1995 headquarters cape town south africa area served south africa namibia botswana jamaica and surrounding caribbean countries products learning revision and assessment software revenue unspecified net income unspecified number of employees 12 south africa only divisions evalunet pty ltd teacher s monthly website www.evalunet.com evalunet pty ltd is a south african based developer of educational software headquartered in cape town . the company was founded in 1995 as interactive learning solutions and changed name to evalunet in 1999 . in september 1999 naspers 1 a multinational jse listed media company purchased a 49 % share holding in evalunet . in 2002 the company founder and md dereck marnewick purchased this share holding back from naspers . in 2003 the south african national department of education commissioned evalunet and four other local companies to form a national body representing educational vendors in their dealings with government and educational institutions . the organization is called the associated distributors of educational supplies in southern africa 2 and currently represents 40 members . contents 1 products 2 partnerships 3 references 4 external links products edit in 1996 evalunet become the first company to introduce the concept of assessment and testing software to the south african school and business market . by september 2000 300 south african schools were using evalunet s flagship software product e school to conduct paperless tests and examinations . in 2005 e school was criticized for being too open ended for most south african teachers that require more content rich resources . the company has since revised its product offering and has released new titles under the biblion getahead xt the replacement to e school and mathpro brands . evalunet has also had a role to play in developing online resources for teachers in south africa 3 namely with its online publication teacher s monthly and its involvement in developing an online publication entitled teaching english today for the english academy of southern africa the only academy for the english language in the world . partnerships edit in 1997 evalunet was contracted by mweb one of south africa s biggest internet service providers to develop mweb school which became south africa s first online learning portal . this partnership remained until late 1999 . in that same year evalunet became the first south african educational software developer to engage in ecommerce to market products online . in 2006 evalunet became a partner in the nepad e school programme 4 initiative by way of the oracle consortium . this consortium comprised a total of fourteen companies including the oracle corporation . in september 2010 evalunet announced a partnership with woolworths south africa myschool myplanet myvillage corporate social investment initiative . this partnership saw evalunet software marketed via the myschool initiative with a resulting contribution of income used to uplift schools in disadvantaged communities . 5 in 2011 evalunet announced a partnership with epa technologies a jamaican based educational software developer serving the caribbean region . this partnership took evalunet products into the overseas market and formed a new direction for business development . this new venture is headed up by adrian marnewick who is the evalunet business development manager and son of evalunet md and founder dereck marnewick . references edit naspers financials 2000 private education report associated distributors of educational supplies in southern africa national professional teachers organisation of south africa naptosa publication naptosa insight volume 4 issue 1 may 2010 nepad e africa commission myschool press release 3 february 2011 myschool fundraising programme helps mariannhill junior primary external links edit evalunet homepage retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title evalunet & oldid 647133667 categories educational software companieshidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 14 february 2015 at 18 46 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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