What is E-class?
A digital education initiative started by Sundaram, a company that makes tradition paper based education products, E-Class aims to help India’s school system go digital, by providing access to quality digital educational material to students and schools.
E-Class started off by providing their digital content to schools in Maharashtra through pen drives that could be plugged into a proprietary system that could be seen on TVs/projectors.
When smartphones became more affordable, the E-Class mobile app was created to help students directly access this digital content on their phones. The app allowed students to access content on a memory card that could be purchased online or through a book store – this enabled offline access to the course, as data was expensive and connections not reliable.
Key Challenges
What we did
- We added security to ensure that content is only accessible from the original memory card, and added layers of encryption to ensure that the content can only be viewed through the app. We also made sure that the app could not be re-engineered to invalidate the security features.
- We ensured that multiple languages worked across different Android devices and versions. This enabled the app to be better received in rural areas of Maharashtra where budget Android phones were likely to be used.
- In order to gain better traction in schools, it was necessary to help them understand how the app was being used by students to study. We made it possible to send reports from the student’s apps to teachers so that they could monitor progress. We also implemented features to restrict the memory card access to specific devices for certain schools to make the app more palatable to them.
Results
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