Dugga helps Teachers in Europe with the sudden influx of Ukrainian students who can take tests in their local language

Swedish Edtech company Dugga Assessment is used by schools in over 130 countries for all types of tests and exams. Thanks to Dugga’s smart features that are research-based, teachers can even assess foreign students in their local language with Dugga’s in-built translation feature in Dugga’s platform.

Free licenses for teachers in Europe dealing with the current situation
This feature is especially valuable for teachers in European countries who are dealing with the sudden influx of Ukrainian students. For the Ukrainian students it means that language should not be an initial problem to get started in a foreign school. That’s why Dugga supports all teachers in Europe with free licenses to help them deal with the sudden influx of Ukrainian.

Quick action thanks to great team spirit and close connections with Ukraine
Knowledge speaks many languages. Swedish Edtech company Dugga has clearly understood this. The company has always had close connections with Ukraine through its team of developers based in Kyiv. Through the initiative of Dugga’s team, the Dugga platform was quickly translated into Ukrainian. Thanks to this team effort, Dugga’s platform supports now also the Ukrainian language for teachers, students and admins.

“Dugga always strives to provide equal learning opportunities for everyone, and to me as a woman in tech, equality and inclusiveness are the values that I personally share and can relate to. Being a Ukrainian myself, it was important to take immediate action to help Ukrainian children to proceed with their studies. Our development teams were eager to add the Ukrainian language. This is a crucial step to include teachers and students from Ukraine.”, says Anastasiia Bovsunovska, Team Lead Developer at Dugga.

“This initiative of our members shows true team spirit and passion behind the cause to help both teachers and Ukrainian students during these challenging times. We are very proud of our team!”, say Claudia Rademaker and Patrik Nilsson, Co-founders of Dugga.

Dutch Football Academy uses Dugga

Today was the first time SkillmovesAcademy trainers walked around with their new jackets with the Dugga logotype! Dugga is happy to announce this new collaboration which also includes practical aspects for the players in using Dugga as an assessment platform for physical education and injury prevention. Head coach Bayram Sahin explains.

Hello Bayram, how do you use Dugga at the SkillmovesAcademy?
– We are using Dugga and our plan is to implement this into the training system, for example we are planning to start with implementing it into the private training sessions. This way we can give more attention to the kids not only on the pitch but also off the pitch.

What difference did it make compared to before you started using Dugga?
– Dugga made our football academy look more special than any other academy.

How was the response among the kids and parents?
– We got many positive reactions regarding this idea and we hope it will be successful for the coming years. We are very hopeful.

Do you use Dugga for assessment of theoretical questions connected to health and injury prevention in the team?
– Yes, we did in the Pilot. For the older kids 13-17 years of age this is a must because they need to think more about their health and injury prevention than our younger kids.

How important are the many security features in Dugga. Securing fair and unbiased assessment of each individual’s knowledge?
Every child has the right to be judged only on basis of their knowledge and performance in the football field, and I fully support the way Dugga is implementing this into their grading system. Every child should have equal chances on and off the pitch! Dugga is the right digital tool for securing that ambition.

Dugga Teacher Award 2021

The jury has during their annual meeting selected the winners of the Teacher Award 2021 based on their excelling efforts in driving the digital transformation at their schools to increase quality and equality in learning and assessment.
Furthermore, they are inspiring and motivating other teachers to improve learning outcomes through digital assessment. The winners are representing different regions of the world, where each teacher hero has made an impact locally with their teaching and assessment of pupils and students. The winners of the Dugga Teacher Award is announced on the annual Nobel Day.

Dugga at Techarenan

Dugga has progressed in the Techarenan Challenge as one of the Nordic region’s 50 leading future companies in 2021.
As a future company, Dugga is one of the companies that are finalists at the Techarenan Challenge which takes place on 12 November in Stockholm. You can vote on your favourite company from Techarenan website from Thursday November 11.

Dugga at World EXPO in Dubai

Dugga is one of few selected companies taking part in AstroLabs and Startup Sweden’s entry-program for growth-stage female founders expanding their startups into the MENA market.

Swedish EdTech company Dugga is joined in the program by companies such as Dermanostic Hautarzt per App, Arosia (Hydrotec Solutions), Tawazon App and Untap Technologies representing Germany, India, Israel and Egypt.

Access MENA is an accelerator program by Startup Sweden and Tillväxtverket, The Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth, organized in partnership with the Embassy of Sweden in Abu Dhabi, Business Sweden, Svenska Institutet and their local partner, AstroLabs. At Expo2020, a meeting was held together with representatives from the Egyptian government, as well as at an event at the Swedish pavilion to draw attention to female entrepreneurs in tech. Dugga was represented at Expo2020 by co-founder Claudia Rademaker who also got the opportunity to share in a podcast about Dugga’s exciting journey from having customers in 2 to 120 countries within the past months.

