To Date: dd/mm/yy
The Principal
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………………………………..
Subject: Proposal for Implementation of SVIP Online Learning Program (SOLP)
Dear Sir/ Madam,
At SVIP, our goal is to be a partner to schools in welcoming the Internet age in the education sector. Our aim is to help schools, teachers, students as well as parents in increasing the quality of education and promoting all-round development of students by complementing the traditional classroom teaching method with online education.
The online mode makes the process of learning more goal-oriented, participatory, flexible in time and space, unaffected by distances and tailored to individual learning styles, and increase collaboration between teachers and students. Online education enables learning to become fun and friendly, without fear of inadequacies or failure. At SVIP, we promote online learning more than multi-media education since the latter can be more complex to learn technologically, much more expensive and unsuitable to fit students’ budget, and require a minimum level of computer literacy.
I thank you, on behalf of the entire SVIP team, for showing your interest in the SVIP Online Learning Program (SOLP) and giving us an opportunity to submit a proposal for implementing the same in your school. We strongly encourage you to e-mail or call us, should you have any queries regarding this program. SVIP hopes that your school will respond favourably to our effort of providing Internet-enabled all-round education to your students.
Sincerely,
Sharan Walia
Managing Director
SVIP Online Learning Pvt. Ltd.
Phone: 9312443239
SUMMARY
SVIP School of Intellectuals Inc., having a rich experience in the education sector, is increasingly realizing the benefits that the online method of learning can provide to the student community. With the aim of ushering in the Internet revolution in the education sector in India, SVIP Online Learning Pvt. Ltd, a group company of the SVIP School of IntellectualsInc., USA has launched SVIP Online Learning Program (SOLP) as the very first step towards achieving this goal. SOLP is meant to complement the conventional method of classroom teaching in schools and promotes all-round development of students through its unique features.
SVIP proposes the implementation of SOLP in schools following all boards (CBSE, ICSE as well as other state boards), starting initially with classes VI to XII. The program will comprise of an internet-enabled learning module consisting of an extensive question/ answer databank, online books, a student information management system or the SVIP Online Software for Schools (SOSS), as well as the SVIP Online Quiz Center (SOQC). In addition, the program will includeacommunication module enabling connectivity amongst students, educationists and parents. Prizes and scholarships will also be distributed to winning students. Schools have the flexibility of implementing the program either for their entire student population or for a few interested students. The program is entirely free for schools, with only students who want to register required to pay a minimal annual fee.
Subject to registrations from all students in a school or receipt of sponsorships, initiatives will also be taken to develop students as responsible citizens by making them more aware about the social and environmental issues (such as global warming) surrounding them. The latter will be part of the “Project Prosperous India (PPI)” comprising of online discussions and lectures, as well as student participation in grass-root level projects that are fun yet have social/ environment implications.
Introduction
SVIP Online Learning Pvt. Ltd. is based in India, and is a group company of SVIP School of Intellectuals Inc., USA. SVIP is essentially a team of educators, scholars, IT professionals and analysts from across the globe. The management and staff at SVIP share a common goal aimed at enhancing the knowledge of the student community with their user-friendly internet-enabled program, SVIP Online Learning Program(SOLP), SVIP Online Software for Schools (SOSS), and the SVIP Online Quiz Center (SOQC), all available at www.sviponline.com,.
SOLP is the world’s first unique online education system that targets a wide and complete group of users comprising all major stakeholders in the education system – Students, School Staff, School Teachers, Principal, and Parents.
SVIP is trying to include corporations in education system to help needy schools and students. Where SVIP is trying to give opportunity to corporations to get in touch with schools and students at the same time SVIP is seeking corporations help to sponsor various scholarships and PPI activities to increase the interest of students in online learning and to provide necessary facilities to needy schools and students to make online learning available to the students.
SVIP’s vision, Educating Students Online (ESOL), is to spread online learning among students in the entire world. Since online learning is made possible through the use of a computer, and better still a laptop in case learning has to be a seamless and 24x7 process, SVIP has envisioned the provision of a complete package including hardware, software, internet connection and learning content to students at a very nominal price.
The package, called the SVIP Package, will include a laptop and unlimited internet connection, made available at the time of registration for SOLP. Students will be free to either register only for SOLP or take up the entire package (including the laptop) at the time of registration. SVIP is targeting to provide the SVIP Package at Rs. 18,000 (one-time payment) or Rs. 1,500 per month for a year. After the first year, the student will be required to pay only Rs. 600 per month for unlimited Internet access including the SVIP annual registration fees. Students may apply to banks for education loans for payment of the SVIP Package.
