Published: Oct 01, 2025

Empowering chinese-language education with a digital news platform

• Onboarded over 50,000 students from 200 schools with digital Chinese-language content
• 8,000 students actively engaged in gamification initiatives, and over 20% showed sustained participation 
• Streamlined workflows and reduced manual workloads for educators and content teams

NCS delivered a cloud-based digital news platform tailored for primary and secondary schools in Singapore, replacing the client’s outdated legacy system. The new platform transformed publishing into a fast, automated, and engaging experience, empowering educators and enhancing student interaction with digital Chinese-language content. 

Featuring gamified elements and built-in learning tools, the platform has onboarded over 50,000 students from nearly 200 schools, with 8,000 students actively engaging in gamification initiatives and over 20% showing sustained participation. Streamlined workflows have also significantly reduced manual workloads for educators and content teams.

The legacy platform lacked scalability, interactive features, and automation, resulting in labour-intensive content preparation and inefficient collaboration. A modern, secure solution was needed to support digital publishing, classroom onboarding, and student engagement at scale.

NCS built a cloud-native, low-code platform that is integrated with SPH’s authenticator for secure access. The platform enables real-time content updates, editorial automation, collaborative teaching tools, and personalised student experiences. Features were rolled out incrementally using an agile approach to meet evolving needs without disrupting existing operations.

• Modern cloud infrastructure: Scalable, secure, and cost-efficient to handle varying demands.
• Secure access: Flexible, co-managed user authentication across schools.
• Editorial automation: Automated print-to-digital conversion and dynamic featured content curation.
• Classroom tools: Exercise creation, automated grading, and assignment sharing.
• Gamified learning: Personalised profiles, missions, and leaderboards.
• Language support: Dictionary, translation, Pinyin, and adjustable-speed text-to-speech.

• Reliable performance: No SLA breaches or unplanned downtime.
• Increased efficiency: Automated grading and streamlined publishing workflows saved time and reduced manual effort.
• Strong engagement: Over 50,000 students from almost 200 schools were onboarded, of which 8,000 students actively engaged in gamification initiatives, and over 20% showed sustained participation.
• On-time delivery: Full rollout, including content migration, completed within nine months using an agile-hybrid model.