Moscow electronic school

• The introduction of information technology in the educational process
• Improving the level of ICT competence of the teaching staff
• Creating new forms of educational content
• Updating the city's IT infrastructure in terms of education

The Moscow Electronic School project has infrastructure and software components.

MES infrastructure

A uniform electronic educational environment is being formed in Moscow schools: connecting educational institutions to high-speed Internet, local networks via Wi-Fi, providing Moscow schools with servers, installing interactive panels in classrooms, and providing teachers with laptops. Since September 2016, six educational complexes of the city of Moscow have taken part in the Moscow Electronic School pilot project: schools No. 627, 1995, 1194, 2095, 1298, as well as lyceum No. 1571. 718 secondary and high school teachers work in them and study more seven thousand students. 322 interactive panels were installed in these schools, 718 laptops and tablets were delivered, 808 Wi-Fi wireless access points were equipped in the buildings of educational institutions. In October 2017, 278 Moscow school buildings were equipped with MES infrastructure. By September 2018, all Moscow schools will be included in the project ^[1] .

Infrastructure Development ^[2] :

MES Software

In addition to infrastructure, the project has an important program part - a citywide electronic journal and a diary and a library of electronic materials.

MES Journal and Journal

The electronic journal and diary is a single system with different interfaces for the teacher, parent and student. The teacher fills out a journal, which reflects the schedule and work programs, puts grades in it and gives homework to students, has the opportunity to communicate with parents. Lesson topics are loaded from the calendar, which is prepared in advance. Pupils and their parents see the second part of the system - the diary. They have different accounts, each of which has its own specific functionality. So, the parent can correspond with the teacher, which will not be visible to the child, monitor grades, see performance statistics, lesson schedules, communicate with teachers, including informing the teacher about the absence of the child. The schoolboy sees his schedule, homework.

In 2016—2017 The system was used in 170 schools in Moscow. Since September 1, 2017, all schools in the Russian capital have switched to a single citywide electronic journal and diary.

MES Library

An electronic library is a platform in which educational materials are in digital form. It contains not only textbooks and manuals in all subjects of secondary and high school, but also test tasks in subjects. The content of the library includes interactive lesson scripts in all subjects of secondary and high schools.

Currently, the library of electronic educational materials contains ^[3] :

• About 30 thousand interactive lesson scripts
• Over 700 thousand atomic elements
• Over 8,000 tests and test items
• About 200 books of fiction
• 289 electronic textbooks
• 6 virtual labs
• Over 22 ^[4] thousand educational applications

Thanks to the platform of electronic educational materials, teachers can use the best practices of their colleagues, supplement the platform with lesson scenarios that make the learning process interesting, dynamic, modern, which increases students' interest in education, stimulates the acquisition of new knowledge, and increases the level and quality of education.

In April 2019, the Moscow Electronic School opened a new service for schoolchildren and parents - self-preparation for the final test. The MES library includes sample assignments that students will complete in the classroom. With this simulator, students can refresh and evaluate their knowledge. Training tests can be performed as many times as you like - the number of attempts is not limited. ^[five]

In addition to the designated electronic services, Moscow schools have been actively implementing the Moskvenok project, the Passage and Nutrition information system, since 2012. This is a service for students and parents, which provides the following services:

• Safe passage to the school building
• Receiving and paying for school meals without using cash
• Informing parents about child attendance and nutrition at school for free
• Top-up your personal account to pay for meals at school

To use the system, you can use various media of the Moskvёnok project — a service card, a student’s social card, a bracelet, a keychain, etc. The system allows parents to be aware of the student’s entry and exit time, lunch cost, and balance on their personal account. Parents can remotely replenish the child’s personal account and enter products harmful to the child in the stop list. Connecting the information service allows you to receive a report on a child's school attendance and nutrition. Parents can choose from the following methods:

• Personal account on the official website of the Mayor of Moscow www.mos.ru
• Mobile application "Moscow State Services"
• Push notifications of the Moscow State Services mobile application
• Email Notifications

As of October 2017, the Moskvyonok information system has been installed in 3568 educational institutions in Moscow, which makes up more than 90% of schools and 70% of kindergartens in the city. The users of the service are 926 thousand schoolchildren, more than 757 thousand parents of preschoolers and more than 160 thousand employees of educational organizations ^[6] .

The School of New Technologies (SHT) is a joint project of the Department of Education and the Department of Information Technology of the city of Moscow, created to support innovative transformations in the field of capital education. Includes a series of contests, educational activities and activities for the technological modernization of schools. The aim of the project is to make the school a modern center of innovation, a laboratory that allows students to fully realize their ideas and reveal talents. The project includes 220 Moscow schools ^[7] , which are annually certified through a point-information system. Key projects of the School of New Technologies:

• The “Teacher” professional pedagogical marathon is an annual competition during which the most progressive pedagogue of the city is selected in the field of applying modern information technologies.
• An IT marathon is a competition held on the basis of educational organizations to increase the interest of students in studying modern IT technologies and the level of students' general digital literacy.
• The competition of projects and applied research of schoolchildren and students based on the real tasks of employers "School of real affairs."
• School of mobile applications - a competition for the development of mobile applications among students.

In 2016—2017 within the framework of the city project “School of New Technologies”, about 1700 events were held for schoolchildren and teachers, in which more than 40,000 participants took part. In the current academic year, the program of events includes more than 2200 activities - contests, marathons, workshops, seminars, etc. ^[8]

On November 23, 2017, at the site of the Digital Business Space in Moscow, the ceremony of presenting the country's main Internet award, the Runet Prize, took place. The Moscow Electronic School project brought the Runet Prize to the Moscow Department of Information Technologies in the Science and Education nomination. ^[9]