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| Edited By: Arunima Rajan |Source: DNA |Updated: Jan 11, 2010, 03:44 PM IST
With an aim to help working parents, who cannot visit their children’s schools regularly to check his/her progress, a website — Edyalay.com — has been launched in Bangalore. Parents will be able to follow their kids’ academic activities on the new website.
“The site is designed in such a manner that parents can access information about their children’s performance anytime and from anywhere in the world. Schools should register their names with the website. Parents can get services of educational institutions ranging from pre-schools to universities on the website,” Ashish Raichur, director of Edyalay.
The website offers many innovative features for schools like marking attendance online. Students, teachers and parents can interact online with each other through this website.
“The standard features of the website are free for all educational institutions,” said Ashish. The list includes marking daily attendance, entering test marks, institution notice board, institution events calendar, print reports like portions for an assessment test, timetable for an assessment test, term schedule, student info and report card, he added.
The paid premium (one need to pay a certain amount to access) features available with the site include school time-table and teacher schedule, previous academic year records, a communication centre where individual and mass emails can be sent to students, class, school and parents, sending bulk SMS, institution bulletin board (audio/video), custom student fields and assign student information en-masse and multiple syllabi/academic departments.
There are a number of packages available, especially for students. Among them professional packages costs Rs300 per year and premium package costs around Rs600 per year for a student.
To illustrate various features of the site, the team of Edyalay is visiting different campuses in the city. “We are planning to make presentations for schools. Few international schools have evinced interest in the product,” said Ashish.
