Tencent PR director Zhang Jun said more than 100,000 teachers have applied for the WorkBuddy Education Edition, covering 1,467 cities and 45,000 schools nationwide, with credits being distributed gradually, according to IT之家. Tencent SSV announced the edition on October 19, offering teachers 2,000 credits per month for 12 consecutive months with no regional or school-stage restrictions. Tencent said the team, working with Peking University and Beijing Normal University, split education research into more than 100 callable education experts for tasks such as lesson design, courseware, differentiated teaching and parent communication, and that the edition will later connect with Tencent Docs, the Lexiang knowledge base and ima.