IES (Instructional Expert System) is TEAM Model's cloud platform for organizing teaching resources, student rosters, question banks, lesson notes, assessment results, and learning records. It is designed to work with HiTeach 5 and HiTeach Web. Teachers can use the individual IES cloud service for free, while schools can purchase IES Campus Cloud services for school-level management. Beyond live classroom teaching, IES also supports lesson preparation, record review, asynchronous homework, online assessments, polls, surveys, and student access through AClass ONE Learning Companion.
IES connects lesson preparation, classroom resources, question banks, learning activities, and learning records across the teaching cycle.
A HiTeach lesson can generate e-notes, interaction records, assessment results, student work, and learning data. IES keeps these records in the cloud and connects them with preparation, assignments, self-paced assessment, student review, and school-wide management.
Teachers using HiTeach 5 or HiTeach Web can use IES to manage cloud-based courses, student rosters, teaching materials, question banks, lesson records, assessment results, and personal resources. By logging in with a TEAM Model account, teachers can access cloud materials from different classrooms or computers.
Students use AClass ONE Learning Companion to join courses, complete online assessments, submit homework, review teacher e-notes, check interaction records, see personal notes, view scores, read question analysis, and practice mistakes after class.
Schools can purchase IES Campus Cloud services to manage terms, subjects, grades, periods, classes, student rosters, school-wide courses, teachers, school question banks, shared teaching resources, co-prepared syllabi, and cross-class assessments, polls, and surveys.
Teachers can create personal courses for students to join online. Online personal syllabi and teaching materials can be used in HiTeach on demand, including HiTeach materials, PowerPoint, videos, images, audio, PDF files, and web links.
Teachers can launch online homework, assessments, surveys, and polls. Students complete these activities in AClass ONE, while teachers review submissions, mark homework online, and keep activity records in IES.
The main web application uses HTTPS encryption and secure login management, follows OWASP Top 10 principles, and runs on Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure, helping schools and teachers store teaching resources with confidence.
Lesson preparation is a daily priority for teachers. IES helps teachers organize resources and assessment materials in the cloud, then access them directly in HiTeach when teaching.
IES provides Personal Syllabus, which helps teachers prepare lessons in the cloud and arrange PowerPoint, HTEX, PDF, images, videos, web hyperlinks, and test papers into a structured syllabus. Teachers can also share prepared syllabi with colleagues. When using HiTeach, the Teaching Resource Area displays syllabus resources from IES in a tree structure, making it easier to save, import, open, or use materials according to the teaching scenario.
After preparing resources on IES, teachers can access them conveniently in HiTeach.
Teaching materials, files, multimedia resources, and other content created in IES can be accessed anytime. Even in a different classroom or on a different computer, teachers can log in to their TEAM Model account and use HiTeach to access cloud materials. Individual teachers can store HTEX files, PowerPoint files, images, audio, video, PDF, Word, Excel, and other files. Schools with IES School Management Services can also provide shared school resources.
With IES question bank management, teachers can quickly upload commonly used MS Word test papers and turn them into cloud-based questions and exam files. Questions can include attributes such as question type, difficulty, cognitive level, key concept, and remedial resources for student review. The platform supports multiple ways to create test papers, including SMART test paper design, manual test paper design, and import-based test paper design.
IES helps teachers create courses and student rosters before class, then keeps the records generated by HiTeach after class. AClass ONE gives students a corresponding cloud platform for reviewing learning records and completing assigned tasks.
Teachers can create courses on IES. Students can join by scanning a QR code, using a hyperlink, or entering the course invitation code on AClass ONE. If the school uses IES school management functions, class lists and corresponding courses can be prepared in advance, allowing teachers to select school courses and view student rosters directly.
Teachers can create personal courses or use school-prepared courses.
When a teacher uses HiTeach in class and selects an IES course, IES can keep lesson history data after class, including e-notes, lesson activity records, assessment results, student work, and exportable data. These records become useful evidence for follow-up teaching and learning review.
Teachers can review e-notes, interaction records, student work, and assessment results after class.
AClass ONE is closely connected with HiTeach classroom records. Students can log in to review teacher e-notes, activity records, their own Web IRS notes, assessment results, question analysis, and mistake practice. Teachers can also use IES to assign online quizzes, homework, polls, and other tasks for students to complete outside class.
AClass ONE helps students review classroom-generated records and complete assigned learning activities.
