A Leicestershire businesswoman has described how her business came up with a system of helping thousands of students study at home during the pandemic thanks to support from Innovate 海角视频.
Sage Qualifications director Fiona Bradley-Barlow said she had to rethink the way her company provided qualifications and courses for accountancy and payroll students in schools, colleges and universities when the first lockdown came in.
When the pandemic hit, thousands of students who would normally have studied in a classroom, found themselves stuck at home and looking for new ways of completing their courses.
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Ms Bradley-Barlow said a number of colleges and universities turned to her business, based in the village of Newtown Linford, to find a way of allowing students to have the right software needed to continue their studies at home.
As well as doing that she also came up with a way of allowing for learning materials to go up on an interactive portal and to provide timed assessments.
She said throughout the pandemic remote assessment enabled thousands of college and university students to complete their degree course or qualification at home.
Sage Qualifications also developed an AutoMarking system to investigate students’ data entries in the accounting software, and automatically mark their work.
The student gets feedback automatically detailing where they have made mistakes (marked in red) and what is required to correct the data.
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She said learners benefit from knowing straight away if they are on-track, therefore getting reassurance and motivation.
She said this way of assessing students work also ensures validity, quality, authenticity, and robustness of the results and can therefore confidently used for both formative and summative testing.
She said Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) chose Sage and Sage Qualifications to deliver a five-year contract to all its finance and accounting students, marking a significant move for both Sage 海角视频 and Sage Qualifications.
Ms Bradley-Barlow said: “When the pandemic hit, I ordered a daily newspaper and mentally noted the cupboards that needed cleaning out thinking we would be badly affected as most of our delivery was based in the classroom.
“However, with the help and support of Innovate 海角视频, we transformed our business model to the extent that we worked 16-hour days to cope with the increase in demand.
“It has been wonderful to be able to help the providers and learners and the feedback we received has been fantastic.
“Innovate 海角视频 has without a doubt transformed the way we run our business and the delivery methods we deploy.”