SchoolVita is a Mobile App-as-Service for easy and meaningful School-Parents engagement. It includes a powerful Push Notifications and Reminders engine, fee payment via-the-app facility, a GPS-based Child Tracking service, subject-wise performance graphs and more. SchoolVita can be downloaded from Google PlayStore or Apple Store.

1. Enlivening Parent-School Engagement
Pravin Gandhi | Founder | Schoolvita.com
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2. WIN-WIN FOR SCHOOL AND PARENTS
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A Mobile App-as-Service for
easy and meaningful Parent-School engagement

3. CHANGING SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT
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4. WHY MOBILE APP?
CHANGING SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY
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Schools as “Service Providers”.
 The mobile phone is the de-facto deliverer of services
Today’s Youth and parents are aspirational;
 Both parents of a child are active participants in their child's
education process
Broadening scope for schools, increasing involvement of parents,
 Need for schools to engage with parents.
SchoolVita Mobile App facilitates this!

5. 1 Solving a problem
2 Making it effortless
3 Having something valuable for users to share
4 Rewarding users for sharing & using the app
5 More the people use, create more value
6 Building purpose for users to come back
7 Being intuitive
8 Being free & open to a larger community
8 REQUIREMENTS FOR
CREATING A GREAT PRODUCT/SERVICE VIA MOBILE APP
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SchoolVita meets ALL requirements:

6. SCHOOLVITA’s THOUGHTFULLY CONCEIVED FEATURES
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Notifications via Push, not SMS:
 Send Important school news and
announcements to parents wherever
they are
 not via SMS, so Save Money!
 Send to all parents, or parents of a
particular class or even to parents of a
particular child

7. SCHOOLVITA’s THOUGHTFULLY CONCEIVED FEATURES
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Calendars and Timetables
Academic Calendar,
Events calendar,
Class time tables,
Exam timetables
Advance Alerts

8. SCHOOLVITA’s THOUGHTFULLY CONCEIVED FEATURES
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One App,
• more than one child on a parent’s
mobile
• Each Child on more than one
parent/Guardian’s mobiles

9. SCHOOLVITA’s THOUGHTFULLY CONCEIVED FEATURES
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Subject-wise Exam/Test
performance graphs on parents’
mobiles.
A Graph is the easiest
indicator of
performance over time.
UnitTest-1
UnitTest-2
1stTerm
2ndTermMaths

10. SCHOOLVITA’s THOUGHTFULLY CONCEIVED FEATURES
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Fee Payment via the app.
• A service that Parents will be happy with,
while at same time reduce school's admin
time and overheads.
• School can define the heads of charges and
give Parents the option to pay monthly,
quarterly, or annually.
• Parents can pay fees any time, anywhere,
without having to visit school; save time and
avoid late fees!

11. SCHOOLVITA’s THOUGHTFULLY CONCEIVED FEATURES
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"Where Is My Child"
 Parents can know where their child is, on a map in
the app, from anywhere, and feel re-assured.
 An optional facility which will be of great value
particularly to parents of Primary School children.
GPS device on child,
tracked by SchoolVita

12. SCHOOLVITA’s THOUGHTFULLY CONCEIVED FEATURES
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STEM: SchoolVita supports the Science and Technology
Education Management initiative
SchoolVita app will keep bringing to parents information of
workshops and activities for skills and ability development, etc.

13. SCHOOLVITA’s THOUGHTFULLY CONCEIVED FEATURES
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Security and Privacy
 One-Time-password verification to
ensure that true people add a child
 Secure Payment Gateway for
payment processing

14. SCHOOLVITA’s TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION
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State-of-art Technology:
 Best Secure Payment Gateway
 One-Time-Password
 Digitally guarded server
Digital certificate
 Google Maps
 Vodafone M2M
For Android For Apple

15. WHY WEBSITE IS NOT ENOUGH
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A website is not good at communication:
 A website is passive, cant PUSH: Parents would
have to COME to website and LOG-IN EVERY
TIME
 In SchoolVita Mobile app Parents register only
once, get notifications Instantly, Anytime,
Anywhere.
 School saves on SMS costs!

16. BENEFITS TO SCHOOL
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Ready-made, high-technology, low-cost, cloud –
based mobile-delivery solution for a nominal
subscription
- ZERO Investment in Hardware and Software
- ZERO Time: ready-to-implement
- ZERO Hassles of owning, running and managing
- ZERO Disruption of existing processes, minimal training
- Simplification and modernisation
- a "service" to parents, enhanced reputation, goodwill

17. SCHOOLVITA’s GUIDING PRINCIPAL
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A phase-wise approach to functionality that is
manageable, rather than overwhelming

18. Many schools
have no website
Many schools have website
Need Sequential Shift
SchoolVita Mobile App
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19. ABOUT PRAVIN GANDHI & BIG VISION FOR SCHOOLVITA
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 36 years in the Information Technology industry, half of which
with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and other Tata group
companies, and the remaining half as an independent product
developer and product consultant.
 Launched several software products.
 Mechanical Engineer from VJTI, Mumbai, and an Industrial
Engineer from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA.
 Founder of Startup “JUMPrS Pvt. Ltd.” to develop SchoolVita
mobile platform and introduce it to 2000 schools and 1 crore
parents nationwide. Seeking venture funding

20. Enlivening Parent-School Engagement
Pravin Gandhi
+91 91672-01787 pg@schoolvita.com
www.schoolvita.com
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME
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