Now, Phoenix app to cover students up to Class X : The Tribune India

Tribune News Service

Naina Mishra

Chandigarh, February 8

The Chandigarh Education Department has now integrated up to Class X in the “Phoenix” mobile application to track the students’ performance in government schools of the city.

The Android-based app, which is part of the “Phoenix Project”, was launched in 2019 under the Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan, and was developed with the help of the Society for Promotion of IT in Chandigarh (SPIC).

New features

Passwords for higher officials so they can access the data to monitor the performance of students and teachers. The application generates performance cards based on class, subject, student, teacher and learning outcomes. Under “reassessment feature”, a child who does not come to school or repeatedly achieves “D” for 30 days will be provided with remedial classes.

Teachers of elementary classes (Class I to VIII) and secondary classes (Class IX and X) are able to assess grades, track and check the progress of their students with the help of this Android based mobile application, which is available on Google Play Store. The learning outcomes of subjects up to and including Class VIII have already been loaded on the application. Teachers will need to assign grades and learning outcomes that match the child’s particularities.

Under the new feature, passwords for higher officials have been generated so that any official can access the data to monitor the performance of students and teachers. The application generates performance cards based on class, subject, student, teacher and learning outcomes (LE).

A “reassessment feature” has been added to the mobile application, i.e. if a child does not come to school or repeatedly scores “D” for 30 days, remedial classes will be provided to the student and the child’s performance at the level be reconsidered from Cluster Resource Center Coordinator (CRC) or Urban Resource Center Coordinator (URC).

Monthly meetings with principals are held based on the performance card generated by the application. Rajni Mahajan, Assistant Project Coordinator, UT Education Department, said, “In the project approval board meeting with the Ministry of Education (MoE), Chandigarh’s Phoenix project was applauded and other states were asked to follow the competency-based assessment of students.”

This year, UT will conduct a school-based “baseline survey” using the phoenix application, which will assess student learning outcomes and conduct gap analysis of each learning outcome. This will help Chandigarh to perform better in the National Assessment Survey (NAS) conducted periodically by the Centre.