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What is Noon?

Access to quality education for children has remained a persistent challenge in Afghanistan. Security, lack of qualified teachers, bad infrastructure and cultural barriers have prevented educational services from reaching children especially in the rural areas. Furthermore, heavy costs associated with monitoring and data collection on the running projects and initiatives have not helped. Such factors have resulted in 3.7 million children with no access to education.

Noon uses technology to cut across existing obstacles and make access to education simple and easy. A centralized system for educational content and widespread, fast delivery via internet. With this approach Noon enables delivery of quality educational content produced with qualified teachers to children all over the country, and we are going one step further by facilitating real time monitoring of child performance and communication between students, teachers, parents in various forms.

The development of the system is done with the internet limitations in mind. Noon application is equipped with one time download of content and offline access to it. Features like this and future expansions makes Noon a versatile system.

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Who can benefit from Noon?

Individuals: Noon provides Individual subscriptions of full grade with all subjects as well as individual subjects. Students can take courses both as primary source of learning and to supplement their existing schooling. Individual users have the advantage of going at their own pace through the material. One time download and offline availability of content in the device through application make that easy. As individuals subscribers teachers can be up to date with latest uploaded content and utilize noon for pre-lecture preparation.

Schools: Schools can subscribe to full grades and with larger screens run full grades. They can do the same for individual subjects to fill gaps or supplement their existing teaching capacities. Since the content of Noon is in accordance with curriculum of MoE integration will not be a hassle for schools.Schools can also benefit from Noon to provide incubation for the newly admitted students with lower proficiency in their grades or subjects by serving as of accelerated learning capacity.

Community Center Based Schools/Classes: In rural areas with no access to schools Noon can be very effective solution. With one time download feature pre-downloaded content (lecture videos, Textbook and Quiz) in devices full entire grades can be taught.In order to further benefit from Noon and its module community centers can be equipped with internet. The internet requirement is minimal when it comes to module. This simplify facilitation of education in remote areas and less costly and complex compared to usual mode of establishing schools. Which makes this mode of implementation of educational packages more efficient in rural areas.

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How is Noon structured?

Base Package: For each subject lesson are divided into series of lectures in the form of videos. The videos are equipped with graphic elements and animations to aid better understanding of topics and concepts. Videos are accompanied with corresponding chapter texts from the textbook. Quizzes are available for assessment of understanding (currently 7th to 12th grades). This presently comprise the base package of noon system.The user interface is designed with simplicity and ease of use in mind, as over featuring and complexity can result in distraction and lack of focus. This is made possible by utilizing latest cloud technologies and sophisticated functionalities at the back end of the software application. To bring about further convenience to users, the application and content is available separately in both national languages Pashto and Dari.

Modules: In order to enhance learning and facilitate a well-rounded educational experience to both students and parents/guardians’ modules are built in the application that goes beyond mere delivery of course content.

Library: Books are available in digital format that are both relevant to the course and generic to allow further studying beyond the curriculum. The digital library will be constantly provided with books recommended by teachers in the lectures, quizzes and other modules, to encourage reading beyond the course material.

Discussion: Teacher student communication is enabled through discussion module. Each subject is provided with chatroom type feature (presently text based) to allow student to present their queries that are answered and explained by teachers at the other end through a teacher user. the exchange of questions and answers are available and searchable for future references and new users as well. Students can use the discussions to carry out student to student discussions as well. Connectivity to internet will keep the students up to date on the recent exchange with between teachers and students.

Homework/assignment: With this module students can submit assignments, solved problems and essays to be reviewed by teacher. Feedback will help students improve as they progress in each subject.

Student performance: Student performance is one of the core principles that the platform has been built around. Enabling effective insight and engagement of parents, guardians and sponsors in the educational process is facilitated through parental account.Parents/guardians are kept informed on the progress of students via dashboards with graphs and charts. Videos viewed, texts read and quiz scores summaries are provided in real time as the usage data constantly flows from students accounts to dashboards.With performance monitoring in this manner parents and guardians can have proactive role in the education of the child and make informed decisions.Parents/Guardians will have more control and can play active and effective role by taking right action at the right time.