What is ELI?

It’s a platform for an Online Bible Correspondence Courses. If you will install the ELI on a hosting, you will get your own Bible Correspondence Courses Application (BCC App).

The BCC App allows children to study online interactive lessons and communicate with your guides. BCC App is accessible with PCs, tablets and phones and contains many interactive elements for children.

BCC App can be linked with the ELI Android application available at Google Play and be used as online mobile application.

How to get it?

  1. Attend training

    If you are interested in starting the BCC App in your country, you can ask Daniel Fér at fer@detskamisie.cz. You will get training for the National Coordinator and Content Manager (see Requirements). During training you will get the account here at bccapp.info, where you can translate and download application.

    Since 2022 the video serves as first part of the training. If you are interested, start there.

  2. Translate the application

    Use your account to translate the whole application into your language. You can create sub-accounts for translators.

  3. Upload the application at your webhosting with your domain

    You will get the translated app from bccapp.info and have to download it as package which you need to put at your own hosting with your domain.

    ELI is just a package, not a centralised service. You need to put it on your own hosting and your copy is not connected with others.

  4. Set up the application

    You can setup the name, colours, images, modules and behaviour of the application.

  5. Add content

    Content (courses and devotionals) is distributed separately from the ELI application. You can download lesson files from the cloud (you will find the link in your account here at bccapp.info) and upload them into the editor in BCC App, translate them and use in your BCC App. You can use the editor to create your own lessons and daily devotionals.

  6. Launch and promote

    Children won't just start to come, because courses are online. You must widely promote the site at clubs, schools, churches and also use online advertisement. You can use available templates for promotional graphics.

    Help children from clubs evangelize others by giving out invitation into the courses. One such invitation from schoolmate led 3 people, who never heard the gospel before, to trust Jesus (check the story about Adam in the video).

Created by CEF Czech Republic

ELI was created by CEF Czech Republic by full time CEF worker, Daniel Fér.

  • It was made specifically for the needs of CEF
  • We own all code and design, and have full control over further application development
  • Development depends on one person and we are looking for someone to cooperate

For PCs, tablets and phones

Children today use many forms of modern technology, not just computers. Czech statistics shows which devices children used to access the BCC App.

  • Mobile - 57.8 %
  • Desktop computer - 37.5 %
  • Tablet - 4.7 %

Application basics

Types of account

  1. Child

    Child can register and study interactive lessons and read daily devotions.

  2. Guide

    The guide check each lesson for a child and lead them through the courses. They can also write messages with children.

  3. Administrator

    The administrator manages guides, the application setup and the content of the application (lessons, courses and devotionals). The administrator can also be a guide.

  4. Creator of content

    The creator of the content (the designer or translator) uses a built-in application editor to create lessons or change the content of the lessons.

Application and content

The ELI application and content are distributed separately. The ELI allows you to create your own BCC App. Once you have a BCC App, you can add content (courses, lessons and daily devotionals).

  • You will get the application without courses and lessons.
  • You can translate existing lessons in the built-in editor and use them.
  • You can create your own lessons through the built-in editor.
  • The application is translated separately from the content. This means that if you change the language of the application, the lessons will stay the same, therefore one instance of app can only be in one language.

Example: Czechia crate lesson in EDITOR and download it as a file, then upload the lesson to the WEBSITE for the children. Romania takes the file from Czechia and upload it to their EDITOR. Romania translate and edit lesson in EDITOR and download it as a file, then upload the lesson to the WEBSITE for the children.

Same principle as printed courses

The application keeps the same principle as the printed correspondence courses. Instead of paper it uses digital devices and instead of posting responses, it uses an internal system to allow communication between the children and their guides.

Countries using ELI


Latvija - Latviešu
Atver!
Románia - Román
CBO
Slovenská republika - Slovenčina
Hľadaj a nájdi
Sverige - Svenska
Bibelresan

Privacy policy

These are general rules for the ELI application. Each country is represented by local organization. You can find the information at the bottom of each instance of the ELI application.

Who is collecting personal information?

Application is managed by Dětská misie. We do not share information with any other party. Only our administrators and trained guides can see information about children.

What information are collected?

For registration is required only nick-name. Children can also fill in gender and school-class. If we obtain parental consent via e-mail, we collect e-mail address, real name and mail address.

What do we do with informations?

  1. Nick-name, gender

    We use these to personalize communication with child.

  2. School-class

    We use this information to automatically lock courses suitable only for older children.

  3. E-mail (with parental consent)

    We use e-mail to automatically notify children about new tasks and replies from guides. E-mails are hidden and guides nor administrators can see them.

  4. Mailing address (with parental consent)

    We send little reward after child finishes the course. Mailing address is visible to guides who send reward.

Parental rights

Default registration is anonymous and doesn't require parental consent. Parents can use their child's account to view all the collected information and browse full history of communication with guides.

If required, child can request parental consent through application. Request is send via e-mail and parent have three options:

  • delete account and all the information
  • allow anonymous registration
  • grant permission to process personal information

Link stay valid and parent can manage personal information or change conset at any time.