New features for the Frog VLE and Hop In portal

Great news! The Frog VLE has been enhanced with new features. These upgrades have been designed to make our online tools and services better and more user-friendly.

Here's a quick overview of some of the changes that you will see the next time you log in to Frog with your 1BestariNet ID!

• Better Site Management and Tagging 

• Customisable Quick Launch menu

• New Quick Assign feature to save time 

• Customisable Site Backgrounds and five new Site Themes

• Better Analytics and My Child's Work (for parents)

• Resource Manager renamed to “FrogDrive” 

• Pin-Point renamed to “Discover”

• Layout tab in settings panel renamed to “Page”

We hope you will log in and try out the new upgrades for yourself, and we look forward to continue improving our platforms to serve you better.

Want more information? Check out our Learn Centre to download an in-depth guide about our latest features and enhancements.

Need help? If you need support with the Frog VLE, please contact our friendly 1BestariNet Helpdesk team at bestari@yes.my or at 018-7998787 for further assistance or information.

Want a sneak peek? Check out some screenshots below!

Beautiful new Site themes and customisable backgrounds await!

'Resource Manager' has now been renamed to 'FrogDrive' and has a new logo

You can now add new shortcuts, remove and edit the icons on your Quick Launch menu!

SMK St John's Celebrates 110 Years

SMK St John recently celebrated their 110th Anniversary with a school carnival! Among the 1,800 guests present, FrogAsia and Yes were also invited to this event where we had the chance to meet students and and their parents from the school. Our Prime Minister, Dato’ Seri Mohd Najib was also there to officiate this momentous event.

 Here are some photos from the Frog and Yes booth at St John's 110th Anniversary celebration.

 

FrogAsia's Lalitha displaying what teachers and parents can do with Frog.  

 

 St John's students improving their spelling with the Word Mania game.

FrogAsia's Timothy shows the Frog VLE to these cadets from the Malaysian Red Crescent Society.  

A big thank you to SMK St John for inviting us to be a part of this milestone of yours!

Welcome to the Hop In Portal!

Hopping In and using Frog just became easier! With the new Hop In Portal, you get the best of Frog at your fingertips whenever you login to Frog at www.yes.my/bestari. 

Once you're at the Hop In Portal, you can easily access the Frog VLE as well as other main services: login to your school's instance, shop on the FrogStore, check your Yes Account balance, send an email through yesMail, collaborate on Google Drive and stay in touch with your friends through My School Address Book.

Not only that, there is a wealth of great educational and inspiring content that's constantly being updated throughout Frog just for you. Whether you're a parent, a teacher or a student, FrogChoice has something for everyone! 

Each Hop In Portal displays a selection of content that is specially for you as a parent, a teacher or a student. Check out the screenshots of each below: 

The Parent Hop in Portal

The Teacher Hop In Portal

The Student Hop In Portal

Hop In with Frog today at www.yes.my/bestari!

'Learning in the Cloud' Project Launches at SJK(C) Sentul

Imagine if every student and teacher had access to knowledge anytime, anywhere - especially beyond the classroom. Today, imagination has become reality and the classroom can now be accessed from virtually anywhere in the world. In acknowledgment of this new avenue, SJK(C) Sentul in partnership with YTL Communications, FrogAsia and CSS Management, launched the ‘Learning in The Cloud’ project at the HGH Convention Centre today.

Opening Performance by 24 Solar Drums

The guests of honour present were Deputy Education Minister, YB Datuk Mary Yap Kain Ching, Executive Director of YTL Communications, Dato’ Yeoh Soo Keng, Chairman of the Board of Governors of SJK(C) Sentul, Mr. Eddie Heng Hong Chai and Chief Executive Officer of CSS Management, Mr. Thomas Chee Kong Yong. 

After a thrilling opening performance by the 24 Solar Drums, YTL Communications Executive Director, YB Dato’ Yeoh Soo Keng took to the stage to highlight the many possibilities available through learning online, one being the ability to virtually connect a population of up to 10 million people consisting of teachers, parents as well as students, simultaneously.

“Learning will no longer be limited to the four walls of the classroom. Students can access their homework anywhere and anytime - even if there is no school due to haze” said YB Dato’ Yeoh Soo Keng. 

In his speech, the Chairman of Board of Governors of SJK(C) Sentul, Mr. Eddie Heng Hong Chai, addressed the ‘A’ syndrome and how the Frog VLE will help children develop their creativity in a fun and easy way as education with technology proves to be more meaningful to students. 

“The VLE is an effective means to stop the ‘A’ syndrome that is crippling many Malaysian students as they put more emphasis on scoring high academic grades at the expense of developing their soft skills.” said Mr. Chai.

Deputy Education Minister I, Datuk Mary Yap addressing the importance of teachers’ and parents’ involvement in supporting children to unleash their full potential

Deputy Education Minister I, Datuk Mary Yap also expressed her excitement about the project being able to give every student the ability to use the Frog VLE to learn all their core subject lessons through Chinese Smart School courseware developed by CSS Holdings. 

“This is possible as each student now has access to a Samsung 4G Chromebook,” said Datuk Mary Yap.

