ScriptoPro is our December Qualification Grant Recipient!

Last week announced our December finalists and now we’re happy to finally introduce you to our December Qualification Grant winner, Meena Singhal, Founder of ScriptoPro.

Read our interview with Meena to learn more about how ScriptoPro is making the lives of teachers, students, and agencies much easier.

Meena Singhal

Video Transcript

WN: For those who don’t know what ScriptoPro is, could you tell us a little bit about your business?
MS: ScriptoPro is an online assessment tool and learning management system that allows educators and trainers to develop and deliver quizzes, courses and training online, as well as track and report the progress of their learners through an engaging and intuitive interface. Instructors and trainers obtain their own individual account to use with their learners which means not having to solely depend on an institution’s prescribed system allowing for greater flexibility, customization, and creativity. It also means they can access their account anywhere, anytime.

With just a few simple steps, instructors and trainers can create courses and online quizzes in a variety of formats and publish them on the web. Customization options allow users to have immediate access to their quiz scores as well as explanations to responses. Results can be stored, collected, reviewed, exported, and printed after a test has been taken. User-friendly data reports also now include individual question comparison facilitating student learning outcomes assessment.

ScriptoPro also includes additional tools such as a survey maker, poll generator, flashcard maker, course calendar, course schedule, gradebook, class roster, and certificate generator. By taking away the complexities of development, server infrastructure, and the burden of setup costs, we allow educators and trainers to focus on what they do best – teach and train learners.

WN: How did you come up with the idea for ScriptoPro?
MS: I have been in the field of education for over twenty years as both an instructor and administrator. I realized that many instructors were not using the tools and systems that their schools provided because they were often too cumbersome to use. From an administrator perspective, I realized that all too often we depended on funding for tool enhancements and an IT staff who could keep up with teacher demands. When this was not possible, it meant outdated technology. Training on using tools was also a challenge because training sessions were often scheduled when instructors were teaching or there simply weren’t enough of them. In my conversations with part-time instructors I often sensed their frustrations when they had to re-learn new technology platforms at each institution they were teaching at and each time it meant recreating their materials.

Our children are growing up with technology and students and instructors are using it for just about everything so the idea was to come up with something that was easy to use, web-based so there was no setup involved, and something that is free for users and of minimal costs to instructors. No materials have to be recreated because one can access their learning management system from anywhere. Training is provided through free webinars and training materials are posted online for anytime access. We also wanted to create something that was fun to use and something that could be customized with one’s own themes, colors, photos, and templates.

WN: Can anybody use this service or do you have to be an educator/student?
MS: Initially the tool was created for educators and students but soon it became apparent that government agencies, businesses, healthcare organizations, and non-profits were using the tool. Several enhancements were made including a more comprehensive survey maker and training course builder so it could be used for employee training. ScriptoPro can be used for online quizzes in all subject areas, language tests, placement tests, academic assessments, e-learning, needs assessments, course evaluations, product training, professional development, web-based training onboarding, compliance tracking, and much more now. It is suitable for employees in all areas and learners in K-12 and higher education settings.

WN: Will students eventually be able to use this service to prepare for exams like the ACT and SAT?
MS: The tool can be used for all exam preps including the ACT and SAT. Practice questions and tests can be created and students can use the tool for practice. Currently we have several tutors using the tool with their students for this purpose. Students get meaningful and immediate feedback, and the reporting tools and question analysis reports give instructors and tutors an idea of the areas students might be having some challenges in.

WN: What’s the next step for ScriptoPro?
MS: While ScriptoPro is user-friendly, the focus now is to make the tool even more intuitive to use. We’ve added a search function for learners and modified the instructor dashboard with even more reporting tools. We minimized the number of steps it takes to set up an online class and create quizzes and surveys. We now have to modernize the appearance of the website to make sure we are up-to-date with the current look of streamlined modern websites. We will also update the training course builder module allowing for competency-based feedback for employees. Technology is forever evolving so in a sense the work is never done but it keeps getting better and better and the feedback that we receive from users helps us to continually enhance the assessment tools within ScriptoPro. I’m proud of what we’ve created so far. Being an entrepreneur is hard work but I’m fortunate to have a wonderful team including Walid Sabbagh, Star Hillman, and our programmers.

Learn more about Meena and ScriptoPro in her video here:

If you’d like to vote for Meena to win the $1,000 Amber Grant, you can vote for her here.

And thanks for reading! Remember that we award a grant every month – if interested, please apply today.