3 ways EdTech can help absent students ­­ 

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Student absence can cause problems for both staff and students, negatively impacting their academic development and wellbeing. Students can be absent for a number of reasons including COVID, medical sickness or simply refusing to attend school. The impact of their learning can be highly damaging.

However, learning no longer has to be completed in the classroom. The emergence of EdTech has demonstrated how students can take advantage of the vast online resources at their fingertips.

Here are three ways in which EdTech can help both the students who are absent and also their whole school community.

1. Learning can be accessed anywhere when online

Students who cannot attend school, but who still want to learn, can use EdTech from practically anywhere with an internet connection. The beauty of this is that students can then choose the learning environment in which they feel most comfortable. This can help accelerate their educational understanding as difficult external pressures are then minimised for them.

Additionally, learning online with visually stimulating content allows the human brain to absorb material 60,000 times faster than text. This also results in less paper being wasted in print outs for students, which helps schools save money on their budgets. Such savings allow schools to focus spending on other areas within their establishment.

2. Capability to track student progress and attendance

Keeping track of absent students’ attainment and attendance levels can also be achieved through a suitable EdTech solution.

Combined with staff shortages, absent students often fall through the cracks and become unnoticed. This can result in academic, developmental and wellbeing concerns. Online learning can provide the capabilities to track students when they’re learning remotely.

EdTech can also allow for notifications via email or other channels when someone comes online with specific IP addresses. Moreover, EdTech systems can help integrate sophisticated safeguarding mechanisms, such as safety questionnaires or tracking, as well as recording every movement of individual students.

Certain EdTech tools can even allow for attendance codes to be claimed and to track idle time – it’s just about finding the most suitable provision for each student.

3. Online one-to-one support

EdTech can provide incredible benefits for students in terms of live online support if the right provider is chosen. 

The ability to communicate with an online educator remotely can allow absent students to stay up-to-date with the current curriculum and maintain or even exceed standards in comparison to their peers. Video or text chat support for absent students also enables every student to study wherever they need / want with immediate support at any time.

Having a pastoral wraparound approach via EdTech can also be achieved. Students can regain confidence in their studies and reignite their passion for learning, helping them reach attainment levels they may have struggled to achieve in mainstream school.

EDClass has proudly delivered online remote support with integrated safeguarding mechanisms for over 14 years. Students can access one-to-one support from UK-qualified teachers and get assistance whenever they need it. Students can remove the added pressures of other peers and the daunting atmosphere of a school may impede by simply logging on in their room or wherever they feel most comfortable.

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