ShikshaLokam

Efficiency and Assistant tools

What issue are you trying to solve?

Teachers and headmasters spend excessive time on administrative tasks, reducing their focus on teaching and student engagement. How can we develop technology-driven solutions to automate and streamline these processes, freeing up time for effective learning?

Detailed problem statement. Cover the what and why of the problem. Talk about the impact it has. What is the need to solve this problem? Give examples of issues it is causing.

In many schools, teachers and headmasters spend a significant portion of their time on routine administrative tasks such as attendance tracking, syllabus planning, resource allocation, and performance monitoring. These essential but time-consuming responsibilities reduce the time available for lesson planning, student engagement, and professional development. The lack of efficient systems to automate or streamline these tasks forces educators to rely on manual methods, increasing their workload and limiting their ability to focus on student learning. This issue is especially pronounced in government and low-resource schools, where digital infrastructure is limited, and educators often work with large class sizes and minimal support staff. As a result, teachers experience burnout and job dissatisfaction, student progress tracking remains inconsistent, communication gaps persist between schools and parents, and resource allocation becomes inefficient. A teacher may spend nearly an hour daily on attendance marking instead of preparing interactive lessons, while a headmaster struggles to track student dropouts due to a lack of a centralized system. Schools with limited teaching staff often fail to identify struggling students early due to the absence of automated performance tracking tools, and parents remain uninformed about their child’s progress due to ineffective communication channels. To address these challenges, what tools can we develop in areas like task automation, resource management, communication, classroom management, attendance management, syllabus and performance tracking to streamline these processes, making teacher's and headmaster's work more efficient and giving them more time to focus on enhancing student learning?

NOTE - The above example are for reference only, you must pick up relevant problem statements that you think will have the most impact

This can be divided into:

Mandatory tasks:

• Task Automation for Efficiency
• Communication & Notification System

Good-to-have tasks:

• Data-Driven Insights Dashboard
• Smart scheduling powered by AI
• Collaboration forum
• Offline support
(User should be able to operate on the data which was previously loaded during the last internet connectivity and once the network is connected the data should sync to the backend)

Bonus tasks:

• Voice based assistance

Separate scores can be assigned to each category

• Problem statement identified
• Architecture diagram
• Solution note
• GitHub code link - Complete code base should be open source
• Video recording
• Prototype link