Make remote and hybrid learning feel more connected, immersive, and classroom-ready
HiTeach can support diverse smart classroom scenarios through different module and device combinations. This Remote Hybrid Smart Classroom solution shows how HiTeach 5, Web IRS, IRS clickers, HiTA 5, IES Cloud, and video-conferencing systems work together for fully online, hybrid, cross-school, rural-support, and international exchange lessons. Teachers can still push content, run interactions, assign tasks, conduct assessments, and track learning data even when students are not in the same room.
Due to pandemic restrictions or other special circumstances, schools may be forced to shift to online learning, including live synchronous classes, asynchronous online learning, and hybrid models that combine both. Compared with pre-recorded videos, learning platforms, and online assignment submission, live synchronous classes are the most challenging to conduct, but they are also the closest to in-person teaching and better support instructional quality and interactive effectiveness.
Video conferencing alone is not enough. Teachers also need a digital whiteboard, real-time interaction, task collection, synchronous assessment, and learning analytics. Built around HiTeach system, the Remote Hybrid Smart Classroom gives teachers the teaching tools and learning data needed to make online and hybrid lessons more engaging and effective.
Teachers need tools for interaction, tasks, quizzes, and data analysis so online students are active participants rather than passive viewers.
Fully in-person, fully online, and hybrid lessons can all use the same HiTeach and IES workflow, reducing platform switching.
With Web IRS and IRS clickers, teachers can run real-time responses, statistics, student selection, follow-up questions, and assessment.
The original English page described two major synchronous scenarios: all students join online, or some students learn in-person while others join online. Based on the finalized Chinese redesign, the revised English page also presents three practical deployment options for school planning.
| Deployment Scenario | Student-Side Setup | Best Fit | Core Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scenario 1: Fully online live teaching | All students use a laptop, tablet, PC, or phone from home and open Web IRS in a browser. | School closure, remote learning from home, cross-school teaching, or teachers teaching from school or home. | Extends the HiTeach Mobile Smart Classroom model so every student can interact through synchronized video and data. |
| Scenario 2: Hybrid learning with enough classroom tablets | Both in-person and online students use Web IRS on tablets or computers. | Split attendance, partial remote learning, or classrooms that already have student devices. | Online and in-person students use the same interaction channel, making it easier for teachers to manage the whole class. |
| Scenario 3: Hybrid learning with IRS clickers or mixed devices | Online students use Web IRS; in-person students use IRS clickers, or a mix of tablets and clickers. | Classrooms without enough tablets, schools that want lower device cost, or lessons that need both in-room and online participation. | Gives every student a way to respond, take quizzes, and participate in class even when the classroom device setup is mixed. |
This model can directly adopt the HiTeach Mobile Smart Classroom solution. Teachers use HiTeach on a classroom or home computer to interact with all students learning from home through synchronized video and data transmission.
Install HiTeach 5 on the computer and use HiTA 5 App for wireless control and classroom interaction.
Students use Web IRS on smartphones, tablets, PCs, or laptops for interaction, response, learning tasks, and feedback.
A large touch device is recommended so teachers can write, mark, and operate HiTeach 5 intuitively.
Use Zoom, Google Meet, Cisco WebEx, or other video conferencing systems for live audio and video connection.
Hybrid learning depends on the device environment in the physical classroom. If the classroom already has enough tablets or computers, in-person and online students can all use Web IRS. If the classroom does not have enough mobile devices, in-person students can use IRS clickers while online students use Web IRS, and HiTeach integrates both types of response data into the same lesson.
HiTeach has supported remote smart teaching since 2014 through the Rural Hope Project for remote smart reading. In 2016, it further supported the Rural Hope Project for remote smart language learning and the Cross-Strait TEAM Model Distance Smart Classroom Alliance. These projects connected multiple schools and classrooms through video and data interaction, creating practical examples for rural support, inter-school exchange, and international learning.
In the post-pandemic era, schools need more than emergency remote teaching. They need a sustainable teaching system that works across in-person, online, and hybrid lessons. HiTeach and IES help teachers preserve the same teaching workflow and data record across these scenarios.
