Overview
Promoting True Education for the Gen Alpha and beyond
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It is often said that children cannot or should not be taught. Rather their learning should be experiential. At the same time, one finds a rather drab, assembly-like system of education, if one can call that, which prepares our children for a rat race, and in the course of which, their innocence and creativity often get drained out. At UseRich, the vision is to enable a school where their most precious traits like their innocence and creativity do not get drained out, and they graduate ready to face the challenges of the world in their own way. UseRich facilitates a teacher or a school administrator in their journey of exploration every step of the way, from kindergarten to twelfth grade, in schools and tutorials. The solutions enable a school to provide a seamless and enriching learning experience.
Problem Areas
Functional Verticals
Admission
Every modern school need a solution to automate their admission process end-to-end, from the time a child applies for admission, to the scheduling of written tests, if needed, to the interviews, communication of offer of admission to successful children and subsequent acceptance of an offer of admission. A smooth admission process that provides holistic planning, scheduling, and tracking solutions for admission plays an important role.
Academics
A flexible environment can offer an outstanding learning experience for students. There are myriad sub-processes, including teacher allocation, timetable management, student database management, exam scheduling, proctoring, marking of answer scripts, publishing results, management of extra-curricular skill education, and sports-related activities. Further, the teachers need to focus on learning instead of administrative activities.
Administration
There are various parts to administration like asset management, office administration, transport management, stores and logistics, and facility management. Being able to run all the administrative functions smoothly and seamlessly is critical to run the school smoothly.
Alumni
Alumni are the brand ambassadors of a school for life. On them depends the equity of any school, and therefore, it is critical to cultivating engaging relationships with one’s alumni. An excellent alumni network not only gets word of mouth but may also heavily influence the school’s fundraising initiatives.
Solutions
Products & Features
UseRich provides the school segment, kindergarten to twelfth standard, with solutions that make the learning experience more engaging, enjoyable, and less error-prone. The solutions facilitate the overall development of students with holistic learning, including skill education and formative assessment schedules to map conceptual clarity, critical thinking and higher-order thinking skills instead of sticking to summative assessments.
Online Admission
The solution enables digital and scalable online admissions with standard as well as custom forms and customizable workflows for enrollments. It assures accuracy and consistency across the institution by tightly streamlining the processes and periodically including the latest tools.
Virtual Classroom
The virtual classroom is part of the synchronous offering from UseRich, where online teaching and the associated content gets seamlessly integrated with the other parts of the solution.
Online Examination
There are myriads of online examination tools in the UseRich bouquet. Based on the particular need, the most suitable amongst them may be deployed from behind the URUS engagement layer, which will allow solutions to be upgraded from time to time or entirely replaced whenever needed without affecting the regular operations in any way. It is possible to secure online exams with cutting-edge examination management with automated and manual evaluation processes that provide secure schedule flexibility. It covers the entire examination process from the generation of user login id’s to results tabulation or even certificate issuance.
Remote Proctoring
The uniqueness of UseRich’s open-solution policy brings different options of cloud-based proctoring solutions to the table, including its in-house solution. Based on the need analysis, the most suitable solution is deployed from behind the URUS engagement layer. UseRich can offer an end-to-end proctoring solution including AI, live proctoring and invigilation services. A new R&D project towards building device based proctoring solutions are in the pipeline.
Alumni Platform
This alumni management software grows alumni membership and alumni engagement. There are features to create events, both virtual and physical, and fundraising activities integrated with any payment gateway, and also associates targeted alumni with the students.
Robo Interview
The Robo Interview uses unique tools to automate the first-level virtual interviews using computer vision and voice-enabled NLP components. The high scalability of these tools can enable an institute to organize individual interviews for a large number of candidates. Continuous R&D efforts in these domains are helping these tools with new features from time to time.
Exam Management
This solution caters to the administrative functions involved in conducting any online or pen-and-paper assessment in a school or a tutorial. Starting from the generation of admit cards or hall tickets to capturing attendance to tallying numbers of students with the numbers of question papers and answer-scripts are taken care of with this solution.
Onscreen Marking
Onscreen Marking Systems, OMS, also referred to as On-screen Marking, OSM, solutions, are potent enablers for scoring pen-and-paper answer scripts. The answer scripts get scanned, and the images are distributed through a cloud-hosted solution to the examiners or evaluators through apps that function on mobile devices and desktop computers. Beyond supporting annotations and easy to use scoring systems, the front-end application also provides real-time guidance in standardizing the scoring system across evaluators. The system can also include manual subjective evaluations of electronically conducted examinations for cases like essay-type answers.
Library Management
It manages the catalogue of a library, showing which book and other media reside at which rack and manages lendings. It is compatible with the latest standard hardware used in libraries.
Skill Education
The customized experiential learning solutions from UseRich follow the children’s growth, commencing from mapping knacks or personal interests, the starting points of skill developments, to when they finish schools skilled with the learnings that widen their options in the future endeavour.
LXP
UseRich enjoys the legacy of building LeanrITy®, the first SCORM compliant LMS from this part of the world. A deep understanding of the domain allows it to deploy the best suitable asynchronous and synchronous solutions mapping details of any need, ranging from proprietary solutions like LearnIty® to various Open Source solutions Sakai and Moodle. The platform is tailormade to deliver a personalized and adaptive experience, putting the user at the centre of it all. Educational content delivery remains at the core of things. However, the difference from a traditional LMS is that in the UseRich LXP, students enjoy a more holistic learning experience.
QBQP Tool
This Question Bank & Question Paper tool creates question banks adding meta-tags with every question to generate question papers on the fly. It s possible to set rules like reviewing an auto-generated question paper just a while before the beginning of an examination and approving it for printing inside the exam centre. A school can even upload manually set question papers also, for printing at a pre-defined time. The question banks may also contain correct answers, suggested answers, explanations for students, and marking guidelines for the evaluators using OMS.
Digital Library
In tandem with the library management solution, the digital library organizes all digital media content. It can be attached with scanners to digitize printed content. The uniqueness of the solution from UseRich includes a robust search function with NLP based information extraction and an intelligent access control mechanism.
Social Work
It is a simple framework for tracking the social outreach programs of an institution and how the students are systematically getting involved in such projects.
School ERP
This solution manages engagements for the students, primarily to facilitate their engagements, learnings, and development. It also handshakes with the alumni platform.
Fulfillment Model
Modular Stitch-in Approach
The solutions for school-age learning include several toolsets that fit the need of schools and specialized tutorials. UseRich’s engagements can start with understanding the aspirations and immediate need of an institution or implementation of a standardized module solving any particular problem. With the go-as-you-like methodologies of the URUS, it is easy to build an end-to-end solution in a modular way, breaking the focus into different categories based on learning stages. For example, to start with, a school may consider automating the High School, which is the Secondary Stage classes, or the O Level and A level, and then gradually integrate the Middle School and so on. The open architecture of the solutions from UseRich opens up a world of possibilities.