By Kisean Joseph
The One Lern platform, developed by FortunaPIX, offers educators powerful tools to track student progress and identify areas needing attention in real-time.
Sam Roberts, the Principal of Antigua Grammar School (one of the local schools where the platform was piloted) highlighted its practical benefits for teachers conducting objective assessments.
“If you’re doing objective type questions, where there’s only one answer, like ‘what is the capital of Antigua,’ you are able to view the answer for each participant in the assessment afterwards,” Roberts told Observer.
“This detailed analysis helps teachers identify patterns in student misconceptions, such as why 60 percent of the class think that the capital of Antigua and Barbuda is Old Road.”
The platform’s automated analysis also significantly reduces teachers’ workload. Roberts illustrated this with a practical example: “Let’s say math, for example. Everybody does math. You have 30 students, You want to give them a full multiple-choice exam of 60 questions. By hand, it means you would have had to do an analysis on each one 30 times for 60 questions. Instead, the platform provides immediate analysis, allowing teachers to focus on addressing learning gaps rather than manual data processing.”
According to Satyajit Behera, Senior Director at FortunaPIX, the analytics capabilities of the One Lern platform are “the most critical component” of their digital education solution. The system maps assessment questions to specific learning outcomes defined in the curriculum, enabling precise identification of areas requiring additional attention.
The immediate feedback capability is particularly valuable for objective assessments. As Behera described: “When 30 students in the classroom take the assessment … at the moment the students submit the assignment, the grade card is automatically created. The teacher doesn’t have to do anything,” he said.
Roberts also highlighted how the platform’s analytics directly improve teaching effectiveness. “It focusses your teaching for the weak areas, because you’re immediately able to highlight what those are,” he said. This immediate feedback allows teachers to adjust their instruction based on real-time data about student performance and understanding.
The platform has shown promise in addressing regional educational challenges. Citing mathematics performance in Antigua as an example, Behera suggested that “if the platform, the analytics feature of the platform is used to its true potential, a lot of teachers would be able to drill through down to the exact reasons or exact topics which need to be taught again”.
The One Learn platform has already been implemented in several Caribbean nations, including Antigua and Barbuda, British Virgin Islands, St Lucia, and Grenada, with ongoing proposals in Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, and Guyana.
Its analytics-driven approach to education management is a significant step forward in digital learning technology, offering educators powerful tools to monitor and improve student performance while maintaining alignment with local curriculum standards.