In order to provide the package at this economical price, SVIP will need at least 5 lac orders of the laptop. SVIP, thus, requests schools to help its students in getting the benefit of a low-priced laptop by placing bulk orders for the SVIP Package. Interested students can also place the order for the SVIP Package on their own. In case interested, schools/ students should provide the following information to ESOL@sviponline.com: School Name, Student Name, School Address/ Student Address, School Phone Number/ Student Phone Number, Number of Expected SVIP Packages. As soon as SVIP gets a minimum of 5 lac orders for SVIP Packages, it will get back to the school/ student for confirmation of the order.
ESOL is an initiative undertaken by SVIP to help the average school student in getting a comprehensive and complete online package at a rate that they can afford. In order to further ease the payment in low monthly installments, SVIP will endeavour to get these package financed by a monetary institution. However, this will depend on the number of orders SVIP gets for such Packages from students and schools. Thus, any favourable response towards this effort will be highly appreciated.
Through implementation of SOLP in schools, SVIP strives to achieve the following objectives:
i. Introduce online learning as an effective method of learning to students as well as teachers at affordable prices, with SVIP charging only Re. 1/- per day from interested students. The program is free for all other users including schools
ii. Enable maximum possible participation by giving schools the flexibility of registering either the entire student population or only a few interested students
iii. Create transparency in the education system and processes
iv. Provide a platform to students where they can compete on intra school, inter school, national as well as international level. Thus, students can complete within a section, class, school, all schools of a school society/ group as well as with other schools
v. Through scholarships and prizes, encourage and help students who are brilliant in education. The scholarships meet three objectives – Help economically weak but brilliant students; Motivate brilliant students irrespective of their financial back ground; Help economical weak students to get familiar with online learning by giving them free SVIP registrations and getting them sponsorships for internet café usage
vi. Get recommendations on sviponline.com for students who need scholarship/ sponsorship to achieve their educational goals
vii. Help financially weak students by either providing scholarships through the collected registration fees or getting them sponsorship from institutions/ corporate/ individuals
viii. Generate awareness amongst students about social and environmental issues (such as global warming, cleanliness, friendliness etc.) and encouraging them to participate in activities related to “Project Prosperous India (PPI)”
ix. Success of ESOL: Provide an option to parents and schools enabling them to buy a complete SVIP Package (Hardware, Software and Internet) for students at an affordable price)
The SOLP program is comprised of several different, but related features. These are as follows:
SOLP is an internet-enabled program, accessible anytime and from anywhere, with a 24*7 support, and available through a login on SVIP’s website. Its basis is the SVIP Online Knowledge Databank (SOKD), which is a searchable online question databank created and managed by educationists who are experts in their own subjects. The databank has been created scientifically by SVIP teachers who are continuously writing text and image type Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ), Short Answer Type Questions (SAT), Descriptive Type Questions (DTQ), Essay Type Questions (ETQ) and Numerical Type Questions (NTQ). Though currently the questions are as per the CBSE and ICSE syllabus, SVIP plans to expand the databank by including all other regional/ state boards as well. The databank adheres to the latest standards of highest-quality education and has been scientifically created to nurture young minds of students. Currently, SOKD includes more than 50,000 questions on 22 subjects for classes VI to XII (all streams), with plans of expansion to include lower classes as well as professional courses in coming years. These questions are available by board, class, subjects, books, chapters, topics, sub-topic of interest as well as degree of difficulty. SVIP will continue to add to the knowledge databank in order to achieve its target of 100,000 questions by end of 2008. Every year SVIP is targeting to add 50,000 questions to the SOKD.
A search feature has been provided to allow students as well as other users to search for relevant questions on the topic they are studying. Students/ other users can hone their knowledge on the latest topics or sub-topics taught in the classroom by searching for questions in the SVIP online knowledge databank i.e., SOKD. All search results can be categorized using optional parameters like Question Type (Multiple Choice Questions, Descriptive Type Questions, Essay Type Questions, Numericals, Text and Images), School Board, Class, Subject, Title of Book, Chapter or Lesson, Topic and Sub-topic, and Degree of Complexity. The search engine also allows users to conduct a text search, wherein they can search for questions as well as answers by entering text of their choice. Using the ‘Tree” view format, users can see all chapters, topics and sub-topics on a single screen, thereby enabling selection of questions as per their own choice. Upon registration, this all can easily be accessed on www.sviponline.com in Student Panel > Learning Mode > Read Mode / Quiz Mode and using the button “View all Chapter, Topic & Sub-Topic”.
