Anton Lembede Academy Innovates Online & Hybrid Classroom Teaching Using Huawei Cloud ULearning Solution

Anton Lembede Academy (Full name is Anton Lembede Mathematics, Sciences & Technology Academy) in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa is a state-of-the-art school teaching Grades 8 to 12, grooming South Africa's innovators of tomorrow.

Why HUAWEI CLOUD?

  • Huawei-ULearning’s IdeaHub-U-Class solution enables schools to innovate new teaching methods, to conduct hybrid (physical + remote) teaching or 100% online teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic as well as physical classroom teaching after the pandemic.

  • Seamlessly integrated hardware and software for effective physical classroom, hybrid, and 100% online teaching & learning during and after COVID-19. Advanced functions that facilitate classroom teaching innovation.

  • The SaaS model ensures prompt function, feature and technology upgrade and maintenance for the UClass app, so schools and teachers always have access to the latest technology and features to support innovation in classroom teaching and learning.

Why HUAWEI CLOUD?

  • HUAWEI CLOUD provides an online learning solution called Learning Management System (LMS), in the form of a SaaS offering. Huawei LMS targets educational institutions, vertical industry associations, and corporations. It is used by 800+ universities/colleges, 10+ vertical industry associations, and 1,000+ corporations with 10+ million users around the globe.

  • A HUAWEI CLOUD team worked closely with Rain during the COVID-19 Pandemic, making sure that the proposed solution would meet the customer's business and technical requirements, and at the same time keeping Rain ahead of competition.

  • While working with Rain, the HUAWEI CLOUD team managed to win the customer's trust by proving that we were able to deliver the proposed solution with all the promised benefits. HUAWEI CLOUD's local technical teams continue to support Rain 24/7, always responding to any issues within the agreed SLAs, making sure that Rain was able to deploy on HUAWEI CLOUD fast.

Why HUAWEI CLOUD?

  • HUAWEI CLOUD provides an online learning solution called Learning Management System (LMS), in the form of a SaaS offering. Huawei LMS targets educational institutions, vertical industry associations, and corporations. It is used by 800+ universities/colleges, 10+ vertical industry associations, and 1,000+ corporations with 10+ million users around the globe.

  • A HUAWEI CLOUD team worked closely with Rain during the COVID-19 Pandemic, making sure that the proposed solution would meet the customer's business and technical requirements, and at the same time keeping Rain ahead of competition.

  • While working with Rain, the HUAWEI CLOUD team managed to win the customer's trust by proving that we were able to deliver the proposed solution with all the promised benefits. HUAWEI CLOUD's local technical teams continue to support Rain 24/7, always responding to any issues within the agreed SLAs, making sure that Rain was able to deploy on HUAWEI CLOUD fast.

Challenges

The global pandemic of COVID-19 created unforeseen conditions which forced students across South Africa to stay at home to get out of the way of the disease. Most educational institutions in South Africa did not have mature online/remote learning solutions to deliver online classes at scale. This triggered strong demand for online learning solutions which could not only provide online classrooms, but also support other value-added functions like online student assessment, on-demand content generation and delivery, analytics and reporting. The academy sought advanced solutions for online/remote teaching & learning to help students in South Africa continue their education during and after COVID-19.

Pain Points

Unable to ensure that all students will participate in classroom activities during live stream classes, because teachers cannot see all students through a small screen.

The hardware and software used for online teaching & learning during COVID-19 must be able to be reused in physical classrooms after the pandemic.

Student participation in classroom activities and their performance are not automatically recorded in the system. There is no real-time assessment or data feedback for teaching and classroom activities.

Solution

Huawei Cloud Smart Classroom System is integrated into Huawei IdeaHub to facilitate innovative and effective classroom teaching. The solution can enables smart, convenient teacher-student interaction. Not only connects local and remote classrooms but also facilitates the sharing of high-quality educational resources and promotes education equality. The Ulearning online education solution supports teaching and learning in physical classrooms, as well as hybrid or 100% online education.

The system provides robust, user-friendly interactive classroom tools to guarantee student participation & engagement. There is a classroom analytics functions integrated with AI capabilities: real-time feedback, instant grading, and instant reporting.And for teachers there is seamlessly integrated activity management before, during, and after classes.

Benefits

Analytical reports about teacher and student performance are provided in real time and linked to performance evaluations.

Students can participate in classroom activities through mobile devices and tablets.

Lecture content is preloaded to and presented on IdeaHub during the class.

Activity results are generated instantly.