RM launches digital accreditation platform Ava

Following a £6m development investment in FY24, and a similar level this year, RM has announced the official launch of RM Ava, its adaptive virtual accreditation platform (formerly known as the “Global Accreditation Platform”).

Ava brings together RM’s existing assessment tools into a single cloud-based platform. It's designed to help customers bring their paper-based learning and assessment processes into the digital age – supporting the full assessment lifecycle (from content creation and learner testing, through to optional AI-powered marking and feedback).

RM is also planning to use Ava to extend its product offering into formative in-course assessments in Further Education and professional qualifications.

The company has been focused on a strategy to build what it had been terming a “Global Accreditation Platform” for some time – bolstered by recent successes, such as securing a long-term partnership with The International Baccalaureate in May last year, extending its longstanding Cambridge University Press & Assessment partnership in November, inking deals with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ghana and the teacher training university Pädagogische Hochschule St. Gallen (and its partner institutions) in Switzerland at the end of last year, and signing a contract with (long-term partner) the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement to provide the digital platform to support the next iteration of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study – plus a long-term extension of its contract with the South Australian Certificate of Education Board – both last month.

Looking ahead, RM is expecting many further opportunities for its end-to-end digital authoring, accreditations, and exams solution as governments, education institutions and membership organisations accelerate their plans to move away from paper-based assessment. The company’s Assessment division was the star player in FY24 – with a contracted order book more than doubling in size to £95.7m – and it will be looking to Ava to continue to provide a (literal) platform for growth, as RM continues to transform its operations following the closure of its Consortium business in December 2023.

Posted by: Craig Wentworth at 09:54

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