to read independently in a fun and straightforward way. The statement further mentioned that the application customises the learning experience depending on the child’s reading level, offering shorter, easier-to-decode words and stories in early levels and providing longer-form stories with less support in later levels.

Speaking about the initiative, Country Marketing Manager of Duolingo, Karandeep Singh, said:

We know that teaching people to read and write can change lives, and by taking everything we know about how people learn languages, with Duolingo ABC, we want to use our expertise in encouraging and motivating kids to build a strong literacy foundation.

The app features personalised lessons such as teaching children how to write their own name and letter writing activities that teaches each lowercase and capital letter to kids, as per the release. According to research by The Education Development Center, the teaching methodology used by Duolingo ABC has also shown to improve literacy scores by 28% among kids who used the app for 9 weeks, the release added.

The company said Duolingo ABC is available for users in India and can be downloaded from Google Play Store and App Store. The app also allows parents, guardians, and educators to track their child’s learning progress, as per the company.

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Moodle Educators – Let students make canvas sketch games using this plugin

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle Educators - Let students make canvas sketch games using this plugin
Moodle Educators - Let students make canvas sketch games using this plugin

Moodle LMS allows you to extend new features by using Moodle plugins. There are close to 2100 official plugins in the Moodle plugins directory. You can add course formats, themes, activities, blocks, authentication methods to extend Moodle’s features. In this post, I will share my views about the HTML5 Canvas Sketch Game plugin.

The HTML5 Canvas Sketch Game plugin is a simple Moodle activity plugin which allows you to add a canvas to your course. The students can create their own sketches in the Canvas area. It can be quite handy for elementary school teachers who can use it to let students showcase their creativity using the sketch.

The Canvas is pretty simple to use and takes no time to get started. It comes with clear button and toolbar with the following features:

  • Saving sketch
  • Restore sketch
  • Add toolbar images
  • Set background image
  • Student upload own image
  • Delete sketch
  • GDPR provider
  • Backup / restore integrated
  • Mustache templates
Moodle Educators - Let students make canvas sketch games using this plugin
Canvas Sketch plugin

During my test with the Canvas Sketch plugin, I really like the capability to save the sketches and download it as PNG image file. You can also upload your own image to create your own sketch, which can help the students to start with their own concept instead of starting from scratch.

As a teacher you can also upload a background image which can be used as a sketch competition among students. It also comes with a handy color picker which allows you to choose your own color.

You can download the HTML5 Canvas Sketch Game plugin from the official Moodle plugins directory here. If you are new to Moodle, please follow this guide to learn how to install a Moodle plugin. If you are using Moodle for junior students, then you should explore this game plugin as it can be useful for your students.

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

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New Markets Venture Partners Raises Over $160 Million for Economic Mobility Fund

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Jaswinder Singh
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New Markets Venture Partners Raises Over $160 Million for Economic Mobility Fund
New Markets Venture Partners Raises Over $160 Million for Economic Mobility Fund

New Markets Ventures Partners, a Washington, DC-based EdTech and workforce technology venture capital firm, recently announced that it has raised over $160 million for its Economic Mobility Fund. The company received support from its existing investor base and new US and European education-focused foundations and endowments.

It also received commitments from multiple publicly traded strategic investors validating its evidence-based investment strategy to drive collective impact, unique deal flow, and thought leadership. These new limited partners include academic publishers, global skills development leaders, human resources experts, and large-impact investment funds.

The new fund underscores and strengthens New Markets’ commitment to invest in innovative, scalable companies with evidence-based solutions that focus on increasing the proportion of underserved Americans who achieve critical, research-based, developmental milestones in education, career, and life.

Founded by Robb Doub, Mark Grovic, and Jason Palmer, New Markets Venture Partners is a leading, growth-stage, double-bottom-line investor that scales transformative technology companies that improve education and workforce outcomes, resulting in superior financial returns. The platform maintains deep relationships with states, districts, universities, large employers, co-investors, buyers, and workforce organizations, enabling them to provide exceptional value to all its stakeholders.

Commenting on the investment, Co-founder & General Partner of New Markets Venture Partners, Mark Grovic, said:

We are fortunate to have this unique opportunity to provide capital and support to the most deserving mission-driven education and workforce entrepreneurs. Over the last three decades, we have accumulated the assets and experience to understand the challenges faced by the nation’s top education and workforce entrepreneurs and to help them overcome these challenges.

