TCS offers free access to virtual classrooms through TCS iON

TCS iON, a strategic unit of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) announced that in the wake of COVID-19 and closure of schools & colleges, it is offering access to TCS iON digital glass room, a virtual learning platform, free of cost to educational institutions in US until March 31, 2021. The platform, already available in Europe and India, enables educators and students to connect in a secure virtual environment thereby, moving lessons from classrooms to interactive digital glass rooms.

TCS iON digital glass room is web-based digital education platform available for schools and universities for empowering educators to engage with students in real-time by uploading and sharing their school lessons, videos, worksheets, assignments and assessments and also by using interactive methods like polls, debates, quizzes, surveys, and more.

Registered educational institutions can leverage easy-to-use templates for student and teacher data collection that is loaded into a secure platform for every classroom instance. The platform supports a wide set of pedagogies, along with integration with vendors, providing a range of video session features.

TCS iON Digital Glass Room is currently being made available globally to educational institutes of all types, regardless of the medium of instruction, board/university affiliation or size.

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