Kenya: Oxford University press launches revision app for primary and secondary schools

Oxford University Press East Africa has unveiled a new educational IT tool, Exampoa, which is an interactive learning and revision tool for Kenyan school pupils to use on phones and tablets, and then compare scores.

The launch is timely as it comes at a time when the country is moving to advance education through multiple ICT platforms including the Digischool initiative, where the government has set aside some Sh1.6bn to provide laptops for schools, which will see Kenya join countries such as Rwanda, which have successfully implanted one laptop per child into its school curriculum and is currently working on internet connectivity in order to see the program take full effect.

«The drive to make Kenya an ICT-enabled nation, and to drive forwards digital education, requires engaging content and first class educational materials on every kind of ICT platform, which has been a key factor in driving the development of this new tool,» said James Ogolla, Sales and Marketing Manager Director at OUP EA.

The Android-based ExamPoa app, which works on Android 4.2, is initially offering English and Science for the primary level for classes 7 and 8, and English, History and Biology for the secondary level form form 3 and form 4 and is downloadable from the Safaricom App store.

«Exampoa is a revision tool for pupils as they prepare for the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) and Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE),» said Rosemary Kabura, marketing co-ordinator at Oxford University Press. «We are therefore targeting class seven and eight for primary level and forms three and four students in our first phase roll out.»

The good thing about the app is that it offers two affordable bundles each costing Kshs 60 and one either gets the Quiz Bundle: 50 questions, answers and notes or the Exam Bundle: 50 questions and answers. The quizzes can then be completed online or offline and the content is available for six months.