Deputy Education Minister I, Datuk Mary Yap officiates the launch of the Learning in the Cloud project.

The event ended with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and a live display of how ‘Learning in the Cloud’ is like at mobile lab. Students from class 4M showcased the benefits of cloud-based learning at five booths in this lab which included teaching with technology, increased student engagement, collaboration in the classroom, enhanced personal learning as well parent involvement.

Students from class 4M showcasing the VLE in the mobile lab

The use of Frog on the Samsung 4G Chromebook is a means to bring education in Malaysia to greater heights and the official launching of the ‘Learning in the Cloud’ project is a milestone that reflects that the future of education is now.

Watch the video below to see interviews with the Chairman of the School's Board of Directors Mr Eddie Heng, the Head Teacher of SJK(C) Sentul Ms Cecilia Kow, and others who are also involved in the project.

Interact Clubs of Petaling Jaya “Go the XtraMile” with FrogAsia to raise funds for Dignity for Children Foundation

On 30th October 2013, students from five Interact Clubs of Petaling Jaya in partnership with FrogAsia went the “XtraMile” for students at Dignity Foundation today by holding a reading session with the primary students, painting the school banisters, donating books and art supplies as well as donating a total sum of RM4373.25 that was raised from the “XtraMile Project with Frog”.

Interactors and teachers with FrogAsia's Sarah Lim and Aizat Izyani, Rotarian Victor Lee, Dignity's Special Project Coordinator, Rosaleen Goh and Dignity's Executive Director, Mrs Petrina Satvinder. 

The Project, themed “Going the XtraMile”, was a month-long project that kick-started with the XtraMile Run for Dignity on 24 - 25 August where the Interactors SMK(P) Sri Aman, SMK(P) Assunta, SMK(L) La Salle, SMK(L) Bukit Bintang and SMK Sultan Abdul Samad, ran the last 1km with the XtraMile runners to the finish line. 

Interact Clubs of Petaling Jaya with XtraMilers, Alex Au-Yong, Kyle Tan and Daniel Lee at the XtraMile Run for Dignity on 25 August 2013

Each club designed and carried out a project that reflected what it meant to go the extra mile for someone in need. With support from the Rotary Club, these projects included a range of fun activities initiated by the students themselves which included a carwash by the Interactors of SMK(L) Bukit Bintang, a bake sale by the Interactors of SMK(P) Assunta, a book collection by the Interactors of SMK Sultan Abdul Samad, collection of funds and art supplies by the Interactors of SMK(P) Sri Aman and badge sales by SMK(L) La Salle. 

One of the main objectives of the Project was to empower students to go the extra mile for others in need by harnessing the use of Internet as a force for good. Throughout the project duration, two Samsung 4G Chromebooks were loaned to each of the five Interact Clubs where they creatively used the Frog VLE and the Chromebooks as a platform to document their project, communicate with the project committee and unite their club towards this cause. 

Interact Club of SMK Sultan Abdul Samad donated books and held a reading session with students at Dignity to encourage English literacy among students from a multicultural background. 

The visit to Dignity was a great day for all the Interact Club and Dignity students as they got a chance to talk to each other and learn about each others' lives. It was especially meaningful for the Interact Club students as they had a chance to meet the students who would benefit from all their contributions.  The day was filled with goodwill - where students were glad they could just help out in their own way - big or small - for Dignity. Some gave their full effort in painting, others shared their talent for music, and some read with the Dignity students.

Interactors teaching English to primary students at Dignity through singing action songs. 

The project was in line with the objectives of 1BestariNet, a project initiated by the Ministry of Education, which include using technology to drive extra curricular activities in school.

It was heartening to know that they were inspired after spending the day with Dignity and that throughout the Project, they had found Frog useful in achieving their goals. It just goes to show that with the right tools, students are capable of being agents of positive change in their communities. 

“Using the Frog VLE was a big part of this project. We used it to spread awareness about Dignity and encourage others to take a more active role though using their 1BestariNet IDs to login and spread the news through VLE. It was a fun project that was also holistic as we got to do good for these kids who really needed the help,” said Arunn Suntharalingam, President of SMK(L) La Salle’s Interact Club Interact Club and the Interact Club Committee of Petaling Jaya. 

Varsha Gopinathan (SMK Sultan Abdul Samad) mesmerising the primary students at Dignity with a story song on her guitar

The Project ended with a visit to Dignity initiated by the students themselves which would give them a chance to spend quality time with the students that they had raised funds for. FrogAsia then awarded monetary prizes to the Interact Clubs with the most successful projects. Prizes were awarded to SMK(P) Assunta for 1st Place, SMK(L) Bukit Bintang for 2nd Place, and SMK(P) Sri Aman for 3rd Place. These prizes are to be channeled towards the next community project of their choice.

“It was very inspiring to meet the children at Dignity and see how much they want to study. It really opened up my eyes to a lot today,” said Tasha Prabha, SMK(P) Assunta 

“We’d love to do a project like this again because we got to raise awareness on this issue and we got to help a lot of children out, which is the aim of our Interact Club,” said Prianka Jothi Ganes, SMK(P) Assunta