A private Ontario high school running the SmarterUni operating system inside its grade 11–12 program. Real briefs, real mentors, real signed credentials at graduation.
Richmond Hill College runs SmarterUni as a credentialed elective and senior capstone. Two periods a week, one shipped artifact a term, one brand-stamped Serial at graduation.
Teachers stay in the loop through the educator dashboard. Mentors stay on the rubric. Students stay in the work. The school keeps its accreditation; we add the signal.
Visit Richmond Hill CollegeHypothesisStudents assigned a real brand brief ship more polished final artifacts than students given an open-ended capstone.
MethodA/B across two grade-12 sections (n=42). One section ran the legacy capstone, one ran a SmarterUni brand brief with a weekly mentor critique. Identical rubric, blind-graded by three instructors.
Interim: brief-led section produced 1.8× the artifact-completion rate at week 6.
HypothesisA 25-minute weekly mentor call outperforms a 60-minute biweekly call on submission quality.
MethodCrossover design, 22 students, four-week arms, blinded rubric scoring.
Weekly 25-min calls produced higher quality scores (Δ +0.6 on a 5-point rubric) and 23% fewer missed weeks.
HypothesisStudents with a public Living Transcript URL apply to more programs than peers with a paper transcript only.
MethodOpt-in study tracking application counts through the school counsellor's portal.
Built from anonymized patterns across cohorts. Personas are composites; brief structure, mentor moves and outcome shape are representative.
Brief-led section vs legacy lecture-led section, percentage of students with a shippable artifact in hand.
A. Bhatt · M. Chen · SmarterUni Research
R. Singh · SmarterUni Research
SmarterUni × Richmond Hill College (2026). Partner dossier. Retrieved from https://www.smarteruni.com/collaborations/richmond-hill-college. Serial: SU·COLLAB·RICHMONDHILLCOLLEGE·MMVI.
Free for accredited K12 in 2026.