SOLP offers multiple learning modes to students, thus giving them the flexibility to learn as per their own convenience. The “Read Mode” allows students to read questions and answers of their choice by searching for questions online. On the other hand, the “Quiz Mode” allows studentsto participate in quizzes (and create quizzes) based on the knowledge databank. This mode allows assessment of the student’s knowledge level. Student can assess various quizzes on different subjects, chapters, topics, sub-topics of their choice either themselves or by participating in quizzes created/ assigned/ scheduled by SVIP, corporations, school teachers and principals. Instant results with correct answers are provided for all quizzes.
XI & XII class students can select/ edit the stream of their preference in their profile to see relevant subjects as per their selected stream.
The SVIP Online Quiz Center (SOQC) allows students to participate in a number of online quizzes at frequent intervals. These include:
i. 19 News Quizzes - All registered students will be eligible to take part in 19 SVIP online News Quizzes with a chance to win a cash prize of Rs. 50,000 (scoring highest aggregated score in last 10 News Quizzes). The cash prize will be split into students ranking first, second, third, each getting Rs. 25,000, Rs. 15,000 and Rs. 10,000 respectively. The cash prize will be distributed irrespective of the number of registrations SVIP gets.
ii. 7 Class Quizzes – Of the total registration fees collected from students, SVIP will give back 30% to students in the form of scholarships. These will be distributed to students ranking 1st, 2nd and 3rd in final class quiz, held for classes VI to XII. All registered students will be eligible to take part in the 7 online Class Quizzes with chances to win scholarships and prizes. This means that for each class (VI to XII), there will be 6 qualifying quizzes, with the toppers from these 6 quizzes competing in the 7th quiz to win scholarships. Students will qualify for the final quiz depending on their percentage score in the first six class quizzes, with a minimum of 90% score required from any of the 6 qualifying quizzes. SVIP has full authority to change this percentage depending on number of student registrations or sponsorships. Only classes giving a minimum of 10 registrations will be considered for scholarships. The scholarship amount, as mentioned, will be based on the number of registrations received from each class and will be at the discretion of SVIP. SVIP may give a cash prize of Rs. 1 lac to the winner from each class, only if the minimum number of global registrations is 10,000 or sponsorship is received
iii. The winners of each of the above 26 quizzes will be awarded with some sort of sponsored prize or cash worth Rs. 365/-, provided there are a minimum of 10 participants in each quiz
iv. All registered students will be able to take online quizzes created, assigned and scheduled by school/ class/ section teachers and principal. Students will be able to see the results immediately. An additional benefit is that teachers are allowed to create their own quizzes in SOQC for their students
Teachers and principals can create their personal databank of questions to be referred by them in creating quizzes and making examination papers, in addition to using the SOKD to create quizzes. Students, if allowed by teachers/ principals, can view the personal data bank. Teachers and Principal can assign these quizzes to:
i. All school students
ii. Students of a particular Class/ Section
iii. A particular student
iv. Selected students
Quiz can be scheduled for a particular date and time. Scheduled quiz appears in the student’s panel immediately but can not be started before the scheduled date and time. Results are visible immediately. It should be noted that it is only the Principal who has the provision of printing quizzes to conduct them offline. The latter is a new feature and will be made available soon.
SOLP offers 24x7online/ offline help to all registered students, teachers, staff, principals and parents. Users can make online submissions of questions related to usage of the databank, usage of various features of SOLP, available questions and any other queries they may have. These questions are routed to the SVIP administration personnel who will respond to the user in the shortest possible time.
Registered students can ask questions online to the SVIP Online Help Teacher’s panel. The latter comprises of SVIP teachers specialists in their respective subjects. All submitted questions are replied within 12 hours of submission time.
SOLP allows all registered students to maintain their personal educational record online for lifetime. This is a record containing complete information about a student’s education including his/ her performance in school/ college /professional course/ university that can be accessed any time and anywhere. To access this record, the student will have to be an active member of SVIP.
Online books for classes VI to XII are available on the SOLP portal. Students can read these books online and search them by class, subject or chapter. Teachers as well as school staff can upload books. In case registrations are received from the entire school, SVIP will provide assistance in uploading books.
