A 62% increase in the use of the Anders educational platform by students during school closures

Following the consecutive closure of schools due to air pollution in different cities of Iran, the educational startup “Andrez” announces the registration of more than 18,400 questions in just 10 days; A figure that shows that part of the students’ learning path has been transferred to the online space and artificial intelligence tools during the holidays. According to the data of this platform, from the beginning of October until today, a total of more than 96,000 lesson questions have been registered in Andrez.

According to the statistics announced by Anders, 52% of the questions in these 10 days were sent in the form of images (photos of exercises and book pages), 19% in audio or interactive form, and 29% in text form; A trend that shows that for many students, taking a picture of an exercise or asking a question verbally was the easiest and most natural way to interact with the smart assistant.

In terms of educational level, 44% of the questions were related to the primary level and 33% related to the first secondary level. That means, in total, nearly three-quarters of the users of this platform are students of basic courses. Also, second secondary level with 20% and other levels and students with 3% are in the next ranks.

In the discussion of lesson distribution, 38% of the questions asked were related to mathematics and 27% of the questions were related to experimental sciences. The statistics show that the main and basic courses are still the main challenge for students. After that, Farsi with 9%, English with 8%, Arabic with 6% and religion with 4%. Other courses have a total of 8% of the questions.

The peak time of using the instruction is also significant. 53% of the questions were recorded between 8 pm and 2 am; That is, when the reinforcement classes and school are usually closed and families and students are busy doing homework and reviewing lessons at home. Geographically, the largest share of questions in the last 10 days was related to Tehran with 29% and Razavi Khorasan with 12% respectively. Also, the provinces of Isfahan with 8%, Alborz with 6%, Khuzestan with 5% and Qazvin with 4% are in the next ranks. 36% of the questions were registered from other provinces of the country.

According to Enders, this platform has managed to attract 100,000 users since it started operating in October this year, and during the recent closures due to air pollution, it has experienced a 62% increase in registration compared to the previous two weeks. Also, active weekly users of Enders have grown by 47% during the recent shutdowns. In the field of answering quality, this startup says that 97% of questions received the first answer in less than 60 seconds.

The interesting thing about this platform is the ability to read students’ handwriting. A problem that is considered a challenge for almost any other artificial intelligence. Especially since the popular artificial intelligences these days do not officially support the Persian language, besides fully supporting the Persian language, Andrz’s artificial intelligence has also been trained to read the handwriting of Iranian students.

This artificial intelligence is called “Andy”. An intelligent assistant that is trained based on the official content of textbooks and the needs of Iranian students and tries to provide answers according to the level, discipline and chapter of the book.

In the architecture of this service, features such as 3-2-1 structured answer (three key points, two similar exercises, one common pitfall), learner memory (to recognize the learning pattern of each student and suggest exercises based on his needs and learning weaknesses, as well as full alignment of content with textbooks) have been included.

According to the managers of this startup, in recent days, Enders was not limited to answering students’ questions and “more than 100 teachers” have also used this platform to ask questions about better learning methods for students; This statistic shows that a part of the community of teachers is also testing artificial intelligence tools in addition to traditional classes.

Enderz’s ten-day report on the behavior of users during the shutdown due to air pollution shows that despite the disruption in face-to-face education, the demand for learning has not stopped and is migrating to new platforms; A platform that, if developed, can become a part of the complementary infrastructure of formal education in the country during similar holidays, exam season and even during the academic year.