The Challenge
NWU's School of Accounting has a strong academic programme, but supporting second-year management accounting students was getting harder. With only two to three contact hours a week and strict examination requirements, the school needed a structured way to support students at scale while keeping standards high.
How Mindjoy Partners with NWU School of Accounting
Together with the School, we built a student support system around NWU's accounting teaching and goals:
- Tutoring at any hour: support for homework and exam preparation, between contact sessions.
- Insights: a weekly view of student performance and learning gaps.
- Marked practice: marking for assignments and practice problems, including long-form answers, not only multiple choice.
- Implementation support: Mindjoy's team helped at every step, from set-up to refining how the module used it.
- Curriculum alignment: content matched to the MDAC272 curriculum.
The Impact
In the pilot module, MDAC272:
- 88% of students passed.
- 83% of at-risk students passed the module.
- 41% of students improved their exam performance by 7%.
- Students got feedback on homework while it still mattered, beyond the limits of contact time.
The pilot gave the School a foundation for the whole cohort. NWU is now expanding Mindjoy across its accounting programme, with baseline assessments built in from the start.