By default, every user (student, teacher, staff, principal, and parents) will be assigned a personal email address on registration with SOLP. The email address, with the sviponline.com domain, can be used for all types of internal communication with school teachers, principal, school staff, parents and SVIP administration. The SVIP communication module will help teachers and principals reply to students’ and parents’ questions quickly, thus helping in building trust.
The SOSS is a unique web application that will help in management of student information online. The SOSS will be made available to all schools that register for SOLP, irrespective of the number of student registrations made in that school. Using SOSS, schools will be able to create and maintain students’ data online that will be visible to all users (students, teachers, principal, staff and parents). The following sub-modules are available for all users on SOSS:
i. Create, maintain, and update profiles of students, teachers and staff online
ii. Attendance of students, teachers and staff by class/ section as well as by month/ date: Attendance marked by school teachers for class/ section students online, will be visible to students, parents and principal as well
iii. View and keep track of schedule and activities created and maintained by school staff and class/ section teachers. Teachers have rights to create and maintain class/ section activities of school, class and section and these are viewable by parents, students and principals
iv. Marks and results of all interim and final examinations: Users (including parents) will be able to view students’ report cards online entered and maintained by school staff and/ or class/ section/ subject teachers for different examinations types and categories
v. View examination date-sheet by class, section, examination type and category entered and maintained by school staff: The feature is useful for parents who can keep a track of examination dates
vi. View syllabus as well as syllabus schedule by class/ section/ subject teachers: With the help of this module students will also be able to see the syllabus schedule and progress of syllabus, start and end dates by class/ section/ subject; The functionality is especially useful for principal who can check the syllabus schedule and status of each and every class/ section about the status of syllabus covered in a particular class/section. Thus principal can monitor if class/section is running as per schedule or not.
vii. View and keep a track of homework assigned by class/ section/ subject teachers: Parents can view the same too.
viii. View timetable online: The time-table will have to be entered and maintained by the school staff
ix. View and read books online:. Schools are given the option of uploading books of their choice
This is a new feature expected to be launched soon by SVIP. The feature allows anyone to register as a “visitor” without having to pay the annual registration fees. Visitors as well as SVIPers (i.e. students who pay the registration fees and hence have access to the learning content as well as SOQC) will be allowed to submit any question online at sviponline.com. The question may be answered by either visitors or SVIPers, with each response being rated by the person who has asked the question. The feature is aimed at creating an environment where students are encouraged to ask more and more questions and thus increase interaction between different categories of users. The person submitting the highest number of high rating answers will be given a cash prize by either SVIP or a sponsor. Thus, any visitor may post or reply to questions, with the only process being registering on the site without having to pay. All posted questions will first be scrutinised by SVIP teacher.
SVIP software has inbuilt data security which enables students/ teachers/ principal/ parents view data of their own school only. Thus no one can see data of other schools.
The SVIP Online Quiz Center holds quizzes regularly for participating students – SVIPers. In order to facilitate the quizzes, the following policies have been designed.
i. All quizzes are online quizzes
ii. Students can take quiz on the scheduled date/ time or any time as per the duration defined in the quiz
iii. Criteria of selecting students for final class quiz:
- Number of students participating and qualifying in six qualifying quizzes
- Score 90% in any of the 6 qualifying class quizzes (or top scoring students in each 6 qualifying quizzes); However, minimum percentage to qualify will depend on the number of students participating in six qualifying quizzes
- In case of a tie, all tied students will be considered for the final quiz
- In case of tie in the final quiz, a verbal or written or online quiz could be conducted by SVIP to select the winners of Rs. 1 Lac scholarship or scholarship could be shared by the tied students
iv. Students can check their score for each quiz immediately
v. Consolidated score of all previous News and Class quizzes is published within 24 hours of the finishing time of the last quiz
vi. All quizzes will be conducted as per class syllabus only
vii. All quizzes will have multiple choice questions
viii. Each class quiz has 30 questions of total 30 marks and is of 30 minutes
ix. Each News Quiz has 15 questions of total 15 marks and is of 15 minutes
x. All News Quizzes will be held on www.sviponline.com. News Quizzes will be based on worldwide current affairs, with no preference to any channel. Preferred news channels will be declared in case SVIP gets sponsorship from any of the channels
xi. News quiz will have questions on current affairs of last 15 days news from the date of the quiz
xii. In case student gets any error during any quiz, he/ she will be able to re-start the quiz from where he/ she got the error. Failed quiz will appear in Failed Quiz list
xiii. Students will be able to download the quiz on their computers and take the quiz locally, even if they are not connected. However, they can do so only at a scheduled date and time. The quiz will get uploaded on the website www.sviponline.com, either when the student connects through the internet or when he/ she clicks the submit button
xiv. SVIP will reassign quiz only if there is an error from SVIP’s end or if it is due to some technical issues. Quiz will not be re-assigned if the student missed it due to any personal reason
SVIPers are encouraged to participate in various online activities on SOLP so that they get a chance to win scholarships and prizes. There will be two categories of scholarships. While the first preference will be for high scoring students, the second will be for students who are academically good, but have a weak financial background. The following scholarships will be made available:
