Introducing Gradfirst – India's First Online Finishing School, VEDAS,  Educards and intelliEXAMS

GradFirst – Concept & Mission:
Mindlogicx Infotech Ltd has set up the country's first Online Finishing School called GradFirst using the versatile, easily scalable and highly robust technology platform called VEDAS (Virtual Education Delivery and Assessment System). GradFirst provides various reskilling and upskilling programmes to fresh graduates passing out of various colleges, institutions and universities in order to make them "employable" or "self employable" and enable them to transform themselves from being job seekers to job providers. The primary objective of GradFirst is to make the final year and pre final year students become "Job Ready". The GradFirst also provides online access services for preparation for competitive and  entrance tests in the form of mock examinations and test series.
 
GradFirst provides training through online means using ultra modern technological tools such as content management system for online delivery of knowledge content and learning management system for performance management. Our online service is enabled with built in Business Intelligence Tools such as Learning Path and Interactive Graphical Dashboards that provide the students the assistance for the real time performance monitoring and performance forecasting. Training is specialized and provides high motivation. The target audience for this learning environment is students who are about to graduate and GradFirst imparts significant learning in a short span of time thus bridging the industry – academic gap and making them Industry Ready.
 
The corporate grooming programs provided at GradFirst are customized to the specific requirements of each business.  Programs are further tailored to suit the academic profiles of the students. Reskilling and upskilling programs are divided to the specific streams of study for the students in four broadly categorized verticals - management, engineering, IT, commerce and humanities. The services are delivered through the patent pending Educards, acclaimed as the Business Process innovation of the decade.

VEDAS – Virtual Education Delivery and Assessment System : 
This powerful technology platform today helps the education partner to create, collaborate, manage & publish courses, conduct online examinations, thus propelling the system as a global entity with a local presence. Education beyond boundaries, is now a real possibility. Vedas can handle the complete life cycle of a student within the system right from course announcement, online admission, online fee payment, course management, learning management, digital content management, digital library & online collaboration, exam management, hall ticket generation, exam conducting, result declaration and awarding of the certification by the knowledge partners.

Educards:
The GradFirst service delivery is enabled through Educards.   Educards are the new generation tool for providing instant access to the knowledge resources stored in the central server by using the unique 16 digit code called Knowledge Access Code (KAC). The system enabled by Educards provide intelligent solutions to excel in various recruitment and competitive examinations and also provide "on demand' knowledge for re-skilling and up-skilling. Educards give the real "e" power to users enabling anytime and anywhere learning at their disposal.

To make the service available to the users, a specific Knowledge Assess Code (KAC) is assigned for each user. The Educard allows the user to enter into a full services knowledge mall to utilize web based aids like Knowledge access, self appraisal, mock tests, qualifying exams and host of other services. Various types of Educards are launched periodically under each category, targeting specific customer group which is based on the market dynamics and requirements of the target market segment.

Details of Educards:
Educards are available in three major categories as listed below:

1. Educards for reskilling and upskilling programs
Educards used for reskilling and upskilling programs offered by GradFirst are useful for the final year and pre-final year students passing out of college.

The reskilling cards provide access to the dynamic "simulated tests" for soft skill programs and reskilling programs in various fields such as IT, Management, commerce and humanities. Some of the programs covered under the reskilling Educards include:
• Quantitative Techniques
• IT Skills for non-IT Professionals
• Introduction to MS Office 2007
• Test of Logical Reasoning
• Introduction to System Engineering
• Basics of Java
• Basics of Network Administration
• C and C ++ made easy
• Basics of SQL and Oracle
• Understand a Business Enterprise
• Essence of Business Management
• Introduction to Project Management
• Managing the unexpected through Decision Making
• Leadership Development - A new perspective

The upskilling cards provide access to the Content Management System as well as dynamic "simulated tests" for various skill enhancement programs. The programs offered through these cards are certification programs that serve as an additional qualification for the users. The validity of these programs ranges from 3 months to 1 year. Some of the programs offered under upskilling Educards include:
• Certified Business Excellence Professional
• Certified Organizational Excellence Professional
• Certified Quality Professional
• Business Perspective of Nano-Technology
• Certification Course in Astrology
• Understanding CMMi Model
• Essentials of ISO 27001 Certification
• Essentials of ISO 9001 Certification
• Achieving Organizational Excellence through Internal Auditing
• Basics of Project Management
• Certified Embedded System Professional

2. Educards for test preparation service:
Educards for various mock examination for competitive and entrance examinations like IIT JEE, CET, AIEEE,  BITSAT, Medical Entrance Exams, CAT, GRE, GMAT, SAT and  other entrance examinations for various MBA/ MCA/ Engineering/ Medical courses are currently available. These cards enable the users to go through a simulated test environment and prepare themselves for the final entrance / competitive exams.

