The Indian educational system is one of the largest and most complex in the world. Indian schools design their curriculum for every student for the time range of 3-16 years. It is also a well-known fact that traditional classroom management techniques may not provide real feedback on classroom activities.
This aspect is often neglected. As a trickle-down effect, students and staff of such schools will experience widening gap with Effective management leading to overall low performance in comparison to other schools who are reaching global standards.
Moreover, Indian Schools systems are losing their tradition of imparting value based education. A large number of schools are focussing only on curriculum and sport activities and neglecting the importance of having teachers who impart Moral Science or Value based education. Thanks to technology, schools today who give equal importance to classroom management and morale are taking the help of a CMS system designed by Cyclops®.
Many Schools and educational institutes in India are in dire need of proper (Emergency) communication channels and Addressal systems. This is an alarming scenario because most schools are lagging far behind in following the mandate in installing mandatory announcement system installed at the principal’s office. This has been stated in the National Disaster Management Guidelines – “School safety Policy”, section 3.2.3 that schools should disaster management plan which should include, the system of warnings, communication protocols within and outside the school (including usage of the Public Addressing system). This helps in the planning of sequential evacuation from different classes without causing hindrance or stampede leading to injuries or fatalities.
The public addressing (pa) systems available in the market are only equipped to address in large area and gatherings in large numbers. In India about 90% of schools have an inefficient system of addressing classrooms through pa. Most people listening to the pa system loose attention to it if the message broadcasted is not relevant.
limitations of PA systems include disruption of an ongoing class while an announcement is broadcasted to all the classes at same time instead sending message to particular class. Power amplifiers used in these systems can also contribute to noise pollution in and around the school area. Physically the PA systems are bulky, not portable and are not an cost effective solution with respect to the service they provide considering global standards.
It is well understood that Principals of schools with thousands of students and N Number of teachers, Admin Staff, Parents & Management cannot attend to their grievances. CMS is a tool capable of solving this problem. It helps in principle day to day operation in an effective way without compromising on performance making it an ideal cost effective replacement to traditional PA systems.
With applications ranging from School safety, Announcement, communication, one-touch zone announcement, verifications capabilities and school bell, CMS is easy to use with user friendly functions. CMS has Unique functionality which other PA systems are not equipped with making them an ideal for making your school a Smart School.
Using CMS, Principals can overcome the difficulty of addressing one single classroom located on a specific floor or random classrooms in an entire School by dialling multiples of classrooms in one go. They can start Zone announcements by using the “One Touch Zone Button” feature that can be programmed to include specific classrooms on specific floors and announce important messages. The CMS system consist of two mail modules:
CMS also becomes a tool to make sure classes are running on time with designated teachers. Principals can monitor classes that Students activity present in the class and send the message through slave to Master.
Technically it can be called AMBS (Audio Monitoring & Broadcasting System). CMS is used to address anything from a single classroom to a large gathering at the school playground. This system is unique because of this functionality, offers two-way talk-back, 1 to 1 Announcement, Zone Announcement, Public Addressing, Broadcasting pleasant tune during off time, This system equipped with high-quality MIC can verify what’s happening in the classroom. The CMS module has a special feature called Teach-bot. This BOT can be used as a School Bell or BoT Teacher. Both Teacher functionality can store good thoughts, Prayer songs, Moral Stories, whole classroom lessons which can be played back at a click on button or playback can be scheduled.
CMS is compact, economic priced with market variants loaded with features that cannot be found on traditional PA systems. Cyclops® created CMS Classroom Management System with a clear objective which could be helpful in upgrading schools to global standards.
We have the technology to fill the gaps seen in traditional systems. In order to achieve global standards it is imperative to use the latest trends and technology available in the market. The fear of not adopting this is the cost factor or user less aware about trends & technology. Popular PA systems as discussed are bulky and costlier to install. They are minimal in feature too. CMS on the other hand could be adopted by schools who want to upgrade their schools to global standards as the technology is indigenous. This gives the advantage for schools to afford the system and still meet their ROI even in the physical world.
The Teach bot as discussed earlier could fill in the gap in a moral science teacher; as the system can store an entire session on moral science / value based education to give an example. Most global schools have this installed in their institutions to assist students. Now Indian schools have a chance to reach global standards too.
