Zoom App Marketplace Approves SAFE Classroom

SAFE Classroom – A Unique Hybrid Learning Tool Solving HyFlex Friction For all Learning Environments

May 18, 2022, New York - SAFE Inc. is proud to announce the launch of its SAFE Classroom App in the Zoom App Marketplace!

Now, millions of students who did not have access to educational institutions for financial or geographic reasons, can easily join a synchronous class.  And, SAFE Classroom removes all of the friction for faculty, allowing them to begin a hybrid class with just one click.

Everyone can use this innovative technology that allows for automated attendance, increased classroom engagement and enhanced security in every learning environment; Higher Education, Continuing Professional Education, Continuing Legal Education, Tutors, and more.  This app is ideal for busy faculty and meeting hosts who are using Zoom in a hybrid learning environment.

SAFE Classroom instantly provides one set of tools to manage both groups in a hybrid learning environment: in-person and Zoom.

To use SAFE Classroom for free, click here to get started.

To see SAFE Classroom in the Zoom App Marketplace, click here now.

The pandemic caused the education industry to heavily invest in new products, services and teaching techniques to enable distance learning.  By maintaining these investments post-Covid, colleges would gain four CRITICAL advantages:

1)   Inclusion – Disadvantaged students that cannot regularly get to campus could attend class via Zoom,

2)   Accessibility – Students that are temporarily unable to attend class in person due to illness, travel or weather could attend via Zoom,

3)   Reduced Carbon Footprint – Commuting students who don’t need to travel to campus for every class leads to fewer cars on the road,

4)   Income – Ultimately, all forms of educational institutions could bring more students into their synchronous classes without the need to accommodate these students on campus.

According to researchers at Johns Hopkins University, the goal of hybrid, flexible learning, also called HyFlex, is to ensure that both remote and in-person students can participate equally, regardless of where and how students attend.

Unfortunately, efforts to create this equality between in-person and remote students has created enough friction for faculty that institutions are hesitating to embrace hybrid and HyFlex as part of their long-term plans, despite the advantages. 

SAFE Classroom removes hybrid/HyFlex friction with its unique, patented features:

·      Enables classes or meetings to start with just one click for both in-person and Zoom attendees.

·      Monitors no-show students and notifies them that class has begun by sending a notification to their smartphone.

·      Automatically tabulates and records attendance so faculty does not have to waste valuable time at the beginning of class handling this task manually.

·      Instantly ask both groups (in person and Zoom) for feedback.  SAFE Classroom then displays responses immediately to faculty and meeting hosts with the responses identified by responder name.

·      Allow faculty to ‘pull’ students into class with outbound email and mobile reminders, and allow students that have not arrived in class to attend via Zoom.

“Colleges everywhere tell us that SAFE Classroom was the missing element to their entire hybrid, digital strategy. Marist College and Boston College are already using SAFE Classroom to enhance their learning environments,” said David Schropfer, founder and CEO of SAFE.

“The SAFE Classroom application eliminates the time-consuming administrative pain of taking attendance, enables the start of class on-time, every time, and gives me easy-to-use tools for driving engagement,” said Chris Algozzine, Senior Professional Lecturer of Computer Science, Marist College.

SAFE Classroom also allows students to replace passwords with smartphone biometrics such as FaceID® and Samsung Fingerprint Reader® for faster and more secure course logins.

SAFE Classroom has also been intentionally priced for the education market instead of the commercial market making it more affordable to those who can benefit from it the most.

About Safe Inc.

SAFE™, a brand of Anchor ID, Inc. was founded by developers and mobile technology professionals who know that smartphones are more secure, easier to use, and just plain better than passwords for accessing computer system. The Company received a regular US patent on its technology and systems that enable their SAFE Authenticator product, and has a patent pending on SAFE Classroom – an Engagement Management System (EMS) which combines military grade authentication technology with customizable user controls and enterprise controls that make online authentication a highly secure, enjoyable customer experience. SAFE is based in Kingston, New York.  www.thesafe.io  

To contact us, click here: https://thesafe.io/contact

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