3. Educards for Professional Services
Educards for Professional Services provide access to Online Test Series for examination such as Civil Services Examination, Banking Recruitment Examination, Railway Recruitment, UPSC, Defense and other PSU related services.

Service Delivery Process :
The whole process of service delivery is handled by Mindlogicx under the MAS (Managed Application Service) by which the company will take care of the hardware, software, connectivity requirements. Mindlogicx further handles the responsibility for bandwidth allocation, data backups, disaster recovery etc as needed from time to time. The moderator control for remote monitoring of the students activities online will be given to the Institution (optional) who will be able to set up, monitor and extract reports at any point of time. Specific reports can be generated by the Institution concerned as and when needed.

Benefits to the Educational Institutions :
Mindlogicx Infotech Ltd is looking for a tie-up with like minded & forward looking institutes & corporate who can share our vision in transforming the education domain. There has been a major shift in the mindset of the academicians and corporate to conduct their programs and examinations online so that the whole process is conducted without any wastage of money, efficiently and effectively with a short turn around time.
 
No wonder that we wish to be associated with you as we feel, both of us share the same vision. By being partner to the country' first Online Finishing School, you will have far reaching tangible and intangible benefits by positioning yourself as a force to reckon with.

The major benefits for the partner institutions include:
1. You will be part of world's first Knowledge Network that provides services under GradFirst – The Online Finishing School.
2. With practically no capital investment, your students will be able to avail online services.
3. With the help of unique reporting system and closed user group (CUG), your faculty will be able to guide the students very effectively.
4. You can build a brand for yourself as a model institution to have adopted to using cutting edge technology, thereby creating a USP for yourself.
5. Mindlogicx will carry your name and logo in the promotional campaigns so that you can reach across the country.
6. You will get representation on various international & national platforms as members of Knowledge Network.
7. With the help of unique reporting system your faculty will be able to guide the students very effectively.
8. You can save huge cost by conducting online tests without having to invest on any other resources

However the real benefit will go to the student community when the same is made available through the Educational Institutions / training centers who prepare them for the final examinations and other competitions.

Benefits to the students / end-users of GradFirst
1. Students will get a direct interface with the industry where they will be placed depending upon their certification from GradFirst.
2. Students will be able to prepare themselves suitably in order get employment in industry immediately after passing out of the college.
3. The reskilling and upskilling programs are designed as per the industry needs since these programs are developed based upon the globally accepted industry standards.
4. While the students pass out of the colleges and earn a degree , they will have also earned requisite skillsets to become "Job Ready".
5. Authenticated students' profiles will be available for all prospective employers through a global data base by which the students will have opportunity to connect with the prospective employers on global level..
6. Students can have their ranking generated among the other participants in mock assessments.
7. Students will also get to prepare themselves to match the speed at which they have to answer the questions by simulated graphs. Students will get to know their progress by creating Learning Path (LP) for the subject wise, chapter wise mock tests
8. Students will further be able to get their performance analysis and also performance forecasting done using the Innovative Dash Board.
9. Digital library facility is also provided to the students using which students can access various learning resources.

What Company will provide
1. Mindlogicx will deliver the training material online for the specified programmes through GradFirst Platform. These training programs can be accessed using Educards.
2. Mindlogicx will provide the technology, technical support services and will be responsible for providing & maintaining the complete service for the benefit of the students.
3. Mindlogicx will allocate and provide necessary IT infrastructure viz., servers, software, bandwidth etc., so as to provide a separate CUG (closed user group) to cater to the requirements of your institute.
4. Mindlogicx will authorize your institute to use the GradFirst logo and Educard logo in all promotional activities to get maximum mileage out of this association.

Now you can become part of change/up-gradation in Education System and con contact us to include Online Education System through Educards of GradFirst in your college / university / institution / organization.  You can also become Institution Partner of Mindlogicx Infotech Limited.

Mindlogicx  also provides Examination Management Solutions to college / university / institution / organization through intelliEXAMS which has been designed by a team of experts with knowledge in both academic and technology domains.  It has a web based authoring tool which enables question papers to be set by subject experts from different parts of the world - thus giving the convenience of having the best set of question papers in the shortest time possible. The question paper is set by a randomization process, encrypted, and then sent to remote examination centers, from where the authorized person uses his key to decrypt and then print using high speed printers. Hardware based authentications further ensure the whole process is highly secure and fool-proof.  In case, you wish to know more about intelliEXAMS and implement the same in your institution/organization, please feel free to contact us for further details.