Teachers should not have to switch between separate whiteboard tools, quiz tools, polling tools, and learning platforms. HiTeach integrates whiteboard teaching, interaction, learning tasks, quizzes, and IES smart teaching services into one workflow.
Instead of using one system during remote teaching and another after returning to the classroom, teachers can continue with the same HiTeach and IES environment.
International teaching cases show how HiTeach supports live online lessons with interaction, feedback, and teaching data, not just video communication.
Video conferencing connects people. HiTeach supports the teaching process: digital whiteboard work, real-time interaction, task collection, assessment, and learning analytics.
According to a survey of 14,000 college and graduate students cited by Niche.com, 67% said they believe online classes are less effective than face-to-face instruction. A survey report by CommonWealth Parenting Magazine also found that during school closures, students’ learning outcomes declined and learning gaps widened significantly. In the report, 90% of teachers believed online learning widened the gap between students, while 80% felt that online learning was less effective than in-person classes.
The key reason for poor online learning outcomes is often not a lack of teacher effort, but the lack of effective teacher-student interaction. The Remote Hybrid Smart Classroom addresses this with four synchronous teaching modules: Allocation, Activity, Assignment, and Assessment.
Push teaching materials, pages, questions, or key points to student devices so everyone follows the same lesson flow.
Use Web IRS or IRS clickers for multiple choice, true/false, text responses, and other real-time classroom interactions.
Collect student work, images, audio, files, and task responses so remote students can still participate in practice and sharing.
Run synchronous quizzes, view results, review key concepts, select students, and clarify misconceptions with data.
Whether students are all online, partly online, in one classroom, or across multiple schools, teachers can run questions, feedback, statistics, and task collection in a synchronized way.
Digital whiteboard, synchronous interaction, synchronous tasks, quizzes, and online assignments all work within the same HiTeach environment.
Instant response data keeps students focused and helps teachers run quick checks, explain key points, and follow up with targeted questions.
HiTeach can support feedback from hundreds of students at the same time, allowing teachers to run interactive smart lessons from home or school.
Teachers can use IRS real-time response, SMART Pick-out, page sending, and work collection to keep remote and on-site learners involved.
The solution supports rural education support, inter-school exchange, and international teaching exchange through synchronized video and data interaction.
Teachers can conduct smart lessons across locations while students participate in real time, even when they are not physically in the same classroom.
After connecting teaching sites, teachers can use smart classroom interaction tools to make remote lessons feel closer to an in-person class.
From rural support to inter-school and international exchange, the Remote Hybrid Smart Classroom creates a resource-sharing model with both video and data interaction.
Even simple distance learning is difficult for teachers to manage. When online and offline students learn together, the challenge becomes even greater. With HiTeach's synchronous teaching tools, including Allocation, Activity, Assignment, and Assessment, teachers can help students stay focused and participate actively.
This project created a platform for sharing high-quality educational resources among schools in Taipei, Hong Kong, Chengdu, and Xiamen. It also established a three-part professional development model for teachers: joint preparation before class, joint study during class, and joint research after class.
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When students could not attend school in person, teachers from Cupang Elementary School and Bayorbor National High School used HiTeach to make online teaching more interactive and data-driven.
During the COVID-19 outbreak in the Philippines, HiTeach was used for highly interactive online teaching. This video demonstrates practical tools teachers can use in online lessons.
This demonstration shows how a Remote Hybrid Smart Classroom can support teaching across time, space, and classes, with all students participating through real-time feedback.
HiTeach can support many classroom roles. With student response devices and group devices for collaborative learning, schools can build diverse smart classroom solutions. The Sokrates Platform gathers lesson videos shared by teachers around the world, including application tags and teaching plans across subjects and school levels.
