Billabong High International School Ensure Continued Learning Through Virtual Schooling

In the midst of a national lockdown, Kangaroo Kids Education Limited’s (KKEL) education brands like Billabong High International School (BHIS) and Kangaroo Kids International Preschool (KK centre) have begun several new initiatives to help their students to continue with their journey of learning. Both institutions are leveraging the power of technology to continue the academic progress of students and have begun the new academic year with virtual schooling & virtual preschooling. While BHIS students are studying through ZOOM and Billabox app, in-house preschool tinny toddlers are connected with their teachers through ZOOM.

Teachers are going the extra mile to ensure learning outcomes are met, across levels and grades. With the integrated School Management System (SMS), customised online Learning Management System (LMS) and a robust Customer Relationship Management System (CRMS), KKEL has been able to ‘normalize’ schooling and preschooling operations across stakeholders: employees, partners, parents and students at the time of this crisis.

The transition to 360-degree holistic virtual learning has made remote learning smooth both with children, teachers as well as parents who are now spending more time at home.

For K-12 BHIS there is the exclusive integrated learning management system and app: ‘Billabox’ and for Kangaroo Kids Preschools there is the proprietary ‘Skippy Tech’ app. The content for both these apps has been curated by in-house subject matter experts and the content and the practice is aligned to what is taught to students in the actual classroom.

For the K-12 students, BHIS has started online sessions for the new academic session that started in April. Teachers use videos and presentations to facilitate learning. Teachers continue to optimize resources from home, build their own ‘teaching aids’ and ‘fun and engaging explainers’ at home to make sure each session is exciting and engaging. This makes the teaching-learning process interesting and caters to all learning styles. Besides being interesting, the applications allow the students to interact with the teacher and their peers.