> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://cqube.sunbird.org/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://cqube.sunbird.org/know-about-cqube/architecture/design-principles.md).

# Design Principles

cQube Ed is based on the following design principles:

1. **Solution:** cQube is neither a tool nor a platform. It is a ready-to-use/pre-packaged, configurable, and extendable solution to enable observability and action towards effective policy implementation in education and other sectors, involving various stakeholders across govt, society, and private sectors.
2. **Education-specific:** A pre-packaged solution of cQube for education, *cQube Ed*, comes with a set of predefined actionable indicators and insights which are specific to education. For eg: the metrics could be related to attendance, enrolment, assessments etc. The schema for data ingestion will also be defined for edu-specific indicators.
3. **Based in Indian Context:** cQube is based in the Indian context, implying that the jurisdictions and hierarchies will be defined accordingly. For eg: The hierarchy for cQube Ed will be as follows - State > District > Block > Cluster > School > Class.


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