BigGyan Cloud eLearning for Coaching Institutes

<h1>BigGyan Cloud eLearning for Coaching Institutes</h1>Author: <a title="Diipak Gupta" href="http://www.articlesbase.com/authors/diipak-gupta/237386.htm">Diipak Gupta</a> With BigGyan eLearning stands for Easy Learning – easy for administrators to implement, easy for teachers to maintain and easy for students to use. Get Started Today <ul> <li>Build WebPresence </li> <li>Integrated approach of teaching - Online course management- </li> <li>Superior Instruction </li> <li>24X7 support to students </li> <li>Tracking Student Performance </li> <li>Parent Portal </li> <li>BigGyan Services </li> <li>Environment Friendly </li> </ul> Building WebPresence Internet has emerged an important platform for marketing.  It is inevitable that coaching institutes need to build their online presence as more and more parents and students are going to internet to obtain information related to career. However, the rules of creating web presence are different from the ones that work in normal world. Internet is all about starting early and targeting right. The early you start more websites will link to your website making your website more relevant, which makes the website appear higher in search results of search engines like Google. What good is a website which does not have considerable number of visitors? Further, it is extremely important to build online presence professionally. A badly designed website may do more damage than good. BigGyan helps you create web presence professionally which is directly targeted to your target audience. Integrated approach to teaching - Online course management BigGyan reduces work of teachers and administrators by helping them manage various aspects of courses with cool online tools. BigGyan enables teachers to be creative and use innovative teaching methodologies, allowing them to make learning fun for students. Teachers can minimize time spent to perform admin chores for courses. - Assignments - Online Attendance - Online Gradebook - Database - Online Quizzes Assignments Teachers can collect assignments from students online, review it and provide feedback including grades. The grades automatically are fed into online Gradebook of the students. Students can submit any digital content (files), including, for example, word-processed documents, spreadsheets, images, audio and video clips. Assignments do not necessarily have to consist of file uploads; teachers can ask students to type directly into online text editor available in BigGyan. Online Attendance The module allows teachers to mark attendance of students. The grade corresponding to attendance is included into the students Gradebook automatically. Students can also view their attendance record. The attendance records can be exported into MS Excel spreadsheet format for record purposes. Online Gradebook BigGyan offers a very flexible Gradebook, which can be used to fit any specific requirements. Administrators and teachers can change the ways in which grades are calculated, aggregated and displayed, as well as means to change the grades manually. Various types of reports can be generated. Further, grades can be exported to MS Excel spreadsheet, OpenDocument spreadsheet, plain text file or XML file for record purposes. Database Teachers can build searchable repositories. A common use of this module is for storing past exam papers, activities for students to do or print out, or collections of students’ work. Online Quizzes BigGyan offers a powerful tool for conducting online quizzes. Teachers can design and set quizzes consisting of a large variety of Question types (multiple choice, true-false, and short answer questions etc.). These questions are kept in the course Question bank and can be re-used within courses and between courses. Quizzes can allow multiple attempts. Each attempt is automatically marked, and the teacher can choose whether to give feedback and/or show the correct answers. BigGyan also allows you to shuffle questions within quizzes and to shuffle choices in multiple-choice questions. Even randomly generated quizzes from pools of questions. When teacher want to prepare an offline exam, they can just pull out questions from the question bank and printout the quiz. Superior Instruction Multimedia content Teachers can include multimedia content - videos, interactive animations, presentations (ppt), and images to enhance their course curriculum and make learning for their students more fun. BigGyan offers tools to use any type of content with their courses. Online Test Series Teachers can provide online test series to their students using BigGyan. The tests can be designed such that all students have to take online test during a specific time period. BigGyan can automatically check answers submitted for objective type questions. The grades go directly to online GradeBook. Further, automatic feedback can be provided for wrong answers. BigGyan Search BigGyan search engine was created using Google Search Technology. Internet is filled up with low quality content. Nobody wants low quality content especially when it is being used for education purposes. BigGyan search provides only good quality content. It also groups content into lecture notes, videos, presentations, pdfs, tests, quizzes. So you can quickly reach the content you are looking for. Rapid Course Development With web 2.0, lot of websites have come up where people share various types of content. Ex. YouTube, Teachertube, Metacafe, Vimeo for videos; Slideshare for presentations; Scribd, Docstoc, Issuu for documents, Odeo for audio. Teachers can search for content on these sites using BigGyan Search and easily include the relevant content in their course. 24X7 support to students Online Course Material The entire course curriculum (lectures given by teachers, online quizzes, assignments) is stored online. Students have 24X7 access to the content. This is especially useful during exams, as students do not have to worry about lost notes, assignments. They can feel safe that they all the content. This is part of "No Child Left Behind Policy" as envisioned by BigGyan. More Interaction Students have support of their teachers and peers as and when they require it. They can do group activities online, discuss assignments online, share and solve problems during exam preparation. - Forums - Chats - Group activities Special Classes Teachers can conduct extra classes using online conference (Dimdim - Web Meetings). The extra classes conducted during exams could help notch up student’s performance. Tracking Student Performance BigGyan provides teachers with access to finer details regarding student’s efforts and performance. It allows teachers to monitor and analyze students’ performance from a much closer perspective. Teacher’s can provide feedback which is much more relevant and beneficial to the students. Parent Portal BigGyan offers tools to get the parents more involved in their child's education experience. Parents can monitor their child's progress through the BigGyan Parents' Portal. The Parent Portal gives parents and guardians access to selected content from their children’s school BigGyan. Parents will be able to browse sections that the school wishes to share with its parents. Content could include upcoming events, discussion boards, and personal material related solely to their child. Parents can also communication with teachers using forums, chats and emails included in BigGyan. BigGyan Services BigGyan provides professional services to help you implement eLearning at your institute. Our trained professional staff is equipped to support all our client’s requirements. Institutes may not employ additional IT staff for activities surrounding BigGyan eLearning. BigGyan provides following services: <ul> <li>Fully Maintained Installation </li> <li>Fail-safe Data Backup </li> <li>Resolve Issues </li> <li>Data Entry Services </li> <li>Training Services </li> <li>Content Authoring </li> <li>Instruction Designing </li> <li>Course creation - SCORM compliant, IMS </li> </ul> Environment Friendly Helps cut down Treeware Treeware refers to all content printed or written on papers. BigGyan helps administrators, teachers and students to cut their treeware significantly. This is not only environment friendly but also saves costs and is more convenient as teachers and students are not required to carry content of paper wherever they need. No need to maintain content on paper. No chances of losing the content. Save fuel BigGyan provides tool to Institutes to cut down fuel costs of teachers, parents and students. Using online conference tool Dimdim integrated with BigGyan institutes can hold Parent-teacher Meetings online. Even for extra classes students are not required to attend classes physically. Dimdim provides online whiteboard, desktop sharing, chatting features to facilitate online conference.About the Author: website: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.biggyan.com">http://www.biggyan.com</a>

