A network only grows
when it reaches into the pockets
of its members.
Öğretmen Ağı (Teacher Network) is a sharing and collaboration network where teachers come together with peers and individuals and organizations from different disciplines to grow stronger. In 2020, the "Değişim Öğretmenle" mobile app — built exclusively for Değişim Elçileri (Change Ambassadors) — was launched on the Octo platform.
A network is only as alive as the communication and interaction between its members.
Öğretmen Ağı is a structure that grows stronger through solutions driven by the needs of its Değişim Elçisi (Change Ambassador) teachers. At its heart lies the communication and interaction among Change Ambassadors — the ability to find each other, take initiative, and organize events.
When we set out to create this interaction space in 2020, what we needed was not just a messaging app. Six different interaction spaces, LinkedIn profile matching, finding members on a map, subject/city/grade-level filters, network event creation flows — all had to live within a single mobile experience, accessible from the web as well.
Octo brought every tool a network needs for its daily life, ready out of the box.
From member management to messaging, groups to event forms, map search to push notifications — the modules powering the Değişim Öğretmenle app came ready to use from Octo right out of the box.
Member management
Closed, verified user registration for invited Change Ambassadors; LinkedIn profile matching.
Advanced profile search
Find members by subject, institution, city, grade level, and school type.
Find members on map
Discover nearby Change Ambassadors through the map view.
Messaging
In-app one-to-one messaging; the everyday language of collaboration between members.
Event creation
A form flow that lets members create their own network events from within the app.
Notification system
Unread message alerts, like/comment/reply notifications.
Web + mobile parity
Consistent access to the same content from two channels.
Admin dashboard
Active users, engagement rates, regional distribution.
Within one app, six different tones of voice.
Inside the Değişim Öğretmenle app, Change Ambassadors come together in six distinct interaction spaces, each tailored to a specific need.
Announcements
One-way critical updates from the facilitation team to the Network.
Meet & Introduce
A space where newly joined Change Ambassadors get to know each other.
Connect & Gather
An active channel for organizing local and thematic meetups.
5W1H
Peer learning in Q&A format: what, where, how?
Open Floor
Open discussion; agendas, perspectives, experience sharing.
#WhatIsHappening + Feedback
What is going on in the community and a continuous feedback channel to the Network.
The control room the facilitation team lives in every day.
The screen below is a representative view of the Octo admin panel configured for the Değişim Öğretmenle app.
Key metrics the facilitation team monitors daily via the Octo panel — representative visual.
Less scaffolding anxiety,
more time alongside teachers.
A civil society organization has limited energy; we want to spend every hour thinking alongside a Change Ambassador, facilitating a book club, or planning a meetup — not wrestling with a backend bug.
Octo freed up that energy. It took over the exhausting parts of daily operations, from member registration to map search, messaging to event forms.
Our job is to bring teachers together with each other and with people from different disciplines — not to manage a software project. Octo gave us every tool we needed to run the Network in one place, without reinventing the wheel.
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