For schools · Years 9 to 11

Leave school with a body of work.

Students work to real challenges from real sectors, produce the actual thing, have it graded against a written standard and signed off by a teacher. Every piece is kept.

Request a pilotSee a challenge
4
sectors
10
challenges a year
30+
pieces by Year 11
1
teacher, to sign off

A certificate says they turned up.
Verta shows what they made.

Marking real work used to be impossible at scale

Setting thirty students a different real task and giving each of them proper feedback was never realistic for one teacher. That is arithmetic, not a failing, and it is why evidence of capability has stayed out of reach for every school.

That constraint has gone. Work can now be marked against a written standard, so schools can finally offer something they have always wanted to.

How it works

Five steps, every fortnight

The same loop each time, so a teacher learns it once and a student always knows where they are.

  1. 01

    Challenge

    A real-world scenario we write, modelled on how the sector actually works. A client, a budget, a deadline.

  2. 02

    Work

    They build the actual thing — a campaign, a site, a plan, a pitch — in Verta Studio or Verta Code.

  3. 03

    Grade

    Marked against a written rubric, with feedback that cites their work rather than describing them.

  4. 04

    Improve

    They revise once and resubmit. Both attempts are kept, and the second is graded against the first.

  5. 05

    Sign-off

    The teacher confirms it is the student’s own work and meets the standard. Only then does it enter the portfolio.

What a student ends up with

One challenge, start to finish

Both attempts stay on the record. The first is not a failure to be hidden — the distance between the two is the most honest evidence on the card.

Real estate

Launch campaign for a Business Bay tower

A developer needs the first eighty apartments marketed to buyers under thirty-five. Budget AED 40,000, two weeks. Produce the campaign and the reasoning behind it.

78
Second attempt
First attempt
61 · 2 Mar 2027
Second attempt
78 · 14 Mar 2027
3 files · Campaign deck, landing page, one-page budget
Signed off. H. Mansour
VR-4517-RE-02

What the grader said

Audience
You named the buyer and built around them. Strong.
Pricing
Buried on slide six. That buyer asks the price first.

Why feedback reads this way

It has to cite the work and name what would fix it. “Add more detail” fails review, and nothing a grader writes ever characterises the student.

Who decides

A model marks the first pass; a teacher confirms it. Nobody at Verta can sign off work or change a grade, and there is no code path by which they could.

Where the challenges come from

Four sectors that actually hire here

We write the challenges ourselves. They run alongside the curriculum, so there is no approval to wait for.

Technology and AI

A clinic drowning in appointment calls. Build the booking page.

Business

A retailer eyeing Kuwait. Work out if it is worth it.

Real estate

Eighty apartments to sell to under thirty-fives. Make the campaign.

Hospitality and events

Weekend covers falling. Find out why, and fix the offer.

Six things every challenge builds

Understanding a customer
Working out who you are actually talking to, before you make anything.
Numbers and budgets
Costing an idea and defending why it is worth doing.
Writing clearly
Saying the thing in a way a busy person will read and act on.
Design and layout
Making work look considered, so it is taken seriously.
Digital and AI understanding
Using modern tools to make something that works.
Presenting a decision
Explaining what you did and why, and holding up under questions.

For schools

What it asks of your staff: almost nothing

  • One year group, one term, to start
  • A challenge a fortnight, alongside the existing curriculum
  • The teacher reviews and signs off; everything else runs itself
  • Turnkey from onboarding to the first signed-off piece
  • School, teacher and student views, with progress you can evidence
Request a pilot

One year group, one term. See what they produce.

The four questions you always get

So it is a course platform?
The opposite way round. Students get the challenge first, and the material only because they need it to finish the work. What we keep is what they produced, not what they completed.
Who marks it?
Work is graded against a written rubric, then a teacher reviews it and signs it off. The sign-off is what makes the record worth anything, and only the cohort’s own teacher can give one.
What do we have to do?
One year group, one term. A challenge a fortnight. Your teacher reviews and signs off. We write the challenges and the rubrics.
How is this different from a certificate?
A certificate records attendance. We record output — the work itself, the grade, the revision between attempts, and the teacher who signed it off.