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With BigGyan eLearning stands for Easy Learning – easy for administrators to implement, easy for teachers to maintain and easy for students to use.

Get Started Today

Build WebPresence
Integrated approach of teaching - Online course management-
Superior Instruction
24X7 support to students
Tracking Student Performance
Parent Portal
BigGyan Services
Environment Friendly

Building WebPresence

Internet has emerged an important platform for marketing. It is inevitable that coaching institutes need to build their online presence as more and more parents and students are going to internet to obtain information related to career. However, the rules of creating web presence are different from the ones that work in normal world. Internet is all about starting early and targeting right. The early you start more websites will link to your website making your website more relevant, which makes the website appear higher in search results of search engines like Google. What good is a website which does not have considerable number of visitors? Further, it is extremely important to build online presence professionally. A badly designed website may do more damage than good. BigGyan helps you create web presence professionally which is directly targeted to your target audience.

Integrated approach to teaching - Online course management

BigGyan reduces work of teachers and administrators by helping them manage various aspects of courses with cool online tools. BigGyan enables teachers to be creative and use innovative teaching methodologies, allowing them to make learning fun for students. Teachers can minimize time spent to perform admin chores for courses.

- Assignments

- Online Attendance

- Online Gradebook

- Database

- Online Quizzes

Assignments

Teachers can collect assignments from students online, review it and provide feedback including grades. The grades automatically are fed into online Gradebook of the students. Students can submit any digital content (files), including, for example, word-processed documents, spreadsheets, images, audio and video clips. Assignments do not necessarily have to consist of file uploads; teachers can ask students to type directly into online text editor available in BigGyan.

Online Attendance

The module allows teachers to mark attendance of students. The grade corresponding to attendance is included into the students Gradebook automatically. Students can also view their attendance record. The attendance records can be exported into MS Excel spreadsheet format for record purposes.

Online Gradebook

BigGyan offers a very flexible Gradebook, which can be used to fit any specific requirements. Administrators and teachers can change the ways in which grades are calculated, aggregated and displayed, as well as means to change the grades manually. Various types of reports can be generated. Further, grades can be exported to MS Excel spreadsheet, OpenDocument spreadsheet, plain text file or XML file for record purposes.

