The kids’ portal !

WHAT CAN YOU DO TO GO FROM THIS?............................TO THIS?

GET INVOLVED !“When schools, families, and community groups work together to support

learning, children tend to do better in school and like school more.”

Southwest Educational Development Laboratory.

HOW MANY PARENTS KNOW WHAT THEIR KIDS DO AT SCHOOL?

Here’s an alarming statistic

have no idea what they are doing in school.Nearly two-thirds of students say their parents

Children have different skill sets :

Interpersonal,linguistic,Visual,spatial,musical, physical,naturalist

Not all of them can be sufficiently evaluatedin the current academic framework.

How can we change this?

By redefining parent engagement in schools.

The big disconnect – Between Parents, educators and children

There is no sufficient give & take between parents and teachers.

Okido lets you have that give and take!

The traditional way of keeping engaged with kids through phone,e-mail,PTMs,facebook & SMS is generic, impersonal and does not completely fulfil parents’ need to keep themselves updated.

Hey,Remember this guy?

R K LaxmanThe famous Creator of the iconic ‘Common man’ comic strips that used to come in Times Of India ...

Was doodling caricatures of his teachers at school!

Praised by a teacher for his drawing of a peepal leaf,he began to think of himself as an artist in the making.

Makes you wonder, doesn’t it?

Those scribbles and scrawls of a child now, might be an important stepping stone to his success later in life.

But who is documenting it?

We are.Through

Through extensive research conducted on Schools around the world, We made some astounding discoveries :

● Schools with high levels of parent engagement, showed a 40 percent higher rate in test scores than schools with low engagement.(CPE 2013).

Parents’ involvement is most likely to have a positive influence from the early years of schooling (Henderson and Mapp 2002).

We believe that Technology is best when it brings people together.

Research shows that On an average, A person spends about 8 hours on his/her smartphone making use of the internet , checking e- mails and social media channels. ( The Daily mail)

We have thought of the perfect way to integrate technology to increase parent engagement in the school life of their children !

WHAT IS OKIDO ?

• An engagement platform that provides a new ecosystem for Schools to engage better with parents and students.

• An easy, fun and effective space to store and share content related to schools and students.

• A cloud based web portal and a full featured Android & iOS application for parents and teachers .

FEATURES ● Photos - Customised Album Creation and manager

❏ Taking Picture sharing to a whole new level - Different access levels that can be defined by the school admin -School, class, section and even Individual kid level access.

❏ App integrated with facebook, you have the option to share the pictures on facebook - the school fb page is also linked.

❏ Tag kids, comment on the content, share it on social media and mark as favorite – Get selected content compiled into an yearbook.

● Video manager

FEATURES

❏ Events and moments can be recorded and uploaded on the portal - directly accessible in the parent’s timeline, and even in a separate folder called Videos.

❏ The pictures & videos can be made into a presentation video that can be showcased to parents who come in for admission and are eager to know what their kid will do at school.

FEATURES ● Personal Calendar & Event creation

❏ Parents and teachers get a comprehensive view of the school year- along with new events for which they receive immediate notification.

❏ The Teachers with admin rights can easily create events and share it at different access levels.

❏ Student level notifications -You even have the option of tagging a particular student and send an exclusive notification to his/ her parents.

FEATURES ● Notifications

❏ Notifications can be scheduled or immediately sent - highly customised for each access level that can be sent through the app, email or even sms.

❏ Real time notification - news, events can be sent instantly. ( For instance, In the event of a Bus strike – The school admin can send an instant notification about a holiday.)

❏ The school admin will review each of the notification created and approve those that are relevant and reject the rest.

What makes Okido different?

❏ Privacy enabled logins for parents and teachers.

❏ Kids individual Dashboard for web & mobile.

❏ Feedback loop – that lets you knowparents’ preferences for activities & events through their picture preferences

What makes Okido different?

❏ Access to old data. All information retained forever!

Benefits for the School

❏ An organised up to date gallery of the most important moments and milestones in school life.

❏ The platform will act as a marketing tool to showcase the school in a streamlined manner to the potential parents.

❏ The portal will provide a space for schools to seamlessly upload media & news without having to worry about space constraints.

❏ Improve teachers’ performance and motivation levels.Teachers can engage better in their profession because it personalizes every child’s growth.

❏ Okido provides visual evaluation for abilities that cannot be quantified

❏ Gifted children and slow learners can benefit from extra attention since we are visually monitoring their progress.

❏ All the schooling years, in one place categorized efficiently as per class and year.

Benefits for the parents

Okido leads to better informed parent-teacher interactions !

❏ Through this, parents get to know what exactly their kid does in the school, be it a sketch that he/she drew or a birthday that was celebrated in the class.

❏ Get a glimpse of the school environment, the child’s relationship with peers, the classroom dynamics, academic and extracurricular activities.

Benefits for the parents

The Perfect way to preserve kids’ most treasured moments!