Project "Moscow Electronic School"

2024

Tyumen schools switched to the digital platform "Moscow Electronic School"

From September 1, 2024, all schools in the Tyumen region will switch to using the Moscow Electronic School (MES) platform, which allows the region to integrate into a single educational space in the country. This became known in July 2024. The new approach will provide students, educators and their parents with access to modern digital learning materials and the latest smart technologies.

The agreement on the introduction of the Moscow Electronic School platform in the Tyumen Region was signed in February 2024 by the Governor of the Region Alexander Moor and the Mayor of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin. As Alexander Moor noted, MES software is advanced and convenient, which will improve the quality of education and make it more accessible and personalized.

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According to the information center of the government of the Tyumen region, all schools in the region from the beginning of the school year will begin to use the Moscow Electronic School platform. The implementation of the platform includes the use of large databases, artificial intelligence and learning, taking into account the individual characteristics of children. The MES platform allows parents to quickly receive up-to-date information about the learning process, and schoolchildren to connect to lessons remotely, perform homework, monitor the schedule and have access to additional educational resources.

Teachers will have access to more than 360 thousand lesson scenarios to prepare for classes, search for information and verify it. The platform also allows the use of digital technologies in addition to traditional learning methods on various devices, including computers and mobile devices. This greatly expands opportunities for both teachers and students.^[1]

3 million users of the mobile application. How the "Moscow Electronic School" is developing

The number of users of the Moscow Electronic School mobile application has reached 3 million people. This was announced by Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin on his Telegram page on June 3, 2024.

According to the mayor, in the 2022-2023 academic year, the functionality of the MES has undergone significant changes. One of the main innovations was the appearance in the electronic diary of the schedule of not only school lessons, but also additional classes held in educational institutions and city circles. In addition, parents got the opportunity to make a hot meal menu for their children for two weeks ahead directly in the mobile application "MES Diary."

source = Sergey Sobyanin's Telegram channel

In addition, an important novelty was the integration of the virtual assistant "Alice" with the mobile MES application. Now schoolchildren can quickly receive answers to questions related to homework, class schedule and vacation dates by simply referring to Alice.

According to Sobyanin, significant changes have also occurred in the MES library. Here the collection of video samples of USE tasks in all subjects was updated, as well as access to in-depth online courses designed to prepare for final exams was opened. In addition, students of grades 6-11 got the opportunity to take mathematical courses from the educational system "Hypermatics," and schoolchildren of grades 7-9 can now perform laboratory work in physics and chemistry in an interactive format.

As Sergei Sobyanin noted, the MES platform formed the basis of the federal information system "My School," which has already been introduced in the regional educational systems of the Kaluga and Moscow regions, as well as the Republics of Tatarstan and Dagestan. With the beginning of the 2024-2025 academic year, the Tyumen region plans to join the project.^[2]

The emergence of interactive notebooks

Interactive notebooks for virtual laboratory work in physics and chemistry have been launched in the library of the Moscow Electronic School (MES). Anastasia Rakova, vice-mayor of the capital for social development, spoke about this at the end of February 2024. According to her, the innovation will make it more difficult for students to write off.

You can now conduct experiments in physics and chemistry online. Developing and testing your skills and knowledge will become easier, but writing off is more difficult. A unique version from the general database of tasks and tests will be created for each student. Thanks to new interactive notebooks, schoolchildren will be able to better understand educational material and develop scientific thinking skills, she said.

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It is assumed that interactive notebooks will be useful for teachers who will be able to recommend them for extracurricular study or independent laboratory work as homework. In addition, teachers will be able to save time by automatically checking tasks.

Each interactive notebook corresponds to a specific section of the educational program: "Mechanics," "Electrodynamics," "Optics," "Electromagnetic field. Faraday, "" Molecular Physics and Thermodynamics, "" Inorganic Chemistry. " It is noted that the variability function allows you to choose a unique task for the student. These can be tests with the choice of an answer option from suggested, open questions, tables to fill in, reaction equations, or suggestions to plot. Teachers will also be able to use interactive notebooks. This format will help them develop homework.