The startup has made equity investments in 41 companies, focusing on EdTech and workforce technology companies, measurably improving economic mobility for more than 47 million Americans while generating $3.3 billion in value for shareholders. With 26 realizations since 2012, New Markets has one of the most substantial proven records of successful exits, cash distributions back to limited partners, and positive social returns of any impact investor in the country.

New Markets Education Partners III, LP., will target Series A and B investments and opportunistic recapitalizations focusing on companies generating $2 million to $50 million of revenue with a high potential to grow to $50 million to $200 million in revenue and reach profitability within three years of the initial investment.

Over the last three years, the firm has invested in seven new companies and realized ten investments, including Credly, Presence, LearnPlatform, Signal Vine, Kickboard, Mursion, StraighterLine, Whiteboard Advisors, Galvanize, and Graduation Alliance, which totalled more than $1 billion in market value and returned over $100 million to limited partners.

General Partner of New Markets and previously Deputy Director of Education at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Jason Palmer, commented:

We are honoured to work with the nation’s most innovative founders, scaling new technologies that can truly transform education and work. These entrepreneurs are re-inventing education-to-workforce connections, building more equitable pathways to the middle class for millions of Americans from underserved backgrounds – and doing so in a way that proves capitalism can do good.

New Markets is a founding board member of Impact Capital Managers, a membership association, which today includes more than 85 funds representing more than $36B in impact-focused capital. It helped to envision and create ICM’s Mosaic Fellow program. The ICM Mosaic Fellowship is part of the Impact Capital Manager’s commitment to building a pipeline of diverse, skilled talent in the alternative investment industry.

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PhysicsWallah Forms Joint Venture with Utkarsh Classes

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Jaswinder Singh
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PhysicsWallah Forms Joint Venture with Utkarsh Classes
PhysicsWallah Forms Joint Venture with Utkarsh Classes

Edtech platform PW (PhysicsWallah) has entered into a long-term joint venture agreement with Jodhpur-based government test-prep company Utkarsh Classes to deliver value-adding education across all examinations and also to jointly foray into new test-prep categories.

Utkarsh Classes primarily provides offline and online learning courses for government exams, and in the past 2 years has ventured into various exam categories like defence, NEET-JEE, CLAT, CUET, and online tuitions for students of classes 6th-12th. The company runs multiple offline coaching centres in Jodhpur and Jaipur and has recently forayed into Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj with the launch of offline centres.

The companies plan to leverage each other’s core competencies and jointly foray into new exam categories. Going ahead, PW and Utkarsh Classes will together launch a new category – ‘Utkarsh Private Jobs’, which will help train students to prepare for placements in the private sector.

Talking about the collaboration, Alakh Pandey, Founder & CEO of PhysicsWallah, said,

Both PW and Utkarsh Classes are an emotion for students. The founding teams have a solid vision of providing result-oriented quality education to every student in the country at an affordable fee. Utkarsh Classes Founder Nirmal Gehlot sir has an extensive experience of over 20 years in the field. Our collaboration will help us better serve students across India and make their learning experience more enriching.

Both PhysicsWallah and Utkarsh Classes have a strong digital presence and operate multiple YouTube channels for various exam categories. Utkarsh Classes has over 11 million subscribers on its main channel on YouTube, and PhysicsWallah has more than 9.7 million subscribers on its main channel. Further, both companies cater to over 1 crore students each on their apps.

Dr. Nirmal Gehlot, Founder and CEO of Utkarsh Classes, said,

The founders of both companies come from a very humble background. Alakh sir and I started our journey as teachers and hence, have academics at our core. We both understand the challenges faced by students in their preparation journey. I truly believe that our ‘Student First’ policy will enable this partnership to solve bigger problems in the education sector.

The joint venture will also facilitate the provision of study material from PW to Utkarsh Classes, and will introduce co-branded education products. Both companies will also jointly provide academic training and course offerings in various categoriesto improve the learning outcome of students.

Under this partnership, Utkarsh Classes will continue to lead the expansion of the government test preparation category and launch offline centres in 32 cities, where PW has already established its offline centres (aka Vidyapeeths), which provide JEE and NEET preparation to students.

Utkarsh Classes will launch state government job-focused offline and online courses in these cities . PW will expand its outreach by opening more Vidyapeeths, currently present in 32 cities, and will continue scaling up in the all-India competitive exam categories.

PhysicsWallah recently entered the Maharashtra Public Service Commission (MPSC) preparation domain with the launch of MPSC Wallah. In January, the Noida-headquartered EdTech giant also partnered with supply chain firm Unicommerce for the delivery of study materials to students.

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