Customer Stories
How one of the leading universities in Latin America revolutionized its digital learning ecosystem with Genially
The University of Chile is a public institution with a solid track record in academic excellence, research and innovation. Founded in 1842, it is among the 6 best universities in Latin America, according to the QS World University Ranking 2025.
Its Online Education team has integrated Genially into its Open edX-based platform to offer an interactive and highly motivating learning experience.
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Students
Santiago
Chile
Top 10
Universities in LATAM
The challenge
Make digital learning truly connect with students
The Online Education team sought to build virtual teaching on open platforms like Open edX for autonomy, accessibility, and flexibility. However, they faced a critical issue: lack of real interactivity with digital content. Static PDFs and videos failed to engage students.
They needed a solution to transform the experience into something more active, visual, and motivating while tracking student interactions.
"We didn't want to buy a service, but to develop our own platform based on Open edX to have total autonomy and be able to share our developments with the world."
The solution
A tool that brings content to life
Genially was integrated as a natural solution to create interactive content. Genially’s ready-made teaching materials, presentations, quizzes, gamification and visual elements all fit perfectly with the University’s vision for encouraging student participation.
Real-time, frictionless online editing lets teachers update resources directly, with changes automatically reflected in courses without re-importing into Open edX.
"The idea was that the student could make decisions within the content, as in an interactive book."
Results
Wide adoption
More than 100 active accounts across undergraduate, graduate, and institutional courses.
Built-in tracking
Individual activity tracking simplifies monitoring student progress and participation.
Growing demand
250 licenses planned by 2025 to meet exponential teacher demand.
"Genially allows you to assign a score if the student views all sheets and answers a final question. We did some tests and it was very intuitive."