Education & EdTech

Practice isn't enough. Pacific learners need live help too.

A stuck student with no one to ask is a student who quietly gives up. We build a unified, mobile-first, offline-capable learning platform in three complementary layers — practise and assess, get live help from a vetted tutor, and manage and fund it all — with child-safeguarding designed in from the start.

The problem

Content isn't where learning fails

Most education apps do one thing: they hand a student questions to practise or a video to watch, then leave them alone. That works right up until the student gets stuck — and a stuck learner with no one to ask is a learner who gives up.

In the Pacific we can't afford that. Learning doesn't fail from a lack of content; it fails from a lack of support at the moment a learner needs it. That's the gap we design for.

~79%
of Year-4 students below the minimum reading proficiency level — PILNA 2021

The regional response, PacREF 2018–2030, makes improving learning outcomes a shared Pacific priority. Technology can help — but only if it's designed for how learning actually fails.

YVera's solution

One platform, three complementary layers

Each layer is useful on its own. Together they form a loop — practise → assess → get live help → track progress — that mirrors how learning actually happens. Ship them together as one platform, or start with the single layer you need most.

LAYER 01

Practice & assess

A MooExams-style layer that builds confidence and habit — and the one most apps stop at.

  • Self-paced exam preparation
  • Gamified quizzes & past-paper drills
  • Progress tracking learners can see
  • Offline-capable for outer islands
  • Localized to local curricula & languages (Bislama / French / English)
LAYER 02

Live help

A tutoring marketplace for the moment a learner is stuck — practice tells them what they got wrong; a tutor shows them why.

  • On-demand & scheduled live tutoring
  • Vetted, tiered tutors, smart-matched by subject, level, language, mode & availability
  • Live video lessons (Jitsi) + in-app chat
  • Secure payments built in
  • Child-safeguarding throughout (see below)
LAYER 03

Manage & fund

An Odoo-based back office that lets schools, centres, ministries and donors trust the programme — and prove it works.

  • Approvals & scheduling
  • Revenue, wallets & tutor earnings
  • Communications logs
  • Donor & ministry impact reporting
  • Ships together with the other layers, or standalone
Safe & accountable

Safeguarding is the foundation, not a feature

The moment you connect children with tutors over video, child safety stops being a feature and becomes the foundation. It's built into the platform — by design, not bolted on.

Background-checked tutors

Vetting and verification before a tutor ever meets a learner.

Verified session handshakes

Everyone knows they're in the right room with the right person.

In-session flagging

A one-tap way to raise a concern during a live session.

Parental observation

Read-only access so a parent can sit in on a lesson.

Who it's for

Two audiences, one platform

The same platform answers two very different questions — for the people who fund learning, and for the people who live it.

For ministries & donors

Measurable outcomes, a duty of care you can stand behind, and a focused way to start.

  • Impact you can measure and report on
  • Funded pilots — start with the layer you need most
  • Safeguarding-by-design, not an afterthought
  • Aligned with PacREF 2018–2030; built for UNICEF, ADB & ministry partnerships

For schools & parents

Real outcomes, an affordable path, and visibility into what your child is doing.

  • Better outcomes — help at the moment a learner is stuck
  • Affordable, with offline-capable, mobile-first access
  • Parental visibility through read-only session observation
  • In your child's curriculum and language
Proof, not promises

We've already built the hard parts

This isn't theory for us. Our edge is re-contextualizing a proven architecture for Pacific curricula, languages, connectivity and safeguarding norms — not inventing it from scratch.

MooExams

A shipped digital exam-preparation & tutoring product. The practice-and-assess layer is a capability we've already delivered, not a prototype.

A complete live-tutoring marketplace

Built and shipped for an education client (anonymized) — the full Layer 02 and Layer 03 stack, in production:

  • Smart multi-role learner–tutor matching
  • Card, EFT & mobile payments
  • Jitsi-based live video lessons
  • Tutor revenue-share & wallets
  • Full child-safeguarding workflow on an Odoo back office

A note on localization: the OLPC programme struggled across the Pacific mainly because of non-contextualized content and weak connectivity support. That's why offline-first, local curriculum and language localization, and safeguarding-by-design are non-negotiables for us — not nice-to-haves.

Request a pilot / partner with us

If you're a ministry, a donor, a school or a tutoring centre thinking about how to lift learning outcomes in your community, we'd like to talk — and we'd start with the layer you need most, in a focused pilot.

FAQ

Questions from partners

Do we have to take all three layers?

No. Each layer is useful on its own and can ship standalone. We usually start a pilot with the single layer a partner needs most — practice, live help, or operations — and add the others as the programme grows. Together they're more compelling to a funder; separately they still deliver.

How does safeguarding actually work?

It's designed in, not added on: tutors are background-checked before they meet a learner, every session uses a verified handshake so everyone knows they're in the right room, a one-tap flag lets anyone raise a concern mid-session, and parents can observe read-only. Behind it, the Odoo back office keeps the approvals, communications logs and reporting a programme needs to be accountable.

Will it work offline and in local languages?

Yes — these are non-negotiables for us. The practice layer is offline-capable for outer-island connectivity, and content is localized to local curricula and languages (Bislama / French / English). Contextualization is the lesson we took from why past programmes failed here.

What does a pilot look like for a ministry or donor?

We lead with credibility and partnership, then build behind a funded pilot — starting with the layer you need most, with impact reporting in place from day one so you can measure outcomes and prove the case for scaling. The platform is built to align with PacREF 2018–2030 and to work with UNICEF, ADB and ministry-of-education partnerships.

You mention a shipped tutoring marketplace — can you name the client?

We describe that work anonymized unless the client grants naming rights. What matters is that the full architecture — smart matching, card/EFT/mobile payments, Jitsi live video, tutor wallets and a complete safeguarding workflow on Odoo — is already in production. We're re-contextualizing it for the Pacific, not building it from zero.

Let's lift learning outcomes, together.

We've already built the exam-prep product and the live-tutoring marketplace. Now we're building it for the Pacific — in partnership with the people who know each community best.

Request a pilot