EdTech
Technology in the service of education
Skoleda is an EdTech designed for schools in Haiti. It does not try to modernize schools for the sake of it: it takes repetitive work off the school leadership, the front office and teachers, to give them back time.
The Skoleda team ·
What is EdTech?
EdTech is short for “education technology.” It refers to the digital tools used to teach, to learn and to run a school. Good EdTech starts from the reality on the ground. In Haiti, that means connections that drop, more phones than computers, and the MENFP curricula.
Less paper, more time to teach
- Grades entered only once: averages, ranks and report cards are calculated on their own, ready to print or send to families.
- Attendance by class session, taken by the teacher, with absence statistics by class and by student.
- Tuition and receipts: every payment is recorded, each student's balance is up to date, and the accounting follows.
- Online enrollment, which families fill out from a link sent by the school.
Designed for real-world conditions
- When the internet goes down, work continues: entries are kept and sent as soon as the connection returns.
- Everything works on a phone, and a Windows app is available for the front office.
- Photos for the school website are compressed before upload, to save mobile data.
Families kept informed, even from abroad
In the parent portal, each family sees the school's grades, report cards, absences, tuition and announcements. A parent in Miami, Montréal or Paris follows their child's schooling as if they were there.
Artificial intelligence, under the teacher's control
AI helps the teacher prepare an exam or digitize a handwritten exam paper, and offers students a tutor to go over a lesson. The teacher reviews and approves everything it suggests: nothing is presented as certain if it is not.
A website for every school
Each school can have its own website, with its pages, activities and contact details. The school builds it by describing itself to an assistant, then publishes it when it is ready. The website is indexed on Google and leads to online enrollment.
Protected data
- A verification code is required at every sign-in.
- Each school's data is kept separate: no school can see another's.
- Each report card carries a QR code that makes it possible to verify its authenticity.