Secondary Digital Learning Product
First Education & Technology Group Pty – MarsLadder
MarsLadder is an innovative online mathematics learning platform designed to enrich secondary education. Tailored for grades 7-12, MarsLadder utilizes personalized learning techniques to adapt to each student’s pace and style, promoting comprehensive understanding and retention of mathematical concepts. Interactive exercises and real-world problems encourage critical thinking and practical application of skills, preparing students for academic success.
Recognized as a finalist in the EdTech Awards Cool Tool 2024 and GESS Education Awards 2023, MarsLadder exemplifies excellence in educational technology. The platform integrates an Intelligent Tutoring System for personalized guidance, a dynamic AI Assistant to enhance engagement, and robust progress-tracking tools for goal-setting and achievement monitoring.
MarsLadder prioritizes inclusivity and accessibility, supporting diverse learning needs with features like an Online Self-Paced Study Room and community-building tools. Comprehensive support through FAQs, forums, social media, and direct email assistance ensures a seamless user experience.
We are deeply honored by the opportunity to be considered for the Betta Awards. Thank you to the Betta Awards for recognizing our dedication to advancing digital education and empowering educators and students. MarsLadder continues to evolve with enhanced features and user-centric design, setting new benchmarks in educational technology.
fischertechnik – STEM Coding Max
fischertechnik STEM Coding Max is an innovative robotics learning solution designed for lower secondary school students, offering a comprehensive approach to teaching future skills such as computational thinking, robotics, and STEM. Developed by educational experts, the product fosters holistic learning, combining social-emotional development with academic growth.
At the heart of the system is the STEM Suite app, which provides step-by-step coding instructions in Scratch, Blockly, and Python, accommodating learners at all levels. The versatile hardware kit includes a controller, sensors, motors, and a user-friendly wiring system, ensuring hands-on, practical learning.
Real-world tasks and engaging storytelling bring lessons to life, with students coding robots to solve relatable challenges. fischertechnik’s precision-engineered building blocks allow for flexible, modular designs that enhance critical thinking and problem-solving.
The gradual, step-by-step learning process builds student confidence, while structured lesson plans based on the 4C concept (Critical Thinking, Collaboration, Creativity, and Communication) align with curriculum standards, ensuring effective classroom integration.
Packaged in a sturdy box with sorting templates, STEM Coding Max is tailored for educational settings, providing a dynamic and interactive platform for students to explore robotics and coding in an engaging, real-world context.
Macenta Publishing & Digital Solutions – The Globals
The Globals is a transformative English education platform designed to equip learners with the knowledge, skills, and values needed to address global challenges. Developed in response to intertwined issues such as climate change, resource depletion, and inequality, it offers a holistic educational approach.
Aligned with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), The Globals integrates these objectives into its curriculum, instilling responsibility and emphasising the urgency of sustainability. Its interactive methodology promotes active learning, critical thinking, and independent decision-making.
By incorporating English language learning, The Globals enhances global communication, recognising its universal importance. The platform’s impact is significant, with empowered learners showing heightened awareness of sustainability and engaging in meaningful projects and initiatives.
Through its learner-centric approach, The Globals bridges the gap between theory and action, empowering individuals to become informed, responsible global citizens. It serves as a catalyst for transformative education, making a profound impact on both learners and communities.
Olex.AI – Olex.AI
Olex.AI is transforming secondary education by leveraging generative AI to tackle deep-rooted challenges in teaching and assessing English and Humanities where marking and feedback are subjective and labour-intensive.
By harnessing AI, Olex.AI reduces teachers’ marking workloads while providing deeper insights into students’ progress and ensuring consistent, examiner-validated feedback aligned with national benchmarks.
Key Features:
1. OlexReader: Converts handwritten assessments into digital text efficiently, overcoming traditional AI limitations.
2. Olex.AI Individual Feedback: Generates robust, objective feedback aligned with GCSE standards, reducing subjectivity.
3. Olex.AI Translator: Bridges language barriers by translating feedback for EAL students, enhancing comprehension and parental engagement.
