How to use the cyberspace effectively for uninterrupted learning and secure examination

“Online learning is rapidly becoming one of the most cost-effective ways to educate the world’s rapidly expanding workforce” Jack Messman

To empower technology dynamism with Digital India and to promote digital learning, our Government has persistently pushing its efforts since 2016 into practice to encourage Online Education System and its Digital India Initiatives in Higher Education System.

On July 4^th2018, UGC has taken a remarkable step for the development of Higher Education System and issued regulations regarding Online Courses or Programmes under which Higher Education Institutions are allowed to offer globally recognized online mode of Certificate, Diploma Degree Programmes of those disciplines for which the programmes are existing in offline/classroom mode. There are minimum four quadrants for learning which video lecture, e-content, self-assessment and discussion forum for effective education; and online proctored exams would also be organized.

The effect of advanced technology and innovation has shifted the Educational paradigm in the last couple of years. Now a days, physical classroom learning is not the single way of Education, with the rise of cutting-edge technologies, the access of Quality Education can be done irrespective of time and location; and the benefits of Online Education can be given as:

• Flexibility: Online Education enhances flexibility in teaching-learning practices as both instructors and learners are not required to fix to a specific schedule or miss the deadline, if session cannot be organized. Using comprehensive digital learning tools, the study material can be uploaded and accessed at their own pace and their own space.
  
• Cost-effective: Education on a digital space has been proved a cost-effective solution due to less expenditure on associated resources, and the valuable assets can be utilized for training and development.
  
• Extensive learning options: Learning through web space can provide wider range of options regarding courses and learning avenues for both teachers and students where students can be awarded certificate, diploma or degree in line with the program and its duration.
  
• Self-governance: The teaching-learning without physical boundaries inculcates self-governance in both teachers and students where both are themselves responsible for their milestones and progress. As the instructors expects learner to be independent for basics and use the common time for activity based learning with better time management skills.
  
• Alliance cultivation: Working together in virtual environment towards the accomplishment of better learning goals, boosts the communication skills and collaboration to discuss ideas, knowledge and activities for more engaging and creative learning.
  
• Improved tech-skills: Online education requires embracing of latest software and tools for trouble-free and effective learning sessions that make the users tech-savvy and updated.
  

Similarly, Online Examinations are also getting importance and popularity due to its compatible secure digital features to create, conduct and evaluate examination with the additional benefits of saving paper, time and money. Many Higher Educational Institutes have replaced their traditional examination system with online examination system and incorporated digitization from pre-examination to post-examination activities that also led to a comprehensive, flawless and quick Evaluation as well.

Online Education aspects of New Education Policy 2020

The ‘New Education Policy’ (NEP) 2020’ which is the first education policy of 21^st century has brought new opportunities of the blending technology in Education sector. Following are the fundamental initiatives by NEP to foster digital ecosystem in Higher Education Institutes:

• Digital infrastructure:

NEP emphasizes the development of digital infrastructure in HEIs to remove digital divide in the country and facilitate uninterrupted learning regardless of situations.

• New autonomous body:

A new autonomous body—National Educational Technology Forum (NETF) has been planned to established a central body to discuss and strategize the leveraging new technologies such as blockchain, machine learning, artificial learning etc. at all levels to streamline educational management and execution.

• Virtual labs

More Virtual labs will be created to support empirical learning and by introducing hands-on experiments, virtual field visits and projects to enhance the creative learning skills.

• Virtual classrooms

NEP has also aimed to the availability of online learning through virtual classroom and study material to every student in the nation. Online learning is planned to be the alternative mode of learning in the times of crisis.

• Digital literacy

NEP has futuristic view of producing skilled and computer geek youth whose foundation is planned to be laid in the early age by focusing on improving digital literacy and making the coding and computational thinking part of early age learning.

• Edtechs

The New Education Policy has paved the way for integration of Edtech and Education sectors to accelerate technology driven educational services with innovative digital products to strengthen online education.

On Aug 10, 2021, a national webinar was organised by Education Ministry and UGC, on the theme of ‘Use of technology in Education’ that focused on the adaption of technology to make the Education available to everyone without physical constraints and smoothening the Education system. iCloudEMS is a market leader that offers cloud based classroom and examination services and empowers Outcome Based Education model in HEIs. The Online classes and examination product of iCloudEMS commits to cater the needs of all stakeholders in simplifying the management of classes and examination by:

For Faculty:

• Can use the prime virtual class settings integrated with cloud-based iCloudEMS portal to organize online classes, meetings or group-discussions.
• Can practice the advanced features to use various multimedia formats for making the session more engaging and understandable.
• Can use the innovative Question paper settings mechanism for preparing group wise or difficulty level wise question paper.
• Can consider the extensive Question bank and on portal templates for question papers.
• Can exercise the outcomes designing and mapping approach to construct questions in OBE and Bloom’s taxonomy framework.
• Can use the LIVE proctoring feature for vigilant and transparent examination.
• Can use On-screen evaluation to reduce the turnaround time in evaluation and grading.
• Can deploy the automatic credit counts and storage functionalities to empower flexible academic approach.
• Can use the powerful reporting tools to generate the results and analysis reports.
  

For Students:

• Can experience creative Online LIVE classes to accomplish their learning goals.
• Can use the customized learning portal to learn at their own pace.
• Can create interactive and learning LIVE sessions with better peer-peer and teacher-student interaction.
• Can access their records and performance matrix to track their learning curve.
• Can observe their learning outcomes accomplishment levels to govern their holistic development.
• Can add convenience of their own space by appearing in exam through Online Exam management system.
•  Can experience the creditable and transparent evaluation system with flawless results.
  

For Administration:

• Can take well-informed decisions regarding planning and management of available resources to conduct classes and examination.
• Can maintain massive records with quick information retrieval using centralized web-based platform.
• Can leverage digital academic bank to access the students’ credits to award certificate, diploma or degree.
• Can save their valuable time and efforts with digital utilities for seamless workflow management.
  

For Management:

• Can get a bird’s eye view to the organization of LIVE classes and Examination.
• Can monitor the virtual examination space for the smooth organization.
• Can take prompt action towards the unethical behavior in classes and examination to maintain integrity of system.
• Can promote continuous quality improvement to raise the academic standards at par with global levels.
  

