EdTechLab
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UK education technology company

We engineer education technology that makes ambitious ideas usable.

Universities, researchers and education teams work with EdTechLab to turn learning, research and institutional challenges into production-ready platforms. We also build and run our own: intle and EngagedLab have more than 100,000 users.

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Our clients include
UWE Bristol
among our clients: a platform for its Business School
Platform users
100,000+
users across intle and EngagedLab
Live platforms
4 platforms
built by us, live in production
Automated tests
12,000+
automated tests across them
finreadylab.org · Coffee Shop scenario
WorkReady Finance learner screen: a coffee-shop business scenario asking what the business should buy, with a live money-so-far panel showing cash, repayments and risk.
WorkReady Finance on a phone: start learning with no login, free, five minutes per scenario.
Client work: UWE Bristol Our platform: intle

Clients and platforms in production

Trusted by

UWE Bristol, University of the West of England

Our clients include
UWE Bristol Business School

Live platforms you can visit

Selected work

From our clients: work running in production.

All work and case studies
From our clients UWE Bristol · HEIF-funded

WorkReady Finance: financial confidence, built from real decisions.

UWE Bristol's Accounting & Finance team had the expertise and the funding to help jobseekers, returners and adult learners build practical money skills. EdTechLab designed, engineered and hosts the platform that puts that expertise in people's hands.

  • Scenario games learners play on a phone, with no account needed
  • Authoring tools for the UWE academics who lead each module and own its content
  • A live console for the facilitators who run community workshops
  • In production since June 2026, under twelve weeks after the first commit
Explore the case study Visit finreadylab.org (opens in a new tab)
finreadylab.org · Ledger Lab
Ledger Lab case game in WorkReady Finance: 'The Margin Mystery' case file, with chapters on cost behaviour, contribution, break-even and cash flow.
WorkReady Finance mobile start screen showing four learning modules and sixteen real-world topics.
Learning modules
4
Real-world topics
16
Pilot workshops
July 2026

How EdTechLab works

We build for institutions, and we build our own platforms.

Each side makes the other better. Running our own platforms at scale forces the engineering discipline institutional projects need. Institutional problems show us what our platforms should do next.

For institutions

Bespoke platforms, interventions and learning products

When a university team, researcher or education organisation needs something that does not exist off the shelf, we design, build, host and support it, and the institution keeps ownership where that is what it needs.

  • From our clients: WorkReady Finance for UWE Bristol Business School
  • Research and pilot platforms with consent, measures and clean data
  • Interactive learning built around your curriculum and learners
See our client work
Our platforms

Products we design, engineer and operate ourselves

intle, EngagedLab and interacty help educators create interactive learning and deliver it through the LMS they already use. intle and EngagedLab have more than 100,000 users.

  • AI-assisted authoring with human review built in
  • SCORM 1.2 and 2004 packaging, hosted delivery and live sessions
  • Learning analytics with privacy thresholds by design
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Our platforms

Platforms we build, run and keep improving.

intle and EngagedLab have more than 100,000 users. Operating our own products means we own the whole lifecycle: architecture, AI governance, standards conformance, accessibility, releases and support.

100,000+

users across intle and EngagedLab

124/124

SCORM Cloud conformance checks passed by intle packages, SCORM 1.2 and 2004

Platform Live · intle.co.uk

intle: describe it, review the plan, deliver it anywhere.

Educators describe what they want to teach or upload their material. intle proposes a plan they review before anything is generated, then produces interactive learning for a hosted link, a live session or a SCORM package for their LMS.

Human plan review 23 section types Live sessions and QR join Item analysis EU-hosted
intle · Plan review
intle plan-review workspace listing fourteen planned sections of a module, each marked ready, with audience and scenario settings in a side panel.
Platform Live · engagedlab.co.uk

EngagedLab: from source material to an interactive lab.

Lecturers bring the PDFs, slides and notes they already teach from. EngagedLab turns them into structured labs with levelled objectives, practice, hints and a tutor that nudges rather than answers, then reports what learners actually mastered.

17 activity types 18 pedagogy quality gates Socratic tutor Per-objective evidence UK RQF/FHEQ levels
EngagedLab · Studio
EngagedLab Studio editing a photosynthesis lab: an outline of sections tagged by activity type, a reflection task and a three-tier Socratic hint ladder.
Platform Live

interacty

A no-code studio of 81 interactive blocks, including 3D explainers. What you preview is exactly what ships in the SCORM package. AI suggests edits; people approve them.

