Ellipse is an online service developed with the intention of creating an educational
community to improve the quality of education provided by the school and allows
transparency for the parent into the environment in which their child is getting
education.
Now a day, there are enough services like e-learning applications to help the students
in getting high quality education. These all are very worthy tools, but all of them
focusing on the students to improve themselves. Ellipse has a different unique approach.
We believe that in order to improve the quality of education a student receives,
it is equally important to bring the schools and parents to the same technology
arena. So ellipse is trying to arm the parents and schools with efficient tools
with which they can support the students in improving their educational standards.
Ellipse encompasses the entire range of educational entities to bring quality education
for the students. This includes but not limited to the schools, parents, students,
teachers, educational consultants, subject experts etc. Ellipse behaves as a platform
for co-coordinating all these entities to benefit the student in improving their
performance.
Ellipse treats communication and analysis as the axes of education. But unfortunately
these are the two areas where the parents and schools fail to achieve efficiency.
In a technologically advanced modern world, why we should stop thinking about filling
our arsenal with SMART tools to strengthen these axes. Ellipse is a one-stop solution
for all the SMART tools required in efficiently managing communication and analysis.
Ellipse for Parents
One of the primary concerns of a parent is regarding their child’s education. But
unfortunately the busy official duties prevent the parent from having a basic understanding
of the environment in which their child is getting educated. Ellipse helps the parent
by providing all necessary details of this environment including but not limited
to the details of teachers, class time tables, exam schedules, fees schedules,events
in school, behavior and performance of their children in school etc.
Ellipse opens a channel of dedicated communication between school and parents. Parents
will receive alerts on situations when their child is absent in school, result of
examination is announced, position of school bus, important announcements from schools
(such as exam schedules or undeclared holidays and so on) etc. in their mobile phone.
Ellipse also provides tools for the parents to have one-to-one communication with
the school or teachers.
Ellipse is not only a facility to view the details; it also has built-in tools to
analyze the performance or progress of the child. Analysis always requires thorough
knowledge and experience. Ellipse is built with both these capabilities. Thus ellipse
can do the difficult job of analysis and will present the result to the parent.
Ellipse is not only a tool but a community of all actors in the field of education
to support the parent in improving the education of their child. Consultation with
experts, discussion forums etc are built into ellipse to help the parent in taking
decisions regarding the education of their child.
Ellipse for Schools
The quality of the school depends on the quality of education it provides. The quality
of education depends on the quality of students who receive it and the quality of
teachers who provides it. In order to be a good educational institution, the school
should maintain a balance between these two. There comes ellipse which can easily
and efficiently analyze the performance of both students and teachers by considering
all the environmental factors including but not limited to the dependencies between
these two groups.
Using ellipse, schools can maintain the details of the students as a file which
can be shared with the parent. This file can include the academic performance of
the student, details of extracurricular activities, the character or behavior of
the student etc. The communications between parents and school regarding the student
will also be attached with the file.
Schools can use ellipse to circulate notices or invitations or announcements to
parents. This can be notices regarding events in schools, exam schedules, fees collection
reminders, undeclared holidays, behavior or performance of a student etc. The announcements
can be sent to a particular parent or a group depending upon the scope of the message
that needs to be conveyed. For all such announcements, an alert will be sent to
the mobile of the parent(s) and the same will be recorded in the corresponding student
file. This can be viewed at anytime by logging on to the ellipse online interface.
Ellipse helps to improve the parent-school relation by engaging them in the day-to-day
activities and decision making of schools through proper communication. Also schools
can use ellipse to get proper feedback from parents. This will naturally increase
the involvement and participation of the parents in the school activities. Ellipse
proves its significance here by providing not only a medium for communication but
also a tool to keep track of the communication. Also this is an efficient way for
the school to assure that the parent is aware of all the affairs of their child
in school. For example, if the result of an examination is published, it is possible
for the school to know whether the parent has seen the result or not.
Educational Consultants
In many situations, parents will have confusions regarding their child’s higher
education. In other situations, parents may be worried about the performance or
behavioral problems of their children. In such situations, ellipse can help the
parent to get a Consultant to attend the matter.
Organizations or individuals who have experience in the field of educational consultancy
can contact ellipse to register as an ‘Educational Consultant’. Parents can ask
doubts or seek advice from these registered Educational Consultants. Either the
parents can ask a doubt generally or can find a proper expert and can ask advice
directly. The profile and rating of the Consultant can also be seen. This will help
the parent to identify a proper person to help them.
Subject Experts
Students may require discussions with subject experts on certain topics. In real
world, there is always a limitation to find a proper expert for a student.
Persons who proved themselves as experts in particular subjects can contact ellipse
to register as ‘Subject Experts’. Students can then easily find an expert and can
have direct communication with that expert. Either the student can ask a doubt to
the expert community or can find a proper expert to answer the doubts
Educational consultants can publish articles or eBooks in Ellipse. Interested students/parents
can download these materials by paying an amount or for free as fixed by the experts.