Overview
Enabling the Institutes of Higher Education
Quality of higher education adds immense value to a person’s life, thus the society at large. UseRich brings global best practices combining AI and cloud-based solutions improving overall quality of a university or college. There are solutions for online admissions, learning management, question paper making, online exam with live proctoring, digital evaluation of answer scripts, results administration, training and placement, to alumni management.
Problems
Functional Areas
Admission
Filling up the designed strength with admissions of the most desired candidates is the first pillar of success for any institute. A smooth pre-admission process with accountability and reduced logistics time and money plays an important role.
Academics
A blended learning environment with online and instructor-led classes helps students with a higher degree of engagement and the convenience of time. The faculties need to be freed from administrative tasks to focus on their subject matter expertise.
Examination
Any examination process needs to be secured, delivering accuracy, efficiency and cost savings with a near-zero chance of malpractices. Modern online exam solutions include live proctoring, smart question paper delivery and onscreen marking solution for conventional pen-paper exam scenarios.
Administration
Administrative functions like management of transports, accommodations, stores, logistics, maintenance, tracking, reporting, and compliance can be a maker or breaker for any university or college’s smooth functioning. Reducing errors, unnecessary paperwork, and assuring consistency across is critical.
Training and Placement
Students opt for higher education with aspirations for the future; an institutional focus on external training in the industry, and placements support brings their dreams to attain reality. The success of the T&P cell often measures the success of the institution.
Alumni
An alumnus is the flag bearer for any institution for life. Cultivating engagement for the alumni goes a long way in writing golden words in the history of an organization. Institutions need long-term relationships, volunteers, and donors for any fundraising initiatives.
Solutions
Products & Features
UseRich provides the higher education industry with solutions that enhance the learning processes, reduce errors, eliminate unnecessary paperwork, enhance accuracy and consistency of evaluations, speed up the interview and admission processes, access thousands of publications online, and manage alumni and student engagements.
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 LMS offering from UseRich, where online lectures and the associated content gets seamlessly bridged with the other parts of the solution.
Online Examination
There are multiple online examinations tools in the UseRich coffers. Based on the need of a client, the most suitable tools are deployed from behind the URUS engagement layer so that the solutions may be upgraded from time to time or entirely replaced whenever needed without affecting the users. You can conduct secure online exams with cutting-edge examination management with automated and manual evaluation processes that provide secure schedule flexibility and covers the entire testing process starting from issuance of admit cards or hall tickets to question paper creation and distribution to onscreen marking for conventional pen-paper examinations or proctored online examinations up to results tabulation or even verifiable electronic certificate generation or physical certificate issuance on special long-life paper.
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.
Robo Interview
This set of unique tools automates the first-level virtual interviews using computer vision and voice-enabled NLP components. High scalability of these tools can enable an institute to organize individual interviews for large number of candidates simultaneously across geographies. Continuous R&D efforts in these domains are helping these tools with new features from time to time.
Exam Management
The exam management solution caters to administrative functions involved in conducting any online or pen-and-paper assessment in an institute. 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.
Remote Proctoring
The uniqueness of UseRich’s open-solution policy brings different options of the cloud-based proctoring solutions on 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 is in the pipeline.
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.
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 intelligent access control mechanism.
Industry Engagement
This simple tool manages engagements with the industry, primarily to facilitate training and placement. It also handshakes with the alumni platform.
LMS
While the overall function of a Learning Management System, or LMS, remains delivery of educational courses, training programs and personal development content, at the granular level, the need depends on multiple variables including application, target audience, language, content, operating environment, reporting requirements, personalization, compliance etc. UseRich enjoys the legacy of building LeanrITy®, the first SCORM compliant LMS from this part of the world. With the deep understanding of the domain along with the open-solution policy allows it to deploy the best suitable asynchronous as well as synchronous solutions mapping details of a need, ranging from proprietary solutions like LearnIty® to various Open Source solutions, including Sakai and Moodle. The R&D team at UseRich is also working towards building a dialogue based LMS in collaboration with some eminent thinkers in this domain.
QBQP Tool
This Question Bank & Question Paper tool creates question banks adding meta-tags to every question so that you can generate question papers on the fly. You can 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. You can consider uploading manually constructed question papers also, for printing at a specific time. The question banks may also contain correct answers, suggested answers, explanations for students, and marking guidelines for the evaluators using OMS.
University ERP
The customized ERP solution from UseRich follows a student’s lifecycle in an institution, starting from admissions to exit. It talks to pre-admission processes, FA, training & placement, even the alumni platform using the URUS framework.
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. It also benefits the training and placement functions by associating targeted alumni with the students.
Fulfillment Model
Seamless Modular Engagements
With go-as-you-like methodologies of the URUS an enterprise-wide modernization for any university or college become a seamless reality. The institution can start with adopting a specific process from any of its functional verticals. For example, a medical university may start with an onscreen marking solution for a cloud based digital evaluation system while a business school may start the engagement with the automated admission process or automated robo-interviews for the MBA aspirants.