I created Tutorised to solve a practical problem I faced as a special education teacher. I assessed students’ learning difficulties using pen-and-paper tests, spending hours manually checking answers. The data was fragmented across schools and stored in paper form, making it nearly impossible to combine and compare results across students, classes, schools, and municipalities. In addition, inconsistent administration reduced objectivity.
While I could assess individual students’ skill levels, identifying patterns across classes, schools, and municipalities was not done in practice. Bringing this information together would also have raised challenges in terms of secure and responsible data handling. Overall, the process was resource-intensive, difficult to manage at a system level, and heavily paper-based, making it inefficient and environmentally unsustainable.
I realised there was a clear opportunity to support teachers and education providers in making more data-driven decisions. There had to be a more efficient and reliable way to identify learning gaps and make results available immediately.
We therefore developed Tutorised to digitise and automate the assessment of students’ core skills. Students complete tasks online, and their performance is automatically scored and analysed, making results immediately available. This makes it possible to assess large numbers of students and generate clear insights into skill levels from the individual to the municipal level.
In practice, students complete digital tasks on a device, after which the system automatically analyses results and generates reports at the individual, class, school, and system levels. The tasks can be repeated over time, making it possible to track how skills develop.
Teachers use this information to identify learning gaps, group students, and adapt instruction. Students then receive targeted support based on their needs.
School leaders and municipalities use aggregated data to guide resource allocation and planning. Guardians can see where their child’s skills lie compared to national averages, helping them support learning at home.
In addition, Tutorised includes learning games that target specific skill gaps identified in the assessments. These are part of the same ecosystem, reinforcing learning while enabling ongoing monitoring of progress.
Tutorised has expanded from primary schools to broader K–12 use, including upper secondary education, and to adult and pre-primary assessments. It has scaled through school- and municipal-level adoption and into international markets, including the Middle East and Asia. This growth has been driven by demonstrated impact at the student, school, and municipal levels. To date, Tutorised has delivered over one million individual assessments and supports more than 50,000 students annually.
Over time, we expanded Tutorised by adding new assessment areas, including writing, arithmetic, and numeracy, followed by language proficiency and text dictation tasks. We later extended the system to measure executive functions, providing a more comprehensive view of each learner’s abilities.
As teachers began asking how to act on the results, we expanded beyond assessment to include targeted learning games. These support the development of reading, language, and mathematics skills, allowing Tutorised to move from measurement to targeted intervention.
We are developing methods to measure students’ spoken language skills, particularly to support the growing population of ESL learners. We have also begun developing data analysis methods using machine learning to better understand learning patterns and individual learning trajectories at scale. In parallel, our team has grown from two to eight members.
You can request a free trial at www.tutorised.com. Alternatively, you can contact us at info@tutorised.com to request access or a brief introduction to the service.
