Snapask
Empowering Self Study in Students During Difficult Times

The current education environment is a highly intense one for students, especially in Asia. Studying long hours even after school and working on homework/exam preparation at home can become hectic for students. Here, the most challenging part for students, especially when they do not have someone to help them at home, is to solve questions they fail to understand. Students must acquire self-learning skills to learn something on their own. But, to do that, there needs to be a tool to empower students to succeed. To enable students to study at home efficiently, Snapask was founded in 2015. The promise is, whenever students have questions, they can take a picture of it and send it to Snapask. Then, Snapask can immediately match them with tutors with top qualities and from top universities to have one-on-one sessions with students; work through questions step by step. Today, Snapask connects 4 million students with over 350,000 qualified teachers worldwide. The company also provides a library of multimedia content and interactive course learnings to enable critical thinking, self-directed learning, and develop practical soft skills. “Our brand and service is a must-have study tool at such times, and the business is moving forward to providing highly quality content to better suit students' need in aiding self-directed learning,” says Timothy Yu, Founder, Snapask.

The crisis of COVID 19 has changed the needs of students. They need more personalized and accessible online tools.

From this point of view, Snapask is of utmost help wherein students are limited to asking a question or two a day but use Snapask as the primary source of learning to get connected with tutors and get all sorts of learning materials. The company noticed a massive spike in new users coming in during the pandemic. “As education sectors had to endure the most changes to the way they function, we were relieved knowing that our service was serving a social deed and really just coming in handy,” says Timothy. In fact, the company partnered with TW education bureau during COVID-19 giving away over 90000 QA to help students in need.

Regarding learning content, Snapask has been putting much effort into developing content for each market and cover all subjects in any topic. “We understand that attention span for students is getting shorter especially for younger kids because of social media and new usage habits. So, we will intentionally produce all of our content into bite-size, 5-10mins video, one concept at a time to help students progress every day,” says Timothy. Recently the company has launched a new platform in Hong Kong where students can have access to high quality, premium learning courses materials that can prep them for essential school exams, career advancement and other personal interests. Snapask has developed the platform with the best and most credible tutors to offer high visual quality and make every minute spent on its platform valuable and effective for each student. “We are planning to add on more variety of courses and have similar platforms opened in other regions as well,” he adds.

As one of the best-personalized learning tools for students, Snapask has changed education from one-directional learning to a two-way and interactive learning process. The company also supports students in building self-learning skills. “In a fast-changing world, if one cannot acquire self-learning skills to learn something he will fail. So, every student should acquire self-learning skills. That’s what Snapask is standing for; we hope every student on our platform can receive personalized education, including content and teachers they want to interact with,” says Timothy. This is how Snapask will help shape the future.