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We all cooped up indefinitely in-home, results in severely impacting our education and educational organizations like colleges, coaching centers, universities.

We will discuss here what actual issues educational institutes are facing and common mistakes those institutes do while start their online learning program.

Check the Table of Content below –

So let’s start it by dividing our education system into 2 broad categories

Now we are discussing two very important aspects here.

Educational Institute

Learner

As everyone knows, it is getting more & more difficult for educational institutes to be in connect with their respective group of learner.

It is practically impossible in this lock down situations to be functional like before.

But, there are some solutions which might help both very effectively.

We are surely not discussing here how to sanitize a learning premises and how to keep all your group of learners in their best hygiene.

Here we are going to discuss how to effectively maintain a balance between educational institutes and group of learners with the best technology available in the market By Yogesh

Let’s understand this big situation step by step –

First we are going to discuss What issues Educational Institutes are facing right now.

Then, How to overcome those issues with the help of a computer and an internet and some basic hardware.

What issues Educational Institues are facing right now!

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It’s actually not the most urgent question right now as everyone is thinking about the lock down period but it won’t be same even after the lock down will be completely finished.

Covid-19 is scary, As it started growing since Jan 2020, nobody knows when it’s going to restart itself again, considering it was stopped previously.

To avoid this circumstances in the future it is really important to mass migrate to online or remote learning delivery.

So, let’s see the challenges Colleges and Universities are facing right now –

How to be in connection with every learner How to teach effectively How to be in connect with respective industry corporate to flourish the knowledge of every learner How to manage college, Universities work in a sync How to assign, manage multiple tasks given to lecturers, staff Set of assignments given to the group of learners

Challenges faced by Coaching Institutes –

Delivering lectures daily in a sync Always be in connection with a group of learners How to manage tasks assigned to teachers and employees Interactive Guest lecture management Focus on every learner individually Managing Staff and schedules efficiently on a single platform

So, these are the basic issues almost all the training institutes and colleges are facing!

What are the common mistakes that all of these organizations are doing? and How to overcome these challenges?

Common Mistakes we do while Online Learning

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Organizations use Zoom to communicate – Of course, Zoom is the most powerful platform to have video communications with tons of features (for those who don’t know, we can discuss that later) but how can you establish the communication before the webinar/video conferencing only using zoom?

For that, Organizations prefer Whatsapp to manage group of learners – Most educational institutes think whatsapp is needed to manage their group of learners easily. But the case is different for every educational institutes.

Even though you might communicate easily with your students or learners but whatsapp is definitely not suitable in 2020 to use. You can not integrate anything with it.

Suppose you want to integrate google drive with whatsapp, is it possible? The answer is big big No.

Can you have Pinned Post on whatsapp, pinned post can be anything, it can be a document to read first before entering into the group, or some basic group etiquette.

Can you have multiple subgroups on your whatsapp group to manage different lecturers or subjects maybe? No you don’t.

Starting your online classes through USB or online portal – This was ok in 2010 but in 2020, educational institutes needs to be advanced. They can not just create a lectures and sell it online or offline through USB.

Now, learners need more connectivity with more real time learning facilities.

Learners may opt for udemy, coursera to learn online, but what about real time connectivity how can you be in connect with your favorite teacher all time?

These platforms (udemy, coursera, code academy) are excellent platforms but how we can get something that is more accessible, more user friendly, more robust and most easy to use platform for both (educational institues and learners).

Does that even exist?

Yes, it is, and it is the best solution.

Who can use this Platform?

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If you are confused how to deliver seamless and best online platform for you, we will help you.

First see who can use our amazing platform?

All kind of Coaching Centers big/small

Schools (only for staff to be in sync, not suggested for students)

Universities (to streamline their work effectively)

Gym (you can use our platform to add your existing and new gym clients and help them with their diet plans maybe)

A group of coders who wants to be connected always

Freelancer Groups

Community Group to manage any kind of community well.

Create Paid Group

Intersting? The last point? Create your own paid group? well, maybe. It may be a game changer for lot of us.

How to earn money online by creating paid groups?

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Suppose you are good at Full Stack Python development, and you want to teach your respective set of students how to code in python.

And also you might want to charge them $3/month maybe. Well it is possible. There might only be 1000 of them who want to learn python development, but $3000/month doesn’t hurt if they are coming passively.

One more example – Suppose you are a CSR Consultant (Corporate Social Responsibility) and wanted to help companies on performing optimized CSR processes and charge them around $99 a month. You can do it effectively.

Maybe you are a pep bottles manufacturer and wanted to advice new gen entrepreneurs how to make pep bottles with optimum utilization of available resources and machineries for $2000 / year. Yes you can do this. Easily.

So might have got the idea, you can teach people real time through our platform. Easily and Conveniently.

We are not talking about some Udemy or Coursera kind of platform. This is a real time communication platform with all necessary weapons you need for effective teaching.

You want to know how to teach online effectively?

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Ofcourse, if you made it till this part, the next part might change the way you think about online education.

This is one of a kind online learning through which you can reach to many and help them the way you used to in classroom-based teaching, might be more better. Click to Tweet

Online platform we are using to teach your learners effectively is SLACK.

Slack is an enterprise chat communication platform, focus on enterprise, along with chat (like whatsapp) it is having tons of more features.

