AdvancED eProve Platform — Education Assessment Suite

Overview

A platform to modernize education assessment

AdvancED (now Cognia) is the largest community of education professionals in the world, serving over 36,000 institutions across 70 countries. Their flagship tool, ELEOT (Effective Learning Environments Observation Tool), enables administrators to conduct structured classroom observations and measure student engagement.

Digital Scientists designed, prototyped, and built the eProve platform — a modular diagnostic and improvement software platform consisting of six interconnected applications: eleot, surveys, diagnostics, strategies, workspace, and analytics. The engagement spanned brand identity, UX research, wireframing, visual design, and full-stack development for web, iOS, and Android.

The collaboration produced applications that replaced paper-based systems with digital tools that work online and offline, automatically syncing observations when users reconnect — a critical feature for schools with unreliable internet access.

Client

AdvancED (now Cognia)

Industry

K-12 Education, EdTech

Services

Digital Strategy, Brand Identity, UX Design, Frontend Development, iOS & Android Development

Engagement

2014 – 2016 (2+ years)

Method

Discover Engineer Optimize

Capabilities

SaaS Mobile UX

The Challenge

Paper surveys in a digital world

AdvancED's classroom observation methodology had been proven across decades, but the delivery mechanism was paper forms. Administrators conducting ELEOT observations relied on printed rubrics to rate seven learning environments across 30 indicators — a process that was difficult to aggregate, slow to report, and impossible to analyze at scale.

The organization needed to translate their proprietary observation methodology into a digital platform that was accessible, intuitive, and worked in the real-world conditions of classrooms — including limited or no internet connectivity. The solution needed to support tablet-first workflows while remaining fully functional on smartphones and desktops.

Beyond eleot, AdvancED also needed digital tools for stakeholder surveys, school diagnostics, evidence management, and reporting — all unified under a single platform brand with shared user management and institutional hierarchy.

Original ELEOT paper observation form showing seven learning environments with rating scales for classroom observations

Jobs To Be Done

What administrators needed to accomplish

Conduct structured classroom observations on a tablet without needing internet access

Rate student engagement across seven learning environments using a validated rubric

Generate aggregate reports across schools, districts, and systems in real time

Create, distribute, and analyze stakeholder surveys with multilingual support

Complete school quality diagnostics with evidence attachment and narrative support

Manage users, licenses, and institutional hierarchies across a global network

Brand Identity

A modular brand for a modular platform

The eProve identity needed to communicate the connection between elements of a suite of products — and the cooperative approach to educational improvement that the AdvancED team employs.

Digital Scientists created a system of individual application logos to support the primary eProve branding, allowing extension of the application suite as it grows. A related type treatment was created for instances when a logo lockup is needed, like when representing individual applications such as AdvancED Surveys or AdvancED Diagnostics.

The eleot brand identity uses the distinctive glasses icon as its primary mark — an approachable, recognizable symbol that reinforces the "observation" metaphor central to the tool's purpose.

eProve application suite logos showing eleot, surveys, diagnostics, strategies, workspace, and analytics

eProve eleot

Classroom observations, reimagined

The eleot app transforms paper-based classroom observations into a structured digital workflow. Observers rate student engagement across seven learning environments — from equitable learning to digital learning — using a 4-point scale on their tablet or phone. Observations work offline and sync automatically when reconnected.

eleot create new observation screen on iPad and iPhone showing instructor name, course, subject, and grade level fields

Create a new observation with instructor, course, and grade details

eleot observation form showing Equitable Learning Environment with 4-point rating scale on tablet and phone

Rate indicators across seven learning environments

eleot observation in progress showing rated items with notes and progress tracking across environments

Track progress with notes and inline navigation

Key Features

Built for real classroom conditions

Offline-First Architecture

Observations save locally and sync automatically when network access is restored — critical for schools with unreliable connectivity.

Tablet-First Design

Optimized for iPad use in classrooms, with responsive layouts that adapt gracefully to iPhone and desktop browsers.

Real-Time Reporting

Interactive spark lines, bullet charts, and histograms display aggregate observation data filtered by school, district, or system.

