Sharing the power of Australian EdTech
We’re sharing some of the brilliant stories outlining how Australian EdTech is playing a role in supporting, connecting and engaging with students and education institutions affected by the Coronavirus health issue.
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CRCP Data Privacy Project: Trusted Analytics
Education has followed a traditional model of in-classroom learning. However, it is increasingly conducted online, moving educators and learners into virtual classrooms and their information into more databases. Online education service providers who want to be...
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Teacher commends Quitch program for supporting dynamic remote learning
At Bendigo Senior Secondary College, we have implemented Quitch with our Year 12 Business Management classes. Within a few days of introducing Quitch, more than 50 students had signed up and were engaged with their learning. We now have almost 70% of our students...
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Ready Teacher announces Edutain, an innovative means of paid work for teachers
The service re-deploys unemployed Teachers to provide 'edutainment' for children whilst their parents/carers work from home. Up to four (4) children can attend a lesson across three (3) different devices, allowing school friends to join together online. Classes are in...
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Hacker Exchange – Hack The Crisis Initiative
In April 2020 The Hacker Exchange ran the Australian chapter of Hack the Crisis, a 48-hour online hackathon to find innovative solutions for COVID-19 isolation. In under a fortnight we gathered over 300 participants who produced 45 projects! The event was led by 2 of...
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Janison innovation continues to cultivate scientific minds despite Covid-19 crisis
As COVID-19 restrictions mean most schools and higher education institutions are cancelling or delaying teaching and assessment events, Australian Science Innovations (ASI) is forging ahead with its Big Science Competition, using the Janison Insights platform. For the...
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Inkl – ad-free, clickbait-free, and paywall-free news
Inkl is one of the world’s top-rated news apps. It gives students and teachers $10,000 of news from 100+ trusted newspapers and magazines in one place. This includes the Financial Times, Economist, Telegraph, Bloomberg, Foreign Policy, and more. It is the world’s only...
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Class Creator supports over one million student placements
Class Creator allows schools to collaboratively make their class lists while working remotely, offering: Online surveys that are used to gather teacher data about their students Class lists that are automatically generated to meet the needs of the school Schools can...
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Loop – enabling important engagement feedback for students & teachers
At Loop we are supporting educational institutions in 3 ways:1. Enabling teachers and students to stay in contact during remote learning periods. Teachers can gather real-time feedback from their students to assess how they are progressing with their learning on...
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SchoolBox – supporting teachers to upskill their online skills
As a school portal and LMS our system has been critical in supporting schools as they shut their doors. Our usage has grown 10x over the last month. So we have been focused on performance enhancements and stability. Our team also added 2 new features, critical news...
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edQuire – providing constant feedback on students’ engagement & progress
A highly regarded school in Sydney’s East is mastering the issues and complications surrounding remote learning thanks to edQuire, which allows teachers to automatically assemble virtual classes for their school Timetable database, conduct real-time and face to face...
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We Teach Well – providing resources to help teachers teach well
We have made all the products in our shop free for the duration and our subscriber numbers are growing. This has allowed us to provide more information and curate good information and other free resources through our emails. We even have a subscriber in Uruguay. Most...
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STEM Punks – promoting digital literacy for students at home with online classes
Leading Australian STEM educator STEM Punks is pushing for continued focus on digital literacy and has pivoted their business to deliver online classes to children at home currently. MD, Michael Holmstrom, said that STEM skills are highly valued and strongly sought...
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Kids Unlimited – offering virtual kids programs
Our company provides Extra-curricular enrichment programs for primary-school students. Last week we ran 157 online classes and thousands of children engaged with a variety of programs including; science, sports, music, chess, coding, maths, drama, games and cooking....
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Mathspace – offering practical support to help teachers transition to online learning
1. We're giving schools that close as a result of COVID-19 free access to Mathspace as long as they are closed. See mathspace.co/coronavirus 2. We've run weekly webinars with teachers and created a bunch of guides and resources for teachers on how to run a remote...
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MAPPEN – offering MAPPEN home learning free for all students in Australia
Education technology solution (already used by 350+ schools) MAPPEN is offering free online support to ALL Australian primary students in the event of school closures due to coronavirus. MAPPEN, an online curriculum solution with lesson plans from prep to grade 6,...
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ClassCover – connecting casual relief teachers to paid work
ClassCover has launched a free virtual conference for relief teachers addressing many topics that are relevant to the challenges being faced by casual teachers including wellbeing and remote learning. In addition, ClassCover has been acknowledged at Premier and...
