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ccording to Times Of India,, India's private tutoring sector generates roughly INR 24K Cr ($3.2 Bn) in income per year. Unorganized players, who manage coaching institutes in urban and semi-urban areas, are claimed to dominate the market. According to the Global Education Census Report 2018, almost 55% of pupils choose private tuition outside of school.

Edtech companies are on the rise in India, with more and more people looking to take online tutoring jobs. This is thanks to the amazing apps and tools that these companies are developing to make the process easier and more efficient for both the teachers and the students.

Now private tutors have a lot of options to conduct classes with easy to use apps that can help teachers make their course and go online.

I am listing some of the Ed-tech companies who are making online teaching possible for teachers by providing amazing platforms.

Teachmint- Teachmint is a SaaS-based mobile app, which allows teachers to not only host and record their classes and hand out assignments, take attendance etc. It is available with three plan options basic which is free, Advanced which is paid plan and Pro is yet to be launched.

It is also offering Hybrid operating model for schools to operate online and offline. The management system enables interaction between teachers and students. Teachers can share study materials, videos and course materials through the platform.

So, if you are a teacher and have students already you just need to login - name your classroom and choose your subject. You get the option of going live, it has students name, attendance, recordings, tests, chat, notice board, homework and study material in the menu.

Now you can also sell your course online on the platform, you can create your own course with website and you get an app along with marketing and sales tools to grow revenue. https://www.teachmint.com/

ClassPlus- ClassPlus helps you create your own app. You can sell your courses and study material to students, track attendance, conduct tests, take multiple live classes, create assignments and keep a record of all the fee receipts and get student's performance reports all in one place.

ClassPlus provides a store where you can sell your course materials, you can create your online assessments, there is a stats dashboard to keep track of all the activities of the students. You can market your content by using the marketing dashboard to send notifications to the students, create posters etc. The option of live class enables teachers to set up class which comes with automatic recordings.

ClassPlus lite provides free access to teachers to take their class online, other features include option of uploading study materials and having access to performance stats.

So, its quiet simple- just download the app, add your students and start inviting them. This also means that you need to have students beforehand to plan these sessions.

You can request for a demo and they will help you understand the entire process. ClassPlus provides free demo for seven days, premium plan is priced at Rs. 8000 yearly with additional costs that includes GST, live classes and streaming charges are additional.

If you have been conducting online sessions for a lot of students, you need to manage their attendance, fees, you need to create links and share which can be time taking and these software's can help you get professional in maintaining everything so that teachers can concentrate on teaching. https://classplusapp.com/

I have asked for a demo and I am still waiting for their session.

Ingenium- Ingenium offer apps for coaching institutes.Institutes can create their own brands with features like live classes,live lectures recording , digital Whiteboards. It provides option of creating test series and course materials that can be sold out. Students can use the app to take notes and documents. Its easy to create reports of the students and share with the parents. The pricing starts with 999/year. https://ingeniumedu.com/

Winuall- Winuall provides one stop destination for managing students and classes for teachers. It helps you create batches of students according to the topics to be discussed. You can add students, add faculty, assign quizzes, collect fees etc. There is option to take online classes through zoom or any other platform that you prefer. Taking attendance is easy on the platform. Fee collection happens on time, you can send automated reminders, offer discounts and coupons.

With this app teachers can check the progress of the students by conducting tests and quizzes online in multiple formats - be it multiple choice or long answer type. You can create interactive courses online by adding videos, live classes, quizzes, notes.

You can have your own content store by putting it out in the market place, the app helps you create ads, gives you insight and provides expert help.

Tutors presently pay a monthly membership fee to use Winuall's SaaS platform, which is based on the number of students they enroll. For example, the Winuall membership charge for a class of 50 pupils would range from $150 to $200 (INR 11K to 15K) every year.

ClassPro- Launching your own academy is easy with ClassPro. The app provides live teaching with zoom integration, other features include system to manage fees and admission of the students. Teachers can provide provide homework and assignments to students and track their submissions and send instant notifications to parents and students for non-submission.

It provides a tool to manage coaching class business with features like following enquiries of the parents and students, feature of biometric management of the attendance, availability of students report card for parents. It provides insightful reports to grow your business, a parent- student app.

The app enables tool that helps teachers to create tests for students that provides evaluation, having students to log-in from anywhere in the world, creating instant reports.

The app comes with a 7 day free plan where customers can enjoy all the features.

Guru Q- This App helps students by finding the best tutors for them, Teachers are listed as per their qualification and reviews given by parents and students. So students can choose the teacher and the right tuition package.

Tuitions are provided for school education, competitive exam, language learning and for courses to prepare for studying abroad along with something that the students demands. It provides language options ranging from Spanish, English, French, Italian, Japanese etc.

It provides tutors for CBSE, ICSE, IB and IGCSE. Even students who want to prepare for abroad can get classes in PSAT, SAT I, SAT II, IELTS, GRE and GMAT.

I tried registering the website as a teacher and I had some trouble signing in. They also take a test before you sign up. So prepare in advance. The other thing that I noticed is they offer few subjects for IGCSE.

Ed-tech apps like these will help teachers become independent and professional. This will also help teachers reduce their dependency on the schools. Specially teachers having a lot of students need not worry managing so many things together, they can just focus on the course and increase their student numbers.

If private tutors already have a base where they have been teaching a lot of students, it will take time for them to understand the app and start using. They will also need to get their students on-boarded to these apps, which can be a task. Its good to compare these apps before you register and you should ask for a demo to understand all its features. If you have already been using any of these apps, do share your experience.

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Oct 12, 2018
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