About interacty
interacty 3D explainer of the human heart with floating vital-sign labels and a note that every value is also listed for keyboard and screen-reader access.
Institutional platform

Sky

Connect performance, recurring feedback and career preparation across the student lifecycle. Explore reviewed next steps, from referencing workshops to placement opportunities, then see what preparation is complete and what support is still needed.

Available through institutional adoption, with scope, integrations and rollout agreed with your institution.

Explore Sky Discuss Sky adoption
Interactive visual curriculum

Orbit: ideas learners can see, change and explain.

Regroup the same apples and see why a fraction keeps its value. Change a model, explore the result and explain the reason. Selected activities make abstract ideas something a learner can take part in.

Available to schools, colleges and universities through institutional adoption.

Explore Orbit Discuss Orbit adoption
Orbit · Equivalent fractions
Orbit's fractions activity shows the same 18 of 24 apples selected as three quarters and six eighths.

What running these platforms tells an institutional partner

We already build and maintain authoring systems, SCORM packaging, hosted delivery, live sessions, analytics, AI pipelines with human review, and the privacy and accessibility work around them.

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What we build

Education technology that has to work on a Tuesday morning, not just in a demo.

Six kinds of work, each already running somewhere in a platform we have built.

01

Learning platforms

From a single specialist curriculum to a complete learning environment, with the learner, author, facilitator and admin experiences each designed for the people who use them.

In production: WorkReady Finance for UWE Bristol

02

Research and pilot platforms

Digital interventions for funded projects and pilots, with consent records, pre and post measures, write-once attempt data and cohort management designed in from day one.

In production: WorkReady Finance pilot instrumentation

03

Interactive learning

Static teaching turned into simulations, decisions, investigations and case games, where learners act, see consequences and get feedback that teaches.

In production: SME Finance Game, Ledger Lab, EngagedLab labs

04

Learning analytics

Instrumentation that shows engagement, question difficulty, misconceptions and mastery, with minimum cohort sizes and pseudonymised identifiers built into the design.

In production: EngagedLab evidence reports, intle item analysis

05

Responsible AI

AI where it genuinely helps, with human review before anything reaches learners, defences against injected instructions, and tutors designed to guide rather than give answers.

In production: intle plan review, EngagedLab Socratic tutor

06

Institutional integration

We design around your LMS, data-protection role and hosting requirements rather than asking you to rebuild your workflows around our software.

In production: SCORM 1.2 and 2004 packaging; UK and EU hosting

Working with us

Where our work usually starts.

Most projects begin with a problem, not a specification. Bring us the problem and we will help shape what gets built.

Discuss a project How engagements work

  1. You have an educational idea.

    We turn it into a working platform: learner journeys, authoring tools and the infrastructure to run it.

  2. You have funded research.

    We build the digital intervention and the evidence infrastructure around it. For research leads

  3. You have content that should do more.

    We turn lectures, readings and slides into active learning that runs in your LMS or on its own.

  4. You have a system that is not working.

    We redesign the workflow, interface, analytics or architecture without starting from zero. For digital teams

  5. You need something that does not exist yet.

    Our product R&D model takes it from discovery through to deployment and support. For innovation teams

How we deliver

From first conversation to a platform people rely on.

WorkReady Finance went from first commit on 11 March 2026 to production on 1 June 2026, then kept shipping new learning experiences through the pilot.

  1. 01 Understand Learning goals, users, evidence needs and institutional constraints, before any build decision hardens.
  2. 02 Design Learning experience, workflows, data model, interface and architecture, designed together.
  3. 03 Build Production-quality software, interactions, integrations and infrastructure, with automated tests from the start.
  4. 04 Validate Previews and pilots with educators, researchers, learners and institutional stakeholders.
  5. 05 Deploy Into real educational settings: hosted, supported and documented for the people who run it.
  6. 06 Learn and evolve Analytics, feedback and research evidence shape what we improve next.

Why EdTechLab

Education and engineering, accountable in one team.

Plenty of agencies can build software. Plenty of consultants understand pedagogy. Plenty of AI companies can call a model. Institutions need all of it at once, and someone who owns the result after launch.

