HYDERABAD: School students in Telangana will now be able to take weekly tests on WhatsApp as the school education department has launched a new chat bot that enables them to assess their understanding in various subjects.
Telangana school education department has launched a new programme titled ‘Intinta Chaduvula Panta’ under which the WhatsApp chat bot has been developed that enables class 1-8 students to take the weekly tests. The chat bot (8595524405) has been designed to enable quality education at home for children in view of extended physical closure of schools due to the pandemic. It would enable students to take weekly tests, containing eight questions each from any two subjects. Currently, the weekly tests are limited to English and Maths for class 1-8 students and would soon be extended to other subjects.
“The weekly worksheet content created for all subjects for classes 1-10 is being disseminated through WhatsApp chat bot. Every week, up to 10 questions from two subjects can be practised by the students. After the practise, the answer key is sent with correct answers,” state project director, Samagra Shiksha, Telangana, and commissioner of school education A Sridevasena said in a letter. The chat bot would also send relevant video links to students if they fail to answer less than five questions correctly.
A live dashboard has also been developed that gives performance overview of all students, who have undertaken weekly tests using the chat bot. As of Sunday, as many as 27,546 students used the WhatsApp chat bot of which 25,859 completed at least one weekly test. Hyderabad recorded the highest number of participants, while Mulugu and Nagarkurnool recorded the lowest.