How bitmark helped Ed-tech Startup Taskbase to provide Smart Feedback for their learners

The right feedback at the right time makes all the difference.

Taskbase

Taskbase is tackling the problem of poor feedback in digital learning.

Especially in online learning, the feedback students get from the learning systems is pretty insufficient.

The Swiss-based ed-tech startup built a feedback engine that helps learning platforms to give their students cutting-edge feedback — like a teacher would give in these learning scenarios.

How does it work?

Customers of Taskbase like publishing houses and learning platforms integrate Taskbase via API and then send the learning data to Taskbase, where the data is analyzed.

After this, the feedback gets sent back to the customers of Taskbase to seamlessly show the personalized feedback to their learners in their learning product.

Watch the interview with Samuel Portmann, CEO & Co-Founder of Taskbase about how bitmark helped the startup to provide better feedback for their customers:

What was the problem?

But: All of these learning platforms and publishing houses have their own data formats. Unfortunately, some of those are pretty old, are not content-first, and are slightly different from each other.

So Taskbase searched for one very well thought-through data format they could share with their customers.

How bitmark solved the problem

As Taskbase analyzes the data to provide the right feedback, the content is important, not the layout.

So they needed to find a data format that only describes the content.

Common data formats mix content with the layout. If you’d take away the design, the content doesn’t make sense anymore in many cases.

So they developed their own data format initially because they had not been satisfied with the other data formats.

Then they learned about bitmark. bitmark is called content-first. It describes the content without formatting.

Taskbase found in bitmark a well-documented, well-working data format they can use and integrate easily.

Why bitmark was the right fit for Taskbase

bitmark describes the content of learning nuggets, exercises, and learning content in general.

The strictly content-first standard was straightforward to feed into Taskbase’s models. As it describes only the content, they can provide their models solely the content, and it works smoothly.

Internally now, everything is working on the data format bitmark.

They also convince their customers to use bitmark instead of their own data formats, as an open-source standard brings many benefits.

The concept of bitmark is very clear and well-thought-through from A to Z.

— Samuel Portmann, CEO & Co-Founder of Taskbase

Compared with other data formats, it is obvious that bitmark is different. bitmark is content-first, mobile-first, and open-source.

Moreover, bitmark it is a future-proof solution for many ed-tech companies’ applications today — especially data-driven applications that focus on the content, not the layout.

“It’s something for the future”, highlights Samuel Portman about the content-first standard bitmark.

See for yourself.

About bitmark 🚀

bitmark is the world’s only strictly content-first open-source standard for creating learning content.

By providing a standard, a common ground, for digital education, we can make education accessible for everyone and enable social and economic participation for youth, women, and deprived communities.

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Have a look at the documentation of the bitmark standard: https://docs.bitmark.cloud/