  • 01EducationLearning design grounded in how people actually learn
  • 02ResearchEvidence, evaluation and study design built in
  • 03Product designInterfaces educators and learners can use unaided
  • 04EngineeringTested, secure, maintainable production software
  • 05Data and analyticsEvent models that make evidence trustworthy
  • 06Responsible AIAI with review, grounding and guardrails
  • 07Institutional deliveryHosting, support, privacy roles and LMS fit

Engineering proof

Built for institutional environments.

The standards, privacy architecture and quality practices a university's digital, procurement and data-protection teams will ask about are already running in our platforms.

Security, privacy and trust

Standards

SCORM 1.2 and 2004, proven in conformance testing

intle, EngagedLab and interacty all package for SCORM 1.2 and SCORM 2004 (4th Edition). intle packages passed all 124 SCORM Cloud checks across the two.

Privacy

Data protection designed in

UK GDPR processor role for UWE Bristol, UK and EU hosting, row-level security at the database layer, no-login learning, and SCORM packages that send nothing back unless you opt in.

Responsible AI

People stay in charge of what learners see

Human plan review before generation, defences against instructions hidden in uploaded material, allow-listed models, and tutors that withhold answers mid-attempt.

Accessibility

WCAG 2.2 AA as the engineering target

Automated accessibility testing, keyboard alternatives to drag and drop, reduced-motion support, contrast checks and text equivalents for interactive and 3D content.

Quality

12,000+ automated tests

Unit, integration, end-to-end and accessibility tests across our four live platforms, from money engines and SCORM runtimes to AI quality gates.

Operations

We host and support what we build

Production hosting, monitoring and support are part of the job, not a handover. intle and EngagedLab run as containerised services with scripted releases.

From Lab Notes

Research-grounded notes for education technology decisions.

One evidence lens

Evaluate

Infrastructure

Model

Analytics quality

Design

Adoption paths

Evaluate

Infrastructure readiness.

Model

Analytics quality.

Design

Product adoption paths.

Explore Lab Notes Read the October reports
New technical report · Lab Note 010 October 2026 EdTechLab team

Assessment After Generative AI: Authenticated Authorship, Process Evidence and On-Screen Exams

What Ofqual, JCQ, the OfS, QAA, Jisc and the OIA now expect, what the research says about AI detection, and how to engineer evidence that still establishes authorship.

Key idea

A detector score can prompt a conversation, but it cannot decide a case. Change the task, not just its label.

Use case

For assessment and integrity leads, exams officers, learning technologists and digital teams.

Questions

What partners usually ask first.

Anything else, ask us directly at hello@edtechlab.co.uk.

What does EdTechLab do?

We design, engineer and operate education technology. We build bespoke platforms for universities, researchers and education organisations, and we run our own platforms, intle, EngagedLab and interacty, which help educators create interactive learning.

Have you delivered work for universities?

Yes. Our clients include UWE Bristol: we designed, built and host WorkReady Finance for its Business School's Accounting & Finance team, a HEIF-funded knowledge-exchange project in production since June 2026. The case study shows what we built and how.

Who owns what you build for us?

That is agreed per project. For WorkReady Finance, UWE Bristol owns the platform, its content and its design. Where our own platforms already solve part of the problem, we will say so and explain the trade-offs.

How do you handle data protection?

We act as a data processor under a written agreement with you as controller, host in the UK or EU, and minimise personal data from the start. WorkReady Finance learners, for example, never need to create an account.

Will it work with our LMS?

Our platforms produce SCORM 1.2 and SCORM 2004 packages for standards-based LMSs, and intle's packages passed all 124 SCORM Cloud conformance checks. For bespoke projects we design around your VLE, identity and data requirements and scope any deeper integration explicitly. Our Lab Notes series on integrating gamified learning with Moodle, Canvas and Blackboard sets out the options in technical detail.

How do projects usually run?

We start by understanding the learning goals, users and constraints, then design, build and validate in short cycles with the people who will use the system, before deploying, hosting and supporting it in production.

Start a project

Have an idea, a funded project or a system that needs rethinking?

Tell us what you are trying to make possible. We typically respond within two working days, with questions, a clear view of the options and, where it makes sense, a proposed first step.

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