On May 11th, we released Acadeva 2.0. A major milestone in how students access and interact with study materials in the university system.

This was not just an update. It was a complete rethink of the study experience.

Instead of students seeing random books dumped everywhere and having to figure out what resource belongs to which course, Acadeva 2.0 introduced a course based approach to studying. Books, outlines, quizzes, and resources are now organized around actual university courses following the CCMAS curriculum structure adopted across Nigerian universities.

Over the last few months, we rebuilt major parts of the platform to make this possible. We populated thousands of courses across hundreds of programmes, redesigned the study section, upgraded Edima with document understanding and agent features, improved scheduling systems, introduced discussions, reviews, ratings, sharing, and also launched a stable iOS app experience.

This overhaul was painful, confusing, stressful, and extremely demanding, but we believed students deserved something fundamentally better.

We want to start by thanking the team for agreeing to take this bold step.

We sincerely thank Confidence Banny, Director of Academics, Faculty of Computing, University of Uyo, and David Etuk, Director of Academics, National Association of Computing Students, University of Uyo Chapter, for providing many of the insights that shaped our course based study system.

I also want to specially thank Abasianam, University of Uyo Chapter, Director of Information, National Association of Computing Students, for the publicity and support throughout this transition.

We thank the students and leadership of the Faculty of Computing, University of Uyo for allowing us to use the faculty as a training ground to gradually develop and improve this system.

We thank everyone who downloaded the app, everyone who criticized it, everyone who gave feedback, and everyone who stayed through the difficult moments.

We should also not forget to mention other departments like the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Uyo, which gave us opportunities to learn from how their students study and organize academic resources.

We also thank the leadership and students of Higher Achievers Academy for giving us the opportunity to partner with them and gather study materials in bulk. You helped pave the way for us to properly train and improve this new system.

I personally thank the Director of ICT, National Association of Computing Students, now VP Elect, and his team for the public relations opportunities they gave Acadeva.

We thank Notion Build University of Uyo for allowing us to partner with them and use their event to launch Acadeva 2.0. 

I also want to personally thank my friend Agnes Ekanem for the motivation and encouragement to push through this overhaul. She became a turning point for Acadeva. At a point, I genuinely considered leaving the platform the way it was because of how much work this transition required, but Agnes convinced me that it could become much better.

Thank you to all my friends who have supported me in one way or another throughout this journey.

Most importantly, thank you to every student who believed in us.

I love you all, students. 

Emmanuel
CEO, Acadeva