Schools mull alternative platforms for online classes

With the School Education Department announcing on Monday that all online classes will have to be mandatorily recorded and periodically checked by a member of the Student Safeguarding Advisory Committ

With the School Education Department announcing on Monday that all online classes will have to be mandatorily recorded and periodically checked by a member of the Student Safeguarding Advisory Committee, schools are planning to develop additional infrastructure to store lessons and online resources being sent to their students. Many schools have been using a mix of live classes and recorded videos to take lessons for their students. “We have decided to increase the number of live classes over recorded videos for the students for the 2021-22 academic year. We will have to take a decision on picking a platform for online classes which will ensure ease of recording, and can be accessed through mobile phones, laptops and tablets,”said B. Purushothaman, correspondent, Everwin Group of Schools. This is the case in several schools where not all students and teachers use laptops and that the platform they choose has to work well on all devices. “We will have to think about how to store all the recordings and have to make arrangements with the school’s admin and IT team,” he added. Apart from live classes, teachers have been sending pre-recorded videos, communicating through WhatsApp for additional class exercises or worksheets. They also send links to additional resource material. Schools now plan to streamline and keep a record of all this.