i. Professional Education Scholarship (PES) – These are scholarships for 4 to 5 years of professional education based on the student’s performance in school, in SVIP online quizzes and passing of professional entrance exams such as PMT, PET etc. for professional courses in MBBS, BE etc. There will be a total of 2 scholarships. Of this there will be 1 scholarship for student who is financially weak, and 1 for a student who is selected through a lucky draw. The first scholarship (high-caliber but financially weak student) will be given only if there are a minimum of total 15,000 registrations received globally, with at least 2,000 from class XII, or if a sponsorship is received. The second scholarship (through the lucky draw) will be given only if there are a minimum of 10,000 registrations received globally, with at least 1,000 from class XII, or if a sponsorship is received. The amount of scholarship in both cases will remain the same. The amount will, however, be decided by SVIP
ii. School Education Scholarship (SES) – These are scholarship for school education (in the form of school fees) for one or more year depending on the number of registrations and sponsorship received. At least 6 such scholarships will be offered to financially weak students (one each from class VI to XII), while 6 will be offered to students selected through the lucky draw. While the first 6 scholarships (to financially weak students) will be given only if there are a minimum of 15,000 registrations globally or if a sponsorship is received, the next 6 (through the lucky draw) will be given if there are a minimum of 10,000 global registrations or if a sponsorship is received. The amount of scholarship in both cases will remain the same. The amount will, however, be decided by SVIP. It should be noted that scholarships will only be given if at least 10 students are participating in the quiz. Please check for qualifying conditions in next table
iii. Cash Prize for SOLP students coming first, second and third in all 19 News Quizzes, amounting to Rs. 25,000/-, 15,000/- and 10,000/- respectively.
iv. The winners of each of the 26 quizzes will be awarded with some sort of sponsored prize or cash worth Rs. 365/-, provided there are a minimum of 10 participants in each quiz
v. Sponsorships (sponsor from USA/ India) for education of financially weak students; Such students will be listed on the SOLP portal at www.sviponline.com to be adopted/ sponsored by sponsors. Such students can be recommended by teachers, principal and friends on the SVIP website
vi. In 2008-2009, SVIP will give 7,000 free registrations to students securing 1st position in their final annual examination
Table 1 below enlists all scholarships and prizes awarded by SVIP and the qualifying conditions.
Table 1: Scholarships and Prizes
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Scholarships/ Prizes
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Number & Amount
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Qualifications
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Conditions/ Comments
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SVIP Cash Prize - Rs. 50,000/- (News Quiz)
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One for each class, split into three
Rs. 25,000
Rs. 15,000
Rs. 10,000
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Securing 1st, 2nd and 3rd position in last 10 News Quizzes
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None
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SVIP School Scholarships
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SVIP, along with the participating school, decide the number and amount
30% of total registration fees collected from a school back to the school students
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Students scoring highest in SVIP online class quizzes within a school
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None
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Rs. 365/- Gift or Check
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68
Rs. 365 for each SVIP Online Quiz
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Student securing 1st position in the quiz
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* Class Quiz: Minimum 10 students should participate each quiz
* News Quiz: Minimum 15 students should participate each quiz
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SVIP Scholarships worth Rs. 7 Lacs (Class Quiz)
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Twenty One
Rs. 1 Lac (Rs. 50K, 35K, 15K) (One for each class VI to XII)
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90% score in any of the 6 qualifying class quizzes to qualify for final 7th class quiz
Students securing 1st, 2nd and 3rd positions in 7th class quiz
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10,000 annual student paid registrations (1st April to 31st. March) or sponsorship is received (excluding 7,000 free registrations for students securing 1st position in their respective classes V to XI in session 2007-08)
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Professional Education Scholarship (PES)
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Two (Of this, 1 student will be selected through a lucky draw)
Professional School Fees for 4-5 years (XII Class only)
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One Scholarship for lucky student
- Student is a SVIPer (Registered for SOLP)
- Student has cleared the entrance test (like PMT, PET etc.) and has secured a seat in professional institute
- In case student has not secured a seat in professional college by clearing entrance test, a cash prize worth equal to student’s XII class fees will be awarded to the qualifying student
- Lucky Draw for all registered students – SVIPers will be held during the Prize Distribution Ceremony
One Scholarship for student of high-caliber but with weak financial background:
- Student is a SVIPer (Registered for SOLP)
- Student has cleared the entrance test (like PMT, PET etc.) and has secured a seat in professional institute
- In case student has not secured a seat in professional college by clearing entrance test, a cash prize worth equal to student’s XII class fees will be awarded to the qualifying student
- Recommended by principal/ teachers
- Student has rich education back ground and weak financial family support (will be verified)
- Scoring highest in the 7th Class quiz (Or a special online/ verbal/ written quiz could be conducted among qualifying students to select the deserving candidate
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* Scholarship for a lucky student.
