Having were given commenced in Covid times, the ‘Punjab Educare App’ serving because the virtual schoolbag for the scholars has finished a 12 months in view that its release on July eleven closing 12 months.
The app has made the look at cloth for the scholars of pre-number one to Class XII only a click on away. Since closing 12 months, the nation training branch had taken to diverse virtual routes like TV, radio channels, WhatsApp, Google Classroom, YouTube, etc. to attain the scholars however it become the app that got here in maximum reachable for the scholars.
It has finished a different four.four out of five score with 40.nine lakh users, 3.forty seven crore sessions, 34.seventy six crore web page perspectives and over 24 lakh downloads of the app so far. The college students belonging to different states and UTs, together with New Delhi, Chandigarh, Haryana, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand also are the usage of this user-pleasant, without difficulty on hand and without difficulty navigated app.
Interestingly, it become a group of faculty instructors from Jalandhar — Deepak Kumar, Jaswinder Singh, Harjit Kumar, Haridarshan Singh, Chander Shekhar, Omeshwar Narayan, having no IT history or know-how support, who to start with advanced the ‘Punjab Educare App’ with their sheer willpower coupled with indigenous improvements.
The app is a one-forestall approach to the troubles of accessibility of the look at cloth. It affords systematically organized look at cloth together with textual content books, audio/video instructions and day by day assignments in all subjects. It is a user-pleasant app and places an cease to the fear of dropping beneficial look at cloth this is being furnished with the aid of using the training branch on a day by day basis. It is an extra device for the academics and college students. The instructors and college students could have hassle-unfastened get entry to to the syllabus, textual content books in PDF form, audio/video lectures, worksheets, assignments, phrase wall activities, quizzes and look at cloth for aggressive examinations, together with NTSE, NMMS, PSTSE. It enables each instructors and college students to recapitulate any subject matter each time they want. Besides, new capabilities are being introduced as in keeping with the requirement rising from time to time. Krishan Kumar, Secretary, School Education, stated that a complete mission to replace the app with greater user-pleasant improvements is withinside the anvil. “A group of devoted pc instructors having distinct know-how in such different regions has been striving tough to feature new capabilities to make the app greater student-orientated in addition to focussed on interactive learning”, he introduced. It includes ‘Teachers’ Station’, ‘Students’ Corner’, ‘Word of the Day’, ‘Udaan’.
To make instructors well-versed withinside the use of the superior IT applications, the Punjab Education Department has released a ‘Capacity Building’ programme for accelerating the tempo of qualitative development in training. Under it, a sequence of webinars for had been additionally organised.