Shengwang releases new education products: Smart Classroom covers more than 4 million students worldwide, and interactive whiteboard pioneers H5 courseware

On March 31, Agora, a global real-time interactive cloud service provider, held an educational product launch conference in Beijing, officially releasing the education industry's first aPaaS product "Smart Classroom", and the first whiteboard PaaS product "Interactive Whiteboard" that supports H5 courseware. At the press conference, Shengwang announced the "transcript" of SmartClass since it went online on its official website in January this year. As of March 31, the number of registered customers of SmartClass exceeded 1,000 and the number of supported classes exceeded 500,000 per month. The total number of students covered globally exceeds 4 million.

after the official website of Smart Class was launched on January 20

Smart Classroom is the first low-code product in the education industry, and it is currently the only one. Qian Fen, product leader of Agora Smart Classroom, said, “We believe that low code is to quickly achieve development with a small amount of code, but also to meet the individual needs of educational institutions for functional expansion, such as modifying the logo, UI, page layout, etc. Taking into account the efficiency and the flexibility of adapting the business, in this way can we create an online interactive classroom that truly conforms to the sustainable development of the educational institution’s business."

At the same time, Soundnet announced that it will officially open source the interactive whiteboard sample code project Flat in the Agora developer community. Developers can directly use the open source code to quickly integrate real-time interactive whiteboard applications. Wu Shuang, product leader of Agora Interactive Whiteboard, said, “Excellent interactive whiteboards are one of the cornerstones of the success of online classrooms. The interactive whiteboards of Acora will help Smart Classrooms better serve educational institutions and enhance the teaching experience of teachers and students. By naming the open source project Flat, we hope to reduce the cost of knowledge flow and promote fairness in education."

Smart classroom takes into account efficiency and flexible customization, making development easier

Affected by the new crown epidemic, parents' attitudes towards online education have gradually changed from hesitation to recognition and acceptance. With the changes in the concepts of parents and students, educational institutions have also transformed online, and educational OMOs have been pressed to accelerate. For educational institutions, the direct use of third-party teaching live broadcast SaaS platform on the transformation line, although it is quick to get started, it faces three major pain points: no own brand, inability to expand flexibly, and hidden dangers of business data, which restrict the business of educational institutions develop.

Smart classrooms can help educational institutions with insufficient development resources to solve these pain points, meet the development needs of flexible customization and low-code access, and help educational institutions and developers go online in as fast as 15 minutes. Save 90% of the development time, while keeping students, teachers and important class data completely in the hands of the institution.

In the interactive experience section of the press conference, a reporter from CSDN experienced the rapid development of online classrooms with smart classrooms. As a former developer, she expressed her experience and feelings, "The smart classroom launched by the sound network makes it difficult to understand Developers of the underlying audio and video development logic can also quickly get started, and simply modify some codes to build real-time interactive classrooms, which can be said to be a boon for educational institution developers."

Picture: CSDN reporters experience building an online classroom

Figure: The process of CSDN reporters using smart classrooms to build online classrooms

Why should Shengwang make an educational low-code product? Qian Fen said, “Low-code development requires only a small amount of code workload. It can not only develop applications quickly, but also expand its own functions based on the low-code development platform, and develop quickly on the basis of ensuring flexibility, allowing educational institutions with insufficient development resources. Master the initiative of real-time interactive classroom development."

Picture: Modify UI and page layout through smart classroom

Since Smart Class went online on the official website of Shengwang.com, it has generated more than 1,000 registered customers. A K12 education and training institution with strong regional influence has accelerated the transformation of OMO due to the impact of the epidemic on offline education. However, due to the lack of online experience and R&D resources, the advancement of OMO is frequently hindered. Through the Shengwang Smart Classroom, the difficulty of the institution's online launch and the slow launch of the organization have been solved. The interactive classroom was built in only one day, and the offline teaching and online tutoring were organically integrated. The technical person in charge of the institution said: "Smart Classroom helps us quickly get through online and offline learning scenarios, achieve standardized processes and personalized services, improve teaching effects and learning experience, and achieve a perfect closed loop of teaching."

