Powering the Next Generation of Digital Assessment

Hachette Learning (formerly Hodder Education) is a leading provider of learning resources, serving over 4,000 schools and regularly processing more than 3 million assessments each year for over 845,000 pupils. Their products span print and digital, supporting teachers worldwide with high-quality assessment and learning tools.

The Challenge

Hachette’s legacy assessment platform (MARK) was a commercial success but had hit a technical ceiling. It processed millions of tests annually, but its architecture was limiting product evolution, user experience, and operational efficiency.

To unlock future growth, Hachette Learning needed a full rebuild:

• All without disrupting thousands of active schools
• Capable of real-time analytics and integration with other platforms
• Flexible enough to support a wide range of assessment models
• Cloud-native, scalable and secure

But this wasn’t a lift-and-shift. It required rethinking assessment delivery from the ground up, underpinned by deep educational and technical understanding.

Building Boost Insights on Learnosity and Azure

Hachette partnered with Talk Think Do to deliver end-to-end strategy and software delivery for their new assessment platform: Boost Insights.

We brought clarity to complexity, aligning stakeholders around a clear, executable roadmap and rapidly translating this into a production-grade system using Learnosity and Azure.

We led:

• Support model design to ensure resilience post-launch
• Incremental delivery across pilot, trial, and live environments, with zero disruption to schools
• Integration strategy across Learnosity, legacy systems, data sources, and Hachette’s digital estate
• Product shaping, balancing user needs, commercial goals, and operational realities
• Technical architecture aligned to enterprise-grade security, performance, and scale

Outcomes & Impact

• Enables live reporting and analytics to inform teaching decisions instantly
• Supports over 4,000 schools, processing 3 million tests annually for 845,000+ pupils
• Accessible design and scalability to support 1M+ users
• Automated data migration, real-time reporting, and role-based user access
• Interoperability with Hachette’s ecosystem
• A modern cloud-native assessment platform built using Learnosity SDK and Azure

Value Added

What This Means For You

This wasn’t just a build. It was a transformation project that redefined how a major education publisher delivers value to schools through data-driven assessment.

Talk Think Do wasn’t just a vendor. We were the partner trusted to deliver clarity, quality, and certainty from day one.