The use of technology in Education can never be ignored to enhance our education system. India is the second most popular country in using social media. Thus with such large population, there is immense potential to develop and grow in various horizons including Education, if the right fusion of technology is carried out. Keeping the same in consideration our honourable Prime Minister, has taken groundbreaking Digital India initiative like SWAYAM, e-yantra, Swayam Prabha, National Digital Library to bring digital revolution for high quality and a digital literate Higher Education landscape. iCloudEMS offers comprehensive digital strategies to empower Online Education with our versatile Online Classes and Exam Management System to automate various intricacies of classes and examination activities for a disciplined digital governance working towards the globalization of Digital Education.

How Blended learning can empower the Learner-centered Education System

It has been well said that

  “Tell me and I forget, Teach me and I may remember,  Involve me and I learn”

Learning can only be termed holistic learning when it can bring psychological, social, and emotional growth in a learner and he gets able to fulfil his dreams and aspirations towards self, society, nation and the world. The goal of education is to make a student well-aware of his abilities and enable him to be a competent learner, responsible citizen and a good human being.

Andreas Schleicher, OECD Education Directorate, 20106 explains the need for Learning Transformation in 21st century as: “Today, because of rapid economic and social change, schools have to prepare students for jobs that have not yet been created, technologies that have not yet been invented and problems that we don’t yet know will arise.” 

The National Education Policy has emphasized the importance of student-centric education. It has been well accepted that a student is the core stakeholder in an Educational Institute.  So his satisfaction in terms of choice of course, instructor, pace of learning, examination and results is a high priority concern of Higher Educational Institutes; and continuous Quality Enhancement should be the on-going process to fill the learning gaps at the required level.  

Taking all these factors into consideration, University Grant Commission (UGC) has shown the acceptability of alternating learning modes including classroom learning, online learning or distance learning in all courses whether disciplinary courses, interdisciplinary courses or vocational courses that leads to the implementation of Blended learning (BL).

NEP 2020 clearly states that it is the time of Education Transformation and shifting the education paradigm from Teacher-centered to Learner-centered Education. The Education Transformation deals to increase the flexibility to students and enhance the quality of education in line with:

The advancement in digital technology has influenced all the domains of the world, the Education domain has also inclined towards digital learning. Today the learners do not enjoy the traditional learning methods, but demand for the incorporation of digitools in the classroom learning to make it more creative and engaging. Blended learning (BL) is nothing but leveraging technology in classroom face to face teaching-learning practices.

NEP 2020 recommends student-centered learning in Educational Institutes where flexibility and multidisciplinary knowledge play their major role to produce skilled and knowledgeable young minds. NEP 2020 mentions the significance of complementary use of both digital learning and face to face learning, thus promoting the execution of Blended models in Education.

The important characteristics of BL are:

• Improved Students’ engagement in sessions
• Better teacher-pupil interaction
• Leaning at their own time
• Self-governed and continuous learning
• More prospects of empirical learning
  

Role of teacher and learner in BL:

In the framework of BL, the teacher plays the role of coach or facilitator. BL has shifted the education model from teacher-directed to learner-driven. One –size fits all is no longer followed in teaching, while the customized learning keeping with differentiation as the main factor works well with BL. The integration of technology with classroom education provides the elbow room for the learners to become active learners who can be the center of the Education system and govern their own learning with the best traits of facilitation by teachers to meet the individual needs of students.

With the use of technology in teaching-learning, the learners are getting more focused for a longer period compared to chalk and board resources. The use of the internet enables them to take more interest in understanding the concept and learning has become research-oriented by exploring the topic in depth. Learners have become more responsible towards the accomplishment of their goals. The availability of e-learning materials helps them to learn at their own pace. Various reviewing and feedback mechanisms assist the teachers to tailor their teaching strategies and decision making. 

There have been many blended learning models discovered such as the Blended face-to-face model which deals with supplementing online activities with the sitting time in classroom to achieve higher-order learning. Another one is the online driver model where more learning is concerned with online learning while some in-person activities like lab or lectures are integrated in small numbers.  The Flipped classroom model is a hybrid of both above mentioned model and inverse of traditional education model, in which students come prepared in classroom, they learn the concept using online video or other e-material and come to classroom for projects or other assignments for better understanding. Next is the rotation model, in which the learning of course is rotated among different modalities like station rotation, lab rotation and individual rotation.

Effective Implementation of BL:

The effective implementation of BL in Higher Education Institutes demands the deployment of advanced pedagogies for skill enhancement. Teaching in the BL framework should focus on students’ engagement and get the students equipped with 21st century Education skills to make them future-ready to face the real world challenges of modern society.

Students of Higher Education Institutes cannot be assumed to be blank during the classroom. They have their own previous academic and real-life experiences. So considering them as empty boxes is not a good teaching approach. In fact the learners should also be allowed to share their knowledge, experiences, ideas and observation to enhance collaborative learning.

Some pre-session material should also be uploaded on the Learning Management System so that they can come prepared with background knowledge of concepts and use their classroom time in understanding its application using some fruitful discussions and activities. To empower student-centric learning various methodologies are incorporated including Brainstorming, Field activities, Projects, Creative Presentation etc. for an updated and upgraded Curriculum.

Assessment and Evaluation in BL:

UGC suggests Higher Education Institutes to explore assessment and evolution in light of BL only, Continuous Holistic Evaluation is the new trend in Assessment which deals with the multi-level assessment of cognitive skills during semester that encourages more weightage to internal evaluation with more innovative strategies. Open book examination, Group Examination, On-demand Examination are some innovative approaches of summative assessment while Online quizzes, Collaborative activities, e-portfolio are some of the examples of Formative Evaluation Strategies in Blended Learning Model.

UGC initiative to prepare students for digital-driven learning

The University Grants Commission (UGC) and the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) are putting their revolutionary efforts into practice towards technological reformation of Higher Education that demands outstanding pedagogical practices to cope with the pace of global.

In the light of the outburst of pandemic Covid-19, the Education system has to face the challenge of sudden closure of Educational Institutes for breaking the chain of virus spread. Traditional teaching could not be possible in such daunting situations and use of digital space proved a life-saver to support uninterrupted learning.

Unpredictable situations demand innovative ways and the education industry is doing its best to cope with challenges of uncertainties. COVID-19 has made us imagine that yesterday’s lifestyle will no longer be the same for today or tomorrow, even after the pandemic situation is over. Thus, using the hybrid education model and being the tech-savvy are the only options for the survival of learning in every situation

How iCloudEMS makes the implementation of BL a cake-walk for Higher Education Institutes

UGC explicitly recommends the requirement of digital infrastructure and digital practices to upgrade the academic standards of Higher Education Institutes in today’s dynamic world.

iCloudEMS is a pacemaker in offering its comprehensive utilities to Higher Education Institutes to host a digital ecosystem and empower student-centered learning. Following are the key features of iCloudEMS that solve the real-world challenges in the course of proper execution of BL in the Institutes.

