Chennai-based software company Zoho recently announced the launch of a new mobile app, Zoho Classes, to facilitate educational and training institutes to serve their students online.
The platform is currently free for all government schools in India and for all other schools outside India it is free for up to 100 students. For every additional student, beyond 100, It will charge ₹250 per student, per year, the company said.
The company said that it has launched one app for both teachers and students, which will ensure all things shared between them can be centrally-monitored by the school and students can join only via direct invite from the school.
The recent initiative is part of the company’s recently announced Vertical Relief Plan. The new global assistance relief plan is comprised of programs and tools to assist businesses and organizations in need across three verticals severely impacted by the crisis: Education, Non-Profit & Government, and Retail.
The company through an official statement claimed that the app is secure and personal details are never visible or shared. The offering is a part of supporting the Government of India’s BharatPadheOnline Programme, it said.
This platform replaces the need for educators to deploy multiple, disintegrated apps including video content delivery, classroom communication apps, assignment management tools, as well as video-lessons and project-creation applications, and instead build the class on one platform, Zoho said.
Using Zoho Classes, teachers and institutions can upload courses, broadcast live classes, share assignments under set deadlines, and collect responses on one interface, it added.
Zoho Classes, as with all Zoho products, runs on the company’s own data centers that adhere to the highest global security standards, it said.
Zoho said it is in talks with other schools to introduce the product.
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