In addition to online classroom scenes based on mobile phones and PCs, smart classrooms can also be combined with smart hardware. Wuhan Quanpin is positioned as a content provider and service provider for basic education. They hope to create an IoT eye protection learning lamp. To develop real-time interactive classrooms based on smart lamps, for all products, development resources are limited and self-research is more difficult, but they hope that the functions will be launched as soon as possible to adapt to the new product release rhythm of smart lamps. Through Smart Classroom, Quanpin has developed an online interactive classroom in 2 hours. Wang Xuanzhang, director of JAVA development of Quanpin, said, “Smart Classroom helps us lower the threshold for live classroom development and improve development efficiency.” More importantly, Smart Classroom meets the customization needs of Quanpin for smart desk lamps, such as modifying the UI layout and switching cameras. Wait.

Overseas, Ibn Khaldun Company (IKC) is one of the largest education companies in the Middle East and occupies an important position in the education market in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf region. Qian Fen introduced that IKC launched online interactive classrooms within one day without applying for any technical support from Soundnet. After going online, an average of more than 15,000 students and more than 2,000 teachers were taught on the IKC teaching platform every day, with an average of class minutes per day. It counts nearly 2 million minutes.

Launched the first interactive whiteboard supporting H5 courseware, open source sample code project Flat

Acoustic Network officially released the industry's first whiteboard PaaS product "Interactive Whiteboard" that supports H5 courseware. Interactive whiteboards can quickly realize real-time interactive whiteboard collaboration among multiple people, support H5 courseware interaction, dynamic PPT display, real-time synchronization of trajectories, synchronization with audio and video, etc. Kind of function.

As the highlight function of this interactive whiteboard release, H5 courseware provides text, pictures, tables, audio, video and other forms of display and interactive methods to help enhance the real-time interactive experience in the classroom and enhance the interest of the teaching scene. Wu Shuang said, “H5 courseware is not a simple one-way dynamic PPT display, but a two-way real-time interaction between teachers and students through the whiteboard, making the classroom experience richer and more interesting.”

Another highlight of the interactive whiteboard is the "pen-point" effect. "Every teacher has his own style when writing on the blackboard, and writing on the blackboard is the soul of a class." Wu Shuang said that Shengwang's interactive whiteboard will be used by teachers in offline classrooms. The characteristics of the true writing on the blackboard are restored to the online, and the vector scheme is adopted to ensure the clear and delicate display of the pen point regardless of network conditions. Regarding the birth of the "stroke" effect, Wu Shuang added, "The inspiration for the tip of the pen originated from a social need for a game that you draw and I guess, such as how to draw the seeds of dragon fruit more vividly instead of just a dot. The difficulty is very high. In order to meet the realization of these more personalized and better experience functions, we have developed the pen sharp effect."

The interactive whiteboard solves several core pain points that educational institutions will encounter when developing interactive classroom self-developed whiteboards, including the large investment in the development of the underlying technology, the high cost of later operation and maintenance, the difficulty of adapting to many devices, and the incompatibility of new and old versions. difficulty. Wu Shuang said, "We launched an interactive whiteboard product, hoping to help institutions solve these problems, allowing educational institutions to focus more on the business operations of educational content."

The release of smart classrooms and interactive whiteboards is an important step in the strategic layout of Shengwang in the education industry. For a long time, Shengwang has a leading advantage in RTC technology, and has realized the scene-based empowerment of RTC technology in the education industry. With the addition of interactive whiteboards, the RTE ecological landscape can be more complete, cover more educational scenarios, and ultimately help development And educational institutions to achieve business improvement.

Since its establishment in 2013, Shengwang has continued to dig in the education industry, providing high-quality, ultra-low-latency real-time for many educational institutions including New Oriental, Good Future, VIPKID, Headmaster 1:1, Spark Thinking Audio and video technical services help them create a high-quality real-time interactive teaching experience.

In 2021, as educational institutions continue to expand their demand for online classrooms, Shengwang hopes to provide high-quality services to more educational institutions. Even if development resources are limited, it can be launched quickly through smart classrooms to achieve its own brand and customization. Online interactive teaching platform with customized functions. In the future, not only in the education industry, the sound network will empower the entire industry through low-code access, reduce the development door, and help enterprises and developers in various industries to quickly and flexibly build real-time interactive scenarios, and make real-time interactive capabilities more universal .