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Enlivening Parent-School Engagement
Pravin Gandhi | Founder | Schoolvita.com
© 2016 Pravin Gandhi, Mumbai, India ; SchoolVita is the Trademark of Pravin Gandhi
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WIN-WIN FOR SCHOOL AND PARENTS
A Mobile App-as-Service for easy and meaningful Parent-School engagement
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CHANGING SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT
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WHY MOBILE APP?CHANGING SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY
Schools as “Service Providers”. The mobile phone is the de-facto deliverer of services
Today’s Youth and parents are aspirational; Both parents of a child are active participants in their child's
education process
Broadening scope for schools, increasing involvement of parents, Need for schools to engage with parents.
SchoolVita Mobile App facilitates this!
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1 Solving a problem
2 Making it effortless
3 Having something valuable for users to share
4 Rewarding users for sharing & using the app
5 More the people use, create more value
6 Building purpose for users to come back
7 Being intuitive
8 Being free & open to a larger community
8 REQUIREMENTS FOR CREATING A GREAT PRODUCT/SERVICE V IA MOBILE APP
SchoolVita meets ALL requirements:
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SCHOOLVITA’s THOUGHTFULLY CONCEIVED FEATURES
Notifications via Push, not SMS:
Send Important school news and announcements to parents wherever they are
not via SMS, so Save Money!
Send to all parents, or parents of a particular class or even to parents of a particular child
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SCHOOLVITA’s THOUGHTFULLY CONCEIVED FEATURES
Calendars and Timetables
Academic Calendar,
Events calendar,
Class time tables,
Exam timetables
Advance Alerts
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SCHOOLVITA’s THOUGHTFULLY CONCEIVED FEATURES
One App,
• more than one child on a parent’s mobile
• Each Child on more than one parent/Guardian’s mobiles
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SCHOOLVITA’s THOUGHTFULLY CONCEIVED FEATURES
Subject-wise Exam/Test performance graphs on parents’ mobiles.
A Graph is the easiest indicator of performance over time.
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SCHOOLVITA’s THOUGHTFULLY CONCEIVED FEATURES
Fee Payment via the app. • A service that Parents will be happy with, while at same time reduce school's admin time and overheads.
• School can define the heads of charges and give Parents the option to pay monthly, quarterly, or annually.
• Parents can pay fees any time, anywhere, without having to visit school; save time and avoid late fees!
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SCHOOLVITA’s THOUGHTFULLY CONCEIVED FEATURES
"Where Is My Child" Parents can know where their child is, on a map in
the app, from anywhere, and feel re-assured.
An optional facility which will be of great value particularly to parents of Primary School children.
GPS device on child, tracked by SchoolVita
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SCHOOLVITA’s THOUGHTFULLY CONCEIVED FEATURES
STEM: SchoolVita supports the Science and Technology Education Management initiative
SchoolVita app will keep bringing to parents information of workshops and activities for skills and ability development, etc.
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SCHOOLVITA’s THOUGHTFULLY CONCEIVED FEATURES
Security and Privacy One-Time-password verification to
ensure that true people add a child
Secure Payment Gateway for payment processing
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SCHOOLVITA’s TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION
State-of-art Technology:
Best Secure Payment Gateway
One-Time-Password
Digitally guarded server
Digital certificate
Google Maps
Vodafone M2M
For Android For Apple
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WHY WEBSITE IS NOT ENOUGH
A website is not good at communication: A website is passive, cant PUSH: Parents would
have to COME to website and LOG-IN EVERY
TIME
In SchoolVita Mobile app Parents register only
once, get notifications Instantly, Anytime,
Anywhere.
School saves on SMS costs!
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BENEFITS TO SCHOOL
Ready-made, high-technology, low-cost, cloud –based mobile-delivery solution for a nominal subscription
- ZERO Investment in Hardware and Software- ZERO Time: ready-to-implement
- ZERO Hassles of owning, running and managing- ZERO Disruption of existing processes, minimal training
- Simplification and modernisation
- a "service" to parents, enhanced reputation, goodwill
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SCHOOLVITA’s GUIDING PRINCIPAL
A phase-wise approach to functionality that is
manageable, rather than overwhelming
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Many schools have no website
Leapfrog
Many schools have website
Need Sequential Shift
SchoolVita Mobile App
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ABOUT PRAVIN GANDHI & BIG VISION FOR SCHOOLVITA
36 years in the Information Technology industry, half of which
with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and other Tata group
companies, and the remaining half as an independent product
developer and product consultant.
Launched several software products.
Mechanical Engineer from VJTI, Mumbai, and an Industrial
Engineer from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA.
Founder of Startup “JUMPrS Pvt. Ltd.” to develop SchoolVita
mobile platform and introduce it to 2000 schools and 1 crore
parents nationwide. Seeking venture funding
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Enlivening Parent-School Engagement
Pravin Gandhi +91 91672-01787 [email protected]
www.schoolvita.com
Follow SchoolVita on linkedinFollow @SchoolVitaApp on twitter
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME
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© 2016 Pravin Gandhi, Mumbai, India ; SchoolVita is the Trademark of Pravin Gandhi