In the notice, dated 04/07/2019, the Board has asked all the affiliated schools to provided necessary details so as to judge the infrastructure facility available in the particular school. Based on these details, any affiliated school can be made as the examination centers for Class 10/12.

According to reports, CBSE may even introduce changes in marking system of practical examinations as well. Separate admit cards for theory and practical examinations will be issued for students.

This CBSE Board Exams 2020 update calls for schools to update their laboratories and meet CBSE affiliation requirements. According to CBSE affiliation bylaws (Oct 2018), a lab be it composite for secondary and/or separate Physics, Chemistry and Biology for higher secondary has to be a minimum 600 square feet. Also, it should be fully equipped with lab equipment, glassware, chemicals, etc for conducting all the experiment mandated in the syllabus.

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If you are a school looking to update your school laboratories do contact us. We at Labkafe, have prepared customizable lab equipment packages for both secondary and higher secondary labs. Apart from this we also provide lab furniture and take projects on turnkey basis. 

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Even if it can’t explain everything on its own, it makes understanding much easier. This idea perfectly captures the purpose of smart class learning. Our brains process information better when it is presented visually. Images and animations help reinforce what is taught through speech and text.

Take the example of a student learning about DNA. She might read about its structure and learn the names of its components. But if she watches an animation showing how cytosine (C), guanine (G), adenine (A), and thymine (T) form nucleotides, which then create the DNA helix, she will understand it much more clearly. Seeing how these bases bond and differ from each other will deepen her learning.

Animated visuals also hold students’ attention for longer, making lessons more engaging. In short, smart classes make learning richer, more interesting, and more effective than textbooks alone. This is why they are essential in today’s education system.

What are the Benefits of Smart Classroom?

Engaging and Interactive Learning

With digital education, classroom teachings have become more fun and interactive. Children tend to be more attentive. They are not only listening but also viewing it on the screen which makes their learning all the more effective. Here, sounds and visuals go hand-in-hand which is easy for the child to grasp.

Keeping Up with Evolving Syllabus

Outlining a board syllabus takes a lot of time. Add to it the time taken to aggregate content, few rounds of editing them & getting approval and printing them. It will take quite a lot of time, right?

To be at par with latest developments of the world, smart class enables learning well beyond the limitations of the book by leveraging content digitally from video tutorials or from the internet that can be shared with the entire class at the same time.

Hands-On Learning for Better Understanding

Practical or Do It Yourself learning is more effective than textbook-based learning. Concepts are put to test and students retain the learning for a longer time.

Easier Collaboration and Note-Taking

Interactive Whiteboard, one of the Smart Class equipment, allows the user to show images, play videos, search internet etc. In addition to it, it can also be used as blackboard where one can write notes, edit them and save it for later display. Saving the work will ease the pressure of notes taking in class and will allow students to concentrate on things being taught. Also, to say the least, if not daily notes then important topics can be shared via a digital method. 

Learn at one’s own pace

Also, nowadays, online study materials are easily available. Even if the entire education system is not digitalized, yet students can leverage the power of digital content depending upon their capabilities. So students can access exclusive online study modules of various subjects, which help them to enhance their knowledge even without a teacher.

Fair chance to every student

Different students learn at a different pace. Brighter students studying involves reading syllabus prescribed textbooks, going to the library for other related books, surfing the internet to find relevant content and so on. The average student does go the extra mile. They struggle and confine themselves with taught class notes and re-reading textbooks. With knowledge no longer bound in the textbook, images and videos will pave a way to clearer and quicker understanding of subject matter giving them fair chance in learning hierarchy.

What is a Small Classroom?

A Smart Class consists of audio and video sources which get processed and be displayed on screen and speakers.

Smart Class equipment comes with a range of options. Some equipment serves multiple roles in this flow e.g. they have an inbuilt microphone & speakers taking care of the entire audio channel while some of them don’t require a projector and can directly display content either via CD, pen drive or through the internet. The entire range can be divided into five categories shown below.

At Labkafe, we have assorted individual equipment into fully functional ready to install packages. They are designed to meet specific room requirements as well as is cost-effective. They are as follows

1. Classic Package
2. Popular Package
3. Compact Package
4. Basic Package

The classic package comprises of a Digital Podium connected to a Long Throw Projector displaying content onto insta-lock projection screen fixed on a wall. The Digital podium comes with:

1. Visual Presenter capable of displaying both text and video content
2. Interactive Touch Display which can be used to click and/or highlight using a finger or a dummy pen
3. One Gooseneck microphone, one wireless microphone and one collar microphone for effortless communication
4. Inbuilt 120 WattsAmplifier speaker

All these above-mentioned equipment enables the presenter to manage the content with ease whilst communicating with the audience.

Popular package contains a Power Podium and Visual Presenter connected to a Long/Short Throw Projector displaying content onto Interactive White Board fixed on a wall.

Visual Presenter as mentioned earlier is capable of displaying both text and video content. Power Podium comes with one Gooseneck microphone and two wireless microphones so that a person can talk both from the fixed podium as well as move around.

The interactive White Board receives data from the Short Throw Projector. Interactive White board has the added advantage of being touch sensitive meaning it can be used to navigate content (like we do in our mobile phones) as well as to highlight important parts of displayed content using a finger or a dummy pen.

The compact package comprises a Smart Digital Console (SDC) connected to a Long/Short Throw Projector displaying content onto Interactive White Board (IWB) fixed on a wall. There’s also a Green Board that’ll be fixed next to IWB.

SDC comes with:

1. Document Camera capable of displaying images/pdfs etc.
2. Inbuilt CPU
3. Keyboard
4. Speaker

They are all present in a wall-mounted cabinet. SDC is then connected to either a Long or Short Throw Projector that displays onto IWB. The Green Board fixed next to it can be used to elaborate the discussion points further.

