Classplus, a teaching assistant on call
App allows teachers to load study material and students to assess performance
New Delhi, January 18 Formulating questions for students,
photocopying and distributing them, and finally checking the answer-sheets take
up a lot of the teachers’ time. Not only do they get stuck with these ancillary
activities but lose teaching time. A new app may just be what they need.
Classplus, launched in December, is co-founded by Mukul
Rustagi, an IIT-Roorkee alumnus, and his friend Bhaswat Agarwal from Netaji
Subhas Institute of Technology.
Both Rustagi and Agarwal were studying at the same
coaching centre, which was shut 10 months before the JEE exam, and this
incident played a major role in their developing this app.
“We already had a traumatic experience during our IIT
coaching and, after talking to my juniors, I realised nothing has changed in
the coaching space in the last 10 years. Added to this we saw that Internet
consumption is on a high. So, all these things gave us an idea that something
needs to be done in the education sector,” said Rustagi.
How the app works
One can log-in in three modes: tutor, parent, and
student. Once logged in, a tutor can create his batches; add students, share
notices or reminders about class. He can also assign tests on the platform.
Objective questions are automatically corrected and
feedback in th form of reports and analytics given to parents and tutors. For
subjective questions, a student can take a photo of the answer or of the
diagram, and send it to the tutor.
The correct answers can be checked on the phone itself.
“One of the biggest worries of parents is to know whether
their ward actually attends the tuition class. Reports say Indian parents spend
12 per cent of their total monthly expenditure on coaching classes, therefore,
it is important that they stay updated on their child’s performance, and this
app provides them that opportunity,” said Rustagi.
Key features
According to an NSSO report, the largest number of after-school
tuitions happen in India As many as 7.1 crore of the 30 crore school-going
students take supplementary coaching classes every year. The bread and butter
of this app is the online test provided to the institutes.
The app comes with pre-loaded tests, however, it offers
teachers the flexibility to come up with their own content.
“It saves manpower, as a lot of a teacher’s time is
wasted conveying to parents that the child has not come for the class. Now,
with this app, we just have to share the attendance record with the parents.
Also, customised tests can be given to students and have been very beneficial”,
said Gyanendra Singh, Director, K Gyan Institute.
Curently, the app is being used by over 200 institutes
across the Delhi-NCR and also in a few cities in Punjab and caters to all
coaching institutes for students from Std 9 to 12.
Source | Business Line | 19th January 2018
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