• Managed services to support ERP of Higher Education Institutes that provides tech-driven infrastructure to make myriad of activities easy and flawless both for students and administration. Students are no longer required to wait in long queues and administration gets free from the hustle-bustle of tedious paperwork with our supporting features.
• Flexibility in course choice is one of the important focus areas among NEP 2020 regulations. Our smart solutions get the course choice and allotment effortless for both students and instructors. 
• To encourage multidisciplinary culture we provide innovative credit assignment and calculation features that saves the valuable time of administration in credit management in accordance with the course chosen by students.
• We deliver a cloud-based personalized Learning management system to enhance students’ engagement and promote modern learning methodologies to add value to the teaching sessions.
• Online repository to upload the study material that can be accessed by students using their login credentials to enable them learn at their own pace that bridges the learning gaps.
• Rating and feedback mechanisms at the end of every topic, assist the instructors to get insights of the learning curve of students and the strategic planning of their pedagogical practices. 
• Our interactive Learning Management System (LMS) supports different multimedia formats to enhance the visualization of concepts for better understanding.
• Outcome Based Education (OBE) has become the need of the hour for accomplishment of learning goals. Our Outcome based LMS aligns the teaching and assessment practices in consonance with OBE and Bloom’s taxonomy framework to help instructors in the definitive evaluation of cognitive abilities of learners.
• On-demand Examination is one of the important considerations of Education Transformation. The Online Exam Management system offers a disciplined cyberspace for the planning and governance of on demand examination keeping the integrity of the system at the highest priority. 
• Our specialized Student lifecycle management system promotes student-centered learning by integrating the entire academic journey of a student on a single dashboard that gives a bird’s eye view on the student activities and progress for efficient tailoring of further plans for the all-round development of students.
  

Blended learning is the right fusion of technology in traditional classroom teaching –learning methods and resources. It can accelerate the learning and knowledge retention rate in students and enable them to gain 21^st century education skills to produce independent and lifelong learners. iCloudEMS never leaves a stone unturned to offer unified digital solutions towards the realization of student-centric education to generate a skilled workforce with multidisciplinary knowledge in Higher Education Institutes.

A remarkable UGC initiative towards flexible and lifelong learning with Multiple Entry Exit System(MEES) in Higher Education

National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 aims to bring major reforms in the Higher Education System. Multidisciplinary and flexible learning are the key objectives of restructuring the Education System for improved learning outcomes. In accordance with NEP guidelines, students are free to choose their courses and academic pathways in Higher Education, and to support the students’ choice Academic bank of Credit(ABC) and Multiple Entry Exit system are the fundamental recommendations of University Grant Commission(UGC).

Flexible learning paves the way for lifelong learning and to encourage flexible learning in  Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), it is important for the students to choose their academic path leading to the award of certificate, diploma, and degree. There are many circumstances when the learners are required to take a break from their studies, but under present conditions such students are labelled as drop-out students and they get no qualification certificate for the period they were enrolled and studied in HEIs. NEP 2020 offered Multiple Entry Exit System to remove such rigid boundaries of diploma/degree completion years and provided the solution towards reducing the dropout rates with considerable improvement of Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) to ensure no-loss to students in the case of exiting in between.

Let’s deep dive into the Multiple Entry/Exit System

NEP welcomes the urgent need of reducing the dropout rates and adding flexibility in Higher Education learning with its Multiple Entry Exit System (MEES). MEES allows the students to be their own degree-maker and motivates them to resume learning from the point they were required to leave in between and helps them to achieve their goals in life.  According to NEP regulations, undergraduate degree should be either of three or four year duration with multiple entry as well as exit points. Depending on the completion years within this period, one will be able to earn a certificate, diploma or degree. The four year graduation will be a preferred option as it makes the learners experience multidisciplinary and holistic education with the subjects of their own choice. Depending on the degree years of graduation, HEIs have customized options for their Master Degree Programs; A two-year Master’s programme will be offered to those students who have completed three year Bachelor’s programme and a one year programme for those who have done four-year undergraduate degree with research; one more integrated five year Bachelor’s/Master’s programme will also be offered with option to exit at third years of Bachelor’s degree and entry to a Master’s programme. Certificate, Diploma or Degree are organized in levels ranging from Level 5 to Level 10 where:

Level 5 is the Undergraduate Certificate level and is for those students, who exit studies after the first year of graduation;

Level 6 is the Undergraduate diploma level and is for those students, who exit studies after two years of graduation;

Level 7 is the Bachelor’s Degree of three years;

Level 8 is the Bachelor’s Degree (Honours/Research) of four years;

Level 9 is the Master’s Degree One/Two years depending on three/four year’s Bachelor’s Degree respectively.

Level 10 is the Doctoral Degree.

Academic Bank of Credits (ABC)

Academic Bank of Credit (ABC) is a resourceful cornerstone of the Multiple Entry Exit system to promote flexibility in curriculum and institute, ensuring mobility of learners across the HEIs of their choice. There is also an option for students to gain the credits by learning quality Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) from UGC approved digital platforms such as Study Webs of Active Learning for Young Aspiring Minds (SWAYAM). This national-level credit account will facilitate the digital storage of earned credits from different HEIs and the certificate/diploma/degree will be awarded in line with the accumulated credit in a specific duration at the undergraduate and Master’s levels. HEIs will be required to register in the national ABC framework for the successful implementation of Multiple Entry Exit system and for smooth execution of multidisciplinary and flexible learning with impeccable credit count, credit transfer and credit acceptance from students’ account.

The innovative ABC and MEES projects will serve the following purpose:

• Reduce dropout rate and boost GER.
• Withdraw the fixed boundaries of diploma/degree completion period.
• Allow different discipline combinations such as to enable multiple entry exit points.
• Taking students’ choice of courses in consideration for a flexible curriculum approach.
• A support system towards credit recognition, credit accumulation, credit transfers, and credit redemption to encourage flexible and lifelong learning.
  

Although these policies boost vocational opportunities and enhance practical knowledge leading to national and global progress,the actual execution of such endeavors may bring real-life issues with them.

