User:Abdullah Adil Salman/Madrasati

Madrasati is a distance learning system created by the Ministry of Education in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in light of the spread of the Corona virus pandemic to facilitate learning for kindergarten, primary, middle, and secondary students. The Madrasati platform continued to provide its various services to learners and teachers after the end of the pandemic.

Background
In light of the continuing global coronavirus pandemic, and as part of the measures taken by Saudi Arabia to confront the pandemic, the Ministry of Education announced the temporary suspension of studies in all regions and governorates of the Kingdom, starting Monday, Rajab 14, 1441 AH, corresponding to March 9, 2020 AD, until further notice. The decision included public, private and university schools and institutions, as well as the General Corporation for Technical and Vocational Training, governmental and private. And start activating distance learning for all educational levels.

On April 16, the Ministry of Education decided to transfer all male and female general education students to the grades below their current grades and continue learning operations.

On August 15, the Minister of Education, Dr. Hamad Al-Sheikh, announced the resumption of studies for the new academic year using the distance education system, for all levels of public education, in the first seven weeks of the year, provided that the situation will be evaluated later to consider the remaining weeks of study in the semester. the first. He stated that study at universities and the technical training institution will also be distance learning for theoretical courses. And attendance for practical courses. On October 8, after an assessment of the situation, it was decided to continue teaching for the first semester remotely for all levels of education.

Means
Entry into the Madrasati platform is by linking the Microsoft account and the Tawakkalna account, which was created by the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority. The learner, whether male or female, enters the Madrasati platform and enters the private email that was sent to him, then enters the password, and a page appears through which he can log in. To virtual classrooms, solve assignments and tests, and ask questions to male and female teachers. Access to virtual classrooms is done through the system proposed by Microsoft, which is Microsoft Teams , as the program is distinguished by its speed and its ability to handle many users at the same time.

Platform benefits
In light of the Corona virus and the spread of viruses and diseases in the world, the Internet has become a solution to all problems that stop the flow of life and life transactions. This is done by creating educational sites and platforms that work to not stop the educational process and teach students in their homes without going out to gatherings, including the My School platform for education. Which reduces the chances of infection with the virus and schedules organized times. The middle and secondary stages are from nine in the morning until two in the afternoon, and the primary stage is from two in the afternoon until eight at night.

The platform has contributed to maintaining the educational journey with the testimony of education specialists and parents, as more than six million male and female students benefit from it in more than 250,000 daily virtual classes, in addition to 525,000 male and female teachers, parents, school leaders, and educational supervisors, who can interact in the system. Multiple educational paths and tasks.

Spread
The Madrasati educational platform topped the Google search engine in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and began to bear fruit after the seventh week of distance learning passed and parents became accustomed to the platform and alternative channels employed by the Ministry of Education.

E-Learning Union Organization
In 2021 AD, the E-Learning Consortium Organization (OLC), with the participation of a number of international bodies, issued the second international documentary development study for e-learning in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia during the Corona pandemic, with the participation of 453,879 students, teachers, parents, and faculty members, including more than 387 thousand participants from education. year, and more than 65 thousand participants from higher education.

The study included comparing the Madrasati platform with the best 7 global platforms and 174 countries. Explaining the remarkable superiority of the platform as a leading international model, and one of the e-learning solutions in developed countries during the Corona Covid-19 pandemic, through more than 6 million users and an access rate of 98%, it is also unique in the world compared to the efforts made by other countries to implement the learning management system. At the national level in e-learning for general education levels.

The international organization UNESCO chose the Kingdom among the top 4 global models in terms of e-learning, alongside ( South Korea, China, and Finland ). It also adopted the evaluation framework prepared by the National Center for E-Learning. Through the organization’s international study of global best practices in e-learning.

This study comes as the culmination of a national process full of success in the transition towards e-learning at the international level, in comparison with many of the leading countries in the field, so that the Kingdom occupies a prominent position among the most important countries in the world through the results of extensive research and studies in the field.

Madrasati platform services

 * Providing courses for students in general education levels, and providing various interactive educational paths.
 * Providing a question bank that includes more than 100,000 questions for all educational tracks.
 * Providing more than 45 thousand electronic educational content,  including what is visual  and what falls under the category of games, through its digital platforms.
 * The educational resources provided vary from visual, such as videos, to 3D electronic models.
 * Implementing virtual classrooms to contribute to the completion of the educational process.
 * Paying attention to measuring students’ performance and analyzing their academic results through a set of electronic questionnaires.
 * Providing channels of communication between all these parties: students, parents, teachers, and educational supervisors.
 * In 2023 AD, the Madrasati platform launched two new services: the school commitment service, which aims to reduce paper usage and ensure that the declaration reaches students and parents, and the service to facilitate access to the platform for male and female students with visual disabilities, with the aim of enabling them to benefit from the platform’s services easily.