Quebec will help develop the new Allofrançais platform

Quebec is providing an envelope of more than $54 million over three years to Alloprof for the development of a new platform intended for primary and secondary students for learning French.

The Minister of Education, Bernard Drainville, made the announcement Monday in the library of an elementary school on the South Shore of Montreal.

It is a very important investment, but if we want to improve the performance of our students in French, we must make investments like thesesaid the CAQ elected official at a press conference.

The platform, already accessible on the web, bears the name Allofrancais and is intended to complement the work carried out in class by teachers. The content will be improved until 2027.

Students will find information sheets, videos and educational games there. Alloprof, known for its digital resources in different subjects, promises to offer personalized courses adapted to students’ difficulties in French from the 2025-2026 school year. The activities will also change depending on the progress of the young people.

We put technology at the service of teachingargued Mr. Drainville.

Artificial intelligence will be used, but this use will be in an extremely well-controlled settingassured the minister.

The new educational tools that we will create thanks to Allofrançais will be Quebec content. We will ensure that Quebec culture is at the heart of this new content.

He also emphasized that he had promised to put local culture at the service of learning the language as part of the modernization of French courses.

Students who need it at the end of their course on Allofrançais will always be able to turn to new tutoring services provided by teachers and be entitled to follow-up appointments.

Alloprof indicates that it supports 550,000 students and carries out an average of 60 million interventions each year. With this new platform, the organization plans to provide 22 million additional supports for French alone within three years, said its co-founder and general director, Sandrine Faust.

There will be 50 new positions. We will use new technologies. There will be calls for tenders that will be launched to help us deploy certain more advanced technologiesexplained Ms. Faust, alongside the minister.

Take a step back

Mr. Drainville raised from the outset at a press conference that the promotion and mastery of French among young people represents a challenge, pointing in particular to performance in ministerial exams.

The results of last June’s exams, revealed in August, showed that the pass rate for the secondary 5 writing test had fallen to 70.7%, compared to 74.8% last year. .

Mr. Drainville mentioned that the historical trend of results in French is not favorable. We feel the need to take a step back. Today’s announcement is part of this desirehe said.

Without knowing whether the new platform will be sufficient to reverse this trend, the minister nevertheless said he was convinced that it will have a positive impact on students who have difficulties, maintaining that Alloprof has proven itself over the years.