Educate.ie launches digital learning platform for Irish classrooms

EdPal provides schools with a ready-to-use teaching and learning environment as post-primary enrolments hit record levels

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Educate.ie has launched a digital learning platform developed for Irish post-primary schools and shaped through direct collaboration with teachers.

EdPal brings lesson delivery, student engagement, and assessment together in one structured platform aligned with the Irish curriculum. Unlike a traditional learning management system, which typically begins as an empty framework for schools to populate with their own materials, EdPal is built by an Irish publisher and comes fully integrated with Educate.ie’s curriculum-aligned ebooks and digital resources. It provides schools with a ready-to-use teaching and learning environment.

Post-primary enrolments are at record levels, with more than 425,000 students enrolled in September 2024, while workload pressure among teachers remains a persistent concern. At the same time, digital access in homes with children is now widespread, making consistency between school and home learning a practical necessity rather than an optional extra.

The platform is currently being developed and refined through pilot programmes in post-primary schools, with teacher feedback directly informing how it functions in day-to-day classroom use.

The focus is on reducing administrative burden for teachers, improving clarity for parents, and giving students a clearer, more consistent learning experience across school and home.

Sinead Keogh, director of publishing at Educate.ie, said: “Teachers are under constant pressure to balance curriculum delivery, assessment and communication with students and families. What we heard again and again was the need for tools that are practical, intuitive and genuinely aligned with how Irish classrooms work. EdPal was built around that reality.”

Founded in Ireland, Educate.ie is used by schools for its curriculum-aligned textbooks and digital resources. The launch of EdPal marks the next stage in the company’s evolution which involved to opening of a new Dublin base in Dundrum to support its growing digital and education teams.

The company expects to create up to 50 roles over the next three years as EdPal scales nationally.

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