- SVIP receives 10,000 paid student registrations, with at least 1,000 from class XII, or sponsorship is received
* Scholarship for student of high-caliber but with weak financial background
- SVIP receives 15,000 paid student registrations (1st April to 31st. March), with at least 2,000 from class XII, or sponsorship is received
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School Education Scholarship (SES)
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Twelve (Of this, there will be 6 Lucky winners)
School Fees for one year (One for each class from VI to XI)
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6 Scholarships for 6 lucky students, one each from class VI to XI
- Student is a SVIPer (Registered for SOLP)
- Lucky Draw for all registered students – SVIPers will be held during the Prize Distribution Ceremony
6 Scholarships for student, one each from class VI to XI, of high-caliber but with weak financial background:
- Student is a SVIPer (Registered for SOLP)
- Recommended by principal/ teachers
- Student has a rich education back ground and weak financial family support (will be verified)
- Scoring highest in 7th Class quiz (Or a special online or verbal or written quiz could be conducted among qualifying students to select a deserving candidate)
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* 6 Scholarships for 6 lucky students, one each from class VI to XI
- SVIP receives 10,000 paid student registrations or sponsorship is received
* 6 Scholarships for 6 students of high-caliber but with weak financial background:
- SVIP receives 15,000 paid student registrations or sponsorship is received
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- Professional Education Scholarship (PES): Scholarships for 4/5 years professional education
- School Education Scholarship (SES): Scholarship for school education for 1 or multiple years
- # of scholarships depends on # of student registrations and sponsorships
- Sponsorships (Sponsor from USA/India) for students' education for financially weak students (Students needing
education sponsorship will be listed on www.sviponline.com to be adopted/sponsored by sponsors)
A number of other additional services are offered by SVIP to those schools that accept SOLP for the entire school). These include the following:
i. Installation of wired/ wireless network in classes VI to XII to enable access to SOLP, if the total number of student registration is more than 1,500 from the school or an agreement is made for two years and the number of students is more than 1,000 or provision of five, free high speed internet connections or wireless network (one connection after registration of every 300 students)
ii. Full responsibility of SVIP in implementing the “SVIP Online Software for School (SOSS)” to make it sure that school staff, school teachers, students, principals and parents are able to use all functionalities
iii. Training by SVIP to school staff and school teachers on SOSS
iv. Help from SVIP in uploading all class/ subject books as per school recommendation on the SOLP portal, so that students can read books online from anywhere and any time
v. For each school, SVIP will provide one customized functionality as per the school’s own requirements.
vi. If the number of students registering for SOLP is more than 1,500, SVIP will enter 7,000 questions (1,000 questions per class, approximately, and equivalent to 100 questions per subject as per the school /class syllabus on recommended subjects, books, chapters, topics and subtopics). As part of this, SVIP will get in touch with school teachers to get lists of books, chapters, topics and sub-topics by class and subject as per the school/ class syllabus to write questions so that students can take the benefit of online knowledge databank for their school and board examinations. It should be noted that SVIP Teachers are continuously writing questions as per NCERT/ CBSE & ICSE books and syllabus to meet the target of 100,000 questions by end of 2008
For schools registering their entire student population, SVIP will launch the “Project Prosperous India” (PPI) initiative, aimed at building awareness about social and environmental issues amongst students. As part of this, SVIP will undertake the following initiatives:
i. Keep school clean and green by encouraging students and schools staff to place trash boxes and trash bags in school
ii. Encourage schools staff and students to grow and maintain grass to avoid dust
iii. Encourage users to plant trees
iv. Interactive lectures about global warming
v. Discussions and lectures aimed at making students responsible citizens by making them aware about issues such as cleanliness, co-operation, friendliness, enthusiasm, perfectionism, politeness, professionalism, willingness etc.