Some ground level challenges to be faced by HEI in the course of MEES implementation include:

• Decision of students’ intake can be a dilemma for the HEIs as there will be multiple entry points available for students in every year.
• Admission management with dynamic number of students will be a difficulty for potential lead conversions.
• In accordance to number of students admitted each year, allotting them the courses of their choice in line with Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) norms will also be not easy to handle.
• Once the students choose their courses, next challenge will be with the course and faculty allotment because with such intake uncertainty teacher pupil ratio will also be disturbed.
• The organization of associated attributes of each course such as curriculum, credits, number of lectures/labs/tutorials will require a lot of time and efforts of administration.
• Governance of vital academic elements such as preparation of time table, attendance record, assignments etc. will also be going to be a herculean task as the previous records of the students leaving in-mid will also be required to be maintained along with running batch.
• The Examination and Evaluation related intricacies incorporating the utilization of human and material resources will be a challenging task for HEIs.
• Being accredited is the need of the hour for HEIs, but the preparatory measures of accreditation will not be easy as it requires the data and reports of several years, and with MEES each year will have uncertainties with it.
• Training and placement activities will also be required to be upgraded such that each student irrespective of certificate, diploma or degree holder can get best out of his education.
• The gist of MEES i.e. academic pathway flexibility will generate a massive data of each student to handle for the HEIs.
• With all the above mentioned complexities, no stone should be left unturned in the practice of Outcome based education and Bloom’s Taxonomy framework, which will also be a cause of concern.
  

iCloudEMS is a market leader in providing unified solutions to cater the assorted needs of HEIs and upgrade their academic level on par with global standards in the world of Information and Communication technology.

How iCloudEMS simplifies the accomplishment of MEES goals in HEIs

iCloudEMS has always assisted HEIs to function in congruence with the visionary norms of the Education System. We always encourage student-centric education in HEIs and provide a digital-driven ecosystem for quick and flawless execution of the requirements. ABC and MEES are revolutionary measures of NEP 2020 to empower skill-based learning. iCloudEMS offers a collaborative cloud-based environment to align the workflow of HEIs ensuring the actualization of such insightful endeavors.

Our following key attributes furnish all the technological requirements for efficient utilization of academic resources, and to bring holistic development of students:

• Integrated managed utilities to support Higher Education ERP for hassle-free management of all pre-admission to post-admission tasks
• Digital-driven course choice and allotment schemes to encourage multidisciplinary and flexible learning.
• Automatic Credit assignment and calculation in accordance with the course chosen by students.
• Personalized Learning management system to enhance students’ engagement and creativity in Outcomes based Education and Bloom’s Taxonomy framework.
• Online Exam Management system to offer digital governance of planning and management of all exam related activities and associated resources.

• Innovative outcomes designing and mapping services to promote student-centric learning in HEIs.
• Smart services to manage and upgrade training and placement services of HEIs taking care to boost career opportunities of each student.
• Student Lifecycle management system to integrate and computerize students’ academic roles and pathways on a common digital platform.
• Cloud-based platform for efficient database management of enormous data and reports of large numbers of students with quick information retrieval options.  
  

In a nutshell, it can be stated that, the strategic execution of these groundbreaking MEES and ABC projects will provide seamless mobility to learners ensuring their zero-year loss with multiple qualification award options at different points. Students will be their own Academic account holders and experience a transparent and flexible academic environment. iCloudEMS has always been a trustful digital support system of HEIs through the structured realization of student-centric education with such insightful projects to bring holistic development of the Education System.

Role of iCloudEMS in Managing in Students’ Life Cycle Management System

No matter whether it’s about school, college or university, the amount of information that is supposed to be handled has always been surplus encompassing the data of students, teachers, parents, examination, administration, results, funds, payment and so on, but, with the advent of ERP software (Enterprise Resource Planning), things have become a lot easier. For all the educational institutions, ERP has become an exclusive solution assisting them to ameliorate their standard. Although ERP is used in many fields but the implementation of ERP in the education sector serves a wide and varied purpose and iCloudEMS with its unified web-based products like LMS, Accreditation Management System, Online Classes & Online Exams, Outcome-based Education System and Students’ Lifecycle Management System, dextrously manages the entire operations of an educational institutions in few clicks.

Taking Students’ Lifecycle Management (SLM) into consideration, we need to understand what exactly it means and what its importance is. SLM is an inclusive data-driven method that manages “Student Success” by covering their entire journey starting from admission to becoming alumni. It is, indeed, one of the most crucial goals of any educational institution that the student who has taken admission, spends the best days of their lives, experiencing a positive transformation and leave the institution with the graduation degree and satisfactory job-offer letter.

 Earlier, before the appearance of web-based technologies, student’s success was very much dependent on a lot of manual work in order to organize marketing & branding activities so that new prospects can be attracted. Other target of that tedious task was to track students’ interests, nurture them through consistent engagement, scholarship programs to help deserving and meritorious students etc. and after all this work, a student’s academic journey actually started. Once the journey begins, retention and progress become the next important goals but knowing and understanding along with maintaining the information of every single student is a herculean task. Moreover, once the students graduate from the institution and start their career, there comes another challenge comes forward i.e. staying connected to the alumni, facilitating a friendly environment for them so that they willingly come forward to mentor the new students who need a role model to follow their footsteps and improve their chances of employ ability and add value and reputation to the institution. So, Student Lifecycle can be represented as a complete circle of an important journey which decides the future of the students.

As discussed above, we can see how it becomes necessary for all the educational institutions to sustain the information of each and every student without making any mistake. 
iCloudEMS through its unique product ‘Student Life Cycle Management’ provide the solution to the challenges faced by Educational Institutes like:

• Improvement in resource management.
• Softcopy based or paperless campus management.
• Errorless and Efficient Administration.
• Automating Payment Process.
• Safe & Secured Student information system management.
• Recording of attendance and maintenance of data.
• Effective Online Classes and Proctored Online Exams.
• Generation of Results along with Grades without any grievances.
• Augmentation in daily productivity.
• Assurance of Quality Education.
• Making campus management cost-effective.
• Providing platform for new opportunities.
  