To access interactive notebooks, you need to go to the MES library using an account and go to the "Catalog" tab on the start screen^[3]

2023

Launch of electronic textbooks

At the end of August 2023, the Moscow mayor's office announced the introduction of digital textbooks in school education. We are talking about the project "Moscow Electronic School" (MES).

For the first time this year, the MES library will be supplemented with electronic interactive textbooks from 5th to 9th grades in all subjects. This is not just a scanned copy of a paper textbook, it is a completely digital textbook, where each paragraph is still provided with an audio version. So that the guys, as they love now, can put on headphones and listen going to school, from school and just moving in the city, - said Anastasia Rakova, deputy mayor of the capital for social development, on the eve of September 1, 2023.

Electronic school textbooks are being launched in Moscow

It is noted that other digital materials will be built into electronic textbooks, for example, videos and 3D images, as well as virtual laboratories. This, according to the vice-mayor, will be convenient for both schoolchildren and teachers themselves. Anastasia Rakova also said that on September 1, 2023, a new service for parents with a full-day schedule will appear in the MES.

This will help parents see not only what lessons are held at school, but also what circles and sections the child attends, "she explained.

According to Rakova, by the end of 2023, the Moscow Electronic School will be introduced in all metropolitan colleges. She clarified that MES will start working in about half of the city's secondary special educational institutions, and then appear in the rest. According to Rakova, by the launch of the system, 20 metropolitan colleges were equipped with the necessary equipment, and teachers were provided with over 2 thousand laptops. It also became known that the services of the Moscow Electronic School will be introduced into the system. formations Tatarstan

MES users will be able to communicate in the training profile "Spherum" in "VK Messenger"

The educational service Spherum and the Moscow Electronic School (MES) have combined their resources. As part of the integration, teachers, students and their parents can now communicate directly from an electronic journal and diary in chats and make online calls using the Russian communication service - the Spherical educational profile in VK Messenger. This was announced on June 9, 2023 by VK (formerly Mail.ru Group). Read more here.

Sobyanin approved a plan for the development of the Moscow education system. MES entered it

At the end of February 2023, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin approved plans for the development of the capital's education system for 2023. As reported on the official website of the mayor, the city pays great attention to the development of electronic services for study.

At a meeting of the Presidium of the Government of Moscow at the end of February 2023, they considered the issue of implementing the state program "Metropolitan Education" in 2022 and the tasks for 2023. Among other things, the priority plans for the development of Moscow education approved by Sobyanin included the development of the Moscow Electronic School (MES) as an integrator of the best educational resources, a library of world-class educational materials, a tool for setting up and developing a personal educational trajectory, an analytical management base, a popular and useful assistant.

At a meeting of the Presidium of the Government of Moscow, the tasks for 2023 in the field of education development were considered

By the end of February 2023, 2.8 million users were registered in the MES - these are teachers, students and their parents. They use services more than 4.5 million times a day. The MES library houses over 57 thousand electronic lesson scripts, more than 13 thousand video tutorials, 348 publishing books, 38 unique virtual laboratories, more than 80 thousand test tasks and over 174 thousand interactive educational applications.

In the 2022/2023 academic year, new virtual laboratories in technology, chemistry and physics appeared in the library of the Moscow Electronic School. With their help, schoolchildren can improve knowledge and skills in the subjects of the school curriculum. The popularity of virtual laboratories is growing, and the number of calls to them already exceeds 1.1 million (by February 2023). Also, 107 thousand new materials from leading domestic developers appeared in the MES electronic library, which open up additional opportunities for joint creative, design, research work of schoolchildren and teachers.

