TORONTO — App developer Clearbridge Mobile and Ontario’s French-language public broadcaster Groupe Média TFO today announced the launch of the Idéllo Family online learning app, designed to help families adjust to learning outside of traditional classrooms during the current Covid-19 situation.
Driven by Groupe Média TFO and the government of Ontario, and with an aggressive eight-week timeline, the app development project saw Clearbridge Mobile provide unrestricted access to various services, including design thinking workshops, native app development for Android, iOS and iPadOS, and App Store optimization.
“Clearbridge’s ability to deliver a quality mobile app in under two months is very impressive,” said Groupe Média TFO product director Jonathan N’Goran, in a press release. “With our online learning app Idéllo Family, implemented to support Francophones and Francophiles across Ontario and Canada during this unprecedented period, parents, students and teachers now have access to intelligent, fun, reliable and safe content collections for all ages, no matter where they are.”
The app facilitates an enjoyable digital learning experience by providing easy access to French educational video resources, relying heavily on video and voice search capabilities to create a personalized user experience, says the press release.
Other key features of the app include:
- bilingual user interface and text (French and English)
- curated content based on profiles and roles
- interactive video player with caption support
- the ability to cast a video to Airplay and Chromecast devices
- the ability for parents and students to access videos by subject, study levels, skills and FSL (French as a second language) levels
“When Groupe Média TFO first came to us, they wanted a product that would establish them as an essential digital learning tool. To do this, they needed to utilize emerging technologies,” said Clearbridge Mobile CEO Deepak Chopra, in the release. “Because our team of subject matter experts is up to date with the latest voice search and video technologies, we were able to leverage that expertise and put Groupe Média TFO in a position to achieve this goal.”
For more information about the online learning app, please click here.