Role of iCloudEMS in maintaining the Students Lifecycle can be identified as follows:

• Supervised and complete Automated Processes: It is difficult for the Management to handle all the processes at single point and that’s why our product Students Lifecycle management system automates all the systems and helps the management to monitor the institutional work at micro as well as macro level.
• Centralized Power and control over multiple departments: In the educational Institute, there can be multiple departments which can be unmanageable sometimes. With the help of our product, the management can have a centralized control over different departments on a single screen.
• Data driven updates and instant reports: Management of an institution can get the required data on a single click and can keep themselves updated about the institution’s daily activities. Moreover, instant reports can be generated at any time without any error and confusion.
• Data Security: Our product provides high technology security to make sure that the data is well secured & managed.
• Tracking of Student’s Admission: Our product makes tiresome jobs like applications & admission process easy with its reliable online process.
• Fee Collection & Revenue Management: Our managed services assist in fee collection, receipt generation and data maintenance online without any computational errors because a minor mistake can have a major impact on the cash flow.
• With the help of our product, teachers can take digital attendance, track lectures, students’ performance and upload important materials and assignment with burdening themselves with excessive work load.
• Our product Student Lifecycle Management System facilitates an easy communication between students & parents and later on with the alumni who can play an integral role in students’ retention process.

• Students can view their attendance, timetables, academic calendar and results without taking much trouble. iCloudEMS with the help of its LMS, provides a learning platform for the students to attend online classes, take their assessment exams and try to attain the course outcomes for overall development. Moreover, it also keeps the records of placed and unplaced students as per campus recruitment management program.
• iCloudEMS with its product plays an integral role in managing the students’ data strengthening the Alumni Management System by handling all the information related to a student once they graduate. If the institution shows concern to the alumni in their future endeavours, the same attitude will be reflected from them as well. They can willingly become a donor by showing their concern about the institution and guide their juniors to become a valuable asset for the same institution.
  

To conclude, we can say that iCloudEMS with its effective product Students Lifecycle Management System proposes a purpose-built, highly effective, techno-friendly solutions which can be customized as per the needs of the institutions that are relying on the working of ERP for improved admission, students’ retention, academic achievements, career needs and overall satisfaction while completing an important phase of their lifecycle.

iCloudEMS welcomes the new education policy Academic Bank of Credits with its Effective Education Management System

Higher education has always played a key role in enhancing the essence of humanity and encouraging collective wellbeing so that India can get its recognition as the nation which upholds liberty, equality, fraternity, and justice for all. It provides people with an opportunity to reflect on the social, economic, cultural, moral, intellectual and spiritual issues faced at every stage. It contributes to national development through dissemination of specialized knowledge and skill. Being at the apex of the educational pyramid, it has also a key role in producing learned teachers and aspiring students for the education system.

The objectives of Higher Education can be identified as:

Imparting Wisdom & Knowledge: Education is all about training of mind and soul. Any sort of knowledge is a waste if it fails to awaken something in the students. Education is valued only when it kindles the spark of an attitude to achieve great and create history.

Establishing Social Order:Effective education system targets to find its guiding principle to establish the social order. It is only possible when educated people understand and value the existence of democracy, justice, liberty, equality and most importantly our freedom.

Building the right kind of teaching-learning environment: Institutions of HE focus on the creation and sustenance of the right kind of teaching-learning environment by improving the quality of teaching and thus enabling students to acquire global competencies in various fields of study and application to successfully face the challenges in the changing global scenario.

It is very well said that “Instead of learning to memorize facts and figures, students need to learn how to learn and how to solve problems”. Moreover, this has become the need of the hour that students stretch their wings and fly high into the limitless sky encompassing as much knowledge as they can.  In the light of this, a new education policy has been introduced named as Academic Bank of Credit aka ABC which will help students to become academic account holders and they can move between or within degree-granting Higher Educational institutions through a formal system of credit recognition, credit accumulation, credit transfers and credit redemption to promote distributed and flexible teaching and learning environment. This would also allow students who have to drop out of their courses due to unavoidable circumstances to resume their programme at a later time from where they left it, rather than having to start over from the beginning of the course.

This academic flexibility creates a new possibility for innovative and substitutable curricular programs leading to creative blends of different courses in multifarious Disciplines of Education because of which students can attain Degree or Diploma or Post Graduate Diploma or Certificate of Study which offer multiple entry and multiple exit facilities assuring an authentic lifelong learning instead of forced and crammed knowledge.

The essential objectives of Academic Bank of Credits System:

• To promote student centricity with learner-friendly approaches in higher education across the country and promote a more inter-disciplinary approach in higher education.
• To enable students to select the best courses or combination of courses to suit their aptitude and quest for knowledge. 
• To permit students to choose a pace for their studies along with the associated logistics and costs. 
• To allow students to tailor their degrees or make specific modifications or specialisations rather than undergoing the rigid, regularly prescribed degree or courses of a single university or autonomous college. 
• To enable multiple entry-multiple exit for students to complete their degrees as per their time preferences, providing mobility across various disciplines and HEIs for Degree or Diploma or Post Graduate Diploma or Certificate programme or Course work for the Ph.D. programme. 
• To support, procedurally, the teaching-learning activities to happen in a distributed and blended manner through integration across campuses or universities or autonomous colleges with increased mobility.
• To facilitate lifelong learning amongst all, i.e., formal and informal students from both full-time and part-time modes.
• To satisfy the students’ quest for knowledge, freedom to choose and change their academic directions, connect different domains of knowledge and help them acquire the right foundations and building blocks to pursue their life goals. 
  

Role of iCloudEMS in supporting the essential objectives of Academic Bank of Credits System:

• iCloudEMS with its managed services create an easy way to users in managing feedback and updating the records. Students and teachers can view the performance data and accumulated credits in case, students are planning to pursue other courses using those credits. It becomes easier for the system to transfer the credits without any manual error.  Out unified system provides print option for viewing the detail about the record of students. Using this, staff and management section can easily find students details. This system is a paperless system by which workload is reduced.
• Our managed services to ERP system can provide a framework to this new policy of ABC through which learning communities can be developed to inject change into the educational environment. Our system can enable the integration of curriculums through developing connecting points and providing a nervous system for integration, while removing redundancies between disciplines. In the process, they refine our understanding of the nature of knowledge in areas of business, while optimizing use of technology in the campus setting.
• Our product Learning Management System or LMS is a sophisticated could-based software with its effective features and functionality and enables collaborative learning by creating engaging and creative courses, enabling effective learning assessment, easy content customization, conserving time & money and has reduced dependency and increased flexibility in accessing different programs for learners. This presents a plethora of options for the students in the selection of their courses using their accumulated credits.
• Our Education Management System supports a multi-campus structure that enables trusts and educational societies to have centralized database and streamlines operations across different institutions while maintaining their individual autonomy. So, in this new policy of ABC, communication between the institutes while transferring the students can be done without any confusion.
• Our managed services will assist the management to analyse the various aspects of this Academic Bank of Credits by improving the data access and boosting well-informed decision-making through strategic data analysis. 
  

