Today we share the experience of a small online school teaching foreign languages online. This startup was founded in 2021 by three enthusiastic teachers. "We did not have the money to develop our own learning platform from the beginning," says Melissa, one of the school founders. "So we started teaching using only video calls in Whatsapp and sharing materials via Google Drive". Whatsapp proved an excellent tool for the purpose: most students already had it and did not have to install any additional software. Whatsapp also made learning possible both from computers and mobile devices.
The solution was to find a way to record Whatsapp calls, so Melissa and her co-founders could rewatch lessons and give her recommendations to the teachers. CleverControl was a real find for them as it allowed the most convenient way of recording calls. Moreover, it could record chats, so the founders got the whole picture of how teachers communicated with the students.
"I expected software like CleverControl to be troublesome to install and get used to, but the real experience with the program was a pleasant surprise," Melissa admits. "Getting it on the computer took no time at all." At first, the teachers were against the idea of monitoring - they used their personal computers for teaching and did not want the school to track them during their personal time. The founders held a meeting where they explained how CleverControl worked, what data would be collected and why the software was necessary. They taught the teachers how to stop monitoring at the end of their workday, so they could have control of the monitoring process. The founders also disabled monitoring features that were unnecessary for their purposes, for example, websites and clipboard monitoring.