Continuity of Learning Through Interactive Web Classes and an Exam Support App

「In response to customer requests, we continue to offer Waseda Academy DUAL, a dual-format program allowing students to choose between in-person and interactive web classes. At the Online School, which opened last fiscal year, we have established a system enabling sixth-grade elementary school and third-year junior high school students living outside the Tokyo metropolitan area or overseas to take the in-person classes of the NN Target-School Courses and the Winning Target-School Courses online through interactive web classes using Zoom.」

「In response to customer requests, we continue to offer Waseda Academy DUAL, a dual-format program allowing students to choose between in-person and interactive web classes. At the Online School, which opened last fiscal year, we have established a system enabling sixth-grade elementary school and third-year junior high school students living outside the Tokyo metropolitan area or overseas to take the in-person classes of the NN Target-School Courses and the Winning Target-School Courses online through interactive web classes using Zoom.」

「To meet customer requests, we continued offering Waseaka DUAL, a dual-format program allowing students to choose between face-to-face classes and interactive web classes. In April 2021, we also opened an Online School for sixth-grade elementary students and third-year junior-high students, establishing a system that allows students who are uneasy about attending cram school during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as those living outside the Tokyo metropolitan area, to take entrance-examination preparation classes tailored to their desired selective schools at the same quality as face-to-face classes.」

「In September, we also opened the online self-study room Waseda Academy Room and began expanding support for home learning online, receiving highly favorable responses from many students and parents.」

「As ICT-based educational content, we began providing the examination-support app Waseda Academy EAST in May. The app enables students to take various mock tests at home and easily upload and submit their answer sheets using a smartphone or tablet. We expanded its functions to broaden its use as a home-learning support tool for written assignments requiring marking, homework submission and questions, and began using it for marking guidance in some courses.」

「To support students and parents who were deeply concerned about learning delays caused by prolonged school closures, in May we began providing the examination-support app Waseda Academy EAST, which enables students to take at home the various mock tests needed to assess learning proficiency, retention and changes in performance, and submit answer sheets by uploading them from a smartphone or tablet. We also expanded its functions so that it could be used as a home-learning support tool for written assignments requiring marking, homework submission and questions. From June, following the lifting of the state of emergency, we switched to a dual service called Waseda Academy DUAL, providing in-person classes and interactive web classes simultaneously, and established a system allowing families to choose either option.」

「To prevent the spread of COVID-19, while the government and local authorities were strongly urging people to refrain from going out, our Group began introducing interactive web classes via the internet in stages from early April and made every effort to continue providing a higher-quality learning environment for children whose schools remained closed. To support students and parents who were deeply concerned about learning delays caused by prolonged school closures, we also newly introduced and began operating an examination-support app that enables students to take at home the various tests needed to assess learning proficiency and retention and provide examination guidance.」