Database

Teachers can build searchable repositories. A common use of this module is for storing past exam papers, activities for students to do or print out, or collections of students’ work.

Online Quizzes

BigGyan offers a powerful tool for conducting online quizzes. Teachers can design and set quizzes consisting of a large variety of Question types (multiple choice, true-false, and short answer questions etc.). These questions are kept in the course Question bank and can be re-used within courses and between courses. Quizzes can allow multiple attempts. Each attempt is automatically marked, and the teacher can choose whether to give feedback and/or show the correct answers. BigGyan also allows you to shuffle questions within quizzes and to shuffle choices in multiple-choice questions. Even randomly generated quizzes from pools of questions.

When teacher want to prepare an offline exam, they can just pull out questions from the question bank and printout the quiz.

Superior Instruction

Multimedia content
Teachers can include multimedia content - videos, interactive animations, presentations (ppt), and images to enhance their course curriculum and make learning for their students more fun. BigGyan offers tools to use any type of content with their courses.

Online Test Series

Teachers can provide online test series to their students using BigGyan. The tests can be designed such that all students have to take online test during a specific time period. BigGyan can automatically check answers submitted for objective type questions. The grades go directly to online GradeBook. Further, automatic feedback can be provided for wrong answers.

BigGyan Search
BigGyan search engine was created using Google Search Technology. Internet is filled up with low quality content. Nobody wants low quality content especially when it is being used for education purposes. BigGyan search provides only good quality content. It also groups content into lecture notes, videos, presentations, pdfs, tests, quizzes. So you can quickly reach the content you are looking for.

Rapid Course Development

With web 2.0, lot of websites have come up where people share various types of content. Ex. YouTube, Teachertube, Metacafe, Vimeo for videos; Slideshare for presentations; Scribd, Docstoc, Issuu for documents, Odeo for audio. Teachers can search for content on these sites using BigGyan Search and easily include the relevant content in their course.

24X7 support to students

Online Course Material

The entire course curriculum (lectures given by teachers, online quizzes, assignments) is stored online. Students have 24X7 access to the content. This is especially useful during exams, as students do not have to worry about lost notes, assignments. They can feel safe that they all the content. This is part of "No Child Left Behind Policy" as envisioned by BigGyan.

More Interaction

Students have support of their teachers and peers as and when they require it. They can do group activities online, discuss assignments online, share and solve problems during exam preparation.

- Forums

- Chats

- Group activities

Special Classes

Teachers can conduct extra classes using online conference (Dimdim - Web Meetings). The extra classes conducted during exams could help notch up student’s performance.

Tracking Student Performance

BigGyan provides teachers with access to finer details regarding student’s efforts and performance. It allows teachers to monitor and analyze students’ performance from a much closer perspective. Teacher’s can provide feedback which is much more relevant and beneficial to the students.

Parent Portal

BigGyan offers tools to get the parents more involved in their child's education experience. Parents can monitor their child's progress through the BigGyan Parents' Portal.

The Parent Portal gives parents and guardians access to selected content from their children’s school BigGyan. Parents will be able to browse sections that the school wishes to share with its parents. Content could include upcoming events, discussion boards, and personal material related solely to their child. Parents can also communication with teachers using forums, chats and emails included in BigGyan.

BigGyan Services

BigGyan provides professional services to help you implement eLearning at your institute. Our trained professional staff is equipped to support all our client’s requirements. Institutes may not employ additional IT staff for activities surrounding BigGyan eLearning.

BigGyan provides following services:

Fully Maintained Installation
Fail-safe Data Backup
Resolve Issues
Data Entry Services
Training Services
Content Authoring
Instruction Designing
Course creation - SCORM compliant, IMS

Environment Friendly

Helps cut down Treeware

Treeware refers to all content printed or written on papers. BigGyan helps administrators, teachers and students to cut their treeware significantly. This is not only environment friendly but also saves costs and is more convenient as teachers and students are not required to carry content of paper wherever they need. No need to maintain content on paper. No chances of losing the content.

Save fuel

BigGyan provides tool to Institutes to cut down fuel costs of teachers, parents and students. Using online conference tool Dimdim integrated with BigGyan institutes can hold Parent-teacher Meetings online. Even for extra classes students are not required to attend classes physically. Dimdim provides online whiteboard, desktop sharing, chatting features to facilitate online conference.

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