Efiwe, the mobile-first, AI-powered coding education platform, today launched two features across all eight of its courses: reading levels and baseline and endline assessments. Learners can now choose to read every challenge in Simple Language or Standard Language. Before a course they take a short baseline check, and at the end a matching endline check shows how far they have come.
Both features are live now in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Tailwind, Python, SQL, PHP and Prompt Engineering, for all of Efiwe’s 22,747 learners in 159 countries. Like the rest of the core platform, they are free.
Many learners struggle with the wording of a lesson rather than with the code itself, and reading levels remove that barrier. Every challenge now comes in two versions: Simple Language, which uses short sentences and everyday words, and Standard Language, which keeps the full original wording. The same opening line of the HTML course, for example, reads “HTML is the language used to build web pages. Every website uses it.” in Simple Language and “HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language, and it’s the basic building block of every website on the internet.” in Standard Language.
Only the words change. The code, the tasks and the answers stay exactly the same, so a learner on Simple Language gains the same knowledge, earns the same points and receives the same certificate. New learners choose a reading level once, at the start, and it applies to every course and every device they sign in on. They can switch at any time in Mode without losing any progress, while returning learners stay on Standard Language until they choose to switch. Levels are not tied to an age or a school class, so anyone can pick the one that suits them. In all, Efiwe wrote Simple Language versions of more than 2,400 challenges across its eight courses.
The second feature measures what each learner knows before and after a course, so that learners, schools and partners can see real progress rather than just a count of completed challenges. Before starting a course, a new learner takes a 12-question baseline check, with one question per screen and four options plus “I don’t know yet”. The check uses no lives and works offline, and learners can skip it for now and take it later, before they begin.
The baseline then places the learner at Beginner, Intermediate or Advanced, based on how they did on the easy, medium and hard questions separately rather than on a single total. Challenges below their level are passed over, so experienced learners start where the work is new to them, although anyone can still choose to do every challenge. At the end of the course, before the capstone project, the learner takes a matching 12-question endline. There is no pass mark, because the endline measures rather than tests: learners see both scores, how much of the gap they closed, and a review of what they got wrong. Results are saved to each learner’s account, and on a shared phone each saved account keeps its own results.
“We built Efiwe for learners who were told coding was not for them because they had no laptop, no steady internet, or no fluent English,” said Chidi Nwaogu, Co-founder and CTO of Efiwe. “Reading levels take away one more barrier: a learner should never fail a lesson because of a hard sentence. And with baseline and endline assessments, every learner, school and partner can now see, in numbers, how much a learner has grown from day one to the final project.”
Both features are available today, free, on every Efiwe course, on any phone or computer, and the assessments also work offline. New learners choose a reading level and take the baseline when they start their first course. Current learners can switch to Simple Language at any time in Mode. Learners who were already part-way through a course will not be asked for a baseline, because a check taken after learning cannot measure a starting point, but they will still be offered the endline. Schools and organizations using Group Plans can now use the baseline and endline as before-and-after evidence for their pilots and programs. Anyone can start learning at efiwe.com.
About Efiwe: Efiwe is a mobile-first, AI-powered coding education platform that teaches anyone to code on a smartphone, with no laptop, no constant internet connection and no prior experience needed. Launched on August 16, 2025, it offers eight courses with more than 2,400 challenges, an on-device AI tutor that works offline, and support for 246 languages plus sign language. Learners can also study through WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Telegram and SMS (Efiwe Zero). Efiwe has been recognized by TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200, the HundrED Global Collection, the ITU AI for Good Innovation Factory and the Royal Academy of Engineering Africa Prize.
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