Edco Learning vs VSware

The Edco Learning app is an innovative and interactive app, which enables students, teachers and parents to access their Edco educational content on their iPad. The app also provides access to a wide range of subject specific resources and multimedia content, such as high-quality videos, audio tracks, podcasts, revision notes, solutions, animations and lots more. All content is synced automatically to Edco Learning’s platform, enabling students, teachers and parents to access their content wherever and whenever they choose. This robust back up of content for each user provides schools, students and parents with the security and reassurance required for the positive adoption and use of educational e-books. Some of the key features: - Fully native app and tools offering an unrivalled e-book experience. - Online and offline mode, allowing the user to choose whether they would like to be online or offline (e.g. if user does not have a reliable internet connection, they may choose offline mode). - Automatic device sync of user's drawings, highlights, notes and bookmarks to the user's Edco Learning account. - Should a user damage their device or change it for whatever reason, the next time the user logs in to their new/replacement device they have the option to sync all drawings, highlights, notes and bookmarks from their previous device. - High-resolution retina experience delivered to all retina devices, meaning menus, book content and media are of the highest resolution. Non-retina experience delivered to non-retina users, meaning every user gets the fastest, most responsive, most efficient and most enjoyable experience on their device. - Embedded video and audio. - Extensive range of touch gestures supported, allowing user to fully interact with books without any restrictions. - Unique deployment architecture, allowing all books (including all embedded and linked media) for a school to be mass deployed to multiple devices in a very short amount of time. An Edco Learning account is required to use this app. Please contact support@edcolearning.ie to request a trial account. For more information on how we protect user data, please see our Privacy Policy.

The VSware app is now available for teachers and parents and students For teachers: MANAGE - Mark attendance for your classes using your device - anywhere, anytime - View all of your upcoming classes for the day on the home page at a glance - Upcoming classes colour coded to help you identify when you’ve taken attendance and when attendance is due - Know when you’ve been assigned a class to cover - Add behaviour incidents to your student’s record - Upload student profile pictures on the spot using your device’s camera MONITOR - Have instant access to your student’s behaviour incidents - View student’s attendance overview - View a list of all your students and search within this list - View a list of all your teaching groups and search within this list PLAN AHEAD - Use the new calendar feature to view your past and future classes - Take attendance for past classes if attendance was missed For parents: STAY IN THE KNOW - Easy to use interface - Dashboard to keep track of your child’s info - View your child’s timetable - Keep up to date with their attendance/assessment/behaviour - Keep track of and pay fees online - Submit subject preferences For students: STAY CONNECTED - Updated design - Check your timetable - View your attendance record - Access term reports - Send messages to teachers, staff, other students