Unacademy initially started as a YouTube channel whose main aim was to provide coaching for the Civil Services aspirants for free. Roman Saini was the first teacher who started teaching lessons in this YouTube channel. He qualified the civil services examination and was serving as an IAS officer. But still he wanted to help the students in gaining insights about the civil services examination and hence he was teaching. Later Roman Saini and Gaurav Munjal together founded Unacademy. After becoming an e learning platform, UN Academy became one of the most popular online tutoring website. It acted as an interface between so many tutors as well as students. The best part about this e learning platform is that it is free of cost to learn anything. Initially it was free but later voluntary contribution option was given and now some of the premium courses are also provided by unademy.
COURSES OFFERED:
All the courses in unacademy are offered in line with the competitive examinations regarding government jobs and other entrance tests. Some of the main courses are related to SSC CGL examination civil services examination, IES examination, CAT examination, RRB examination, different bank examination and other state level examination. Apart from these, the following courses are offered:
English learning.
Motivational.
Personality development.
Career counselling.
Interview tips. Etc.
FEE: No fees is charged for learning through this platform. It’s absolutely free. But if the learners feel satisfied with the content and if they are helped by these platform in any way then they can pay an optional fee which depends upon themselves. But recently some premium courses were also offered like current affairs premium.
APP AND WEBSITE DESIGN:
To be frank the design and layout of the website or the application is not that attracting it feels boring and somewhat un interesting. Basically the videos take much more time to buffer which becomes a big headache for the learners and obviously it is a factor of time wastage. Sometimes the Android app stuck in the middle of the video which irritates the learner as he is in the middle of a lesson aue course with so much of concentration. But as they have offered the option of off-lining the videos which can be watched any number of times from anywhere without internet.
QUALITY OF VIDEO CLASSES: There are so many problems related to the video quality, the first thing is the audio in some courses the audio is too loud and in Some other courses the audio is too low and in Some other courses the audio is somewhat disturbing and irritating. Some of the slides provided in the video of very good quality but most of the slides which are used for teaching I’m not having that better quality and some of the slides are just the pictures of the notes which the tutors have written.
The video length is basically from 10 minutes to 15 minutes which is a great thing as we can learn many things within a small period of time. But as the unacademy educator app is having some default functions such as the tutors have to complete a particular lesson within 10 minutes which forces the tutors to teach at a fast pace and makes them uncomfortable while explaining which can be reflected in the understanding of the learner, mostly the learner gets confused because of that thing. The marker tool used to teach is not a marker at all it just disappears after every touch on the screen. Because of the unavailability of a better marker tool the educator don’t get the opportunity to outline or mention some statistics which they want to provide to the learners.
TUTORS: Well there are a number of tutors on uncademy most of them are not worth mentioning. Among some of the best tutors on this platform, a few are:
Roman Saini
Rahul Agarwal
Venkatesh Chaturvedi
Chetan mna
Arpita Prakash
Bhavin sangoi
Abhishek Srivastava
Deepanshu Singh
Vimal Singh Rathore etc. There is no pre planned and well designed filtering method of tutors on this platform. Almost anybody who applies get an opportunity to publish his or her own teaching videos. This thing has deteriorated be teaching quality in unacademy. Most of the tutors don’t have the ability to teach the content in an effective manner and their voice struggles a lot in the vibrations of fear. Some tutors just read out the matter given in the slides rather than explaining them and making the tutors understand the concept.
USEFULNESS: Well as an educational website this is one of the best website which can help many students in our country to prepare for competitive examinations and get. And it is very much helpful as a tool for revision. It is one of the greatest Treasures of knowledge.
POSITIVE POINTS:
Wide range of courses.
Availability of best tutors from all over the country.
Provides good guidance for competitive examinations.
Motivates the learners.
And traditional and new way of teaching.
24/365 days availability of classes forever.
Free of cost education.
Easy accessibility.
NEGATIVES:
Lack of proper selection procedure for tutors.
Abundance of material and knowledge with so many drawbacks.
Technical problems in Android app and website.
Lack of proper schedules.
Same courses are made by number of tutors.
Too many courses confuse the learner.
Too many incomplete courses. Overall unacademy as an online learning platform is a gift for so many poor students across the country who can access the coaching for the preparation of competitive examinations. And the best part is that it is not commercial. Wide variety of tutor options are available to the learners and they can choose the best tutor who can let them understand many complicated concepts. But on technical lines the website has to be developed a lot.