Project-based education without textbooks, with a grip on every learning goal

Maius links your projects to core goals and the exam programme, lets students provide evidence and makes progress and progression visible per learning goal. For students, teachers and school leaders.

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Do you recognise this?

Project-based education works. The overview is the hard part.

Without textbooks, nothing fixes which learning goals come up when. That gives freedom, but also raises questions.

"Which core goals do our projects actually cover?"

Overlap between projects stays invisible and gaps in the curriculum are discovered too late. With the new core goals, a school must be able to show exactly that.

"What do we base progression on?"

An average grade per subject says little when students work in projects. You want to know per learning goal what a student has mastered, and what not yet.

"Giving feedback takes too much time."

Evidence sits in folders, emails and loose documents. Writing feedback per student on dozens of learning goals is unsustainable for teachers.

How it works

From learning goal to progression, in one system

Maius connects what is separate in other systems: the curriculum, the projects, the student's evidence and the teacher's assessment.

1

Set the learning goals

Core goals, exam programme or own goals, organised in domains and learning goal maps with steps per level.
2

Link projects to learning goals

Per project you see which learning goals it covers, including the phases of design thinking. Overlap and gaps become immediately visible.
3

Students provide evidence, teachers give feedback

The student submits work for a learning goal or for the whole project; Maius works out which learning goals it contributes to. The teacher assesses per student or for a whole group at once.
4

Track progress and progression per learning goal

Students see for themselves what percentage they have mastered. Mentors and school leaders get reports per student, group or learning goal.

Dashboard of Sam, year 3 havo

68%

Smart greenhouse project Computer science · 12 learning goals · 8 assessed

Programming: loops and conditions

Reading and processing sensors

Design thinking: Prototype New

Presenting to a client

Feedback from your teacher: your prototype measures the humidity well. Show in your report why you chose this threshold.

Example with fictitious data

For everyone in the school

One system, three users

School leadership

See which core goals and exam material your projects cover.
Substantiate progression per learning goal, including to another school track.
Reports for accountability and team discussions.

Teacher and mentor

The Signpost: choose a student or group and go straight to the right learning goals.
Assess a whole group at once and see immediately who has new feedback.
Claude analyses the evidence beforehand; you assess and have the final say. How it works

Student

Your own Signpost: what's new from the teacher, what is almost achieved, and quickly to your learning plan, projects and domains.
A dashboard with your own progress per domain and per project.
A personal learning plan: working at your own pace and level.
Evidence, reflection and teacher feedback in one place.

In practice

"... kijkt hij met enige jaloezie naar MAIUS: een leerlingvolgsysteem waarbij leerlingen zelf zien hoeveel procent ze beheersen ..."

School portrait of Tienerschool Spring High by Rob van der Poel, Nivoz foundation (quote in Dutch)

Spring High, Amsterdam

A school for teenagers with 350+ students. Progression was per learning goal, seamlessly towards the right Dutch school track (mavo, havo or vwo). SLO (the Dutch national curriculum institute) made several reports about it.

Computer science in projects

Schools using the Maius approach reached the final of the Raspberry Pi Competition with two teams in 2024, and with three in 2025.

College Rolduc, Kerkrade

Learning goals achieved in cross-curricular projects. With Maius the team avoided overlap between projects and safeguarded alignment with the curriculum.

De Onderwijstrilogie

"... omschakelen naar projectonderwijs zonder methoden vroeg om een nieuw houvast ..."

The role of Maius in the book by Kim Castenmiller (2025).

Universities of applied sciences have also used Maius, to map their educational offering and for accreditations (report "Samen leren en innoveren" (Learning and innovating together))

Computer science

Computer science in projects, even when teachers are scarce

The computer science exam programme has a core and twelve elective domains. That calls for tailor-made solutions, while many schools struggle to find computer science teachers.

Ask about the computer science approach

Learning goals and projects

Learning goals for the core domains and the elective domains.
Projects with design thinking, ready to link.
Students choose their own route through the elective domains.

Become a computer science teacher

A practice-oriented training for teachers who are already qualified: subject content, didactics and project-based education.

More about the training

Pre-analysis with AI, the teacher assesses

Own goals, own projects, own approach. AI does the pre-analysis, the teacher assesses.

In tailor-made education every student works on their own combination. There is no answer key. The heavy work is not marking, but working things out: which evidence belongs to which learning goal, and what does it show? Maius lets Claude do that groundwork.

Learning goalscore goals, exam programme, own goals

Projectsone learning goal in several projects

Evidenceone report for several learning goals

Levelown pace, first or fifth project

Pre-analysis by Claude · student L-0417 indication: just sufficient

Design thinking: Define · Smart greenhouse project (3rd project)

What I seeYou describe that plants in the greenhouse are too dry and that the caretaker notices this too late.

Why this is (just about) evidenceThe problem is clear, but for whom and why it matters remains general. By your third project that can be sharper.

Next stepWhat would the caretaker say? Use a quote from your interview in your problem statement.

Could not be determined: what you contributed to the group yourself is not visible in the document.

Release Edit Reject

Example with fictitious data

The teacher assesses. Claude does a pre-analysis; the teacher chooses the judgement themselves. Nothing reaches the student without that step, and Claude never gives a grade.

Builds on earlier work. What a student already showed in earlier projects counts. The expectation grows with the number of projects.

Doesn't guess. What Claude cannot see or check is listed separately. What the teacher saw in class weighs more than a document.

Visible where the teacher judges differently. Claude's text is kept alongside the released version, so a team can see and discuss where it looks differently.

Only a pseudonym. The student's name is not sent. Maius itself runs on servers in the Netherlands, at an ISO 27001-certified hosting partner.

Own key, own choice. AI is only on if a teacher or team sets it up themselves, and is only used when the teacher starts a pre-analysis.

Getting started with Maius

You can start small

Start, for example, with one department or one year group, and expand when it works.

Quickly set up

Log in with SURFconext, Microsoft or Google.
Import students and groups from Excel.
Create projects with a step-by-step plan.

Coaching for the team

We help set up learning goals and projects, in line with your school's vision, and coach teachers in working with Maius.

More about our offering

Privacy and security

Maius runs on servers in the Netherlands, at an ISO 27001-certified hosting partner. We only process data that is needed for education and do not share data with commercial parties.

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Curious how this would work at your school?

In a demo we show Maius with projects and learning goals that fit your school.

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