Spiral Universe

Spiral Universe wins 2010 Tech & Learning Award of Excellence

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 09:43:00 +0000

Tech & Learning magazine today named Spiral Universe as one of education technology's best new products winning their 2010 Award of Excellence.

A panel of more than 30 educators, who tested more than 140 entries, chose the winners. Products were also carefully screened by the T&L editorial team and all entries were given a rigorous test-driving by qualified educators through several rounds of judging. Evaluation criteria included the following: quality and effectiveness, ease of use, creative use of technology, and suitability for use in an educational environment. With a solid reputation in the industry as a long-standing, high-quality program, the Awards of Excellence recognizes both the "best of the best" and creative new offerings that help educators in the business of teaching, training and managing with technology.

To read the official press release please see:
http://www.techlearning.com/uploadedFiles/TechLearning/Articles/Contests/PRESSrelease_AOE_2010_FINAL.pdf

Spiral is now used in 100 countries

volgin@spiraluniverse.com — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:00:00 +0000

Three months ago we celebrated the 50th country in which Spiral has customers. Every company hopes to create a successful product, but we surprised ourselves by growing so fast in all parts of the world. Needless to say, as the number of countries sprinted past 50 and all the way to 100 in the following 90 days, our surprise turned into astonishment.

Celebrations aside, we feel even more responsibility for quickly improving the system to meet the expectations of our users from around the world.

Spiral adds Arabic support

fader@spiraluniverseinc.com — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:56:00 +0000

We are proud to announce support for the Arabic language has been released in our Spiral application. It is already being used by schools in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. Our UI developers and QA team worked closely with Mohamed, our Arabic translator and account representative, to ensure that the text and interface look professional and appropriate for native Arabic speakers.

Arabic support can be tricky for software originally designed for Western languages which flow from left to right. Many software companies cut corners and simply reverse the text direction without adjusting the window designs and placements, but we are committed to providing a complete experience. It took much more time and effort to do the proper job, but we felt it was important to show our respect for our Arabic-speaking users. The webtop looks and feels very different in right-to-left, but this is exactly what an Arabic speaker will expect. This investment in internationalization technology will also pay off as we are adding support for Hebrew and Urdu, two other right-to-left languages we are working on.

If you speak Arabic in your school or at home, please let us know what you think.

Spiral video posted on YouTube

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 04:33:00 +0000

Today we have added our first video to YouTube to proudly demonstrate our user interface. As the Google Web Toolkit is getting wider acceptance, Spiral remains a premier user of this technology inspiring software developers from around the world to explore its potential.

We also added this video to our Product Overview page.

Spiral is used in 50 countries now

Sat, 03 Apr 2010 01:30:00 +0000

Today we celebrate an important milestone for our company. The Spiral system is now being used in 50 countries! Considering that we opened our beta program to new customers only three months ago, we can proudly claim to be the fastest-growing school software business in history. This is a truly exciting time for our team, as each day sees more schools from different parts of the world joining our community.