Teachers can access previous homework, assessments, lesson records, and activity records for each course. Assessment data can be reviewed for teaching adjustment, remediation, student self-review, and longer-term learning portfolio management.
IES is not limited to live HiTeach lessons. Teachers can assign asynchronous learning activities, students can complete them through AClass ONE, and teachers can review results, mark submissions, and manage learning records in IES.
Homework and study sheet distribution are common classroom and hybrid-learning activities. IES allows teachers to set homework submission forms, start and end times, descriptions, inserted images, hyperlinks, attachments, and submission requirements. Students view and submit homework through AClass ONE. Teachers can review submissions, give scores or stars, enter comments, and save frequently used comments for later use.
IES supports HiTeach Smarter Classroom Assessment, Online Assessment, and OMR and Writing Assessment. In a HiTeach classroom, teachers can use IES exam files with IRS real-time feedback for synchronous assessment. For self-paced learning, students use AClass ONE to complete online asynchronous tests within a time limit, then review scores, question analysis, and incorrect-answer practice. With OMR and Writing Assessment, schools can use paper test sheets with automatic grading for objective questions, online marking for subjective questions, and automatically generated grade reports.
IES polling activities can be used for classroom or cross-class voting. Teachers can enter poll descriptions and options, add images and links, and set voting cycles, number of votes, anonymity, repeated voting rules, and other conditions.
IES surveys can be used for class or cross-class scenarios. Teachers can enter descriptions, question options, images, and links. With school-level IES management, assessments, polls, and surveys can support broader cross-class use.
The following feature table helps teachers and schools quickly understand the key IES-supported capabilities for resources, question banks, activities, classes, and course management.
| Feature Area | Description |
|---|---|
| My Material | Store teaching materials, HTE/HTEX files, PowerPoint files, images, audio, video, PDF, Word, Excel, and other files. Materials can be used directly with HiTeach during teaching. |
| Personal Question Bank | Add questions to a personal question bank and set difficulty level, cognitive level, question type, key concept, remedial resource links, and other attributes. IES supports SMART test paper design, manual test paper design, and import-based test paper design through Word or Excel uploads. |
| Personal Assessment | Supports OMR and Writing Assessment, Smarter Classroom Assessment, and Online Assessment. HiTeach can use IRS feedback for synchronous assessment, while AClass ONE supports online asynchronous tests. |
| Homework Activity | Can be used for classroom or cross-class homework. Teachers can enter homework descriptions, add images or links, allow supplementary submissions, enable peer evaluation, and require file uploads. |
| Poll and Survey | Polls and surveys can be used for classroom or cross-class scenarios. Teachers can add descriptions, options, images, links, voting cycles, vote counts, anonymity, and repeated voting rules. |
| My Class | Create and manage class lists for matching student learning portfolios and assessment records. Teachers can create groups, assign groups, use automatic grouping, and export student lists. |
| My Course | Create cloud-based course information for students to join courses. Supports curriculum schedules, course lists, subject-class rosters, lesson records, and activity records for assessments, homework, polls, and surveys. |
In addition to the IES features that individual teachers can use for free with a TEAM Model account, schools can purchase advanced IES School Management Services and related expandable modules. Schools purchasing the HiTeach Campus License receive complimentary access to IES Cloud Campus Platform features.
IES School Management Services provide school-level applications and management services. Administrators can set school terms, subjects, grades, periods, classes, student rosters, school-wide courses, and corresponding teachers. Schools can build subject question banks, teaching resources, and co-created curriculum outlines, and can initiate cross-class assessments, surveys, and voting activities. Additional modules can be selected according to the school's development needs.
PLAYTOL provides data-driven analysis for overall student learning outcomes. It can study learning effectiveness by subject, identify strengths and weaknesses in knowledge points, and support differentiated teaching guidance for classes and individual students. Unlike analysis that only appears after large-scale exams, PLAYTOL can generate reports for formal tests of different sizes, including HiTeach digitized classroom tests, and can support horizontal and vertical comparative analysis.
The OMR Exam Scanning System combines IES test banks and multiple test creation functions. Schools can print test sheets and answer cards directly, reduce editing and positioning work, automatically grade objective questions, and mark subjective questions online. Each answer sheet keeps a digital image, helping schools accumulate learning history data and connect assessment results with PLAYTOL analysis.
AClass ONE is the student-facing cloud platform connected with IES and HiTeach. Students can review class-generated records, browse teacher e-notes and personal notes, organize incorrect answers after quizzes or major exams, and participate in online tasks such as quizzes, assignments, and polls.