Listen to the podcast

Daily News: Dugga in Dagens Nyheter on Nobel Day 2021

“Dear Nobel Laureates, Congratulations! You are our heroes as your achievements and discoveries have conferred great benefits for humankind. From how cells adapt to changes in levels of oxygen to our ability to fight global poverty. We, like you, have a vision of a better world and believe in improving society through knowledge, science and humanism.”

Dugga Teacher Award 2021

The jury has during their annual meeting selected the winners of the Teacher Award 2021 based on their excelling efforts in driving the digital transformation at their schools to increase quality and equality in learning and assessment.
Furthermore, they are inspiring and motivating other teachers to improve learning outcomes through digital assessment. The winners are representing different regions of the world, where each teacher hero has made an impact locally with their teaching and assessment of pupils and students. The winners of the Dugga Teacher Award is announced on the annual Nobel Day.

Dugga at Techarenan

Dugga has progressed in the Techarenan Challenge as one of the Nordic region’s 50 leading future companies in 2021.
As a future company, Dugga is one of the companies that are finalists at the Techarenan Challenge which takes place on 12 November in Stockholm. You can vote on your favourite company from Techarenan website from Thursday November 11.

Dugga at World EXPO in Dubai

Dugga is one of few selected companies taking part in AstroLabs and Startup Sweden’s entry-program for growth-stage female founders expanding their startups into the MENA market.

Swedish EdTech company Dugga is joined in the program by companies such as Dermanostic Hautarzt per App, Arosia (Hydrotec Solutions), Tawazon App and Untap Technologies representing Germany, India, Israel and Egypt.

Access MENA is an accelerator program by Startup Sweden and Tillväxtverket, The Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth, organized in partnership with the Embassy of Sweden in Abu Dhabi, Business Sweden, Svenska Institutet and their local partner, AstroLabs. At Expo2020, a meeting was held together with representatives from the Egyptian government, as well as at an event at the Swedish pavilion to draw attention to female entrepreneurs in tech. Dugga was represented at Expo2020 by co-founder Claudia Rademaker who also got the opportunity to share in a podcast about Dugga’s exciting journey from having customers in 2 to 120 countries within the past months.

Listen to the podcast

Dugga appoints new CEO and other C-Suite Stars for Global Expansion

Today, Dugga’s Board of Directors appoints Peter Wilcke as new CEO. He will join the company in September 2021. Dugga also appoints two other C-Suite stars to their talented team for the roles of Chief Sales Officer (CSO) and Chief Technical Officer (CTO).

With its growth from 2 to 120 countries, Dugga stands in front of a major transformation in the direction of global expansion. A transformation in which the company will need specialist expertise as well as a strong focus on rapid international market penetration. In this decisive phase for the company, Dugga is bringing on board Peter Wilcke as new CEO. Maria Gårdlund who joined Dugga as CEO in mid-February 2020 has chosen to move on.

Wilcke has a long and outstanding career in the world of education, previously holding positions as CEO at Norstedts Publishing Group, Sales Director at Liber Publishing, and most recently as Managing Director at the AcadeMedia owned NTI School which is Sweden’s leading digital school with 45 000 students. Furthermore, Wilcke has been involved in starting AcadeMedia EdTech, for which he received the Leader of Innovation Award 2020.

Chair of the Board, Bengt Jönsson says,” Dugga as a company is growing at a fast pace which demands specialist expertise. I am proud that we today can announce Peter Wilcke as new CEO for Dugga AB. Wilcke clearly comes out as a strong addition to our current highly qualified and strong performing top management team. Wilcke has extensive knowledge of the educational sector in digital transformation with a strong focus on business growth. This will be important for all the opportunities Dugga is facing at the moment. Being a previous Board member, he is well familiar with the company, and I believe that he will be a great cultural match for Dugga. I would like to thank Maria Gårdlund for a job well done and wish her all the best for the future”, concludes Jönsson.

Peter Wilcke on his appointment: “Dugga with its active founders, talented team, and a product that is in high demand globally, is a company with huge potential. The ideal foundations are in place for the upcoming transformation process. The digital assessment transition will lead to changes in the various markets and sectors, but they will be different and come at different speeds. I’m looking forward to driving Dugga’s mission further and to successfully build the company’s revenue and sustainable growth”.

Dugga appoints additional C-Suite Stars to its Team

Dugga also appoints a new CSO with extensive experience from international business development which will be a strong addition to the team. In addition to a new CEO and CSO, Dugga appoints a new CTO responsible for further building a world class product and tech-team.

