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Do you find learning on the PC useful from home?
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He gradually developed the website further. “When I realized that we could use a tool for on-screen lessons that didn’t exist, I programmed it.” For years it was a “very time-consuming hobby,” says Müller.
Platform continues to evolve
As more and more teachers became interested in Schabi.ch, Müller made the platform accessible to other teachers. In 2016 he introduced a license to earn something for all the effort. Two years ago, Müller founded “Schule am Schirm GmbH”. Since then he has continued to develop the platform as a one-man company – together with the users. “If you have an idea, let me know and as soon as I have the capacity, I expand the homepage with the appropriate tool.”
When all schools were closed on March 16, thousands of teachers all over Switzerland suddenly had to deal with questions for which Müller had worked out solutions for years. How do I take lessons when my students are sitting at the PC at home rather than in the classroom? How do you get the materials? How do I check the tasks? Does team teaching also work online?
The number of users doubled in one fell swoop
“Since the schools have closed, the daily number of users on my website has doubled,” says Müller: Around 100,000 users would access Schabi.ch every day. This is a challenge – for Müller, but also for its servers and programs.
“We get so many support requests every day that I had to hire someone to do everything.” Because of the rush, not all tools would have worked properly for a few days: “The document filing is spinning, because of the many users, a programming error has arisen that I have not yet been able to fix.” Müller is working flat out to ensure that everything runs as soon as possible.
Until then, he asks interested teachers to be patient: “If more users and requests are added, the systems will be used even more and the problem will be more difficult to solve.”
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