BJ Teen Joins Forces With US Friends to Make E-Learning Easier

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Learning how to organize your time and work independently is one of the consistent challenges for high school students. They have so much to track between classes, extracurriculars, family schedules, and hopefully a social life! Teen Correspondent XueFei Liu walked us through her physical and digital planners last month, but maybe you aren’t the kind to sit down every week to stay organized. You might be the kind of person who needs someone else to make it all work for you?

That’s where the crack team at edPal want to help! International School of Beijing (ISB) student and edPal COO Claire Shi explains more:

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[edPal is] a product that aims to address the numerous organizational problems students face. Especially during the pandemic, which has pushed students across the world into virtual learning, there is a critical need for a convenient, low cost, and intuitive solution to disorganization.

edPAL helps provides this solution through its innovative platform that will help students achieve higher productivity, organization, and efficiency. The features of edPAL include:

- An e-binder organized and personalized to individual students’ needs and preferences.
- An agenda with a built-in time-boxing function to maximize productivity.
- A simple and easy user experience, as well as compatibility with other platforms such as Google Drive.
- Centralization of school materials (from PowerSchool, Canvas, OneDrive, OneNote, emails, etc.) to the student’s liking.

We have earned over $3,000 in seed funding and are currently developing the learning software. We plan to release edPAL in late February. For more information, please visit www.edpal.net.

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Staying organized wasn’t nearly as complicated as when I was a student, but looking at everything that edPal offers, I can see why these students (besides Shi, there is also Rohit Gunda, CFO, Connecticut; Elaine Shi, CMO, Texas; Anish Devineni, CTO, Texas; and Veer Dosi, India) put so much effort into their new business. Searching for class materials across many platforms must take a lot of time, and edPlan looks like it can synchronize all those available options near your calendar. It’s helpful to know that the creators didn’t have to guess at your struggles, because they’re teens themselves, and understand the many challenges you face.

Add to that their useful blog, with tips on organization and the concepts their platform is built upon like timebanking, the entrepreneurs behind edPlan aren’t just offering a product, but going further to be sure their potential customers know how to use it. They even offer badges and fun incentives for really digging into the materials.

If you’re a student, they’re launching any day now and you can sign up on their Downloads page. There’s a free plan and an affordable Premium plan, plus a whole community of like-minded international students to guide you along your organizational journey. For anyone who struggles with the many platforms involved with e-learning, or school in general, this looks like an excellent product.

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Images: EdPal

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