At Eiffel Corp, we have grown from a business “that only speaks to universities about software and licensing, to how do we partner to generate actual, meaningful, revenue streams for your institution.” This was one of the key messages delivered by Stefan du Plessis, Chief Commercial Operator at Eiffel Corp, at our Executive Roundtable […]
The Bay Academy - Digikamva LMS
The Bay Academy prioritises the safety and security of its students. This means a reliable, stable and secure Learning Management System (LMS) is necessary to ensure the smooth operation of the learning environment. Eiffel Corp’s Digikamva LMS was best suitable to meet the needs of The Bay Academy.
The Bay Academy requires a stable and reliable Learning Management System platform to manage a large body of learners efficiently. Furthermore, schools must have specialist skills, technical resources and organisational rigour to provide a reliable, stable and secure LMS service for their staff and students. Their LMS also needed an upgrade to improve end-user experience.
Eiffel Corp’s Digikamva LMS helped The Bay Academy offload specialised technical work. After our discussions with the team at the academy , we established that our hosting and technical support services would best fit their needs. Our hosting services of the LMS included one dedicated production instance for The Academy’s LMS, making it suitable for up to 500 active users, with 99% uptime guaranteed and up to 200GB capacity for content storage
The Bay Academy’s Learning Management System was upgraded to a newer version of Digikamva LMS and moved to the RSA AWS region for local hosting in the Cloud. Our team continues to provide technical and functional support, security, monitoring and maintenance activities to ensure smooth operation and uptime of The Bay Academy LMS environment. This allows the Academy to focus on what they do best: delivering great teaching and learning to their students.
"Prioritising student
safety and security."
North-West University - Quality Course Review services
North-West University functions as a unitary, integrated and multi-campus institution, enabling equity, redress and globally competitive teaching and research in all their campuses.
Their focus, I.e., teaching-learning and research, is closely linked with community engagement and innovation across their faculties, assisting both distance and in-person students. Offering people a position in the world, NWU is recognised as a global higher education community. NWU allows for flexibility, putting their students at an advantage and enabling them to live up to their potential and getting them ready for their careers.
Two at-risk first-year modules were delivered using an asynchronous online learning modality. In other words, the course content was delivered mostly online with prerecorded lectures. There was a concern that the courses did not meet the required quality standards and the potential lack of lecturer continuity. The module quality also needed to be evaluated as per the QM rubric – it is essential that the outcomes and assessments are aligned with what is delivered in the course.
Course reviews performed by Senior Instructional Designers and accredited QM practitioners. This involves a full evaluation of each module based on 8 review standards (QM and supporting frameworks) and related references. Eiffel Corp’s services team then provides a table of recommendations for each review component with practical guidance options, along with examples of how each course could better meet its intended outcomes and maximise first-year student success in various ways.
A detailed feedback report addressing the eight-course design aspects as per the QM rubric. Suggested actions and recommendations per area are given to increase the quality of the course and delivery thereof. Alignment of course delivery, assessment and outcomes for the modules in order to ensure student success.
"We learnt a great deal from you and look forward to future projects."
There has been a huge shift in the educational system over the past few years, both in the African and global contexts. This shift has allowed for more use of technology in the classroom. Institutions turned to quick solutions to continue teaching and learning through Learning Management Systems, virtual meeting platforms such as Zoom or […]
It has been an exciting year for us at Eiffel Corp. It was an honour to work with our valued clients and partners in 2022. This was a year that saw great growth, various successful collaborations and some valuable lessons learnt. As a company, we must mark our partnership with Amazon Web Services […]
Halfway Group - LMS Implementation and Course Development
With over 20 self-sustained dealerships, Halfway Group has expanded across South Africa and Botswana. What started as just a humble filling station, has now transpired into a group made up of three divisions, known as property, motor and corporate services. This was inspired by a constant need to develop and grow the Halfway brand in the Southern Africa. Halfway Group specialises mainly in the Motor Industry with brands such as Toyota (being the largest), Hino, Ford, Nissan, Hyundai and Mazda. This case study focuses on Toyota.
Organisations are required to equip the professionals and workers of tomorrow with the capabilities they need to thrive and contribute to their company and for their own personal and professional development
Digital Content Development Services (Blended Course Model) to convert a limited number of Halfway Orientation or similar focus learning programmes into LMS based course for online use by staff and intern complement.
