Featured Innovator

Snap Fin Ventures develops dynamic web applications for various learning and working environments. Working with

school districts for the past six years has allowed Snap Fin the opportunity to identify common pain points in the education process and solve them. One of these solutions is Snap Fin’s newest product, SelfChecker.

SelfChecker is an online, self assessment tool for students, created in partnership with St. Albert’s St. Gabriel Storefront School. Using the power of the teaching community to build better questions, SelfChecker allows learners to engage in rich questions that contain videos, images and formatted text. 

"Teachers see great potential in how the SelfChecker tool will be able to support the online student learning process,” says David Feist, Principal of St. Gabriel Storefront School. “Students can instantly receive feedback on each question, with an explanation on how to come to the correct answer, or direct them to an appropriate web site, text reference or lesson to help with the concept. This diversity supports St. Gabriel’s goal to offer a diverse, differentiated learning experience to all of our students."

Snap Fin Ventures, a division of Bramm Technologies, has been housed at the ERP’s ATC (Advanced Technology Centre) for two years. “Truthfully it's been more like two and a half,” laughs President Colin Bramm. “In June of 2007, the ATC was full but we were granted occasional use of the meeting rooms until space became available. We basically moved in fulltime, next to the photocopy machine. For a couple of months, I was doing sales calls on my cell phone, while having people ask myself and our developer how to use the copy machine. When an office became available in September 2007 we happily became official tenants.”

Bramm declares being located in the ERP as one of his business’s greatest assets. “Beyond providing a high quality workspace at a reasonable rate, we have had incredible networking and joint business opportunities that simply wouldn't have been possible had we located in a commercial office space. With direct access to ERP staff, we are provided exposure to EEDC events and the broader Edmonton business community.”  

Snap Fin is expecting SelfChecker’s public release to be in early 2010. For more information visit, http://www.selfchecker.com/