Central to all the technology we offer is  lesson and content delivery platform, a cloud-based learning system for collaborative learning built by educators for educators. Accessible from any device, anywhere, the platform creates course material and controls all the communications between educators and learners.

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By integrating various web-based educational technologies, Lumino by Smart Technologies has revolutionised in-class and remote teaching and learning.

Lumio inspires learners to actively explore, create, and collaborate as they engage with their teachers.

For the educators, Lumio is a huge time-saver. In prepping lessons, the programme allows them to transform PDFs, Google Slides, PowerPoint, and Notebook files into engaging lessons with interactive activities, games, group workspaces and assessments

Lumio’s ability to support group work and collaboration makes it a highly dynamic and versatile tool for delivering fascinating, appealing, and practical lessons.

A wide range of content aggregators available to you regarding teaching material makes planning, prepping, and delivering outstanding lessons so much easier.

Some of the most popular include Snapliffy, Africa’s largest ebook aggregator that supplies over 240 000 e-textbooks. And Teacha!, that offers thousands of digital teaching resources, many of which are free-to-use.

Then there’s the most extensive content  and digital learning tool globally, Lumio by Smart, which provides access to some 60 million interactive lessons.

These teaching resources are available in all practical formats: multimedia, video, animation, illustrations, photography and game-based material. In addition, you can import your lesson or create your own by uploading material using a multitude of apps and tools like PDF, Google slide, PowerPoint and YouTube.

Great lessons are memorable, but Panopto Smart Recorder software takes them to another level. It is fully integrated with the Brightspace learner management system. Panopto records lessons as video files and stores them safely on the cloud. So a teacher’s best efforts are no longer one-off events.

Learners can then download and stream the lessons onto any device, anywhere, anytime, to learn at their own pace. The video management content includes text and vocalised keyword searches, so there’s no need to search endlessly for specific topics.

Our policy concerning hardware is always to put you first by providing the best of breed technology to suit your specific needs.

This is why we remain technology agnostic.

We also supply a wide range of devices to suit the specific needs of learners, teachers and administrators. And these include laptops, 2-in-1 hybrids and tablets.

Regarding interactive flat panels (IFPs), we are proud to be a Platinum Partner with Smart Technologies, the 30-year global leader in EdTech.

Huawei is another IFP manufacturer that we represent. Huawei has established a solid reputation for highly innovative, collaborative classrooms and hybrid learning technology. To date, Huawei has installed edTech systems in 2 600 universities and over 500 000 schools worldwide.

The Student Information System (SIS) is also a web-based platform. It assists administrators by providing the real-time data needed to effectively manage learner profiles, documentation, reporting, and automating all processes.

An SIS platform is invaluable for so many reasons: learner enrolment, curriculum planning, plus monitoring day-to-day activities such as attendance, assignments handed in, tests and examination results, and generating reports and managing data.

And being an intelligent platform, it integrates all activities between learners, teachers, parents and administrators.

Everything we do at VastraTech is aimed at delivering education in the simplest, most stress-free way imaginable.

To that end, using Microsoft Azure’s Single Sign-On (SSO) cloud-based authentication system, users can log in with a single ID and password to access the complete range of software platforms used throughout the VastraTech solution.

The beauty of this is that if a password is lost or forgotten, the SSO will authenticate the learner’s identity across all the platforms, with little to no time lost.

By accessing multiple applications with a single authentication process, the SSO simplifies and streamlines the process and eliminates the need for learners to remember a lengthy list of passwords, which is a major plus when dealing with the youngest learners.

Microsoft Azure’s SSO multi-factor authentication also helps to protect users from 99.9% of cybersecurity attacks.

A significant feature of our VastraTech solutions is the seamless collaboration and interactivity between educators and learners. For efficient, effortless live broadcasting services, there are many video conferencing platforms to choose from, and we can facilitate whichever you are most comfortable with or with which you have an existing contract.

As one of the most useful collaborative remote learning tools in education, video conferencing platforms are becoming more sophisticated by the day.

Feature-rich, many of these platforms offer free unlimited services such as chat, phone, webinars, online events, and audio and video calls. Plus, varying amounts of cloud-based storage both for a class and for individual learners.

They also allow many valuable facilities: Classroom to classroom communications; teacher to individual learner; teacher to subgroup in a virtual break-out room; learners to learners.

They allow for comments and annotations to be made. For multimedia files to be shared, and for class appointments and reminders to be distributed. And the recording feature means that learners can revisit a lesson as often as they need to.

Of the many online educational resource providers, Snapliffy is a firm favourite. Using thousands of schools, colleges, and universities throughout South Africa, Snapliffy is a treasure trove of teaching material and educational content.

As the most extensive digital educational marketplace and the most prominent content aggregator in Africa, Snapliffy is a one-stop shop for e-textbooks and the resources needed to prepare engaging lessons.

Snapliffy also runs the most extensive online teaching community platform in Africa. Called Teacha!. It provides thousands of digital education resources created by teachers for teachers.