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EW SPOTLIGHT FEATURE
                                          Fliplearn transforms homework management

                                          for schools and teachers with its new homework
                                          transformation system

                                          The Covid pandemic has impacted life in ways we could not imagine just a year ago.
                                          Education was severely disrupted due to the limitations imposed on movement, meetings
                                          and gathering. Ms. Divya Lal, Managing Director of Fliplearn Education Pvt. Ltd
                                          explains her views on why schools should prepare for a shift to Phygital learning in 2021.


                                          intervention by Fliplearn, homework   Parents can finally heave a sigh of
                                          as it was, or as we perceive it, is   relief. The tortuous sound of the word
                                          ready for a transformation that   ‘homework’ need not ring similarly
                                          could save teachers and students   in their ears anymore. Times have
                                          thousands of hours through modular   changed. Thanks to Fliplearn HTS,
                                          structures, better efficiencies, more   homework has transformed into a
                                          customisation, quicker assessment   positive, proactive, progressive model
                                          and better outcomes.             for learning, teaching and assessing a
                                            The Homework Transformation    student’s progress. No surprise that
                                          System (HTS) by Fliplearn was    teachers and Principals from well-
            he Covid 19 Pandemic has      designed to address this imbalance   known schools have appreciated
            impacted the education sector in   and obstacles in the current   the impact made by Fliplearn on
       Tmore intrusive manner than any    homework setting and checking    Homework Transformation System:
       other and the disruption has pushed   system with the goal of making   Revathi Mohan Raj, Teacher, Sagar
       education systems all over the world   home-work easier for students,   International School, Erode said, “We
       to investigate alternatives to face-to-  teachers, and parents.     are incredibly happy to join with
       face instruction. Online learning has   The Fliplearn HTS enables teachers   Fliplearn - a wonderful e-learning
       since then become a saviour and digital   to assign homework with a single   platform for the students and teachers.
       learning platforms like Fliplearn in India   click, offers automated homework   It really saves our time and efforts. The
       have emerged as a panacea for schools   correction and gives teachers the   automated correction feature has made
       helping them to go online almost   option of creating their own content   our work remarkably simple, and it
       overnight.                         by using the Fliplearn question bank.   helps us to focus on the other aspects
         While digital learning has helped   It tracks class homework performance   of learning. Fliplearn’s finest benefit for
       bypass the roadblocks in education to   and provides analytics. In addition,   teachers is its pre-made question bank,
       a great extent, the interminable school   the HTS provides a world-class   which eliminates the need to create
       lockdowns have forced children to   curated information repository as   homework on a regular basis and saves
       become incarcerated inmates in homes.   well as adaptive homework that is   time. Fliplearn has been quite helpful
       In this context, homework has acquired   truly personalised.        and is improving on daily basis.”
       an irony missed earlier – to be going   For students, HTS is a great   Rajesh Dongre, Principal, School
       to school and getting homework made   enabler. Students doing homework   of Brilliance, [location] “Fliplearn has
       some sense, but when all schooling is   are provided with the relevant   been used at our school from the past
       now at home, all work is homework, one   learning material even as they work.    one year. It has made the process of
       could argue.                       With this app the school child can   distance learning incredibly simple
         It is an unfortunate fact that Indian   adapt homework as per his or her   and convenient for both students and
       school children spend more hours than   learning needs, which make learning   teachers. We use the Fliplearn app to
       their peers across their world finishing   effective. The app also has a feature   conduct our live classes, and the best
       homework. Indian teachers assign over   to identify academic strength and   aspect about it is that it allows teachers
       1 billion homework assignments each   weakness of the student and offers   to assign homework to students through
       day through its private schools. Parents   detailed diagnostics of individual   the App. Its automated correction
       in India spend more hours doing    student’s performance and progress   feature reduces the burden of teachers
       homework with their children than any   for parent, teacher or the student him   to check the homework and makes a
       other country.                     or herself. HTS also offers students   teachers life so much easier.”
         Not for nothing has homework has   great flexibility. Students can log in   Bharti Goel, Teacher, Lord Mahavir
       been for the longest time the bugbear   at any time on any device. While it   Jain Public School, Ambala Cantt
       of the school-learning-teaching triad.   is preferable if they establish a daily   said, “Fliplearn is a fantastic, well-
       While students have thought of them   schedule for themselves and stick   organized app that assists students in
       as necessary evil, teachers have broken   to it with parental encouragement,   accomplishing their goals. With the
       their backs issuing them, correcting   kids can make specific alterations to   content bank, it helps both students and
       them and assessing them over long   their schedule as they see fit, making   teachers. The worry of homework is
       hours into the night.              home-work simple, pleasurable and   about to become a thing of the past for
         Necessary they might be, but evil they   conducive their own temperament   parents, instructors, and kids, thanks to
       need not to be. Thanks to a momentous   and time schedules.         apps like Fliplearn HTS.”


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