Industry:

 Education

Business results:
 Reliable modern online platform for learning Dutch

 A flexible and easy-to-use environment for teachers

 Thousands of well-educated students.

Client:
On the NT2 project we have a partnership client - Enigmatry BV and
ThiemeMeulenhoff.
Enigmatry BV is our shareholder, a Dutch IT company which makes smart
applications for business. They invent, build, design and maintain these
applications and are always working on new software solutions.
ThiemeMeulenhoff is an established publisher and a well-known name in The
Netherlands. The 225-year-old publishing house focuses on education and
supplies teaching materials for primary, secondary, and vocational education.
ThiemeMeulenhoff also offers courses for adults who want to learn Dutch as
a second language, also known as NT2.
These two companies teamed up for the quality investment such as NT2
project by blending their expertise in content, marketing and sales with the
best fitting, custom-tailored software solution.

Challenges:
A great deal of ThiemeMeulenhoff's teaching material is offered in an online
learning environment. Much is expected of this online learning environment:
- it must be available at all times
- the teaching materials must load quickly
- the technology must be reliable
To further develop the online learning environment in the coming years, it
was essential to modernize the environment. It soon became clear that a
new technology had to be developed to make the teaching material available
quickly and accurately.

Solution:
For the teaching methods for primary and secondary education, we, as part
of Enigmatry team, built a new, replacement platform on which the teaching
methods Zebra+, IJsbreker+ and Code+ are supported. These methods are
meant for non-native speakers with a low and medium level of education to
learn Dutch quickly and efficiently.
ThiemeMeulenhoff supplied the teaching methods and updated content. We
have implemented a great environment for updating existing content and
the possibility to easily create a new one. The result is a fast, flexible
platform with a clear interface.
Content prepared by ThiemeMeulenhoff is using the QTI (Question and Test
Interoperability) specification. This specification is a widely used standard for
the representation and exchange of assessment content and results between
different assessment systems. It covers various types of assessment items,
including multiple-choice, gap match, hot text, and more. It also supports
audios and videos as well as voice recordings. To make QTI questions easy
to create or change, we came up with the idea to implement QTI editor
based on CKEditor. In this way, people from ThiemeMeulenhoff can easily
maintain content without knowledge of QTI specifications.
In addition to the question manipulation module, NT2 provides teachers with
the ability to track students' progress and gain insight into their responses to
exercises and tests. NT2 has a highly convenient and intuitive system for
administration. New institutes with new teachers and students can be easily
incorporated into the system at any time, making the initial use of this
platform extremely easy.

The team:
Our team comprises developers with varying levels of seniority and
expertise, each bringing unique perspectives and skill sets to the table.
Additionally, the team includes dedicated testers who play a vital role in
ensuring the quality and reliability of the software. To facilitate effective
collaboration and streamline the development process, the team adopts the
Scrum framework.
Outcome and current status:
The first version - NT2Online - was created more than 5 years ago. Because
of its success, it was decided to make an enhanced version which
development is currently in progress. It implies the usage of the latest
technologies as well as development and implementation of more useful
functionalities.

Conclusion:
As part of Enigmatry outsourcing team on this project, NovaLite team played
an essential role in development of this application. By investing our
technical expertise and innovative ideas, we helped our shareholders in
forming firm relationship and co-creation, joint project with their partners by
investing directly in their product. They were able to make a partnership,
thus offering a steady support of our team and considerable amount of
commitment towards their goals in the future to the mutual benefit.

Testimonials:
"Who does not want to learn Dutch? One of our products is a platform to
learn our language and understand our culture. On peak moments, up to a
thousand simultaneous users are using this modern web application.
Novalite is one of our partners for the development and continued
improvement of this application. The good-spirited, enthusiastic and skilled
Novalite team is focused on results and helps us deliver a high quality
solution for our customers!"
Ronald van den Berg, BA Enigmatry and Aldert De Vries, PM Enigmatry