Brainly (Znanija.com)

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Brainly (Znanija.com) is the multinational educational online platform intended for teachers, pupils and their parents. The platform stimulates coeducation. A project objective - to inspire students to study in the conditions of partnership and to expand the knowledge, being guided, first of all, by accomplishment of homeworks.

2020: The number of users was more than 350 million worldwide

On November 19, 2020 it became known that for 2020 Brainly increased audience by 100% around the world: millions of pupils and parents use the online platform during a coronavirus pandemic.

Brainly (Znanija.com)

According to the company, with transition to distance learning the number of pupils and parents in Russia and the CIS countries which monthly use the Brainly online platform in 2020 reached 55 million people a month. Growth in comparison with 2019 – more than twice. Similar growth was mentioned also on other groups of the websites of network. Transition to remote training because of a pandemic of a coronavirus accelerated implementation of digital platforms in 2020 and helped Brainly to enhance popularity among pupils, offering the round-the-clock access to a social platform for training.

On the Znanija com platform pupils receive the help from peers and experts with homeworks and also the personalized support when mastering materials. And as methods of task performance speak in detail, step by step, children can see clearly how to come to the correct answer. The possibility of communication which very much is not enough at distance learning is also important, and the online community can help with it. For November, 2020 the Brainly platform integrates more than 350 million users worldwide. Mikhail Gvyazdovski, the managing director of Brainly/Znanija.com in Poland, Russia and Romania commented

Users of Brainly

Need of support of pupils is confirmed by the researches Brainly. For example, according to online poll on the platform "Knowledge" (Znanija.com) in April, 2020 with the assistance of over 9 thousand Russian users, it turned out that more than 50% feel a lack of the help of the teacher, 21% of pupils noted the shortage of an opportunity to verify answers with others, much have not enough training materials and tasks.

The recent survey conducted by the National union of parents (National Parents Union) showed too that mass transition to distance learning negatively affected all education levels, and for November, 2020 it is more, than at a half of pupils (58%) access to necessary individual training is limited.