Sakshat - One Stop Education Portal

In continuation of our previous circular No. (CBSE) Aff/Cir/2006 dated 20.11.2006 this is to bring to your notice that the Sakshat Education Helpline - A One Stop Education Portal for addressing all the education and learning related needs of students, scholars, teachers and life long learners has been launched and is operational.

During the pilot phase, learning modules for classes XI and XII in different subjects have been prepared as per CBSE syllabus in English language and put up on the website.

The website can be accessed at the following URLS. The virtual class components and other log in based features can also be accessed by logging in as given against each website:

http:/www.sakshat.ac.in user id guest 1 and password guest 1 http://sakshat.ignou.ac.in/sakshat/index.aspx user id guest 1 and password guest 1 http://sakshat.gov.in user id guest and password guest

Sakshat is now entering a new phase and will be interactive with effect from 26th Jan. 2007. Students will be able to interact with teachers directly between 5.00 p.m. to l1.00 p.m. every day of the week. To start with, the students of classes Xl & XII can raise queries in the subjects of Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Maths, Accountancy, Business Studies, Economics and English.

To facilitate the above the Board requires the services of dedicated and motivated teachers who can be available online to answer subject related problems between 5.00 p.m. to 11.00 p.m. The roster of a group of teachers in every subject will be ready for various durations. These teachers can then reply to the doubts or queries of students in real time through the web chat on Sakshat - One Stop Education portal.

The teachers may be serving or retired. The following are the essential requirements to qualify for becoming ‘Sakshat Resource Teachers’.

Reqisite qualification

Broadband connectivity at home

Motivation to share expertise

Communicative ability

These teachers or ‘Sakshat Resource Teachers: need to fill in the attached Fact Sheet. This may be uploaded directly on the CBSE website (www.cbse.nic.in). They can also mail it to secy-cbse@nic.in or sadhanap.cbse@nic.in, sugandh57@hotmail.com.

These outstanding teachers will be recognized for their merit and contribution by being registered on the CBSE national website as well as the MHRD website. They will also be given an appropriate token honorarium for sharing their time.