Some questions might pop up in your mind if you know slack –

How Slack can be that one platform which might change the way you are teaching/managing your learners? Is slack really that effective? Anybody using it? Is it Free? I don’t understand any of this how can I use Slack effectively even if I wanted to? How my staff, my students will understand how to use slack? According to this article, I can charge some money also to share my knowledge with some set of groups, how can I do that? What features does Slack have? What software-hardware we have to purchase? How can it be better than all its competitors?

Using Slack as an online learning platform is different but is it effective? I am not the only one who is saying this, there are a lot of people who are using it as an online communication and teaching tool.

So let’s solve each question one by one –

How Slack can be that one platform which might change the way you are teaching/managing your learners?

Well honestly, Slack is the one and only platform.

We have seen all the issues educational institutes are facing above, well slack can help you with all those problems with ease.

And to help you and your students to understand how slack works, we are there, 24*7

You want to manage your staff effectively?

Want to make good videos for your learners?

Do you want to communicate easily?

Do you want to segragate your students according to the need?

You want to record you lectures? Play that recorded lecture in every batch? and during the recorded session you want to interact with your students live? So that they can be connected always?

Yes, all of that can be done. But well, not easily. That’s why we are here. We will tell you how to be on top of your game always.

Colleges or Coaching Centers, You focus on teaching only, we will take care of the rest, 24*7

Is slack really that effective? Anybody using it?

You bet. Lot of organizations are using it effectively.

Lets see some of them –

These are some examples.

Now it is very clear that some of the coolest companies use slack to mange their community, so why not it is practically feasible for all the colleges and coaching centers in the world to start using slack effectively.

Slack is not only to build communities, it is a billion dollar company with mega MNCs like IBM are using Slack. There are millions of users everyday on Slack.

So this is the best place for everyone to stay connected with your team, students.

Is it Free?

It is a freemium product.

It is free and paid both, free version have lesser options than paid. But we will help you use free tier to its full extent.

80% of the companies use Slack free tier only.

I don’t understand any of this how can I use Slack effectively even if I wanted to?

This question will pop up as soon as you start using it, but hey, that’s exactly why we are here.

Just let us know what you need, let us understand your case and we will come up with optimized solution to help you run your organization thorugh slack.

And we are not only help you set up your organization on slack effectively we will also be with you in your group, even if you face the smallest issue. We will be there 24*7

You don’t have to worry about anything, you just focus on teaching, we will see the rest.

And we know every educational institute, coaching center works differently. That’s why we are here. We will understand everyone of our client case by case. So don’t worry at all.

Leave all the boring work for us, you focus on teaching only.

How my staff, my students will understand how to use slack?

Again, we will manage that. We will help everyone in your organization to help them setup (it’s very easy) and then start managing it effectively.

All you have to do is complete the form below and we will start analyzing your case and will give you the best solution possible.

According to this article, I can charge some money also to share my knowledge with some set of groups, how can I do that?

Yes, surely you can. You can create a paid group where you can charge your learners through debit and credit cards.

We have tie ups with some of the best paid community groups creator which will help you understand how should you be charging your learners and how payout is possible.

In developed countries,we will accept credit and debit cards. In developing countries,we will accept credit cards only. (Countries like India)

In some cases we will help you use paytm, googlepay, phonepe to take payments from your students.

Just tell us your need and see how we can come up with amazing solution within 24-48 hours for your organization.

What features does Slack have?

This might be a never ending question. If I start writing about feature list now it may make this blog too long.

It does have all the possible features you need for your organization.

Some of them are –

It will help you to make a video

You can have your file manager integrated

You can have your calendar integrated (google or outlook calendar)

Help you take surveys on your lectures

and a lot more…

Tell us your exact requirement, what do you want to achieve thorough this app and we will revert you with possible solution and pricing within 24-48 hours.

What software-hardware we have to purchase?

Hardware – A big Yes. You have to purchase hardware. It’s a one time cost but this is a need of an hour.

You might need a good camera – we will suggest the best as per need.

You needed to have a microphone – A bad sound quality will hamper your online teaching adversely. So start using good microphone – we will suggest the best one for you.

You might not need camera if you wanted to show your laptop or desktop screen, (this is assumed you have laptop/desktop with internet), we will teach you everything about this.

Software, well you don’t have to purchase, it will be managed in our pricing. So if you are thinking we are going to charge you a lot of fees for this, you are wrong.

It’s simple if you purchase zoom license it might cost you around $25 but we will let you use a same product better than zoom for absolutely free.

It might sound a bit confusing that how to implement all of it if you wanted to do it yourself. That’s why we are here. We will completely understand your requirement and then we will give you the best possible solution with least possible price.

Consider this – So if you started using slack with everything you need it might cost $350 a month for you, but we will let all of this available for you only at $40 a month, irrespective of the number of students you are adding (though we have a limit of 7000 students)

How can it be better than all its competitors?

Well if you are thinking about whatsapp it’s nowhere near to Slack for online learning and management.

If you are thinking zoom, no zoom is not a competitor. Infact zoom will integrate with slack to give you best webinar and video conferencing performance. (Those who don’t understand this technicality, don’t worry, we will explain it to you, just complete the below form)

If you are thinking Microsoft Teams as a competitor, Yes it is. In fact in some cases team outperforms but Teams is not build for online learning. Team is better at managing your team effectively. But when it comes to manage online learning, nobody can beat Slack.

So this is it. Don’t get frightened by a lot of technical terms we used, just complete the form below and we will start assisting you the way you understand.

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