Customer
CBS
Industry
Teaching
Services
Software development
CBS
When over 21,000 students, 7,500 courses and 600 teachers have to be gathered on one platform, it requires a system that can accommodate it all. CBS wanted an e-learning system that could match the students' digital level, handle all administration and digitize exams.
Together with KOLLAB, CBS has created a solution that makes education, technology and people play together.
Challenge: CBS needed to bring together students, teachers and teaching courses in one common digital platform, but lacked an e-learning system that could handle complex administration, digital exams and at the same time live up to the expectations of a modern and user-friendly solution.
A collaboration that wants something
But how do you build a system that can accommodate it all at once?
That was precisely the challenge CBS faced and here KOLLAB came on the scene.
With an agile work approach, the pace was set. Along the way, ideas were turned on whiteboards, mockups were made, functions tested in user groups, and the solution adapted continuously. Together, and with Moodle as its foundation, CBS Learn was developed. A learning platform that is currently used by over 36,000 users and handles all teaching material at CBS:
”KOLLAB helps us there. With being at the forefront of the beat and keeping a very high quality”, says Martin Tong, Program Manager and Project Manager in the IT department at CBS.
As part of the solution, KOLLAB has developed a project space module that creates the framework for both group work and self-study. At the same time, an intelligent information system ensures that teachers and students are always up-to-date on materials, messages and changes.
In order to create an overview in everyday life, calendar.cbs.dk has been established as a personal and updated schedule. It integrates directly with Outlook, Google Calendar and mobile apps, and here users can see class times, changes and cancellations in real time.
It is all tied together by CBS API ‘et, a specially developed PHP application that integrates studio administration, HR, Courseadmin and e-learning. It is the foundation that makes the platform function as one unified system.
Expertise, experience and commitment
In the past, large budgets were often spent on projects that ended up providing less value than expected. Today, CBS does it differently with a tailored speedboat approach: A solid core that they can constantly build on both quickly and efficiently.
The collaboration between KOLLAB and CBS is based on many years of experience and mutual trust. CBS knows that they can adjust the course, take more responsibility themselves and still draw on KOLLAB when they need extra expertise:
”The collaboration is so strongly based that we at CBS can always go in and say that now we want much more ourselves. Still, KOLLAB is still our regular resource: expertise that can be called in to tasks where they are particularly strong”, they say.
The pilot project that ended successfully
In 2012, CBS and KOLLAB embarked on a pilot project to make exam submissions digital. An experiment that turned out to go beyond all expectations.
What started as an experiment quickly became a gamechanger. Now students all over the world could submit their exams digitally, without showing up with three printed copies under their arm.
The e-submission module binds administration, assessors and students together in one unified flow. Here you can upload material, keep track of dates and deadlines, acknowledge submissions and follow the exam status.
An extra plus? The assessors get rid of piles of papers and get everything together in one place.
Although the digital pass is an option, it's actually pretty crazy that over 50,000 passes have made their way through the system. It seems to be clear evidence that the pilot project hit the spot.
As a side benefit, plagiarism has almost disappeared, because the students know very well that it is extremely easy to check plagiarism with digital submissions.