The basic package as the name suggests is the simplest assortment that can be called as a Smart Class. It has a Short Throw Projector that displays content onto an Interactive White Board (IWB) fixed on a wall.

These packages are designed to ease institutions in their decision making and helping them lead towards a more digitized and collaborative education benefiting both the students as well as teachers.

What are the Benefits of Smart Class for Students?

Smart classes enhance learning by making lessons more interactive and engaging. With digital tools like animations, videos, and interactive whiteboards, students grasp complex concepts more easily. Smart classrooms promote visual learning, which helps with better retention and understanding.

Additionally, students can learn at their own pace, accessing online resources anytime. The use of technology also encourages collaborative learning, allowing students to work together and share ideas effectively. Moreover, smart classes ensure equal learning opportunities, helping all students, regardless of their learning speed, stay on track.

Overall, smart classrooms make education more dynamic, engaging, and effective, preparing students for the future.

If you are thinking of setting up smart classroom or want to upgrade your existing smart class, do mail us at sales@labkafe.com or contact us at +91 9147163562 and we’ll get in touch with you.

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We are proud to announce that we have expanded our product offering from Laboratory Equipment further to two more sectors.

1. Institute Furniture
2. Digital Education 

In India, according to an MHRD report, for the year 2013the estimated studying population is 44,22,50,000 in the age group 6-23 years. Although this figure is huge, we as country lack the basic infrastructure to facilitate this ever-growing attendance. Why is it so?

The market for laboratory equipment, classrooms and other institute furniture’s is very fragmented. There is no single window to cater to all these requirements. This poses serious problems to the educational institutions as they have to individually look for reliable vendors for each and every individual requirement. After all this exercise, even if things fall in place, institutes never truly know what price to pay and whether they will get what they paid for. We at Labkafe wish to solve this problem and relieve some of this burden.

Starting with our core competency i.e. laboratory equipment, we have updated a wide array of individual equipment to choose from including branded ones like Nice, Tarson, Polylab, Borosil, etc. on our website. They have also been catalogued into packages keeping respective subject’s curriculum in mind. As of now we cover the following:

• Composite Package covering Class VIII-X‘s Physics, Chemistry and Biology experiments
• Physics Package coveringClass XI-XII’s experiments for CBSE, ICSE and State boards
• Chemistry Package coveringClass XI-XII’s experiments for CBSE, ICSE and State boards
• Biology Package coveringClass XI-XII’s experiments for CBSE, ICSE and State boards
• Mathematics Package coveringClass XI-XII’s experiments for CBSE, ICSE and State boards
• Pharmacy College Package coveringexperiments for both Bachelor and Master courses

We deliver within 3 weeks with full replacement of broken and faulty products, if any. We are also working on equipment installation as well as individual experiment videos which will be updated soon.

INSTITUTE FURNITURE

Under Institute Furniture, we cover furniture requirement of almost every room in the schools and colleges. We are at present offering the following:  

• Class Room
• Laboratory
• Library
• Executive Room
• Conference Room
• Auditorium
• Hostel
• Cafeteria

We are providing Century/Greenply make modular furniture. These are termite resistant, moisture resistant and are durable. The key feature is that modular furniture is easily customizable and can be made to suit specific room designs. Installation of furniture takes a day or two.  Ergonomic designs are made to keep students and faculty at ease and make the learning environ relaxed.

This is our order flow from order to installation:

Our in-house designing team helps our clients make an informed decision in choosing the best possible furniture layouts to specific rooms be it a lab or a library.

Specific to labs, we cover the following:

• Composite laboratory
• Physics laboratory
• Chemistry laboratory
• Biology laboratory
• Information and Communication laboratory or Computer laboratory
• Language laboratory

We deliver within 3 weeks of order placement and installation takes 1-2 days’ time.

DIGITAL EDUCATION

Gone are those days when classroom training was restricted to textbook learning, teachers using the blackboard to explain things and students writing down notes in copies. The traditional teacher-centred methods of teaching and task-based approaches to learning focused more on making notes and memorization. However, it’s no more chalk and talk in most schools now. Classroom teaching has become more and more interactive nowadays with the advent of digital methods such as PPTs, video presentations, e-learning methods, practical demos, online training and other platforms.

With Digital Education, we offer to bring technology into classroom education. Keeping up with the ever-changing world and advances, Smart Class enables leveraging content in form of video, image etc. through internet and makes the learning experience more engaging. Along with a wide variety of hardware tools to choose from, we also provide digital content for providing a complete solution to the educational institutions. We have catalogued products into packages of various ranges to suit room requirement as well as price constraints.

WHAT WILL ALL THIS MEAN?

With all these verticals (all possible types of rooms present in an institute), we will be providing end to end solutions. For example, for an institute there would be classes which will require seating desk and chairs, whiteboards, smart class equipment, etc.

Similarly, for the various types of rooms that we envision in an educational institute, below is the summary of various services that we provide:

The basic working methodology goes as below:

1. Get details of the rooms to be renovated, i.e, dimensions
2. Get details about the number of students to be occupying that space at a given instance
3. Any specific requirements as per the clients’ need
4. Based on this information, we redesign the room with the respective equipments and furniture to be installed, in consultation with the institute
5. Within a pre-decided lead time, as discussed with the client, we procure the materials and get it delivered to the site
6. We personally supervise the installation of the equipments and make the room ready for handover to the institute

This is the gist of the services that we envision to transform the educational infrastructure in the country. We, at Labkafe, are dedicated to providing the best services in a professional manner, with a touch of personal effect, to make sure that this combined effort of the partnering institutes and us, goes a long way in building an atmosphere of comfortable and easy learning for not only the students, but also encourages their interest in the classes therein.

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