A team of Caribbean technology professionals is seeking to reinvent education in the region by providing school administrators and students with a seamless, integrated experience.

According to the developers, their platform, SmartTerm, will remove the need for paper, manual systems and storage by securely storing and backing up data to a cloud system.

It is backed by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and has four main features: e-Learning and mobile learning; account management; customised branding and school web page hosting; and analytics and online reports.

Teachers can share assignments, upload syllabi, create discussion boards and teach via video conferencing, while students can retrieve information, receive updates and complete assignments online.

SmartTerm can also track all student, teacher and administrator accounts which include information on immunisations, account balances, attendance, discipline, grades, events, and notifications.

“SmartTerm was created to increase efficiency in schools, getting the Caribbean region as a whole more involved with technology and lessening the manual burden of the administrative side of the education sector,” one team member explained.

The platform, a brainchild of Jamaicans Shamir Saddler and Stuart Crooks, has been gaining traction across the region as many schools seek to explore SmartTerm’s streamlined efficiency, the developers say.

However, they lament the unavailability of Internet access in the Caribbean as they believe it might pose a challenge to them and, by extension, schools.

Other members of the SmartTerm team include Jamaicans Jomo Haldane and Sean Wilkinson and Trinidadian Jayme Hoyte.

Check out SmartTerm at: smarttermlms.com