In addition to electronic services, priority plans for the development of Moscow education included the construction of new schools and kindergartens, improving the level of qualifications of teachers, and pre-professional training of children. Other plans include:

• development of a system of independent education quality diagnostics, including taking into account federal state educational standards and modern changes in national education quality studies;
• adapting colleges to the requirements of employers: joint development and implementation of training programs for specialists, including internships and practices, increasing the level of employment of college graduates in received specialties;
• improving the quality of management to achieve mass high results for each Moscow school;
• further creating the conditions for professional development and support of educators aimed at revealing the abilities and talents in each child.^[4]

2022

Data of millions of users of the Moscow Electronic School got into open access

On December 13, 2022, it became known that the data of millions of users of the Moscow Electronic School (MES) were publicly available. According to the Telegram channel "Information Leaks," the attackers published a database containing 17,056,658 lines, and said that this is information about Moscow teachers, schoolchildren and their parents. The most recent entry in the database is dated September 2021, and the dump contains:

• FULL NAME;
• telephones (3.6 million unique numbers);
• email addresses (5.5 million unique addresses);
• date of birth;
• SNILS;
• logins.

The data of users of the "Moscow Electronic School" got into open access

Telegram channel Data1eaks adds that the archive is relevant for August 2021 and it has 3.3 million unique cell phone numbers of users.

Employees of one of the companies in the field of information security at the request of Kommersant got acquainted with the database and checked the information from it for compliance with reality. They reported that personal data linked to a phone number of at least four employees were found in this database.

At the same time, the Department of Information Technologies (DIT) of Moscow said that information about the leakage of data from users of the Moscow Electronic School (MES) digital system does not correspond to reality.

The analysis showed that the published materials are not related to the real data of users of the Moscow Electronic School. MES services are operating normally, user data is protected, - reported in DIT.

According to the head of the "Resolution of IT&IP disputes" department of the law firm "Rustam Kurmaev and Partners" Yaroslav Shitsle, in this case, it is probably not only about the leakage of personal data, but also about the failure to comply with the obligation to depersonalize personal data according to the order of Roskomnadzor. In accordance with the current version of the law on the protection of personal data, the mayor's office must notify Roskomnadzor about the leak, he adds.^[5]

"Moscow Electronic School" will be introduced throughout Russia

In September 2022, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, Russian Minister of Ministry of Digital Development Maksut Shadayev and Russian Education Minister Sergei Kravtsov signed an agreement on cooperation in the creation, development and operation of the My School state information system. The document assumes that the digital system "Moscow Electronic School" (MES) will become the main one for the creation of the federal GIS "My School."

According to Anastasia Rakova, deputy mayor of the capital for social development, Moscow has been developing part of the MES services for more than ten years, since 2011. By the end of September 2022, all city schools are working in full digital format - this is 56 thousand teachers, 1 million students and over 1 million parents. The vice-mayor thanked the federal authorities for their high assessment and choice of MES as a base for the digitalization of Russian school education.

"Moscow Electronic School" will be introduced throughout Russia

All these years we have been engaged in ensuring that the system is as convenient as possible both in terms of services and in terms of experience for all our consumers. Therefore, it would be very interesting for us to develop this system together with federal bodies and other regions, "Rakova said.

She added that development requires ideas, thoughts and proposals, it is necessary to generate them by a huge team of interested people much easier.

Earlier in September 2022, Sergei Sobyanin noted that the system of the Moscow Electronic School "was completely renovated on the basis of the domestic information system, and today the entire ecosystem of the school is based on Russian software."

I must say that the Moscow electronic diary is the most popular content or service that citizens turn to, about 100 million requests per month are just a unique service. I hope that it will also be in demand in the regions, and we will work together with the specialists of the Ministry of Digital Development, - said the mayor of Moscow.[6]Russia

Moscow City Hall buys 50 thousand all-in-one computers for schools

On September 16, 2022, the Moscow Mayor's Office announced the purchase of 50 thousand all-in-one computers for city schools. The equipment will go to educational institutions by the end of 2022.

