2024 CONSENSUS EDTECH AWARDS

The 2024 Consensus EdTech Awards were presented in early December by Consensus Awards Founder Julian Day and Emmaual Constantinou, President, Bondi & Districts Chamber of Commerce at Easts Leagues Club.

WINNER

invigilatorPlus from CampusQ Pty Ltd

COO Sir Gerard Newcombe and CIO Annemarie Moran accept a 2024 Consensus EdTech Award

Description

invigilatorPlus is a unique high-performance live proctoring platform engineered to meet the rigorous demands of modern educational and professional exams. Designed to ensure secure, scalable, and reliable remote proctoring, invigilatorPlus enables institutions maintain strict examination standards while delivering a streamlined, user-friendly experience for both administrators and candidates.

One of invigilatorPlus’ standout features is its global scalability, supported by drop-out resistant technology. Optimised for challenging network conditions, it ensures uninterrupted exam monitoring across diverse regions. This resilience makes invigilatorPlus the ideal solution for institutions conducting large-scale exams worldwide, offering the capability to provide seamless proctoring for thousands of candidates simultaneously, regardless of their location.

The platform simplifies the process for both educators and students, eliminating the need for complex installations or technical configurations. Operating without a client installation, invigilatorPlus reduces technical overhead and simplifies the exam process for users. This seamless experience allows students to focus on their exams without unnecessary technical distractions, while administrators benefit from quick and efficient exam setup and management. The platform’s intuitive interface and guided setup make it easy to launch exams, whether for a small classroom assessment or a large-scale certification event.

invigilatorPlus is highly configurable, allowing institutions to tailor the proctoring environment to their specific needs. It can monitor and flag a wide range of behaviours, such as unusual movements, distractions, and prohibited actions, which are automatically flagged for review. Exam administrators have the flexibility to define the behaviours they want to monitor based on the unique needs of their institution or exam. Once incidents are flagged, they can be confirmed through human review, ensuring accurate and fair decision-making. This hybrid approach allows for a balance between automation and human oversight, creating a reliable and transparent exam experience.

In addition to behaviour monitoring, invigilatorPlus utilises rigorous identity verification methods to ensure that only authorised candidates are able to access and complete exams. The system captures critical data points needed to maintain the integrity of the exam, while simultaneously ensuring compliance with privacy standards. invigilatorPlus adheres to international data protection regulations, including ISO27001 (International Information Security Standard) compliance, and stores all student and exam data securely in Australian-based data centres. This robust security infrastructure is trusted by governments (The standard was originally published jointly by the International Organization for Standardization and the International Electrotechnical Commission in 2005, revised in 2022), educational institutions and organizations around the world, ensuring the confidentiality and safety of exam-related information.

The scalability and flexibility of invigilatorPlus make it well-suited for a variety of exam environments, from academic assessments to high-stakes professional certifications. The platform is designed to scale effortlessly, adapting to the needs of any institution, without compromising performance or security.

Judges Citation

invigilatorPlus, developed by CampusQ, is a remote proctoring platform created to monitor and provide secure online examinations with drop-out resistant technology.

Innovation
The technology uses a browser extension to simplify the student experience and eliminating the need to download and install additional software.

The Judges agreed that the innovative use of browser extensions can significantly reduce the issues associated with individual software installation that rely on PC operating system and computer type, furthermore, providing cross-browser compatibility and consistency by implementing Web Real-time APIs.

Performance
Performance for user and administration are achieved with Adaptive bitrate high-quality video streaming network performance, providing a smoother and uninterrupted exam experience.

Privacy is an important issue and does not require full device access. The InvigilatorPlus platform has been designed for scalability and security by integrating the use of a Microservice based architecture underpinned by adhering to global ISO Data security standards.

Market Potential

The judging panel all agreed they developed a winning Edtech invigilation solution that is well-positioned to capture the $4.4b Australian and International on-line market with a growth of 10-12% annually.

The massive demand for secure remote proctoring solutions has been accelerated since the COVID-19 pandemic projected to reach an astounding $1.5B market by 2027 from $350M since 2020 driven by the need for online education and secure remote academic assessment needs globally.  

Conclusion

The Judges agree that the InvigilatorPlus platform is well positioned to capture a significant market share due to its unique approach to cross-browser compatibility, secure and adaptive continuous steaming for various network conditions.

