teachers have access.
After setting up a course, one can
fill it with activities and resources,
including audio and video. Students
are also free to access these materials
BIGGYAN
texts when and where they want to.
BigGyan is designed to work
when combined with face-to-face
learning – also known as blended
learning. Here are some examples of
what you can do:
● Enhance teaching with online
resources – Video, audio.
● Enhance student learning with
online activities - quizzes.
Cloud eLearning ● Provide students with links to
websites relevant to topics in a
course.
es of learning activities
● Ask students to do a peer review of
assignments.
What is BigGyan? ● Work in teams to collaborate
easily on projects.
Everyone has heard about it. But
● Set up a list of things for students to
what is it exactly?
do before coming to a class.
BigGyan can be easily enhanced as
it is designed modular fashion. So
Envision a school classroom: new modules can be developed and
teaching materials in one corner, included wherever required. Some of the
registers with student grades, project core modules are:
trays, notice board, photo gallery,
supplementary materials, library
books, audio cassettes, videos,
worksheets, etc. Now add a Key BigGyan features
classroom where students can try out ● Assignments
those materials and keep detailed
● Chat
records of their activities.
● Forum
BigGyan gives you an e- version of ● Database
all this (and much more) in one ● Glossary
website. It is an eLearning tool that
● Quiz
offers a robust solution to any
institution, no matter how large or ● Wiki
small, be it an individual teacher or a ● Multimedia content
huge university. BigGyan facilitates
● Attendance online
online collaboration, among students,
teachers and parents. ● Grade book online
● Mobile learning
How can you use
BigGyan? Students can upload Assignments for
With BigGyan, ‘e’ in eLearning stands for teachers to mark. Teachers get an
easy and not electronic. The user interface automatic alert when a new assignment
makes it easy for you to create courses. is submitted. All marks are be stored in
Each course has its own set of resources the BigGyan grade book.
and activities, and can be customized for The Chat module allows easy
organization and appearance. BigGyan is communication when students are not in
built on strong security aspects so that class.
only enrolled students or

They can discuss an issue during exam time,
or answering questions set by the
teacher. The chats are saved for record
purposes.
The in built Internal Email system
allows students, teachers and
administrators to communicate
seamlessly.
The Forum module enables students
to discuss issues, problems, exercises
asynchronously. Teachers can also
participate in these discussions. Students
can also search forums to find answers to
problems that have been already
discussed.
The Poll module allows teachers to
include simple polls, which you could use
to find out students’ opinions: for
example, what topics they want to study
or what they think of a course.
The Database module is good for
building searchable repositories. A
common use of this module is for
storing past exam papers, activities for
students to do or print out, or
collections of students’ work. The simple procedure of editing and activities in the previous sections. Blocks
The Glossary includes words that can saving means that group work can are spaced around the first and third
be hyperlinked to texts on the site. So develop quickly without students columns, are used to perform specific
students can click on a difficult word in needing to be in the same place at the tasks. They contain administrative
a text and they will automatically be same time. control panel, Course menu, email
taken to the explanation you provide in The Certificate module allows messages, online users, upcoming
the glossary. Glossary entries can be teachers to generate e-certificates for events. Blocks are add on modules to
categorized to make searching easier. students. The certificates may be the base platform. Hence, BigGyan can
Typical uses are an A–Z of difficult words printed out and physical certificates be easily enhanced.
and collections of useful websites. may be given. Each certificate comes
The Journal module is an online with an ID number which can be used Why choose BigGyan?
diary – useful for keeping notes and by external parties to test authenticity
writing reflections on activities. of the certificates online. BigGyan is based on various open
The Quiz module offers a wide Event management can be done source software that is being used by
range of quizzes and tests with which online using Upcoming events module, tens of thousands of institutions for
teachers can create revision activities. Latest news module, Recent activity online learning worldwide including IIM
BigGyan stores questions for use in module. This allows teachers and Bangalore, IIT Mumbai. ELearning is
other quizzes, even with other courses. administration to keep all participants catching on all over the world.
The BigGyan grade book records updated about relevant events related BigGyan’s biggest advantage is that it
students’ results, and provides a to a school or a college and specific allows you to organize a wide variety of
detailed breakdown of responses to courses. resources and activities in one place
different questions. The quiz module along with learner tracking and
also allows you to shuffle questions personalized learning platform.
within quizzes and to shuffle choices in
What BigGyan look slike?
multiple choice questions. The best way to get started with
The Attendance module allows BigGyan is to signup today. Its free. As
teachers to mark attendance of students. an adjunct to this article, I have set up a
The grade corresponding to attendance is site at http://demo.biggyan.com. You
included into the BigGyan grade book can enter as a student to get a feel for
automatically. Students can also view what is possible (username – student,
their attendance record. Password - student).
BigGyan has an in-built Wiki, Above is a snapshot of a typical
which can be used for collaborative BigGyan course page. The page is a
writing projects. collection of blocks and activities
(modules). You were introduced to the
most common

● A wide range of statistics on site use What to do next?
is available so that you can see who ● Try out the BigGyan at
uses what and when. This is very http://demo.biggyan.com.
helpful for monitoring use and
● Signup and Learn how to use BigGyan.
improving your site.
● Contact us for help.
● RSS provides you with automatic
notifications of any changes on
website. BigGyan has such potential that it really
● In the spirit of social networking sites is worth investigating. These will be the
like Facebook, users will be able to tag best 30 minutes you would have spent
users and events and create on your students. Why not start right
personalized pages. away?
● Each day Birthday block lists people
whose birthday fall on that particular
Why you should try day.
BigGyan? ● Integrate with your existing website by
just including a login form on your
● Easy to use! website. Contact us for details.
● M-learning block allows students to
● Access to resources via the web access course content on their
● Interaction between learners and mobiles.
tutors ● Virtual Classroom allows students to
attend classes when they are unable to
● Collaboration between learners attend school.
● Learner supervision
I’ve touched on some of the most
● Feedback on activities commonly used and appealing features
● Secure environment of BigGyan, but you can make it as
simple or complicated as you want.
● Regular backups
● Detailed grade book based on How to get started?
work submitted by students.
● Reports can be automatically With BigGyan, ‘e’ in eLearning stands for
easy not electronic.
generated for activities of users.
● Create an account on BigGyan for your
● Parents are kept updated about institute. Creating account is as easy as
their ward’s progress. creating an email account.
● Go Green – Save paper.
● Start adding users and courses as
required. You can select from huge
number of courses that come pre-
What else? packaged with BigGyan.
What a customer still not satisfied. We BigGyan is provided based on SaaS model
are delighted to say there is more. Here so you don’t need to invest anything for
are some of the other engaging features server, domain name, maintaining and
BigGyan has to offer: updating software or hire trained staff hiring
an expert webmaster. We use cloud model to
manage the ever growing need to BigGyan.
● You can assign roles to different users.
This gives them more or less power to
control different aspects of the site.
● The amount of work needed to build
activities can be reduced by importing all
ready created data. You may use a Word
macro available to help you import
quizzes from Word.
● The Language filter enables
disallowing certain words from your site.