Real-Time Search

Search and find observations in real time using autofill and common search facets including course, instructor, subject, and grade.

Multilingual Support

Full multilingual support including right-to-left and left-to-right layouts for surveys deployed to diverse school communities.

Evidence Bank

Upload files, attach links, and reference evidence from a centralized bank directly within diagnostic items for comprehensive documentation.

The Platform

Six applications, one unified platform

eProve is a modular diagnostic and improvement software platform. Each application serves a distinct function while sharing user management, institutional hierarchy, and a unified dashboard.

eleot

Conduct structured classroom observations focused on student engagement across seven learning environments.

Surveys

Create, administer, and report on customized school stakeholder surveys with branching logic and certified content libraries.

Diagnostics

Apply comprehensive self-assessment tools with evidence banks, narratives, and standards mapping to identify strengths and challenges.

Strategies

Define and track improvement strategies informed by diagnostic and observation data.

Workspace

Collaborate on improvement plans with shared documents, calendars, and institutional resources.

Analytics

Visualize cross-application data with IEQ scores, benchmarks, and trend analysis across the network.

Application Detail

Surveys, diagnostics, and reporting

eProve Surveys

In partnership with the AdvancED product development team, Digital Scientists wireframed, prototyped, and built interfaces for educational institutions to access, customize, and distribute a library of certified survey content. The interactive survey creator supports real-time search, custom branching and logic to define survey paths, and powerful aggregate reports that can be filtered and grouped in real time.

Interactive creator for building survey items from scratch or from libraries
Custom question branching and logic to define survey paths
Multilingual support including right-to-left layouts
Aggregate reports with real-time filtering and grouping

eProve Surveys application showing survey authoring interface with question types, branching logic, and response options

eProve Diagnostics

The ASSIST (Adaptive System of School Improvement Support Tools) offers a suite of diagnostic tools including self-assessments, executive summaries, student performance indicators, and stakeholder feedback. These tools are designed to offer a comprehensive yet simple way of identifying an organization's strengths and challenges.

The diagnostics application features a side-pane navigation showing progress toward completion, support for single-select and open-ended items, evidence attachment from a centralized evidence bank, narrative fields with auto-save, and Harvey Ball-style progress indicators consistent with the broader eProve design language.

eProve Diagnostics application showing diagnostic completion interface with side navigation, progress indicators, and evidence attachment

Reporting & Analytics

The eleot reporting system generates combined reports aggregating data across institutions. Reports include environment-level bar charts with average scores, detailed breakdowns by student-focused observation items, and the ability to filter by date range, institution, and observation version.

Reports are exportable as CSV summaries, unstacked data files, and formatted PDF documents — giving administrators the flexibility to analyze results in their preferred tools.

eleot reporting dashboard showing bar charts for seven learning environments with average scores, institution summary, and detailed observation breakdowns

What We Delivered

End-to-end product development

Digital Strategy

Platform architecture planning, feature prioritization, and product roadmap development for the multi-application eProve ecosystem.

Brand Identity

eProve master brand, modular application logo system, eleot glasses icon, color system, and type treatments for institutional communications.

UX Design & Wireframes

Information architecture, user flows, and high-fidelity wireframes for observations, surveys, diagnostics, evidence bank, and reporting.

Visual Design

Responsive UI design for tablet, phone, and desktop — including the eleot landing page, observation forms, and dashboard widgets.

Frontend Development

AngularJS-based web applications with responsive layouts, offline-first data persistence, and auto-sync capabilities.

iOS & Android Apps

Native mobile applications optimized for tablet-first classroom use with offline observation support and automatic background syncing.

Results

Transforming education assessment at scale

32K+

Schools across the AdvancED network using eProve applications internationally

100K+

eleot learning observations conducted every year through the platform

70

Countries with institutions using the eProve platform

6

Interconnected applications launched as part of the eProve suite

Over the course of the two-year engagement, Digital Scientists collaborated with AdvancED to create the eProve platform, eleot application, surveys application, diagnostics application, and a digital version of their SOURCE newsletter. The platform replaced decades-old paper processes with modern digital tools that are now integral to education improvement efforts worldwide.

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