pune schools have set up cellphone applications as an extension to classroom learning for students to learn effectively whether in a classroom setting or at home according to schools these apps offer additional advantages to the students and parents such as a userfriendly interface structured navigation multipledevice parent login notifications and reminders the application software also gives complete teacher guidance makes concepts easy to understand and implement and enables parents to monitor the performance of their childrenprivate school managements in the city felt that education institutions were increasing their focus on digital literacy as a part of their goal to prepare learners who can use technology proficiently and who can also contribute to a fastpaced digitallyoriented economies coordinator of middle years programme and diploma programme at victorious kidss educares in kharadi vishwajeet kumar said what was once only achievable inside the confines of a classroom is now accessible from any part of the world the current techsavvy generation seems to favour more modern and engaging learning methods over conventional ones one method that revolutionised the way of learning has been using cellphone applications in addition teachers can easily share resources online through the apps all of them can now conveniently fit into the students pockets he addedalmost all private schools have developed their own apps which parents have downloaded and apart from tracking the daily attendance of their children these robust apps provide a range of services for parents they can track the progress of their children make enrolments to different activities keep a watch on the daily purchases made by their child at the school tuck shop to receiving learning videos progress reports worksheets and many more thingsjayashree venkatraman principal of snbp international school in rahatani said postcovid weaning away parents from expecting regular circulars became very easy now the dependence is majorly on erp a repeat reminder of homework assignments and projects is a regular feature to ensure 100 reach for students who are absent notes are uploaded on the erp another private school in the city frequently organises various activities such as picnics sports events music classes extracurricular among others so instead of sending out forms to parents the school uploads the activity consent form on the app and parents have to click their consent so the process becomes simpler and fastermanjusha patil a parent of 12year old who studies at the bishops coed school said the schools app is very useful because we get all the updates from the time he enters the school gate and punches his attendance to the time he leaves the school through the transport we are also able to track the bus route and also get the daily order of what is scheduled for the child on school days the progress report is also uploaded so we have a digital record and then we have regular worksheets every day for practice it is a boon