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From Excel sheets to one data-driven system
How Lotus Petal Foundation in Gurugram uses Classe365 for academics and daily attendance, and to give the people who fund children’s education visibility into each child’s progress.
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“How do we sustain the quality of our intervention?”
Lotus Petal Foundation runs a school and education programmes for children from economically disadvantaged families. As it grew, founder Kushal Raj Chakravorty says, the most important question became how to sustain the quality of its work as the scale increased.
The foundation started with Classe365 in 2016. It wanted a robust system for its academics: visibility into each child’s performance, and transparency for the people funding the children’s education. Kushal says it chose Classe365 because it was a well-developed system that was simple to understand and implement. The team has since connected its own attendance app to Classe365 through its APIs.
Before
“Before that we were managing only in Excel sheets. So there used to be a lot of errors, which were taken care when Classe365 came.”
After
“So, it helps me keeping a centralized database, where I can download from one place, I can upload on one place, and that is Classe365.”
How they use it
Attendance, academics and transparency for funders
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“My teacher walks into the class with a tab, they have the student list, they mark the attendance, automatically it gets uploaded on Classe365.”
Rajat Pangasa, AVP – Monitoring & Evaluation -
“If we say Classe365, only one word comes to the mind, that is data driven.”
Sangeeta, Senior Wing Headmistress, Lotus Petal Senior Secondary School -
“One was that we wanted to create visibility into the child’s performance. We wanted to create transparency for the people who were funding the children’s education.”
Kushal Raj Chakravorty, Founder & Managing Trustee
“Responsiveness has been really good, and over the years I think they have also understood the ethos of our organization, the kind of mission that we are serving.”
Kushal Raj Chakravorty
Founder & Managing Trustee, Lotus Petal Foundation
