Schools increasingly use digital tools in education, but the methods to test students’ knowledge has not kept up with. It may be about to change. In the days used twenty secondary schools digital software to allow their students to write national examinations in Swedish C.
“Normally, you do not write national examinations digitally, but right for the Swedish C, there is an exception. As long as the school can ensure that students can not cheat, “says Johan Hägglund co-founder and CEO of the company Digiexam who developed the software that was used for the tests.
Digiexam has been around since 2011, but it was only last summer that the finished product was launched.
“We spent a lot of time to develop the product for it can not be wrong. Imagine that you have a six-hour law exam and the program stops working in the middle of “, says Johan Hägglund.
Another important part of the development was to make it impossible to cheat through the program despite the students write exams on their own computers.
“Students can be very creative, but when they use our program, they can only access the test, nothing else. If they are to open another program must first complete the test, “says Johan Hägglund.
The software is sold through licenses. School uses the platform buying a license per student and then a teacher can create as many samples at any time. In today use 60 schools Digiexams platform and 26,000 students have written proof of it.
“It saves a lot of time for teachers to create and correct sample digitally. Just getting computer written answers instead of handwritten makes a big difference, “says Johan Hägglund.
During the journey the company has taken up 7 million in venture capital. This summer went Digiexam from three to eleven employees in connection with the launch and the company continues to grow. Currently are more samples on the platform in one day than what was done during the first month the service was out. Now the company under Johan Hägglund create new features for teachers and invest in disseminating platform also outside Sweden and Scandinavia. Next in line are schools in Asia, the Middle East and the United States.
“It feels like the next step. There is great interest abroad. We already have schools in Finland, Latvia and Russia and customers, “says Johan Hägglund.
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