Ileemore

Ileemore is an e-learning platform that helps West African secondary school students prepare for matriculation examinations through a dynamic pedagogy and learning analytics.

Ileemore is an e-learning platform that helps West African secondary school students prepare for matriculation examinations through a dynamic pedagogy and learning analytics.

An e-learning platform that helps students prepare for matriculation examinations and provides teachers with strength and weakness analysis of students to improve learning outcomes.

The platform enables West African students to take tests on past questions of matriculation examinations. We present the answers in a comprehensible, conversational and interactive approach with the aid of diagrams and animations to drive home the point. Students can take tests based on topics, get formative feedback and learn adaptively. Students can also ask their own questions and get quality answers from our tutors. With this feedback system, we are able to understand how students learn.

Based on students' engagements on our platform, we want to do a Question-Level Analysis using learning engineering, neuroscience, AI and Data Science to analyze each student's strengths and weaknesses, for each subject. With the solution, students are being assessed as they learn and given the help they need before taking an examination. This will further give students all the help they need to gain admission into a tertiary institution, develop their potentials and live a good life.

The platform can be assessed through a web and android app. We also deploy a regularly-updated offline version of the platform on computers via an intranet - made up of mainly a raspberry pie and router.

Value Proposition

Students: We help students prepare for matriculation examinations with well-solved and well-explained past questions as opposed to what they get in their usual past question textbooks and other test prep platforms.

Teachers: We help teachers quickly identify the areas of weakness of students at a micro-level, individual and class-level. A teacher can know the specific sub-topic a student or a class is not performing well in before they take a matriculation examination. Teachers can then stretch and challenges students, with the data and resources we give them. We also reduce the teacher workload.

Every member of my time has faced the problem my solution is solving. For instance, I finished secondary school, top of my class but I still had to write the UTME (a matriculation examination) 2 times before I could gain admission into a university.

My team consists of business developers with a cumulative 11 years of entrepreneurship experience across various industries. We have a software engineer with 7+ years of experience building software products across four industries. Between 2016 and 2017, I co-ran an initiative that provided free and quality tutorials to students in low-income communities.

We also have a team of facilitators who have been in the secondary school education system for 7 years and have witnessed firsthand the problems inherent.  They have tutored secondary school students and have been able to see certain needs of students such as the need to relate what they are being taught to real-life experiences, the need to have a personalized education, having in mind the ease of access and affordability.

For every user that signs up on our platform, we constantly engage them to get feedback and better understand their pain point. We also ensure that their problems are being solved.

I am so passionate about developing this solution because I faced the same problem it solves. In 2015, I co-ran an initiative that provided free, quality on-site tutorials to secondary school students from low-income communities as a response to the mass failure of matriculation examinations. I was able to witness firsthand, the problems inherent in the education space.  My tutoring of the students enabled me to see certain needs of students such as the need to relate what they are being taught to real-life experiences, the need to have a personalized education, having in mind the ease of access and affordability.

In 2018 when I launched my solution, ileemore.com, we signed up 500 users for the 2018 UTME, a matriculation examination in Nigeria. I interacted with all 500 of them to understand their pain points, hear their views and receive feedback on the solution. This helped me to iterate and re-develop the solution.

To date, we have reached over 25,000 users and we constantly get feedback from our users.

Data is hardly used in the learner's journey in Nigeria and major parts of Africa. Almost every time, students are assessed at the end of a semester. At this point, there is little that can be done to help the students.

However, with our solution, students are constantly being assessed and given the help they need before taking a matriculation examination. In this way, we can create a shift in the educational space from assessment of learning to assessment in learning and assessment as learning.

We also adopt the concept of Learning Engineering to develop our content, deliver our content, create a reliable data-rich learning environment and improve the pedagogy.  Our solution also makes use of Artificial Intelligence to measure each student's strengths and weaknesses based on how they answer each question in a test. This helps us to curate a personalized learning path for each student.

In the next year, I want to help 100,000 students to pass their matriculation examinations so as to gain admission into tertiary institutions advance their life, develop their potential and live a good life. This is made possible by partnerships with 1,000 tutorial centres in Nigeira.

Already, we have an online presence in three other West African countries, Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone - asides from Nigeria. In the next five years, I'm looking to form partnerships with schools and tutorial centers in these countries and other African countries, in order to amplify our impact.

Ileemore is an LMS app and offline learning app powered by Artificial Intelligence to help students improve in their areas of weakness as they prepare for matriculation examinations.

Our web and android app makes it easy for students to access our content seamlessly on any device. The solution also utilizes the Computer Based-Test technology to enable students take tests on topics and past questions of matriculation examinations, do revisions and enable to us to analyze their learning track. The stacks are HTML 5, CSS 3, MySql, Javascript and PHP.

Artificial Intelligence is used to measure each student's strengths and weaknesses based on how they answer each question in a test. The system checks the topics they know and the ones they need help with. This helps us to curate a personalized learning path for each student, suggesting topics and recommended lessons to focus and improve on. 

We also deploy a regularly-updated offline version of the solution on computers via an intranet - made up of mainly a raspberry pie, networking cables and a router

My solution currently serves 25,000 people for this exam season.
In the next year, I want to scale and serve 100,000 people.

Financial
I currently need funding to expand the scope of our content development, develop a proper AI strength and weakness analysis service for students and also market to potential users.

Hardware
I need to support students in low-income communities with hardware such as computers.

1. We have an informal partnership with Graasp, an agency at  École Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL (Federal Institute of Polytechnic, Lausanne) , Switzerland. We are looking into getting support from them on our content development.


2. The Smart School, Oyo State, Nigeria: They are our paying user.

Our business model is a mix of B2B for schools, B2C for parents and students and B2B2C with tutorial centres.

We offer subscription plans to parents and students at the cost of $2 per month. 

To solve the problem of hardware and internet connectivity, we set up our platform via a Local Area Network in schools on the schools’ existing computers at the cost of $500 per year. This enables students in underserved communities to access our platform.

We also run a B2B2C model with tutorial centres. They earn a  commission for every paid user they sign up on our platform. We have achieved product-market fit with this as this model reduces our cost of customer acquisition by 80%. With access to funding, we plan to scale this model within a year by partnering with 500 tutorial centres to reach profitability.

We have achieved product-market fit with our B2B2C approach, partnership with in-person tutorial centres. The model reduces our cost of customer acquisition by 80%. We plan to scale this model in the next year by partnering with 500 tutorial centres and becoming profitable and sustainable.