Educare App subscribers grow by leaps & bounds

Our Correspondent

Jalandhar, July 20

Coming as a big achievement to the state Education Department, the ‘Educare App’, which was launched last week, has gained as many as 2,55,940 users and 4.7 rating on Google Play Store. Besides, the app has registered users not only from Punjab, but from Haryana, Himachal, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi, Uttarakhand and Jammu and Kashmir.

Giving details, Deepak Kumar, one of the team members who had an instrumental role in the app development, said as per the figures received on Monday from the technical team, the Educare App has around 2.55 lakh downloads, 88,19,418 views, 2,85,98,295 hits and 1,501 reviews so far. The app has become a big hit and we are getting a very good response from users, he said.

He said the Educare App is a storehouse of all learning material. “Teachers and students can have hassle-free access to the syllabus, text books in a PDF form, video lectures, worksheets, assignments, quizzes etc in just a click. It is also helping users to recapitulate any topic whenever they want.”

“Different features of the app such as teachers’ station, students’ corner, word of the day, Udaan are being highly appreciated by users, as it provides additional help in case of any problem or difficulty in access,” said, Chander Shekhar, Jaswinder Singh and Harjit Bawa, members of the Educare App developing team.

Sujhaav Somvaar

To bring qualitative improvement in online classes and make it more comprehensive, the Education Department on Monday held a virtual meeting — Sujhaav Somvaar — with the department officials, heads and teachers, to seek suggestions from teachers and officials on how online learning experience could be made more interesting and reachable for students. Besides, suggestions regarding adding more features in the app were also shared. Education Secretary Krishan Kumar said valuable suggestions were given by teachers and the team having technical expertise, adding that the department would definitely explore the ideas and soon develop a roadmap to execute the same.