Development of manaba Functionality and Integration with Educational Content

「Based on this policy, we released approximately 50 new functions by the end of March 2026 through a project aimed at ensuring product-market fit. This established a support framework to advance the educational activities set out by universities and improve the “quality of learning” between faculty and students. Going forward, we will work toward compliance with educational information security policies and strengthen non-functional aspects to provide a more secure and reliable learning environment. As a new challenge for medium- to long-term growth, we are actively conducting joint research on behavioral analysis using students’ learning histories and event-log data. Centered on these findings, we aim to develop by the end of the fiscal year ending March 2027 a student-support solution directly addressing universities’ management challenges by integrating AI applications and consulting.」

「We believe the education support service “manaba” needs to provide the services required to realize the assurance of the quality of education and university IR, and are undertaking large-scale service development over the 2-year period from the fiscal year ending March 2025 through the fiscal year ending March 2027. During the interim period of the fiscal year ending March 2026, we newly released the first and second service offerings.」

「We believe the education support service “manaba” needs to provide the services required to realize the assurance of the quality of education and university IR, and during the fiscal year ending March 2025 we are focusing on the following 3 initiatives. The first is strengthening integration with various systems to respond to the changing learning environment. We are developing services compatible with LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability), an industry standard in education. The second is extracting logs for analyzing learning activities. We are preparing to extract the various learning log data accumulated in “manaba” so that universities can use it for university IR (Institutional Research). The third is providing functions that encourage students to engage actively in learning. We will develop functions to promote students’ active activities, known as active learning.」

「For the education support service “manaba,” during the fiscal year ending March 2024 we pursued 3 initiatives to realize the assurance of the quality of education and university IR. The first was strengthening integration with various systems to respond to the changing learning environment. Specifically, we developed services compatible with LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability), an industry standard in education, and advanced integration with the similarity-checking tool “Turnitin” and the web-conferencing service “Zoom,” among others. The second was extracting logs for analyzing learning activities. The third was providing functions that encourage students to engage actively in learning.」

「During the fiscal year ending March 2024, we are focusing on the following 3 initiatives. The first is strengthening integration with various systems to respond to the changing learning environment. The second is extracting logs for analyzing learning activities. The third is providing functions that encourage students to engage actively in learning. We will develop functions to promote students’ active activities, known as active learning. As one example of stronger system integration, we are advancing API integration with Turnitin Originality / Similarity, a similarity-checking tool for student reports.」

「During the fiscal year ending March 2024, we are focusing on the following 3 initiatives. The first is strengthening integration with various systems to respond to the changing learning environment. The second is extracting logs for analyzing learning activities. The third is providing functions that encourage students to engage actively in learning. We will develop functions to promote students’ active activities, known as active learning.」

「We began providing expanded portfolio functions for accumulating and visualizing learning outcomes in April 2023. We also expanded the attendance management service, an alternative to respon, to enable attendance information to be integrated with academic administration systems.」

「During the current fiscal year, we are making proposals to universities centered on attendance management and assurance of the quality of education. Respon, our attendance and real-time survey service provided to universities, is expected to generate lower sales in part because the sales agency agreement between us and 株式会社レスポン, the service provider, will end at the end of March 2023. We plan to offset the decline by proposing migration to the attendance management function we developed in 2022. We believe the function is differentiated by its daily integration with universities’ academic administration systems, enabling universities to provide appropriate follow-up based on students’ attendance and use the data for analysis as learning activity logs. For the portfolio function for assuring the quality of education, we are preparing for introduction at multiple universities, including Dokkyo University, from April 2023.」

「We began providing the attendance management function in April 2022. We are developing additional functions and making proposals to universities, and 2 universities began using the function in the first half of the fiscal year ending March 2023.」

「The attendance management function began being used at some universities in April 2022. We will continue developing additional functions to help universities assure the quality of education.」

「We expanded portfolio functions addressing efforts to assure the quality of education and began providing a pilot version to universities. We will collect examples of how universities use the functions and apply them to further enhancements. We also began providing the attendance management function in April 2022.」

「During the third quarter, we have been developing functions and conducting proposal activities to realize the “assurance of the quality of education” required of universities by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The first initiative is to expand portfolio functions addressing efforts to assure the quality of education. During the third quarter, we provided a pilot version to 2 universities and are working toward recording sales in the fiscal year ending March 2023. The second initiative is an attendance management function. We are conducting proposal activities with universities with a view to beginning use in April 2022.」

