The Challenge
Digitizing content at speed and scale
To meet government learning objectives while embracing digital innovation, Die Keure committed to developing blended learning methods. Central to this strategy was the launch of Kadet—their first fully digital math method for primary education—planned for September 2024. Achieving this required the large-scale digitization of exercises from Die Keure’s printed workbooks.
While their in-house assessment tool had worked well in the past, it had gradually become technically outdated. It didn’t allow for the new question types teachers and learners were demanding, nor did it provide flexible scoring or robust reporting features. On top of that, Die Keure needed an efficient way to produce thousands of digital activities without overwhelming their authors.
“Creating blended methods increased the workload for our editorial team,” says Lieve. “If we wanted to keep our deadlines, we needed to progress quickly.”
Technical debt also posed a problem: revamping the old tool would be time-consuming and costly. Die Keure needed a modern assessment engine that could help them keep pace with the ongoing transformation of education.
The Solution
Smarter authoring, faster delivery
Die Keure evaluated multiple solutions, seeking flexible APIs with a proven track record in the learning space. Lieve first heard about Learnosity during a conversation with a member of Learnosity’s Partner Ecosystem, a network of edtech services and technology providers that collaborate to enhance digital learning experiences.
Once they’d done their own research, the Die Keure team realized Learnosity had exactly what they were looking for: cloud-based assessment APIs capable of integrating directly into their content management system, a sophisticated math engine, clear documentation, and a promising AI roadmap.
“Once we saw what Learnosity could do, the choice was simple,” says Lieve. “The different scoring types enabled by the math engine was something we didn’t have in our own tool. What makes the math engine so valuable is its ability to support all our math learning methods, enabling us to create versatile digital exercises for students aged 5 to 17. We’d been limited to simple question types previously, but now we have more capabilities.”
Empowering authors and enriching assessments
The integration moved quickly. Learnosity’s clear documentation and developer-friendly tools meant Die Keure’s IT team could rapidly complete integration and level-up the authoring experience.
“With Learnosity, we were able to quickly develop custom question types for primary education, such as a zone marker, number tiles, an analog clock, and rich-text quick buttons,” says Lieve. “This empowered our editorial team to create exercises efficiently, allowing us to meet deadlines thanks to Learnosity’s user-friendly environment.”
The Outcome
Future-ready platforms for authors & learners
With Learnosity fully integrated in a month, Die Keure was able to keep the project on track.
“It took just one sprint to build a proof of concept and a few more to finalize,” says Lieve. “That speed was essential for meeting our deadlines.”
Thanks to Learnosity’s easy-to-use authoring interface, an editorial team of nine created 8,400 activities with multiple items for the Kadet math program within a year. These exercises combined novel question types with more flexible scoring and granular reporting, allowing teachers to track student progress more effectively. Kabas and Polpo now deliver a wider range of math exercises to more than 140,000 active students.
Building on that success, Die Keure turned to its next major goal: Kai, an AI-powered co-teacher that creates individual learning paths. By using Learnosity to efficiently create and manage extensive digital assessments, Die Keure can provide Kai with the structured content it needs to deliver personalized exercises to students.
Going forward, Die Keure is also keeping an eye on Learnosity’s own AI roadmap—particularly its AI-generated instructional resources for math assessments.
“Giving feedback and hints is necessary when making math exercises,” says Lieve. “The fact that the Learnosity authoring tool provides the functionality to enhance our exercises with those steps manually is already an asset, but we’re looking forward to the upcoming Math AI features.”
Lieve adds, “Although we haven’t made use of Learnosity’s existing AI features yet, it’s a relief that those features are already there at our disposal when the need arrives. Because it’s clear that that time is near.”
About Die Keure
Die Keure is a Flemish educational publisher with a rich history that has evolved into a leading player in the industry. Through their learning platforms Kabas and Polpo, Die Keure embraces the endless possibilities of digital learning—because education remains just as important in today’s world as ever.
