COVID-19, higher education and shifting the learning experience
The focus and importance being given to education over the last ten months is changing in many parts of the…
We are a technological and innovative company, with extensive experience in the education sector and also at the forefront of new trends in society. We have an immense capacity to adapt and we are constantly evolving with the changes that our digital society requires. Our projects range from the educational sector, to logistics & transport, geolocation, blockchain or the management of corporate devices.
Our solutions are developed for the main operating systems: iOS (Apple), Windows, Chrome OS, Android and different versions of Linux.
We provide technical assistance to our customers and keep our developments up to date for the duration of the product license, depending on the modality contracted.
We provide training on our products for our channel or final customer, according to the project definition. Our training actions can be carried out both online or in-person.
Our extensive experience enables us to provide consulting services in ICT, especially in everything related to the education sector.
We have our own brand products, such as midess, Lugus, phoneKid and Escudo Web, which are registered in Europe and other countries such as the USA and China. We also have other products for the educational sector such as Learning Everywhere, onTAB and onCAP. We have also developed other solutions such as MDMBusiness for the corporate market.
We have registered two programs in the intellectual property registry that we integrate into most of our educational solutions: “Modes of use” and “Please Listen”.
Since 2012 we have developed software and created brands for third party products, which have been marketed in the education sector as white label, some examples have been: Conecta Seguro for the Government of Extremadura, Onbook for Crambo S.A., iRiS for the Edelvives Group, Geniora Phone for PT Multitech and Blabloo for MoviGO. Also, for the logistics and transport sector, we have created the Cabitruck platform for the company´s Truck Trace S.L. We have also developed a patent for the marketing sector and product authenticity based on Blockchain technology..
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“The Edelvives Group, aiming to bring closer to educational institutions a teaching system that is capable of covering all the requirements that have arisen this new age, has developed +Edelvives, a project that encompasses all the services necessary to obtain the desired results: success in the classroom”, and we have developed iRiS for them, the white label of our Chromebook product, Lugus.
Conecta Seguro, is an application developed from the Internet Filter Escudo Web and adapted for the Government of Extremadura, which from a web page interface, allows parents to define the content that can viewed by their children, know their browsing history, establish a period for usage or track the location of a device.
The application consists of a control console and an application that is installed on the student’s system. Parents can access the console by typing a web address in the address bar of a browser and entering their hopscotch username and password, which is the educational platform for the Extremadura region.
The Mobile Digital Classroom in Nicaragua is success story reference of our technology used in remote locations where there is no or very little Internet connectivity.
OnBook is a tablet that adapts to all models of digital education, helping to solve the problems that schools face when they decide to use tablets in the classroom. Known as One to One (digital backpack), as used by hundreds of schools in Spain and Portugal, One to X (for group or collaborative work), or Mobile Classroom as implemented in Nicaragua and Computer Classroom are some examples. OnBook is the solution that guarantees security in the school environment for both students as well as teachers, and it is also a responsible environment at home when using the digital backpack model. Outside of school hours, the student can use the tablet with the limitations established by the parents. While during school hours, the student uses the tablet with the limitations set by the school.
Manufactured for the educational environment, with eight powerful tools integrated into the device from the factory, guarantees a better and more optimal operation of the tablet.
At present, we are working with an educational group with more than 11,000 pupils and 800 professionals fully committed to teaching and understanding their profession as the best way to help others. On its way to a completely digital education, the schools rely on the help of midess, our product developed as a security complement for schools that is based on Microsoft Education.
PT Multitech is an Indonesian company that has marketed phoneKid for the Asian market, under the brand Geniora Phone. It also stands out for its creation of audiovisual educational content, and has created an entertaining way of learning, suiting today’s society and combined with the phone making “Education on the Go” a reality.
Below, you can find details of all the applications developed by our company for ourselves and for some of our customers and their private labels.
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Rights | Access, rectification, deletion/cancellation and portability of your data, and the limitation or opposition to their processing, as well as the right to withdraw consent under the RGPD, as explained in the additional information. |
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Escudo Web Software S.L., within the framework of the ICEX Next Export Initiation Programme, has been supported by ICEX and co-financed by the European FEDER fund. The purpose of this support is to contribute to the international development of the company and its environment.
Escudo Web Software S.L. has been a beneficiary of the European Regional Development Fund whose objective is to promote research, technological development and innovation. Thanks to this it has been able to incorporate innovation into its business organisation by implementing an information management system in accordance with the UNE in ISO 27001 and ENS for projects and specifically for the product line MIDESS. This took place throughout 2018 and has been supported by the InnoCameras programme of the Toledo Chamber of Commerce.
Escudo Web Software S.L. has participated in Grouped Activities for International Promotion, sponsored by IPEX, whose purpose is to promote the internationalisation of regional productive businesses, contributing to an increased presence in the main international markets.
In order to achieve this objective, it has received financial support from the Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha, through IPEX, as well as the co-financing from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) within the framework of the 2014-2020 operational programme, OT3. This can help achieve a more competitive business fabric, having contributed to the economic growth of the company, of Castilla-La Mancha and of Spain as a whole.
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