When the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office asked students and faculty what they needed from education technology, the answers were more specific and personal. Students wanted tools that wouldn’t break on a mobile hotspot. Instructors wanted tools that supported how they actually communicate with and support students day-to-day. Everyone wanted to stop creating new logins for every platform.
Insights like these became the foundation for three new Digital Promise product badges, co-designed with over 300 community college students, faculty, and administrators.
Centering Students’ Diverse Lived Experiences
This badge requires products to demonstrate that students’ priorities are centered throughout its design and user experience. For example, the product must work across devices and low-bandwidth conditions and support users with varying levels of digital fluency.
Commitment to Continuous Improvement
This badge requires products to demonstrate that community college students have played a role in driving iterative development of the product through feedback or co-design, ensuring students have a real pathway to shape how a product evolves after launch.
This badge requires products to demonstrate that faculty and administrators have a voice in product design and improvement through features that address their needs to share content and communicate effectively with students.
As with all Digital Promise product certifications, vendors can apply for each badge through a rigorous review process. Certifications mean that a product has been vetted against criteria that was developed directly from the people using it.
Congratulations to the inaugural group of products that earned through our pilot of the application!
Anthology: Blackboard Learn
ConexED: Cranium Café
Pronto: Team Communication
Innovative Educators: Go2Orientation, Go2Knowledge, ParentLingo, StudentLingo, TutorLingo, OnlineLingo
EAB: Navigate 360, Starfish
We are committed to scaling this impact. Whether you are a product team looking to validate your impact or a university system looking to define your own standards, there is a path forward:
