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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


CHANGING SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT


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!


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:


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



Calendars and Timetables

Academic Calendar,

Events calendar,

Class time tables,

Exam timetables

Advance Alerts



One App,

• more than one child on a parent’s mobile

• Each Child on more than one parent/Guardian’s mobiles



Subject-wise Exam/Test performance graphs on parents’ mobiles.

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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!



"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



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.



Security and Privacy One-Time-password verification to

ensure that true people add a child

Secure Payment Gateway for payment processing


SCHOOLVITA’s TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION

State-of-art Technology:

Best Secure Payment Gateway

One-Time-Password

Digitally guarded server

Digital certificate

Google Maps

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For Android For Apple


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!


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


SCHOOLVITA’s GUIDING PRINCIPAL

A phase-wise approach to functionality that is

manageable, rather than overwhelming


Many schools have no website

Leapfrog

Many schools have website

Need Sequential Shift

SchoolVita Mobile App


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

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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

http://www.schoolvita.com/