| No. | Item Name | Quantity | MSRP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subscription License (Min. Required: Item 1~2): | USD$(Inquiry) | ||
| 1. | Student-device Access(1Y) | 1 | ✔ |
| 2. | IRS Clicker Access(1Y) | 1 | ✔ |
| Additional optional modules available for purchase in the package: | |||
| 3. | AI Text Analysis Module(1Y) | 1 | -- |
| 4. | AI Sokrates Summary Notice Module(1Y) | 1 | -- |
| 5. | Collaboration(1Y) | 1 | -- |
| 6. | Smart Rating(1Y) | 1 | -- |
| 7. | AI/GPT(1Y) | 1 | -- |
| 8. | clouDAS Diagnostic Analysis(1Y) | 1 | -- |
| 9. | Student IRS Clicker(RF-09A) | By Quantity | BYO or Purchase (Please Inquire) |
| Scenario 1: Online teaching for all students | ||
| For Teacher | • Install on computer: HiTeach 5  • Install on smartphone: HiTA 5 APP  • Cloud Service: IES Cloud  | |
|---|---|---|
| For Students | • All students use their own computers to remotely participate in classroom video conferencing, and use a browser to access Web IRS to connect and interact with HiTeach..png) • AClass ONE Learning Companion  (For students to use before and after class)• Do online learning, homework, assessments, surveys, and polls. | |
| Touch Device | It is recommended to install a large touch device for teachers to operate intuitively, and use HiTeach 5's powerful IWB tools to operate/write/mark with their hands. | |
| Video Conference System | Zoom、Cisco WebEx、Google Meet, etc. | |
| Camera | High-definition cameras to capture the teacher in class. | |
| Microphone | The teacher uses the microphone to pick up the sound. | |
| Monitor | LCD display (so that the teacher can see the online students). | |
| Remark | This scenario is equivalent to an extended application of the HiTeach Mobile Smarter Classroom solution. | |
| Scenario 2: Online/On-site Hybrid Classroom Model (All students use Web IRS) | ||
| For Teacher | • Install on computer: HiTeach 5 • Install on smartphone: HiTA 5 APP • Cloud Service: IES Cloud | |
| For Students | • Online students use their own computers to remotely participate in classroom video conferencing, and use a browser to access Web IRS to connect and interact with HiTeach. • On-site students use smart devices (tablets, laptops, smartphones, etc.) to use a browser to access Web IRS to connect and interact with HiTeach. • AClass ONE Learning Companion (For students to use before and after class)• Do online learning, assignments, assessments, surveys, and polls. | |
| Wireless network environment | The classroom needs to be equipped with an environment that can be connected to the Internet externally, usually with a wireless AP that is sufficient to give all devices external connectivity. | |
| Touch Device | It is recommended to install a large touch device for teachers to operate intuitively, and use HiTeach 5's powerful IWB tools to operate/write/mark with their hands. | |
| Video Conference System | Zoom, Cisco WebEx, Google Meet, etc. | |
| Camera | High-definition cameras to capture the teacher in class. It would be better if there is an additional camera to capture the students in the classroom, so that the online students could also see them. | |
| Microphone | The teacher uses the microphone to pick up the sound. | |
| Monitor | LCD display (Allow teachers and students on-site to see online students). | |
| Remark | This scenario is equivalent to an extended application of the HiTeach Mobile Smarter Classroom solution. | |
| Scenario 3: Online/On-site Hybrid Classroom Model (Students online use Web IRS; students on-site use IRS clickers) | ||
| For Teacher | • Install on computer: HiTeach 5 , IRS dongle receiver • Install on smartphone: HiTA 5 APP • Cloud Service: IES Cloud | |
| For Students | • Online students use their own computers to remotely participate in classroom video conferencing, and use a browser to access Web IRS to connect and interact with HiTeach. • On-site students use IRS clickers/keypads to interact with HiTeach. (If there are some smart devices (tablets, laptops, smartphones, etc.) in the classroom, Web IRS and IRS clickers/keypads can be used together). &  RF-09A • AClass ONE Learning Companion (For students to use before and after class)• Do online learning, assignments, assessments, surveys, and polls. | |
| Touch Device | It is recommended to install a large touch device for teachers to operate intuitively, and use HiTeach 5's powerful IWB tools to operate/write/mark with their hands. | |
| Video Conference System | Zoom, Cisco WebEx, Google Meet, etc. | |
| Camera | High-definition cameras to capture the teacher in class. It would be better if there is an additional camera to capture the students in the classroom, so that the online students could also see them. | |
| Microphone | The teacher uses the microphone to pick up the sound. | |
| Monitor | LCD display (Allow teachers and students on-site to see online students). | |