In the traditional teaching of administrative courses, students' courses are fixed and there is no need to choose courses. The educational administration department of the school only needs to discharge the schedule as required. In the past, the school arranged classes by hand, and there were often course cards on the table and on the ground. It took a week or more to arrange the schedule of the whole school. With the development and popularization of Internet technology, specialized course scheduling software has appeared in the market, such as 5 1 intelligent course scheduling, crystal course scheduling, butterfly course scheduling and so on. Using advanced algorithm, the efficiency of course arrangement is greatly improved.
Most of these course scheduling softwares have the following characteristics: first, the algorithm is efficient and supports rich course scheduling conditions; Second, the operation is simple. Generally, a satisfactory course schedule can be obtained through five steps: creating course scheduling tasks, inputting course scheduling data, setting course scheduling conditions, automatically arranging courses, and manually adjusting. Third, the data is open, which supports the import and export of EXCEL data and can be easily integrated or converted with the data of the school information system; Fourthly, it is small in size, about 10M, and easy to download.
Course-choosing software is rare in the market, because a large number of students have higher requirements on the server at the same time, which is not easily solved by 10M software. It needs strong system support to adapt to the course selection operation during peak hours. At present, many teams are taking this as a breakthrough to open up the primary and secondary education market. The cloud school founded by Lin, chief architect of cloud and big data who left Baidu, is one of them.
Cloud School is a SaaS (Software as a Service) platform for primary and secondary schools. It uses cloud computing, big data and other technologies to fully meet the needs of the school in management, teaching and learning, and provides functions such as course arrangement, course evaluation, growth record, interactive communication, teacher preparation, homework sending and receiving, composition marking and so on. At present, this product has achieved full platform coverage, including PC web and mobile (iOS/Android).
Cloud school creatively combines the function of course arrangement with the function of course selection, and provides an intelligent course arrangement and independent course selection system suitable for ordinary schools and shift schools by using the advanced algorithms in China. Its original "course supermarket" design plays down the distinction between main courses and auxiliary courses, and presents humanized school-based courses for students to choose from. A strong technical strength guarantee system can support hundreds of thousands of people to choose courses at the same time, and it runs stably during peak hours, which is the technical support for realizing "shift duty".
In addition, the "Joy" course selected by Beijing Yuehuo Education Technology Company is also a SaaS service product, which was launched in September this year. It adopts the "willing point" mechanism in course selection to support both teachers and students. According to the class classification, the backstage educational administration system sets the scores of willingness points, which become the "consumption vouchers" for students to choose courses. Students choose courses according to their own preferences, and when drawing lots, they will sort them according to their wishes, "the highest price wins." Teachers can not only edit and modify the course description in the system, but also check the list of students who are eager to take this course and put their wishes on their favorite students, which greatly increases the chances of students' successful course selection.
In the future, with the popularity of the "scheduling system", more and more teams will join the competition in the course scheduling market. "Cloud School" and "Xiyue" were born one after another, serving not only the school with shift system, but the deep integration of education and technology. As Lin said, "Three technologies (service, cloud and data) will promote three education (personalization, diversification and balance), thus helping every child to achieve the best of himself".