vi. “Keep India Clean and Green” – This will be the primary objective driving the project
vii. An effort to contribute a little bit to the ongoing effort of making India a developed country will be made in all respects
SOLP can be extended to classes I to V as per the school’s recommendations. SVIP will need 60 to 90 days to create knowledge databank for junior classes.
In order to enable participation by the maximum possible number of students, SVIP has kept a very small annual registration fee – Rs. 365.00 per student at only Re 1.00 per day. The fees will be paid by any student who wants to register for the program through purchase of Cash Cards made available to school authorities. Students can also register independently for the program using Credit Card or by sending DD/Check in favor of SVIP Online Learning Pvt. Ltd. Registered student will be provided a receipt confirming their payment, along with a unique registration number (SVIPer #) and login to access the SOLP portal. The program is free for all other users. When a student registers online, a “thank you” e-mail with user Login and Password is sent to the user on his/ her e-mail address given in his/ her profile.
SVIP Online Learning Program (SOLP) is different from other e-learning programs because of its unique concept, goals and objectives. Table 2 below summarizes the key features of SOLP vis-à-vis other online programs.
Table 2: Comparison of SVIP vis-à-vis Other Online Programs
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Characteristic
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SVIP Online Learning Program (SOLP)
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Other E- Learning Programs
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Cost
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Only Re.1/- a Day
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At least Rs. 3 to 5/- a Day
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Question Data Bank
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By Board, Syllabus, Class, Subject, Book, Chapter, Topic, Sub-topic, Question Type, Degree of Hardness
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By Board, Class and Subject only
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Coverage of Data Bank (General Knowledge, IQ and Current Affairs)
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Yes
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No
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Question Types
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Multiple Choice
Short Answer
Descriptive
Essay
Numerical
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Multiple Choice Only
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10-Years Question Papers with Solution
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Yes
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No
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Sample Question Papers with Solution
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Yes
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No
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Provision for teachers to enter their own questions online for students
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Yes
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No
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Subjects
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22
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3 to 5
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Classes
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Classes VI to XII, with plans for including classes I to V in 2009-2010
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Classes III to XII
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Learning Mode
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Read Mode
Quiz Mode
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-Quiz Mode only
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Online Books
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Yes
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No
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Online Quizzes
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19 News Quizzes
49 Class Quizzes (7 for each class VI to XII)
12 – General Quizzes – one every month.
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No
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Provision for teachers, principal and corporations to create, assign and schedule quizzes
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Yes
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No
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Incentives for Students
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Scholarships, Prizes and Awards
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Yes
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Platform to compete on Intra School, Inter School, National and International level to win scholarships, prizes and awards for lacs of rupees.