4. Olex.AI Class-Level Feedback: Provides data-driven insights for strategic lesson planning and targeted interventions.
5. Olex.AI Lesson Planner: Creates targeted lesson plans addressing specific learning gaps.
6. Olex.AI Imaginator: Engages reluctant writers by generating personalised images from their work, boosting motivation.
7. Olex.AI StoryBooks: Compiles student work, feedback, translations, and images into shareable PDFs, fostering pride and parental involvement.
By automating detailed feedback, reducing workloads, and providing precise, data-driven insights, Olex.AI helps teachers focus on quality instruction and student engagement. We significantly reduce the burden of moderation, ensuring consistent assessments and a more equitable experience for students.
Oxford University Press – Oxford Smart Activate Kerboodle
Kerboodle, a leading online learning platform for Science educators, has been enhanced to deliver brand-new functionality for the new Oxford Smart Activate course, delivering an impactful KS3 science curriculum that encourages scientific curiosity, develops independent study skills and prepares students for GCSE and beyond.
Students can access tools and support to become confident, independent learners and supports teachers at all stages of their careers. Whether subject or non-subject specialists, ECTs/NQTs, or experienced teachers, Oxford Smart Activate Kerboodle frees up valuable time for teachers to concentrate on the needs of their students and their own professional development.
With lessons, resources, assessments, data and insights and online books, Oxford Smart Activate Kerboodle offers science departments a complete digital solution.
Redmenta – Redmenta
Redmenta is an integrated AI Assistant for adaptive education that redefines personalised learning and covers the entire teaching process.
With the powerful combination of AI Assistance and an innovative worksheet system, Redmenta is the only platform that offers educators the ability to co-create with AI, evaluate students’ work like no one else on the market, and adapt new activities based on performance data —all without being limited to any curriculum.
With over 70 AI assistants available, Redmenta empowers teachers to create personalized activities and provides actionable insights to enhance student learning. Since launching in June 2022, Redmenta has provided enriching educational experiences to over 200,000 students monthly across more than 70 countries, effectively lowering the entry threshold for creating an adaptive learning environment.
SAM Learning – SAM Learning
SAM Learning is the only online learning platform that provides students, parents and teachers access to thousands of learning activities for all major GCSE and KS3 subjects. Engineered by A.I., SAM Learning suggests 30 minutes of adapted work, every week to every student. We are independently proven to make students achieve on average two GCSE grades better with 30 minutes activity a week. Our mobile friendly platform provides students with variety and interest with 11 different adaptive activity types and teachers have the ability to add video, audio and additional images to these if they wish. Along with an engaging gamified interface, there is a leaderboard to stimulate competition and added excitement with the ability for students to customise avatars and download achievement certificates. Teachers can access real time insight into whole-school, class or intervention group and individual learner achievement. Our ‘Question Level Analysis’ allows them to easily identify knowledge gaps, helping schools to drive data-driven targeted intervention and differentiated teaching. In addition to our 24/7 online support articles and CPD videos, we provide every school with their very own dedicated School Success Manager, all educational Senior Leaders, for departmental training sessions and unlimited strategic advice.
Visible Body – Visible Body Courseware
Visible Body Courseware is an interactive LMS platform designed to make teaching and learning health and life sciences easy and engaging! VB Courseware does the assignment and assessment work for instructors and gives students a visual and interactive way to learn. Instructors can pick from a collection of 3D health and life science assignments and easily customize them to suit their needs. The vast A&P and Biology content library within VB Courseware includes thousands of 3D models, bite-sized learning modules, animations, and interactive simulations of biological processes, histology slides, and much more—all of which can be turned into autograded coursework and labs. Student access and progress tracking are simple with LTI 1.3 LMS integration.
VB Courseware supports a wide range of hardware, browsers, and operating systems and does not require an install. The platform also includes a wide range of accessibility features, such as keyboard and screen reader support, and all content is available in seven languages.
