{"id":48658,"date":"2013-06-11T10:06:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T06:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=48658"},"modified":"2014-02-21T12:02:33","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T08:02:33","slug":"crowdmark-raises-600k-and-vows-to-save-teacher-marking-time","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/crowdmark-raises-600k-and-vows-to-save-teacher-marking-time","title":{"rendered":"Crowdmark Raises $600K and Vows to Save Teacher Marking Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; margin: 15px;\" src=\"http:\/\/t0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQcIBeELLgTvkSmct2MsYR05-F0lmVcL1KZ-X3PD2C1W3sGLIj8wQ\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/>Canadian education technology startup <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crowdmark.com\" target=\"_blank\">Crowdmark<\/a> announced today that they have raised $600,000 in seed funding through the University of Toronto Early-Stage Technology (UTEST) program, MaRS Innovation and U of T&#8217;s Connaught Fund, among others.<\/p>\n<p><!-- pagebreak --><\/p>\n<p>Crowdmark is positioned to save cash-strapped Departments of Education millions by making massive-scale testing more efficient.<\/p>\n<p>The Crowdmark assessment interface, informed by decades of teaching experience and research by company co-founders James Colliander and Martin Mu&ntilde;oz at the University of Toronto, streamlines the complicated and time-consuming grading workflow for teachers.<\/p>\n<p>Crowdmark archives student work and all grading feedback into individual digital portfolios that students and parents may access any time online and via mobile devices.<\/p>\n<p>Through two separate pilot projects, Crowdmark has achieved proof-of-concept as a novel and scalable solution to the problem of assessment blockage that eats into already limited resources in education systems worldwide. &#8220;Collectively, teachers spend more than two billion hours per year grading student work, by hand. Administering EQAO costs the Ontario government $33 million every year,&#8221; says Colliander, CEO. &#8220;Crowdmark cuts the time teachers spend scoring and empowers them to spend more time actually responding to their students. We think this is time well spent.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian education technology startup Crowdmark announced today that they have raised $600,000 in seed funding through the University of Toronto Early-Stage Technology (UTEST) program, MaRS Innovation and U of T&#8217;s Connaught Fund, among others. Crowdmark is positioned to save cash-strapped Departments of Education millions by making massive-scale testing more efficient. The Crowdmark assessment interface, informed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54503,"featured_media":48660,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-48658","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/48658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/54503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/48658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48658"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=48658"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=48658"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=48658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}