Hey, my name is Ryan and I am creating Investant Academy.
When I was in school, the teachers I appreciated the most were the ones who engaged with me at an individual level. It was rewarding and unexpected when a teacher clearly put thought and effort into what I needed, what Ryan needed. Today I look back and think about the extra blood, sweat, and tears that goes into understanding every individual student's strengths and weaknesses and addressing them personally.
If we look at a handful of students who might be underperforming in Spanish class, "John" might be having issues with past tense verbs while "Julia" struggles with the future tense. "Sarah" might lack a wide vocabulary while "Eric" has trouble with spelling. When it comes time for review before an exam, a teacher might be able to create personalized plans for each of these students, but how does that scale across 5 or 6 full classrooms with multiple grade levels and parts of the curriculum? Most teachers want to do this, but can't. It's not that they don't care but that there simply aren't enough hours in the day.
My vision is to deliver teachers a modern solution for their curriculum and classroom management. From creating lessons, quizzes, and assignments to delivering this curriculum to students to receiving automated analytics about student and class performance, Investant Academy will help every step of the way.
Giving Teachers Superpowers
I aim to give superpowers to all teachers, from content creation for lessons and assignments to understanding individual student needs and being able to address them in real time. Our lesson module creation tool allows teachers to create both lessons and quiz assessments in a familiar slide-based editor. I will be adding AI auto-generation to this tool to save time by automatically creating lesson and quiz slides. In addition, completed lesson modules will be able to be made public for any other teacher on Investant to browse a library of high quality content.
Investant Academy will provide multiple ways to deliver this content, including:
- A sleek presentation tool that acts as an interactive slideshow allowing question slides to be weaved into content slides during a live-classroom setting
- Directly assign content to students who can join the online classroom and complete their assignments
- Create a Live Quiz where students in class can join and compete to answer questions in real time
- Send your content to Investant Island, our custom game where we inject your questions seamlessly into the game while students play
As students answer questions and complete your content, you can see how they are doing in real time. We capture student responses and provide automated analytics to teachers about the performance of individual students, classrooms, and the performance of the curriculum itself! I will also be adding support for free response question types with the ability to have AI auto-grade student responses and send it to their teacher for review.
Students have their own dashboard where they can see their progress, upcoming assignments, and engage with the content their teacher has prepared for them.
Why Investant Academy?
I watched my favorite teachers stay up late grading papers, and I watched them light up when they actually got to teach. I remember my teacher calling me out of class one day to hand me a website written down on a piece of paper because he and I had connected about philosophy and he wanted to share more with me. To feel seen and cared for at an individual level by your teacher like that is an extraordinary moment. That's what I'm building towards.
With an online platform like Investant, we can build a network of teachers who can contribute to a public library of high quality class content. Through Investant Academy, we can deliver automated tools at scale to any teacher who wants to do more for their students and reclaim time outside of the classroom.
Doing What's Right
If I can give teachers back even a few hours a week to actually teach instead of drowning in admin work, that's worth it.
Learn more About Us and feel free to reach out anytime by submitting our Contact Us form or email me directly at ryan@investant.net.