According to Natalia Kiseleva, deputy head of the Moscow Department of Education and Science, by mid-September 2022, about 20 thousand new monoblocks are used in more than 600 school buildings. The new powerful equipment, which will be delivered to computer science rooms, meets modern requirements and helps to master knowledge most efficiently, she said.

Computer science rooms in Moscow schools will be converted until the end of 2022

Today, learning in the capital's schools does not mean just reading textbooks and writing in notebooks. The educational process involves the most modern digital services and technological tools. To fully and efficiently use these opportunities, schools need modern infrastructure, "Kiseleva added.

In the 2022-2023 academic year, Moscow will carry out a planned replacement of laptops of all Moscow teachers, including primary school teachers. Educational institutions are offered to submit an application for the purchase of equipment for comfortable work with the infrastructure of the Moscow Electronic School (MES).

In addition, by the end of 2022, safe free Wi-Fi will appear in the buildings and premises of schools where the first - fourth grades study. By mid-September 2022, it is already available in buildings where students from the fifth to the 11th grade are engaged. Students can connect to the unified study.mos network. To do this, just enter the information of the mos.ru portal account - the same as for entering the electronic diary. Thus, during attendance at olympiads, circles, sections and other events in any school or building, children always have access to Wi-Fi and MES services^[7]

Moscow clinics begin to automatically report a child's illness to schools

In early September 2022, the Moscow mayor's office reported that city clinics had the opportunity to automatically report a child's illness to school, and parents would no longer need to warn teachers about it. A similar opportunity applies to kindergartens in the capital. Read more here.

2020

DIT Moscow explained the advantage of Microsoft Teams over other platforms for use in schools

In the fall , DIT of Moscow introduced into the platform "Moscow Electronic School" (MES), the most popular educational portal of the city, an internal video conferencing service Microsoft Teams. It allows you to remotely conduct lessons directly from the platform in conjunction with the schedule and the Electronic Diary service. The fact that Microsoft Teams was uncontested "sewn up" in the MES, back in September, caused outrage among a number of Russian developers of competing platforms^[8]but at that time the DIT did not publicly explain the reasons for this choice. In November, at least some explanation appeared.

The use of Microsoft Teams, in comparison with other platforms, required minimal improvements for the quick and high-quality inclusion of this product in the structure of the Moscow Electronic School, "said Vladimir Makarov, Deputy Head of DIT Moscow, to TAdviser.

More details about the choice of a solution for the collective work of MES in DIT TAdviser were not provided.

Учащиеся 6-11 классов в To Moscow 19, they have been on distance learning due to the pandemic (photo - mos.ru. Eugene Samarin)

Microsoft Teams is provided as a cloud service. According to the company's website, it uses servers in different countries, including Russia, to process data. On the issue of compliance with Russian legislation on personal data, according to which personal data of local users should be stored and processed in Russia, Vladimir Makarov added that Microsoft does not need to specifically deploy servers in the Russian Federation.

The data are collected, stored and processed in full accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation, - assured the representative of DIT.

How this is ensured, the DIT could not explain TAdviser. And in the Russian office of Microsoft, they say that their company works with its own engineering teams, application developers and partners to provide customers with the opportunity to comply with the applicable legal requirements in their countries of presence when using Microsoft cloud services, including the ability to deploy hybrid cloud solutions that allow data to be stored within the organization.

Ilya Voronin, director of the Design Center for Computing Complexes at Jet Infosystems, notes that the data of schoolchildren who actively use phones on iOS and Android platforms, as well as global social networks Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, have long left the Russian Federation.

Voronin added that, of course, there are Russian solutions that are suitable for use in the MES.

If we are talking about cloud services by analogy with Microsoft Teams, then these are VideoMost Cloud and TrueConf Online products. If MES wants to deploy its own servers, on-premium, to minimize risks, then the IVA MCU solution can be added to the two above products, says a representative of Jet Infosystems.

