Recently, Tencent Classroom, a well-known online education platform under Tencent, issued a notice saying that it will cease operations on October 1 and completely stop all platform services.
The service will be completely discontinued on October 1st
A few days ago, the official website of Tencent Classroom issued a notice saying that Tencent Classroom will stop the access service of all online courses from August 1, 2024, and users will not be able to access new course content, but they can continue to watch the historical free course content in the "class schedule". Tencent Classroom will cease operations on October 1, 2024, and all platform services will be completely suspended at that time.
Tencent Classroom also expressed its gratitude to all users for their support and companionship over the years. I hope everyone can be a lifelong learner.
At present, the "Tencent Classroom" app cannot be searched in the Huawei App Store and Apple App Store, and the Android App Store reminds that due to the developer's own reasons, it will not be available for download for the time being.
It has been in operation for more than 10 years
According to public information, Tencent Classroom is a comprehensive online lifelong learning platform launched by Tencent, which gathers a large number of high-quality educational institutions and famous teachers, and sets up many online learning courses such as vocational training, civil service examination, TOEFL and IELTS, certification examination, and oral English, so as to create a classroom where teachers teach online and students learn in a timely and interactive manner.
Tencent Classroom online education platform was launched in April 2014; In 2015, Tencent Classroom released a mobile app and H5 page. According to the data disclosed in 2019, in 2018, the revenue of all platform institutions increased by 70% year-on-year, the annual revenue of the TOP100 institutions increased by more than 2 times year-on-year, and there were more than 20 institutional partners with revenue of more than 10 million yuan.
In January 2019, Tencent Classroom 2019 was held in Shenzhen, announcing the launch of the "101 Plan", investing 1 billion yuan worth of resources to provide all-round support to 101 educational institutions and promoting annual revenue of more than 10 million yuan.
In March 2020, Tencent Classroom announced that the total duration of its online vocational education classes had increased by 3.5 times, and in April of the same year, QuestMobile released the 2020 Q1 China Mobile Internet Dark Horse List, which showed that Tencent Classroom ranked first in the education and learning industry in terms of average active users on Sundays. The compound growth rate of the average number of active users on Sunday ranked in the top 2 of the education and learning industry rankings, with a growth rate of 38.6%.
According to media reports, in 2021, as the largest online lifelong education platform in China, Tencent Classroom has served a total of 400 million users, with more than 10 million students per week. The number of courses reached 350,000, covering more than 100 categories.
However, in August last year, Tencent Classroom suddenly issued an announcement that it would not renew the sale, saying that due to the adjustment of functions and services, Jiaopeitong will no longer provide services from September 20, 2023, among which the functions of class delivery, class scheduling, creation of live broadcast tasks and transactions will be suspended.
Soon after, Shi Mei, vice president of Tencent Cloud and head of Tencent's education industry, said in an interview with the media that Tencent Education will gradually shut down the C-end business and focus on the B-end business.
After the news of the imminent closure of Tencent Classroom, many netizens also left messages expressing regret, and some bluntly said: "It is very good, and it has come in handy for the postgraduate entrance examination and the Korean language exam." ”
The reporter found that there are still a number of free courses on the official website of Tencent Classroom, which have been signed up by more than 10,000 people, involving Python artificial intelligence, intensive English score improvement for postgraduate entrance examinations, and many other courses.
Source: China Fund News
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