Okido is a cloud-based portal and app that connects schools, parents and kids in an easy, fun & effective space that will redefine parent engagement in schools like never before!
2. WHAT CAN YOU DO TO GO FROM THIS?............................ TO THIS?
3. 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.
5. Here’s an alarming statistic
have no idea what they are doing in school.
Nearly two-thirds of students say their parents
6. Children have different skill sets :
Interpersonal,linguistic,Visual,spatial,musical,
physical,naturalist
Not all of them can be sufficiently evaluated
in the current academic framework.
7. How can we change this?
By redefining parent engagement in schools.
8. 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!
9. 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.
11. R K Laxman
The famous Creator of the iconic ‘Common man’
comic strips that used to come in Times Of India ...
12. 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.
13. 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.
16. 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).
17. Parents’ involvement is most likely to have a positive influence
from the early years of schooling (Henderson and Mapp 2002).
18. 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)
19. We have thought of the perfect way to integrate
technology to increase parent engagement in the school
life of their children !
20. 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 .
21. 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.
22. ● 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.
23. 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.
24. 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.
25. What makes Okido different?
❏ Privacy enabled logins for parents and teachers.
❏ Kids individual Dashboard
for web & mobile.
❏ Feedback loop – that lets you know
parents’ preferences for activities & events
through their picture preferences
26. What makes Okido different?
❏ Access to old data. All information retained forever!
27. 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.
28.
29. ❏ 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
30. ❏ 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
31. Okido leads to better informed parent-teacher interactions !
32. ❏ 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