The New Education Policy is bringing few significant changes like Commencement of Schooling at the age of 3 years, Mother Tongue as the medium of instruction, One body for Higher Education i.e. HECI or Higher Education Commission of India instead of UGC, AICTE, NCTE etc. and most importantly Establishment of an e-education unit. To look after

e-Education and pace up the Online learning, a department will be created in the MHRD for schools and higher educational institutions to build digital infrastructure and digital content. It has become mandatory for the institutions to equip themselves with web-based technologies and effective ERP software as online education is ensuring preparedness with alternative modes of learning and reaching the most interior places of the country.  iCloudEMS with its products i.e. Accreditation Management System, OBE & Learning Management, Student Lifecycle, Online Classes & Online Examination System and skilled managed services promises to provide a trustful and efficient aid to this new system of Teaching & Learning methodologies.

How to choose the best Education Management Software for Institutes

Educational institutes have the core objective to achieve the learning goals of students in the best possible way. In today’s world of competition, Institutes face lots of challenges in maintaining their academic standards and performing their day-to-day complex activities.There are many limitations in handling all these operations manually like redundancy of information, missed information or wrong information. To overcome these constraints, strategic planning and robust technology are required that can automate a plethora of all daily operations and streamline the workflow of the institute. Education Management Software (EMS) is the set of various modules that offers better and more efficient allocation and management of academic resources to empower student-centric learning in the institutes. With the help of EMS, institutes have changed their ways to handle administrative and non-administrative functions. Nevertheless, it is important to choose an EMS with the features that meet the requirements of an institute.

Here are some important capabilities to look out while selecting the Education Management Software:

1. Easy storage of data

There is massive amount of data generated for students and staff of the institute. The proper choice of EMS ensures to store the data and reports produced with the help of inbuilt analytic tools and dashboards. The ideal EMS should provide capability to access right information anytime and anywhere.

2. No hardware requirement

It is important to go for cloud-based EMS that can be customized to provide all kind of required information for the institutes. The major benefit of cloud technology is to avoid the need of maintenance and the associated staff that makes it a cost-effective approach.

3. Improvement in teaching-learning practices

To meet the standards of education, improvising the teaching and learning has become the need of the hour. It is important to enhance the creativity in the pedagogy to bridge the learning gaps. An EMS should be innovative enough to support creative content creation and delivery.

4. Handle paper-free non-academic operations

Many non-academic operations such as pre-admission, admission, fee collection etc. demands lot of time and efforts of the staff members. A perfect EMS should support all such activities in paper free mode and give results on a few clicks.

5. Secure and Effective Communication

The transparency of any system can be judged, by observing the secure information flow between the concerned members. The right EMS should provide a single dashboard view of the information for all stakeholders to check and track the progress of activities.

6. Mobile-friendly software

In the era of smart phones, a technology is incomplete if it can’t be accessed via smartphones. So, an EMS should be Mobile App friendly that can enable quick information access and action taken for easy and effective communication.

Conclusion: All Educational Institutes should invest in a user-friendly and comprehensive EMS to perform the required operations, timely and effectively so that the time and academic resources can be utilized in more productive output delivery and the staff can be free from doing the tedious tasks and can make the decisions in the right direction.

How Learning Management System (LMS) has become an Intelligent agent of E-learning through Pandemic

LMS is an acronym for Learning Management System. It is a software application for managing online teaching and learning.The massive hit of Covid-19 has made the students face the challenge of sudden closure of institutes for breaking the chain of virus spread. In such unanticipated situations LMS has proven a boon to education sector as switching to online education and use of digital space were the only options in front of administrators to avoid the undesired interruption of learning. LMS offers innovative content creation and delivery features in a user-friendly approach.

Here are some reasons, how LMS has empowered education system in these times of crisis:

· Non-stop and Interactive Learning: During COVID-19, when lockdown has been the protocol for safety, and traditional classroom learning has been switched to online learning. LMS facilitates interactive learning and also offers repository to save e-notes, assignments, research papers etc. It overcomes the limitation of classroom boundaries and provides 24*7 availability of study material to students for learning that bridges the learning gap more effectively.

· On-the-Go Learning: In the challenging time of Pandemic, smartphones assisted learning has proven a reliable way of learning that can be done anytime and from anywhere. LMS supports smartphone environment that makes the learning more accessible and interactive both for teachers and students.

· Lesson planning and management LMS offers a centralized digital platform to instructors for scheduling their lectures in advance and the same plan will be visible to students and top management that increases the transparency of the syllabus planning and coverage.

· Creativity in Content Creation and Delivery: LMS supports the creation and delivery of study material using various multi-media formats that enhances the creativity in education content and enables the classes to go beyond chalk-and-board through COVID-19 pandemic.

· Easy Tracking and Evaluation of Students’ Progress: LMS provides unified portal to instructors for uploading the assignments and for the students to submit their answers that makes assessment and record maintenance easy for teachers. In the light of lockdown due to COVID-19, it gets possible for the students and parents to regularly track the progress of students without visiting the institute.

iCloudEMS is a cloud-based platform to streamline all the administrative and non-administrative operations in various Colleges and Universities. It supports an innovative Learning Management System (LMS) that can create virtual classroom setting to enhance the creativity in teaching-learning practices. It is an intelligent and collaborative user-friendly interface that aims to furnish the requirements to model OBE in educational institutes and empowers student-centric learning. In nutshell a versatile LMS has proven a blessing in disguise and an Intelligent agent in the path of E-learning through global pandemic.

How Automation has brought revolution in the world of Education

In the present time, every industry is working to make the best of technology to ease their workflow and save the important time of administration in doing mundane and repetitive tasks. Digital transformation has offered the information accessibility anytime and from anywhere for efficient functioning of organization. Digitization paves the way of automation and automation has become an integrated part of our daily lives as well, we can see automation all around us like in our washing machines, dishwasher, refrigerators and may more, in education sector is no longer an exception in being digitized and automated.

Automation is the use of technology to minimize manual efforts in performing time-consuming and recurring assignments resulting in improvement of outcomes. The education model is made up of different stakeholders who are responsible for their associated academic and non-academic functions. Automation makes the best use of academic resources and gets most of the task paperless in the institute.

Here are the main points that make us realize, how automation has impacted the all the level of education sector and leads to the creation of an efficient and innovative world of education.

