An indigenous firm, HESED Learning and Development Limited (HESED), has developed an application for schools, teachers, students, and parents.
Known as HESED SMS, the app is aimed at providing access to quality and affordable education with the purpose of guaranteeing the future of the Nigerian child.
With the HESED PQ App, students have access to over 30,000 interactive past questions for exam preparation. These learning materials are also available on-the-go on apps, desktops, laptops, tablets and smartphones.
Chief Executive Officer, HESED, Matthew Odu, said: “Our mission is to provide comprehensive and innovative solutions tailored to the needs of schools, teachers, students, and parents because we are dedicated to bridging the gap in the education sector.’’
He said HESED Edu Suite has two products, namely HESED School Management System (HESED SMS) and HESED Past Questions (HESED PQ).
While the HESED SMS, is an all-in-one school management platform that streamlines and enhances school operations, to ensure every stakeholder is supported and engaged, the HESED PQ provides access to all time past questions on different subject matters based on Nigerian curriculum.
“With our HESED SMS, our all-in-one school management platform, we streamline and enhance school operations, ensuring every stakeholder is supported and engaged,’’ he said.
Odu, who is an entrepreneur and a chartered accountant, said students in senior secondary school have access to “all-time quality revision and practice questions in a safe online environment”.
“We combine expert online tuition with proven learning techniques to provide high-quality and world-class learning materials, ’’ he explained.
Each subject on the app has 5,000 questions and each question comes with answers as well as expert comments on the answers. In addition, Odu said the Practice and Revision Questions are uniquely crafted and based on the national curriculum and international best practices.
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The HESED CEO added that students can have access to SSCE past examination questions in the past 30 years.
Similarly, students will have access to past UTME questions and the solutions to these questions with a detailed subject matter expert comment on the HESED PQ app.
Specifically, with HESED SMS, students can access learning materials from anywhere and everywhere, receive personalised feedback, stay updated on school announcements and access their results from anywhere.
Odu added that apart from making it possible for parents to pay school bills easily, they can monitor their children’s academic progress via the app and also receive real timely updates on results and school announcements.
“With HESED SMS, our all-in-one school management platform, we streamline and enhance school operations, ensuring every stakeholder is supported and engaged,’’ Odu said, listing the main features of the app to include resource management; result management; staff and student management; Secure online payments with immediate receipt, and teacher-parent communication for performance insights.
Other features are fee reminders, event updates; an Exeat module for tracking student whereabouts, and a digital leave request system for teachers. These features according to him, enhance communication between the school management and the parents.
The key modules, according to the CEO, are staff and student management; Fee management; Exams and continued assessment management and Communication module.
With the app, teachers can also deliver personalised online learning experiences; easily manage assignments and assessments; request leave digitally, manage E-lesson notes and schedule tasks.