Failing in exams, being unable to understand the concepts taught in class and psychological or health related issues are some of the reasons that keep some students from backward classes from education. This project focuses on designing a product that will assist students in their learning, such that the dropouts will be reduced. After visits to schools (like KV IIT Bombay, IIT campus school and Aarambh Organisation for Kids) and discussions with teachers it was found that "Lack of interaction” could be one of the major reasons for not understanding or showing less interest in the class.

K-YAN and STUDENTS RESPONSE SYSTEM or CLICKERS are two Interactive products available in the market (K-Yan allows teachers to interactively display information to a whole class and CLICKERS is an interactive technology that enables instructors to pose questions to students and immediately collect and view the responses of the entire class). After understanding both the systems, how they work and their advantages in classroom, Redesigning clickers for schools is taken forward. Some major problems with current clickers system are -expensive and complicated, the whole system is fixed to one class and requires an internet connection. The brief was to design a simple, economical and yet maintaining the core advantages of the system.

Alternative technologies are considered wherever it is necessary so that the whole system can be low-cost, mass manufacturable and mobile. The final concept is a system with an led display board and a set of clickers. The display board is to show the timer and histogram of the results and clickers to communicate the answers. When the teacher writes the Question on the board and starts the timer, students respond with their clickers before the timer stops and the results are displayed on the LED screen subsequently. The whole system is proposed to cost much less than the existing solutions.

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