Telegram

Telegram is a messaging app that focuses on speed and security and is super-fast, quick and free. People can use Telegram at the same time on all of their devices, syncing messages seamlessly through any number of your phones, computers and tablets. People can send texts, images, videos and files of any kind with Telegram such as doc, zip and mp3. Users also can create groups for up to 200,000 people or channels for unlimited audiences to broadcast. People only need to save other’s number on their phone, or they can locate people by their usernames to connected with each other. It is available to be used in application or web version. Telegram have features such as: -

• Unified history: Edit or delete message after posting, and it cannot be trace by other people.

• Cross-platform availability: Access messages anytime, from any number on mobile or desktop devices.

• Instant search: Find the message.

• Replies, mentions, hashtags: For communication and easily trace any topics or conversation.

• Smart notifications: Mute any group from get notifications, or custom notification such as only get notification when people mention you or reply to your messages.

• Pinned messages: Pin any message to be displayed at the top of the chat screen.

• Moderation tools: Administrators can mass-delete messages, control membership, and pin important messages.

• Group permissions: Administration set default permissions to group.

• File sharing: Send and receive files of any type, up to 2 GB in size.

• Public groups: Get a short link for your group and make it public. Anybody can view the group's entire chat history and join to post messages.

• Customization via bots: Create custom tools for any specific needs using our Bot API and Inline Bots.

There are a lot of benefits of Telegram toward students, teachers and parents. One of the benefit is saving cost because it is absolutely free of charge. Everyone can use it on their phones, tablets or computers. Besides, they can communicate through this platform. Teacher can make groups with their students and parents and communicate with each other in the group. it is really great to be used since teachers can add people up to 200,000 limits. Teachers, students and parents also have option to communicate in private chat. Next, teachers, students and parents can upload anything that related to the education depending on the admin’s rule. Admin refers to the person who created the group and they also can choose other people to be admin too. There is also no limit storage for document to be uploaded. So, it really gives advantages for teachers and students, because they can upload any kind of teaching and learning materials up to 2 GB each. Lastly, Telegram is best because teachers, students and parents can sort every chat or group into different files. It is really easy for them to keep updated with any chat since they can see if there is notifications from the files.

This is a video on how to use Telegram

In conclusion, WhatsApp is very useful and exciting Web 2.0 for educational purpose, based on its features and benefits toward teachers, students and parents. This platform can make the learning and teaching process easy and enjoyable.

Reference

Telegram. (2020). Telegram FAQ. Retrieved from https://telegram.org/faq