The startup offers a compliance platform that utilizes artificial intelligence to automate the identification and correction of issues in educational content. This technology enables institutions to enhance the usability of study materials and ensure their courses meet regulatory standards efficiently.
Funding
$640K raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Many educational institutions struggle to ensure their online course content is fully accessible to all students, including those with disabilities, leading to potential legal compliance issues and a suboptimal learning experience. Manually identifying and correcting accessibility issues across numerous courses and content types is time-consuming and requires specialized expertise.
Solution
Brickfield Education Labs offers a suite of Moodle plugins and services designed to automate and streamline the process of creating accessible and engaging online learning experiences. The Brickfield Accessibility Toolkit automatically evaluates course content for accessibility issues, provides bulk remediation tools to fix common errors, and generates alternative content formats to meet diverse learner needs. In addition to the toolkit, Brickfield provides UX, skills, and assessment bundles to enhance the overall learning environment. The platform also offers training workshops and a Moodle Universal Design for Learning Guide to support educators in creating inclusive course designs from the outset.
Target Audience
The primary target audience includes educational institutions, universities, and corporate training departments using the Moodle learning management system, seeking to improve the accessibility and usability of their online courses.
Features
- Automated accessibility evaluation of course pages, HTML content, and assessments
- Bulk updates for fixing unclear link text, missing image descriptions, and HTML tag errors
- Generation of accessible file formats, including audio, ePub, and electronic Braille
- Site-wide accessibility reporting for institutional, category, and program-level analysis
- Quicklinks navigation for essential online resources
- Site Q&A service for frequently asked questions
- Reading list export to XLS or HTML
- Audience messages for targeted communication
- Board collaborative notes for group activities
- Badge and competency awarders
- Rubrics and marking guide reports
- Gradebook category leaderboard
- Student workload report
- Activity reminders
- Planner for assessment breakdown
- Moodle Universal Design for Learning Guide