1 yr of Punjab Educare App

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, July 10

Having got started in Covid times, the ‘Punjab Educare App’ serving as the digital schoolbag for the students has completed a year since its launch on July 11 last year.

The app has made the study material for the students of pre-primary to Class XII just a click away. Since last year, the state education department had taken to various digital routes like TV, radio channels, WhatsApp, Google Classroom, YouTube, etc. to reach the students but it was the app that came in most handy for the students.

It has achieved a distinctive 4.4 out of 5 rating with 40.9 lakh users, 3.47 crore sessions, 34.76 crore page views and over 24 lakh downloads of the app so far. The students belonging to other states and UTs, including New Delhi, Chandigarh, Haryana, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand are also using this user-friendly, easily accessible and easily navigated app.

Interestingly, it was a team of school teachers from Jalandhar — Deepak Kumar, Jaswinder Singh, Harjit Kumar, Haridarshan Singh, Chander Shekhar, Omeshwar Narayan, having no IT background or expertise support, who initially developed the ‘Punjab Educare App’ with their sheer dedication coupled with indigenous innovations.

The app is a one-stop solution to the problems of accessibility of the study material. It provides systematically arranged study material including text books, audio/video lessons and daily assignments in all subjects. It is a user-friendly app and puts an end to the worry of losing useful study material that is being provided by the education department on a daily basis. It is an additional tool for the teachers and students. The teachers and students can have hassle-free access to the syllabus, text books in PDF form, audio/video lectures, worksheets, assignments, word wall activities, quizzes and study material for competitive examinations, including NTSE, NMMS, PSTSE. It helps both teachers and students to recapitulate any topic whenever they want. Besides, new features are being added as per the requirement emerging from time to time. Krishan Kumar, Secretary, School Education, said that a comprehensive project to update the app with more user-friendly innovations is in the anvil. "A team of dedicated computer teachers having exclusive expertise in such distinctive areas has been striving hard to add new features to make the app more student-oriented as well as focussed on interactive learning", he added. It includes ‘Teachers' Station', ‘Students' Corner’, ‘Word of the Day', ‘Udaan’.

To make teachers well-versed in the use of the advanced IT applications, the Punjab Education Department has launched a ‘Capacity Building’ programme for accelerating the pace of qualitative improvement in education. Under it, a series of webinars for were also organised.