An Educational App for Zimsec, Cambridge igcse and NSC video lessons is now live on Google play store. The app supports Smartphones running Android 4.1 and above. This the beta version of the app and is filled with some 'cool' features.
Download Option
The App comes with ability to download video lessons, instead of streaming which consumes a lot of data that is so precious in Zimbabwe. The download option makes it easy to store the lessons within the app and the videos are for offline viewing.
Free Videos
Students can access free videos for more than 5 Subjects under 'free video' tab. The lessons are made by professional and practicing teachers with experience in virtual tutoring. After signing up and confirming email address, a student can have access to free videos. There is a promotion for the first hundred students to register. The promotion is worth $4 and students can have an experience of buying topics of choice using the awarded coins
Quality Content
The video content is of high quality and can be viewed on any device. Mathematical subjects like Mathematics, Physics, Accounting, Chemistry and Economics are illustrated on a whiteboard to make it easy for formula, equations and graphical demonstrations
Other content subjects like Commerce, Integrated Science and Geography are animated to give students an actual picture of what is taking place. For instance, in Integrated Science, there are animated experiments and demonstrations of petrol engine movements. The content quality matches international standards and is really awesome
Works Well with 2G Network
The app was designed to cater for students in rural areas who don't have access to LTE and 3G networks. The app was tested using the slowest network in areas like Uzumba Maramba Pfungwe and Mudzi.
Students can easily download content in less than a minute and the average file size of a video lesson is 2.5MB, which makes it fast and cheap to download the lessons. This also makes the app more efficient and light, saving a lot phone space by more than 60%
Affordable Prices
The premium lessons monthly package costs $9 (25% discount) and individual topics costs $3. The topics are arranged in 11 months and covers the whole syllabus.
There are also free ebooks for challenging topics like Transformations, Functional Graphs and scale
Calculator and Math Table Tutorials
The App will have free tutorials on how to use calculators and mathematical tables. Many students fail exams because they fail to efficiently use calculators and math tables during exams.
Some students in the rural areas still rely on mathematical tables. This is due to unavailability of calculators in rural areas and some schools still emphasize on the use of tables.
Ability to Submit Exercises
Students are also able to submit exercises to tutors for marking. This makes the App similar to a traditional classroom where students receive instant feedback and marked scripts from the teacher
These Features separate the FigTree App from the other Educational Apps in Zimbabwe and the Region and students ought embrace the new way of learning and supplementing their studies rr
FigTree was created by teachers and programmers to provide high quality content and to add to the educational ecosystem of digital products for Zimsec Syllabi