I must say that for DIT Moscow this is not the first introduction of a Microsoft product for large-scale use against the background of an import substitution policy actively promoted by the state. So, for example, in the summer of 2019, DIT purchased more than 8 thousand Microsoft Office licenses explaining that without them you cannot ensure compatibility with the already used. Since ON 2010, by that time, more than 200 thousand units of computer equipment had been purchased for the needs of the executive authorities of Moscow and their subordinate institutions, and in all cases Microsoft Office was preinstalled on them.

Students of grades 6-11 in Moscow from October 19 are on distance learning. On November 5, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that the distance learning format was extended until November 22.

The expenses of the Moscow City Hall on the distance learning system for schoolchildren amounted to 634 million rubles

In October 2020, the expenses of the capital's mayor's office for the implementation of the Moscow Electronic School (MES) project became known. We are talking about the amount of at least 634 million rubles.

As the Otkritie Media newspaper writes with reference to public procurement data, the cost of the first contract, dated 2011, for "transferring public services in the field of education to electronic form," within the framework of which an electronic diary and a journal were developed, amounted to 114 million rubles.

In 2014, the electronic diary and magazine were first modernized - for 44 million rubles, and in 2017 - for 97 million. The revision of the service a year later, in 2018, cost the budget another 132 million rubles.

The mayor's office spent more than half a billion rubles on distance learning service

In 2020, 2019 million rubles were spent on modernization and "preparing the system for the new school year" under a contract concluded at the end of 178 from the budget, another 20 million rubles will cost technical support for an electronic diary and magazine until July 2021.

According to Leonid Delitsyn, an analyst at Finam Group of Companies, the cost of 100 million rubles a year to develop and maintain such an online learning environment is a small amount. A top manager of one of the IT companies told the publication that for 500 million rubles you can maintain a development team of 15-20 people for 9 years, and MES could be created with less spending.

On the first day of MES operation, the system was unavailable, but in the following days the project specialists managed to adapt the service to the increased number of users. MES is used by more than two million people, at the same time more than 600 thousand schoolchildren and teachers are connected to the lesson, the press service reports. Department of Education and Science Moscow According to the ministry, on October 21, 2020, 93% of the total number of classes in the capital's students took place at the Moscow Electronic School^[9]

Moscow platform for studying remotely failed on the first day of work

On October 19, 2020, the Moscow platform for studying remotely turned off on the first day of work. The failure occurred due to system congestion.

Users on social networks complained that the work of the electronic diary and the journal of the Moscow Electronic School (MES) system on the mos.ru portal failed on October 19, 2020. In particular, parents of schoolchildren reported that they could not enter the electronic diary in order to switch by link to the platform Microsoft Teams on which online lessons are held. As a result, teachers transferred classes to, Zoom writes "."Kommersant

The father of one of the Moscow schoolgirls confirmed to Forbes that in the morning his daughter could not join the physics lesson. At the same time, according to him, problems with access to classes through an electronic diary persisted by the fourth lesson (about 12:00 Moscow time).

Moscow platform for studying remotely failed on the first day of work

The Moscow Department of Education recognized the problems in the electronic diary system developed by the mayor's office - the first online lesson failed. However, "by the second lesson, technical specialists did everything possible to stabilize the work of electronic resources," the representative of the department said.

Microsoft Teams, integrated into the MES platform, works smoothly. Today, during the first lesson, some users may have had difficulty entering the MES Diary, so they could not use Microsoft Teams. When entering Microsoft Teams, there are no problems directly, the press service said Microsoft on October 19, 2020.

From October 19, students in grades 6-11 switched to distance learning in Moscow, while elementary school students resumed full-time education. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that high school students are more at risk of contracting COVID-19: they account for two-thirds of sick children. In addition, according to the experience of the spring quarantine, they successfully adapt to the distance learning format.^[10]

Moscow schoolchildren were allowed to study remotely

On August 24, 2020, it became known that schoolchildren in Moscow will be able to study remotely if such a decision is made by their parents. To do this, you need to write a statement to the class teacher, reports TASS Information Agency of Russia with reference to the head of the Moscow Department of Education and Science Alexander Molotkov.

