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Powerful, accurate, and intuitive data collection and reporting systems for tracking early childhood educational progress that can be implemented and scaled up quickly to accommodate large public school systems represent unique challenges.

We design and build custom systems that can administer a wide range of data needs including student interactions, experience data, teacher assisted online activities, observations, and reporting.

Our experience developing data systems to administer summative and formative assessments, track progress, engage parents, support teams, and report results are deployed across numerous cross-platform user interfaces. They are built with the bandwidth to handle tens of thousands of concurrent users.

Such proven performance makes No.Inc the ideal EdTech partner for states, schools, and school districts seeking a powerful solution to early childhood education data collection and reporting.

No.Inc’s Early Childhood Solutions:

Quality Rating & Improvement System for Early Care & Education
Maryland EXCELS (QRIS)

Kindergarten Entry Assessment in Maryland and Ohio
Kindergarten Readiness Assessment (KRA)

Formative Assessment for Early Care & Education in Maryland and Ohio
Early Learning Assessment (ELA)

Maryland State Department of Education
Online Individual Family Service Plan (IFSP)

No.Inc works at the leading edge of information technology and Web-based platforms. As a technology innovator, we continuously assess and improve our solutions based on industry best practices and performance improvements. Our proven processes, refined over more than a decade in projects for schools, school districts, state education agencies, and nonprofit organizations across the country, are designed to take advantage of powerful data collection, analysis, and reporting. That way, you can focus on getting results while we focus on helping you track and report progress.

Our experience working with big data to crunch student performance metrics, track accountability, and report to stakeholders includes the creation of business intelligence reporting systems, data visualization outputs, and data dissemination platforms. Our solutions are cloud based and on-demand. Every project we design includes some combination of workflow support analytics, dashboards, alerts, canned reporting, ad hoc reporting, performance metrics, finalized program reporting, grant evaluation reporting, business intelligence reporting, or data visualization and presentations.

Using research, we design user experiences that combine industry best practices with the unique expectations of many kinds of users. By focusing on the needs of our users, we build experiences based on the tasks they need to perform using terminology they use.

Our educational technology solutions are built to be intuitive, friendly, and fast. They target a wide audience of both experienced and beginner users of technology from all age groups. Our long involvement in the education industry has given us the experience to know what works and what doesn’t for early learners, students with special needs, teachers, administrators, parents, and education agencies, but we don’t take anything for granted. Every tool we design starts with a definition of targeted audiences (personas), descriptions of the needs of each group (use cases), and a user research plan for testing our user interface ideas and validate assumptions.

Because we create solutions for all learners, including early childhood and special education, we need to meet the highest standards for usability and accessibility. Additionally, because many of our tools are used within public school systems, our user interfaces must be optimized for outstanding performance across the widest possible range of bandwidth.

User Experience Research and Testing

• Field Research
• Focus Groups
• Interviews
• Surveys
• Usability Testing

Accessibility Standards

• Section 508
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
• Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA)
• User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG)
• Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG)