Shengwang Education aPaaS product smart classroom: "low code" development, 15 minutes to go online

On January 20, Agora officially released the education industry's first aPaaS product Smart Classroom on its official website, helping educational institutions and developers to launch their own-brand, full-featured online interactive teaching platform in as fast as 15 minutes, saving 90% of development time. At present, Shengwang has opened a limited time offer for new customers of Smart Class. From now until February 28, 2021, recharge 1,000 yuan to get 5 million minutes of usage (equivalent to 100,000 lessons), which is valid for 3 months from the recharge date.

Soundnet has been committed to reducing the burden on developers and lowering the threshold through low-code methods, making the development of real-time interactive scenes more universal and more convenient. As the first low-code product in the education industry launched by Soundnet, Smart Classroom modularly encapsulates the complex logic that originally required hundreds of API interfaces to develop "online interactive classroom", and simplified it to just fill in a few simple parameters. Online, educational institutions and developers do not need to understand the complex logic of the underlying audio and video. Qian Fen, head of Shengwang Smart Classroom products, said, "Low code is the future trend. The mission of Smart Classroom is to enable more educational institutions lacking development experience to easily and quickly launch interactive teaching platforms."

Figure: Fill in and modify the parameters, you can quickly go online

Prior to this, the Beta version of Shengwang's Smart Classroom has helped multiple educational information enterprises and OMO institutions to quickly launch online interactive classes. During the epidemic in early 2020, Shanghai's well-known educational technology brand Xiaochai, integrated the Beta version of the Shengwang Smart Classroom and launched the "Sky Class" within 10 days, becoming the designated interactive learning platform for Shanghai primary and middle school students during the epidemic. According to the data, during the epidemic, an average of 500 schools, 5,000 teachers, and 200,000 students learned and interacted in the Xiaochai live classroom every day, and there were an average of 10,000 live lessons every day. At the highest peak, 120,000 people participated in the class at the same time.

Overseas, the well-known Saudi education company Ibn Khaldoun, without applying for technical support, launched an exclusive online interactive classroom based on the Smart Class, and the number of minutes used on the first day of the launch exceeded one million. The CEO of Ibn Khaldoun said: “Soundnet Smart Classroom not only greatly shortens the development time of online classes, but also allows us to have our own brand and UI to help our business achieve rapid growth.”

"Online interactive classroom" has become a standard feature, how should the organization be structured?

The new crown epidemic in 2020 has accelerated the onlineization of the education industry. According to the latest report released by iResearch, the overall online rate of the education industry in 2016-2019 will increase by 5 percentage points to 13%-15%, and under the catalysis of the epidemic, the overall online rate will reach 23%-25% in 2020 . Regardless of whether it was originally online or offline, "online interactive classrooms" have become a standard tool for educational institutions to improve student retention and business growth.

At present, if educational institutions want to build online interactive classrooms, there are two solutions-directly purchase a third-party online teaching live broadcast platform (also known as SaaS platform), or through the underlying real-time audio and video technology service provider (also known as PaaS platform) on their own Research and development. However, as more and more organizations are transforming online, for those organizations that lack development experience but want to quickly and flexibly launch online classes, the existing two solutions can no longer fully meet the needs. Therefore, based on the experience of serving thousands of educational customers such as New Oriental, Good Future, VIPKID, and Master 1 to 1, Shengwang has launched smart classrooms to fill the gap in this part of the market.

Smart classroom fills the gap in the market

Private brands and personalized business functions are inherent needs of educational institutions. With the continuous growth of educational institutions, this demand will become stronger and stronger. At the same time, it is also crucial for the institution's long-term business growth and student retention.

Directly using a third-party teaching live broadcast platform (SaaS), the exposure of the logo, UI, domain name and other brand information of educational institutions is very limited, and sometimes the platform’s brand is passively exposed. This is very important for institutions to build their own brands in the business expansion stage. unfavorable. At the same time, although third-party platforms can be used directly, their functions are mainly standardized and cannot meet the more flexible and personalized classroom needs of educational institutions. For example, functions such as student grouping and interactive teaching aids are difficult to integrate with business needs.

On the other hand, business data such as teacher and student information and class data will also be passively retained on the third-party live broadcast platform. For the organization, these are very valuable assets. If retained on the third-party platform, it will be leaked to other parties. The risk of institutions and even competitors may also be followed by the platform itself to get involved in the education and training business, and face serious data security risks.

Compared with third-party online teaching platforms, the advantages of Smart Classroom are mainly reflected in the following points: support for own brand, flexible and expandable functions, independent control of business data, stability and reliability, and XLA experience quality assurance.

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Although the adoption of PaaS solutions also meets these advantages and will even do better in terms of customization, it has a higher threshold for teams lacking development experience

Fast online in 15 minutes, flexible and scalable, safe and reliable data

Smart classroom covers the entire track of online education, including K12, language training, vocational education and quality education. The supported class scenes are also very rich, including 1-to-1 interactive teaching, 1-to-N online small class, interactive live broadcast of large class, etc. In addition to basic real-time audio and video interaction, Smart Class also supports multiple functions such as real-time interactive messaging, recording and playback, interactive whiteboard, screen sharing, classroom management, pre-class equipment testing, and in-class network monitoring.

based on the sound network smart classroom

low-code platform,

Based on the smart classroom, educational institutions and developers do not need to deeply understand the complex application logic of audio and video development. They can quickly access through the "low code" method, which greatly reduces the development threshold. The application development can be completed in as fast as 15 minutes. Even newcomers can quickly get started. , Saving 90% of development time on average. Educational institutions no longer need to form a huge development team, they can also have their own interactive teaching platform, and the development efficiency is increased by more than 10 times.

Modular function design, flexible and expandable

Smart classroom has rich functions such as classroom interaction, classroom management, role management, authority management, user management, etc. It supports flexible expansion of business functions through modular functional design. At the same time, it realizes the whole process of online teaching and supports seamless connection with the user business management system through standard interfaces.

Independent control of business data, safe and reliable data

After the online Smart Classroom, the business data of educational institutions can be stored locally or on a designated third-party server, enabling 100% autonomous control of data retention and migration. At the same time, it also provides functions such as resource isolation, content encryption, transmission encryption, and identity authentication. Multiple security protection measures guarantee the security of the business data of educational institutions.

Shengwang Smart Classroom meets the requirements of various laws and regulations of the countries and regions where its business covers, and follows the principles of minimal and open and transparent data collection and processing, and fully meets information security, data security and personal privacy protection regulations. Shengwang has passed ISO27001, ISO27017, ISO27018, SOC2 Type1 certification, and obtained third-party GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA compliance testing/auditing.

Industry-leading interactive experience to ensure that online classrooms are not stuck

The quality of the real-time interactive experience of online classrooms directly affects the class experience of C-end users and the conversion rate, class consumption rate, and contract renewal rate of educational institutions. If you want to experience a good experience, the most important thing is to do: no freezes, no crashes, and low latency.

The outbreak of the epidemic in early 2020 and the sudden influx of traffic made SaaS platforms that provide online interactive teaching and many manufacturers including giants "surprised". There were frequent serious delays, stalls, or inaccessibility, and "online classes collapsed." "It was also on the hot search for a while. However, the sound network is still able to handle the pressure, and has continued to write a record of no network-wide accidents for 7 years since its establishment. This depends on the sound network's stable and reliable real-time interactive cloud service capabilities.

Relying on the software-defined real-time network SD-RTN™ developed by Agora, the Smart Classroom is based on the deep learning algorithm to identify network abnormalities in real time and accurately, realize the user's "zero perception" failover mechanism, and escort the high availability of the business. It also aims at Southeast Asia, the Middle East, North America and other countries where foreign teachers are located, as well as domestic small and medium-sized cities, to achieve exclusive network optimization, and the end-to-end high-quality transmission rate is higher than 99%.

In terms of low latency, the sound network allows global teachers and students to access optimally through distributed node deployment. At the same time, through the whole network multi-path transmission and dynamic intelligent routing acceleration, the global end-to-end network delay is less than 400ms, and the median delay is 76ms, which ensures the low delay of classroom interaction.

In terms of high concurrency, SD-RTN™ adopts a highly flexible network architecture design, which can easily handle more than 10 times the load. When the traffic surges, it can be adjusted in real time to meet the situation of tens of millions of platform concurrency and single classrooms of one million concurrent.

In July 2020, based on nearly trillion minutes of user experience data and massive user subjective experience evaluations, Shengwang defined and launched XLA, the first experience quality standard in the real-time interactive industry. If the indicators are not up to standard, the sound network can pay up to 100%. This promise also shows the technical strength and service quality of the sound network in the real-time interactive field. At present, there is no other service provider in the market that can provide for real-time audio and video services. Similar promise guarantee.

Recently, the epidemic has rebounded in many places, and schools and educational institutions are once again facing the suspension of offline teaching. After nearly a year, teachers, students, and parents have accepted online teaching methods and have developed a habit of using them. It already has the experience of serving thousands of educational customers such as New Oriental, Good Future, VIPKID, Headmaster 1-to-1, etc. The launch of Smart Classroom is undoubtedly brought to educational institutions with online needs for transformation in this special period. Another gospel.

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