1. For the administrative staff

There are many non-academic activities at the administrative level which if becomes automated can drastically reduce the workload for the associated staff. Back-office activities include students’ registration, enrolment, fee collection and record, receipt generation etc. Such kind of tasks are labour-intensive, time consuming and paper based, but with the implementation of Artificial intelligence, machine learning and other automation technologies, the tasks at this level can be performed effortless with minimal human intervention which saves time and other important resources.

2. For the Instructors

The core objective of instructor is to teach and train the learners, but with the workload of other supporting daily activities like maintenance of attendance record, assignment grading, lecture scheduling etc. consumes their considerable time and effort. Today in the time of automation, all such tedious tasks can be performed in a few clicks of mouse and encourages the trainer to achieve more productive and meaningful academic outcomes.

3. For the Parents

Parents are important stakeholder of the education sector. Earlier it was a regular practice for the parents to visit the institute to keep check their wards’ performance, for his safety and many more concerns. Automation has benefitted their lives as well, now they are no longer required to visit institute for such regular tasks, digital platforms allow to connect them full-time with the institute and they can keep regular track of their children progress. Some advanced features like SMS alert on the absence of child boosts the security and relaxes the safety concern of the parents.

4. For the Students

In present time learning is no longer bounded to chalk-and-board classroom. With each passing day it is required to be more innovative and interactive. Students are no longer interested in being passive participant, they enjoy creative and interactive meaningful sessions. Automation has made all these things possible for learners. Now with the advancement of technology, students can easily connect with teachers regarding any feedback or query which bridges the learning gap more efficiently and improve the learning outcomes. Automation has enhanced the transparency of system, now students are always aware of their attendance, grades, lecture schedule and other academic activities. They can easily fetch the study content like e-notes, lecture videos, research papers etc by login on their academic platform which adds more value in gaining knowledge and skill.

Conclusion: The list of automation benefits in any sector can go on and on. Automation and digitization have transformed all sphere of life. Many complex and complicated problems can be easily solved today with just a few clicks of mouse. The contribution of automation in education sector is incredible and now it has become an inevitable part of teaching and non-teaching activities. It has positioned the stakeholders to make the best of their time and resources to bring revolutionary changes in the education system– for now and in the future.

Relevance of Outcome Based Education in the Advancement of Educational Quality

High quality education has become the basic need for this generation to survive, says iCloudEMS. Life is running with a frenetic pace and thus, adoption of new technology is the gateway to the bright future. High quality education aims at creating an effective teaching and learning environment that may bring about desired changes in the learners by equipping them with in-depth knowledge, sharpened skills and positive attributes. Educational institutes are implementing the model of Outcome-Based Education with the help of innovative technologies which provide managed services to ERP like iCloudEMS and impart wisdom, skills and values to the students to reach the acme of success.

Outcome – Based Education sets a new standard for learning which emphasises on outcomes or results more than accumulation of credits. The teachers are required to design some action plans or course outcomes for the students which they have to attain while acquiring the knowledge. After taking the exams in the form of tests, assignments, practicals and projects, students get evaluated and their results are mapped with the set course outcomes and in turn with program outcomes. Their results showcase their achievements and accomplishments in a specific course. The induction of India in the Washington Accord in 2014 with the permanent signatory status) is considered as a big step forward for the betterment of the higher education system in India. It means that an Indian graduate degree with NBA accreditation is valid in any one of the other countries who have signed the accord and so for Indian educational institutions, it has become compulsory to follow Outcome Based Education (OBE) model in order to get accredited and approved. 

The Outcome-Based Education model evaluates the growth or progress of the graduate on three important parameters as follows:

• Program Educational Objectives (PEO)
• Program Outcomes (PO)
• Course Outcomes (CO)
  

Program Educational Objectives (PEO) are extensive statements that describe the career and professional achievements which the program is targeting the students to accomplish. Similarly, Program Outcomes (POs) are the statements that describe what students are supposed to know and acquire while doing the graduation. They must reflect upon or meditate on Graduate attributes as described by the accrediting body for the ungraduated programs. Course Outcomes are the parameters on the basis of which students’ performance is evaluated for each course undertaken by them in every semester. 

Features of Outcome – Based Education System

• Student Centric: OBE provides a platform to the learners as per their ability as according to it every learner has varying capacity and grasping power.
  
• Clarity & Focus: Students and teachers work in one direction to achieve the targeted goals by mapping course outcomes and program outcomes.
  
• Creates Opportunities: Students get several chances to achieve the desired results. Their marks are purely measured on the outcomes. 
  
• Complete involvement: This is the compulsory and integral part of OBE as students are required to learn in order to develop understanding of the subjects and acquire the necessary skills. 
  

Traditional Educational System v/s Outcome-Based Education System 

The traditional or conventional education system has always been described as teacher-oriented, repeated curriculum oriented but most of the time the information is shared in only one direction which is teacher to student direction but in today’s scenario, it is not enough as it lacks many other multidimensional connections. This Conventional Education System has so many limitations like:

• This traditional classroom teaching lacks in promoting critical thinking skills and focuses on notes-based learning or memorizing the content. 
• Students become passive learners rather than active learners.
• The syllabus is followed only for the sake of completion and not for the outcomes.
• The students cannot learn innovative things and their knowledge is limited to the experience provided by the teachers. 
  

While on the other hand, Outcome – Based Education system offers so many benefits like:

• The designed modules are creative and flexible.
• They have a more problem-solving approach.
• Students’ interpersonal skills can be improved gradually.
• Students can adjust themselves with new technologies easily.
• OBE is devoted to the spontaneous learning process.
• It enhances and strengthens the decision making and management process of the institute. 
  

Challenges faced by the Institutions in the implementation of OBE:

Outcome-Based Education has made its appearance as a threat to the conventional method of teaching and learning. It targets to enhance the competency and it can grow with the help of educators who possess progressive and flexible mind-set. Institutions are adopting, planning and executing OBE but when it comes to the management of overall activities and data manually, there can be following challenges:

• Data collection & storage along with curriculum management may become a herculean task. 
• Maintenance of assessment cycle to achieve the desired goals is tough as well because it abides by the steps mentioned below: –
  

Step 1: Designing of assessment considering goals, outcomes, criteria, Bloom’s Taxonomy, and other standards like rubrics. 

Step 2: Sharing of outcomes, criteria and standards to keep things transparent. 

Step 3: Providing learning experiences through curriculum & teaching pedagogy.

Step 4: Collecting, Evaluating and Analysing the results of students’ learning.

Step 5: Interpreting the results to find the relevant gaps for the revision of teaching methodologies, curriculum, programs & outcomes. 

