Koloso is an education technology platform that helps teachers in Africa plan lessons, assess learning, and analyze results through curriculum-aligned schemes of work, automated assessments, and compliance reporting. The platform works offline on any smartphone and is used by over 750 teachers across 320+ schools in Zambia, saving teachers an average of three hours per week.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Teachers in African classrooms spend hours designing and writing lesson plans, manually setting and marking assessments, and completing paperwork and compliance reports—time that could otherwise be spent teaching. Large class sizes and limited resources make it difficult to track individual learner progress and provide personalized attention.
Solution
Koloso provides a comprehensive teaching platform that generates curriculum-aligned schemes of work and ready-to-use lesson plans, automates assessments for every occasion, and analyzes results on demand. The platform covers the full teaching loop—plan, teach, assess, analyse, adapt, improve, report, and comply—giving teachers structured, dated lesson plans and automatic marking with insights into class performance. It also generates progress reports for parents and school leaders, and produces Ministry compliance documentation packs at the tap of a button. The platform works offline on any Android or iPhone, making it accessible in resource-constrained environments.
Target Audience
Primary customers are individual teachers, schools, and tuition centres in Africa, particularly in Zambia and Nigeria, who need to streamline lesson planning, assessment, and compliance reporting while improving learner outcomes.
Features
- Ready-made curriculum-aligned lesson plans and schemes of work supporting 5+ international curricula
- Automated assessments including prior learning checks, progress tests, end-of-topic tests, end-of-term/year exams, homework assignments, and rapid-fire quizzes
- Automatic marking and analysis showing topic-level class performance and individual learner needs
- Targeted teaching suggestions based on assessment data to help teachers adapt instruction
- Built-in professional guidance library with expert teaching notes on 30+ topics, readable in under five minutes and available offline
- Automatic progress report generation for parents, HODs, and principals with class and grade-level summaries
- Ministry compliance reporting with inspection readiness dashboard and exportable documentation packs
- Works offline and on any smartphone, with school-wide dashboards for principals and HODs