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.  The Student and staff credentials are created on O365
         Platform. O365 apps such as Power Point, Flip Grid, Sway,
         One Note, Class Note, forms, white board etc.,  are used to
         teach different lesson plans for different grades.

            Lycee  –Education  Management  System  is  used  to
         manage  the  data.  Communication  and  collaboration
         platform of Lycee is used for collaboration between the
         education stakeholders viz., Management, Staff, Parents
         and Students. Lycee Learning Management System helps
         in personalized learning using Artificial Intelligence and
         Machine Learning. Students can also benefit from built-
         in  STEM  &  STEAM  learning.  IOT  and  BOTS  assist  the
         students to solve problem and answer questions.                                                                 Enabling Digital Fee Payment                     system, which helps educational Institutions to transform
                                                                                                                            The Government of India in its efforts to promote digital   their  legacy  manual  fee  collection  system  to  a  Digital
            Lycee e-Governance platform helps administrator to                                                           payment modes throughout the country has introduced   System. Where the fees could be paid from anywhere, any
         manage the school remotely. The e-Commerce system helps                                                         Bharat  Bill  Payment  System  (BBPS),  a  mechanism  for   place and on any device.
         with fee collection, sale of uniforms, books etc.,                                                              enabling contactless digital payments.
         Cyber  Academe  is  Knowledge  Age  complaint  and                                                                                                               Efeeonline has the following facilities:
         the  curriculum  is  based  on  5C  SKILLS,  MULTIPLE     When lockdown was announced due to the                   The Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS) is a Reserve   •  The  Fee  Management  Platform:  Using  this  facility
         INTELLIGENCES      PLATFORM,      MULTI-MODE            pandemic, our only hope was technology. For             Bank of India (RBI) conceptualized system driven by the   the fees formats, receipts, dues and reports could be
         ASSESSMENTS,  DIGITAL  INTERVENTIONS,  MULTI-           last 30 years, our institutions have invested           National  Payments  Corporation  of  India  (NPCI)  which   generated.
         LINGUAL  INTERFACES and Experiential Learning.    on IT, and it had paid us rich dividends. When the            offers integrated, accessible and interoperable recurring   •  Parents Dashboard and Mobile App: Parents can pay the
                                                           world was waking up to the harsh reality of COVID,
                                                           we did not wait.  We collaborated with our technology         payments  services  to  consumers.  One  single  step  of  on   fees, get fee receipts and can track fee dues using this
         360 DEGREE EDUCATION                              partner Tech Avant-Garde to implement their flag-             boarding  on  BBPS  makes  any  school  discoverable  and   facility. Which is available online and as a mobile app
            Cyber Academe goes beyond syllabus based learning as   ship product “CYBER ACADEME”. They are experts        accessible on all BBPS enable channels, including BHIM,   on IOS and android.
         it give importance to 360 degree development of the learner   in technology and are Microsoft Global Partners.   UMANG, Banks website, all major UPI enabled Apps and   •  E-Governance:  Using  this  facility  the  school
         by including the following activities in the curriculum:   Hence, we prepared ourselves for a new beginning     Wallets. This enables parents to pay education fees easily   administration can do real-time tracking of the online
                                                           by establishing the world first “Cyber School”. Now,          from their preferred banks/Mobile Apps/Wallets.    fee collection and settlements.
                                                           our teachers are trained, students are learning, and
            Sports, Games, Film, Theatre, TV, Art, Craft, Creativity,   our parents are happy. We have become Connected
         Music, Dance, Health & Wellness, Technology, Safety and   Learning Community – the Learning System of the          NCERT, CBSE, ICSE, and all state education boards in   The schools can use Efeeonline to generate their fees
         Disaster  Management,  Ecology,  Tourism,  History  and   Knowledge Age.    T.Balakrishna                       India have been requested to promote digital fee payments   and upload on the Efeeonline fee collection platform, which
         Heritage,  Adventure  &  Adventure  sports,  Employment,                        Chairman                        by the Government of India.                      in turn is connected to BBPS platform. BBPS facilitates a
         Entrepreneurship,  Social  &  Emotional  Skills,  World   Venkat Group of Institutions Bangalore                                                                 plethora  of  payment  modes  through  which  consumer
         Culture, Human Values, responsible Citizenship , Caring                                                            CBSE  vide  Circular  no.  18/2020  dated  28.09.2020     can make a fee payment. The payment modes options at
         for elders  differently abled & Animals.                                                                        has issued directions to the affiliated schools regarding   BBPS are Cash, Cards (Credit, Debit & Prepaid), IMPS,
                                                                 Cyber Academe was in waiting for 18 years.              collection  of  fees  from  students  only  online  or  through   UPI, Aadhaar Enabled Payment System (AEPS), Internet
          CYBER ACADEME PHILOSOPHY                             Only now community has begun to tap the po-               non-cash mode.                                   Banking & UPI, and Wallets.
            An  effective  and  comprehensive  learning  ecosystem   tential of Cyber Academe for learning. In a world in
         delivers tools for learning, focusing on the role of technology   which knowledge is the number one asset, the benefits   Hence all schools affiliated with the Board are advised to   Efeeonline  is  a  readymade  platform,  this  solution
         as  an  enabler  rather  than  on  the  technology  itself.  As   of this information-rich, technology-enhanced, col-  on-Board on BBPS for to enable, safe, easy and contactless   enables automation of routine administrative tasks such
                                                           laborative learning environment must be extended
         teaching is refocused to learning, this ecosystem must be   even farther to empower students, teachers, schools,   digital payment of school fees.               as student’s data, fee formats, fee demands and fee receipts
         in place to facilitate individuality in place of traditional   and entire communities to learn without limits.                                                   etc., thus allowing for better management and reporting
         educational processes. This learning ecosystem is flexible,                                                        BBPS  is  now  connected  to  Efeeonline  platform  to   of fees. Other benefits include increased interactivity and
         adapting  to  new  innovations  in  teaching,  learning,  and      CEO  Tech Avant-Garde                        on-board school fees easily on the BBPS digital payment   collaboration with the parent, simplified communication,
         technology.                                                                                                     platform. Schools can connect to this platform using their   and improved accountability.
                                                                                                                         ERP or data could be provided on the excel sheet. During on-
            Cyber Academe supports anytime, anywhere learning                                                            boarding for digital fee payments, MID (School Merchant   MASP PRO: Efeeonline is also available on Microsoft
         and helps to overcome social, economic and technology                                                           ID) and SSL Certificate (to enable secure transaction) will   Aspire School Program offering as MASP PRO. This is a
         challenges and improve the learning ecosystem.                                                                  be provided by the Efeeonline platform. School website is   value based offering, which has dual advantage it enables
                                                                                                                         not required for fee collection, as fee collection interphase   digital teaching learning process and it also enables digital
            This  learning  ecosystem  is  the  Connected  Learning                                                      will be provided by 70 banking channels and 10 digital   fee collections.
         Community, a community of learning for teachers, parents,                                                       channels.
         students, and administrators.
                                                                                                                            Efeeonline is a bespoke multi model fee management

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