With this new formation of C-Suite stars and its recently raised 5.1 million USD investment, Dugga is well equipped to expand globally.

Gateway Colleges start using award-winning Swedish digital assessment system Dugga

The Gateway Group has signed up with the Swedish Edtech company Dugga Assessment to incorporate Dugga – the state-of-the-art digital assessment platform to facilitate the school’s teaching and learning process.

Dugga is platform (PC, Mac, Chromebooks, iPads) and OS-independent and is used to conduct digital tests, exams, home exams, digital lessons, assignments and other types of assessment in education.

‘Dugga is pleased to work in partnership with Gateway, a leading educational organization in Sri Lanka‘, state Dr. Claudia Rademaker and Dr. Patrik Nilsson, founders and VPs of Dugga Assessment. Dugga is currently used in more than 100 countries and enables remote assessment for the continuation of education worldwide during school closures because of Covid-19. ‘Dugga offers an easy-to-use nevertheless advanced test platform and has for some time been the fastest growing test platform in digital examinations. Therefore, as a forward-thinking organisation that has adapted well to the virtual teaching and learning environment, it was only logical for Gateway to sign up with Dugga’ said Dr. Harsha Alles, the Chairman of Gateway.

The platform Dugga is the result of a research project initiated in 2012 in which researchers and developers participated from the Stockholm School of Economics and the Stockholm University, among others. Dugga was formally launched at Stanford University, California, USA in the fall of 2015 and since 2016, has been a partner with Microsoft working on several research and development projects in the field of digital examinations and how to employ artificial intelligence to support the examination process.

Built in Microsoft Azure with features such as Immersive Reader, Dugga is making a significant impact on Office 365 and Microsoft Teams activations, while helping to incorporate important services such as plagiarism analysis and proctoring. “From a set of more than 3,300 submitted nominations from more than 100 countries worldwide, it was an honour for us to be recognized as the Microsoft Education Partner of the Year 2020”, adds Maria Gårdlund, CEO of Dugga. “As the only Microsoft Showcase School in Sri Lanka and with the recent recognition from Sri Lanka Telecom to be an EdTech Specialist School, this tie up will strengthen us further in our forward march in embracing the best of educational technology for our pupils”, says Surani Maithripala, Team Leader, Change Management of the Gateway Group.

Gateway Colleges website: http://www.gatewaycollege.lk/

Dugga makes exams possible in Microsoft Teams

The Swedish edtech company Dugga announces today its integration in Microsoft Teams. As online learning and assessment continues to drive traditional learning disruption in positive ways, the demand for Dugga delivering digital assessment solutions for teachers increases.The Dugga integration enables teachers to create all types of exams and assignments within Teams. Moreover, with Dugga in Teams teachers can now schedule exams ahead of time, collaborate with colleagues, publish results and give valuable feedback both individually and to the entire class.

In the past few years, the need for how we conduct lessons and assess knowledge in schools has changed tremendously. From paper and pen to solutions that are truly integrated and accessible in the schools’ digital eco-system. This has led to an increasing demand among teachers to conduct all types of online lessons and assessments. Microsoft and Dugga have taken this to heart and Microsoft Teams can now offer all types of assessments via the Dugga app.

Dugga makes its platform available to teachers to enable Remote learning and assessment due to the Corona Virus

Many schools and teachers are already using Dugga’s assessment platform today. Considering the current circumstances with the corona virus (COVID-19), Dugga now opens temporary access to its platform to all teachers, schools and universities in order to enable remote learning with different types of assignments, lessons and tests.

Dugga enables remote learning

Dugga’s assessment platform allows teachers to  create, schedule and conduct lessons, exams and assignments online. In a simple way, teachers can put together lessons for remote learning including knowledge assessment for their students and thereby provide instructions, individual/group feedback, upload movies, audio files, pictures, links and other classroom material.

With Immersive Reader in Dugga schools can provide equal opportunities to learn with digital assessment. Both for learning in the classroom and online!

Dugga is the leading assessment platform that helps schools improve quality in learning for each individual by using technology for personalized learning. With Immersive Reader as an available feature in Dugga, students can have visual, grammatical and verbal reading support of instructions and questions in an exam. Immersive Reader has several options to increase readability of content such as text preferences, grammar options and reading preferences. All the possibilities and functions that are built-in to the Immersive Reader is also available to Dugga users. Empower your pupils with Immersive Reader in Dugga!

Dugga’s team is committed to ensure accessibility for all students. With Immersive Reader implemented, Dugga is able to provide equal opportunities with all types of assessment and online learning.