A custom developed CDT (Course Development Toolkit) that provides Halfway with course and online learning delivery standards for all blended courses and guides learning quality.
To meet the early-stage digital learning needs of Halfway Group Holdings, we implemented a robust and responsive learning management system that can adapt to the growing needs of the organisation. The Halfway Learning Academy (U-Learn) was enabled to use Digikamva LMS effectively, to develop and deliver blended courses and use the provided Course Development Toolkit as guideline to develop their online courses
“U-Learn (a product of Halfway HR Department) is a flexible, easily accessible, learning platform for staff to achieve their learning outcomes with online support and additional resources. The added benefit is the time saved with data entry and reporting.”
Walter Sisulu prides itself on being an institution that promotes and improves access to higher education. WSU’s focus is on providing quality education, and technological and career-orientated programmes. These bring forth necessary skills for development in rural and urban areas, with a special emphasis on entrepreneurship.
In order to create and deliver effective online learning materials, it is important to carefully balance fundamental concepts with engaging learning activities and a carefully thought-out progression that inspires learners to stay engaged and work together. It is necessary for instructional designers and developers to produce context-rich, well-communicated, and consistent learning experiences while developing such online courses.
An on-site, two-day program has been developed to assist WSU in creating a set of technical online learning standards for their virtual learning environment (VLE) that will serve as guidelines for online course designers, lecturers, and new faculty on issues like the use of color, fonts, naming conventions, course links, and modules.
The end result was a partner-specific manual that all of their VLE course developers, but especially new faculty, can refer to when creating their own online programs and courses (available three weeks after onsite delivery). This Course Development Toolkit compiles a number of significant designs and quality standards into a handy compilation.
Walter Sisulu University in partnership with Eiffel Corp introduced technology-infused teaching and learning. The challenge, however, was creating online courses as these require careful planning, instructional designers and developers to come up with clear, consistent and full-of-context experiences.
With their culture of academic excellence, the University of Cape Town is currently recognised as a top-rated institution in Africa and one of the top-rated institutions globally. They achieve this by having built an extraordinarily talented community and encouraging one another to work hard. UCT encourages transformation and hard work to maintain the sustainability of their institution and ensures quality in all they do. Their focus is on becoming a research-incentive African university that is inclusive and solves challenges of our time, while also being committed to help change this world for the better
The University of Cape Town needed to conduct an induction programme for new staff members. The course had to be available as and when required in a hybrid model ensuring that staff could access the course at any given time and stay relevant and updated with the latest information.
Content for the course is built for variable delivery methods, including fully online and blended learning. The numerous staff induction course components were created with a mix of brand-new and pre-existing digital course materials that facilitated participant engagement and knowledge transfer. The course also serves as a collection of references for UCT employees to consult again for clarification on information on highlighted regulations and policies as needed.
Given the nature of changing policies, leadership positions, functions, and information inside a complex and evolving university, the digital course remains relevant and updated on a continuous basis, eliminating the need for course administrators to update it on a frequent and manual basis. The course(s)’ continuous usefulness maximizes the return on the investment.
Eiffel Corp was able to provide a course content programme designed to promote engagement among participants, knowledge transfer and also served as a reference repository for UCT staff to return to, for clarification on highlighted rules and policy information as required.
BUAN took the first steps towards online learning several years ago. While a number of the institution’s staff members had explored the use of Open Source and several other Learning Management System (LMS) platforms, the uptake had been limited by several factor a major one being Internet access, which at the time was limited for students’ studies. Covid-19 accelerated the process of using an LMS, but since not everyone (both students and lecturers) was prepared, the use of the LMS was not efficient. Eiffel Corp partnered with BUAN to change this.
Lack of resources and necessary skills to move to online learning at the required pace set by Covid-19
A comprehensive digital learning solution with local support & insights; relevant implementation, and training support; and a cloud-based LMS that is fit-for-purpose and flexible.
Barriers removed and confidence gained, leading to adoption and constant growth in the use of the LMS. Sustainable digital learning development that grows with the institution and its future goals.
Now we have invested in various ways, with access to an Open Source platform; in training on how to use it; all leading to less barriers to entry, while the benefits of its flexibility and accessibility rapidly becomes clear.
Designed and developed for the education industry, The Invigilator App is a cell phone tool used to monitor students during online and in-venue assessments. The main purpose of this application is to help mitigate any misconduct and maintain integrity in the education sector. While The Invigilator was initially developed for online assessments during Covid, […]