Online teaching platform launched in Nigeria

With the growing emphasis on quality education in Nigeria, it has become imperative that robust technological systems be built to support the sector.

Exolve Technologies have launched an online teaching and learning platform designed to reach a larger audience (image: Tutor.NG)

In line with their resolve to promote online education and eradicate illiteracy in Africa, Exolve Technologies have launched an online teaching and learning platform designed to reach a large online audience.
Tutor.NG is an Online Tutoring Platform providing tools and resources for engaging and teaching learners anytime, anywhere. It provides the technology for tutors to transform any environment into a learning space.  Tutor.NG is a robust system that provides everything users need to take their teaching online – a virtual classroom, functionality to create and deliver courses with assessment tools, ability to work with different document formats – doc, pdf, ppt., content sharing features, live interactive sessions and a payment system that helps users monetize their content.
“We are extremely excited to launch this platform, online tutoring solves the problem of learning beyond the classrooms and also create employment where smart and versatile graduates can become self employed by teaching online and make a living for themselves, also with the increase in internet availability and affordable computer/mobile devices, student and teachers can now do more meaningful things with their data package,” Peter Ogedengbe, Co-Founder Tutor.NG.
Organization can save cost on technical infrastructure to conduct online meetings, deliver lectures and training. The platform also provides tools that enable collaboration from different locations. For organizations, multiple teachers and instructors can log in, schedule, and deliver online classes in real time to an unlimited number of students across the world, on their personalized e-learning space.
Tutor.NG helps users to monetize what they know and are ready to teach. Content owners now have a platform to express their creativity and teach without having to spend so much on IT Infrastructure.
Some of the features are:
White Board: the tutor can use the whiteboard to illustrate, annotate and demonstrate key points
Live Video Sessions: interact face-to-face online with student with standard collaboration tools
Live Session Recording: videos and other activities during the live session can be recorded to be watched at a later time by users.
Real Time Virtual Classroom: Users from remote locations can participate in real time in a virtual classroom
Content Creation:  you can upload and publish courseware in any format PowerPoint, PDFs, Documents, and Videos
User Management: manage learners and multiple teachers to deliver and schedule classes
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