Program of Services
Diversity Equity & Inclusion Content Audit and Linguistic Analysis
K-12 school districts around the country are looking for help as they work with challenges posed by increasingly diverse student bodies. We have developed a program to help address these needs. Our staff has created a living rubric with which your materials are evaluated. Our team performs a linguistic analysis of the content of your teaching materials, textbooks and potential adoptions to highlight DEI concerns regarding issues of race, bias, gender, sex, ability, socio-economic status, national origin, etc. Our results are rendered in precise, easily understood language that your district can use to make informed decisions about the materials you are using.
Extanto. Words Matter.
Quality Assurance & Quality Control
Extanto Technology specializes in QC /QA of mathematics and hard science online content and testing platforms. We can convert your new content acquisitions to your existing platforms. We have substantial experience working with Computer Adaptive Testing utilizing Item Response Theory for building assessments for GMAT and GRE assessments practice tests and perform both Black box and White box testing at the platform level.
Extanto. Launch With Confidence.
Consultation
Extanto has decades of experience working with Publishers as they make decisions around their digital strategies and Learning Management Platforms, from development to deployment and content creation. We know the industry and the demands that the academic environment can put on a digital delivery platform. Let us help you with an unjaundiced eye examine your options and figure out the technology stack that will help to position you for success and to dominate higher education publishing in the coming decades.
Extanto. Make the Most of Your Business.
Content Engineering
Our Content Engineering team is platform agnostic. They care about how the content behaves in your DLE. They creating authoring guidelines and templates that any content development team can use to create/convert content. They preparing representative content samples in a target markup language that developers may use as example for their code (e.g. XML, MathML, HTML5). They develop and diagram workflows for content from source material conversion to server deployment. They convert source material to desired formats (e.g. from Word to XML). They offer relevant systems feedback from a content tools perspective . They will develop Markup Language schemae (e.g. XML DTD) and incorporate platform features into DTDs.
Extanto. Content Matters.
Content Authoring
Our Authoring and Accuracy Checking teams are comprised of Masters-level SMEs and above, all very close to their academic experience and most with teaching experience so that they are familiar with the pedagogical rigors of course design the classroom.
Our authoring teams get to work creating and generating items from source material on target platform; integrating Media from source material; organizing titles by building Table of Contents and chapter order from source material reproducing source look, feel, and flow and; generating relevant error specific feedback from source material.
Extanto. Content Drives Adoptions.
Labor Contingency
We excel at filling specialized staffing requirements, be they subject matter experts or experienced platform developers, all domestically sourced. We can serve as a recruiter, helping you fill specific, temporary positions on a per project basis. We can simply do the recruiting for you, present you with a roster of qualified candidates from which you can chose, and you can take it from there.
Extanto. Quality People Make the Difference.
