Building a Virtual Classroom and LMS

Gary Houston

So, the question is to build a virtual classrom and LMS.

C: Do we have any particular User Group in Mind or it is upto me to take one?

I: Its upto you.

C: Okay, i will take K-12,i.e, Kindergarten to Class 12.

I: Okay.

Now, we have a User group. More specifically, we are building for a normal user without any disabilities.

But there is another set of Users and/or customers of this product, the teachers and parents. So i will include them as well.

Now, lets come to the Use Cases for each User group.

User Group	Use Case
K-12	Watch Interactive Lessons/Videos
	Do Assignments
	Ask Doubts
	Take Quizzes
	Take Tests/Exam
	Get certification

Teachers	Take Lectures
	Give/Check Assignments
	Clear Doubts
	Earn money

Parents	Monitor Kid’s performance and Course Progress
	Talk to tutor
	Watch detailed insights on strengths/weaknesses
	See a comparative analysis with other kids

Product Design: It will be a blended learning product with both online self paced videos and live tutor videos. K-12 students can register themselves with some identity proof like I Card and start taking classes. It will be on a Freemium Model. They can see animated/ high quality video lectures. After every unit, they will have mandatory quizzes and assignments. Each will give them points. There will also be a leaderboard to rank the top performers.

There will be doubt clearing module where they can ask doubts ( record it/upload it/type it). The tutors will solve them.

Also, students can make doubts public so that other students answer them and it increases everyone’s enagagement and learning.

Students can take self paced course content or take part in a virtual classroom taken by a tutor. The virtual classroom will have a virtual board, marker and option to raise hand for a doubt etc.

When they complete the entire syllabus, they can take Exams and on clearing the same, they will be given certificate of completion and also percentage/rank/merit scores Pan India.

For teachers, they can give lectures to students. It can be a revenue sharing model where they earn on number of classes taken, number of students participated etc.

For Parents, they can be given dashboards to monitor the kids’ performance and journey progress. They can compare with city, state and all India level to know Rank, Merit scores etc.

They can talk to the tutors for any in person feedback. And they will download the course completion certificate and performace report.

Metrics to Measure Success:

No. of students, teachers on board
No. of DAU, WAU, MAU students
No. of Videos, videos per class
No. of Assignments, quizzes
No. of takers of assignments, quizzes
No. of Course completing students
No. of students who retain for next year
ARPU, ARPDAU, ARPWAU

Thus to sum it up, it will be a Blended learning management system with students, teachers and parents as the main User groups. It will have features of self paced content and virtual classroom both. Focus will be on engagement and retention of users to drive monetisation.

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