He explained that the resources of the Moscow electronic school allow organizing home schooling. The teacher will send the student a link to the material and homework.

In Moscow, schoolchildren will be able to stay in distance learning by decision of their parents

In July 2020, the Minister of Education of the Russian Federation Sergei Kravtsov said that distance learning would not be introduced in Russian schools, but some of its opportunities would be used.

Molotkov stressed that the capital's schools have the necessary supply of protective and disinfectants. It will be constantly replenished, funds for this are allocated from school budgets.

According to Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, in the event of local infections with the COVID-19 coronavirus, schools will be able to switch to distance learning. If one of the students is diagnosed with a coronavirus, then remote work will be organized for the entire class within 14 days. As Sobyanin explained, during this period it will be necessary to test everyone else and understand the situation.

The authorities do not plan to completely transfer educational institutions to a remote format from September 1, assured the capital's vice-mayor Anastasia Rakova: "Neither in general, nor in individual lessons." According to her, the norms for compliance with prevention measures in schools will remain standard ‒ "and thermometry at the entrance and during the school day, masks with gloves, disinfectants."

Sergei Sobyanin says that the flows of schoolchildren will be distributed so that different classes do not intersect with each other. In particular, schoolchildren will study in the same class, the schedule of changes will be shifted.^[11] 

2016: Wi-Fi for "Moscow Electronic School"

Ubiquitous Wi-Fi will make it possible to implement the Moscow Electronic School project, designed for 2016-2018. The project introduces electronic lessons in which interactive panels are involved. In addition, the initiative participants use a citywide electronic journal and diary, through which it is possible to view curricula, tasks, grades, as well as control attendance by parents.

Also, within the framework of the project, it is planned to create a virtual city school library, where you can find textbooks, anthologies, task books, manuals and video tutorials. In addition, an electronic library of lesson plans will be created, which teachers will be able to resort to, and a system of independent knowledge control for students.

Schools No. 627, No. 2095, No. 1995, No. 1194 (Zelenograd), No. 1298 and Lyceum No. 1571 participate in the pilot of the Moscow Electronic School. In total, they have more than 7 thousand students and 718 teachers. In addition to the new Wi-Fi, as part of the project, these schools received 322 interactive panels, 718 laptops and tablets.

By the end of 2017, 646 schools Moscow will appear. In Wi-Fi total, 20.5 thousand wireless access points will be organized. In to the Internet 2018, another 1125 Moscow schools expect the same, the number of access points will be brought to 60 thousand. In 2016, work in this direction was also carried out: Wi-Fi networks were created in 69 schools, which gives a total of 2.3 thousand access points^[12]

Thus, in 2018, a total of 1840 schools in Moscow will be covered by the project. According to the city Department of Information Technology (DIT), it will be one of the largest Wi-Fi networks in the world, if we talk about educational institutions. In general, Moscow is the second in the world in terms of the number of Wi-Fi access points.

A similar project, which will include thousands of schools in the common Internet space, is now unfolding in Turkey. As for Russia, Kazan is developing a similar initiative, which intends to conduct Wi-Fi in 1.6 thousand schools, creating 8 thousand access points.

As a rule, 2-3 access points are installed in one building, each of which can be connected to up to 30 devices. Access to Wi-Fi is provided based on logins and passwords from an electronic diary or journal. Thus, unauthorized persons or anonymous persons will not be able to use the network. The telecom operator will be responsible for filtering the content, this measure has already been adopted in all schools.

While Moscow schools use broadband Internet access. There is also Wi-Fi, but it usually does not work throughout the territory. The new network will solve this problem.

Moscow Smart City

• Moscow Smart city Information technologies in Moscow
• Moscow Department of Information Technology (DIT)
• Information city (ICT program of Moscow) "'
• Smart cities

See also

• Unified Wi-Fi network "Moscow Transport" (MT FREE)

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