Content Development

Our team has created more than 500,000 academic learning objects for various customers. Competentum is a leading Russian educational content provider that is creating Math and Science learning objects and online problems for Russian Ministry of education.

Separate teams are dedicated and trained to work with leading US e-Learning platforms:

Our experience shows that clients recognize the following most important aspects of our content creation services:

• subject matter expertise
• quality
• cost
• speed of production
• project management

Depending on pedagogical and content complexity we apply from 1 to 5 content development stages and from 1 to 7 quality assurance stages. Content development stages may include:

Needs assessment.

Establishing learning objectives.

Media selection.

Storyboarding of learning content.

Creating appropriate learning scenarios.

The quality assurance stages may include:

• Code quality testing
• Style guide and/or specific e-Learning standards compliance testing
• Algorithms check
• Subject matter testing
• Proofreading/Copyediting
• Automated testing
• Class testing ("bounty haunting" – using our relationships with leading Russian universities. Competentum is able to set up a class in which real students will be working with content and searching for mistakes)

Software Development

Competentum offers a variety of services covering the entire software development process from the early stages of project planning to the technical support.

Consulting services at early stages of project planning

Technical specifications development

We guarantee:

• Solid project management
  All of our project managers have a minimum of 3 years experience in managing outsourcing projects. They are ready to visit our clients' offices and work on-site if such a development is in the clients' interest.
• Thorough testing and debugging.
  Our in-house testing team consists of highly qualified QA engineers. All program modules produced within the company pass our constantly improving QA process.
• Consistent on-time delivery.
  Unique development process allows us to meet and often exceed our client's quality and schedule requirements.
• Continuous support and maintenance.
  We hold ourselves responsible for all the projects that were ever developed by Competentum Group. Consequently, our company provides free project support and maintenance even after the client has accepted the project. Moreover, we are always ready to upgrade or add new features to the completed projects.
• Competitive cost of development
  Please contact us for specific prices.

Quality Assurance

Competentum Group offers a variety of quality assurance services and testing of educational software.

We test:

• Distance/network learning systems
• Distance/network testing systems
• Educational CDs
• Multimedia components
• E-Learning content
• Custom software

We offer integrate testing of educational products, including both functioning requirements testing and content editorial quality assurance. For each project we create a testing plan, select appropriate employees, hardware, and software. The testing process is constantly monitored by means of full reports for both successful and unsuccessful tests and detailed bug lists. After the bugs are fixed, we carry out a second round of testing to approve the fixes. In big projects we implement full and regressive testing which allows the QA to be real-time and cost-effective.

We offer the following QA services:

• QA/Testing Analysis and Plan Development (free if combined with other services)
• Editorial QA
  • Subject matter verification
  • Taking tests, verifying system's reaction
• Application/Web Testing
  • Meeting specification requirements
  • Meeting hardware and software requirements
  • Convenience of graphics user interface (GUI)
  • Manual testing of all multimedia components' accessibility and functionality (text, pictures, audio, video, Flash, Java)
  • Performance testing
  • Load testing
  • Antiviral testing
• Cross Platform compatibility testing
  • All versions of Windows
  • MacOS, MacOS X
  • UNIX/Linux
• Client-Server Testing
• Localization testing