Free content to teacher trainings: These EdTech platforms are helping in Covid Times

Covid 19 has impacted economies across the globe. Along with basic amenities and supply, COVID pandemic has affected education sector the most. It has also brought a lot of changes in people’s life. Since the schools and colleges were shut, Edtech took charge to ensure learning continuity for the learners.

Edtech companies offered a range of facilities to help the students continue their education. For the students, providing free content, live classes, free course material were a few of many things that Edtech companies took care of. Along with this, Edtech companies also worked with schools to train the teachers on how to conduct online classes.

Here are a few Edtech platforms that have supported the students and teachers:

Bright Tutee:

Bright Tutee is an affordable learning platform. It has lessons for over 20 education boards in India. The Edtech is also providing online education for classes 9th and 10th in three languages for free. State governments of Haryana, Rajasthan and Nagaland have collaborated with Bright tutee post schools shut down to provide a virtual learning experience to mass students. The leading Edtech platform saw 78% of users from tier 2 & 3 cities. It also provides training to the teachers and helps them conduct online classes.

Toppr:

With schools shutting down temporarily and impacting learning for lakhs of students across India, Toppr has announced free access to live classes and video classes. Students are preferring online videos and live classes considering the current scenario. So, the platform has witnessed a sharp increase in student enrollment across grades. Through this initiative, Toppr has reaffirmed its commitment to making high-quality education accessible especially during times like these.

Adda247:

Adda247 focusses on helping every student access quality education and training to become capable of cracking the most intensive competitive examinations. It has invited offline coaching institutes to utilize its platform to conduct free classes for students for the exam preparation for banks, SSC, Teaching, Defence, PCS, etc. It is also disseminating free study material to students on its digital learning. To increase student engagement, Adda247 has launched #21DaysChallenge for community activities in the form of free mock tests for students. The platform is also providing courses for test preparation at an affordable price.

Gradeup:

Gradeup is backed by $10 million from Times Internet. The Edtech helps more than 18 million exam aspirants prepare effectively for competitive examinations like JEE, NEET, GATE, IBPS, SSC, TET, UPSC amongst others. It is increasing free lessons to those appearing for UPSC, banking and railway exams. The company has also doubled the number of free videos. It is India’s only ed-tech platform which has built engaging exam-specific communities of students preparing for competitive exams, enabling students to interact with fellow peers & mentors, ask questions, share updates & much more. Its flagship offering is Gradeup Classroom; a comprehensive exam preparation tool providing Live online courses from some of India's best faculty.