Byju’s, Google Partner to Offer Free Online Learning Platform to Schools

Byju’s, the Indian edutech big, on Wednesday introduced its partnership with Google to help on-line studying to Indian faculties. The deal is aimed to combine Google Workspace for Education with Byju’s Vidyartha to offer a collaborative and personalised digital platform that’s claimed to be out there at no cost to collaborating academic establishments. Educators enrolled within the programme will be capable to present distant studying to their college students via Byju’s math and science pedagogy and studying options, together with chapter-wise slides, readymade assignments, information banks, abstract paperwork, and handouts, amongst others.

In addition to Byju’s choices, the platform will embody Google Classroom and entry to Google Workspace for Education that contains instruments resembling Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Forms. Teachers can even get entry to Google Meet the place as much as 100 contributors can come collectively and use Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals at no cost.

Schools can achieve entry to the platform’s inbuilt collaboration with Bjyu’s and Google by signing up on the Vidyartha portal. Bjyu’s mentioned that each faculty signing up would get official electronic mail IDs for all college, college students, and admin workers. The platform can even present end-to-end Classroom administration and assist organise, entry, and observe digital classroom studying.

“Through our partnership with Google, we are aiming to aid this digital revolution and equip our educators with the necessary technological and learning assets to ensure continuity of education. We are truly excited to collaborate with Google and believe that our partnership will be a key facilitator in the new wave of re-defining the future of learning,” mentioned Mrinal Mohit, Chief Operating Officer, Byju’s, in a ready assertion.

The platform will initially have digital content material solely in English, Bjyu’s confirmed to Gadgets 360. There are not any concrete plans for different languages at this second.

Byju’s acquired Bengaluru-based customisable college students platform Vidyartha again in January 2017. It was based in 2011 and has over 3,000 faculties on board, as per the details out there on its LinkedIn profile.

“With the rapid move to online learning and teaching, educators today are increasingly looking for more meaningful ways to bring their lessons to life, and we hope this offering makes online classes that much more engaging and fulfilling,” mentioned Bani Dhawan, Head of Education – South Asia, Google.

Google has been working arduous for the reason that starting of the pandemic final 12 months to increase its digital classroom instruments in India. In August final 12 months, the corporate partnered with Maharashtra State Education Department to deploy its instruments resembling G Suite for Education and Google Classroom free-of-cost at one lakh faculties within the state. It additionally up to date Google Classroom with further Indic language help to draw its potential Indian viewers.

In February, Google claimed that greater than 170 million college students and educators worldwide depend on its suite of digital instruments. The firm additionally introduced over 50 new options to ease on-line schooling.