LU and Sampurnanand Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya signed a Learning Management System Slate Agreement.

In May 2021, the Vice Chancellor of Lucknow University, Professor Alok Kumar Rai, was given the additional charge of Sampurnanand Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya by the Governor of Uttar Pradesh, Anandiben Patel, the Chancellor of all the universities of Uttar Pradesh.
After assuming office, the Vice Chancellor had taken several steps towards digital empowerment of Sampurnanand Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya like his digital initiatives done in Lucknow University. One of those steps was the gifting of SLATE, an internally developed learning management system of Lucknow University, to Sampurnanand Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya.

SLATE i.e. Strategic Learning Application for Transforming Education is the private learning management system of Lucknow University which is a digital platform where university teachers can not only teach classes but do all the work from taking attendance to submission of assignments. Immediately after taking over the charge of Sanskrit University, Prof. The idea was floated by Rai to start using an innovative e-digital platform like Slate, which resulted in the meeting on July 20, 2021, between the Vice Chancellor of Lucknow University, Alok Kumar Rai and the new Vice Chancellor of Sampurnanand Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya, Professor Hare Ram Tripathi. An important Memorandum of Understanding i.e. Memorandum of Understanding was signed on the Beech Learning Management System Slate.

According to the MoU, Sampurnanand Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya will be given the software of Learning Management System Slate on behalf of Lucknow University and also technical support will be provided to use it properly. Professor Alok Kumar Rai, at the time of launch of the slate, had said that this learning management system can not only become an alternative income source for the university but is also in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for Vocal for Local. Because it has been completely developed in Lucknow University and has the potential to digitally empower other universities of the state later on. It is clear from today’s MoU with Sampurnanand Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya that this statement made by Vice Chancellor Professor Rai was true in the context of SLATE.