About BetterGrades
Built by SoftDeck. Inspired by education.
Meet Tawanda Nyakudjga, founder of SoftDeck and creator of BetterGrades. He built the app to give university students a clearer way to practise from the material they already need to learn.
Start with a lecture, reading, or past exam.
The founder
Tawanda Nyakudjga
Founder, SoftDeck
A software engineer building practical products for education, churches, and growing teams.
The origin story
From UNSW IT to BetterGrades.
Before building BetterGrades, Tawanda worked in UNSW IT’s Education Solutions Team. He worked with analysts, testers, and developers, across a range of education technology projects.
That work shaped his view of useful education technology. The best tools respect the context people work in, make the next action clear, and earn trust through dependable details.
BetterGrades brings that thinking to exam preparation. It helps students turn lectures, readings, and past exams into quizzes and flashcards, review weak topics, and choose what to study next.
The BetterGrades approach
Make the next study action easier to see.
Tawanda designed BetterGrades around a simple study loop: use your course material, practise recall, then review the topics that need more attention.
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Start with the material
BetterGrades begins with the lectures, readings, and past exams a student already needs to learn.
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Make practice active
Quizzes and flashcards give students a way to retrieve ideas instead of only rereading them.
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Show the next step
Weak-topic review and Exam Readiness help students choose a more focused next study session.
Start with your next study session.
Download BetterGrades and turn a lecture, reading, or past exam into focused practice.
Start with a lecture, reading, or past exam.