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The education landscape has significantly improved. Today, technology combined with education is offering people an opportunity to learn anywhere anytime. As education has sprung out from 4 walls to a device, the recent tool of Ed-tech has become students’ new favorite. Dialogue-based learning has gained popularity among peers, and most of this popularity is inclined towards CLASSUM.
One of the biggest factors driving the success is the founder. Being students themselves, they witnessed the problems first-handily and came up with a solution. Two students from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Chaerin Lee and Youjin Choi laid the foundation of CLASSUM in 2018 with a mission to address the challenges of learning that they faced.
Today the platform is used by over 4,000 institutions globally, and CLASSUM is continually breaking barriers of communication and build learning environments that foster growth and collaboration. Due to CLASSUM’s inspiring Ed-tech and talent technology start-ups across six continents, GSV Cup selected it as one of their Elite 200 in 2020. Moreover, the CEO and founder, Chaerin Lee was recently recognized as a member of the Forbes 30 under 30, Asia Class of 2021, for CLASSUM’s innovative approach to communication challenges in education.
CLASSUM is a combination of two words—Class and Forum. A platform that brings students, staff, and other educators together in one digital environment to encourage interaction and collaboration in and out of class just like a forum. CLASSUM makes learning inclusive, engaging and inspiring to unlock the students’ true potential. Through this platform, students get access to a learning space where anyone can discover their full potential.
CLASSUM was established with a mission to enhance the way the world learns and emphasize more on teaching and learning. Over the years, it has turned into a leading interactive learning platform with rising student engagement. The team of CLASSUM believes that quality education must go beyond the “sit and learn” approach and focus on the overall learning experience. The team of CLASSUM is comprised of experts from various backgrounds and experiences who are brought together with an ambition to change learning.
The platform has a unique UI/UX that is based on chat UI and SNS features. Due to this, it lowers the communication barrier between the users’ viz. students and instructors. Furthermore, CLASSUM also leverages AI tech and Big Data analysis techniques, which enables the users to get access to an in-depth class report. This report can be applied to improve their class and gain overall information about their students and the course.
CLASSUM is available on browser web and android/iOS devices. It offers different plans for the users but one can join the platform for free. If the user wishes to he/she can choose between the Premium or Enterprise plan. With Premium plan, the user gets access to Administrator Management Page, Renotify, Insight, and Member Statistics, and much more. Presently, this communication tool for education is used by institutions around the world, including Samsung, Hyundai, LG CNS, Shiseido, and KAIST.
Ed-tech has today become a crowded space with many participants emerging every day. In this competitive landscape, it is important to be distinctive. CLASSUM is thriving in this competition due to its cutting-edge features like,
Friendly User Experience & Interface: CLASSUM eliminated all the noise and created a modern and intuitive interface so that students and professors could focus on what matters. Icons, texts, color schemes, positioning, features, all details are carefully researched and designed to enhance the learning experience.
Organized Questions: Students can reinforce the importance of specific questions through the ‘Curious’ With Curious, there is no need to type or send anything, all required is a click. The higher the number, the higher is the importance.
Meaningful Feedback: With CLASSUM, educators don’t need to wait by the end of the course to provide feedback. Feedback can happen whenever is needed. Moreover, it also allows educators to choose to receive it anonymously to keep them more meaningful.
STEM Classes: CLASSUM has developed an in-house LaTeX to help students easily post and edit mathematical equations on the fly. With the Code Block feature, students can post code snippets and the feature automatically detects the programming language and adds color schemes for better visibility.
Analytics & Insights: Its analytics page offers more than just some posts and unique users, it comprises rich data on most asked questions, number of interactions, participation levels, percentage of solved questions, top curious, number of posts by participants
Video sessions: CLASSUM offers educators the choice of conducting live and video sessions. Moreover, when opting for VODs, educators can also check each participant’s video view progress and control video playback settings such as video speed and skipping.
With the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, lectures were shifted to video sessions. Aiding to these video sessions, CLASSUM has launched its new ‘Live Sessions’ feature, marking the beginning of a new partnership with Zoom—a video-conferencing platform. This feature combines Zoom’s existing tools with CLASSUM’s chat functions to increase and improve students’ engagement. The goal is to give course participants more opportunities to engage than what is generally available on Zoom. Apart from this, CLASSUM has also built several features to combat issues that users have raised with the existing video-conferencing tools adapted for classroom use.
Youjin Choi said, “We found that the most valuable learning comes from critical thinking and human exchanges that often begin with asking questions, and that’s what we hope CLASSUM will bring to learners and educators around the world.”
As a leading Ed-tech company, CLASSUM’s team is continually working to update new features, adding and improving support for a variety of course styles based on the active feedback of users.
