Your campus,
wherever you are.
The Atrium is a browser-based campus for universities, colleges and training providers. Scroll to walk through it: three destinations, a challenge at each, and every step recorded as evidence of learning, with 2,000 or more learners at once.
Every student starts in the same place.
The Atrium opens at your main campus, branded as your institution. Students sign in with their existing institutional login, create an avatar, find friends in the social spaces and step into classrooms and breakout rooms.
A course outcome becomes a lesson you walk into.
Lecturers build interactive lessons in The Atrium's Challenge Builder, without code. Every challenge follows the same six steps.
2,000 learners and more, in the same place.
Distance learning stops feeling distant. Groups gather at the Observatory to investigate exhibits and solve problems together.
- Create from a description: describe a reading nook or pavilion, place it and share it with the room
- Safe by design: private, group and moderated chat with report, block and mute
- Works where students are: Chrome, Edge, Safari and Firefox, no download, plus a lower-bandwidth 2D mode
Every step becomes evidence.
Rise above The Atrium and the whole picture comes into view. Students see their own progress; staff see dashboards and reports that your institution owns.
- Learning record each student can download
- Analytics on attendance, engagement, assessment and completion
- Reports monthly, quarterly and end of term, in CSV, XLSX or PDF
Open in 12 weeks. You sign off every gate.
Phases overlap, so challenges are built while the campus is branded. By week 9 your staff build their own challenges, and a controlled pilot runs before launch.
Everything The Atrium includes
Capabilities, security and support, and who delivers it.
| Area | What The Atrium does | How it's delivered |
|---|---|---|
| Implementation | 12-week implementation, then hosting, licensing, maintenance and support for the agreed term | Standard |
| Campus environments | Branded entrance and orientation; social spaces; a plenary venue; configurable classrooms and breakout rooms; exhibition space; reusable templates; scheduling and moderation | Standard + configuration |
| Learning delivery | Learning journeys in the Challenge Builder with prerequisites, progress and completion; live classes with presentations, polls and quizzes; self-paced resources; badges | Standard |
| Engagement and community | Individual and group challenges, points, levels, leaderboards; avatars and profiles; private, group and moderated chat; report, block and mute; role-based moderation | Standard + configuration |
| Immersive and AI learning | Conversation practice (interview, legal, teaching) and create-from-description; your own scenarios and feedback prompts. AI feedback is formative and never replaces approved assessment | Standard + configuration |
| Courses, events and commerce | Free and paid courses, events and ticketing; registration, payment, receipts, refunds and reconciliation through the Sprout connector and a South African payment gateway | Via integration |
| Student self-service | Dashboard with courses, progress, classes, results, badges, notifications, payment history and a downloadable learning record; users see only their own records | Standard + configuration |
| Administration and analytics | Role-based admin; dashboards on registrations, concurrency, attendance, engagement, assessment, completion and revenue; CSV, XLSX and PDF exports; monthly, quarterly and end-of-term reports | Standard |
| Capacity, access and security | 2,000 concurrent learners and more; desktop and mobile browsers; lower-bandwidth 2D mode; SSO, role-based access, encryption in transit and at rest, daily backups, disaster recovery, POPIA-aligned retention; you own your data | Standard |
| Training, pilot and support | Discovery, branding, content onboarding, training, UAT, controlled pilot, remediation and launch; guides; SA business-hours and priority event support; data export, handover and roadmap | Standard |
| Integrations | Sprout connector and SA payment gateway included; Moodle connector (LTI 1.3) available | Optional add-ons |
Security and privacy
- Single sign-on with your institution's existing login and role-based access
- Encryption in transit (TLS 1.2+) and at rest
- Daily backups, documented disaster recovery and incident management
- POPIA-aligned retention. You own all institutional data
- Your data is never used to train third-party AI models without written approval
- Load-test evidence for 2,000 concurrent users before go-live
Service levels
Integrations
What you provide
Delivered by Scadco
Scadco (Pty) Ltd is a Johannesburg education technology company and Microsoft Education partner, trading since 2013. Between July 2025 and June 2026, Scadco trained and reached 11,235 people, 6,856 of them at four universities.
Relevant experience
CEO. Accountability and quarterly reviews.
Challenges, staff training and the pilot.
Hosting, security, SSO and integrations.
Configuration, dashboards and support.
Walk through The Atrium with us.
We'll give your team a live tour and build a challenge together, so you can see one of your own course outcomes become an interactive lesson.