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Vivi – a tool for checking in on student wellbeing
Vivi is a global classroom engagement solution, founded in Melbourne in 2016. Vivi’s features include screen mirroring, digital signage, emergency broadcast, formative assessment and student health and wellbeing checks. In response to customer inquiries, this week...
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Pivot – free actionable resources & guides to help schools prepare for remote learning
Our response to the disruption caused by COVID-19 has been multi-pronged: 1) We created a set of free actionable resources and guides to help schools prepare for a school closure and move to a remote learning framework (pivotpl.com/covid-19-resources). 2) We have...
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Ziptales – K-6 curriculum aligned literacy ‘homework’ resources
Ziptales is a K-6 literacy platform with fully customized, curriculum aligned websites for Australasia, the UK and USA. Schools, public libraries and home users make up Ziptales’ client base. A school subscription includes a free homework licence and public libraries...
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Xcursion – podcast exploring innovative ways to equip students in a changing world
We have just launched season 2 of our Xperiential education podcast! When all the stuff you hear right now can be quite negative and overwhelming, we're bringing some of the voices of leading educators and programs from around the world together to help teachers look...
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AccountingPod – offering seamless experiences for business students across cloud accounting
AccountingPod's technology delivers smart 'hands on learning' for business students across cloud accounting platforms like Xero. Academic integrity, security and student privacy are important to us. That's why we are pleased to report our recent collaboration with...
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Ready Teacher – supporting local English language centres
As many language centres clamber to get online lessons up and running, managers need skilled and ready Teachers to take over whilst they are skilling their employees, and also to step in for the sick-at-home. ReadyTeacher's team is offering crucial support to local...
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Rolling Fun – new at-home video resources for nutrition education
Rolling Fun offers workshops to ELC and primary schools about healthy eating and intercultural capability. The workshop could be run by Rolling Fun staff as an incursion workshop or run by teachers in the school. Due to the coronavirus, we have proposed a new model...
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Arludo – Ingenious by Arludo
To help during this crisis, Arludo has shifted their in-person after-school workshops to an online program. In this 8-week program, children throughout the world will use Arludo apps to collect data together and become citizen scientists. These apps promote hands-on...
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edoome – connecting teachers with their students
Edoome /edu-me/ connects teachers with their students so they can communicate, collaborate and share, and provides tools for teachers to help them save time in planning, assessing and keeping track of their students progress all in just one place. Given the current...
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STAR Maths Online – helping teachers transition their class online
With the recent CoronaVirus pandemic, we've had tremendous registration increase from parents and teachers to use our software. As part of our role in providing online education to teachers and schools throughout Australia, we have made the bold decision to provide...
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Kilbaha Education – offering free resources for teachers & parents
Kilbaha helps schools to teach better by providing quality educational content so that students get higher grades. Kilbaha Education wishes to make a contribution to the continuing education of our children during the COVID-19 crisis. A folder containing educational...
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Champion Life – delivering quality physical activity & wellbeing content
Health and wellbeing is on everyone’s mind right now and encouraging students to be physically active is one of the best ways to support the mind, body, emotions and build resilience. As a 100% online program Champion Life can be accessed both at school and at home....
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ManezCo – supporting students in a time of crisis with FREE online tutoring
We're an EdTech Startup that is developing an educational platform for high school students. We're still in our early development phase. However, due to this crisis, we've started providing online tutoring for students in Year 5 all the way to Year 12 ATAR. We...
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E2Learning offer FREE English language learning amidst COVID-19 crisis
E2Language is a Melbourne-based software development company that specialises in English language learning websites and apps. During COVID-19 they have decided to make their new website for general English language learning - E2School - completely free for ELICOS...
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OpenLearning introduces OpenCreds
The concept of micro-credentials is gaining momentum in Australia and around the world. 2019 saw the launch of frameworks and policies from governments, universities and education platforms - all contributing to improving our thinking of this latest innovation....
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Education Perfect – Learning Suite for schools
Due to the challenges with the Coronavirus outbreak, Education Perfect (EP) have opened complimentary access for schools. EP is an online teaching and learning program used by over 1M students across 2,000+ schools and is designed to work within your existing Learning...
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Classe365 – providing an innovative and unified approach to education management
Classe365 is a platform designed to provide an innovative and unified approach to education management. It has built-in technology that caters to almost everything a school requires – from SIS, LMS, Enrolment Automation and much more. We partner with different...