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Leading
education technology and eLearning company Educomp Datamatics has
recently announced the launch of PlanetVidya Intranet solution—an
Intranet version of their Web-based instructional content solution
for schools. Explaining the rationale for the PlanetVidya Intranet
solution, Shantanu Prakash, chief executive officer of Educomp Datamatics
said, “The objective of this solution is to extend our high
quality curriculum content to as many school students as possible.
The lack of PC penetration in schools, limited Internet access,
lack of broadband high-speed connections and most importantly the
high cost of creating online learning environment were the reasons
why our team developed the Intranet version for schools.”
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is understood that this solution will help schools simulate an online
learning environment within the institution without the associated
high infrastructure costs. “It will aid schools in supplementing
classroom teaching with interactive and graphic-rich education content
that has been created by an in-house team of experienced teachers
and subject experts, ensuring highest quality standards while keeping
in view the guidelines provided by NCERT. The company will provide
quarterly updates of the content and the same will be sent in the
form of a CD. The Intranet solution will also provide a tool for
the teachers to design and deploy their own course content. It will
also be enabled for personalisation, with every user allowed to
create his or her own space and maintain individual record of his/her
progress through the site,” he added.
Apart
from development and deployment of PlanetVidya Curriculum Cracker
(Educomp’s digital content for classes 3rd to 12th), the intranet
solution by Educomp will offer software modules for students, administrators
and teachers. Students would have access to high quality digital
content along with a host of features like virtual notebook, glossary
of words for every topic, model questions, practice tests, problem
zone and progress reports.
The
Administrator module will allow for creation of news updates and
announcements on the home page of the school’s intranet site
as well as hosting of events on the intranet. The Teacher module
will allow for posting of homework for students, Classroom notes
for students to take (subject and class-wise) and questions/assignments.
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