• Manual evaluations of the attainment of outcomes often come out to be erroneous which may affect the further processes like revision of the curriculum to fill the gaps, restructuring of COs in order to map with the POs. 
• The outcome mapping by analysing the overall attainment consumes a huge amount of energy and effort. 
  

Relevance of Outcome-Based Education System 

OBE is a crucial part of the education system in the era of globalization. It offers a cluster of skills which are required to deal with rapidly changing technologies. The result of the OBE produces transparent anticipation of the top-level product as students understand their own expectations and teachers also observe students’ understanding level and provide resources based on their analysis. OBE doesn’t suggest any specific teaching technique as educators aren’t bound to follow old conventional teaching methodologies. They can plan numerous activities for the assessment of the students and grade them on the basis of their understanding. Institutes are turning towards effective online examination which can be a reliable platform for authentic result generation which assures live proctoring and all. 

The structure of OBE encompasses creating, managing and aligning sets of competencies to learning resources, assessments & evaluations, analytical rubrics etc. to keep an eye on the performance. By associating with the unified hi-tech education management system, institutions can empower themselves by:

• Developing effective sets of course outcomes and storing them for the implementation.
• Reorienting curricular design by focusing on learning outcomes first rather than scheduling of time-structures.
• Managing high quality of learning resources, shareable contents, assignments, projects and other rubrics to assess the learning outcomes. 
• Assuring authentic examination procedures, errorless and transparent grade generation. 
• Maintaining the direct assessment & indirect assessment system and satisfying the four most important stakeholders i.e. Teachers, Students, Administration & Parents. 
  

To conclude, it can be said that the adoption of OBE by educational institutes is considered to be a great step forward for the achievement of excellence and ensures effective result outcomes so that quality of education can be maintained. 

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iCloudEMS Accreditation Management System

An Authentic Assistance to the Educational Institutions for getting Accreditation

In the recent years, Student learning outcomes have been given utmost importance and attention by implementing innovating techniques of assessment which can specify the expected attainment of knowledge, skills and attributes by the students after the completion of their graduation from their respective institutions. These learning objectives and outcomes are becoming the main gauge of higher education’s effectiveness and that’s why accreditation committees expect learning outcomes to be clearly defined, enunciated, evaluated, corroborated and used as a guide for future enhancement.

When any higher educational institute goes through a rigorous process to authenticate that it meets all the benchmarked educational standards then it is known as accreditation. There are integral and reputed accrediting bodies like NAAC, NBA, AICTE, UGC, AIU, DCI, NCTE, BCI, PCI, INC etc. that stage various criteria for the institutes to review their performance and to ensure their credibility to meet expected levels of quality.

Why is Accreditation important?

Accreditation impetuses all the educational institutions to meet the given criteria and maintain their teaching & learning standards so that they can establish a boosting accountability among the public and develop confidence in the aspiring students and their parents to place their trust considering the accreditation received by these institutes. To keep it simple, it can be said that accreditation generates accountability and confirms innovative and effective levels of quality education so that the students and their parents don’t nurture any doubt while taking admission.

Accreditation is important because:

-> It determines if an institute fulfils all the criteria to meet the standards of quality or not.

->It guides students to choose the apt institution for the betterment of their future career.

-> It helps the employers to identify the validity of programs accomplished by the candidates graduated from an institute.

-> It becomes an evidence for the employers of government and non-government companies so that they can hire the graduates determining their eligibility.

-> It helps the students to take various certificate exams for their skills enhancement and further studies.

-> It helps faculty members and staff as well to strengthen their experience portfolio as working in an accredited institute has its own glory and dignity.

-> It helps to set goals for the institutions for self-improvement and to be more futuristic.

The eligibility needs for accreditation vary according to the agencies which set them but they are, indeed, laborious and all inclusive. Common requirements include demonstration of institutional stability, educational programs that meet minimum standards, presence of high-quality faculty members, and integrity in communication efforts with the public and the accrediting commission in question.As accreditation focuses on inputs such as staffing, resources, curricula designing, content creation, evaluation of outcomes etc., it’s quite obvious that universities and colleges face many challenges to achieve the desired results.

These challenges can be:

1. Tedious & Time- consuming Paperwork
2. Collection & Maintenance of Students’ Records
3. Designing & Implementation of Syllabus, Lessons and other study resources
4. Identifying Curriculum gaps and upgrading them at regular intervals.
5. Tracking students’ performance and their results analysis
6. Course Assessment & Students’ Feedback Management
7. Storing Alumni information and maintaining contacts with them
8. Collecting details of university events & activities and their documentation
9. Budgeting & Financial Control

iCloudEMS offers its support by:

1. Simplifying the accreditation process by customizing the needs and requirements of the institutions

2. Automating your tasks by aligning them with reputed Accrediting & Governing bodies

3. Maintaining Outcome Based Education (OBE) system & generate effective results based on analytics

4. Generating authentic and accurate reports for the smooth auditing procedures.

5. Controlling the examination conduction and evaluation process to assure 100% genuine results.

6. Providing transparent portal for students’ feedback on the basis of which Faculty members’ performance can be assessed.

7. Offering Learning Management System (LMS) for proper scheduling of classes and their smooth execution.

8. Streamlining the process of uploading the course materials, videos, notes etc. for the students who can avail this opportunity anytime.

9. We operate on effective planning and regular assessment of students.

10. We manage the Fee payment, receipt generation and storing the data of every single student as even a minor manual error can create a big chaos.

11. We play a key role in bringing all the stakeholder …. students, teachers, administration, management and the parents on one digital platform where everything is clear and result-oriented.

In a nutshell, we can say that iCloudEMS assists you by automating tasks through the accreditation process with configurable workflow that is aligned with reputed accredited bodies and enables you to save your valuable time,efforts and resources. We help Educational Institutes in accomplishing the four major tasks which are required for getting accredited as follows:

1. Self-assessment: An institute should familiarize itself with the committee’s standards for the accreditation and then compare its work with them. If all the documents are authentic and updated, then a review report can be sent along with a formal request for the evaluation.

2. Review of the Documents: The accreditation body reviews the documents and gives its consent if they appear genuine and all correct.

3. Then there is on-site pre-assessment meeting and later on full-assessment as per the decisions taken by Accreditation body. During the entire evaluation process, everything should remain up to date as even a minor mistake can affect the grades given by the committee.

4. Finally, the committee grants accreditation after rigorous and strict inspection and evaluation of the provided data.

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