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Yes
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Only at one level
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Ask Teacher:
Provision for students to ask questions from Experts
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Yes
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No
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Personal E-Mail Address
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Yes
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No
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Communication Channel
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Yes
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No
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Personal Education Record
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For Life
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No
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Online Software for Schools
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Yes – Free
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No
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Login for Principal, School Teachers, School Staff & Parents
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Yes – Free
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No
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Transparency in education system to view school and student data by students, parents, teachers, school staff and principal:
- Timetable, Home-work, Date-sheet, Attendance, Report Card, Syllabus, Examination and Quiz Results, Syllabus, School/Class/Section Activities
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Yes
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No
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Social Objective
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Project Prosperous India (PPI)
- To make India a developed country
- Keep India clean and green
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No such objective
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Customization: Provision of providing customized functionalities as per school requirements
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Yes
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No
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Security of School Data - School data is visible to the user (Students/Parents, Teachers, Staff, Principal) of their school only
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Yes
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No
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New Features Coming Soon
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Ask/Reply Question - Provision of posting questions by any student i.e., SVIPer (paid student registration) and visitors (student will be required to register without paying any fees to post questions, reply posted questions and read answers posted by people on SVIP home page). Students will be able to attach file for question/answer
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Coming soon
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No
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Recommendations: Provision of recommending students (with high-caliber with weak financial background) for scholarships and sponsorships. SVIP will try its best to find sponsors for such students
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Coming soon
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No
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Earn while Learn: Opportunity for winning appreciation awards and cash prizes by teachers and volunteers who help students by replying questions posted by students on SVIP Portal
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Coming soon
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No
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Students Online Club: Availability of Students Discussion Board, where students can start discussion on any education topic. All paid and unpaid registered students will be allowed to participate in the online discussion on SVIP home page
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Coming soon
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No
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SVIP proposes the following process for implementation of SOLP/ SOSS:
1. After the school has done a careful review of the proposal, it should send a signed Acceptance Letter to SVIP by following any of the three methods mentioned below
i. The enclosed acceptance letter can be couriered/ posted to Romila Katoch, Manager, SVIP Online Learning Pvt. Ltd., C2A/257-B, Janak Puri, New Delhi 110058
iii. The school can simply send an acceptance e-mail to svip@sviponline.com in order to expedite the registration process
2. Within 2 days of receiving the acceptance letter from the school, SVIP will send a Promotion Code to the school for free registration of the principal, school staff and school teachers (for classes VI to XII) on the online portal, www.sviponline.com. In case the entire student population of a school is registered, the school will collect fees from students on behalf of SVIP and send the same via cheque/ DD/ bank draft. On receipt of the appropriate amount, SVIP will send a Promotion Code that can be used to register all school students.Along with the Promotion Code, SVIP will also send a Welcome Package comprising of SVIP notices and brochures to be distributed to students
3. In case, a selected number of students are expected to register for the program, cash cards each worth Rs. 365 in value will be made available to the school. A receipt book to keep track of students who buy these cash cards will also be given out. SVIP notices and brochures will also be given to schools. The number of cash cards to be sent will be dependent on the number of student registrations that the school expects, to be stated in the Acceptance Letter. Parents of registered students will be able to register using their child’s school code, date of birth, and his/ her SVIP registration number (SVIPer #)
4. The school, after receiving the Welcome Package, will distribute brochures to all students in classes VI to XII and put up SVIP Notices on the school boards. The number of SVIP brochures and SVIP Notices required by the school are to be stated in the Acceptance Letter. The cash cards/ promotion code will be made available to students who wish to register for the program, based on which each student will get a unique registration number (SVIPer #) and login to access the SOLP portal. Once a student completes the registration on www.sviponline.com, he/ she will automatically receive a welcome e-mail with user registration information like User Login Name, Password and SVIPer #
5. Immediately, after signing of the Acceptance Letter, and provided the school registers its entire student population, SVIP will depute one SVIP employee who will give training to school staff and school teachers and will help them in entering school data like time-table, books, syllabus etc. in SOSS. SVIP personnel will also get in touch with school teachers to get lists of school books, chapters, topics, sub-topics by class and subject to add questions to the SVIP Online Knowledge Databank (SOKD). In case only a few students from the school register, telephonic/ online help will be provided to schools for implementation of SOSS
6. Depending on the number of student registrations, SVIP will install wired or wireless internet network in the school within 30 days of signing the agreement with SVIP
7. In case of registration by the entire school, SVIP will launch the “Project Prosperous India PPI” initiative
8. If the school wants to develop a customized functionality on SOLP, SVIP will collect all the requirements from the referred school employee and will develop and implement required functionality with in 3 months of signing the agreement
i. Schools will pay 50% of the total annual registration fees (for all students expected to be registered) at the time of signing the agreement, with the rest 50% to be paid within 30 days of signing the agreement. All payments are to be made via Cheque/ DD in favor of “SVIP Online Learning Pvt. Ltd.”
ii. Schools will be responsible for creation and maintenance of school as well as students’ data such as date-sheets, time-table, home-work, syllabus, books etc.
The school can contact any of the persons mentioned below for any queries, discussions, concerns that it may have.
1. Sharan Walia,
Managing Director,
SVIP Online Learning Pvt. Ltd.
Phone: India: 9312443239, (US): +1-510-551-8505
2. Vinni Walia,
Director,
SVIP Online Learning Pvt. Ltd.
Phone: India: 9312443239, (US): +1-630-364-1649
3. Romila Katoch,
Manager,
SVIP Online Learning Pvt. Ltd.
Phone # (India): +91-120-648 0169
4. Rajan Walia,
Marketing Manager,
SVIP Online Learning Pvt. Ltd.
Phone # (India): +91-9312443239