KORUS: Electronic diary of the pupil

More than 60 educational institutions in 25 regions of the Russian Federation work with Electronic Diary of the Pupil service, the number of daily users of service is more than 25 thousand. In a system the innovation service is developed for psychological assistance to children via the Internet.

The popularity of electronic diaries is caused as the real advantage received from their use by all participants of educational process and attention to it from the state. It is possible to call several events which within the last two years stimulated development of this direction in Russian education. Connection of all schools to the Internet, a speech of the Russian President about need of use of electronic diaries, the decision of the Ministry of Education and Science on universal introduction for the Russian schools in 2012 of electronic diaries, the interest of business and emergence of different offers of "electronic diaries" in the market - these factors positively influenced use at schools of electronic diaries.

Service in the help

"Seldom what child will come to parents and will tell: "Mother, the father, is necessary to me psychological assistance" - there are age at which the authority of parents seriously decreases in the opinion of the child. Very few people from parents will lead the child to the specialist: in Russia it is still for some reason considered to be that psychological assistance - it something is similar the psychoanalyst, a bourgeois whim for the rich", - the Electronic Diary of the Pupil project manager Veronika Shashunova tells. - "Therefore we with psychologists from the Center of a training and consultation of "12 boards" thought up service using which communication happens most confidentially, far off and simply. Both parents, and children, and teachers can ask the help for the specialist, for this purpose it is not necessary to register in acceptance or somewhere to go – to be enough connected to service".

Product

The office of psychological support is created based on an online service "The electronic diary of the pupil" developed by CORUS Consulting company. EDU creates the common information space integrating school, families of pupils, Committees on Education, local administration. With its help parents have an opportunity to quickly see the marks which are put down to the child, homeworks, to control attendance, to communicate with teachers via the Internet, to receive messages about life of school and a class, including by means of the SMS. School and regional administrations receive timely reports from a system on the course of educational process. Learning process becomes absolutely transparent and clear that considerably influences education quality improvement.

Feedback

In a personal account of "The electronic diary" there is a special section Dialogs - the online consultation module. The participant of a system – the school student, the parent or the teacher - using a form sends to psychologists of the Center the question or the description of a problem. In a day or two the prepared qualified answer of specialists, the recommendations of psychologists, including the necessary literature on a subject comes. The psychologist reserves the right to ask the specifying questions. Always there is an opportunity to meet the specialist personally.

Word of the expert

According to the psychologist, the uniqueness of service is that communication happens to its help most confidentially, far off and simply. "In Russia still the address to the psychologist is something shameful, and the electronic diary removes psychological barriers" - Ekaterina Lebedeva considers. In addition, at regularly use of electronic diaries change of priorities is observed: parents and pupils cease to regard "as of paramount importance" estimates. All participants of educational process understand that assessment is only the investigation, and the reason consists in the relation to study, a subject, the teacher, personal features of people, family problems. These questions are also discussed with psychologists through the electronic diary.

From the creator

"Information which is obtained by our specialists and the fact of the address to us - are strictly confidential", - the CEO of "12 boards" Dmitry Ezhov comments. - "We publish the most interesting question or a case and our answers to it in the Nauka Vzroslet magazine, certainly, changing personal data. To school students we help to build, first of all, the constructive relations with parents and schoolmates, we help to feel self-confidence, to develop creative potential, to cope with the experiences characteristic of awkward age. The main problems with which parents – lack of mutual understanding with the child come, overcoming age crises. Teachers complain of "difficult children", of severe stresses and emotional overloads – in other words, for nervous work. We try to find to everyone addressed individual approach, at the same time we act strictly within a scientific technique".

Freedom of choice

According to experts, schools need to provide more independence in the choice of IT services as the state is often not capable to provide full informatization of educational institutions "on top". Requirements go down and orders which are inconvenient for schools do not consider real needs of educational institutions, force to use technology and obsolete software products. It is necessary to provide closer interaction of schools and administration to develop a uniform position on informatization of educational process.

School online

It is possible to consult at the psychologist absolutely free of charge – for this purpose the school should be connected to the Electronic Diary of the Pupil system. The scheme of connection is submitted on the website www.schoolconnect.ru. Today this information system implemented in the form of online-service is used in 25 regions of the Russian Federation, the number of daily users of service is more than 25 thousand, visits of a system are recorded from 40 countries of the world, in September, 2010 more than 120 thousand visits of a system are mentioned.