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2023 CONSENSUS EDTECH AWARDS

The 2023 Consensus EdTech Awards were presented by Hon. Ed Husic, Minister for Industry & Science on 24th May in Sydney.

WINNER

Digital Credentialing Technology from Learning Vault

From left: Hon. Ed Husic, Tony Birrell & Michael Evans of Learning Vault, Julian Day, founder Consensus.

Description

Learning Vault is a Credentials-as-a-Service platform that offers digital credentialing, badging, and certification solutions for various entities such as institutions, training providers, employers, industry associations, and governments. It is a comprehensive platform that covers the entire process of creating, delivering, accrediting, awarding, and verifying digital credentials.

The platform is built on a robust technology infrastructure that enables Organisations and institutions to issue secure and verifiable digital credentials, badges, or certificates. These credentials contain rich metadata, making them machine-readable objects that provide transparency and critical information about the recipient’s achievements, skills, knowledge levels, subjects undertaken, and marks received. Learning Vault credentials are based on open, global standards, allowing them to be verified in real-time, shared across multiple social media channels, and stored in other applications or platforms.

Learning Vault offers several capabilities within its credential platform. It ensures the security and tamper-proof nature of digital credentials by embedding unique encrypted data and storing them on secure servers. The platform also provides flexibility and personalisation options, allowing issuing authorities to customise the visual aspects, metadata, links, attachments, skills descriptors, and other components of their digital credentials.

Verifiability is a core feature of Learning Vault. The platform enables real-time verification of metadata, ensuring the authenticity and integrity of the credentials. Recipients can easily share their digital credentials through various channels, and the machine-readable nature of the credentials allows for automated processing in recruitment and job matching systems.

Learning Vault provides extensive control over credential creation, user permissions, and organisation hierarchies. It offers a repository we refer to as a Backpack but is also known as a Digital wallet or passport, where recipients can visualise and display their credentials in a user-friendly format. The Backpack allows for instant sharing across multiple platforms and can be integrated with other applications and systems through APIs.

Judges Citation

“The judges agreed that the Learning Vault’s Credentials-as-a-Service platform is innovative and offers significant opportunities for market growth.

Learning Vault’s groundbreaking digital credentialing, badging and certification architecture is making waves for its pioneering approach to transforming talent acquisition. By seamlessly integrating with global digital certification standards, Learning Vault ensures a robust foundation of machine readability and cross-platform compatibility for digital certification issue, storage, sharing, verification, and retrieval.

In an era where traditional qualifications often pose challenges of verification and interpretation, Learning Vault’s digital credentials provide an innovative solution. These credentials empower individuals to showcase their skills and achievements securely, surpassing the limitations of conventional paper-based documentation.

The judges recognised the value chain gains in Learning Vault’s approach of working with the student management system providers to enable them, as the source of truth on qualifications, to drive the issuing of the digital credentials as part of the students’ journey.

The judges were impressed with Learning Vault’s approach to the portability and shareability of digital credentials. Candidates wield control over who accesses their credentials, streamlining the sharing process across various platforms.

Real-time authentication bolsters the integrity of the presented qualifications, ensuring trust and transparency throughout the talent acquisition process.

In summary, Learning Vault’s digital credentialing architecture redefines talent acquisition paradigms by offering secure, machine-readable, and transparent credentials. The innovative features, including QVAULT and other digital wallet integration and skill descriptor referencing, underscore Learning Vault’s commitment to revolutionising the landscape of skills verification and candidate evaluation”.

Our thanks go to Dentons Lawyers for hosting the judging, and to the Judges that participated in the final evaluation:

2019 AWARDS – PRESENTATIONS

See below the Highly Commended technology of the 2019 Consensus EdTech Awards.

The 2019 Consensus Awards Winners with (back centre) Richard White, Founder & CEO, WiseTech Global and (front 4th from left) Julian (Jolly) Day Founder & CEO of Consensus.

The Consensus Awards were co-presented on 12th December by Richard White, Founder & CEO, WiseTech Global (Winner in 2004) and Julian Day, Founder & CEO, Consensus. Thanks to Phil Redding for MC’ing the event.

Our thanks go to the Australian Graduate School of Management at University of New South Wales for hosting the judging, and to the Judges that participated in the final evaluation: