Thread by @zoho

These past few months have been stressful for everyone.

We're living through an unprecedented pandemic that is putting a strain on people, businesses, and governments all around the world.

But we are here for you, and we want to help out in every way we can. #COVID19

While we've focused on empowering businesses right from the start, we're now expanding our efforts to two other verticals impacted by the pandemic—education and government.

The education and training sectors are bearing the brunt of the crisis with students and teachers having to make a sudden transition to online learning, something they were unprepared for.

📣 To help ease the transition, we're happy to announce Zoho Classes, a mobile app that enables teachers to connect with their students, online.

With Zoho Classes, teachers can host courses, send assignments, broadcast to students, & much more.

Zoho Classes takes a relatively relaxed approach to education, with students being able to catch up with courses at their own pace. The app is free for up to 100 students in schools across the world.

For early access, head here: zoho.to/Classes

In India, to support the Government's #BharatPadheOnline program, we're offering Zoho Classes free for all government schools in the country.

Trainers can also use Zoho ShowTime—a virtual training platform for an interactive learning experience.

We're extending additional benefits on @ZohoShowTime to all users on the Basic & Standard plans, at no additional cost until June 10, 2020.

zoho.to/ShowTime

Aside from education, we also wanted to extend our support to everyone working towards preventing the spread of the disease.

Governments and organizations can use Zoho Meeting, our video conferencing application, to host group calls.

@zohomeeting now supports multi-party audio-video conferencing, on a single screen.

We've also made it easier for health care workers to schedule appointments, aid diagnosis & extend clinical services remotely, to anyone in the world.

To continue our support, we're offering 3 months of free access to all the government bodies in India. zoho.to/Meeting

We're offering our low-code platform, @zohocreator, along with our application-building expertise, free of charge to government firms and nonprofits that need help with managing patient activity monitoring, contact tracing, food distribution, and more.

zoho.to/Creator

We're offering @ZohoDesk, our help desk software, free for six months to those working in areas such as public health and administration, first response, disaster management, etc.

zoho.to/Desk

https://twitter.com/rajuv/status/1252140590529228802

Government institutions can use Zoho Forms, an online form builder, to capture health-related data.

@zohoforms is available for free to all state governments in India.

https://twitter.com/saurabhnanda/status/1249531697818824704?s=20

And of course, we're taking some dedicated steps towards helping businesses deal with the crisis. A few weeks ago, we introduced @ZohoRemotely to make it easier for companies to transition to remote work. Zoho Remotely is free until July 1, 2020.

zoho.com/remotely/

We also created the Small Business Emergency Subscription Assistance Program that has benefited 10,000 businesses so far. Learn more about our other relief initiatives and remote working resources.

zoho.to/Covid19

The pandemic has brought us all together, while keeping us apart. We hope that we can make a difference and help everyone get through this.

Until then, stay in, stay safe, and stay strong. 🙏