

The app offers its users secure one-on-one and group chats, as well as audio and video conferencing, data storage and integration with clients' internal email systems. To support large-scale remote work, the platform tapped Alibaba Cloud to deploy more than 100,000 new cloud servers in just two hours last month – setting a new record for rapid capacity expansion at DingTalk, said Chen.Ĭurrently the market leader in China among enterprise chat apps, DingTalk focuses its services on the country's small and medium-sized enterprises as they move from handwritten leave requests and paper-based address books into the digital era.

We will continue working towards creating new, advanced digital technologies and products to benefit all parts of the education sector in China," said DingTalk CEO, Chen Hang. "DingTalk's Online Classroom program is only the beginning. These include video-conferencing and livestreaming features that support over 300 participants, daily health surveys for employees and cloud-based document editing and approval. The app also made some new features available to enterprises for free. About 120 million students and 140,000 schools across the country have resumed classes through the app, DingTalk said.
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In January – shortly after China postponed the start of the new school semester – the app launched an Online Classroom initiative to provide schools with free digital tools, such as livestreaming and online testing and grading features. While not an explicit endorsement, UNESCO said these educational platforms had "wide reach, a strong user-base and evidence of impact," and could help teachers, schools and parents "facilitate student learning and provide social caring and interaction during periods of school closure."Īs of Monday, 56 countries had closed schools, affecting more than 516.6 million children and youths, UNESCO said.ĭingTalk, which services more than 10 million businesses and organizations globally, stepped up measures to help schools continue their lessons during the coronavirus outbreak. The school's principal, Tetsuya Matsuka, said that in order to prevent COVID-19, the long-distance teaching can be opened through the DingTalk at any time based on needs, so that more than 300 students can also attend classes at home.The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has recognized DingTalk as a powerful digital-learning solution to help children continue their education as schools worldwide face closures due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.Īlibaba Group's enterprise chat and collaboration app was included in a list of platforms that support live-video communication on the cultural agency's website. DingTalk can help us deliver the latest news to the students at the first time, it is very efficient and convenient. During COVID-19, the situation has been changeable. DingTalk has greatly improved the management efficiency of the school. On June 27 last year because of the "Tropical Storm Sepat," the school had to temporarily decide to take a holiday, it successfully notified more than 300 students in the whole school through DingTalk in less than 1 minute. Meanwhile, DingTalk also provides real-time AI translation for students who have just come to Japan to facilitate communication between students and teachers. DingTalk's attendance record, approval, intelligent personnel, intelligent cloud printing, video conference, cloud classroom and other functions have been widely used. During the outbreak, more than 50 million Chinese students attended classes online through DingTalk.ĭingTalk has been applied for more than 2 years in the "Tokyo COSMO School," helping the school solve problems anytime and anywhere such as communication, information transmission, student attendance, and teaching management.

DingTalk currently covers 10 million businesses in China and has 200 million users.

It is reported that DingTalk is Alibaba's free enterprise-level intelligent mobile office platform, playing a huge role in telecommuting and teaching of Chinese enterprises and schools during the outbreak.
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Recently, before the arrival of a minor vacation in Japan, teachers of Tokyo COSMO School (Japanese language school) have applied Chinese office software DingTalk to hold a special video conference with students to remind students to pay attention to self-protection during vacation, and planned to open long-distance teaching through DingTalk. TOKYO-( BUSINESS WIRE)-As COVID-19 intensifies in Japan, many companies are taking steps to reduce the likelihood of infection caused by aggregation.