「The first initiative is to expand portfolio functions addressing efforts to assure the quality of education. Specifically, we will provide functions for assessing achievement of the diploma policy, managing students’ goals themselves, registering the results of off-campus assessment tests and qualifications earned in portfolios, and visualizing four years of learning outcomes required for the assurance of the quality of education in portfolios. We will begin providing a pilot version of these functions to multiple universities in November 2021. We aim to introduce them at 50 universities by 2025. The second initiative is an attendance management function.」

「“manaba” not only supports course administration but also serves as a communication tool connecting universities and students, faculty and students, and students with one another. We will continue developing it for universities and other higher education institutions as a service supporting students’ learning and securing learning opportunities for each student, thereby supporting university operations as digitalization advances.」

「For the fiscal year ending March 2021, we will develop services to aggregate and analyze learning activity logs needed to support the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s efforts to assure the quality of education, as well as services related to university IR through the use of ICT in education. By meeting this demand, we will further enhance the added value of “manaba.”」

「During the third quarter, one prefectural board of education adopted “manaba.” As the LMS (Learning Management System) used across all public high schools in the prefecture, we will provide infrastructure supporting the digitalization of education, including everyday classes and access to teaching materials from home. For universities and other higher education institutions, we will continue developing manaba as a service supporting university operations as digitalization advances, including not only efforts to support remote classes but also online examinations and the provision of enhanced learning opportunities for students continuing to take remote classes.」

「We recognize that university operations face many challenges beyond efforts to support remote classes, including ensuring learning opportunities suited to each student’s circumstances. We will continue to further promote the expansion of services sought by universities.」

「We view efforts to support remote classes as an ongoing challenge and will continue expanding the services universities require. In response to the increase in concurrent users of “manaba,” we also expanded server and other facilities during the first quarter to ensure stable service. We are monitoring service usage and plan to make further capital investments as needed.」

「For the educational support service manaba, the Company will continue developing services that incorporate the needs of educational institutions and contribute to innovation that improves the quality of education. As more universities adopt remote classes, the Company is considering expanding the service and reinforcing facilities such as servers to meet new demand, including growth in the number of simultaneous users of manaba.」

「The Company will continue developing services that incorporate the needs of educational institutions and contribute to innovation that improves the quality of education. At the same time, it will seek to work with many companies that own educational content so that the content can be used through manaba, further enhancing manaba's added value.」

「Use cases for manaba are becoming more diverse, extending beyond use by faculty and students inside and outside the classroom to distribution of announcements from universities, attendance management and surveys conducted as part of educational reform.」

「Adoption is also increasing for respon, a massively multiplayer online survey application, and the Course Survey option, which enables students to evaluate their classes.」

「manaba also offers a Course Survey option that enables students to evaluate their classes, and is used by 25 universities, including Hitotsubashi University, the University of Tsukuba, Jissen Women's University and Toyo University. The number of adopting universities is increasing because the option reduces workloads and costs compared with conventional paper-based surveys and enables timely feedback.」

「manaba also offers a Course Survey option that enables students to evaluate their classes, and is used by 19 universities, including Hitotsubashi University, the University of Tsukuba, Jissen Women's University and Toyo University. The number of adopting universities is increasing because the option reduces workloads and costs compared with conventional paper-based surveys and enables timely feedback.」

「The Company will continue developing services that incorporate the needs of educational institutions and contribute to innovation that improves the quality of education. At the same time, it will seek to work with many companies that own educational content so that the content can be used through manaba, further enhancing manaba's added value.」

「The rollout is also progressing for a function that enables universities to conduct through manaba the course evaluation surveys requested by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology as part of efforts to improve the quality of teaching.」

「The rollout is progressing for a function that enables universities to conduct course evaluation surveys through manaba, as requested by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology as part of efforts to improve the quality of teaching. As of the end of June 2016, the function was being used by 11 universities.」

「The Company will continue developing services that incorporate the needs of educational institutions and contribute to innovation that improves the quality of education. At the same time, it will seek to work with many companies that own educational content so that the content can be used through manaba, further enhancing manaba's added value.」